Here are a few pictures from the DC march. Share your experience from your march in this thread.
Scenes from the #March(es)ForOurLives, Part I
Aerial footage shows the turnout at various March for Our Lives events across the US today https://t.co/K4g34viFVh pic.twitter.com/Iu8266uwGi
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 24, 2018
Powerful stuff here from an 11 year old named Naomi, who called out both gun violence in the African American community — & a media that doesn’t always cover it the same way that it covers gun violence in white America. pic.twitter.com/wzgN8uXVwt
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) March 24, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: The crowd in Washington DC has officially reached 1,000,000 protesters. #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/RKgsKXpE8I
— The Anon Journal (@TheAnonJournal) March 24, 2018
A handful of high school kids from Florida did this in just over a month.
I. Am. In. Awe. #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/ThRukcWAyf
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) March 24, 2018
Emma Gonzalez stayed on stage at the D.C. #MarchForOurLives rally for 6 minutes and 20 seconds – the duration of the Parkland shooting. https://t.co/B7yFTn23Nz pic.twitter.com/jdyYagtZCO
— ABC News (@ABC) March 24, 2018
Hunter Nguyen, 21, of Hagerstown, MD, and Daisy Hernandez, 22, of Stafford, VA wrote "don't shoot" on their hands ahead of the march. https://t.co/qP9Q83z8wl pic.twitter.com/17bNkOi43L
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 24, 2018
Former US Marine Corporal Cristine Pederson joining #VetsForGunReform at the DC #MarchForOurLives. pic.twitter.com/n9eOR13ThO
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) March 24, 2018
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March for Our Lives Live Feed
Open Thread: Trump’s Wannabe Reality Show, Omnibudget Episode
It’s the Democrats fault that I took hostages and the Republicans don’t care enough about them to pay the ransom.
Unfair! https://t.co/iK2U1yIGZx
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 23, 2018
As a matter of National Security I've signed the Omnibus Spending Bill. I say to Congress: I will NEVER sign another bill like this again. To prevent this omnibus situation from ever happening again, I'm calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all govt spending bills! https://t.co/kYwMk5AE5k
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2018
So credible. Much commitment. https://t.co/tK8xNXZtiK
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) March 23, 2018
Of course Trump signed the budget bill — after dragging out the ‘suspense’ at least one installment & most of another too long — because his handlers told him no signing, no golfing. And he’d already missed one kickin’ Mar-a-Largo party over the last “shutdown” kabuki.
Also of course, he had to be both a showboater and a pissant about the whole thing. Per the Washington Post, paper of record for the company town whose industry is national politics:
President Trump jolted Washington on Friday when he began the day tweeting that he might veto a massive spending bill needed to prevent a government shutdown — and then appearing in front of cameras five hours later to say that he had signed the legislation.
Trump ripped into the $1.3 trillion funding package in remarks at the White House shortly after 1 p.m., calling it a “ridiculous situation,” filled with overspending yet lacking enough money for his border wall or a deal to resolve the future of the young, undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers.” He said he was only signing the bill because it contained a boost for the military…
Friday’s five hours of confusion showed once again how nothing is certain in Trump’s Washington and any deal is at risk of being blown up by the mercurial president. On Thursday, administration officials and congressional leaders said that the president would sign the bill — even though for days he had privately complained about the package in late-night phone calls and early morning rants — and the White House issued a news release touting its accomplishments.
It also highlighted Trump’s desire to be seen as his own political entity and still an outsider, separate at times from the Republican Party he leads. During his remarks at the White House, Trump sought to distance himself from a bill unpopular with his base but that his aides helped craft and the GOP-led Congress passed. At times he went so far as to portray himself as being almost helpless and having little choice but to accept the spending package…
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You Can’t Explain It, You Can’t Predict It
I served as a medic at Camp Anaconda, Iraq from 2006-07.
I saw the injuries that a M-4 rifle can do to the human body.
An AR-15 is the same as the M-4 that I carried into war.
I'm a veteran & I support a ban on military assault rifles.#VeteransForGunReform#MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/c4WeC95dY5
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) March 23, 2018
Be safe today. Look out for each other. Hug a kid. I don’t think any of us could have ever predicted what we are witnessing, on any level.
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Mild Disappointments Open Thread: Rod Rosenstein & the Persian Menace
New: Trump administration hits Iranian hacker network with sanctions, indictments in vast global campaign https://t.co/fdCPk4ZNff
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) March 23, 2018
Of course, foreign espionage agents are always very bad news. But after Thursday’s press release, I can’t have been the only person hoping/fearing for a less… anodyne announcement:
The Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions and criminal indictments against an Iranian hacker network it said was involved in “one of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns” ever prosecuted by the United States, targeting hundreds of U.S. and foreign universities, as well as dozens of U.S. companies and government agencies, and the United Nations.
None of the alleged hackers were direct employees of the Iranian government, but all worked at the behest of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), officials said. While not the first such punishments imposed on Iran for such malicious acts, the new measures address more extensive Iranian efforts than previously alleged.
Nine of 10 named individuals were connected to the Mabna Institute, a Shiraz-based tech firm that the Justice Department alleged hacks on behalf of Iranian universities and the IRGC. The institute conducted “massive, coordinated intrusions” into the computer systems of at least 144 U.S. universities and 176 foreign universities in 21 countries, including Britain and Canada, officials said.
The hackers stole more than 31 terabytes of data and intellectual property — the rough equivalent of three Libraries of Congress — from their victims, prosecutors alleged. Much of it ended up in the hands of the IRGC, which has frequently been accused of stealing information to further its own research and development of weaponry. The Guard Corps is the division of Iran’s security forces charged with overseeing Iranian proxy forces abroad and is under the direct control of the country’s religious leaders…
The Trump Regency has gotten us into a very weird mindspace. Under normal circumstances, would one’s first thought be “Yes, yes, Mr. Bolton — those crafty Iranian terrorists, and their mad mullahs, always looking to DESTROY THE GREAT SATAN… “
Unintentionally (?) perfect coda:
… Also sanctioned was Behzad Mesri, who U.S. prosecutors announced last November had been indicted on a charge related to the hacking of HBO and theft of unaired episodes of programs including “Game of Thrones,” which the hacker threatened to release unless he was paid $6 million….
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Open Thread: Gun-Humpers Find Their Natural Home?
Thanks, or something, to commentor Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD). From Bloomberg:
YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U.S. gun-control debate.
YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire faster. Additionally, YouTube said it will prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms. The video site, owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has faced intense criticism for hosting videos about guns, bombs and other deadly weapons…
The new YouTube policies will be enforced starting in April, but at least two video bloggers have already been affected. Spike’s Tactical, a firearms company, said in a post on Facebook that it was suspended from YouTube due to “repeated or severe violations” of the video platform’s guidelines.
“Well, since we’ve melted some snowflakes on YouTube and got banned, might as well set IG and FB on fire!,” Spike’s wrote on Facebook, where it has over 111,000 followers, referring to the social network and its Instagram app. A YouTube spokeswoman said the channel has been reinstated after it was mistakenly removed.
InRange TV, another channel devoted to firearms, wrote on its Facebook page that it would begin uploading videos to PornHub, an adult content website…
The jokes, they write themselves!… But srsly, good for YouTube. To be honest, isn’t there an argument that gun-sale and gun-assembly videos should be treated as adult-only content?
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