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  1. 5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    that pretty much applies in perpetuity

    It’s her greatest tweet ever. A timeless classic.

    More in wtf news.

     

     

    CNN)President Donald Trump floated replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as recently as this week, even as the scandal-ridden head of the Environmental Protection Agency has faced a growing list of negative headlines, according to people close to the President.

    "He was 100% still trying to protect Pruitt because Pruitt is his fill-in for Sessions," one source familiar with Trump's thinking told CNN. 
    Though the President has, at times, floated several people a day for multiple positions in his administration that are already occupied, the proposition reveals just how frustrated Trump remains with Sessions because of his decision to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation more than a year ago, while signaling how confident he has remained in Pruitt despite a dizzying number of ethics issues.
  2. We’re going to need an exclusive Facebook thread for all the bad Facebook news that will be dropping over the next week.

    • Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients. 
    • The idea was to build profiles of people that included their medical conditions, information that health systems have, as well as social and economic factors gleaned from Facebook.
    • Facebook said the project is on hiatus so it can focus on "other important work, including doing a better job of protecting people's data."
  3. Mercer paid millions to target anti-Muslim ads at voters: report

     

    http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/381786-mercer-paid-millions-to-target-anti-muslim-ads-to-voters-report

    Billionaire investor Robert Mercer pumped $2 million into a conservative nonprofit group that used Facebook and Google to target anti-Muslim ads toward certain voters in swing states in 2016, according to tax records obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics.

    The ads - three in all - mimic travel advertisements intended to stoke fears of Muslim influence in France, Germany and the United States. Most voters were never exposed to the ads because they were targeted toward people most likely to be receptive to them, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

    The ads do not specifically mention the names of political candidates.

    Mercer was among three donors that provided most of the funding for Secure America Now (SAN), the nonprofit group behind the ads that operates out of a law firm in Washington, D.C., the tax records show.

     

    Mercer spent millions of dollars in 2016 to support the campaign of President Trump and is a prominent backer of conservative causes.

    The other donors include Estee Lauder heir Ronald Lauder, who gave $1.1 million, and the secret-money group 45Committee, which pumped another $2 million into SAN. 

     

    An additional $60,000 in reported contributions to the group came from former Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson, Republican donor Foster Friess and Olympus Ventures LLC, a company tied to the foundation created by Best Buy founder Dick Schulze, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

    Bloomberg News first reported in October 2017 that SAN worked directly with employees at Google and Facebook to target the ads toward a specific audience determined to be more receptive to their message.

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    Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman met with Jared Kushner in October

    Salman has since bragged about using classified intelligence from Kushner as part of a crackdown on 'corrupt' princes and businessmen in Saudi Arabia

    He said the intelligence from Kushner included information on those who were disloyal to Salman and who were his 'enemies', insiders tell DailyMail 

    Kushner's attorney's spokesman said it was 'false' that the president's son-in-law passed on secrets and that he was 'well aware of the rules'

    The crown prince launched his crackdown on corruption in November, days after he met Kushner for talks in Riyadh

    Hundreds were rounded up, including princes from rival parts of the Saudi royal family and some of the country's wealthiest businessmen

    But the crackdown saw accusations of torture and at least one reported death 

  5. A Navy chaplain was fired in March after being caught on video having sex in public at a New Orleans bar, according to USA Today

    Navy Capt. Loften Thornton, a chaplain since 1992, lost his job on March 20 and is now under investigation for the incident that took place in a British-style pub, USA Today reports.

    Defense Department officials are now reviewing the video of the encounter that the pub owner said took place outside and near the road, just five miles from the city's Marine Reserve. 

    A spokesman for the Marine Reserve told the newspaper Thornton, who served as a spiritual resource for service members and their families, was fired over a "loss of trust and confidence." 

     

    The Pentagon implemented new policies last year aimed at reducing sexually inappropriate conduct within the military, as reports of sexual harassment and assaultswithin U.S. military installations of each branch have increased in recent years.

  6. 7 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I suspect that the counterargument regarding collusion is that it is not spelled out in statuatory law as a crime; however, it seems entirely possible that one could commit specific crimes while colluding with (for instance) Russians to influence the outcome of our election.  One would expect Rosenstein to know whether it is a specific crime or not, but people do make mistakes.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

    The collusion is/is not a crime debate is laughable.

    It’s called CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES 

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/371

    yes, this is a crime and Mueller has already charged some people with this crime.

     

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  7. Good news, guys. There was a caravan of Canadians on their way toward the United States and our porous northern border... but I stopped them by tweeting at them.

    You probably didn't even hear about it... but it happened... I did it... you're welcome.

    (please clap)

    -hoarsewhisper

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    A Russian citizen accused of hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox was supposed to have a bail hearing Wednesday before a U.S. judge, but plans went sideways after prosecutors said he tried to escape.

    Yevgeniy Nikulin, 30, appeared in San Francisco federal court wearing shackles after being extradited last week from the Czech Republic over objections from Russian officials who sought him on separate charges.

    Nikulin had been ordered March 30 to undergo a medical evaluation. Marshals who supervised him in custody described his behavior as defiant, including physical confrontation and an attempt to escape, a prosecutor said in court Wednesday.

    The court in San Francisco postponed the Russian Yevgeniy Nikulin’s bail hearing; he was extradited from the Czech Republic at the request of the US a few days ago.

    According to Bloomberg, the reason for the postponement was Nikulin's attempt to escape during the medical evaluation on March 30.

    The Russian was indicted on multiple counts of computer-enabled fraud and identity theft stemming from cyber-attacks on LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring, a San Francisco-based social networking company, in 2012 and 2013. He faces a lengthy prison term if convicted.

    His public defender told the judge that “an innocent defendant has the right to be treated with respect and dignity.” Nikulin’s bail hearing was postponed until later this month.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-04-04/u-s-says-russian-suspect-in-linkedin-hack-tried-to-escape

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