Friday Open Thread | Justice Kennedy’s son was Trump’s Banker at Deutsche Bank

Posted on June 29, 2018 by SouthernGirl2

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86 Responses to Friday Open Thread | Justice Kennedy’s son was Trump’s Banker at Deutsche Bank

  2. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) Tweeted:
    This is consistent with my tweet earlier today and should be required reading. It is time for the Dems to be led by street fighters that are willing to engage and fight like hell. Otherwise, Trump will make 2016 look like a warm-up lap. #FightClub #Basta
    https://t.co/JoXB1fWYKc https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1012874513581686785?s=17

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  5. Liza says:
    June 29, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    Shocking. Another Republican senator caves.
    https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/1012722860941602816

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  6. Ametia says:
    June 29, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    BLOCK THOSE MOFOS
    Kentucky’s first-in-the-nation requirement that Medicaid recipients must work is blocked
    A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when federal officials approved Kentucky’s first-in-the-nation requirement that low-income people work or otherwise engage in their communities to qualify for the safety-net health insurance.

    The decision by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg vacates that approval and sends the state’s proposal back to the Department of Health and Human Services for further review.

    His action stems from a lawsuit filed in January by three organizations opposed to the profound changes in the insurance program for the poor. Since then, the administration has granted three more states permission to impose similar requirements.

    Read more » https://s2.washingtonpost.com/7956d0/5b3691b5fe1ff675e2ce8e11/YXdhcmVvZjQxMUBnbWFpbC5jb20%3D/2/10/3a569220054ddfca9b49a25bb24a75b5

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  7. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 2:48 pm

    cue that violin:

    “Based on reporting from multiple sources, the FBI believes that Yanukovych’s government engages in systemic public corruption,” one search warrant affidavit reads.

    On loan applications over a three-month period in 2016, Manafort variously represented his net worth as $15 million, $17 million, $21 million and $36 million, according to the court documents.

    “He is so in debt,” an unidentified person wrote in an email regarding a $3.5 million loan to Manafort from a real estate company on Sept. 27, 2016, the documents state.

    In February 2016, Manafort secured $9 million in loans from Genesis Capital, one he personally guaranteed and another backed by a property in Los Angeles. Genesis moved to foreclose on the Brooklyn house in September 2016 after both sets of loans went into default.

    At one point that month, according to the court documents, Manafort was being assessed over $2,000 a day in interest after missing two months of payments on one of the loans.

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    • Ametia says:
      June 29, 2018 at 4:57 pm

      How does a white man get away with incurring this kind of debt?

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      • rikyrah says:
        June 29, 2018 at 6:03 pm

        Ametia,
        I remember the Maddow segment on his loan applications. It was just amazing to listen to, cause I knew that NO Black person could apply for a loan for a toaster, and all their paperwork not be in perfect condition. That segment was a lesson in

        “Watch Whiteness Work”

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  8. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    Viral video: Police called on 12-year-old mowing grass which ends up getting him more business
    Tara Molina
    4:29 PM, Jun 28, 2018
    7:06 AM, Jun 29, 2018

    A boy in Maple Heights is running his own business this summer cutting lawns and cleaning up yards.

    Reginald Fields, 12, is the owner of Mr. Reggie’s Lawn Cutting Service. With several helping hands from his cousins, brothers and sisters, they are up with the sun every day working the neighborhood.

    That’s what they were doing when someone called Maple Heights police on them.

    “They said I was cutting their grass. I didn’t know it!” Reggie said.

    His customer, Lucille Holt, said she was confused when she saw police, but quickly learned the neighbors called to complain that the group cut a section of their property (about a foot where the two properties butt together) and were in their yard.

    “They said the kids cut their grass,” Holt explained.

    Reggie Fields said the police said nothing to him and the kids. He finished the job and felt a little discouraged.

    “I was like, that’s a shame. I didn’t know,” Reggie said.

    But that didn’t last long.

    Lucille Holt created a Facebook post about what happened and ended up with thousands of views and hundreds of shares.

    …………………………….

    Now, Mr. Reggie is getting a lot of support for his new business from people who see the video and want to make sure he’s never discouraged again.

    “People are inboxing me like, ‘how can I get in touch with this children? Where are they at? I got property I want these kids to cut,'” Holt said.

    Reggie, his siblings and his cousins are getting calls from all over the city now.

    Reggie said he’s trying to save the money he earns to buy new equipment and grow his business.

    “Just give me a call. I will be there. On time!” He said.

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    • Ametia says:
      June 29, 2018 at 3:09 pm

      Wow! Add cutting grass while BLACK to the growing list of reason to call the po po on BLACK KIDS.

      Wonder what would happen if black folks start calling the po po on the BBQ Beckies and such? HMMMMM!

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  9. Liza says:
    June 29, 2018 at 12:16 pm

    American Monster right here. This one has got a mouth on her like you’ve never heard…
    https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/971125264951455744

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  11. Ametia says:
    June 29, 2018 at 11:12 am

    FLASHBACK

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  12. Ametia says:
    June 29, 2018 at 10:53 am
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  17. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 10:21 am

    My 5-yr-old client can’t tell me what country she is from. We prepare her case by drawing pictures with crayons of the gang members that would wait outside her school. Sometimes she wants to draw ice cream cones and hearts instead. She is in deportation proceedings alone. https://t.co/johWiKbzHh

    — Laura Barrera, Esq. (@abogada_laura) June 28, 2018

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  18. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 10:20 am

    Democrats call out GOP for attacking Mueller, FBI for Trump

    Rep. Jerrold Nadler, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Republicans are trying to help Donald Trump by discrediting the FBI and undercutting the Mueller investigation.

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  19. Ametia says:
    June 29, 2018 at 10:16 am

    Word of the Day : June 29, 2018

    Tome
    noun TOHM

    Definition
    1 : a volume forming part of a larger work

    2 : book; especially : a large or scholarly book

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/tome-2018-06-29?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=t&file=tome0001&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=pron

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  21. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 10:13 am

    GOP anxious to subvert Mueller as Trump Russia probe pushes on

    Rachel Maddow looks at the renewed vigor with which Republicans are trying to undercut the FBI and the Trump Russia investigation, and rounds up the latest reporting on progress in the probe, including scrutiny of Russians guests at Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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  22. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 10:09 am

    Hundreds of women arrested at protest of Trump border policy

    Rachel Maddow reports on nearly 600 women, including at least one member of Congress, being arrested at a single massive protest of Donald Trump’s family separation border policy at the Hart Senate Office Building, likely on a precursor to a weekend of planned events.

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  23. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 9:58 am

    Cindy Otis (@CindyOtis_) Tweeted:
    Today seems like the right time to do a thread I’ve been thinking about for a while on how to handle the seemingly never-ending deluge of depressing and disturbing news. My tips are based on my time as a CIA military analyst in which I dealt daily with disturbing content. (1/) https://twitter.com/CindyOtis_/status/1012488916178436096?s=17

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  24. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 9:53 am

    The ENTIRE Phuck 😠

    Matthew Segal (@segalmr) Tweeted:
    Actual words said by a govt employee when telling a mom that the United States would be stealing her child. https://t.co/Lg7uKhX2zf https://twitter.com/segalmr/status/1012131663294451717?s=17

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  28. Liza says:
    June 29, 2018 at 9:33 am

    No words can describe this woman.
    https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/1012572604065034242

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  30. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 9:25 am

    Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) Tweeted:
    The Trump admin was separating migrant parents from their kids for months prior to the official introduction of zero tolerance—running a so-called “pilot program”—but apparently didn’t create a clear system for parents to track or reunite with kids. https://t.co/tvbGTqhZV6 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1012697377411657728?s=17

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  31. Liza says:
    June 29, 2018 at 9:20 am

    Distraction…

    I watched “The Secret Life of Dogs” on PBS last night. Really an interesting program.

    One type of dog they talked about is the African wild dog which I have never heard about. They are currently endangered. They are known for travelling in huge packs (30-40), running at 35 mph, and being very effective hunters (success rate is 8 out of 10).

    Look at this picture at the link. They are so unusual but gorgeous. I can’t believe I’ve never seen them before.

    https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/african-wild-dog

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  33. SouthernGirl2 says:
    June 29, 2018 at 9:08 am

    These thug sobs…………I hate them so much.

    https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1012697377411657728

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  35. Liza says:
    June 29, 2018 at 8:48 am

    An early endorsement for Kyrsten Sinema, Democratic frontrunner for Flake’s seat in the Senate.

    https://twitter.com/kyrstensinema/status/1012388334516166656

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  38. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 8:29 am

    Scott Pruitt Personally Involved in ‘Ratf*cking’ Ex-Aides Who He Feels Betrayed Him

    Pruitt Sought Revenge on Ex-Aides
    June 29, 2018 at 8:54 am EDT

    On May 18, a top aide to EPA chief Scott Pruitt testified to a congressional committee that she had been tasked with procuring her boss a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Just days after news of that testimony broke, the aide, Pruitt’s now former director of scheduling Millan Hupp, submitted her resignation.

    But even though Hupp was gone from the agency, Pruitt wasn’t done with her.

    According to three sources familiar with the conversations, Pruitt was livid over Hupp’s testimony, which he felt had been particularly humiliating. And he personally reached out to allies in the conservative movement, including some at the influential legal group the Federalist Society, to insist that she had lied about, or at least misunderstood, the request for a used Trump mattress. He also stressed that Hupp could not be trusted—the implication being that she should not be hired at their institutions.

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  61. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 3:53 am

    Just a coincidence?
    Not👏enough👏coincidences👏in👏the👏Western👏World👏

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  62. rikyrah says:
    June 29, 2018 at 3:52 am

    Good Morning,Everyone😐😐😐

    Reply

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