https://apnews.com/c39334f65f99465582b49489c5077781
Wow. I wonder what the odds are of at least one Supreme Court Justice not even reading the opinion?
«In a 277-page decision that won’t be the final word on the issue, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ruled that while such a question would be constitutional, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had added it arbitrarily and not followed proper administrative procedures.»
https://twitter.com/NataliaAntonova/status/1084124618821124099?s=17
Thread.
Natalia Antonova 🐱🔔 (@NataliaAntonova) Tweeted:
I’m reading a Russian-language book now, a compilation of stories of narcissistic abuse. What gets me especially is that a decade ago, I would’ve said, “That couldn’t possibly happen to me!”
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway (lol, it’s true).
I believe Trump is a throwaway pawn, from the Russian POV, so: what’s their long game and how do we counter it? Or do they not have a long game, being as surprised as the rest of us that he got elected?
https://twitter.com/erinscafe/status/1083598867835248640?s=17
#payattentionkids
Erin For President (@erinscafe) Tweeted:
Apply for jobs with the confidence of a mediocre white man.
This is the best HR advice I can give you.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1083579511889973250?s=17
This was really good, but (and?) I think it was written-in-the-stars inevitable.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) Tweeted:
New party, who dis? https://t.co/2cznisv8tB
«One obvious question you might have before we proceed further: Why aren’t women one of the groups? The answer is that women represent almost 60 percent of the Democratic primary electorate3 and so they’re a major portion of all of these groups. In fact, women are likely the majority of all of these groups, with the possible exception of The Left, which skews male. So when you think of a default voter from one of these groups, you should probably think of a woman.»
(I haven’t read the details of each group.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/us/donnie-romero-orlando-shooting-prostitutes.html
“Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump
«Her case is based on a growing body of knowledge about the electronic warfare waged by Russian trolls and hackers—whom she terms “discourse saboteurs”—and on five decades’ worth of academic studies about what kinds of persuasion can influence voters, and under what circumstances. Democracies around the world, she told me, have begun to realize that subverting an election doesn’t require tampering with voting machines. Extensive studies of past campaigns, Jamieson said, have demonstrated that “you can affect people, who then change their decision, and that alters the outcome.” She continued, “I’m not arguing that Russians pulled the voting levers. I’m arguing that they persuaded enough people to either vote a certain way or not vote at all.”
The effect of such manipulations could be momentous in an election as close as the 2016 race, in which Clinton got nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump, and Trump won the Electoral College only because some eighty thousand votes went his way in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. In two hundred and twenty-four pages of extremely dry prose, with four appendixes of charts and graphs and fifty-four pages of footnotes, Jamieson makes a strong case that, in 2016, “Russian masterminds” pulled off a technological and political coup. Moreover, she concludes, the American media “inadvertently helped them achieve their goals.”»
http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/how-shutdown-impacting-air-safety/579616/
«“Give me a lever that is long enough, and I can move the world,” Archimedes is supposed to have said. We now have a Coulter corollary, descended perhaps from Iago and Lady Macbeth. It is: “Give me a man who is weak enough, and I can taunt him into anything.”»
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/politics/trump-national-emergency.html
«The recent caravans from Central America primarily consist of migrants who are not trying to sneak across the border but instead are presenting themselves to border officials and requesting asylum.
And while Mr. Trump and his aides keep claiming that terrorists are sneaking in across the border, including assertions that they are doing so by the thousands, as a matter of empirical reality, there has been no such instance in the modern era.
….
Why did Congress give presidents such broad power?
In part by accident.»
