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Why change subjects? Did Libs finally admit the Russia collusion smear went bananas?
Why change subjects? Did Libs finally admit the Russia collusion smear went bananas?
White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump’s political adversaries, according to Department of Homeland Security officials and email messages reviewed by The Washington Post.
Trump administration officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months — once in November, as a migrant caravan approached the U.S. southern border, and again in February, amid a standoff with Democrats over funding for Trump’s border wall.
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The White House believed it could punish Democrats — including Pelosi — by busing ICE detainees into their districts before their release, according to two DHS whistleblowers who independently reported the busing plan to Congress. One of the whistleblowers spoke with The Washington Post, and several DHS officials confirmed the accounts. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller discussed the proposal with ICE, according to two DHS officials. Matthew Albence, who is ICE’s acting deputy director, immediately questioned the proposal in November.
It turns out there are a lot of families across the country who have a similar arrangement, or worse, in which people have stopped talking altogether to relatives they feel have been stolen from them by Fox News.
To be clear, Fox News didn’t invent the white supremacy and racism at the heart of America, but the channel has definitely supercharged it. It’s also important to point out that “My parents watched the bad TV and got racist off it” is clearly a much less serious problem than being someone whose life is put at risk by the type of stuff Fox News promotes. That doesn’t make seeing someone you care about slide into the myopic bubble of right wing propaganda any easier.
I mentioned the idea of losing family to Fox News brain on Twitter the other day, and unsurprisingly, a lot of people had their own similar stories. I asked some of them to share how it felt.
Here’s a collection of the stories people shared.
The suggested movie was no ordinary film, though. It was “Gosnell,” a film based on the true story of the Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted in 2013 for performing illegal late-term abortions and the first-degree murder of three infants. The movie, which debuted last fall, contains descriptions of abortions by a man it calls “America’s biggest serial killer.”
And while critics say the movie misleadingly suggests that the criminal Gosnell is typical of legitimate abortion providers, it has found a receptive audience at the Trump White House, which has recently increased its engagement with the anti-abortion community.
A TRUMPIAN HOLE
https://claytoonz.com/2019/04/12/a-trumpian-hole/
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson argued last night that journalists should be up in arms and defensive of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange because he’s “one of them.” No. He’s not.
Don’t mistake what Assange did with what journalists do. Journalists will publish leaked information. They will publish from anonymous sources. Journalists publish news. What journalists do NOT do is aid in acquiring hacked information. Journalists do NOT coordinate with a political campaign on the timing of releasing hacked information or any information. Journalists do NOT attack one campaign in order to help another. A journalist does NOT become a front for the Russian government as it wages an assault on another nation’s election.
After holding up in Ecuador’s London embassy over the past seven years, originally claiming asylum from rape charges in his native Sweden which has since been dropped, and remaining to avoid being extradited to the United States, Assange was arrested on Thursday by London police. Now, Assange is facing the threat of being deported to the U.S. over charges that he hacked into the Pentagon’s computer in 2010. Interestingly enough, an attack that Donald Trump said at the time warranted the death penalty.
Ecuador got tired of Assange and evicted him from their embassy after he continued to use WikiLeaks to attack foreign governments, attempted to swap out security cameras, spread feces on the walls, refused to clean the bathroom, and failed to look after his own cat. No word if the kitty has been evicted too.
Assange actually sued Ecuador, while being their guest, last year over “violating his fundamental rights.” He was upset Ecuador demanded to approve of his visitors and wanted information on any wireless devices they’d bring, restricted his internet usage, told him to avoid speech or activities that could be considered political or could damage relations between Ecuador and other countries, and that cat thing. It’s really annoying when you criticize governments for expelling Russians over poisoning people in London and you won’t clean the litter box.
A reporter asked Trump yesterday if he “still loved WikiLeaks,” a statement he made on the campaign trail in 2016. Trump’s response was, “I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing.” I find that reaction similar to Austin Power’s claim of not being familiar with the Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger saying, “That sort of thing’s not my bag, baby” despite writing a book titled; Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger Pumps And Me (This sort of this is my bag, baby).
Despite his protests, WikiLeaks is the sort of thing that’s Trump’s bag, baby.
Trump mentioned WikiLeaks more than 100 times during the last month in the 2016 campaign. Among his comments were, “This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable. Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks. Oh, we love WikiLeaks. Boy, they have really — WikiLeaks! They have revealed a lot.” Now, he’s about as familiar with WikiLeaks as he is with Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Cohen. If you could financially invest in cognitive dissonance, now would be the time.
It was Cohen who claimed that Donald Jr. informed his father of an upcoming release by WikiLeaks. In fact, the first dump of stolen emails from the Clinton campaign was on the same day the Access Hollywood tape was released of Trump bragging about assaulting women.
If Assange is extradited to the U.S., it puts more pressure on Roger Stone whose own charges stem from his coordination with Assange and WikiLeaks. Stone is angling for a presidential pardon and he may get it. Assange’s cooperation may not be credible as it’s been reported by Ecuador that he’s lost his mind. What may be more important is if Ecuador shares data they acquired on Assange during his stay, like a list of his visitors and who all he was in contact with. It will be interesting to see how Trump handles his prosecution if he is extradited to the U.S.
There are concerns how the Trump administration and his Justice Department will treat this as it applies toward journalism, which Trump has called “fake news” and has openly wished to destroy press freedom. Assange is NOT being charged for publishing information but for the hacking he did to obtain it. But again, what Assange is doesn’t have anything to do with journalism.
Julian Assange is no more a member of the journalism community as Tucker Carlson.
https://claytoonz.com/2019/04/12/a-trumpian-hole/
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson argued last night that journalists should be up in arms and defensive of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange because he’s “one of them.” No. He’s not.
Don’t mistake what Assange did with what journalists do. Journalists will publish leaked information. They will publish from anonymous sources. Journalists publish news. What journalists do NOT do is aid in acquiring hacked information. Journalists do NOT coordinate with a political campaign on the timing of releasing hacked information or any information. Journalists do NOT attack one campaign in order to help another. A journalist does NOT become a front for the Russian government as it wages an assault on another nation’s election.
After holding up in Ecuador’s London embassy over the past seven years, originally claiming asylum from rape charges in his native Sweden which has since been dropped, and remaining to avoid being extradited to the United States, Assange was arrested on Thursday by London police. Now, Assange is facing the threat of being deported to the U.S. over charges that he hacked into the Pentagon’s computer in 2010. Interestingly enough, an attack that Donald Trump said at the time warranted the death penalty.
Ecuador got tired of Assange and evicted him from their embassy after he continued to use WikiLeaks to attack foreign governments, attempted to swap out security cameras, spread feces on the walls, refused to clean the bathroom, and failed to look after his own cat. No word if the kitty has been evicted too.
Assange actually sued Ecuador, while being their guest, last year over “violating his fundamental rights.” He was upset Ecuador demanded to approve of his visitors and wanted information on any wireless devices they’d bring, restricted his internet usage, told him to avoid speech or activities that could be considered political or could damage relations between Ecuador and other countries, and that cat thing. It’s really annoying when you criticize governments for expelling Russians over poisoning people in London and you won’t clean the litter box.
A reporter asked Trump yesterday if he “still loved WikiLeaks,” a statement he made on the campaign trail in 2016. Trump’s response was, “I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing.” I find that reaction similar to Austin Power’s claim of not being familiar with the Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger saying, “That sort of thing’s not my bag, baby” despite writing a book titled; Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger Pumps And Me (This sort of this is my bag, baby).
Despite his protests, WikiLeaks is the sort of thing that’s Trump’s bag, baby.
Trump mentioned WikiLeaks more than 100 times during the last month in the 2016 campaign. Among his comments were, “This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable. Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks. Oh, we love WikiLeaks. Boy, they have really — WikiLeaks! They have revealed a lot.” Now, he’s about as familiar with WikiLeaks as he is with Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Cohen. If you could financially invest in cognitive dissonance, now would be the time.
It was Cohen who claimed that Donald Jr. informed his father of an upcoming release by WikiLeaks. In fact, the first dump of stolen emails from the Clinton campaign was on the same day the Access Hollywood tape was released of Trump bragging about assaulting women.
If Assange is extradited to the U.S., it puts more pressure on Roger Stone whose own charges stem from his coordination with Assange and WikiLeaks. Stone is angling for a presidential pardon and he may get it. Assange’s cooperation may not be credible as it’s been reported by Ecuador that he’s lost his mind. What may be more important is if Ecuador shares data they acquired on Assange during his stay, like a list of his visitors and who all he was in contact with. It will be interesting to see how Trump handles his prosecution if he is extradited to the U.S.
There are concerns how the Trump administration and his Justice Department will treat this as it applies toward journalism, which Trump has called “fake news” and has openly wished to destroy press freedom. Assange is NOT being charged for publishing information but for the hacking he did to obtain it. But again, what Assange is doesn’t have anything to do with journalism.
Julian Assange is no more a member of the journalism community as Tucker Carlson.
WASHINGTON — When some of President Donald Trump's top national security advisers gathered at the White House Tuesday night to talk about the surge of immigrants across the southern border, they discussed increasing the U.S. military's involvement in the border mission, including whether the military could be used to build tent city detention camps for migrants, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the conversations.
During the meeting, the officials also discussed whether the U.S. military could legally run the camps once the migrants are housed there, a move the three officials said was very unlikely since U.S. law prohibits the military from directly interacting with migrants. The law has been a major limitation for Trump, who wants to engage troops in his mission to get tougher on immigration.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan was at the White House meeting Tuesday night and was open to sending more U.S. troops to support the border mission, so long as their assigned mission is within the law, according to the three U.S. officials.
Thousands of troops are currently deployed along the southern border, and are mainly used for reinforcing existing fencing with barbed wire.
President Donald Trump finally got to implement a ban on transgender people in the military on Friday — nearly two years after he shot off tweets declaring the military “will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity.”
Lt. Col. Carla M. Gleason, a Pentagon spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News, “We are pleased that we are able to create and implement our own accessions policy,” adding that she is “not aware of any anecdotes up to this point” of military applicants or soldiers being penalized under the new rules.
The Pentagon has used a rhetorical sleight of hand to insist the new policy doesn’t actually ban transgender people, arguing soldiers can simply pretend they’re not and serve as their birth sex.
But it is certainly a ban.
