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turbinetree's JournalOctober 3, 1993...........this is a whining asshole, and his double talking racist BS
Twitter reminds Trump of his own racism after he tries to speak for African Americans
Obama warned us about the Supreme Court we have right now
Special rights for white Christian conservatives.
IAN MILLHISER
FEB 11, 2019, 2:40 PM
Nearly fourteen years ago, a deeply conflicted young senator rose to announce his opposition to future Chief Justice John Roberts’ confirmation to the Supreme Court. “There is absolutely no doubt in my mind Judge Roberts is qualified to sit on the highest court in the land,” the senator conceded. “Moreover, he seems to have the comportment and the temperament that makes for a good judge.”
Resume and temperament, however, were not enough. In the toughest cases, “adherence to precedent and rules of construction and interpretation will only get you through the 25th mile of the marathon.” How the judge covers the last mile “can only be determined on the basis of one’s deepest values, one’s core concerns, one’s broader perspectives on how the world works, and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.”
The young senator who spoke these words was Barack Obama, and he spent much of his presidency getting dragged by Republicans who likened Obama’s call for judicial “empathy” to a promise to burn the Constitution and replace it with Das Kapital. Former Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), then the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, described “empathy” as “a code word for an activist judge.” Several years later, when Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, then-Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) attacked the nomination, claiming that “the so-called empathy standard is not an appropriate basis for selecting a Supreme Court nominee.”
Garland, of course, was not confirmed. And President Donald Trump since filled two Supreme Court vacancies with two judges who share Hatch and Grassley’s values. We now live under a high court majority that rejects Obama’s call for judicial empathy.
It shows.
https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-conservative-justices-devoid-of-empathy-were-now-seeing-what-that-means-d7e5f380e767/
Hey everyone John Roberts and his right wing 5 white men court is a racist court......................
Two of the assholes sitting on that bench need to be annulled....................
Texas County Failed To Give Any Contact Info In Voter Purge Notices
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed
February 11, 2019 1:18 pm
The confusion and chaos caused by Texas’ bombastic voter fraud allegations has manifested in almost every element of the fallout.
The latest example is a voter purge notice sent out by one Texas county that lacked basic contact information or even an official letterhead.
The notice left one citizen mistakenly flagged by the stake feeling “very worried” and a “sense of fear,” according to court documents filed Monday.
The episode is one of many that have prompted civil rights groups to sue Texas over a list released last month purporting to show that tens of thousands of noncitizens were illegally registered to vote. The list went out with instructions that local election officials purge from the rolls any individuals who don’t respond to notices seeking confirmation of their citizenship.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/texas-county-lacked-contact-info-voter-purge-notices
This BS that is going on down in Texas and other right wing fascist states, needs to be laid at the feet of the US Supreme Court and John Roberts and his right wing fascist feet..........................no if or and's about this...............when they, all by them selves decided to gut the Voter Right ACT....................Hey Texas has anyone ever asked how much this is costing from the state funds......................
Mueller Team Believes Potential Trump Pardon Tainted Manafort's Cooperation
By Josh Kovensky
February 11, 2019 11:30 am
Last week’s release of the court transcript of a pre-sentencing hearing offered a rare view inside special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
But like jazz, what the document doesn’t say is arguably more important than what’s spelled out.
The transcript shows that Mueller’s team was deeply concerned that Manafort – after he had pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate them – continued to lie in hopes of receiving a pardon from President Trump.
As special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explained to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson regarding why the government decided that Manafort has breached his plea agreement, “there was an unusual factor.”
“The second unusual factor, which was REDACTED the normal motives and incentives that are built into a cooperation agreement.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/paul-manafort-trump-pardon-robert-mueller-cooperation
Another trump loving traitor......................its just that simple, he and trump and everyone of the associates that had and have contact with the trumpters including politicians that sat in front of Congressional hearings or for that fact stood in the well of senate and didn't do a thing for the citizens in this country when there was and could possibly be another shut down are traitors....................end of story.......................
Trumps Claim New York AG's 'Anti-Trump' Bias Taints Foundation Lawsuit
By Allegra Kirkland
February 11, 2019 1:33 pm
The Trump family and its foundation are trying—again—to argue that the New York attorney general’s office is pursuing allegations of self-dealing against them for purely partisan reasons.
In a Friday filing, President Trump, his three eldest children and the foundation noted that state Attorney General Letitia James, who assumed office in January, has vowed to ‘use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well.’”
They further alleged that James “ran on an anti-Trump campaign where she expressed grave antipathy and animus” towards Trump, referring to him as an “’illegitimate President.’”
The suit is “gratuitous and a misuse of public resources,” the foundation alleged, brought only because of the “clear bias” of the Democratic attorney general’s office.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-foundation-claim-political-bias-letitia-james
So criminal enterprise is whining again about the NY AG.
Do you think that the documents that were found by a newspaper and looked at by the AG of New York, that said that you, your father, sister ( former judge) and now your family have defrauded the state of New York out of 400 million taxes, is BS, lets bring in the CFO of your enterprise for all of those years and ask him what he knows...................
I have a answer to this situation, hand over your IRS and State Tax returns..........................prove to me and millions of others that not only are you fraud and con man, that , just maybe you and your entire family should be shown what the RICO Act is all about.........................and just for fun the Logan Act.....................so bite me...........................your a traitor, its that simple, to this country.........................
Miriam Adelson was awarded Medal of Freedom after donating $500k to Trump aides' legal expenses
The Adelsons were the biggest donors to Trump's campaign other than Trump.
ADDY BAIRD
FEB 1, 2019, 9:55 AM
In the last three months of 2018, GOP megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson donated $500,000 to a fund set up to pay legal expenses incurred by aides to President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported Thursday night.
Contributions to the fund are specifically allocated to pay expenses for aides wrapped up in the investigation into whether Russia colluded with the Trump campaign. The Adelsons donated $250,000 each on October 1. Just a little over one month later, Trump awarded Miriam Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Before receiving the medal, the Adelsons donated $30 million to Trump’s presidential campaign in the final months of the 2016 race, and last year, donated $100 million to various Republican candidates and GOP-aligned PACs in the midterm elections. In fact, as Open Secrets noted last fall, other than Trump himself, the Adelsons were the largest donors to the Trump campaign. They also donated $5 million to Trump’s inaugural committee.
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Their sizable financial investments have yielded significant returns. Sheldon Adelson is widely believed to have been one of the most significant influences in Trump’s decision to move the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem. At the medal ceremony in November, Trump called Adelson a “committed doctor, philanthropist, and humanitarian,” but many saw the award as merely a thank you gift.
https://thinkprogress.org/adelson-russia-aides-fund-medal-4d6dd5bb8a53/
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“It’s ludicrous, and an insult to people who received the medal for genuine service,” The New York Times’ Paul Krugman wrote on Twitter.
“It’s emblematic of the corrupt and transactional presidency of Donald Trump, and it is a shame, but not a surprise, that he is corroding and corrupting a civic treasure, an honor like the Medal of Freedom,” Robert Weissman, president of public interest group Public Citizen, told The Guardian.
Lindsay Walters, a White House spokeswoman, also told the paper last fall that Trump went through the same process as all previous administrations when deciding Medal of Freedom Award recipients. The process was coordinated by the office of the staff secretary, taking into account recommendations from the public, relevant presidential advisory bodies, the cabinet and senior White House staff, she said.
Hey Lindsay Walters, your just as bad as the guy in the white house, you know that same "guy" that said that what was reported during a senate intelligence briefing, by "his security team" on "live television" was "fake news" , nice try, but I agree with Paul Krugman, Robert Weissmann, what your "guy" did was bastardized what the Medal Freedom means
The weaponization of 'learn to code'
Inspired by Trump's rants about "the enemy of the people," far-right trolls aim their memes at newly-unemployed reporters.
JESSICA M. GOLDSTEIN
FEB 1, 2019, 8:00 AM
Most of the tweets said “learn to code” or a variation on the theme, a phrase that, like plenty of once-innocent terms of art, has come to carry a sinister second-order significance. (See also: snowflake.) And some of the tweets were death threats.
The tweets started flooding Laura Bassett’s replies as soon as she tweeted about impending layoffs at HuffPost, where she’d been a reporter for eight years. When she announced that she was one of the employees HuffPost was letting go in a week that would see 1,000 journalists lose their jobs nationwide as layoffs coursed through HuffPost, BuzzFeed, and Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the country, the “learn to code” replies poured in at an ever-greater volume. In a twist that will surprise no one who spends a decent amount of time online, laced throughout the “learn to code” messages were far-right flavored death threats. “The day of the rope is coming,” read one. And another: “The rope is waiting for you.”
“It tremendously added to the pain of suddenly losing my job,” Bassett said.
“Learn to code” is a linguistic dog whistle. To the uninitiated, it makes absolutely no sense; to the target, it registers with perfect and cruel specificity; and, to the harasser, it comes with built-in plausible deniability. Its origins are in an overblown and willfully misremembered spate of news stories about a man named Rusty Justice (yes, his real name) teaching web development to out-of-work coal miners in Kentucky.
https://thinkprogress.org/learn-to-code-decoded-the-campaign-against-laid-off-journalists-is-harassments-new-frontier-20725ddd480a/
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Along with the data, the Secretary-General of Reporters Without Borders released a statement decrying political leaders who incite rage against the press. “The hatred of journalists that is voiced, and sometimes very openly proclaimed, by unscrupulous politicians, religious leaders and businessmen has tragic consequences on the ground. Amplified by social networks, which bear heavy responsibility in this regard, these expressions of hatred legitimize violence, thereby undermining journalism, and democracy itself.”
Meanwhile, Bassett said she is “still getting hundreds and hundreds of ‘learn to code’ tweets.” Not long before she lost her job, she and her parents were doxxed. Bassett’s address and phone number were made public, as was her parents’ home address and number in Louisiana.
“I know these threats aren’t empty,” she said. There’s literally too much harassment for her to weed through it all, but “I’m scared I’m missing something I really need to report to Twitter, a threat on my life or a real doxxing… The internet is truly a horrifying place for a journalist right now.”
Vice to axe 250 staff in latest round of digital media job losses
Cuts follow recently announced redundancies at HuffPost and BuzzFeed
Vice has announced plans to sack 250 staff, as a wave of job cuts affecting the digital media industry continues to hit companies around the world amid questions over the sustainability of ad-supported online publishing.
Almost every major online news start-up that emerged out of the Facebook-fuelled online publishing boom of the mid-2010s has announced substantial redundancies in the last month, with hundreds of staff sacked at HuffPost, BuzzFeed, and now Vice.
The sites, which boomed thanks to investors hoping they were betting on the future of the media, are having to make substantial cutbacks in a drive for profitability as financial backers grow tired of subsidising losses after investing hundreds of millions of dollars.
Many of the companies have struggled to make news pay and are focusing on other forms of revenue, such as making television shows, selling goods, or producing branded content for companies. Others are erecting paywalls or asking for contributions from readers in a bid to stay afloat and continue to subsidise their loss-making news businesses.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/feb/01/vice-to-axe-250-staff-in-latest-round-of-digital-media-job-losses
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Vice used the announcement to emphasise it is not a digital-only business and has substantial TV production and advertising agency businesses – a sign that being a traditional media business with regular revenue could now be more attractive to investors than an online start-up.
The British online women’s magazine The Pool collapsed into administration on Friday, while once-successful US publishers such as Mic collapsed at the end of last year, citing changes to Facebook’s algorithm that hit their business model.
On Thursday, Facebook announced it had made record profits of $6.8bn in the last three months.
I find it ironic that Facebook made 6.8 billion, and then went into congressional hearings trying to explain their algorithms on what they did with Russian trolls buying ads into their platform and giving answers that were really BS.
And then it was reported that Facebook was trying to censor some news platforms and some justice reporters on some of those platforms.........................call me a cynic, but I don't like Facebook
Boeing goes bionic to roll out more Dreamliners
BUSINESS NEWS FEBRUARY 1, 2019 / 9:31 AM / UPDATED 24 MINUTES AGO
Eric M. Johnson, Tim Hepher
The world’s largest planemaker is equipping mechanics with exoskeletons, similar to ones that allow cameramen to quickly navigate the sidelines of NFL football games, to increase their strength and speed. The high-tech suits also help reduce fatigue on repetitive tasks, such as overhead drilling.
“You have the capability of a robot and the capability of a human being melded together,” Christopher Reid, a Boeing associate technical fellow who previously designed NASA spacesuits, told Reuters during a factory tour.
The new technology is an example a broader shift in the industry’s focus towards production, as planemakers face the task of making good on a record order boom. After a decade in which Boeing and Airbus generated massive orders fueled by the rise of China and emerging markets, the main battleground is shifting towards production strategy rather than market share.
At twin Dreamliner factories in South Carolina and Washington state, Boeing also plans to soon deploy Bluetooth-enabled ‘smart’ wrenches that signal if machinists apply the correct torque to a nut, and has introduced new self-driving work platforms to shave time off aircraft assembly, according to people familiar with the technologies.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-787-dreamliner/boeing-goes-bionic-to-roll-out-more-dreamliners-idUSKCN1PQ4X7-
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“Don’t inspect things twice,” Mark Stockton, engineering director for Boeing South Carolina, told Reuters during the factory tour. “Inspect things once and validate things once.”
Boeing said it did not expect that these changes in inspections will result in the loss of jobs.
But a union official asked about the strategy warned it carries risks such as higher injury rates, or potentially delayed aircraft deliveries, if last-minute problems are discovered.
“Removing thousands of inspections per airplane will negatively impact the manufacturing process and push defects down line,” IAM 751 spokeswoman Connie Kelliher said by email.
Hey Stockton, as former aircraft inspector, I got a question for you....................your mantra is inspect once and validate once right..............................how quait, have "you" ever physically inspected the turbine blades in a engine once and validate once.........................
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