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November 2, 2019
A Hummer takes revenge on a Honda for brake-checking
November 1, 2019
When a Honda brake-checked a Hummer on a highway near Waterbury, Connecticut, the driver of the wronged vehicle didn’t take it in stride. Watch as the Humvee hits the smaller car’s bumper several times, sending the two screeching onto the shoulder.
https://nypost.com/video/a-hummer-takes-revenge-on-a-honda-for-brake-checking/
this gives the Hummer good evidence that the Honda caused the accident!
don't brake check a Hummer while driving a lil Honda
A Hummer takes revenge on a Honda for brake-checking
November 1, 2019
When a Honda brake-checked a Hummer on a highway near Waterbury, Connecticut, the driver of the wronged vehicle didn’t take it in stride. Watch as the Humvee hits the smaller car’s bumper several times, sending the two screeching onto the shoulder.
https://nypost.com/video/a-hummer-takes-revenge-on-a-honda-for-brake-checking/
this gives the Hummer good evidence that the Honda caused the accident!
November 1, 2019
Police in the San Francisco Bay area said four people were killed and “several” others were injured in Orinda, where gunfire apparently erupted at a Halloween party Thursday night.
The shooting, which occurred just before 11 p.m., took place in a quiet neighborhood on a hill, at an event hosted inside an Airbnb rental, about 17 miles east of downtown San Francisco. By the time officers arrived, more than 100 attendees were fleeing from the house party.
Three victims were pronounced dead at the scene and another died later at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County’s trauma center, according to a statement released Friday by the sheriff’s department.
Ambulances rushed three other injured victims to center before midnight, said Ben Drew, a spokesperson for John Muir.
“One is in critical condition, one is in serious condition and one was treated and released,” he said.
Four killed in mass shooting at Halloween party in California
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/01/orinda-shooting-halloween-party-deaths/Police in the San Francisco Bay area said four people were killed and “several” others were injured in Orinda, where gunfire apparently erupted at a Halloween party Thursday night.
The shooting, which occurred just before 11 p.m., took place in a quiet neighborhood on a hill, at an event hosted inside an Airbnb rental, about 17 miles east of downtown San Francisco. By the time officers arrived, more than 100 attendees were fleeing from the house party.
Three victims were pronounced dead at the scene and another died later at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County’s trauma center, according to a statement released Friday by the sheriff’s department.
Ambulances rushed three other injured victims to center before midnight, said Ben Drew, a spokesperson for John Muir.
“One is in critical condition, one is in serious condition and one was treated and released,” he said.
November 1, 2019
Man arrested for allegedly handing out razor blades with Halloween candy
A 37-year-old man was arrested in Connecticut on Halloween after razor blades were found in the candy bags of at least two trick-or-treaters, authorities said.
Waterbury police received two complaints of razor blades in the candy bags of children in an area in Waterbury, about 35 miles southwest of Hartford.
Investigators determined the razor blades came from the same home and arrested Jason A. Racz, police said.
Jason A Racz.Jason A Racz.Waterbury Police Department
"Racz explained that the razor blades were accidentally spilled or put into the candy bowl he used to hand out candy from," police said in a statement, adding that the suspect "provided no explanation as to how the razor blades were handed out to the children along with the candy."
The razors were not found in candy, according to police.
A 3-year-old child who lives at the home also had access to a box of razor blades that was seized and logged into evidence, police said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-arrested-allegedly-handing-out-razor-blades-halloween-candy-n1075201
November 1, 2019
ILES-DE-LA-MADELEINE, QUEBEC — High on a bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Adele Chiasson no longer ventures into her backyard for a simple reason: It is falling into the sea.
“I’m afraid to go out there,” the widow said one afternoon from the safety of her kitchen. She nodded toward the 70-foot-tall, red sandstone cliffs out back that creep closer with each passing year. “You never know when a section will fall off.”
Decades ago, when she and her husband moved to this modest house with its majestic views, they never imagined a vanishing coastline might one day drive them away. But the sea long ago claimed the ground where their children once played. An abandoned road out back has mostly crumbled into the surf below. Two of her neighbor’s homes have been moved inland.
The day might come when she, too, will be forced to abandon this precarious patch of earth. “I might not have a choice,” she says.
An abandoned road is crumbling into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Adele Chiasson, a widow who lives nearby, said visitors “are shocked at the changes” that erosion has wrought on the cliffs.
The more than 12,000 residents of this windswept Canadian archipelago are facing a growing number of gut-wrenching choices, as extreme climate change transforms the land and water around them. Season after season, storm after storm, it is becoming clearer that the sea, which has always sustained these islands, is now their greatest threat.
A Washington Post examination of the fastest-warming places around the world has found that the Magdalen Islands, as they are known in English, have warmed 2.3 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century, twice the global average.https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-environment/canada-quebec-islands-climate-change/
The ice used to protect them. Now their island is crumbling into the sea.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-environment/canada-quebec-islands-climate-change/ILES-DE-LA-MADELEINE, QUEBEC — High on a bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Adele Chiasson no longer ventures into her backyard for a simple reason: It is falling into the sea.
“I’m afraid to go out there,” the widow said one afternoon from the safety of her kitchen. She nodded toward the 70-foot-tall, red sandstone cliffs out back that creep closer with each passing year. “You never know when a section will fall off.”
Decades ago, when she and her husband moved to this modest house with its majestic views, they never imagined a vanishing coastline might one day drive them away. But the sea long ago claimed the ground where their children once played. An abandoned road out back has mostly crumbled into the surf below. Two of her neighbor’s homes have been moved inland.
The day might come when she, too, will be forced to abandon this precarious patch of earth. “I might not have a choice,” she says.
An abandoned road is crumbling into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Adele Chiasson, a widow who lives nearby, said visitors “are shocked at the changes” that erosion has wrought on the cliffs.
The more than 12,000 residents of this windswept Canadian archipelago are facing a growing number of gut-wrenching choices, as extreme climate change transforms the land and water around them. Season after season, storm after storm, it is becoming clearer that the sea, which has always sustained these islands, is now their greatest threat.
A Washington Post examination of the fastest-warming places around the world has found that the Magdalen Islands, as they are known in English, have warmed 2.3 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century, twice the global average.https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-environment/canada-quebec-islands-climate-change/
November 1, 2019
Gwen Ifill's last tweet. She died November 14, 2016.
https://twitter.com/gwenifill/status/792156577931337728
November 1, 2019
IGOR DERYSH
OCTOBER 31, 2019 11:00AM (UTC)
The Trump administration wants to use an obscure loophole to install far-right immigration hawk Ken Cuccinelli as acting head of the Department of Homeland Security. But in a rare rejection of the president, even Republican lawmakers decried the plot as illegal on Wednesday.
Trump has been eyeing Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to take over DHS for weeks, but White House lawyers determined that it would be illegal to appoint him because he is ineligible under the Vacancies Act. Federal law states that acting department heads must either serve 90 days as a “first assistant” to the previous Senate-confirmed secretary or be confirmed to another position, making Cuccinelli, who was appointed as acting head of USCIS following the ouster of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, ineligible.
Trump wants to use loophole to install immigration hawk at DHS. Even Republicans say it's illegal
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/31/trump-wants-to-use-loophole-to-install-immigration-hawk-at-dhs-even-republicans-say-its-illegal/IGOR DERYSH
OCTOBER 31, 2019 11:00AM (UTC)
The Trump administration wants to use an obscure loophole to install far-right immigration hawk Ken Cuccinelli as acting head of the Department of Homeland Security. But in a rare rejection of the president, even Republican lawmakers decried the plot as illegal on Wednesday.
Trump has been eyeing Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to take over DHS for weeks, but White House lawyers determined that it would be illegal to appoint him because he is ineligible under the Vacancies Act. Federal law states that acting department heads must either serve 90 days as a “first assistant” to the previous Senate-confirmed secretary or be confirmed to another position, making Cuccinelli, who was appointed as acting head of USCIS following the ouster of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, ineligible.
November 1, 2019
WASHINGTON The Department of Justice has quietly changed hiring procedures to permanently place immigration judges repeatedly accused of bias to a powerful appellate board, adding to growing worries about the politicization of the immigration court system.
Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests suggest that an already opaque hiring procedure was tweaked for the six newest hires to the 21-member Board of Immigration Appeals. All six board members, added in August, were immigration judges with some of the highest asylum denial rates. Some also had the highest number of decisions in 2017 that the same appellate body sent back to them for reconsideration. All six members were immediately appointed to the board without a yearslong probationary period.
"They're high-level deniers who've done some pretty outrageous things (in the courtroom) that would make you believe they're anti-immigrant," said Jeffrey Chase, a former immigration judge and past senior legal adviser at the board. "It's a terrifying prospect. ... They have power over thousands of lives."
Among the hiring documents are four recommendation memos to the Attorney General's office from James McHenry, director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees the nation's immigration court system.
The memos, dated July 18, recommend immigration judges William A. Cassidy, V. Stuart Couch, Earle B. Wilson, and Keith E. Hunsucker to positions on the appellate board. McHenry's memos note new hiring procedures had been established on March 8, to vet "multiple candidates" expressing interest in the open board positions.
A footnote in the memos states that applicants who are immigration judges would be hired through a special procedure: Instead of going through the typical two-year probationary period, they would be appointed to the board on a permanent basis, immediately. This was because a position on the appellate board "requires the same or similar skills" as that of an immigration judge, according to the memo.
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McHenry, appointed in 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, concludes his recommendation memos by noting that the judge's "current federal service was vetted and no negative information that would preclude his appointment" was reported. He does not mention any past or pending grievances, although public complaints have been filed against at least three of the judges.
These documents, obtained through FOIA via Muckrock, a nonprofit, collaborative that pushes for government transparency, reflect "the secrecy with which these rules are changing," said Matthew Hoppock, a Kansas City-based immigration attorney. "It's very hard to remove or discipline a judge that's permanent than when it's probationary, so this has long term implications."
Justice Department changed hiring to promote restrictive immigration judges
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-tns-bc-immigration-judges-20191031-story.htmlWASHINGTON The Department of Justice has quietly changed hiring procedures to permanently place immigration judges repeatedly accused of bias to a powerful appellate board, adding to growing worries about the politicization of the immigration court system.
Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests suggest that an already opaque hiring procedure was tweaked for the six newest hires to the 21-member Board of Immigration Appeals. All six board members, added in August, were immigration judges with some of the highest asylum denial rates. Some also had the highest number of decisions in 2017 that the same appellate body sent back to them for reconsideration. All six members were immediately appointed to the board without a yearslong probationary period.
"They're high-level deniers who've done some pretty outrageous things (in the courtroom) that would make you believe they're anti-immigrant," said Jeffrey Chase, a former immigration judge and past senior legal adviser at the board. "It's a terrifying prospect. ... They have power over thousands of lives."
Among the hiring documents are four recommendation memos to the Attorney General's office from James McHenry, director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees the nation's immigration court system.
The memos, dated July 18, recommend immigration judges William A. Cassidy, V. Stuart Couch, Earle B. Wilson, and Keith E. Hunsucker to positions on the appellate board. McHenry's memos note new hiring procedures had been established on March 8, to vet "multiple candidates" expressing interest in the open board positions.
A footnote in the memos states that applicants who are immigration judges would be hired through a special procedure: Instead of going through the typical two-year probationary period, they would be appointed to the board on a permanent basis, immediately. This was because a position on the appellate board "requires the same or similar skills" as that of an immigration judge, according to the memo.
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McHenry, appointed in 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, concludes his recommendation memos by noting that the judge's "current federal service was vetted and no negative information that would preclude his appointment" was reported. He does not mention any past or pending grievances, although public complaints have been filed against at least three of the judges.
These documents, obtained through FOIA via Muckrock, a nonprofit, collaborative that pushes for government transparency, reflect "the secrecy with which these rules are changing," said Matthew Hoppock, a Kansas City-based immigration attorney. "It's very hard to remove or discipline a judge that's permanent than when it's probationary, so this has long term implications."
November 1, 2019
The loft
In true loft style, 3015 Myrtle St., No. 2 has an open-floor plan with high ceilings.
On the lower level of the 1,084-square-foot unit, there is a living room, kitchen, dining area and half bathroom.
The industrial feel of concrete floors is offset by warm-wood beams overhead.
While the space has no windows, three large skylights inset in the 21-foot-high ceilings illuminate the space brightly.
Upstairs, the bedroom level features a full bath and walk-in closet.
The building
There are 19 units now sharing the converted space of this former manufacturing building built in 1930. The exterior of 3015 Myrtle showcases an artistic upgrade that is both a nod to its industrial past and its modern incarnation.
$620k Oakland loft with no windows
https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/West-Oakland-loft-3015-Myrtle-Street-14504276.phpThe loft
In true loft style, 3015 Myrtle St., No. 2 has an open-floor plan with high ceilings.
On the lower level of the 1,084-square-foot unit, there is a living room, kitchen, dining area and half bathroom.
The industrial feel of concrete floors is offset by warm-wood beams overhead.
While the space has no windows, three large skylights inset in the 21-foot-high ceilings illuminate the space brightly.
Upstairs, the bedroom level features a full bath and walk-in closet.
The building
There are 19 units now sharing the converted space of this former manufacturing building built in 1930. The exterior of 3015 Myrtle showcases an artistic upgrade that is both a nod to its industrial past and its modern incarnation.
November 1, 2019
"I was gonna get all 😡 until I saw what he was actually doing 💙"
https://twitter.com/C71Marie/status/1190090860316254210
November 1, 2019
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
....New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make....e co
cry baby Trump...
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
....New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make....e co
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