If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be government waste. pic.twitter.com/JKgabZ47O5 — Rep. Mark Walker (@RepMarkWalker) May 15, 2017 Member of Congress going after, like, the best $20 the government spends just supported an $883 billion tax cut called AHCA. Very principle https://t.co/OBjwgRALsD — Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 16, …
Oh boy… now it is getting real and weird
BREAKING: DOJ appoints former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Trump-Russia ties https://t.co/xBIBWBXc3p pic.twitter.com/KXaKPvfjsa — HuffPost (@HuffPost) May 17, 2017 Oh yeah, the Majority Leader in the House is arguing that his statement on tape that the statement he made that the current President and a senior member of his caucus were …
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Good Reading: The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus
The Anthropoliteia website describes itself as “critical perspectives on police, security, crime, law and punishment around the world.” For the past 31 weeks, they have been running a series “@BlackLivesMatter Syllabus.” This series “mobilizes anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressing the confluence of race, policing and justice.” It is set up as a resource …
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It is Important to Bear Witness: Protestors Beaten by Erdogan’s Bodyguards
Yesterday after Turkish President Erdogan’s meetings with the President, his bodyguards decided to give a beat down to a number of protestors (Kurdish Americans, Yazidi Americans, Kurdish and Yazidi immigrants to America, Americans who are neither Kurdish or Yazidi) in front of the Turkish ambassador’s residence. VOA Turkish has the video. #Erdoğan'ın korumaları kavgaya karıştı …
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Loose Tweets Cost Seats?
Because they’ve hitched their wagon to a deranged, ignorant, pussy-grabbing “star,” the Republicans and sundry government employees have been compelled to undertake quasi-serious investigations into false and frankly ridiculous claims and allegations. This began literally on Day One, when Trump pressured the US Parks Service to produce nonexistent photographic evidence to support his lies about …
Open Thread: Bon Voyage!
One other thing to bear in mind – Trump is dreading the overseas trip https://t.co/FoEfQGlOrZ — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 16, 2017 I honestly half-expected the trip to be cancelled by now, except that Trump’s handlers probably look forward to it as a chance to get away from getting yelled at by the same reporters. …
Oscar’s strategy change goes Meh
Zachary Tracer at Bloomberg recently reported on Oscar’s first quarter results. They are mixed. They are only losing $25 million dollars this quarter instead of almost $50 million dollars. The privately held health insurer, created to sell plans under the Affordable Care Act, lost $25.8 million across three states in the first three months of …