Done told you…I’m tired of articles about them…
Interesting how nobody ever goes and studies rural BLACK folk..it’s like they don’t exist.
A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off
Hint: it’s not about the economy.
By Sean Illing
@seanillingsean.illing@vox.com
Mar 13, 2018, 8:50am EDT
Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington.
Wuthnow’s work resulted in a new book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. He argues that rural Americans are less concerned about economic issues and more concerned about Washington threatening the social fabric of small towns and causing a “moral decline” in the country as a whole. The problem, though, is that it’s never quite clear what that means or how Washington is responsible for it.
So I decided to speak with Wuthnow about what he learned and whether fears about America’s “moral decline” are really just a cover for much deeper fears about race and demographic changes.
………………………..
Sean Illing
In the book, you argue that the anger we’re seeing in rural America is less about economic concerns and more about the perception that Washington is threatening the way of life in small towns. How, specifically, is Washington doing this?
Robert WuthnowI’m not sure that Washington is doing anything to harm these communities. To be honest, a lot of it is just scapegoating. And that’s why you see more xenophobia and racism in these communities. There’s a sense that things are going badly, and the impulse is to blame “others.”
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/976266948823715843
Ladies, I am hearing on Chris Hayes show that we have yet another explosion in Austin!
This person has to be caught..
Say what one may about ‘privacy’ etc., this is where CCTV comes in very handy.. the police would have at the very least id’d the perpetrator by now – instead of chasing their tails – and more bizarrely and ridiculously, pleading with the bomber to turn himself in…
Living in London as an expat for years, the joke was that you always had to look your very best …because from the minute you stepped out your front door in the morning, to the time your returned in the evening, you were on camera..
And once anything happens, it takes the authorities only so much time to review CCTV footage..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=STwSMAeuze8
Technically I didn’t sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago. There was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star. But I digress…People DO care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it up, etc. And PS…I am NOT going anywhere. xoxoxo https://t.co/Js9sEnanIk
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 20, 2018
BWA HA HA HA HA Dumpster’s done met his match on Twitter.
Short: Don’t fuck with Stormy
Infidelity/adultery as far as I’m concerned is right up there with murder.. I have absolutely no respect or use for any man or woman who indulges in it..
I loathe cheaters however they’re packaged …Seemingly strait-laced and ‘devoted’ like John Edwards, or as notoriously sleazy, immoral and a gawdawful slime ball like the buffoon aka David Dennison.. As well, the sidepieces who hook up with these men ..
As someone said, Marla Maples was Ivana’s Stormy, the imported lying Birther was Marla’s Stormy, and Stormy became the imported lying Birther’s Stormy..
This particular filthy dynamic leaves Ivana as the only innocent, and the only one in the mix deserving of sympathy ..
I still do hope Stormy takes the buffoon down..
House GOP plans to impeach 5 Democratic Supreme Court Justices>>House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda https://t.co/sWYCN3wFm6 #PASenate #PAHouse
— Pretty Foot (@PrettyFootWoman) March 20, 2018
danielx says:
March 20, 2018 at 3:27 pm
Cambridge Analytics…
The following was published at Antidote Zine on January 22, 2017, originally from a German language publication. If you want to know how far behind the curve mainstream media was on this whole deal, the date tells you a lot right there.
Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
When ALL is SAID & DONE, folks who blackened that oval or pulled that lever for #45 November 8, 2016, had it in their DNA long before the DUMPSTER and Cambridge Analytica came along.
OH REALLY?
Facebook had an emergency meeting to talk about the Cambridge Analytica scandal — but Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t there https://t.co/XenSBIlT2I pic.twitter.com/jD7QNYJOmq— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 20, 2018
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook’s Data Leak Damage Control Session
Facebook employees gathered to discuss the widening scandal over the 2016 election. But company chiefs Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg were nowhere to be found.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerberg-awol-from-facebooks-data-leak-damage-control-session?via=newsletter&source=PMDigestOrig_ABTest
UH HUH
UH HUH
Federal judge scolds Kobach for violating her trust at contempt hearing
March 20, 2018 01:17 PM
Updated 1 hour 59 minutes ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach could be facing a contempt order from a federal court after a judge on Tuesday tore into the Kansas Republican about repeatedly skirting her orders.
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson chastised Kobach, a candidate for governor, at a contempt hearing for suggesting that her previous orders have left any room for ambiguity.
“I’ve had to police this over and over and over again,” Robinson said with frustration during the hearing in Kansas City, Kan.
Robinson in 2016 ordered Kobach to fully register thousands of Kansas voters who had registered at the DMV but had failed to provide proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, as required by a Kansas law that Kobach crafted.
“The real question is why has the secretary of state not complied with it until he’s called on it. … There’s been no change of rules. There’s been no ambiguity,” Robinson said.
The contempt hearing capped two weeks of courtroom battles between Kobach and the American Civil Liberties Union as Robinson weighs whether federal law allows Kansas to impose the requirement.
Robinson will rule in the near future whether to hold Kobach in contempt of court and will separately rule on the overall case, which will determine whether thousands can cast ballots this November when Kansas elects a new governor.
My day was going well and then BAM….shot to hell.
What happened?
WHASSAMATAU, SG2?
Everything.
Take care of yourself SG, ok.. Give yourself permission to step away from it all every so often..
Don’t wear yourself out sweetheart.. self-care trumps all else..
We desperately need our caring twitter warrior as much as our little Carson needs his doting Glamma..
UPDATE: Emerdata Ltd created by SCL/Cambridge Analytica’s Julian Wheatland, with Erik Prince’s business partner Chun Shun Ko appointed director Jan ’17 – just added Rebekah Mercer & Jennifer Mercer as directors, along w/Alexander Nix HT @SoftWarmKitties https://t.co/L4lq0XkX1j pic.twitter.com/ypIXkXNnRK
— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) March 20, 2018
💥 Cambridge Analytica executives created a company in 2017 with the Executive Director & Deputy Chairman of Erik Prince’s Frontier Services Grouphttps://t.co/5Mz7ZmgslS
— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) March 19, 2018
A quick clarification, I removed “in 2017” in article title – Emerdata was incorporated in 2017 and Erik Prince’s business partner Chun Shun Ko was appointed Director on January 28, 2018, which is noted in article, so this is a recent business partnership
— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) March 19, 2018
BREAKING: *CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA SUSPENDS CEO ALEXANDER NIX
— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) March 20, 2018
DEVOS IS NOTHING BUT TRASH!!!!
Wow, the Senate Intelligence Committee just came out in favor of all U.S. voting machines having an auditable paper trail. And they made clear that the U.S. must make clear that the attack on our election in 2016 was a hostile act. This is shockingly productive.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 20, 2018
UH HUH
UH HUH
Just in from BBC News – Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned by UK Parliament to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica.Cambridge Analytica: Facebook boss summoned over data claims https://t.co/kvOLtTGpe9
— ProfHelen (@Helenhs) March 20, 2018
pass the popcorn
A New York judge ruled today that a defamation lawsuit against @realdonaldtrump related to an allegation that he sexually harassed Summer Zervos, a former “Apprentice” contestant, can go forward https://t.co/l3LsrCn20V— Mark Berman (@markberman) March 20, 2018
New from @NYTimes—”A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring her silence.”https://t.co/5d2L7rKcTo— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 20, 2018
I.GOTS.NOTHING
NO
THING
Stormy Daniels passed a lie-detector test in which she said she had unprotected sex with Trump
25 min ago – Michal Kranz 27m The adult-film actress Stormy Daniels passed a 2011 polygraph test in which she said she had unprotected sex with President Donald Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal.
http://www.businessinsider.com/stormy-daniels-lie-detector-test-trump-affair-2018-3
LMAO…
Nothing to get…it’s FRIGGING HILARIOUS
NO shame in her game
UH UH UH
No shame whatsoever.
Judge rules defamation case against Trump may proceed
A New York judge said Tuesday that a defamation lawsuit against President Trump related to an allegation that he sexually harassed a former “Apprentice” contestant may go forward.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-rules-defamation-case-against-trump-may-proceed/2018/03/20/561d1d44-f498-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.e5841201060b&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics–alert-national&wpmk=1
#45 & CO.
Folks chose this POS to be America’s president. ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS
TEE HEE HEE
I can confirm that @gibsondunn and Theodore B. Olson will not be representing @realDonaldTrump— Ted Boutrous (@BoutrousTed) March 20, 2018
Teddy ain’t trying to get hitched to this FUCKERY.
bwa ha ha ha ha ha
SHIT RUNS SOOOO DEEP
Cambridge Analytica was built to destroy democracy … by any means necessary
By Mark Sumner
Tuesday Mar 20, 2018 · 9:48 AM CDT
The name suggests erudite research, but in just the last few days the story of Cambridge Analytica has expanded to include stolen data, bribery, blackmail, sex workers—and violations of laws around the globe. CA was a primary tool of the Trump campaign, and the public is only beginning to see what made them so important.
Cambridge Analytica was founded in 2013 by conservative hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah. They spun the company off from its British parent, SCL Group, expressly for the purposes of impacting American politics. At the head of this play was Steve Bannon. The Mercers were already the money behind Breitbart News, and Bannon convinced them that the way to shift America was not by just backing conservative candidates, but by planting stories and ads that shifted the culture. To do this, Bannon hired Canadian data analysis expert Christopher Wylie to combine the tools of military disinformation campaigns, with the power provided by social media, big data and targeted advertising tools. Together they built what Wylie called Bannon’s “psychological warfare mindfuck tool”—a device designed to tear open America along racial, gender and social boundaries, so that Bannon could take advantage of the discord.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/20/1750459/-Cambridge-Analytica-was-built-to-destroy-democracy-by-any-means-necessary
CARSON CONTENDS HE AND HIS WIFE COMPLAINED ABOUT $31,000 FURNITURE COST
BY ABC News Radio | March 20, 2018
SNIP
Carson said Tuesday that staff told him they needed to replace the dining set because of exposed nails and chairs that might collapse and that it was a facilities decision to replace it, not a decorating expense. Carson also said he dismissed himself from the decision because he was busy with other issues and that he asked his wife to help make the decision.
“I left it with my wife I said help choose something but I said the money that is going to be used, we need to take care of the deputy secretary’s office, and you know whatever’s left over take care of the dining room furniture,” he said.
http://kticradio.com/abc_politics/carson-contends-he-and-his-wife-complained-about-31000-furniture-cost-abcid36047844/
But Carson’s $31,000 dining set pales in comparison to the excesses on taxpayer dime of the other treasonous players.. Zinke, Pruitt, Shulkin, the grafting buffoon, his grifting $80,000 spa-trip-loving 3rd wife, daughter-wife and Jared..
Who’s pursuing those.. It’d be curious to know..
Breaking –> Trump legal team seeks to add star GOP attorney Theodore B. Olson, @costareports & @CarolLeonnig report exclusively https://t.co/5vl3OCHBRE— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) March 20, 2018
Their point being? “Star GOP attorney”
Our government ain’t no reality show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqI7R8aUrvA
Sheryl Too, ALSO TOO
https://twitter.com/JeffreyToobin/status/975740834762100736
https://twitter.com/axios/status/976128734288924672
Zuckerberg is getting a good lesson in what happens when a business-person engages in the pursuit of greed without conscience.
GUNMAN? SHOOTER?
Notice how they describe these POS who go on these killing rampages?
Why do you suppose they carefully select to call them “GUNMAN?
2015 ya’ll
Cruz-Connected Data Miner Aims to Get Inside U.S. Voters’ Heads
Funded and promoted by secretive hedge-funder Robert Mercer, employed by Ted Cruz’s campaign, Cambridge Analytica promises a transformative new approach to identifying voters. Does it promise too much?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-
By the time this is all over, the Mercers will be completely exposed and hopefully, made to pay too for their many crimes against this country..
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/976119185913806848
Comey would do well to sit his ass down, keep quiet, and let Mueller & team do their job.
JUST SAYING.
I concur..
I’m wondering how long it’ll be before Hannity goes on Twitter and cries about this. He invited Comey to come on his TV and radio programs and got nothing. Comey knows Hannity is full of sh*t.
Hannity need to be off the air.
AWE ❤️❤️❤️
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/976063417097293824
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/976113171000954880
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/976111228291559426
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/976103652573278210
HA! “DEMANDING? I do believe Facebook peeps are confused.
Rocket science, huh?
Forget Wealth And Neighborhood. The Racial Income Gap Persists
A new study conducted by researchers at Stanford, Harvard and the Census Bureau, finds that in 99 percent of neighborhoods in the United States, black boys earn less in adulthood than white boys who come from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. This undermines the widely-held belief that class, not race, is the most fundamental predictor of economic outcomes for children in the U.S.
The study looked at racial disparities in income over generations by looking at de-identified data from 20 million U.S. children and their parents. It tracked outcomes for Hispanic, white, Asian, black and Native Americans.
http://wypr.org/post/forget-wealth-and-neighborhood-racial-income-gap-persists
https://twitter.com/ladyc10/status/976094321798762496
https://twitter.com/13LauraGeller/status/976096985009844229
SMH So now this is to become the norm?
Where the teachers armed?
/SNARK
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/976096522961084416
Yep, they warn thugs here about pending raids,instead.
GO FIGURE
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/976097799984074752
Waking up to hear this first thing this morning. This high scool is less than a hour away from where I grew up in Southern MD. We were sports rivals.
Punk ass mofo. Pay The Piper!
https://twitter.com/usblm/status/975878917373521920
Look that little bitch up and do DROP THE SOAP.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/975810445872377856
Bobby Corker is AS full of as much SHIT as Graham and nem.
https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/975857603501854727
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/976037250914975744
Spencer Haywood says he sees ‘tinge of slavery’ with treatment of college players
USA TODAY SPORTS
Tom Schad
Hall of Fame basketball player Spencer Haywood told Sporting News that he sees “a tinge of slavery” in the treatment of college basketball players.
Haywood, the leading scorer on the United States’ 1968 Olympic basketball team, told the website that he agreed with a sentiment expressed late last month by Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy, that there’s often a racial component to arguments against paying college basketball players.
“Let’s think about it,” Haywood told Sporting News in a story published Monday. “If you have 11 blacks on your team and you are say, in Kentucky, and they’re creating all this wealth but not getting paid? It does have a tinge of slavery.
“It is what it is. It is very racist because they’re not helping the communities where those kids come from, Chicago and Detroit and so on.”
5th Bomb in Austin
This is why local elections matter. Democrats with majorities in state governments flip voter suppression on its head by making voting and democracy more inclusive NOT less. https://t.co/Tjj9du4zhO
— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) March 20, 2018
✔ WA Voting Rights Act
✔ Same-day registration
✔ Automatic voter registration
✔ Pre-reg. for 16/17-year-olds
✔ DISCLOSE Act
They are law! #voting #votingrights #democracy #vra #waleg pic.twitter.com/Nqm5amJwoV
— WA Senate Democrats (@WASenDemocrats) March 19, 2018
School shooting in Maryland.
Lips pursed.
From WaPo:
Trump corrupting Mueller probe by attacking witnesses, officials
Neal Katyal, former U.S. acting solicitor general, talks with Rachel Maddow about how out of line Donald Trump is with his attacks on law enforcement officials and witnesses in Robert Mueller’s Trump Russia investigation.
Democrats seek tech company probe as part of election protection
Senator Amy Klobuchar talks with Rachel Maddow about the need for tesimony and investigations into the abuse of American voters’ personal information on social media sites vulnerable to unscrupulous bad actors.
Mike Flynn back in public eye to endorse dubious candidate
Rachel Maddow reports on disgraced former Trump NSA Mike Flynn’s endorsement of Omar Navarro, a fringe Republican candidate running against Maxine Waters.
He probably caught a ride on Air Force One..
Democratic senator calls on Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress
CBS News
Alan He
The tech giant Facebook is facing a growing backlash on Capitol Hill as more lawmakers demand that CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify about reports that Cambridge Analytica, a political data consulting firm utilized by the Trump campaign, harvested the information of up to 50 million users.
“Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify under oath in public before the Judiciary Committee. He owes it to the American people who ought to be deeply disappointed by the conflicting and disparate explanations that have been offered,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, told reporters Monday evening. The former Connecticut attorney general warned, “Zuckerberg ought to be subpoenaed to testify if he won’t do it voluntarily.”
Fallout over Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting of data from 50M Facebook users
So far Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has not tipped his hand on what he intends to do.
Two other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, John Neely Kennedy, R-Louisiana, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, sent a letter on Monday to Grassley requesting a wider hearing with tech CEOs from Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
“A hearing featuring testimony with CEOs would provide the Committee the opportunity to hear an update on the progress of these companies’ voluntary measures to combat attempted foreign interference and what is being done to protect Americans’ data and limit abuse of the platforms, as well as to assess what measures should be taken before the next elections,” they wrote.
Report: Arrest warrant issued for Jonathan Martin, who is facing five charges
Jesse Reed
Last month, former NFL offensive lineman Jonathan Martin made threats on social media to his former Harvard-Westlake High School in Southern California. He was also found by police to be in the possession of a loaded gun, a knife and an ax.
Now, authorities have reportedly charged Martin with four counts of making criminal threats, and one count of possessing a loaded firearm, per TMZ Sports. Furthermore, the report states there is currently a warrant issued for Martin’s arrest.
Martin originally shared a photo of a shotgun and bullets with the caption “When you’re a bully victim and a coward, your options are suicide or revenge.”
It also included Martin mentioning former Dolphins teammates Richie Incognito and Mike Pouncey, who were at the center of the bullying scandal that featured Martin himself with the Dolphins back in 2013 (more on this here).
He later was was being held in a mental health facility. We sincerely hope that Martin gets the help he so obviously needs.
Trash…all of them…
YEAH, I SAID IT
Michael S. Schmidt
@nytmike
Dowd wants to quit. Trump’s talking about firing Cobb. Another lawyer — who says FBI made up evidence against Trump — was hired today and more new lawyers may be on the way.
LOL..
Remember when the usual suspects …the designated ‘authorities’ that decide who and what matters, told us just how respected and ‘indomitable’ Dowd was …and how his addition to the buffoon’s legal team was a sign that the buffoon was making the right moves and such nonsense..
And right out the gate, the ‘respected’ Dowd was name-calling and throwing tantrums just like his client..
LMAO
Wellwishers have been crowdfunding to send pizza to 225 students at a Pennsylvania school who were given detention for taking part in protests against school shootings.
Students at Pennridge high school took part in a national school walkout on 14 March against the wishes of the school board. The board warned pupils in advance that anybody taking part in the protest would receive the standard punishment for skipping class – a Saturday morning in detention.
Anna Sophie Tinneny, one of the students who helped to organise the protests and get the message out on social media, told the Guardian: “Two hundred and twenty-five students walked out of the front doors for 17 minutes of silence and a few speeches afterwards. As we walked into the school, we were put in single-file lines and had to sign up for detention before returning to class.”
The students then turned the detention into another opportunity to protest. They attended the session on Saturday wearing signs bearing the names of those killed at the Parkland school shooting in Florida, and turned the detention into a sit-in.
Cambridge Analytica scandal rocks already rattled Trump world
As Donald Trump’s lawyers are desperately trying to protect him from a Robert Mueller interview and the top level firings keep piling up, Rachel Maddow looks at a whole new arena of scandal for the Trump team.
@HillaryClinton testifies for 11 hours on live television, answering every question put to her. Yet coward @realDonaldTrump refuses to be questioned by Mueller in private while doing everything he can to discredit the US Justice system…on Putin”s orders? #RyanMcConnellAreSilent
— Cassandra (@CassandraApollo) March 20, 2018
Twitter truth
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. And any Rethug who is going before the cameras or tweeting about #45 and the Mueller investigation and how he should let the investigation play out need to have a stadium full of seats.
They are all COMPLICIT.
Good Morning Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Ladies!
Happy Birthday, Mr. Spike Lee! 🎈🎂🎈 (March 20, 1957)
https://youtu.be/VZu6PUE_mlc