My daughter has a temporary job at an apartment complex, cleaning shit up for incoming university students. Today was move-in day. It didn’t go universally well: Exactly. It’s DEAD, lady. FFS. That’s the sign of a full-service student housing unit. ? Open thread!
Down in Durham
#BREAKING Protesters in #Durham topple confederate monument downtown pic.twitter.com/a3BNIavyxC — Derrick Lewis (@DerrickQLewis) August 14, 2017 It was erected in 1924. Almost all Confederate veterans were dead by then. Durham County has always had a significant African American population so a statue supporting slavery standing in front of the courthouse has its own meaning. Be …
Presented Without Comment
Prior to @POTUS NYC visit home tonight protestors surround Trump Tower which is being guarded by white trash trucks. pic.twitter.com/BSPbnr4TsD — Thomas Roberts (@ThomasARoberts) August 14, 2017 ICWUDT.
Tonight’s Russia News
The Washington Post tonight says that a junior member of the Trump campaign team, George Papadopoulos, was trying to set up a meeting with Russians back in Spring 2016, not always to the agreement of other team members. But he seems to have kept trying. But Papadopoulos, a campaign volunteer with scant foreign policy experience, …
Monday Evening Open Thread: And Now for Something Completely Different…
. Poom! Many thanks to commentor SiubhanDuinne, demonstrating once again why she is so universally beloved here. (She posted this in the comments last night, but I know not everybody gets to read all the comments.) *********** Apart from dealing with That One Person In Your Life, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Woah, Hold on Now, I’m not THAT Kind of Nazi
One of the things that is becoming clear to me is that while there are a metric shit-ton of these alt-rights douchebros out there, this is the first time they have ever had to deal with the reality of their bullshit: Mr Cvjetanovic said he was shocked at the coverage the photo of him at …
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Doubling Down (Open Thread)
This fucking guy: Black CEO speaks out and w/in an hour Trump mocks him. Still refuses to condemn white supremacists. https://t.co/ZPnw90CJ2P — Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) August 14, 2017 I suspect Trump’s handlers are trying desperately to convince him to do today what he couldn’t bring himself to do this weekend: unequivocally denounce Nazis, klansmen and …