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“Your father is looking down on you, he’s very proud,” Trump tells steel worker at his press conference.
“He’s still alive,” the guy responds.
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Whoa. After days of protests in Rochester over the killing of Daniel Prude, mayor Lovely Warren just announced entire Rochester police department command staff, including the chief of police, is resigning.
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Trump calls BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage” which is wildly unfair as we are a succeeding pile of garbage.
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“Thank you to the president for his efforts to defeat MS-13 in my district,” says Rep. Lee Zeldin, who represents the Hamptons.
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Anti-mandate protesters are holding a twitter space “emergency meeting” in response to the state of emergency.
One who was at the Windsor/Detroit border blockade tells a story of how their communications were infiltrated, leading to organizational collapse...
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I’ve read heartbreaking books about 9/11 but the piece of writing my brain recalls every year is the bizarre first-person account of the Toronto Star writer who happened to be in New York when the towers came down. Unfortunately for the Star, that person was their fashion editor.
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Protesters were using Zello, a live communications app. The problem was counter-protesters were spamming their channels with the gay cowboy anthem Ram Ranch.
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This has gone way off the rails. Actual quote just now: “What is this Ram Ranch people are talking about? Is it somewhere we can go and get our money?”
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Aaaand someone started playing Ram Ranch on this feed.
“Christ on a cross!” one protester yells.
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My Massachusetts friend stood with his hand over his heart like it was the national anthem during the Dunkin Donuts commercial.
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They’re trying to figure out options to insure their vehicles.
One guy says he’s got a live feed of an insurance company feed, then the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays. The ranchers, as they’re being called are just incessantly punking them.
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So they moved to a new channel. The problem was the moderator of the channel turned out to be a double agent. “This person gained our trust. We trusted them as a moderator,” the guy says.
“Traitor! Traitor!” another person yells.
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That moderator who turned out to be “part of the resistence” apparently shut things down and ruined their ability to communicate, allowing the police to roll up the blockade. “It’s a morale blow,” he said.
Another guy adds: “What a clusterfuck."
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Then some guy claiming to be a trucker supporter says he knows of an American company willing to insure Canadian truckers. It’s called [coded name of an extremely gross thing to google]
“Hold on, let me write that down…. Oh my god!"
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A Ram Ranch (I am just going to make up a title here) Vice Cowboy of Pranking Relations tells me that a couple dozen of the speakers were real trucker supporters, the rest were in on the joke.
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What a perfect campaign scandal. Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy says in stump speech he was shot in the arm in Afghanistan. Post finds a Ranger report of him admitting he accidentally shot himself in the arm in Glaciar National Park in 2015 and paying a $525 fine over it.
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Quotes that are either from truckers or ranchers pretending to be truckers, I can no longer tell:
“Whose ramming?”
“I’ve been rammed too many times over these last couple weeks.”
[A solid 20 seconds of someone blowing their nose]
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A bunch of Associated Press equipment had to be abandoned and a crowd is trashing it. "We are the news now!" a man yells. Looks like they're going to try to light it on fire.
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There’s lots of talk of needing money. “None of us know how to use that goddamn bitcoin,” says one guy.
“I’ve got kids… I need some money here. I can’t do this,” says another.
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Senator Susan Collins was just told in a scrum that Ted Cruz claimed to be consistently against government shutdowns. She stood there, mouth literally agape, for several seconds before saying "you've rendered me speechless."
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“What happened to the money we donated? I gave $600” says one woman.
“It’s gone. Byyyeeee” says another.
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Soooo I am going to end this thread here. The Ram Ranchers are running this meeting. I have no idea how many actual protesters are getting suckered in compared to rancher plants, but the latter is in control. It’s been an interesting hour.
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My friends on Facebook seem happier and healthier but they'll never know the pure Twitter entertainment seeing a very online socialist argue that reading is ableist one day and then revealing they work for Lockheed Martin the next.
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Quite a moment just now. We asked Susan Collins about House Republicans vowing not to pass the provisions McConnell promised her to win her tax vote. She stared for several seconds and said she thought the press's coverage of the tax bill has been extremely sexist.
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Things have kind of fallen apart as the resistance infiltrates the space. “Yeah I’ve got a plan. Why don’t we go full court press tonight. I mean full court press. Fuck these cops,” says one guy though honestly I’ve lost track of who is legit and who is mocking them.
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After another guy goes on a monologue about sucking off truckers, the protesters are trying to figure out how to kick out all the Ram Ranchers.
“I don’t understand what’s happening,” says one woman. “People are just disgusting."
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There will be stretches of earnest conversation about how to protect their trucks and livelihood. Then there'll be an exchange like:
“I feel like some bukkake is needed, I don’t know about you guys.”
“Oh for fuck’s sake. You’re outta here. You’re another one of them ranchers.”
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The final grafs discuss designer show reschedulings and conclude the industry, like all of us, will never be the same. It was titled “We Shouldn’t Feel Guilty For Enjoying Fashion.” There’s been lots of deeply moving writing about 9/11. This is not that. But it’s sure something.
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One woman tells a heartfelt story about her protester boyfriend facing verbal abuse, and fearing that the protest is going to implode if they don’t figure out a plan. Then there’s the sound of someone flushing a toilet.
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“At this point, I think it’s a lot of ranchers,” says the stressed out woman who keeps pleading with people to stop it.
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To emphasize that last tweet, I have no idea how much of what I heard was real and how much was a prank. Ram Ranchers: feel free to dm me.
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There was a very weird moment in Trump’s speech today where he mocked undocumented immigrants who actually showed up to their immigration court hearings.
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Big: Senator Joe Manchin just indicated he would not blow up the filibuster to codify Roe, saying he believes the filibuster is a check on power that preserves abortion rights. Without Manchin, the chance of passing Roe into law is pretty much zero.
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Women are standing in silent protest at the back of the Judiciary Committee room. They're now being led out by security.
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Asked during a city council meeting who will be in charge during tonight’s protests, the mayor said she doesn’t know.
“We would have to find an interim chief,” says Warren says. “Because I just got the call before this hearing, I don’t know.
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So, uh, I guess that’s Trump’s message to undocumented immigrants: only an idiot would go through the legal system properly.
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They made a noose from the camera cord and hung it from a tree.
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New FTX head John Ray III is asked to compare FTX to Enron. “[Enron crimes] were highly orchestrated financial machinations by highly sophisticated people to keep transactions off balance sheets. This (FTX)... isn't sophisticated whatsoever, this is just plain old embezzlement."
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She then decides to take a free limo ride away from New York and the story of the century. She describes her and her friends partying and getting drunk off of appletinis on the ride home. This piece ran days after September 11.
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And here it is! Kelly says plaintiffs have shown likelihood fifth amendment rights were violated, and there is irreparable harm.
Judge Kelly orders the White House to reinstate Jim Acosta’s hard pass.
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Had to quarantine for two weeks because I was in New Orleans right before everything shut down.
Went back to work. Talked to Rand Paul. Turns out he definitely had coronavirus at the time. Now I’m back in quarantine. Goddammit.
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Unexpected moment just now as Lindsey Graham was leaving the Senate and walked by Adam Schiff. He patted Schiff on the shoulder and said "good job today. Very well spoken."
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So the president signed Tim Kaine’s bill into law guaranteeing unpaid workers get backpay when the shutdown ends.
But it’s actually much bigger than that. Kaine’s bill changes the law so that workers will be guaranteed backpay in ALL future shutdowns.
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This is fucked. The police say they're just "escorting" the senators to the vote. In effect, they're shielding them from taking questions. Never seen this before.
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Acting Capitol police chief Pittman says 35 officers are under investigation for things like posing for selfies with Jan. 6 rioters, and six have had their police powers suspended.
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In an incredible stroke of reporter luck she gets taken into a hospital with victims because she presumably has O-negative blood. She describes sitting and talking with survivors. Yet this piece does not actually recount any of their stories.
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The internet was down but she managed to dictate two full stories over the phone before some editor realized what was happening and (one imagines) screamed at her to head to the site of the terrorist attack.
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When she finds she can’t take a cab to ground zero she phones the paper to let them know it’s impossible to drive there. I can only imagine the face of her poor editor imploring her to walk.
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“Oh we’d fill it.” Mitch McConnell is on record saying he would confirm a new Supreme Court justice if one died in 2020, a total reversal from blocking Merrick Garland in Obama’s last year in office.
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What an utterly bizarre backfire. This was supposed to be awkward for Democrats because it was an unofficial rebuke of Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Yet in the end Omar voted to condemn anti-Semitism and 26 Republicans (and counting) voted not to.
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Can I put on my Canadian toque for one moment and say that an openly partisan Supreme Court, where the spoils of elections are to fill red or blue seats, is one of the very most perverted and fucked up aspects of the American system.
Thank you. And sorry.
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BIG: Judge Kelly rules Jim Acosta’s first amendment rights overrules the White House’s right to have orderly press conferences.
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Star fashion editor Bernadette Morra was in NY to cover the spring/summer 2002 showcases. When the attack on the World Trade Center happened she jumped into action by… attempting to file her fashion stories from her hotel.
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So the Obama administration had set up this program, the Family Case Management Program, that worked with asylum seekers, provided them some legal representation. It worked great. Attendance at court hearings hit high-90s percent levels. The Trump admin quickly dismantled it.
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@StevenTDennis
BREAKING: Flake is calling for a one-week delay for a floor vote so that the FBI can do an investigation.
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!! Pelosi says the House Sergeant at Arms will be submitting his resignation after yesterday’s security breakdown and she is calling for the resignation of Capitol Police Chief Steven Sound. “There was a failure of leadership at the top… Mr. Sund, he hasn’t even called us."
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Just had an interesting walk with former Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer. I asked 2 or 3 times if it was time for the Ottawa protesters to go home. He wouldn't answer. Said something about referring me to his questions in Parliament before ducking into an office
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She's also the only Senator not affiliated to a religion. The book she was sworn in on was a copy of the US and Arizona constitutions.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, sworn in today, is the first out bi senator in US history, and only the second out LGBT member of the Senate, following Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
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An officer smashed right into NBC's Lee-Anne Caldwell who was walking with a senator. Another reporter, who is pregnant, says she was also shoved. Lots of yelling between reporters and cops here, who are clearly blocking reporters from getting near senators.
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So when you look at the issue of undocumented immigrants not showing up for court hearings — the Trump administration quickly moved to exacerbate this issue and now the president is *openly mocking* people who do show up for their hearings.
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DC statehood is the dumbest discourse because everyone knows what it’s really about but the people opposed can’t come out and say what it's really about, so we have to listen to arguments about how like DC can’t be a state because it doesn’t have any grain silos.
The Heritage Foundation’s Zack Smith, arguing against DC statehood, says DC residents “already impact the national debate” because members of Congress see their yard signs while driving to work.
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We are living a mad lib.
[spins wheel] Michael Avenatti has been [spins wheel] arrested for extorting [spins wheel] Nike.
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Here's another absolutely insane thing that has become an accepted part of American elections. Have been asking some Canadian friends what's the longest they've had to wait to vote and they can't recall waiting more than 10 minutes.
Voters are waiting more than an hour and a half to vote at St Andrews Math and Science.
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This is misleading. Giuliani is talking about a photo of the Bidens golfing with Devon Archer who, yes, was on the board of Burisima. But Archer and Biden were already in business together and joined the board more or less together.
Could be Big Breaking News. I’m sorry I have to do it this way but Dem Cover-Up Press will not ask Biden who is guy in picture. One person says he is a Burisma Board member. If true, Biden’s lie that he never discussed son’s foreign business becomes evidence of guilt.
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A couple hundred people or so have gathered tonight outside of the Supreme Court to protest the draft decision overturning Roe v Wade. They're chanting slogans like "abortion is healthcare" and "my body, my choice."
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My favorite part of American democracy is when Mitch McConnell, ink-stained and covered in cheeto crumbs, emerges from his office with an armful of scribbled-upon napkins and declares "this is our justice system now."
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Torn on who to root for in the World Series? Consider:
— The
@astros
bought low on a closer suspended for domestic abuse
— The assistant GM taunted three female reporters over this after their last game
— When this was reported, the team lied and said the reporter made it up
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There are police here on the hill circling politicians when they come in for the vote, keeping reporters away from them. This is not normal.
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*******The COVID aid bill ends the practice of surprise medical billing*********
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Particularly in Canada over and over you see a tightly edited clip go viral that seems to show Palestine protesters doing something villainous, major voices take the bait and denounce them, and those who actually look into it discover the clip was a distortion. Over and over.
i was at this protest. the whole time i was there a few younger people (as is the case for any march) were climbing up to the highest points they could get to to wave flags. here some are at yonge and bloor. i am honestly going crazy rn lol you’re all disingenuous idiots
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He falsely claimed that only two percent of immigrants show up to their court hearings. Actually, a majority do. But then he goes: “those people you almost don’t want because they cannot be very smart.. those two percent are not going to make America great again, I tell ya."
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Response just in from the whistleblower’s legal team: "I imagine at some point soon our client will be accused of masterminding JFK's assassination as well."
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I'm at the Capitol for the reporter meet 'n greet, which is being held next to a huge police exercise, which is being held next to some sort of small protest rally.
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Oh boy Trump's doctor just admitted he lied yesterday about the president being on oxygen so as to send out an upbeat message
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"It would be a pretty dramatic expansion of how this was used in the past," says GOP senator Ron Johnson of Trump declaring a state of emergency.
Marco Rubio: "It's a bad idea."
Republicans seem very caught off guard by this.
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Coons and Feinstein talk as chairman Grassley heads out to the back room.
Wow, we don’t know yet but it’s possible the women yelling at Flake in the elevator just had a massive impact.
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Clearly a lot of people have never been part of a demonstration ended by police before. Can't tell you how many expressions of shock and astonishment I've heard. "I can't believe this," "this is the craziest thing I've ever seen," "it's like we're in China" etc.
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Nevada governor Sandoval says before Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion his state had 23% uninsured rate. Now it’s 12%. Children went 18% to 8%.
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This tweet is totally wrong. The Ottawa Citizen did NOT write a story about a shop owner making a donation to the truckers. The piece is about a business closing down due to threats of violence after their donation was made public by others. It's a completely legitimate story.
I fail to see why any journalist felt the need to report on a shop owner making such a insignificant donation rather than to get them harassed. It’s unconscionable and journalists need to do better.
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CNN and Jim Acosta win today but remember this case is not over.
Judge is not ruling Acosta’s first amendment was in fact violated. This is just an injunction.
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Since I’ve decided to spend today being mad online about the coverage of this Masai Ujiri thing, here’s an eye witness giving a far more plausible account than Ujiri just deciding to celebrate his team’s win by provoking a fight with a cop.
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Republican Senator Bill Cassidy blasts the performance of Trump’s lawyers today: "It was disorganized, random. They talked about many things but they didn’t talk about the issue at hand… The House managers made a compelling, cogent case and the president’s team did not.”
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Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski in the Post's Roy Moore bombshell story: "I'm horrified and if this is true he needs to step down immediately."
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Kumbaya! Josh Gottheimer and Pramila Jayapal appear together to tout the Build Back Better Act and the infrastructure bill.
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Some guy had been yelling "has anyone seen Gary??" so many times I was about to google because i thought i was missing some "let's go Brandon" type meme.
Anyway fuckin Gary just showed up so that's one mystery solved.
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Just checked the tape. Collins said the press coverage was "so sexist it's unbelievable."
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Again this is NOT a skinny bill. This is a plan. Cuts individual mandate, cuts Planned Parenthood, cuts Obamacare regulations.
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The Trump Administration Will Move Ahead With Their Plan To Kick People Off Of Food Stamps Despite Coronavirus Outbreak
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NEW: Senate Whip John Cornyn confirms there WILL be a supplemental FBI investigation for up to one week.
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