My fav moon landing meme: pic.twitter.com/DZooBoq4kZ
— Pat #NoDAPL #NoH8 #MMIW ? (@BJenerik) June 3, 2018
Remember to vote in your primary tomorrow, Californians!…
My name is on the ballot for US Congress CA48. Do NOT vote for me!! (or Rachel Payne or @MichaelKotick.) We have all withdrawn from race, and Michael & I have endorsed @HarleyRouda https://t.co/jyTgD4jvNR
— Laura Oatman (@Laura_Oatman) June 2, 2018
Democrats could get swept off the ballot in California if people don't vote in the primaries on June 5th. Here's why: pic.twitter.com/aUxxhVS676
— Swing Left (@swingleft) May 30, 2018
Democrats have to turn out for the primary on Tuesday in California. And because of the top-2 primary system, we also have to make sure we don't get shut out ANYWHERE, so we have a shot EVERYWHERE this fall. We created a voter guide – please share it. https://t.co/NGONhTpa2H
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) June 2, 2018
I’m at an immigration detention center where children who have been separated from their families are being held. Trying to get inside to get answers. Follow live >>> https://t.co/CXDjYAFIcB #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) June 4, 2018
I was barred entry. Asked repeatedly to speak to a supervisor—he finally came out and said he can’t tell us anything. Police were called on us.
Children should never be ripped from their families & held in secretive detention centers. RT if you agree this is WRONG. pic.twitter.com/GVCuXNjR8d
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) June 4, 2018
Carlos Santana and his wife Cindy performing the US National Anthem.
#NBAFinals #WhateverItTakes #StrengthInNumberspic.twitter.com/YF9nK7gCZ8
— Antonio Arellano (@AntonioArellano) June 4, 2018
Three things:
1. This is cool
2. No idea he was married to Cindy Blackman, who is a crazy great drummer
3. She's 58 years old! https://t.co/GZcqITT1Vh— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 4, 2018
NotMax
Savor the precious BGO* hours of the day.
*Before Gross Outrage
Patricia Kayden
Hope Democrats vote correctly in California. Would love to see Issa and his ilk voted out in November.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: I think Issa retired.
Montanareddog
I had no idea that Cindy had married her guitarist, either. She is by far the coolest thing in this video, for example:
ETA: fix to borked link:
video
gene108
NJ also has a primary on Tuesday. Did some door knocking, on Saturday for the first time, to remind people. Our candidate, Andy Kim, in NJ-03, is running unopposed in the primary, but the campaign wanted to drive up turn out to hopefully spook the odious Tom MacArthur.
Duane
@NotMax: Before Gross Outrage. So much more than just a great band name.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: When does he begin his sentence? (if only)
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
oatler.
When I lived in OR Merkley was My Senator Hero. I wish he’d have a sex scandal so I could stop looking up to a… politician.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: I think the Statute of Limitations has run out on his Grand Theft Auto.
satby
Good morning all and @rikyrah: ?!
No primaries here, but Indivisible South Bend was at the Farmer’s Market Saturday to register voters, which is a positive sign. They didn’t just man a table either, they went through the market talking to everyone.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I was thinking of his more recent crimes.
JPL
Have we heard from Betty from Dominica recently? She checked in a few times after the storm while visiting in the U.S., but it’s been awhile since I’ve seen her comments.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: He pretty much got sidelined after Paulie Blue Eyes took over the Speakership, so no more crimes than any other Republican.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I saw and ad from Harley Rouda on the TV machine tonight.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I went to The Huntington yesterday(as well as a hike), here’s a pic(IR).
Baud
The volcano gods are angry.
Lee
When I was in the military I know when a senator arrived we rolled out the red carpet.
Does ICE think it is exempt from congressional oversight?
Merkley should have taken a R house member along just to cover all the bases for a new investigation.
WereBear
Waiting for the deluge…
debbie
If anyone has time, it’s worth digging out video of Carlos Santana’s description of his performance at Woodstock. They thought they weren’t scheduled to play until the next day, so they all dropped acid. Unfortunately, some group was a no-show, so they ended up playing while tripping their brains out. Carlos’s performance was unbelievably intense, but he said that was because he hallucinated that the neck of his guitar was a snake and he was afraid to let go of it.
Baud
WaPo
J R in WV
I’m amazed that a U S Senator got treated like an impudent reporter, piking his nose into private business like that!! Holy crap, that was arrogant plus the acted like they had major criminal shit to hide from someone who has every right to look into such a facility.
I would have been tempted to come back with cops and a warrant. But I’m not a politician. Frankly, keeping a US Senator out is to me indication of nothing so much as that they have nasty things in there to hide, which would be cause for a warrant. The gall of those ICE monster!
Indictments can’t come too soon!!!
JPL
@Lee:
Yes satsq
satby
@Lee:
ICE is safe enough as long as Republicans are in charge. And they know it.
HeleninEire
Morning all. Last day of my vacation. Bank Holiday today and then back to work tomorrow. I have to say I have seriously lucked out with the weather, both here and in London. Good week all around.
Baud
@satby: Exactly.
debbie
@Lee:
Probably wasn’t able to find one.
Baud
Melania is supposed to appear at a public event tonight, but no pictures because press isn’t invited, according to Today show.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
I’m bracing myself to call my internet provider. I can receive email but not send it. I get a message that says it doesn’t like my encryption. I assume something’s gone wrong on their end since I sure haven’t touched any settings.
I can imagine that ICE would want to keep children out of the public eye even if they weren’t being mistreated. But as always with this administration, no one was prepared for anything that might happen. Given the furor, you know a politician was going to show up
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud:
Not sure how that makes any sense at all. If it’s public, pictures can be taken.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Doesn’t the White House know the rule…”Pics or it didn’t happen”. That’s what the kids tell me.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: The press won’t be taking them. I don’t know if they are stripping attendees of their cameras and phones.
rikyrah
Tell it, Mayor
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1003476483275403265?s=19
Platonailedit
No wonder twitler thug is enamored of this duterte thug.
Platonailedit
@satby: Hopefully when the dems get the majority, they will change the federal laws on oversight of ice thugs and make them answerable.
OzarkHillbilly
On Election Night, Cohen Told Friends He Wanted To Be Duke Of New York
If wishes were horses, I’d have a stable full.
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Looks so beautiful ? ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Thanks.
rikyrah
@J R in WV:
He needs to go back with every Democrat, both House and Senate who are on the committees that oversee DHS.
YES, make it political, FFS!?
rikyrah
@Baud:
Not on video, them it doesn’t happen. And, she is still in hiding.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud:
Having been to 2 political events, there is no way I would allow them to strip me of anything (I doubt very much I would ever see it again) and I can’t imagine there are more than a dozen or so Luddites like me in any locale who are willing to be phone free for the 1 or 2 hours (maybe more) such an event would consume. But who knows with these clowns.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Here’s one from the hike, Peanut Lake in Debs Regional Park.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: We’ll find out by tomorrow. I can’t imagine pictures won’t leak.
OzarkHillbilly
@Platonailedit: Congress already has oversight powers, it’s in the Constitution. What they don’t have is a majority with a will to use them.
bystander
Meeka just announced that Bill Clinton is the reason we have twitler in the WH.
My only other observation is that the entire defense of twitler is predicated on the “of course he’s guilty but naaah naaah na na” gambit.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: So should we take bets on whether her face is entirely different or her boobs are much, much bigger?
Kay
@J R in WV:
Well, he managed to make the news, even if it’s mostly social media. Which is quite the accomplishment, considering it’s All Trump, All the Time. They’re more concerned about Melania Is Missing than they are with ICE.
God, I hope she’s not being held in an ICE facility. Apparently they can pick up anyone.
Phylllis
Tangential to the Kubrick meme, I’m currently reading Space Odyssey by Michael Benson, about the creation and filming of 2001. Terrific read; Benson is a good writer.
rikyrah
No. He is the essence of the Republican Party
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1003433653001703424?s=19
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I can’t imagine members of the press won’t attend sans credentials.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@bystander: I thought it was supposed to be Jimmy Carter’s fault, or “Blah Jimmy Carter”.
Montanareddog
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Maybe she had her existing implants removed? Probably no longer needed since she is not going to let that creep touch her ever again
Kay
@bystander:
Well, except Bill Clinton was impeached. Which blows a hole in that theory. I know that even though I’m not a national political pundit. Really have to delve into the footnotes of history.
rikyrah
@bystander:
Phuck outta here.
Let’s pull the receipts on this heifer ?
rikyrah
@Kay:
How was your son’s gig at the graduation party?
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
That’s funny, I hope the exact opposite. Maybe they’ll “lose” her too./////
Baud
@bystander: Of course she did. That’s her job.
Brachiator
Love the Kubrick thing, because “fake moon landing” believers are so stupid.
rikyrah
@Kay:
The story of taking the children percolated on social media to Hayes and got amplified back on social media.
Baud
@Kay: Reagan wasn’t impeached. Maybe someone on that show should blame him.
Plus, not even Trump kicked off his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: I think they are referring to the now complete expungement of any vestiges of actual conservatism from the GOP.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
No golden escalator there.
rikyrah
Ok, this was funny.
The young ones are ok with me?
https://twitter.com/The_UnSilent_/status/1003452707695456257?s=19
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: How so? The only thing they’ve given up is their opposition to servitude to Russia. They still nominally oppose trump on trade, although they don’t have the balls to do anything about it.
oldgold
@bystander:
Mika (Elmera Gantry) Brzezinski might not be the ideal spokesperson for discussing this sort of thing.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Haha. Accidental race treason.
Platonailedit
Sure, twitler will help them miners.
rikyrah
THREAD
Anyone from Baltimore got any comments?.
https://twitter.com/SmartBlackMan/status/1003357371182338054?s=19
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Ol’ Tyme Conservatives were in favor of Free Trade.
Immanentize
Ugh,. This week in ICE already makes me crazy.
Somehow Merkley going to ICE and getting turned back reminds me of Congressman Leo Ryan’s fateful trip to Guyana to investigate Jim Jones….
I got a bad feeling about this.
But her emails!!!
@OzarkHillbilly:
I think this is probably true – also that Trump has 90% approval rating with self identified Republicans. Technically, I don’t think the takeover will be officially completed until after the midterms when what’s left of the conservatives either follow through on their retirement plans or are retired.
rikyrah
@Platonailedit:
The ones worried aren’t Republicans, who tried to cut it in the first place.?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Jeff Flake would disagree with you, not that it matters ’cause he’s giving up.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Which is why there needs to be an entire group of them going. I meant it when I said EVERY DEMOCRAT, BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE, on the committees that oversee DHS, need to go.And, get arrested, if necessary. They need to stop this mealy mouth bullshyt ?
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Right, but they haven’t given that up yet.
rikyrah
I, too, remember when everything was Obama’s Katrina.
Now, we have near 5,000 Dead..
Repeat after me:
The?curve? for ? Unqualified ?White ?Men?is?REAL?
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1003388755661770752?s=19
Patricia Kayden
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Wow. Good to hear.
Platonailedit
fucking fourth estate fifth columnists.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Immanentize: I had exactly the same thought. Just how bad is it in there?
Immanentize
@rikyrah:
Agreed:
Now I’m thinking of Alice’s Restaurant Massacre:
First one person (Merkley) and then they think he’s crazy; then… We’ll take it away Arlo:
This should be a movement. Merkley could get a court order to visit. Create a movement where Senators and Congresspeople get orders for every children’s detention facility everywhere all on one day…. I am writing Merkley to suggest he organize it.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Immanentize: I had precisely the same thought. Just how bad are things in there?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Side note: Not only is the mobile site not retaining my name, it’s discarding my posts entirely. Without comment or feedback. Just gone, pool.
JPL
No one is above the law except
https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot
Immanentize
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
It is probably really disorganized — kids unsupervised, warehoused, insufficient staff, maybe even kids restrained. And ICE was clearly ordered not to let anyone in. I am actually worried for the kids.
ETA. Like old school juvenile detention facilities which were just warehouses of abuse.
JPL
@Immanentize: That’s a great suggestion and I hope he follows through. Jeff Flake might join up with him.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Huh. I see my “disappeared” mobile comment showed up at #80. And now FYWP won’t let me edit either one.
Immanentize
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I think that is the new discernment filter Alain installed which judges the worthiness of posts? ?
JAFD
Greetings from New Jersey !
Am ‘looking forward’ to getting up at 3 AM tomorrow, to get act together, be at firehouse at 5:15, get polls ready to open at 6. Hope y’all come by and vote!
Weather this morn has gone from rainy to cloudy. Supposed to be fair, 70’s high, tomorrow. Was 90 Saturday, 60’s yesterday, me old bones aching…
Hope all you Juicers, people and animal alike, have a great week. Looking forward to Friday, the grown-ups (?) who still play with toy soldiers will be getting together in Edison – njcon.org for info.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Wow, it’s like you’re married to my wife.
Quinerly
@JPL: These weeks come fast and furious. It’s like we never get a break. Relentless. I’m exhausted before I get dressed. Venting…..
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Immanentize: I saw this in a minor way years ago. 2004 in New York. Republican convention. My then 17-year-old daughter went up to join some rallies, perhaps march. She was in a group that was swept up by police just as they were gathering (cordoned off the whole block with fencing and arrested everyone inside the fence, including the odd tourist and local resident).
The never-charged prisoners were moved from one massive holding cell to another, in disgusting conditions, at one point in a cell with some unidentified caustic tar all over the floor, finally ending up (thought they didn’t know it) in the courthouse in lower Manhattan. That’s where I went to camp out and try to get updates. People were telling me that by law anyone arrested had to have a hearing within 24 hours.
And I watched as hour after hour, day after day, people other than the political prisoners came into the court and had their cases heard, but the political group remained out of sight.
And I watched as hour after hour, day after day, increasingly angry judges issued court orders to charge the prisoners or release them, to let lawyers talk to them, to let the ones who needed medical attention see a doctor, to get medication to the ones who were locked up without it, etc.
And I watched the lawyers go up to the holding area with those court orders, and the officers would open the door, read the order, laugh, and close the door.
The whole ordeal lasted until W gave his speech uptown, when without warning and without notification to those of us still waiting in the courtroom, all the prisoners had been quietly dumped out a back door onto the street.
So that view of the officers sneering at the court orders while a couple thousand people are illegally detained without charges, is the other echo I have when I see this. And I realize, as my daughter did in 2004, how fragile the Constitution and the rule of law are.
ETA: I said “minor” above, meaning compared to Guyana. Nobody died.
NotMax
@Ceci n est pas mon nym
WordPetulant has been especially finicky the past 24 hours. Whatever the last update was, ripples of instability from it persist.
WereBear
Brought to you by the part who doesn’t believe in science.
Nonetheless, science believes in us.
JPL
@Quinerly: @Immanentize should explain to the pres that he is not above the law. It would have to be pro bono since the pres doesn’t pay his bills.
Quinerly
@JPL: thanks for the smile I just had when I read your comment.
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: But science couldn’t give a T-Rex’s ass about us.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Immanentize: If there’s a filter judging whether a comment adds value to the conversation, I’m in big trouble.
OT: Speaking of software reading your words, is anyone else here a Gmail user? I really hate the auto-response thing, where Gmail suggests appropriate one-line answers to email: “Sounds good, see you there!” “Good suggestion” “I’ll do that”. That sort of thing. Obviously some sort of natural-language processor is reading the emails and understanding enough to produce eerily-appropriate replies.
It freaks me out a little, and I’m a guy who has been interested in machine learning and AI much of my professional life (though I haven’t had too many opportunities to actually develop any). I find it oddly reassuring when the response isn’t quite appropriate.
It also bugs me for privacy reasons, wonders how much of this processing and info is going up the mother ship.
JPL
Has there been studies connecting spelling errors with aging and dementia?
Trump has been told the correct way to spell counsel, but appears to be incapable of remembering.
NotMax
FYI.
However, “pull the plug” doesn’t necessarily mean what it says.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Yes, but I’ve never seen that. Good thing too ’cause I’d probably shoot my computer.
Brachiator
@Phylllis:
I will have to check out the Benson book. Thanks.
I absolutely loved 2001, and devoured one of the first “making of” books about it. And in reading about how Kubrick created the movie, I learned a ton about cinema as an art form, and was inspired to learn as much as I could about movies as visual storytelling.
There are also any number of excellent video essays about the making of 2001 on YouTube which provide wonderful, full bodied visual examples of the set design, camera lens choices and cinematography, editing, use of music cues, direction and the acting choices of the performers.
NotMax
@NotMax
FYWP ate my linky!
Source
Immanentize
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: That is so awful. Sad introduction for your daughter to the land of law, not men. But Bloomberg certainly learned the Daley lesson, huh?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: Come to think of it, that just happens on the mobile Gmail app.
Brachiator
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I’m lazy enough to have used it as a quick response to a received email. It doesn’t bother me at all.
Of course Google reads your emails. Supposedly, everything is anonymized. At this point in the game, it’s a bit late to worry about it. I don’t know whether there’s a setting to disable the feature.
NotMax
Missed this one in late May. Someone screwed up, bigly.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Good, we can’t afford another computer.
Brachiator
@WereBear:
We’ll always have religion, ignorance and superstition. Make America Stupid Again!
Immanentize
@JPL: This is so crazy. Mueller is not a “Special Counsel” like Ken Starr was. That outside-of-DOJ statute doesn’t exist anymore. Mueller is a DOJ employee, working in the DOJ for the DOJ. Or maybe Trump believes he cannot even be investigated at all? What are his lawyers feeding him?
Someone should ask Trump whether Bill Clinton’s impeachment was unconstitutional….
Brachiator
@JPL:
Are we getting close to an admission of guilt?
CliosFanBoy
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I get that reading it on my (Android) phone, but not on my PC..
NotMax
Stupidity on parade, names included.
Number of people cited for loitering in the lava disaster zone grows to 18
Brachiator
I loved this graduation joke
Link
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b14af82e4b010565aad1c77
LAO
@Brachiator: I think we actually crossed that bridge awhile ago. But what do I know.
LAO
@Immanentize: Trump’s twitter feed on this topic has been “Alice through the looking glass” — every single one of his lawyers should either be disbarred or disgraced out of the practice of law.
jonas
@Platonailedit
something about “I never thought the leopards would eat *my* face…
jayjaybear
@bystander: Mika’s dad has to just groan and smack his forehead daily over her spineless toadying.
Not to mention her spineless toad fiance.
NotMax
@Brachiator – @JPL
re: those tweets.
No, Trelane.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hasn’t Zig gone to his reward? I do remember a clip that went viral where he said to Joe something like, “Your understanding of international geo-politics is remarkably shallow”, with a little chuckle that was even more dismissive than his actual words. I’ve read (in the tubes so FWIW) that he was a crusty old codger whose unwillingness to suffer fools included his own children
JPL
This is not good..
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/politics/donald-trump-emmanuel-macron-call-terrible/index.html
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: sorry, not “remarkably shallow”, he said “stunningly superficial“
The Moar You Know
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Google told you upfront when you signed up for their email service: all of it.
stinger
@gene108: Iowa’s primary election is tomorrow, as well. (Just a reminder for Juicers who live in Iowa.)
OzarkHillbilly
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I love the look on her face about halfway thru.
Amir Khalid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wikipedia says he died May 27 last year at 89.
@Brachiator:
Close? I thought Trump’s public statements were already conclusive evidence of guilt as far as conspiring with the Russians was concerned. On the obstruction of justice thing Didn’t he already confess to it on TV?
gene108
@Brachiator:
And guns, Lots and lots of guns.
jayjaybear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Whoops! Yeah, he died last year. I missed that completely.
Redact that post to “rolling in his grave”, then.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Yeah, he’s no longer living. Zbigly.
But her emails!!!
@Amir Khalid:
Pretty much. Trump’s son, son-in-law and campaign manager met with Russian operatives because these operatives claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. Trump then dictated a misleading cover story for this meeting. All of this is now public and documented information. He’s guilty, but nothing matters anymore.
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
We’re going beyond “evidence of guilt.” Rudy G and Trump are suggesting that Trump could openly commit and confess to a crime, and then pardon himself.
I hope that Trump takes his own bait.