Happy HUMP Day, Everyone! Hope you’ve been enjoying Sheku week.

FML – Young Musician Of The Year and his Family
Pictured Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Sheku Kanneh-Mason is the 17 year-old winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year. He has six siblings all of whom play instruments to world-class levels. So the piece will ask ‘is this the most talented family in Britain’. Idea is that this they are a very ordinary family, not rich, kids go to comprehensive school, parents have made big sacrifices to pay for music lessons etc.
Family øø Dad is Stuart Mason, Mum is Kadie Kanneh. Kids are Isata 19, Braimah 18, Sheku 17, Konya 15, Jeneba 13, Aminata 10 and the youngest Mariatu is 5 and plays the cello, but has not been part of the family ensemble so far.
Photo credit: Chris Winter
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😠😠😠
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THREAD
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No way Melania wrote this.
Let her speak in front of live news cameras, otherwise she’s still MIA. #WheresMelania?
— Cassandra (@CassandraApollo) May 30, 2018
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https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/44b0b164-7702-468b-88bb-6e1a1f52e367
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Um……Michael….it’s called attempted destruction of evidence, Boo.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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Sad but true…
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UH HUH
UH HUH
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/44b0b164-7702-468b-88bb-6e1a1f52e367
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ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
22-18 #Hanger budget passes the @VASenate. Medicaid expansion is included in proposal. House of Delegates have already passed this proposal and @GovernorVA has supported it @CBS6 #VaGA #vapol #MedicaidExpansion pic.twitter.com/MJNGF3DXUu
— Jake Burns (@JakeBurnsCBS6) May 30, 2018
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UH HUH
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These coons, just like Marc Lamont Hill, must NEVER BE ABLE TO REWRITE WHAT THEY DID IN 2016.
They must be called out for their treachery. Will make it easier for us to nail the ratphuckers in 2018.
Inside the Pro-Trump Effort to Keep Black Voters From the Polls
Breitbart staffer recruited Sanders activist Bruce Carter to get African Americans to support the Republican—or stay home
Breitbart News landed an election scoop that went viral in August 2016: “Exclusive: ‘Black Men for Bernie’ Founder to End Democrat ‘Political Slavery’ of Minority Voters… by Campaigning for Trump.”
If the splashy, counterintuitive story, which circulated on such conservative websites as Truthfeed and Infowars, wasn’t exactly fake news, it was carefully orchestrated.
The story’s writer—an employee of the conservative website run by Steve Bannon before he took over Donald Trump’s campaign—spent weeks courting activist Bruce Carter to join Trump’s cause. He approached Carter under the guise of interviewing him. The writer eventually dropped the pretense altogether, signing Carter up for a 10-week blitz aimed at convincing black voters in key states to support the Republican real estate mogul, or simply sit out the election. Trump’s narrow path to victory tightened further if Hillary Clinton could attract a Barack Obama-level turnout.
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“If you can’t stomach Trump, just don’t vote for the other people and don’t vote at all,” Carter, 47, recalls telling black voters. It’s the message he says the Trump campaign wanted him to deliver. “That’s what they wanted, that’s what they got.”
The work Carter says he did, and the funds he was given to do it, also raise questions as to whether campaign finance laws were broken.
The group Carter founded, Trump for Urban Communities, never disclosed its spending to the Federal Election Commission—a possible violation of election law. In hindsight, Carter says, he believed he was working for the campaign so he wouldn’t have been responsible for reporting the spending.
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Cohen’s not having a good day:
At Michael Cohen hearing, Judge Wood tells defense lawyers to pick up the pace on privilege review, threatens to turn review over to DOJ “taint team” https://t.co/ibBG1xZv91
— Alison Frankel (@AlisonFrankel) May 30, 2018
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I will repeat:
All Democrats need to have the attitude of either:
Ted Lieu
or
Maxine Waters
No no no, #ConManDon. No matter what you wish, your lawyers Emmett Flood and Rudy Guiliani cannot be included in the classified briefings, and neither can your friends Kanye West and Roseanne Barr.
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) May 30, 2018
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China awards Ivanka Trump’s company several new trademarks
05/29/18 10:08 AM—UPDATED 05/29/18 10:18 AM
By Steve Benen
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Before the president’s supporters shrug their shoulders, they may want to consider how they’d react if a President Hillary Clinton were engaged in trade talks with China, while at the same time, Chelsea Clinton’s private business were receiving valuable trademarks from officials in Beijing.
How many hearings do you suppose a Republican-led Congress would hold on the subject?
An Associated Press report from last year continues to ring true
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Why can’t Trump tell the truth about military pay?
05/29/18 09:22 AM—UPDATED 05/29/18 09:34 AM
By Steve Benen
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If this sounds familiar, it’s because this wasn’t the first time Trump made this claim. A few weeks ago, the president delivered remarks at a Celebration of Military Mothers and Spouses Event in the White House at which he twice boasted with pride about approving the first military raises “in 10 years.”
All of which leads to an awkward question: what kind of president lies to servicemen and women about their pay?
First, the basic elements of reality are in dispute. As we discussed the last time Trump made this claim, there were raises for our military in 2017. And 2016. And 2015 and 2014. And every other year of the Obama era. And every year of the Bush era. And every year of the Clinton era.
In fact, the military has gotten a raise practically every year since the end of World War II. It’s the sort of detail a competent Commander in Chief should probably be aware of.
Second, while Trump said on Friday that he secured “a big pay increase” for servicemen and women, but in inflation-adjusted terms, the raise was actually quite modest.
Third, Trump’s description of the politics – he said the raise was “the hardest one to get” – is a fairy tale. There was no organized opposition pushing back against pay increases for the military.
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LMAO. Yeah, that “ambien tweeting” is about as lame as it gets especially when you consider this is part of Roseanne’s (long) history. The tweet yesterday about Valerie Jarrett was really just the last straw.
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Trump falsely blames Democrats for his own immigration agenda
05/29/18 08:00 AM—UPDATED 05/29/18 10:01 AM
By Steve Benen
The stories are gut-wrenching. Hundreds of immigrants, many of them legally seeking asylum, are reaching the U.S. border, only to have American officials take their young children away. In some cases, literal toddlers have been forcibly removed from the arms of their parents.
The outrage and public condemnations of these practices has left Donald Trump with a choice. He can defend his administration’s policy; he can pretend the policy doesn’t exist; or he can try to blame others for what he’s done. In this case, the Republican president has decided to look behind Door #3, as evidenced by this tweet over the holiday weekend.
Much of this is gibberish, but the part of this that matters was the president’s insistence that Democrats approved a “horrible law” that requires him to separate children from parents.
Trump is clearly lying. There is no such law. As NBC News reported the other day, there’s a 2008 law “requiring children traveling alone at the border to be released in the ‘least restrictive setting’ while their cases are processed,” but it doesn’t require Trump to separate children from their parents, and it was a bipartisan measure signed by George W. Bush.
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THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 5/29/18
Report: Sessions key witness in Mueller obstruction probe
The New York Times reports that Trump berated Jeff Sessions and tried to get him to reverse Sessions’ recusal on the Russia probe. Mueller is now investigating the incident. And Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says they are preparing for the possibility of impeachment. Lawrence discusses with John Heilemann, Harry Litman, and Jason Johnson.
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Nor is it a CURE…
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The number of migrant children in custody has surged in the wake of the new Trump/Sessions border crackdown.
HHS is now holding more than 10,000 of them:https://t.co/dXqDYEnAeB
The whole point of the policy is that it’s supposed to be awful, so it functions as a deterrent: https://t.co/Ter9LSOHhr
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 30, 2018
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HA HA HA HA HA The comments in this threasd. GOLDEN!
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Yes, she should sue those muthaphuckas
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DA PHUQ?
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LOL UH UH UH
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From BJ:
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Russian Facebook ads inflamed Hispanic tensions over immigration after Trump election
Jessica Guynn,
USA TODAY Published 5:00 a.m. ET May 25, 2018 |
SAN FRANCISCO — In the months after Donald Trump rode to victory while calling for mass deportations, Russian operatives bought dozens of Facebook ads targeted at the Hispanic community seeking to further inflame tensions already roiled by the campaign’s racially charged rhetoric, according to USA TODAY analysis.
Thousands of ads released by House Democrats this month showed Russian operatives focused on race during the presidential election in what experts say was a clear effort to amplify existing divisions.
They didn’t stop there. In the first half of 2017, as Trump aggressively moved to restrict immigration, fake Facebook pages set up by a Russian propaganda operation started pushing ads on both sides of the immigration debate.
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“In October…Trump decided to favorably compare the official death toll in Puerto Rico, which was then 16, to the death toll after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, which was 1,833”
Harvard study estimates death toll at 4,645
PR govts death toll: 64https://t.co/G3t1k6SfhC
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) May 29, 2018
Ps: I’m flying to Puerto Rico to interview 1 of the lead authors of the study.
We’re waiting to hear whether Gov. @ricardorossello is available for an interview.
We’ll also interview San Juan Mayor @CarmenYulinCruz who’s been criticized for questioning the governments death toll. https://t.co/EHWGWyYVu4
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) May 29, 2018
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A key line from that Puerto Rico study: Their estimate of 4,645 dead after Hurricane Maria “is likely to be conservative.” In terms of loss of human life, that’s a tragedy deadlier than 9/11, and it happened right under our noses. https://t.co/sQmL8H2ivZ
— Matt Pearce ?? (@mattdpearce) May 29, 2018
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Harvard study: nearly 5,000 citizens died in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria; Trump made it a secondary concern, tweeted insults at the San Juan mayor while she tried to save lives & awarded shady contracts to unqualified contractors, delaying recovery. https://t.co/yqRpjiyCbq
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 29, 2018
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As the true death toll from Hurricane Maria comes into focus, a reminder that the USG responded far slower, with far fewer resources and little of the coordinated international response…than we committed for Haiti in 2010.
Trump could have done far much more. He chose not to.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) May 29, 2018
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Enjoy your coffee, Maria. Sip slowly………….
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Profile of Avenatti:
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Good Morning Everyone 😄 😄😄
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Hurry Mueller. Please make this nightmare upon us end.
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LOOK AT THIS………….
My God! This is so disturbing. He’s talking about the entire group of immigrants but pretending he’s talking about MS-13 gang members. He’s going to get someone hurt or possibly killed.
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Meanwhile, Bobby III Sticks is hammering away!
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It’s Haley’s birthday! She’s 13! Whoa!
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Happy Birthday 🙌🎉🍧🎂🎁🎆🎈😸🐢
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Happy Birthday, Haley! Now you are officially a “teenager”.
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Haley has really grown up. One summer she was a little girl and the next all grown up. Wow!
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Yeah, kids these days really seem grown up compared to the way it used to be, or at least the way I remember it. I guess it’s the times, social media, television, etc…
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Happy Birthday, Haley! 🎈🎂🎈
Teenager!!!
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Good morning, everyone!
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Good Morning SG2 & 3Chics Family!
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