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riversedge's JournalSheriff David Clarkes Inmates Are Dying But Trump Reportedly Has a Job for Him Anyway
Source: nymag.com
By Adam K. Raymond
Clarke speaking at CPAC in February. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a thin-skinned conservative provocateur who likes to dress up as a cowboy, is close to landing a job in the Trump administration, Politico reports. The controversial lawman is in line for an appointment to serve as assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Partnership and Engagement.
In that role, Clarke would serve as DHS’s liaison between state and local police forces, and while the prospect of him working for the federal government will make some want to puke, at least it would mean he’s no longer in charge of a jail where four people died last year.
Among those to lose their lives in the Milwaukee County jail since last April were a newborn baby and Terrill Thomas, who died of “profound dehydration.” Earlier this week prosecutors began an inquest into Thomas’s April 2016 death. After two days in the jail’s special-needs unit, the 38-year-old, who suffered from bipolar disorder, was placed in solitary confinement. Jail employees turned off the water to his cell when he arrived.
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Clarke, who spoke at the RNC last summer, is an exuberant Trump supporter who first rose to prominence thanks to Fox News. The network used him, wrote Representative Gwen Moore, the congresswoman from Clarke’s district, because it needed “a black sheriff to give voice to the dog-whistle narratives its anchors dare not vocalize themselves.”....................
Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/trump-reportedly-set-to-hire-sheriff-david-clarke.html?mid=twitter_dailyintelligencer
Matt Murphy? @MattMurph24 Apr 27
Wisconsin is responsible for some of the worst people in politics. Scott Walker, Reince Priebus, Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson, & Sheriff Clarke.
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Dronie Swag? @Delo_Taylor Apr 27
Dronie Swag Retweeted The New York Times
His name is #TerrillThomas & he was intentionally deprived of water (until he died) inside @SheriffClarke's jail.
Dronie 
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The New York TimesVerified account @nytimes
Milwaukee inmate died after being deprived of water for 7 days http://nyti.ms/2oHGAQW
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Pamela Moore? @Pamela_Moore13 Apr 26
.@SheriffClarke: "How refreshing to have an administration that has more empathy for victims of crime and not criminals like Obama did."
Here are 100 Lies and False Statements From Trumps First 100 Days
I have not seen all his lies.
I do not think I could keep up anyway! dah!
Here are 100 Lies and False Statements From Trump’s First 100 Days
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/100-lies-and-false-statements?utm_term=.brW0ymN3G#.rc87L3Ez9
A new era in American politics. And a new challenge for citizens and journalists.
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Donald Trump, Jan. 21
Trump bragged to the CIA that he had been on the cover of Time magazine "15 times this year," calling it "the all-time record in the history" of the magazine.
This is false.
Trump has made it to the cover of Time magazine 11 times in total. Richard Nixon holds the record at 55.
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During a press conference with the NATO secretary, Trump said, "The secretary general and I had a productive conversation about what more NATO can do in the fight against terrorism," Trump said. "I complained about that a long time ago, and they made a change. Now they do fight terrorism. I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete."
This is false on two counts.
First, NATO has been involved in counterterrorism efforts since the 1980s. And second, Trump was not responsible for it making a change, which likely referred to the creation of an assistant secretary general for intelligence and security position at NATO.
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White House Weighs Kicking Out Sebastian Gorka
Source: Huff post
The president admires Sebastian Gorka for his fiery TV performances, but his ties to far-right organizations are making him more liability than asset, administration sources say.
04.28.17 3:40 PM ET
The Trump administration is actively exploring options to remove controversial national security aide Sebastian Gorka from the White House and place him at another federal agency, multiple sources tell The Daily Beast.
Two senior administration officials familiar with the situation say it is exploring a new role for Gorka elsewhere in the administration. Another said he has been entirely excluded from day-to-day policy-making at the National Security Council in the meantime.
Gorka’s looming departure from the White House, which one of the sources described as imminent, comes amid mounting controversy over his involvement with a far-right Hungarian group notorious for its collaboration with the Nazi regime during the second world war.
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According to two senior administration officials, the White House has been seeking a position for Gorka that does not require a security clearance. One said it was looking to classify him as a member of the federal government’s senior executive service.....................
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/28/white-house-weighs-kicking-out-sebastian-gorka.html
Per the article, Gorka has no security clearance as of last month. Yet, he is roaming around the WH with no duties.
http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2017/04/28/white-house-weighs-kicking-out-sebastian-gorka/jcr:content/image.crop.800.500.jpg/49780453.cached.jpg
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Gone?
Jennifer Granholm on msnbc now
https://twitter.com/gunsdownamerica/status/858021599345291271
https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/858022857166790656
Sen @ChrisMurphyCT tweeting out names/photos of gun violence victims as Trump delivers speech to NR
Chris Murphy?Verified account @ChrisMurphyCT 51m51 minutes ago
.@realDonaldTrump about to take stage at NRA, to celebrate right of criminals to own guns, to glorify weapons that kill
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Chris Murphy?Verified account @ChrisMurphyCT 50m50 minutes ago
Here's my advice. Turn off cable. Don't watch @realDonaldTrump's NRA speech. Instead, think about who we are fighting for.
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Scott Wong?Verified account @scottwongDC 8m8 minutes ago
Scott Wong Retweeted Chris Murphy
Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT tweeting out names/photos of gun violence victims as Trump delivers speech to NRA
https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/858023710242074625
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WP: Trump exposes the myth of running government like a business
And now we have the sluggish economy this last quarter.
Trump exposes the myth of ‘running government like a business’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/04/28/trump-exposes-the-myth-of-running-government-like-a-business/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.358fec1d9b83
By James Downie April 28 at 11:29 AM
President Trump. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
Marisa Meyer’s tenure as chief executive of Yahoo has not gone well. Ad revenue has dwindled. High-profile acquisitions have failed. Users’ personal info was breached — twice. Now, Verizon is set to acquire Yahoo for a fraction of its worth a decade ago. And in a few months, Meyer faces her punishment, as dictated by the free market: walking away with $186 million. Reports the New York Times: “All told, her time at Yahoo will have netted her well over $200 million.”
“Government should be run like a business,” goes the quasi-proverb. In years past, Meyer’s golden parachute would be this month’s best evidence of why that supposed maxim makes little sense. But now that proof sits in the Oval Office. As Donald Trump’s presidency reaches 100 days, we are seeing firsthand the results of a government run like a business, and the results are not pretty.
From early in Trump’s business career, there has been a consistent verdict: The 45th president is driven by impulse and the short term. Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal,” won Trump’s admiration with a 1985 article that described him (in the New Yorker’s words) as a “ham-fisted thug.” Whether it be Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka or numerous other failures, Trump has consistently bought into ventures brought to him because of the exposure in the short term, regardless of the viability in the long term.
Now that approach has been brought to the White House. As The Post reported Thursday, the president “often seems more interested in short-term accomplishments — and positive cable news headlines — than longer-term policy goals.” This explains why Trump has been so uncompromising on executive orders — where he does not have to deal with anyone else — and so yielding on legislative and diplomatic negotiations. Just this month, he has caved to Democrats on health care, China on currency manipulation, and Canada and Mexico on the North American Free Trade Agreement. What’s important is not the long-term policy outcome but the near-term impression of success.
Many will want to ascribe this short-term, impulsive thinking to Trump alone. The truth, however, is that corporate America rewards this approach. We see this in the “stock price first” approach of big corporations, which values higher prices and bigger dividends over investment in the company’s future. In the long run, that hurts Americans as a whole, as investment in infrastructure, innovation and other improvements is lost.
Trump brought printed map handouts showing his electoral college win to his Reuters interview.
I read elsewhere that they were in the middle of discussing somewhere else, when Trumpy handed these out.
Kyle Griffin?Verified account @kylegriffin1
This happened.
Trump brought printed map handouts showing his electoral college win to his Reuters interview.
CNN
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/857958290814230529
🌴Marilyn Monroe🌴🌞? @sassyteapot63 3h3 hours ago
Look Mommy! Look what I did in school today!
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Mark S.? @ms24june 2h2 hours ago
After all, he was born an artist.... a con artist 
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Ani Corné? @AniCorne 2h2 hours ago
Well put, but even as a con artist, he's not very "artful" at deception.
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Shannon_sandy? @shannon_sandy 3h3 hours ago
Replying to @kylegriffin1
Remember when Obama handed copies of this out? Oh...that's right he didn't because he's the man!
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Jojo? @bossb1000 3h
Nations only federally funded voucher program has negative effect on student achievement, study f
Source: WashPost
Students in the nation’s only federally funded school voucher initiative performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who did not participate, according to a new federal analysis that comes as President Trump is seeking to pour billions of dollars into expanding the private school scholarships nationwide.
The study, released Thursday by the Education Department’s research division, follows several other recent studies of state-funded vouchers in Louisiana, Indiana and Ohio that suggested negative effects on student achievement. Critics are seizing on this data as they try to counter Trump’s push to direct public dollars to private schools.
Vouchers, deeply controversial among supporters of public education, are direct government subsidies parents can use as scholarships for private schools. These payments can cover all or part of the annual tuition bills, depending on the school.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has long argued that vouchers help poor children escape from failing public schools. But Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Education Committee, said that DeVos should heed the department’s Institute of Education Sciences. Given the new findings, Murray said, “it’s time for her to finally abandon her reckless plans to privatize public schools across the country.”......................
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/federal-study-of-dc-voucher-program-finds-negative-impact-on-student-achievement/2017/04/27/e545ef28-2536-11e7-bb9d-8cd6118e1409_story.html?utm_term=.dcbf599d2591
More and more studies are showing no difference or, as above, Negative effects of voucher programs/schools. Yet, we have DeVos!!!-pushing for more tax $ for these programs
Since polls of just Trump voters are a thing, here's a poll of just people who voted for the top vot
PublicPolicyPolling?Verified account @ppppolls
Since polls of just Trump voters are a thing, here's a poll of just people who voted for the top vote getter: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/NationalClintonVoterPoll.pdf …
https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/857947469791076352
PublicPolicyPolling?Verified account @ppppolls 2h2 hours ago
Replying to @ppppolls
Only 2% of Clinton voters think Trump has 'Made America Great Again,' 93% say he has not: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/NationalClintonVoterPoll.pdf …
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PublicPolicyPolling?Verified account @ppppolls 2h2 hours ago
Only 8% of Clinton voters want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, 82% say keep it and make fixes as necessary: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/NationalClintonVoterPoll.pdf …
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PublicPolicyPolling?Verified account @ppppolls 2h2 hours ago
91% of Clinton voters think Trump is dishonest, only 6% think he's honest: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/NationalClintonVoterPoll.pdf …
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PublicPolicyPolling?Verified account @ppppolls 2h2 hours ago
90% of Clinton voters think Trump should release his tax returns, only 6% don't think it's necessary for him to: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/NationalClintonVoterPoll.pdf …
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PublicPolicyPolling?Verified account @ppppolls 2h2 hours ago
Only 5% of Clinton voters support the wall with Mexico, 92% are opposed to it: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/NationalClintonVoterPoll.pdf …
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Kyle GriffinVerified account @kylegriffin1 2h2 hours ago Jeff Sessions is asked *3 times* if he a
Weasel boy is weaseling again.
Kyle Griffin?Verified account @kylegriffin1 2h2 hours ago
Jeff Sessions is asked *3 times* if he agrees with Trump that Russia is a "fake story". He dodges all 3 times.
TODAY
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/857924658028580866
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