January 23, 2019

Twitter rips Savannah Guthrie for 'appalling' interview with Nicholas Sandmann on 'Today'

Savannah Guthrie's "Today" show interview with Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky high school student featured in a controversial video, did not go over well with viewers.

They knocked her and the program for giving the teen a platform and conducting a "softball interview."

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Twitter users were outraged as NBC's morning show tweeted clips of Guthrie's interview Wednesday.

"@SavannahGuthrie and @TODAYshow I have been a loyal viewer for the past 2 decades," shared a user. "I remember watching your coverage of the twin towers on that fateful day in September. But no more. Not after the sham that was this interview."

@SavannahGuthrie and @TODAYshow I have been a loyal viewer for the past 2 decades. I remember watching your coverage of the twin towers on that fateful day in September. But no more. Not after the sham that was this interview.

— Bella RN (@OnceBittenBella) January 23, 2019
"Savannah Guthrie owes America an apology," another declared.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/01/23/nick-nicholas-sandmann-today-show-interview-savannah-guthrie-twitter/2655420002/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/01/23/nick-nicholas-sandmann-today-show-interview-savann

January 23, 2019

anti choicers try to engage man's young daughter

Much respect to that man!

He said “you have the right to one” to his daughter.

https://twitter.com/NightlyPolitics/status/1087800321466761221

January 22, 2019

The Trump Administration Quietly Changed the Definition of Domestic Violence and We Have No Idea Why

The Trump Administration Quietly Changed the Definition of Domestic Violence and We Have No Idea What For

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-domestic-violence-definition-change.html


Without fanfare or even notice, the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women made significant changes to its definition of domestic violence in April. The Obama-era definition was expansive, vetted by experts including the National Center for Victims of Crime and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The Trump administration’s definition is substantially more limited and less informed, effectively denying the experiences of victims of abuse by attempting to cast domestic violence as an exclusively criminal concern.

The previous definition included critical components of the phenomenon that experts recognize as domestic abuse—a pattern of deliberate behavior, the dynamics of power and control, and behaviors that encompass physical or sexual violence as well as forms of emotional, economic, or psychological abuse. But in the Trump Justice Department, only harms that constitute a felony or misdemeanor crime may be called domestic violence. So, for example, a woman whose partner isolates her from her family and friends, monitors her every move, belittles and berates her, or denies her access to money to support herself and her children is not a victim of domestic violence in the eyes of Trump’s Department of Justice. This makes no sense for an office charged with funding and implementing solutions to the problem of domestic violence rather than merely prosecuting individual abuse

Restoring nonphysical violence to the definition of domestic violence is critical. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, over one-third of U.S. women (43.5 million) have experienced “psychological aggression” at the hands of an intimate partner. Experts have long recognized that the manipulative behaviors identified in the Obama-era definition as restricting a victim’s liberty or freedom can cause greater and more lasting damage than physical harm. I know this from my experiences over a decade working with survivors of domestic violence. In nearly every case, the bruises and broken bones eventually heal, but the psychological scars can last a lifetime.

January 22, 2019

Ron Perlman doesn't hold back!

https://twitter.com/perlmutations/status/1087508580318687232

January 22, 2019

Dailymail's lead story: points out that no one is covered in blue paint at covington "blue out"

lots of screenshots from the videos. Dailymail's audience skews very racist. Negative article about their new heroes must be sending them into a tizzy

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6616793/Kentucky-Catholic-high-school-Lincoln-Memorial-clash-allowed-blackface-pep-rallies.html

PICTURED: Kentucky students from the same Catholic high school as the teens who taunted a Native American man were allowed to don BLACKFACE at their sports events - and openly goaded African American players

January 21, 2019

news is confirming... the Covington Catholics in blackface... here if video

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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-sports-covington-nathan-phillips-nick-sandmann-20190121-story.html

January 21, 2019

summary of the events leading to the stare down.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/picture-of-the-conflict-on-the-mall-comes-into-clearer-focus/2019/01/20/c078f092-1ceb-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.826ed158a6b6

January 21, 2019

This video contradicts Sandmann's statement.

https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1087403613754978305x

January 21, 2019

full size chevy made of legos

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/20/chevy-silverado-lego-truck/

January 21, 2019

In Trump country, Republicans cheer on shutdown: The 'government is our biggest enemy'

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/01/20/trump-country-republicans-cheer-federal-shutdown/2549255002/

"It kind of makes me question what they do on a day-to-day basis," says Paul James, 31, who runs the town's sole medical marijuana dispensary. "If I don't miss them, what were they doing?"

Sure, some folks are worried that their relatives in the military aren't getting paid right now. Others are worried about access to federal loan guarantees or getting their tax refunds on time. More than a handful believe the shutdown makes the country look foolish. But generally, Craig's residents are unfazed by the shutdown that's approaching one month and showing no signs of ending. They point out that federal employees eventually will get their salaries even though some didn't even work and that many of those nonessential workers are getting a lengthy vacation.

For many Craig residents, the shutdown remains mostly abstract: The federal government isn't a big employer here, and people are mostly worried about how air-quality regulations are slowly squeezing the life out of the coal mines and power plants. That helps explain the popularity of GOP candidates, where voting for Republicans comes as naturally as breathing, regardless of how you feel about the president. This is a town where pickups and SUVs rule the roads and renewable energy is often scorned as unreliable and unproven.

Here, the shutdown is an initial victory in President Donald Trump's fight to shake up and pare down federal bureaucracy. Trump drew more than 80 percent of the votes in the 2016 election in this county, and for his supporters, every day the federal government isn't interfering in their daily lives is a win.

"Just remember, Trump has never been a politician," says Chris Nichols, a city councilman whose shirt with a faded monogrammed "M" reminds people that he used to own several McDonald's franchises. "And maybe that's what's firing up his base."