Demanding Gun Control
Listen to this student's powerful demand for stricter gun laws: pic.twitter.com/D2TIXDaFzr
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Demanding Gun Control
Listen to this student's powerful demand for stricter gun laws: pic.twitter.com/D2TIXDaFzr
— AJ+ (@ajplus) March 14, 2018
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https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/974366947210137600
She’s crazy as he is and ugly as he is.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/974456725347717121
https://twitter.com/politico/status/974453960399642624
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/974456472414441473
Prince Henry to wed Rachel: Queen uses Harry and Meghan’s real names as she gives formal consent to their marriage
In a letter to the Privy Council, she expressed her approval of upcoming wedding
The first six people in the line of succession must obtain the Monarch’s consent
Those who do not seek prior approval are banned from ascending to the throne
Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan set to marry on May 19 at Windsor Castle
By Rebecca English, Royal Correspondent for the Daily Mail and Alexander Robertson For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 09:45 EDT, 15 March 2018 | UPDATED: 15:42 EDT, 15 March 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5505117/The-Queen-formally-gives-consent-Prince-Harry-Meghan.html#ixzz59rRKRbzz
EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Murphy is ‘not interested’ in seeing the daughter, 10, he had with Mel B, court hears, as her ex Stephen Belafonte applies for visitation with the child who ‘calls him dad’
Mel B and her ex husband Stephen Belafonte were in court Wednesday
One of the main points of contention was Eddie Murphy’s daughter with Mel B
Stephen is arguing he has raised her throughout her life as his own and deserves step-parents rights and visitation with Angel, 10
In court Wednesday, they heard from Angel’s father, comedian Eddie Murphy
Belafonte’s team says Murphy’s lawyers said he is simply ‘not interested’ and ‘has had no contact with the child’
By Ryan Parry West Coast Correspondent And Neil Blincow For Dailymail.com
PUBLISHED: 21:52 EDT, 14 March 2018 | UPDATED: 09:08 EDT, 15 March 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5503153/Eddie-Murphy-not-interested-seeing-daughter-Mel-B-court.html#ixzz59rPPdA25
The blood of America’s poor fuels a multibillion-dollar industry
Medicaid, housing subsidies, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—these are some of the things that make up the backbone of the U.S.’s social safety net. And the federal government, guided by President Trump’s proposed budget for 2019, is seeking to make deep cuts to all three of them
Yet while this threatens the government’s social safety net, one of a different kind continues to expand. Americans are flooding into the country’s blood-plasma donation centers in greater numbers than ever before, seeking to make up for low wages or small benefits checks, or even as their only source of cash income during a spell of extreme poverty. Their blood plasma—which historically has been collected disproportionately in the country’s poorest communities—is fueling a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry.
Blood plasma, being a vital component of certain medical treatments, is extremely valuable, and there’s not much standing in the way of American adults who want to make some money off of what’s in their veins—so long as they weigh more than 110 pounds and are in good health. A standard visit lasts 90 minutes and usually pays between $30 and $50. Unlike other countries that ban giving plasma more than once a week or limit the number of sales in a year out of concerns for donors’ health, the U.S. permits up to two plasma donations a week, every week.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-blood-of-americas-poor-fuels-a-multibillion-dollar-industry/ar-BBKfNJn?li=BBnbfcL
This is very touching..
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgWwA7NFhlo/
God bless him! What a beautiful, caring heart he has.
Beware the Ides of March..
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DX_VejfVQAAOVj9?format=jpg
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/974404387941638145
Ladies check your email
Found this at BJ:
When I read this, it reminded me of the movie Spotlight. The attorney got the information on the record that the church was stonewalling against through using another discovery motion. I’m not an attorney, but, if anyone’s seen Spotlight, does my reasoning sound in the ballpark?
Trump administration dials back Shulkin firing rumors — for now
Veterans and GOP lawmakers circle the wagons to try to protect the embattled Veterans Affairs chief.
By LORRAINE WOELLERT and ARTHUR ALLEN 03/14/2018 07:17 PM EDT Updated 03/14/2018 09:53 PM EDT
President Donald Trump may be itching to fire him, but Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has the support of GOP lawmakers and veterans, and the lack of a preferred successor may keep him at the agency’s helm at least for now.
Trump’s consternation with Shulkin bubbled over Monday, as he was meeting with Energy Secretary Rick Perry and planning Rex Tillerson’s ouster from the State Department. Trump didn’t offer Perry the job, nor did he ask if Perry wanted it, but the events prompted speculation that a major Cabinet shakeup was in the works.
Before Trump’s frustration with Shulkin spilled into the open, the mercurial president personally was pushing legislation that Shulkin had helped craft and the White House was publicly defending the VA secretary.
One reason: Veterans, a key bloc of political support for Trump, have circled the wagons to protect Shulkin, as have leading Republicans in Congress. And rumors that Shulkin mismanaged his security detail are premature at best, POLITICO has learned.
With the policy and political stakes high, administration officials and others on Wednesday were tamping down rumors of Shulkin’s imminent dismissal.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/14/trump-administration-dials-back-shulkin-firing-rumors-va-416442?lo=ap_a1
That little girl is just so precious..
She is beautiful!
the bridge in Florida Just opened for use on the 10th.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-of-its-kind-pedestrian-bridge-swings-into-place-300611973.html
NUH UH, SERIOUSLY?
Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia
WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.
The breadth of the subpoena was not clear, nor was it clear why Mr. Mueller issued it instead of simply asking for the documents from the company, an umbrella organization that oversees Mr. Trump’s business ventures. In the subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, Mr. Mueller ordered the Trump Organization to hand over all documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, the people said.
The subpoena is the latest indication that the investigation, which Mr. Trump’s lawyers once regularly assured him would be completed by now, will drag on for at least several more months. Word of the subpoena comes as Mr. Mueller appears to be broadening his investigation to examine the role foreign money may have played in funding Mr. Trump’s political activities. In recent weeks, Mr. Mueller’s investigators have questioned witnesses, including an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, about the flow of Emirati money into the United States.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-subpoenas-trump-organization-demanding-documents-about-russia/ar-BBKgwn3?li=BBnb7Kz
https://twitter.com/AlBoeNEWS/status/974348458797817856
SMH When are Americans gonna be WOKE.
They are electing THUGS who care nothing about human life, only about lining their pockets with our hard-earned tax dollars.
Tragic, incredibly scary and heartbreaking..
I just wish I could reach through my screen and pull people out of those trapped cars..
Reminiscent of the 1989 S.F-East Bay Loma Prieta earthquake …a bridge collapsed and trapped cars beneath it..
Awful..
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/974346301730156545
Yessss!
Breaking
A bridge collapsed in Miami and multiple fatalities. My God! Have mercy!
Nationwide gun violence walkouts raise expectations for DC rally
Sarah Chadwick, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, talks with Rachel Maddow about National Walkout Day and how the national response has increased expectations for the March 24th rally planned in Washington, D.C.
Kushner deal with Japan-backed company gets new scrutiny
Caleb Melby, financial investigations reporter for Bloomberg News, talks with Rachel Maddow about a hundred million dollar real estate deal the Jared Kushner’s family company did with a Japan-backed company.
https://twitter.com/funder/status/974301279190159361
HUH?
Nobel prize winner hospitalized, wife found deceased in Illinois
A Japanese Nobel-winning chemist was discovered wandering in rural Northern Illinois and his wife found dead nearby, some nine hours after they had been reported missing from their home 200 miles away, police said on Wednesday.
Nobel Prize winner Ei-ichi Negishi, 82, was transported to a local hospital for treatment after he was spotted walking near Rockford, Illinois, at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, the Ogle County Sheriff’s Department officials said in a written statement.
Deputies later found the couple’s car and the body of his wife, Sumire Negishi, at the nearby Ochard Hills Landfill, the sheriff’s department said. Rockford is about 100 miles west of Chicago.
An autopsy was pending on the body of Sumire Negishi but foul play was not suspected in her death, the sheriff’s department said. No information was released on the condition of Ei-Ichi Negishi.
Charleston Shooter Dylann Roof’s Sister Morgan to Protesting Classmates: ‘I Hope…Y’All Get Shot’
Morgan Roof, the younger sister of the Charleston shooter Dylann Roof, was arrested after taking two weapons to school and posting to Snapchat that she hoped students protesting against gun violence in a nationwide walkout “get shot.”
Roof, 18, showed up at A.C. Flora High School in South Carolina with a knife, pepper spray, and marijuana. She faces weapons and drugs charges. A judge released Roof on a $5,000 bond but ordered her to stay away from her school.
Though she faced no charges relating to her Snapchat post, it did cause alarm, reported WIS-TV.
In her post, Roof wrote: “Your walking out for the allowed time of 17 min, they are letting you do this, nothing is gonna change what tf you think it’s gonna do? I hope it’s a trap and y’all get shot we know it’s fixing to be nothing but black people walkin out anyway…No offense ofc buuut.”
Blood, Fraud and Money Led to Theranos CEO’s Fall From Grace
Bloomberg
Matt Robinson and Rebecca Spalding
Elizabeth Holmes raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors on the promise that her medical-testing startup Theranos Inc. would change medicine with a single drop of blood. On Wednesday, securities regulators called her a fraud and forced her to give up the company she built.
The lawsuit and settlement announced Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission detailed how Holmes and her chief deputy lied for years about their technology, snookered the media, and used the publicity to get investors to hand more than $700 million to keep the closely held company afloat.
UK punishes Russia over spy poisoning, Trump oddly quiet
Rachel Maddow looks at the history of the spy who was poisoned by Russia south of London and the strong response from the UK, and even strong statements from Nikki Haley and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, though Donald Trump himself has been wishy-washy.
Chimp is afraid that he’s next.
Trump’s Dangerous Allegiance Threatens Every One of Us
By Josh Marshall | March 14, 2018 5:43 pm
https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/974289420357652480
Inbred DEVILS
Trump; Pennsylvania Dem won because he’s ‘like Trump’
03/15/18 08:40 AM—UPDATED 03/15/18 08:45 AM
By Steve Benen
Ahead of this week’s congressional special election in Pennsylvania, Republicans insisted that Conor Lamb (D) was a liberal Democrat who had no business representing a conservative district that backed Donald Trump by a 20-point margin. After Lamb’s apparent victory, GOP leaders decided they no longer agreed with their own talking points.
The Republican National Committee insisted that Lamb “essentially” ran as a Republican. A White House spokesperson said the Democrat “really embraced the president’s policies and his vision.”
As The Atlantic reported, Trump went a little further while reflecting on the race yesterday at a private fundraiser in Missouri.
Look, I realize that the president, by his own admission, occasionally makes stuff up, but the GOP spin on Pennsylvania’s special election is getting more than a little silly.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/974271871897210880
Just wow! But we already knew that.
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/974281067363557377
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-moves-to-remake-his-team-with-loyalists-cable-news-stars-and-killers
Think on that. REALLY think on that.
You don’t have one.
You don’t have two.
You don’t have three.
YOU HAVE DOZENS OF PEOPLE WHO THE FBI SAYS, NOPE, THESE MUTHAPHUCKAS DON’T CLEAR THE THRESHOLD FOR A SECURITY CLEARANCE.
Their muthaphuckin’ WHITE ARROGANCE in:
1. The WH who keeps these people on
2. The actual people who can’t pass the clearance who don’t have two ounces of humility to say ‘ maybe I shouldn’t be in a job that I can’t get a Security Clearance for’.
THE DANGER TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY IS OBVIOUS.
TRAITORS ALL.
Tweeted this.
Keep bringing it, sis.
THUGS, every last one of them. Pure Grade a-THUGGERY
Neither the crooked treasonous buffoon or the lying, plagiarizing 3rd wife should have clearance ..
That this crook is privy to all of America’s most sensitive secrets, is insane..
And he’s using this information to target his perceived ‘enemies’ .. and to preemptively try to skirt laws.. I’ve always worried that out of spite, jealousy, rage or desperation he could do grievous damage to others, utilizing his undeserved access …
His oldest son’s wife just filed for divorce last night, and as much as I really hate marriages and families breaking up ..I just don’t know what to believe about this…
She seems to have actually been rather removed from much of it all…. and she’s certainly not been as horrid as Eric’s wife …who proudly instigates and peddles a lot of hateful stuff with her fellow ‘proud deplorables’ on social media…and uses her old workplace Inside Edition and that awful Deborah Norville, to push their family’s white-washed propaganda..
But I can’t help but wonder – with Mueller closing in – if this isn’t mostly a preemptive move to secure assets ..have it signed over to her to protect whatever they have..
If it’s in fact real, I do feel especially bad for the kids ..5 little ones..
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/974291950168956930
There was an elementary school that did a walkout.
The kids had a Press Packet prepared.
PRESS PACKET!
Here is the Tweet about the kids and the Press packet
https://twitter.com/loisbeckett/status/973893259234893825?s=19
I know, right. Puts those so-called adult stenographers to pure SHAME
Good Morning, Everyone. Head still to the grindstone with projects.
Miss ya’ll dearly <#
Good Morning :)
What a excellent message this high school sophomore delivered!
Our members of Congress have the ability to change gun laws in order to keep us and our children safe. They need to act now.
Good morning, rikyrah. It’s so good to see intelligent black children
Good Morning Everyone 😄😄😄