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Demovictory9's Journal16 OklahomaTeachers were elected to office on Tuesday.
https://twitter.com/Adopt_classroom/status/1060592463885320192Time Person of the Year? any guesses?
Trump and his buddies made a killing off the midterms
Instead, through the end of September, his campaign paid $3.2 million to Trump’s own properties and businesses. There was money paid for rent at Trump Tower. There were hotel rooms at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. There were banquet room rentals at Trump country clubs in New Jersey and Florida. The Trump campaign also paid for more than $1.2 million worth of flights using Trump’s personal jets—planes the president no longer travels on, but which other family members still do.
Much of the remaining money was spent on services for Trump’s own reelection and fundraising effort. Trump’s digital operation—online ads, videos, and social media messaging—cost $8.9 million during that time period. More than half of that—$5 million—went to a firm owned by the head of Trump’s 2020 campaign, Brad Parscale. It was also a good election for Trump’s attorneys: His campaign spent $5.9 million on legal consulting.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/trump-campaign-paid-millions-to-trump-businesses-during-midterms/?fbclid=IwAR3Npr5P-Ok28r3B71qJZe8GKQpL2VTv_YmwEKlcTtJDyJSE9FCIhjibI9Q
Woman charged for not helping kids escape fire
When she was alerted to a fire in the kitchen by both awakened young children, she did not immediately get up to investigate,” reads the affidavit, according to the Waco Tribune. “Instead, she chose to remain in bed for at least several minutes in a home with no working smoke alarms.”
After she finally did get out of bed and see the fire, she escaped the home without helping Anthony or her 2-year-old granddaughter Rachel Rose Aleman get out, police wrote.
Both children died of smoke inhalation.
Aleman was the first person to exit the home, the 11-year-old child, who has not been identified, told police.
“Once she was outside and realized the children were not with her, the defendant made no effort to get the children out of the house, whether by actually physically getting them out or by beckoning to them at the doorway,” reads the affidavit. “She did not ask neighbors for help when they also fled the shared part of the duplex on fire.”
Aleman was taken into custody on $30,000 bail.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-grandmother-escape-burning-home-children-20181116-story.html
"If Trump tells a story in which an unnamed person calls him "sir," it's probably invented."
It’s easy to fact check Trump’s lies. He tells the same ones all the time.
I’ve made it my mission to fact-check every word Donald Trump utters as president. That means trying to watch every speech, read every transcript, decipher every tweet. I’ve accidentally established a reputation for using Twitter to point out that he’s lying within seconds of him telling a lie.
People sometimes ask in response how I can blast out these corrections so quickly. But I have no special talent. My secret is that Trump tells the same lies over and over.
On his fifth day in office, Trump baselessly alleged widespread voter fraud. He did the same thing this past week. In his third month in office, Trump falsely claimed that the United States has a $500 billion trade deficit with China. He has said the same thing more than 80 times since.
Listen to this president long enough, and you can almost sense when a lie is coming. If Trump tells a story in which an unnamed person calls him “sir,” it’s probably invented. If Trump claims he has set a record, he probably hasn’t. If Trump cites any number at all, the real number is usually smaller.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/its-easy-to-fact-check-trumps-lies-he-tells-the-same-ones-all-the-time/2018/11/15/5effb25c-e874-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.08258c6f3053
School bans expensive coats to protect poorer children
High school bans Canada Goose and Moncler jackets to protect poorer children
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/uk/poverty-proof-school-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
ondon (CNN)High school can be tough for anyone, and students from poor backgrounds have the added anxiety of struggling to keep up with their wealthier peers when it comes to clothes and accessories.
A high school in northwestern England is attempting to level the playing field for disadvantaged students by banning expensive Canada Goose and Moncler coats.
In a letter to parents at the beginning of November, the headteacher of Woodchurch High School in Birkenhead explained that the ban was coming in after Christmas as the school was "mindful that some young people put pressure on their parents to purchase expensive items of clothing."
"These coats cause a lot of inequality between our pupils," headteacher Rebekah Phillips told CNN. "They stigmatize students and parents who are less well off and struggle financially."
The blacklisted coats sell for as much as $1,200 -- a cost many parents will struggle to afford. "There has been feedback from children, who say 'Gosh, that is our rent for the month,'" Phillips said.
She said her attempt to "poverty-proof" the school, which has students between the ages of 11 and 16, has been well-received by parents.
Phillips added that a former student wrote to her praising the move and saying that school should not be a place where students' "economic background is rubbed in their faces and distracts them from learning."
outrage/protests in Ireland. man aquitted of rape - lace front thong shown as evidence of consent
At a rape trial in Cork, Ireland last week the barrister, Elizabeth O’Connoll, representing the defendant, in her closing statements, asked the Jury to consider the teenage complainants choice of underwear in their deliberations. She told the jury “You have to consider how she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front. The defendant was subsequently found not guilty.
https://www.komorebipost.com/irish-rape-trial-shown-complainants-thong-by-barrister/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46207304
A series of protests over sexual consent have been taking place in Ireland, a week after a man was acquitted of raping a 17-year-old.
In the trial, the defence lawyer told the jury: "You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front."
The 27-year-old man was found not guilty of rape shortly afterwards.
The controversy led one Irish MP to hold up a lace thong in parliament to highlight "routine victim-blaming".
Ruth Coppinger produced the blue lacy underwear in the Dáil (Irish parliament) from her sleeve on Tuesday.
"It might seem embarrassing to show a pair of thongs here... how do you think a rape victim or a woman feels at the incongruous setting of her underwear being shown in a court?"
What happened at the trial?
The case, in which the man was cleared of rape, was originally reported by the Irish Examiner newspaper on 6 November.
The accused maintained that the sexual contact between him and the girl, which took place in a laneway in Cork, had been consensual.
Democrats flip another House seat after ranked-choice runoff in Maine
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/politics/democrats-maine-house-ranked-choice-jared-golden/index.htmlGQ woman of the year Serena Williams. puts "woman" in quotes. WTF?
Why Serena Williams' Woman of the Year GQ Cover is Sparking Major Backlash
https://www.wgrz.com/video/syndication/veuer/why-serena-williams-woman-of-the-year-gq-cover-is-sparking-major-backlash/602-8311858
https://dankanator.com/10097/why-fans-furious-gq-magazine-cover-serena-williams/
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