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turbinetree's JournalCollins: Pruitt Is Wrong Person To Lead EPA On Policy Grounds Alone
Source: Talking Points Memo
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said Sunday that, based on policy grounds alone, Scott Pruitt should never have been administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Pruitt has faced scandal after scandal in recent weeks, including over the $50-a-night townhouse lease he signed with a prominent lobbyist couple and the two top aides of his who were given raises using a loophole in a law typically used to hire environmental experts.
President Donald Trump has supported Pruitt publicly, and Pruitt reportedly met with Trump on Friday in a bid to keep his job.
In an interview with Collins, CNNs Jake Tapper noted that she had been the lone Republican senator to vote against Pruitts confirmation and asked if she thought Pruitt should lose his job.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/collins-pruitt-is-wrong-person-to-lead-epa-on-policy-grounds-alone
So , Susan, can I call you Susan, how do you feel about right wing activists judges or nominee's being confirmed by you and others of your two faced ilk doing the bidding of helping Pruitt dismantle the EPA, "if" and that's a big "if" this person is fired, and another piece of shit by the name of Zinke going after interior and doing the same thing basically, please let the public know how you stand on that issue.............................are you going to demand an public hearing...................still waiting
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Humboldt Broncos Winnipeg Jets / Chicago Blackhawks
To the hockey fans around the world, there is a go fund me page to the familes
News of Facebook's secret tool to delete executive messages caps days of chaos
When Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, embarked on a media apology tour Thursday, it seemed possible that the woman known as Mark Zuckerberg’s “adult supervision” would bring calm to the troubled company’s image.
But the past 48 hours have shown that not even Sandberg’s steady hand can keep this car from spinning out of control.
On Friday, Facebook was again under fire, both over the discovery that the company has a two-tiered privacy standard (one for executives, one for everyone else) and over its use of facial recognition software.
TechCrunch reported late Thursday that Facebook has been using a secret tool to delete messages sent by its executives from the inboxes of their recipients, without disclosing the deletions to the recipients or even recording there was ever a message in the first place.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/06/facebook-using-secret-tool-to-delete-messages-from-executives
Natures Great Bird Migration Under Threat By You-Know-Who
Reprinted with permission from Creators.
You could call it the Nebraska bird eclipse. At the first dart of morning light, so many sandhill cranes take off from the banks along the Platte River they darken the sky. This primeval spectacle, part of a massive spring migration from South America to the northern reaches, draws viewers from around the world.
For a century — through depression, world war and countless other national crises — American presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, have honored laws ensuring the survival of these migrating species.
Until this one.
Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has engaged in a tireless assault on the nation’s environmental protections. It should thus surprise no one that it is now going after the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. Three days before Christmas, it issued a legal opinion that the law doesn’t prohibit the incidental killing of these birds. Penalties for doing so vanished.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/natures-great-bird-migration-under-threat-by-you-know-who/
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I don't know about any of you but I have had enough of Ted Nugent......................
and I am pissed off that he thinks that its just fine and dandy to me get shot because I am a liberal left leaning democrat .......................FUCK HIM and Alex Jones...........
.https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/04/06/nra-s-ted-nugent-compares-democrats-rabid-coyotes-keep-your-gun-handy-and-every-time-you-see-one-you/219877
4TH DISTRICT DEM LEANN JACOBSEN CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF SINCLAIR STATIONS
The fallout for Sinclair Broadcasting stations continue after a viral video showed them all reading from the same script about “fake news.” Leann Jacobsen, one of the Democratic candidates looking to take on Steve King in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, is calling for a boycott of all the Sinclair stations that cover the Western Iowa seat. She’s also pledging to not run campaign TV ads on any of them and is encouraging her two Democratic primary opponents to do the same.
“The behavior and actions taken by Sinclair Broadcast Group hit at the very core of a free and independent press, a cornerstone of this great nation,” Jacobsen said in an email to her supporters this week. “This is what propaganda looks like and we are seeing it unfold right now.”
It’s a tactic that’s been gaining attention as national outrage on the left grows over the conservative media giant’s influence on local media stations. A Kentucky Democratic congressional candidate, Amy McGrath, drew coverage for her decision to pull her TV ads from Sinclair stations while in the middle of a competitive Democratic primary.
Sinclair owns quite a few outlets across Iowa. Among the owned stations are KPTH (Fox, Channel 44 Sioux City), KMEG (CBS, Channel 14 Sioux City), KDSM-TV (Fox, Channel 17 Des Moines), KGAN (CBS, Channel 2 Cedar Rapids/Waterloo), KFXA (Fox, Channel 28 Cedar Rapids/Waterloo), KTVO (ABC, Channel 2 Ottumwa).
https://iowastartingline.com/2018/04/06/4th-district-dem-leann-jacobsen-calls-boycott-sinclair-stations/
I agree with her one hundred percent, call the local car dealers, attorneys, etc, that place ads on these stations.............................
An idiot on trade.................
Hey Kudlow what did you say about Obama...........................
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/04/larry-kudlow-blame-china-not-trump
Oklahoma teachers ride wave of support in march to capital: 'It's for the kids'
“Wool socks, that’s what I need,” says the retired teacher Robert Niemi, 68, as he takes off his white cotton socks in an effort to keep his feet dry and prevent blisters.
Niemi is one of more than 125 teachers and their supporters marching 110 miles to demand action on badly needed classroom supplies.
They left Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday for a seven-day walk to the state capital, Oklahoma City.
“Yesterday, I only made it halfway, but today I hope to make it all the way to Bristow,” adds Niemi as a blast of wind hits us in the face.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/06/oklahoma-teachers-march-capital-supporters
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Woman fired for flipping off Trump motorcade warns of 'creeping speech suppression'
The woman who was caught in a photo giving President Trump the middle-finger gesture as his motorcade passed her on the side of the road has penned an op-ed explaining why she is suing her former employer for terminating her over the photo.
In her piece, Juli Briskman compares herself to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has been unable to find work with an NFL team since he began kneeling in protest during the national anthem. Trump criticized Kaepernick on the campaign trail.
"I am not alone in having my ability to make a living threatened by my desire to exercise my right to free speech. No one who follows football thinks that all 50 quarterbacks signed by NFL teams in the past year are more talented than Colin Kaepernick," Briskman wrote in The Washington Post. "These are the stories that have made news, but this facilitation of speech suppression is creeping throughout the private sector."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/381977-woman-fired-for-flipping-off-trump-motorcade-pens-op-ed
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Atomwaffen, Extremist Group Whose Members Have Been Charged in Five Murders,
Loses Some of Its Platforms
Three technology companies have banned the neo-Nazi group from using their online services after reporting by ProPublica. Atomwaffen’s t-shirt retailer is out, as well.
At least four technology companies have taken steps to bar Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi organization, from using their online services and platforms to spread its message or fund its operations.
The action comes after ProPublica reports detailing the organization’s terrorist ambitions and revealing that the California man charged with murdering Blaze Bernstein, a 19-year-old college student found buried in an Orange County park earlier this year, was an Atomwaffen member.
Activists and journalists with other media outlets have criticized the tech firms — among them chat services, web merchants, social media channels and gaming platforms — for enabling the outfit, which has members in 23 states and Canada, records show.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s happened since ProPublica reported on Feb. 23 that chat logs used by Atomwaffen showed members celebrating Bernstein’s murder. Bernstein was gay and Jewish, and Atomwaffen members took to calling his accused killer, Samuel Woodward, a “one man gay Jew wrecking crew.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-extremist-group-whose-members-have-been-charged-in-five-murders-loses-some-of-its-platforms
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