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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

Maybe if there were less hatred of White people [particularly White men] in the world, there might be less White supremacists.
Maybe not though, because as we all know, today it's "every man and woman for himself/herself".

It’s white men who make a big deal out of being white men especially in lieu of having notable personal accomplishments or qualities who catch the most shit. If more white men hadn’t succumbed to their privilege turning them into useless twits, and if enough of those hadn’t swiftly squirmed their way up the ranks to the highest levels of power where they routinely do worse than just about anyone else in those jobs, few and far between as non white guys are up there, no one would have a problem with white men generally. However, you still follow and amplify solely bad examples.

Eat the shit you bring on yourself, Bambi. It will go well with the coal that makes up the bulk of your diet.

[josh]

https://www.vox.com/2019/9/12/20862320/sotomayor-supreme-court-favors-trump?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Y6QjslQE6Jv3TMUQWOJ4xWaHlGjmzYuhYjPwCuV2K4tpq1u9zCGaYDH8

Justic Sotomayor warns that SCOTUS is doing "extraordinary favors" for President Trump.

[josh]

Change is happening, despite the wishes of this nation's reactionaries.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/11/xavier-bettel-ana-brnabic-photo/?fbclid=IwAR0iGtN3o0j4anxzA1_fU8lhgOKm3Rd5OFRfw2o7GjH3AWEVJj9zjebaEZ8

[oilcan]

What year was that printed? 

[oilcan]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1172703173322203136.html

Wow.  Meanwhile, this is the breaking story that Fox News is on top of....

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/christina-anstead-ate-placenta-son-birth

Why is the whistleblower story not getting more coverage in the rest of the MSM? 

[barton]

Early days?  Pulled this from NBC....

The [House Intelligence] committee chairman also appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday, and host Margaret Brennan asked if he’d received a response. It led to an interesting exchange:

    REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF: We’ve gotten a response and the director has said, essentially, that he is answering to a higher authority and refusing to turn over the whistleblower complaint. This is deeply troubling. No director–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Just ignoring the subpoena?

    REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF: Well, at this point, yes. Ignoring the subpoena, ignoring our request. No DNI– no director of National Intelligence has ever refused to turn over a whistleblower complaint. And here, Margaret, the significance is the inspector general found this complaint to be urgent, found it to be credible, that is they did some preliminary investigation, found the whistleblower to be credible, that suggests corroboration. And that it involved serious or flagrant wrongdoing. And according to the director of National Intelligence, the reason he is not acting to provide it, even though the statute mandates that he do so, is because he is being instructed not to. That this involved a higher authority, someone above the DNI.

In case this isn’t painfully obvious, the director of National Intelligence only reports to one person: the one who sits in the Oval Office.

Again, we don’t yet have a clear sense of the nature of the whistleblower complaint, so I won’t speculate. That said, we know it comes from the intelligence community; there appears to be reason to consider the complaint credible; and the Trump administration appears to be hiding it from Congress as part of an unprecedented and legally dubious move.

And if Donald Trump or his team were involved in ordering the DNI to withhold the whistleblower complaint, it raises the potential of a very serious scandal.

It never ceases to amaze me how the greased pig in chief keeps squirming out of these things, but this one looks worth keeping an eye on. 

There's also this article....

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/schiff-accuses-white-house-intelligence-chief-withholding-whistleblower-complaint_n_5d7af213e4b077dcbd5b461d

Where's Kid?  He needs to step in and assure us it's all a big nothingburger and how uber-paranoid we are to think our fearless leader could possibly be involved. 

[REDSTATEWARD]

Justic Sotomayor warns that SCOTUS is doing "extraordinary favors" for President Trump.

Justice Sotomayor said no such thing in her dissent.

[barton]

Teddy Bear Dooms Race...

It was an AP wire item on July 8, 1907.  That particular headline was used in the Salt Lake Tribune. 

[facilitatorn]

Early days?  Pulled this from NBC....

The [House Intelligence] committee chairman also appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday, and host Margaret Brennan asked if he’d received a response. It led to an interesting exchange:

    REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF: We’ve gotten a response and the director has said, essentially, that he is answering to a higher authority and refusing to turn over the whistleblower complaint. This is deeply troubling. No director–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Just ignoring the subpoena?

    REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF: Well, at this point, yes. Ignoring the subpoena, ignoring our request. No DNI– no director of National Intelligence has ever refused to turn over a whistleblower complaint. And here, Margaret, the significance is the inspector general found this complaint to be urgent, found it to be credible, that is they did some preliminary investigation, found the whistleblower to be credible, that suggests corroboration. And that it involved serious or flagrant wrongdoing. And according to the director of National Intelligence, the reason he is not acting to provide it, even though the statute mandates that he do so, is because he is being instructed not to. That this involved a higher authority, someone above the DNI.

In case this isn’t painfully obvious, the director of National Intelligence only reports to one person: the one who sits in the Oval Office.

Again, we don’t yet have a clear sense of the nature of the whistleblower complaint, so I won’t speculate. That said, we know it comes from the intelligence community; there appears to be reason to consider the complaint credible; and the Trump administration appears to be hiding it from Congress as part of an unprecedented and legally dubious move.

And if Donald Trump or his team were involved in ordering the DNI to withhold the whistleblower complaint, it raises the potential of a very serious scandal.

It never ceases to amaze me how the greased pig in chief keeps squirming out of these things, but this one looks worth keeping an eye on. 

There's also this article....

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/schiff-accuses-white-house-intelligence-chief-withholding-whistleblower-complaint_n_5d7af213e4b077dcbd5b461d

Where's Kid?  He needs to step in and assure us it's all a big nothingburger and how uber-paranoid we are to think our fearless leader could possibly be involved.

The crime spree, which has never stopped leaking, may finally be cracking up, just in time for the recession

http://www.salon.com/2019/09/16/is-the-trump-administration-squelching-a-whistleblower-and-a-major-scandal/

[Hairy Lime]

Early days?  Pulled this from NBC....

The [House Intelligence] committee chairman also appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday, and host Margaret Brennan asked if he’d received a response. It led to an interesting exchange:

    REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF: We’ve gotten a response and the director has said, essentially, that he is answering to a higher authority and refusing to turn over the whistleblower complaint. This is deeply troubling. No director–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Just ignoring the subpoena?

    REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF: Well, at this point, yes. Ignoring the subpoena, ignoring our request. No DNI– no director of National Intelligence has ever refused to turn over a whistleblower complaint. And here, Margaret, the significance is the inspector general found this complaint to be urgent, found it to be credible, that is they did some preliminary investigation, found the whistleblower to be credible, that suggests corroboration. And that it involved serious or flagrant wrongdoing. And according to the director of National Intelligence, the reason he is not acting to provide it, even though the statute mandates that he do so, is because he is being instructed not to. That this involved a higher authority, someone above the DNI.

In case this isn’t painfully obvious, the director of National Intelligence only reports to one person: the one who sits in the Oval Office.

Again, we don’t yet have a clear sense of the nature of the whistleblower complaint, so I won’t speculate. That said, we know it comes from the intelligence community; there appears to be reason to consider the complaint credible; and the Trump administration appears to be hiding it from Congress as part of an unprecedented and legally dubious move.

And if Donald Trump or his team were involved in ordering the DNI to withhold the whistleblower complaint, it raises the potential of a very serious scandal.

It never ceases to amaze me how the greased pig in chief keeps squirming out of these things, but this one looks worth keeping an eye on. 

There's also this article....

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/schiff-accuses-white-house-intelligence-chief-withholding-whistleblower-complaint_n_5d7af213e4b077dcbd5b461d

Where's Kid?  He needs to step in and assure us it's all a big nothingburger and how uber-paranoid we are to think our fearless leader could possibly be involved.

The leaker is probably not Trump, since technically he cannot violate that statute. My money is on Kushner.

Trump is clearly the one who has ordered it withheld, though. The acting DNI has said he has been instructed not to.release the complaint despite the legal requirement, per Adam Schiff, by a higher authority. The only higher authority for the DNI is the president.

[facilitatorn]

The inclusion of Kushner in the administration and failure to check his activities amounts to a series of further impeachable offenses. Read the Clinton memo from 1974 the republicans endorsed in 1996.

Really trump needs to be impeached, tarred, and feathered - not necessarily in that order.

[josh]

WASHINGTONPOST.COM:
Most American teens are frightened by climate change, poll finds, and about 1 in 4 are taking action
“It’s like a dystopian novel: To grow up seeing the world fall apart around you, and knowing it’s going to be the fight of your lives to make people stop it.”

[barton]

The leaker is probably not Trump, since technically he cannot violate that statute. My money is on Kushner.

Trump is clearly the one who has ordered it withheld, though. The acting DNI has said he has been instructed not to.release the complaint despite the legal requirement, per Adam Schiff, by a higher authority. The only higher authority for the DNI is the president.

Are you saying there's one specific statute on leaking intel to foreign parties that Trump could not violate by okaying someone else's leakage?   Not understanding all the issues swirling around this, but there seem to be possible impeachable offenses.   Kushner is a good guess.

Kind of fishy that Coats and his deputy were shoved out around the time the whistler filed the complaint. 

[barton]

The inclusion of Kushner in the administration and failure to check his activities amounts to a series of further impeachable offenses. Read the Clinton memo from 1974 the republicans endorsed in 1996.

Really trump needs to be impeached, tarred, and feathered - not necessarily in that order.

If you put feathers on first they don't stick very well.  Though maybe all that bronzer he slathers on his face could work as an adhesive....

[REDSTATEWARD]

Jerry Nadler picked the wrong day to renew his subscription to the New York Times.