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July 15, 2018
while Trump was acting the clown in Europe, Sessions made big moves to stem immigration
we werent paying attention, Trump sucks up all the oxygen. This is how they operate. We don't see them chopping away at america because of the focus on Trumps clownish behavior
Massive turn down of asylum seekers at the border. Also created rules to make it easier for legal immigrants to lose green cards.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/12/trump-administration-announces-tougher-asylum-rules-immigrants/780634002/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article214844345.html
July 15, 2018
AN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KMOV/KRON/CNN) -- It didn't take long for a video of a driver screaming racial slurs at another motorist to go viral.
Twitter users figured out who that angry driver was, and the investment bank where she worked fired her for it.
It is a road rage incident caught on cellphone video that has gone been viewed thousands of times. In it, you see a woman using foul language and making obscene hand gestures. Then she drops the N-word.
"It actually made me upset. If anyone has seen the video, I was kind of shocked that she went along and said that,” Marshaunte Farris said.
Farris was in the passenger seat recording the video. Her boyfriend, Shamiek Sheppard, was behind the wheel.
The incident happened Monday at around 10 a.m. on eastbound Interstate 80 freeway.
"And as we were leaving Richmond to go through Emeryville to get back to Oakland, she just started tripping,” Farris said.
http://www.kmov.com/story/38632707/woman-fired-after-freeway-racist-rant-caught-on-camera
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5952815/White-woman-road-rage-launches-racist-rant-two-black-motorists.html
Monday she was Audi driving VP of CA investment company.. then she called other motorists the N-word
https://twitter.com/OGtay_/status/1016387435226267649AN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KMOV/KRON/CNN) -- It didn't take long for a video of a driver screaming racial slurs at another motorist to go viral.
Twitter users figured out who that angry driver was, and the investment bank where she worked fired her for it.
It is a road rage incident caught on cellphone video that has gone been viewed thousands of times. In it, you see a woman using foul language and making obscene hand gestures. Then she drops the N-word.
"It actually made me upset. If anyone has seen the video, I was kind of shocked that she went along and said that,” Marshaunte Farris said.
Farris was in the passenger seat recording the video. Her boyfriend, Shamiek Sheppard, was behind the wheel.
The incident happened Monday at around 10 a.m. on eastbound Interstate 80 freeway.
"And as we were leaving Richmond to go through Emeryville to get back to Oakland, she just started tripping,” Farris said.
http://www.kmov.com/story/38632707/woman-fired-after-freeway-racist-rant-caught-on-camera
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5952815/White-woman-road-rage-launches-racist-rant-two-black-motorists.html
July 15, 2018
http://www.thisisinsider.com/youtube-justin-mcclure-racist-tweets-biracial-family-2018-7
To more than 1 million subscribers, the McClure parents are a source of heartwarming, innocent content about about what their toddler twins and infant son are up to.
They occasionally delve into more serious issues, too, like children's health. And since Justin McClure is white and Ami is black, they also often discuss issues that come with being in an interracial relationship and having biracial children.
But earlier this week, something happened that shook their fans. Old tweets from Justin McClure resurfaced, from between 2011 and 2014, of racist comments from the family's Twitter account. Bossip first reported on the tweets.
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"Black people can't say 'ask' but they have no trouble saying Cadillac Escalade," Justin McClure wrote in one tweet.
In another tweet, he said black woman name their children names like "Chandelier, Lasagna, Constellation," and "Walgreens."
McClure apologized for the tweets, criticized them, and explained that they were a part of his life that he left behind. McClure said he's been open about his former past as an alcoholic, which has led to stints in jail and then rehabilitation, where he turned his life around. The tweets appeared on the family account, he explained, because the account was previously used for his comedy career.
"These tweets — or 'jokes' — were very distasteful. It's not a reflection of my humor now. I was a very insecure person," he said in a video. "Years of therapy, years of sobriety [helped] change my life."
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In addition to the racist jokes in his tweets, people found a blog post Justin McClure wrote in 2013 about interracial dating. The post was ultimately about how interracial dating is a good thing, but he also spread black stereotypes.
In one part of the essay, he said black men can be more aggressive than white men when seeking out women.
"White guys are too busy thinking of getting coffee to talk to a sister on the street. Black guys don't care," he wrote. "A black man could be on fire, burning to death, and would still talk to a woman on the street before he jumped in a pond, 'Hey I know I'm on fire and shit, but damn baby you is looking good. Hope you like me extra crispy?'"
YouTube-famous father of biracial children is under fire after people found his old racist tweets
http://www.thisisinsider.com/youtube-justin-mcclure-racist-tweets-biracial-family-2018-7
To more than 1 million subscribers, the McClure parents are a source of heartwarming, innocent content about about what their toddler twins and infant son are up to.
They occasionally delve into more serious issues, too, like children's health. And since Justin McClure is white and Ami is black, they also often discuss issues that come with being in an interracial relationship and having biracial children.
But earlier this week, something happened that shook their fans. Old tweets from Justin McClure resurfaced, from between 2011 and 2014, of racist comments from the family's Twitter account. Bossip first reported on the tweets.
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"Black people can't say 'ask' but they have no trouble saying Cadillac Escalade," Justin McClure wrote in one tweet.
In another tweet, he said black woman name their children names like "Chandelier, Lasagna, Constellation," and "Walgreens."
McClure apologized for the tweets, criticized them, and explained that they were a part of his life that he left behind. McClure said he's been open about his former past as an alcoholic, which has led to stints in jail and then rehabilitation, where he turned his life around. The tweets appeared on the family account, he explained, because the account was previously used for his comedy career.
"These tweets — or 'jokes' — were very distasteful. It's not a reflection of my humor now. I was a very insecure person," he said in a video. "Years of therapy, years of sobriety [helped] change my life."
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In addition to the racist jokes in his tweets, people found a blog post Justin McClure wrote in 2013 about interracial dating. The post was ultimately about how interracial dating is a good thing, but he also spread black stereotypes.
In one part of the essay, he said black men can be more aggressive than white men when seeking out women.
"White guys are too busy thinking of getting coffee to talk to a sister on the street. Black guys don't care," he wrote. "A black man could be on fire, burning to death, and would still talk to a woman on the street before he jumped in a pond, 'Hey I know I'm on fire and shit, but damn baby you is looking good. Hope you like me extra crispy?'"
July 15, 2018
The photographs are stunning: a giant mountain of ice towers over a tiny village, with colorful homes reminiscent of little doll houses against the stark, blue-gray landscape.
But for the people living in those houses – that beauty could be life-threatening.
"It's kind of like, if you lived in the suburbs, and you woke up one morning and looked out, and there was a skyscraper next to your house," says David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University who does research in Greenland during the summer months. "I'd be the first to get out of there."
He says that's why authorities have taken action to evacuate those living closest to the water from the village of Innaarsuit, where the iceberg has parked itself just off the coast. According to the BBC, the village has just 169 residents.
"In these shallow bays, these icebergs may drift in and become stuck, grounded on the sea floor," Holland says. "So that's what happened to one of these bergs."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/14/an-11-million-ton-iceberg-is-threatening-a-tiny-village-in-greenland/?utm_term=.62c6f9d8d961
Massive iceberg threatens remote town in Greenland
A huge iceberg grounded just outside the village of Innaarsuit, Greenland, and is threatening the coastal homes of the town's 169 residents. (Reuters)
An 11 million-ton iceberg is parked precariously close to the tiny village of Innaarsuit — a glacial faceoff that pits 169 residents of Greenland against the biggest iceberg many have ever seen.
Their fate could be entirely dependent on the weather forecast.
If a strong enough wind blows at the right time, the berg could be dislodged from the spot where it has grounded, and float harmlessly into Baffin Bay. Crisis over.
But if Mother Nature brings enough rain, the relatively warm precipitation could further destabilize the iceberg, potentially sending a chunk of it into the ocean and creating a tsunami that could wash away part of the town.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5951561/Villagers-evacuated-fears-huge-100m-high-chunk-break-iceberg-cause-tsunami.html
massive iceberg looms over small village, towering over houses
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/14/629126405/massive-iceberg-looms-over-a-village-in-greenlandThe photographs are stunning: a giant mountain of ice towers over a tiny village, with colorful homes reminiscent of little doll houses against the stark, blue-gray landscape.
But for the people living in those houses – that beauty could be life-threatening.
"It's kind of like, if you lived in the suburbs, and you woke up one morning and looked out, and there was a skyscraper next to your house," says David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University who does research in Greenland during the summer months. "I'd be the first to get out of there."
He says that's why authorities have taken action to evacuate those living closest to the water from the village of Innaarsuit, where the iceberg has parked itself just off the coast. According to the BBC, the village has just 169 residents.
"In these shallow bays, these icebergs may drift in and become stuck, grounded on the sea floor," Holland says. "So that's what happened to one of these bergs."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/14/an-11-million-ton-iceberg-is-threatening-a-tiny-village-in-greenland/?utm_term=.62c6f9d8d961
Massive iceberg threatens remote town in Greenland
A huge iceberg grounded just outside the village of Innaarsuit, Greenland, and is threatening the coastal homes of the town's 169 residents. (Reuters)
An 11 million-ton iceberg is parked precariously close to the tiny village of Innaarsuit — a glacial faceoff that pits 169 residents of Greenland against the biggest iceberg many have ever seen.
Their fate could be entirely dependent on the weather forecast.
If a strong enough wind blows at the right time, the berg could be dislodged from the spot where it has grounded, and float harmlessly into Baffin Bay. Crisis over.
But if Mother Nature brings enough rain, the relatively warm precipitation could further destabilize the iceberg, potentially sending a chunk of it into the ocean and creating a tsunami that could wash away part of the town.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5951561/Villagers-evacuated-fears-huge-100m-high-chunk-break-iceberg-cause-tsunami.html
July 15, 2018
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Twitter defines its mission as providing a “healthy public conversation.” Let them know that demagoguery isn’t healthy.
Your vote on November 6 is the key, of course.
But as the political season heats up, Trump’s lies are heating up, too. And they will sway unwary voters.
So you need to be active now, before Election Day—on behalf of the truth.
ROBERT REICH: DONALD TRUMP IS A LIAR. DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT OPINION
http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-donald-trump-liar-dont-let-him-get-away-it-opinion-1019084----
Twitter defines its mission as providing a “healthy public conversation.” Let them know that demagoguery isn’t healthy.
Your vote on November 6 is the key, of course.
But as the political season heats up, Trump’s lies are heating up, too. And they will sway unwary voters.
So you need to be active now, before Election Day—on behalf of the truth.
July 15, 2018
Can Democrats Stop Trump’s Wave of Lies? Probably Not
We’ve had three years now of Donald Trump as a politician, almost half of that as president. I think we’ve collectively just about failed in one thing: how to deal with a leading politician who just doesn’t bother telling the truth.
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And there’s evidence that Trump’s failure to tell the truth is getting worse, not better, over time. Trump dishonesty chronicler Daniel Dale finds that he went from an average of about three false claims a day in 2017 to five a day in 2018, with peak numbers over two recent weeks.
The question remains what anyone can do about it. No one really has come up with anything. Sure, there’s a case to be made that the cable news networks should dial back on taking his speeches live since they know they’ll be misinforming their viewers. And I do think that the fact-checkers, including the ones I’ve mentioned above, are overall doing good work. But it’s pretty clear that nothing the media or anyone else has done has convinced Trump to stop doing it.
Nor, for that matter, has the damage it’s done to his presidency convinced him to change. No one he deals with trusts anything he says, making negotiation with him virtually impossible.It’s one of the reasons that, despite his claims of being a brilliant deal-maker, he’s come up basically empty in making deals so far.
For a normal president, I’d hold out hope that a Democratic landslide in November could convince him to try a different path — and I’d urge his closest advisers to push him to see electoral defeat as a signal to that effect. Unfortunately, I’m fairly certain that Trump will hold himself blameless if Republicans do get clobbered. For that matter, he’ll probably make up some statistic “showing” that his party did far better than those of other presidents at their midterm elections. And then we can add that one to the continuing false statement counts, and nothing will change.
Can Democrats Stop Trump's Wave of Lies? Probably Not
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-13/even-a-democratic-win-probably-can-t-stop-trump-from-lyingCan Democrats Stop Trump’s Wave of Lies? Probably Not
We’ve had three years now of Donald Trump as a politician, almost half of that as president. I think we’ve collectively just about failed in one thing: how to deal with a leading politician who just doesn’t bother telling the truth.
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And there’s evidence that Trump’s failure to tell the truth is getting worse, not better, over time. Trump dishonesty chronicler Daniel Dale finds that he went from an average of about three false claims a day in 2017 to five a day in 2018, with peak numbers over two recent weeks.
The question remains what anyone can do about it. No one really has come up with anything. Sure, there’s a case to be made that the cable news networks should dial back on taking his speeches live since they know they’ll be misinforming their viewers. And I do think that the fact-checkers, including the ones I’ve mentioned above, are overall doing good work. But it’s pretty clear that nothing the media or anyone else has done has convinced Trump to stop doing it.
Nor, for that matter, has the damage it’s done to his presidency convinced him to change. No one he deals with trusts anything he says, making negotiation with him virtually impossible.It’s one of the reasons that, despite his claims of being a brilliant deal-maker, he’s come up basically empty in making deals so far.
For a normal president, I’d hold out hope that a Democratic landslide in November could convince him to try a different path — and I’d urge his closest advisers to push him to see electoral defeat as a signal to that effect. Unfortunately, I’m fairly certain that Trump will hold himself blameless if Republicans do get clobbered. For that matter, he’ll probably make up some statistic “showing” that his party did far better than those of other presidents at their midterm elections. And then we can add that one to the continuing false statement counts, and nothing will change.
July 15, 2018
On June 1, just less than 500 days into the president’s term, The Post had counted 3,251 false or misleading claims by the commander in chief. Trump continued that dizzying pace during Thursday’s NATO news conference, and then launched his visit to Britain by trashing that country’s prime minister and brazenly lying about it a few hours later.
“I didn’t criticize the prime minister,” Trump said, shortly after criticizing the prime minister. He blasted Theresa May’s handling of Brexit and declared that her fiercest political rival, Boris Johnson, “would be a great prime minister.” Hours later, Trump dismissed the reprinting of his own words as “fake news,” even though the Rupert Murdoch-run Sun tabloid had his attacks on tape.
Trump’s bizarre denials mirrored a claim the president made a week earlier when he tweeted that he had never supported a GOP-drafted immigration bill, this despite tweeting three days earlier, in all caps, that “HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL.”
Soon after the second tweet was posted, Esquire’s Ryan Lizza wryly noted: “He didn’t even bother to delete the old one.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/leave-the-dark-twisted-fantasies-to-trump/2018/07/13/d63f3352-86c6-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.47d80b3ed936
When it comes to lying, Trump is nonstop
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/leave-the-dark-twisted-fantasies-to-trump/2018/07/13/d63f3352-86c6-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.47d80b3ed936On June 1, just less than 500 days into the president’s term, The Post had counted 3,251 false or misleading claims by the commander in chief. Trump continued that dizzying pace during Thursday’s NATO news conference, and then launched his visit to Britain by trashing that country’s prime minister and brazenly lying about it a few hours later.
“I didn’t criticize the prime minister,” Trump said, shortly after criticizing the prime minister. He blasted Theresa May’s handling of Brexit and declared that her fiercest political rival, Boris Johnson, “would be a great prime minister.” Hours later, Trump dismissed the reprinting of his own words as “fake news,” even though the Rupert Murdoch-run Sun tabloid had his attacks on tape.
Trump’s bizarre denials mirrored a claim the president made a week earlier when he tweeted that he had never supported a GOP-drafted immigration bill, this despite tweeting three days earlier, in all caps, that “HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL.”
Soon after the second tweet was posted, Esquire’s Ryan Lizza wryly noted: “He didn’t even bother to delete the old one.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/leave-the-dark-twisted-fantasies-to-trump/2018/07/13/d63f3352-86c6-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.47d80b3ed936
July 14, 2018
moment Trump hears protesters and waves at them
https://twitter.com/i/status/1018114388228796416
July 14, 2018
On Monday, President Trump will have a closely watched meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, just days after the announcement that 12 Russian military intelligence officers had been indicted on charges of hacking Democratic organizations in an effort to affect the 2016 election.
But first, a bit of golf.
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Before arriving in Scotland — the birthplace of his mother, as well as that of Mr. Trump’s preferred pastime — the president managed repeatedly to plug Turnberry, one of two Scottish resorts that bear his name, as he dealt with some of the most pressing diplomacy problems facing his administration to date.
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It is a tactic that has alarmed ethics watchdogs, who say he is using his presidential platform to promote a resort that, according to financial filings, has been a burden on the family business.
While the president has blazed a chaotic streak through Europe this past week, Turnberry has received special recognition amid other Trump-issued sound bites that analysts say have undermined the United States’ relationships with close NATO allies.
At a hastily arranged news conference in Brussels, when asked to discuss his message for Britain on its exit from the European Union, Mr. Trump said he had none — a thought he would later undermine in stunning fashion in an interview splashed on the cover of the British tabloid The Sun. Then, Mr. Trump wove in a reference to Turnberry, on breathtaking bluffs and cliffs on the western coast of Scotland, calling it “magical” and “one of my favorite places.”
“I’m going there for two days while I wait for the Monday meeting” with Mr. Putin, the president told the news media.
Trump uses European visit to tout his money losing Scotland golf resort
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/world/europe/uk-trump-scotland-golf.html?action=click&module=Trending&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=TrendingOn Monday, President Trump will have a closely watched meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, just days after the announcement that 12 Russian military intelligence officers had been indicted on charges of hacking Democratic organizations in an effort to affect the 2016 election.
But first, a bit of golf.
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Before arriving in Scotland — the birthplace of his mother, as well as that of Mr. Trump’s preferred pastime — the president managed repeatedly to plug Turnberry, one of two Scottish resorts that bear his name, as he dealt with some of the most pressing diplomacy problems facing his administration to date.
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It is a tactic that has alarmed ethics watchdogs, who say he is using his presidential platform to promote a resort that, according to financial filings, has been a burden on the family business.
While the president has blazed a chaotic streak through Europe this past week, Turnberry has received special recognition amid other Trump-issued sound bites that analysts say have undermined the United States’ relationships with close NATO allies.
At a hastily arranged news conference in Brussels, when asked to discuss his message for Britain on its exit from the European Union, Mr. Trump said he had none — a thought he would later undermine in stunning fashion in an interview splashed on the cover of the British tabloid The Sun. Then, Mr. Trump wove in a reference to Turnberry, on breathtaking bluffs and cliffs on the western coast of Scotland, calling it “magical” and “one of my favorite places.”
“I’m going there for two days while I wait for the Monday meeting” with Mr. Putin, the president told the news media.
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