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COVxy posted...

No need to be salty about the fact that a good proportion of your hatred for Hillary is due to literal foreign propoganda that you fell for

Russia didn't make Hillary vote for Iraq. They didn't make her support a disastrous intervention in Libya They didn't make her talk about black teens as superpredators who needed to be brought to heel. They didn't make her talk about universal healthcare as something that "will never, ever happen." They didn't make her tout Henry fucking Kissinger as a friend on the stage of a Democratic primary debate in 2016.
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ASithLord7 posted...

Antifar posted...

Russian trolls were better at reaching and influencing Americans on a budget of $2 million than the Clinton campaign on a budget of $1 billion.

Is the story they think looks most flattering, yes.

Yep thats all there is to the Russia story, you got it

Amazing how some on the left let their hardon for the Soviet era blind them to Russias actions today.

Putin's Russia is far from Soviet. It's a fucking oligarchy run by thieves, and I have no sympathy for it.

But, also, what more am I missing to this story that actually got accomplished? Yes, Russians made an effort to breach state-level election systems, but there's no evidence of yet to suggest they succeeded in affecting anything through that.
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Russian trolls were better at reaching and influencing Americans on a budget of $2 million than the Clinton campaign on a budget of $1 billion.

Is the story they think looks most flattering, yes.
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*raises hand*
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Queen's Don't Stop Me Now makes me think of Molybdenum
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"Cool kids' philosopher," was a term originally used by the New York Times.
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Unreliableness posted...

Really: in hindsight; for Germany; if they never admit that they did the holocaust, they wouldn't be the world's scapegoat, if America never admitted to slavery we wouldn't have racial tensions... etc.

W h a t
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Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
The Who - Quadrophenia
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Van Halen
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The high schoolers of today are not millennials
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Socialism, Past and Future by Michael Harrington

hell yeah
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How's your Saturday night going?
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It's summer like four days out of the year in Scandinavia. Comparing Sweden or Norway to SK isn't fair either; Korea has more than three times the population of both of them put together.
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- Robert Frost

Anyways here's the vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association speaking highly of Charlie Baker, the Republican who is governor of Massachusetts.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/24/will-another-baker-gubernatorial-run-successful/UQ8q8L4KVxSgQSdxumnNUO/story.html

Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, standing with several other Democratic governors Saturday, was fired up about her partys prospects for winning gubernatorial races around the country this November.

We expect the Democrats to have one of the best years weve had in a long time, said Raimondo, vice chairwoman of the national group focused on electing Democratic governors, the Democratic Governors Association.

But asked a few minutes later whether she thought Republican Governor Charlie Bakers perch is ripe for taking and whether shed like to see him defeated, Raimondo sang a different tune.

Charlie, I think, is very popular and is doing a good job, she said. Ive enjoyed working with him, and we have a good bipartisan, collaborative relationship.
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The campaign of Democratic candidate Setti Warren, the former mayor of Newton, blasted the tepid support, in particular Raimondos assertion that Baker is doing a good job.

People who are paying attention to Massachusetts know that our public transportation systems are melting down and theres gridlock traffic everywhere, said Warren spokesman Kevin Franck People who are paying attention know that every single school in the Commonwealth is underfunded because of the outdated [public school funding] formula. And people who are paying attention know that Charlie Baker was just caught trying to cover up a massive tax data breach, he said. (The Baker administration has repeatedly changed its story about a Department of Revenue blunder during which private information from thousands of business taxpayers was inadvertently made visible to other companies, potentially including competitors.)

That shouldnt be anyones definition of doing a good job, Franck said in his statement, adding that well beat Charlie Baker with or without the help of the DGA.

Baker, for his part, repeated a common refrain that his job is to represent Massachusetts when asked about Inslees proposition that not pushing back hard enough against Trump could cause him trouble.

Whether youre talking about immigration policy, or youre talking about guns, or youre talking about a whole host of other issues, he said, Ive made my point of view quite clear when I believe the federal government, or the administration, is pursuing policies that I dont believe are in the best interests of the Commonwealth.

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Complexity and enjoyability are two different things
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What fire did Ajit Pai come under? Did someone shoot a mean look at him?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/nyregion/cuomo-fund-raising-ethics-appointees.html

In late November, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo flew to Buffalo for a fund-raising trip, a quick two-stop jaunt that brought in more than $200,000 in donations for his re-election campaign.

The events, one at an Embassy Suites hotel and the other a more intimate gathering at a private residence, were hosted by two men familiar to Mr. Cuomo and to state government.

One host, Steven J. Weiss, had been appointed by Mr. Cuomo to the New York State Housing Finance Agency in 2011 and the state board of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in 2016. Government records show that Mr. Weiss has donated $53,000 to the governors campaign since being picked for the housing agency.

The other, Kenneth A. Manning, had been named by Mr. Cuomo to the same cancer research institute board in 2015, as well as another public authority. Records show that Mr. Manning has donated $50,500 since his appointments.

That type of arrangement appointments go out, campaign cash comes back in has vexed government reformers in Albany for generations. Things were supposed to change in 2007, when Eliot L. Spitzer, then the newly elected governor, issued an executive order barring most appointees from donating to or soliciting donations for the governor who made the appointment. Mr. Cuomo renewed the order on his first day in office.

But a New York Times investigation found that the Cuomo administration has quietly reinterpreted the directive, enabling him to collect about $890,000 from two dozen of his appointees. Some gave within days of being appointed.

The governor also has accepted $1.3 million from the spouses, children and businesses of appointees, state records show.

In some cases, a husband and wife each won state appointments and then kept contributing. In others, the appointees stopped donating after receiving state posts, but their families continued writing checks. One appointee and his wife donated 11 times while he was serving. Another has given Mr. Cuomo, personally and through companies tied to him, more than $500,000.

The executive order explicitly forbids appointees from soliciting donations for the governor. Yet multiple appointees have done so, like Mr. Weiss and Mr. Manning last fall, raising a considerable additional amount for Mr. Cuomo.

Mr. Cuomos donor-appointees span the states vast network of boards and authorities. They have served as trustees of both the city and state university systems, on the panel overseeing economic development and on the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York Citys subways and buses. Most positions are unpaid, but they hold great power and prestige: Board members can approve multibillion-dollar contracts and multimillion-dollar grants, oversee the distribution of tax breaks, and have broad influence over everything from the states highways to local arts projects.

In response to questions about the donations from appointees, Cuomo administration officials said they believed that the order only applied to appointees who could be fired at any time by the governor, not those serving set terms. Under that interpretation, donations by board members of many of the states most powerful authorities would be allowed.

The purpose of the order is to prohibit employees and board members who serve at the pleasure of the governor from making political contributions, said Alphonso B. David, Mr. Cuomos counsel. It does not apply to every single person who serves in government, to individuals who volunteer for government, or to individuals who were appointed by the Senate and cannot be removed by the executive. A different reading simply divorces the purpose of the order from its language.

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*sound of a cash register*
BAH GAWD THAT's ANDREW CUOMO's MUSIC!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/nyregion/cuomo-fund-raising-ethics-appointees.html

In late November, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo flew to Buffalo for a fund-raising trip, a quick two-stop jaunt that brought in more than $200,000 in donations for his re-election campaign.

The events, one at an Embassy Suites hotel and the other a more intimate gathering at a private residence, were hosted by two men familiar to Mr. Cuomo and to state government.

One host, Steven J. Weiss, had been appointed by Mr. Cuomo to the New York State Housing Finance Agency in 2011 and the state board of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in 2016. Government records show that Mr. Weiss has donated $53,000 to the governors campaign since being picked for the housing agency.

The other, Kenneth A. Manning, had been named by Mr. Cuomo to the same cancer research institute board in 2015, as well as another public authority. Records show that Mr. Manning has donated $50,500 since his appointments.

That type of arrangement appointments go out, campaign cash comes back in has vexed government reformers in Albany for generations. Things were supposed to change in 2007, when Eliot L. Spitzer, then the newly elected governor, issued an executive order barring most appointees from donating to or soliciting donations for the governor who made the appointment. Mr. Cuomo renewed the order on his first day in office.

But a New York Times investigation found that the Cuomo administration has quietly reinterpreted the directive, enabling him to collect about $890,000 from two dozen of his appointees. Some gave within days of being appointed.

The governor also has accepted $1.3 million from the spouses, children and businesses of appointees, state records show.

In some cases, a husband and wife each won state appointments and then kept contributing. In others, the appointees stopped donating after receiving state posts, but their families continued writing checks. One appointee and his wife donated 11 times while he was serving. Another has given Mr. Cuomo, personally and through companies tied to him, more than $500,000.

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Vyrulisse posted...

Indeed? Please tell me what good it does to have two giant parties that are pretty much clones of each other? Especially nowadays when words like Compromise and Civil Discourse are dirty ones?

The lack of compromise you claim would suggest real, strongly held differences.
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Guys this is a Justin Trudeau joke
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Big missed opportunity here
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APM posted...

Have you ever even read Nune's memo? They literally paid Russians to write bullshit about a political candidate.

That's not even what the Nunes memo alleges
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SomeonesAlt posted...

Cultists: B-b-b-b-b-but generous Trump donated his salary to charity!

Like, even that is, uh...
http://wapo.st/2BbCWsk

9. Didnt Trump promise he would donate his presidential salary?

He did.

But there are still some unanswered questions about what will be done with Trumps donations. In two cases, the programs he donated to help dont seem to exist at least, not yet.

Last year, Trump announced that he would donate his salary from the first quarter of 2017 to the National Park Service. That donation was made: The superintendent at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland said her park was given the money and will use it to repair a historic house and fences.

The next quarter, the White House announced that Trump had donated his $100,000 paycheck to the Department of Education. The funds will be used to host a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math-focused camp for students, a news release said at the time.

In February, a Department of Education official said that the camp doesnt exist yet its in the planning stages. The Department of Education was asked: When will the camp be functional? What will it be called? I dont have that information yet, the official said.

In the fall, the White House announced that the presidents third-quarter donation would go to the Department of Health and Human Services. An official at that department said the donation would be for a large-scale public-awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.

Does that program exist?

The program exists in the planning, coordination and development phase, as is appropriate for a large-scale campaign. We will use the funds when they can have the most effect, a department spokesman said. He did not give a timeline or a name for the program, which he said would be separate from an existing opioid program called Rx Awareness.

On Feb. 13, the White House announced that Trump would donate his salary from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the Department of Transportation. That gift will help fund a $1.5 billion new grant program, intended to help infrastructure projects. The program is considering applications, but has not made any grants yet.

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CircleOfManias posted...

Republicans, easily. This doesn't mean there's absolutely no corruption in the Democratic party, just that it doesn't compare to the sheer magnitude of GOP corruption.

This. Like, there are a whole bunch of sleazy consultants in Democratic circles, but Republicans are openly just taking public funds for themselves.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/rnc-paid-trump-campaign-trump-tower-rent-after-paying-legal-bills.html

Soon after the Republican National Committee came under pressure for paying legal bills for President Donald Trump and his eldest son in the special counsel's Russia probe, it started covering expenses for the president's re-election campaign.

The RNC is using campaign funds to pay Trump's company more than $37,000 a month in rent, and to pay thousands of dollars in monthly salary to Vice President Mike Pence's nephew, John Pence, party officials confirmed this week. The rent pays for office space in the Trump Tower in New York for the staff of Trump's re-election campaign. John Pence is the Trump campaign's deputy executive director.

Campaign finance experts who spoke to CNBC said this type of spending by a party committee on behalf of a campaign is highly unusual but legal, and it appears the RNC disclosed it correctly.

"This is permissible and it's being reported properly, but why they are doing it is a mystery," said Brendan Fischer, senior counsel for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. "One would think the RNC could be spending their money more effectively right now on the 2018 campaign, rather than spending it to pay Trump's rent."

So far, the party has spent more than $290,000 to cover the Trump campaign's expenses since September, the first month it paid the Trump Tower rent or Pence's salary. Before then, both expenses had been paid directly by the Trump campaign.

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On Sept. 27, one week after the FEC report was made public, the RNC paid the Trump campaign's rent for the first time, according to the party's monthly disclosure. The initial amount, $75,083.34, was twice the monthly rate and appears to cover the rent for both September and October. John Pence had begun receiving a paycheck from the RNC on Sept. 15, before the first FEC report was released, but after it had been finalized and submitted, according to the same filing.

According to the committee's filings, the amounts are the same as what the Trump campaign had last paid in August. Rent is $37,541.67 a month payable to Trump Tower Commercial LLC. Pence's salary was $12,000 a month at the Trump campaign, and the RNC appears to be paying him the same or nearly the same amount, judging from the state and federal payroll taxes withheld.

The RNC's most recent payment for the Trump campaign was made on Jan. 31, for what appears to be February rent.

This is not the first time that a Republican committee has paid the Trump Organization for the use of its properties. Ever since Trump was elected president, his hotels have become the preferred venue for GOP fundraisers, especially the Trump International Hotel, opened by the Trump family in 2016, mere blocks from the White House in Washington.

In August, The Washington Post reported that Republican committees had spent $1.3 million at Trump properties during the first eight months of 2017 -- spending that helped to offset losses elsewhere in the company.

One of the Trump Organization's biggest political customers is the Trump campaign itself, which by any measure, is flush with cash. In 2017, the campaign and two affiliated committees raised $32 million and ended the year with $22 million in cash.

This is in large part because the Trump campaign never ended. Trump filed the paperwork to run for re-election the day he was inaugurated, the first president ever to do so. Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, did not formally launch his re-election campaign until April 2011, after serving more than two full years in office.

The party is currently dedicated to filling the pockets of Trump administration family members.
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SomeonesAlt posted...

Also
https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/967490578320707586

I'm laughing out loud at the hypocrisy of this.

Conservatives ejected for speaking their mind at a presentation making fun of safe spaces.

She was not ejected, though
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I don't remember any past sigs other than for a while I had rotating pics of Emma Watson
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emblem boy posted...

I really hope more conservatives are condemning these things. I know I've seen some at least.

What things, exactly?
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Facebook apologizes for letting you do a shooting in VR
https://kotaku.com/facebook-pulls-vr-shooter-demo-from-cpac-after-backlash-1823298308
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Boos for criticism of Roy Moore and the Le Pen family
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/967489192031850496
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/967496815485640704
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Shot: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/967493467046899712
Chaser: https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/967505122057211904
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https://www.wired.com/story/how-trump-conquered-facebookwithout-russian-ads/
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Last Friday, Rob Goldman, a vice president inside Facebooks Ads team, rather ill-advisedly published a series of tweets that seemed to confirm the Trump administrations allegations regarding the recent indictments of 13 Russian nationals by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. To wit, the tweets said that the online advertising campaign led by the shadowy Internet Research Agency was meant to divide the American people, not influence the 2016 election.
... The world looks very different to people outside the belly of Facebooks monetization beast. But when youre on the inside, like Rob is and like I was, and you have access to the revenue dashboards detailing every ring of the cash register, your worldview tends to follow what advertising data can and cannot tell you.

From this worldview, it's still not clear how much influence the IRA had with its Facebook ads (which, as others have pointed out, is just one small part of the huge propaganda campaign that Mueller is currently investigating). But no matter how you look at them, Russias Facebook ads were almost certainly less consequential than the Trump campaigns mastery of two critical parts of the Facebook advertising infrastructure: The ads auction, and a benign-sounding but actually Orwellian product called Custom Audiences (and its diabolical little brother, Lookalike Audiences). Both of which sound incredibly dull, until you realize that the fate of our 242-year-old experiment in democracy once depended on them, and surely will again.

LIKE MANY THINGS at Facebook, the ads auction is a version of something Google built first. As on Google, Facebook has a piece of ad real estate that its auctioning off, and potential advertisers submit a piece of ad creative, a targeting spec for their ideal user, and a bid for what theyre willing to pay to obtain a desired response (such as a click, a like, or a comment). Rather than simply reward that ad position to the highest bidder, though, Facebook uses a complex model that considers both the dollar value of each bid as well as how good a piece of clickbait (or view-bait, or comment-bait) the corresponding ad is. If Facebooks model thinks your ad is 10 times more likely to engage a user than another companys ad, then your effective bid at auction is considered 10 times higher than a company willing to pay the same dollar amount.
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During the run-up to the election, the Trump and Clinton campaigns bid ruthlessly for the same online real estate in front of the same swing-state voters. But because Trump used provocative content to stoke social media buzz, and he was better able to drive likes, comments, and shares than Clinton, his bids received a boost from Facebooks click model, effectively winning him more media for less money. In essence, Clinton was paying Manhattan prices for the square footage on your smartphones screen, while Trump was paying Detroit prices. Facebook users in swing states who felt Trump had taken over their news feeds may not have been hallucinating.
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Unsurprisingly, the Russians also apparently made use of Custom Audiences in their ads campaign. The unwary clicker on a Russian ad who then visited their propaganda site suddenly could find yet more planted content in their Feed, which could generate downstream engagement in Feed, and thus the great Facebook wheel turned. The scale of their spend was puny, however, a measly $100,000, which pales in comparison to the millions Trump spent on online advertising.
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If were going to reorient our society around Internet echo chambers, with Facebook and Twitter serving as our new Athenian agora, then we as citizens should understand how that forum gets paid for. Rarely will the owners of that now-privatized space deign to explain how theyre keeping the lights on. Plotting Russians make for a good story, and external enemies frequently serve an internal purpose, but the trail of blame often leads much closer to home.

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http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/to-get-a-ride-uber-says-take-a-walk-1

The latest variation of an Uber ride will require a short walk.

In eight U.S. cities, the ride-hailing company is rolling out a service called "Express Pool," which links riders in the same area who want to travel to similar destinations. Once linked, riders would need to walk a couple of blocks to be picked up at a common location. They also would be dropped off at a site that would be a short walk from their final destinations.

Depending on time of day and metro area, Express Pool could cost up to 75 percent less than a regular Uber ride and up to half the cost of Uber's current shared-ride service called Pool, said Ethan Stock, the company's product director for shared rides. Pool, which will remain in use, doesn't require any walking. Instead it takes an often circuitous route to pick up riders at their location and drops them at their destination. But that can take longer than Express, which travels a more direct route.

Uber has been testing the service since November in San Francisco and Boston and has found enough ridership to support running it 24 hours per day. Within the next two days, the around-the-clock service will start running in Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Miami; San Diego and Denver. More cities will follow, Uber said.
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Express Pool will have normal-sized cars, at least initially, and optimally will carry a maximum of three passengers so riders aren't crammed into the vehicles. It could be expanded to six-passenger vehicles, Stock said.

Except these buses carry fewer people
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/967240209732702208
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/23/immigration-detention-ice-border-fake-scam

The South Texas Residential Family Center sits atop a former camp for oilfield workers in the remote, sloping scrubland of the Rio Grande Valley. It is managed by CoreCivic, a private prison company, and has the capacity to hold 2,400 immigrant detainees.

Over the past five months, at least 11 families with relatives all asylum-seeking mothers and children detained at the facility have been extorted by impersonators who have demanded payment to stop their loved ones being deported.

In total, the victims have paid more than $13,500, none of which has been recovered.

Katy Murdza, an advocacy coordinator with the Cara Family Detention Project, which provides free legal services to the two family detention centers in Texas, has documented and reported these scams to Ice, but received no updates or any information about the status of its investigation. Ice reports such allegations to its Office of Professional Responsibility.

The scammers have cited inexplicably specific details about their targets, making it very difficult not to trust what they say. In response to a question about how families should differentiate genuine calls from scams, Ice said that its officers are required to verify the resident via their alien registration number.

In sworn affidavits, relatives of detainees described receiving calls from fake Ice agents and attorneys who knew not only detainees names and alien registration numbers, but also their birthdates, date of entry into the United States, and the location of their detainment.

Someone is leaking this information, Murdza said. The evidence we have points toward it being an employee at CBP, Ice or CoreCivic. It would be different if this were a one-off thing. But its clearly been systematic.

In other words, the perpetrators are likely in contact with, or themselves employees at, the federal agencies or private companies that oversee immigrant detainees.

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In a written statement, Ice shifted the onus to the detainees. It is vital that residents understand the importance of safeguarding personally identifiable information. Residents are educated about PII and its importance during town hall meetings and orientations at the family residential centers. Residents should safeguard this information and only share with highly trusted individuals to protect themselves from potential exploitation.

After a non-citizen is detained along the border or taken into custody at an official port of entry, CBP agents make fingerprints, conduct brief biographical interviews, and collect the addresses and phone numbers of relatives already living in the United States. All of the information cited by the scammers would be contained in this file, which is then passed on to Ice.

The information that we have on detained individuals is kept in law-enforcement-sensitive databases and a limited number of people are able to access it, said CBP southwest branch chief Carlos Diaz. This is the first weve heard about these specific allegations.

In one case, a woman paid $2,250 for non-existent bond and court fees, then drove 16 hours from Tennessee to Texas to avoid the additional expense of a plane ticket, only to be informed that her relative hadnt even appeared before a judge, let alone been cleared for release.

In another, someone claiming to be an Ice agent contacted a man whose daughter and two-year-old grandson fled El Salvador when members of MS-13 threatened to kill them. After lamenting that the mans grandson was sick with a cold, implying that he needed to act quickly to bring him to safety, the purported agent ordered the man to wire $1,545 to pay for bond and airfare.

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stoltenberg11 posted...

i thought the NHL usually put its season on hold for the olympics. They don't do that anymore?

They did not for this year's Olympics. A lot of people say they will be at the 2022 Olympics, for the potential exposure to China.
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Doom_Art posted...

Decreasing military spending is just not a popular issue.

Neither is half the Republican agenda, but they do not let that stop them. People respect you more when you make a case for your principles, rather than letting your principles be decided by the latest polling data.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/democrats-defense-spending/553670/

Since earlier this month, when Congress passed a budget deal that massively boosts both defense and non-defense spending, liberal commentatorsand even some Republican politicianshave accused the GOP of hypocrisy. Republicans, they noted, are supposed to loathe debt. Theyre supposed to loathe government spending. Yet, in large numbers, they voted for much more of both.

Fair enough. But what about the Democrats? If Republicans are supposed to worry about the United States bankrupting itself with social-welfare spending, arent Democrats supposed to worry about the United States bankrupting itself with military spending? Not anymore. In the run-up to the deal, Nancy Pelosis office fired off an email to House Democrats proclaiming that, In our negotiations, Congressional Democrats have been fighting for increases in funding for defense. Chuck Schumers office announced that, We fully support President Trumps Defense Departments request. Not all congressional Democrats voted for the budget agreement: Thirty-eight percent of Democrats backed it in the House and 76 percent did in the Senate. But even those who voted no mostly did so because they were upset about its lack of protection for immigrant dreamersnot because they oppose a higher defense budget. Last year, in fact, when Democrats were offered a standalone vote on big increases in military spendingin the form of House and Senate defense authorization billslarge majorities in both bodies voted yes.
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Despite all this, many Democrats agreed to boost defense spending by more than what Bernie Sanders estimates it would cost to make every four-year public college and university in America tuition-free and by more than what Andrew Kolodny, the co-director of opioid policy research at Brandeis University, estimates it would cost to end the opioid crisis.

The vote illustrates how strange a beast the contemporary Democratic Party has become. On domestic policyimmigration, criminal justice, health carethe party is moving left. On foreign and defense policy, the party barely exists. This months budget deal was a perfect example. Some Democrats voted for it because the agreement boosted domestic spending. Others voted against it because it didnt take care of immigrant dreamers. The huge increase in military spending didnt matter much one way or the other.

No wonder Pentagon leaders are happy. The one party that might be ideologically inclined to question their spending habits has decided it doesnt care.

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The Admiral posted...

* Women's Hockey

So, the only hockey at this Olympics featuring the best players in its sport
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How are you today, Canada?
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I think it's a stretch to tie an effort to reduce in-school arrests to this shooting.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Yup, nothing to do with this generation acting like little 5 year olds....nope, thats totally fine and doing no damage at all to this country. Nope, not at all.

The president has significantly more power and influence than...I don't even know who you're criticizing here, exactly.
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Watch this vid and tell me it doesn't belong in an Xcom 2 cutscene: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/921390510576562176
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I did not know that was a thing
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The median user is roughly liberal, but there are several users significantly to the left, and a vocal alt-right presence. There aren't a whole lot of out-and-out conservarives
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Let's just replace the next 50 posts with this already existing topic: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/76344025
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AntiAR-15
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I really liked Besiege in early access. I haven't actually played it since the official release.
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http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/17/when-the-nra-opposed-open-carry
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