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the white house is now barring everyone but super conservative news organizations in on briefings and claims the ones who aren’t allowed are “enemies of the state”, this should scare everyone

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Indigenous women of Standing Rock issue heartbreaking plea for help ahead of evacuation

With just over a day to go before the evacuation deadline arrives at North Dakota’s Oceti Sakowin camp, protesters at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation have issued a plea: Come help — now.

In a viral video shared by journalist Shaun King on Monday, a group of indigenous women remind viewers that demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline are about much more than a single issue.

They’re about clean water, police brutality, treaty rights and the rights of future generations. Read more (2/21/17 8:00 AM)

follow @the-movemnt

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Protestors unfurl the banner “Refugees Welcome” at the base of the Statue of Liberty, February 21, 2017. Photo credit: @AltStatLiberty/Twitter

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Did you catch Trump’s bizarre, unhinged press conference yesterday? Don’t worry, we’ve got your back

Donald Trump originally called the press conference to announce his new labor-secretary pick Alexander Acosta, after fast-food executive Andrew Puzder withdrew yesterday. But it quickly devolved into insults lobbed at Hillary Clinton, whom he is no longer running against, and at the press.

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Trump dealt with a national security crisis in front of diners and servers at a restaurant

North Korea carried out a ballistic missile test Saturday night, launching the weapon in Japan’s general direction while Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 

The launch is being described as a “show of force” by North Korea, according to NBC News.

The missile test occurred as Trump and Abe dined in the members’ dining area at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort.

Rather than retreat to a secure and private location to discuss these sensitive national security issues, Trump, Abe, Steve Bannon and Mike Flynn tended to the crisis right there in the public dining area, where people not permitted to hear classified information could have overheard the conversations, according to CNN. Read more (2/13/17 8:56 AM)

#donald trump

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the meeting between Trump and Obama at the White House, and here’s the thing.

Obama used to be a law professor. This is key.

Law school is so, so different from college. 

In college, everyone expects there to be a “syllabus day,” kind of a grace period where they can show up and get the lay of the land, figure out the bare minimum that they can get away with, the TA gives everyone their office hours, there’s an introductory lecture, and everybody leaves a few minutes early to go take a nap or something. You do the bullshit assignments, you say something in class now and then to get your participation check mark, and figure out how badly you can do on the final and still pass. 

But see, in law school, all the methodologies you’ve spent the last 17 years operating under go out the window. Day one of law school is you being thrown into the deep end of the pool—you’ve had a homework assignment for two weeks now, and it’s to read the first 200 pages of your casebook. And now it’s you and the teacher (who is usually as smug as Alex Trebek) gauging and assessing what you managed to absorb while you skimmed through all those pages of reading so you could hurry up and get to the other 150 pages of reading for your next period class, in front of 50 people who are all smarter than you. And if you fuck up, or you didn’t do the reading, you are at the mercies of not just the professor, but the silent satisfied judgment of your peers. 

Law school is hard, and it will make you feel stupid and tongue-tied and like you don’t know anything and can’t form an argument—because you don’t, and you can’t. Everybody there has had a 4.0 since birth. Everybody there was the smartest kid in their class, and you’re all rabidly competing for a sliver of a chance at something down the road. It’s petty, and savage, fiercely entrenched in a culture of formalities and ceremony, and exactly like Washington DC. 

Yesterday when I was driving home, the NPR reporter talking about the Oval Office meeting mentioned that Trump had thought it was going to be a “getting to know you” type meeting, but that he was surprised when Obama stretched their talk out to 90 minutes before sending him along to the Capitol building where he met with congressional leaders for more lengthy meetings and stuff he didn’t want to do.

And he hasn’t even gotten to the actual job yet. 

So think about that as we go into this. 

Trump walked into the Oval Office like a two-pump-chump freshman thinking it was syllabus day, and what he got was the first day of law school, and he hadn’t done the reading like everyone else had, and Professor Obama decided to put him in the hot seat. 

This was Obama’s chance for the most perfect revenge that would never be picked up on as revenge at all. He was gracious, polite—everything he needed to be for a peaceful transition and a good review from the press. And that would continue when the doors were closed, because that’s the key. Not a Come to Jesus meeting, oh no. If Obama were smart—and he is very smart—he would have treated Trump like an equal, and brought the discussion to a level that assumes far more of Trump than anyone has so far. Assumes that he’s an adult who’s been paying attention. Statistics, esoteric minutiae about the executive branch procedure, economic growth numbers, labor figures, domestic policies, countries Trump has never even heard of, shit that would never in a million years have been in Trump’s campaign soundbites or digestible summaries. 

No way to escape. No aides to remember any of it for him. Just the two of them. 

Because that’s what would strike a precise chill into Trump. The thundering realization that he’s woefully unprepared for the hard, boring, thankless reality of this, and Obama’s version of a smooth transition won’t and shouldn’t include remedial civics. 

That’s what I saw when they shook hands and Trump stared at the floor instead of looking back into Obama’s face. He’s just figured out how little he knows about any of this. 

And that should give you a small glow of satisfaction, because after those meetings, Trump definitely has the 1L Terror Shits. In January, the night sweats and insomnia will show up, but for these first few weeks—nothing but diarrhea and self-doubt.  

#obama #donald trump

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President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, an appellate-court justice from Colorado, to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer,” Gorsuch wrote in his college yearbook, quoting former secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Trump dismissed the acting U.S. attorney general for refusing to defend his ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and referred to a conservative district-court judge’s ruling that his ban be suspended as “ridiculous.” In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte, whose “war on drugs” has killed more than 6,000 Filipinos since July, said he would consider accepting refugees affected by Trump’s ban “in the name of humanity.” Trump traveled to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, where he attended a gala to benefit the Red Cross, which has been working to help the Syrian refugees whom he banned from entering the United States. A group of Harley-Davidson executives rode their motorcycles to the White House to meet with Trump, the CEO of Uber resigned from Trump’s business council after more than 200,000 people deleted the company’s app because Uber failed to support taxi drivers protesting Trump’s immigration ban, and Republican congressman Dave Brat of Virginia complained about his constituents’ response to the Trump Administration’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “The women,” said Brat, “are in my grill.” Trump’s national-security adviser said that the nation of Iran was “on notice” after it tested a ballistic missile, and Iran responded by noting that “only seven minutes is needed for the Iranian missile to hit Tel Aviv.” Trump hung up on Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and warned Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto that he might send U.S. troops across the border to deal with “bad hombres.” At the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump, who was introduced by the producer of the TV show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, gave a speech asking the audience to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s television ratings. Trump correctly predicted that the New England Patriots, whose owner he refers to as a “friend,” would defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI; Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter; and the Canadian groundhog Winnipeg Willow died. The White House reportedly considered issuing an order that would prevent a U.S. antiterrorism program from investigating white-supremacist groups, a leaked FBI report concluded that “white supremacist extremists” have infiltrated U.S. law-enforcement agencies, and a Philadelphia police officer with a tattoo closely resembling the Nazi party’s eagle symbol emblazoned with the word “Fatherland” was cleared by his department of any wrongdoing. Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Trump, claimed that former U.S. president Barack Obama banned Iraqi refugees for six months in 2011, which he did not, and then claimed that two Iraqi refugees came to the United States and masterminded a “massacre” in Kentucky, which never happened. “It didn’t get covered,” said Conway. White House press secretary Sean Spicer referred to a Saudi frigate attacked by Houthi rebels as “our Navy vessel,” the Ticonderoga-class cruiser U.S.S. Antietam ran aground and leaked 1,100 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, and the Department of Defense posted online an instructional bomb-making video it claimed was acquired in a U.S. raid in Yemen that killed as many as 30 civilians, then removed the video after realizing it had been publicly available for the past ten years. It was reported that White House aides often work in the dark because they cannot figure out how the light switches operate. In the Arizona desert, a two-mile-long crack in the earth grew.

Harper’s weekly review

#2017

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saying “bernie would’ve won” is exactly the same as stating that “alexander hamilton would be alive right now if he hadn’t died that one time”

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#donald trump

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bernie would've won

We don’t have to actually think about this hypothetically, because Bernie did run, and he fucking lost, because he’s a loser.

#:)

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France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars. 

please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please 

#no No no no no no no #antisemitism #france

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a concept: bernie never ran for president and i never have to hear his name for the rest of my life

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Quebec provincial police have released the names of all six victims who were killed in the Sunday evening shooting at a Quebec City mosque.

According to the Quebec coroner’s office, they are:

Azzeddine Soufiane, 57.

Khaled Belkacemi, 60.

Aboubaker Thabti, 44.

Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42.

Ibrahima Barry, 39.

Abdelkrim Hassane, 41.

Soufiane owned and operated the Boucherie Assalam in Sainte-Foy, less than a kilometre away from the Islamic cultural centre where the shooting took place.

Belkacemi was a professor of soil and agri-food engineering at Laval University, also in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood.

Tunisian-born Thabti moved to Quebec in 2011. His two children are three and 11 years old.

Mamadou Tanou Barry and Ibrahima Barry are brothers from Guinea, according to CBC’s French-language service, Radio-Canada.

Mamadou was a father of two toddlers, aged three and one and a half, who worked in information technology. Ibrahima, who worked for Quebec’s Revenue Ministry, was a father of four, aged 13, seven, three and two.

Hassane was Algerian, and worked as a programming analyst for the Quebec government. He had three daughters, aged 10, eight, and 15 months.

In addition to the six fatalities, five others who were injured are still in hospital.

Continue Reading.

The article has been updated with the names of all 6 fatal victims of the Quebec City Mosque mass shooting.

#quebec city mosque shooting #tw death

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I’m not surprised but guess what happening now, trumpites. You’ve just woke up a larger group of people and they are pissed off.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

-Malcolm X

#sally Yates #donald trump #justice department

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#holocaust museum #fascism

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tr*mp just FIRED THE ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL for saying she wouldn’t defend the immigration ban in court because she didn’t think it was legal. SHE WAS FIRED FOR DISSENTING. SHE WAS FIRED FOR DOING HER JOB. REMEMBER THIS. THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A PUBLIC PURGE OF DISSENTERS.