December 14, 2016

Today is #BlockOutTrump day! (I followed him JUST to Unfollow). Get your BLOCK

Just saw this tweet and did not know it was a special day. I do not follow Trump anyway.
Short video clip at tweet link.






TWEETS
BrooklynDad_Defiant! ?@mmpadellan 5h5 hours ago

Today is #BlockOutTrump day!
(I followed him JUST to Unfollow).
Get your BLOCK on!

#TheResistance
#wednesdaywisdom
#InformTheElectors
94 replies 374 retweets 431 likes

https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/809042436265824256




dicks out for pepe
?@TrentHallgren

@mmpadellan im confused on why anyone would like this? This shit is fucking dumb. Your not proving a damn thing
9:26 AM - 14 Dec 2016
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highserenity ?@highserenity49 32m32 minutes ago

.@TrentHallgren says dicks out for pepe who lies about being a marine and is another TRUMP STOLEN VALOR CULT MEMBER @mmpadellan

December 14, 2016

Olivia Engel, 6 #SandyHook

I do not have TV on but Jake must be doing a segment on this anniversary of Sandy Hook.


Jake Tapper Verified account
?@jaketapper

Olivia Engel, 6

#SandyHook



https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/809101973001736192




Engineer from CA ?@enggirl 1h1 hour ago

Thank you @jaketapper for remembering #SandyHook Saddened that there has been no change in gun laws

December 14, 2016

Ohio Republicans Advance Nationwide Wage-Suppression Campaign

Source: Alternet




State lawmakers move to prevent municipalities from boosting pay for low-wage workers—a growing obstacle in the Fight for $15.

By Justin Miller / The American Prospect
December 14, 2016




...................................................But there was another harsh measure in the mix that flew under the radar: a measure that would force Ohio localities to comply with state minimum-wage regulations that top out at $8.10 an hour.

The legislation aims to block Cleveland, one of Ohio’s largest and poorest cities, from unilaterally boosting wages for its low-wage workers. According to U.S. census data, 35,000 Clevelanders work full-time for less than $15 an hour, and 50 percent of those workers are black.

After the Cleveland City Council rejected a both a Fight for 15 campaign lobbying effort to pass a $15 minimum wage in August and an attempt to get the issue on the November ballot, labor advocates succeeded in securing a special election for May2017. Voters will decide whether to establish a $12 minimum wage beginning in 2018, with annual one-dollar increases up to $15 over three years and cost-of-living-indexed increases thereafter.

“It’s corporate interests like the fast-food lobby fighting to keep pay low," says Paul Sonn, the National Employment Law Project’s general counsel. “When cities take matters into their own hands, they push conservative legislators to block that, too.”
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The Cleveland ballot measure, and future attempts to raise minimum wages in Cincinnati, Columbus, or Dayton, would be stopped in their tracks if Kasich signs the legislation. Whether he will remains unclear, but a decision could come as early as Friday. ................
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker launched the first major Republican preemption effort in 2011 when he signed legislation that prevented localities from requiring mandatory paid sick time. .............



Read more: http://www.alternet.org/labor/ohio-republicans-advance-nationwide-wage-suppression-campaign

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Article lists several Repug states with wage suppression laws already in place. The WI law was headed by ALEC!!

December 14, 2016

Pantsuit Nation made it easy to ask for an inquiry into Russian election interference. Text INVESTIG

I have already emailed some so I did not do this. But I trust George to send out good information


Tweet
George Takei ?@GeorgeTakei 2m2 minutes ago

Pantsuit Nation made it easy to ask for an inquiry into Russian election interference. Text INVESTIGATE to 526-86, follow the instructions.


https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/809038192531951616

December 14, 2016

Photo: A lone file desk and a lone computer.

I found the photo to be as interesting as the story. A lone file desk and a lone computer. This time all was lost. All is lost.



Tweet:
NYT Politics Verified account
?@nytpolitics

Missed signals and slow responses let Russia mount a hacking effort to influence the election. A NYT investigation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0


The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0


By ERIC LIPTON, DAVID E. SANGER and SCOTT SHANEDEC. 13, 2016





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A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times





WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.

His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named “the Dukes,” a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.

The F.B.I. knew it well: ...............................

Yared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for “the Dukes” and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks — in part because he wasn’t certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.


“I had no way of differentiating the call I....................................

It was the cryptic first sign of a cyberespionage and information-warfare campaign devised to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, the first such attempt by a foreign power in American history. What started as an information-gathering operation, intelligence officials believe, ultimately morphed into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent, Donald J. Trump..................................

December 14, 2016

Where opiates killed the most people in 2015

more maps at link.



Where opiates killed the most people in 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/13/where-opiates-killed-the-most-people-in-2015/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_opioids-0830pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fb88e0f262a6



By Christopher Ingraham December 13 at 7:00 AM

Used syringes are discarded at a needle exchange clinic in Vermont in 2014 where users can pick up new syringes and other clean items for those dependent on heroin. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

More than 33,000 people died of opioid overdoses in the United States last year. But speaking of an “opiate epidemic” is in some ways a misnomer. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the country is in fact dealing with multiple opioid epidemics right now — each with a distinct geographic footprint.
The geography of opioid deaths

Starting with the big picture, here's a map of total opioid death rates by state. County-level data would be preferable, but the CDC suppresses data for many small counties to protect the privacy of the people who live there. The data in this map encompasses everything from heroin to hydrocodone to more powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl.................


https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=480

December 14, 2016

Mika telling Joe twice he has talked about Obama failure in Syria first hour over

and over and now she wants to know what will happen. What is Trumps policy? I had listened to about 10 minutes in 1st hour and the panel was ragging on and on about the failure of Obama policy in Syria. No one on the panel had anything good to say about what the policy should have been.

December 14, 2016

Poll: Majority Oppose Trump/Ryan Plan To Privatize Medicare

Source: oliverwillis.com/MorningConsult






Poll: Majority Oppose Trump/Ryan Plan To Privatize Medicare

December 13, 2016 Oliver Willis Politics 0
Paul Ryan


A majority of the people responding to a new poll say they oppose the Donald Trump/Paul Ryan plan to privatize the Medicare system.

According to Morning Consult, 55 percent of voters say that Medicare should continue on its current successful path, while only 29 percent support transforming it into a private system. Ryan and other Republicans have used the euphemism “premium support” to describe the process of turning over the Medicare system to private, for-profit companies that would prioritize their own profits over patient health and safety.

Morning Consult notes that the option to transform Medicare has remained at the same level of unpopularity, with a November 2014 Kaiser Family Foundaiton report showing only 26 percent supporting privatization.......................

Read more: http://oliverwillis.com/poll-majority-oppose-trumpryan-plan-privatize-medicare/

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.........................Democrats seized on potential Medicare changes as a regular attack point in the weeks following the election. While President-elect Donald Trump sought to differentiate himself from other Republicans throughout the campaign by saying he would not touch Medicare or Social Security, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Tom Price (Ga.), Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, have supported moving the program to a premium support system.

The older the voter, the more likely they are to want to maintain Medicare as it is now. Among those surveyed, only 18- to 29-year-olds had more favor reform (41 percent) than those who favored keeping the system as is (39 percent). Among seniors age 65 and older, 67 percent said they thought the system should remain as is, while 19 percent favored the premium support model.

Of the entire survey group, 15 percent said they “strongly supported” a shift to the government helping seniors purchase a private insurance policy and another 22 percent said they “somewhat supported” it. Another 14 percent said they “somewhat oppose” a shift, while 30 percent said they strongly opposed changes. Twenty percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion.



The poll also indicates more people think the proposed changes would do more harm than good. Forty-eight percent of respondents said the proposal was a bad idea, while 34 percent called it a good idea. Nineteen percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion........................

December 13, 2016

Sheriff Pitchfork Clarke is opening act for Trump Ego tour now in WI...

I did not know dumpy trump was coming to WI for a ego tour. He has no time to work out his business arrangements nor turn out his tax returns but can go on another ego tour!!


LIVE stream:

Daniel Bice ?@DanielBice 20m20 minutes ago

Big sign near front of @realDonaldTrump rally in West Allis says: "Pardon Snowden."

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/808832080687808513




Daniel Bice Retweeted
Mary Spicuzza ?@MSpicuzzaMJS 38m38 minutes ago

Next up - @RepSeanDuffy.
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Daniel Bice ?@DanielBice 38m38 minutes ago

. @SheriffClarke on helping @realDonaldTrump win the 2016 election: "It's one of my most proudest achievements!"
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Secretly Two Wolves ?@MarcusCurtis15 41m41 minutes ago

Secretly Two Wolves Retweeted Secretly Two Wolves

🚔LIVE Steam: @SheriffClarke Opening Speech, Calling Corporate Media #FakeNews & Investigate Soros, Elector Death Threats & Intimidation 🇺🇸

Secretly Two Wolves added,
Secretly Two Wolves @MarcusCurtis15
🎥LIVE Stream:
President-Elect
Donald Trump Rally
in West Allis, WI…
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Daniel Bice Retweeted
David Ade ?@DavidAdeCBS58 42m42 minutes ago

.@SheriffClarke slams the "so-called bi-partisan" congressional effort to investigate Russia's influence in election.
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Theo Keith ?@TheoKeith 42m42 minutes ago

.@SheriffClarke says Congress ought to investigate liberal George Soros, not allegations of Russian hacking.
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Daniel Bice Retweeted
Jessie Opoien ?@jessieopie 43m43 minutes ago

.@SheriffClarke says if Congress wants to investigate something it should investigate George Soros, not Russia
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Daniel Bice ?@DanielBice 45m45 minutes ago

. @SheriffClarke takes stage in West Allis for @realDonaldTrump rally. "Blue lives matter in America!"
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Daniel Bice ?@DanielBice 1h1 hour ago

If you want to see a bunch of little people in funny hats await the big man (hint: not Santa's workshop), go here:
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Daniel Bice Retweeted
Colleen Boland ?@colleenboland2 1h1 hour ago

President-elect Trump merchandise selling well ahead of Thank You rally
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Jessica Arp ?@news3jessica 11m11 minutes ago

How cold is it you say? Well, at 3:44pm I had 94% battery in my phone. By 4:08 my phone was dead. #reporterproblems
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Jessica Arp ?@news3jessica 53m53 minutes ago

Lining up in frigid temps in West Allis for @realDonaldTrump #news3

December 13, 2016

Alex Jones Scrubs Pizzagate Content; Complaint Reveals New Tie Connecting Shooter To Jones

Source: mediamatters.org





2 hours 10 sec ago ››› ERIC HANANOKI


Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is scrubbing online content pushing the false and dangerous conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton’s campaign trafficked children through a D.C. pizzeria. A man who recently entered the pizzeria with a rifle and fired shots reportedly shared a piece of Jones’ content before the shooting; the video he shared is still on the website.

Jones is a radio host who has claimed that the government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and the tragedies at Columbine, Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon. Jones has also repeatedly accused the Clintons of murder. He has been elevated from the fringes to the mainstream by President-elect Donald Trump, who appeared on his show and praised his “amazing” reputation. Trump adviser Roger Stone is also a regular Jones guest and contributor.

Jones and his Infowars website have promoted the false conspiracy theory dubbed "pizzagate," which alleges that top Clinton associates such as campaign manager John Podesta are trafficking children through the Comet Ping Pong restaurant.

The false claims took a dangerous turn when Edgar Maddison Welch fired an assault rifle inside the pizzeria because he was trying to “self-investigate” the conspiracy theory. FBI special agent Justin Holgate stated in a criminal complaint that Welch said he sent a video on the night of December 1 with the message “Watch PIZZAGATE: The Bigger Picture on YouTube” to a friend before the shooting:
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Read more: https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/13/alex-jones-scrubs-pizzagate-content-complaint-reveals-new-tie-connecting-shooter-jones/214809

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There really should be some serious repercussions for jerks like Alex Jones@


TWEETs:

Media Matters Verified account
?@mmfa

Alex Jones is now deleting "Pizzagate" content as a criminal complaint shows more ties from the shooter to Jones: http://mm4a.org/2gxJSlv


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https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/808768020449521664




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Media Matters ?@mmfa 1h1 hour ago

While Jones attempts to scrub his "Pizzagate" content it has already been spread around on other conspiracy sites: http://mm4a.org/2gxJSlv


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https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/808774976950173697