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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
... That doesn't bode well for the Rogue Twitter if Trump's words are true.
The Typing error Twitter.
edited 31st Jan '17 8:17:03 AM by DingoWalley1
DeVos approved by committee in a party-line vote, as per CNN, now she goes to the Senate floor for the confirmation I guess. This will be the Dem's chance to try to block her. What would happen if she or any cabinet nomination fails the confirmation vote?
Also, also according to CNN, she may have plagiarized an Obama administration quote on civil rights.
edited 31st Jan '17 9:04:51 AM by LinkToTheFuture
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas EdisonSenate Democrats Boycott Votes for Steve Mnuchin (Treasury) and Tom Price (HHS), delaying their vote
. Why didn't they do this with Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions?
edited 31st Jan '17 10:06:52 AM by DingoWalley1
Someone edited Sally Yates' Wikipedia page.
My university is now asking for information from students/profs/post-docs etc. who are travelling to the US in the next few months. They want to understand the extent to which we are affected by the new travel restrictions. I don't know all of the details, but this feels like something which should. have. been. made clear to our country, already.
edited 31st Jan '17 10:15:30 AM by Pseudopartition
The Republicans are proposong a way to allocate electoral votes that would have guaranteed a Trump win even if Clinton had won by five points.
The GOP had better pray that their election rigging works, because if they try this and lose they'll be lucky not to have their party declared a criminal organization.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.![]()
Yes, because doing that sort of thing is really fucking clever.
This is why I warned the admin team there that they'd likely have to put protections on the articles of anyone who gets mentioned from here on.
edited 31st Jan '17 10:27:06 AM by HextarVigar
Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.Especially when most red states will remain winner takes all. So even if the Democrats sweep areas like Dallas and Houston, the E Vs go to the Republican. Because freedom.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.If Trump manages to win while losing by a Romney or Mc Cain style margin....there will be an insurrection.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.But the Republicans are trying to do it so that, in certain swing and blue states, E Vs get divided on the basis of who win each (gerrymandered to hell in a way that most real democracies stopped using decades ago) district.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.If Trump (or whoever the next Republican candidate is) loses the popular vote by another landslide margin...well lookie here! Five million illegal votes cast,note as discovered by our very own AG Jeff Sessions! Let's just purge those from the ballot, and...hey, a landslide victory for our side!
Also, the Republicans are still working hard to criminalize peaceful protest.

I don't have much else to add here. I haven't done much with NN lately because I've been bogged down with other stuff like a computer crash (Windows 10 I will never use you again) and of the three congresspeople I messaged, none has actually responded by email. Sadly it seems phone calls are the only reliable way through and even that's iffy. I will say I'm voting straight Democrat in 2018 and if Manchin accepts Sessions he ain't getting my vote.
ETA: I will say we definitely need to keep fighting for Net Neutrality because if it goes, this place goes too. At least it goes on a donation/subscription model, because threads like this mark us as The Enemy.
edited 31st Jan '17 7:46:10 AM by Journeyman