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1. http://www.people-press.org/2018/07/24/growing-partisan-differences-in-views-of-the-fbi-stark-divide-over-ice/

However, views of ICE are evenly divided. About as many Americans view Immigration and Customs Enforcement favorably (44%) as unfavorably (47%).

Republicans and Democrats have diametrically opposing views of the immigration enforcement agency, and the differences are particularly stark between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats.

Nearly eight-in-ten conservative Republicans (77%) view ICE favorably, with 40% expressing a very favorable opinion. Among moderate and liberal Republicans, views are less positive (62% give ICE a favorable rating, including 29% who say they view it very favorably).

A large majority of liberal Democrats (82%) view ICE unfavorably, with 53% viewing the agency very unfavorably. Conservative and moderate Democrats feel less negatively about ICE (60% unfavorable, 35% very unfavorable).

2. https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1021209776917803013

38% view ICE positively
37% view ICE negatively
21% view it neutrally
4% didnt express a view

Notable: The share of Americans who view ICE negatively has risen by 11 points since April 2018.

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The White House plans to announce on Tuesday a plan to extend $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers caught in the midst of President Trumps escalating trade war, two people briefed on the plan said, the latest sign that growing tensions between the United States and other countries will not end soon.

An announcement could come as soon as Tuesday.

Farm groups have complained that moves by China and other countries in response to Trumps protectionist trade stance could cost them billions of dollars, spooking Republicans who fear a political and economic blowback to Trumps approach.

The White House has searched for months for a way to provide emergency assistance to farmers without backing down on Trumps trade agenda, and the new program will extend roughly $12 billion through three different mechanisms run by the Department of Agrigulture.

The funds will come through direct assistance, a food purchase and distribution program, and a trade promotion program.

It will rely in part on a Depression-era program called the Commodity Credit Corporation, a division of the Agriculture Department that was created in 1933 to offer a financial backstop for farmers.

Soy prices have fallen particularly hard in the past few months, though Trump has tried to deflect blame and promised to somehow take care of these farmers, many of whom are from politically crucial states like Iowa and Wisconsin.

The new plan at the Agriculture Department would advance emergency funds for these farmers but likely not provide a long-term solution if the trade disputes with China and other countries persist.

Because the program was created during the Depression, it does not rely on new congressional approval. It allows the CCC to borrow up to $30 billion from the Treasury Department to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices.

Still, some Republicans several months ago had warned against using the CCC as part of a trade-war related bailout, saying it could distort market forces and pay farmers for products they dont produce.

Trump is trying to mollify a growing chorus of complaints from Republicans and business groups, who have complained that his trade approach is hurting broad swaths of the economy.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Tuesday he has heard from a number of businesses in his state that the primary beneficiaries of Trumps tariffs are overseas competitors that arent being hit with higher prices on their materials.

Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, Johnson said these trade disputes could just totally run out of control and likened them to throwing a hand grenade of uncertainty into the economy.

In the past four months, Trump has imposed tariffs against steel and aluminum imports from China, Canada, Mexico, the European Union, Japan, and a range of other countries, and he is threatening to broaden the scope of the tariffs to cars and uranium imports, among other things.

Several of these countries have responded to Trumps trade measures by imposing tariffs of their own, and farmers have complained that they are the victims of retaliation from other countries, which they rely on to sell their products.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump showed no signs of backing down.

In a series of Twitter posts, he touted his strategy.

Tariffs are the greatest! he wrote on Twitter. Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. Its as simple as that and everybodys talking!

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Just from the topic title, I thought the president had tweeted about him
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Morning bump
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1021740859879030784
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I mean, it's not for everybody; it's intended to mirror the real Dakar rally
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In this video the dev says it's 180,000 square kilometers (about 6,800 square miles), and notes that, by comparison, GTA V's world is only 100 square kms. Races take hours to complete.
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https://theintercept.com/2018/07/23/tim-ryan-presidential-run-2020/

OHIO DEMOCRATIC REP. Tim Ryan has been telling political consultants and operatives that he intends to run for president of the United States in 2020, and is beginning to put together a team, according to multiple sources whove spoken to Ryan.

Ryan, who has served in Congress since 2002 as a representative from the 13th District in Ohio, which covers Youngstown and the surrounding area, has cast himself as an opportunity for the party to try and win back the Midwestern votes it has gradually shed over the last decade. A spokesperson for Ryan declined to comment.

The 13th Congressional District is emblematic of the challenges that Democrats face in the Rust Belt. As a profile in the New Republic noted, between 2001 and 2013, two of the largest counties in Ryans district, Trumbull and Mahoning, shed nearly 19,000 manufacturing jobs. Perhaps relatedly, the district gradually shifted from strongly Democratic to one where Republicans have gained ground. In 2016, Trumbull went to Donald Trump the first time the county went Republican since before 1972.

Ryans district is one of the few poor, majority-white districts that is represented by a Democrat. But he wont be running on a stereotypical working-class persona; instead, he believes his path to the White House runs through the yoga vote.

Ryan has long been a champion of mindfulness, meditation, and similar pursuits, and has even created a Quiet Time Caucus in the House of Representatives. James Gimian, the publisher of Mindful magazine who knows Ryan, said he isnt sure whether Ryan will run for president, but that the yoga vote has gone mainstream in recent years. The so-called yoga voters are the kind of folks who realize that while they grew up with their mom saying, Pay attention, nobody trained them in how to pay attention and use their mind to focus on whats important, he said. Thats a growing population its no longer just Lululemon yoga women. He said that anybody who is negotiating the emotional land mine of modern day living could be someone Ryans message would resonate with.

Ryan, who was elected to Congress at age 29, is the author of the 2012 book A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit.

It gets marginalized by calling it the yoga vote. I think its much bigger than that, Gimian said. His aspiration is to bring this kind of conversation to a wider office.

The group Yoga Votes (One body united for change) puts the total number of people who do yoga in the U.S. at 20 million, and Ryan has done work with the group.

Operatives who have spoken to Ryan about his run say that he genuinely believes he has a chance to win. Im gonna win, he told one flatly.

Ryan challenged Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for her Democratic leadership position in 2016 after the November election, losing by a 2-1 margin. There has been speculation that he may make another bid after the 2018 elections, but his eyes appear set on the higher prize. He also took a pass on a 2018 run for Ohio governor, people whove spoken to him say, so that he could concentrate on running for president. Quixotic bids for president arent always as futile as they may seem, as they can sometimes lead to a place on the ticket as running mate or a spot in a future cabinet.

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What sort of games do you enjoy?

I'll recommend:
Hitman
Xcom 2
Forza Horizon 3
Steep
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ChessInFiveD posted...

What are the bad things he's done?

Appointed Scott Pruitt, who, when not trying to get taxpayers to buy him new furniture, did the bidding of every polluter in the country, burying research on the impacts of their poisons

Signed a tax reform that will serve only to make the rich richer at a time of record inequality

Worked to undercut the ACA in ways that resulted in higher costs for most people
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/studies-find-trump-health-care-will-drive-premiums-n852086

Should I continue or
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Nomadic View posted...

She is definitely my pick for a Democratic candidate in 2020.

She'd be 5 years too young to become president. The most realister "next step" for her would be like, mayor of NYC or maybe taking Schumer's seat when it comes up in 2022
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https://twitter.com/FoxBusiness/status/1021418264013037569
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucej**sen/2018/07/22/trumps-medicaid-work-rules-***-states-with-costs-and-bureaucracy/#2964f2f666f5

News the Trump administration wont back down from an effort to require Medicaid patients to work means states considering them should brace for higher administrative expenses.

Kentuckys Medicaid administration costs jumped more than 40% after implementing work requirements, a new report from Fitch Ratings shows. Those costs were incurred before a federal judge ruled against Kentuckys Medicaid work requirements last month, dealing the effort at least a temporary blow.

In its biennial budget, Kentuckys Medicaid administration costs increased more than 40%, or $35 million, from prior biennium to $116 million, which Fitch partially attributes to implementing Medicaid work requirements, Eric Kim, the lead analyst for Fitch on the report, Medicaid Waiver Actions Limit U.S. States Cost Controls, wrote. In addition to systems development and ongoing monitoring for the roughly 200,000 Medicaid enrollees, Kentucky estimates could be subject to the work requirements and could also contribute to the higher administration costs.

The Fitch report outlines what many predicted before the Trump-appointed head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, began to work with states to implement work requirements for low income Medicaid patients. In setting a new policy earlier this year, CMS said it would support state efforts to test incentives that make participation in work or other community engagement a requirement for continued Medicaid eligibility.

But Politico reported last week that the federal judges decision to bar Kentucky from imposing a work requirement on Medicaid recipients wont discourage the Trump administration from considering similar requests from other states.

We are very committed to this, Verma said in an interview at the POLITICO Pro summit. We are looking at what the court said. We want to be respectful of the courts decision while also wanting to push ahead with our policy initiatives and our goals.

If other states pursue Medicaid work requirements, they may reduce costs by knocking more patients off their Medicaid rolls and increasing the number of uninsured in their states. But savings from spending less to cover poor people will be a wash, according to the Fitch analysis.

Direct costs for Medicaid work requirements could limit savings from enrollment declines, Fitch Ratings report said. Work requirements require tracking systems that few, if any, states have."

Medicaid Health Plans of America said last month that the Kentucky ruling puts in limbo all of the state infrastructure to implement these measures. MHPA represents some of the nations largest health plans that administer Medicaid benefits including Aetna, Centene, Cigna, UnitedHealth Group and WellCare Health Plans.

To be sure, Jerry Vitti, CEO of Healthcare Financial, a Boston-based firm that helps connect low-income beneficiaries to disability benefits said the administrative cost and complexity of screening and re-screening people and the issues that result from Medicaid churn, will negate any savings that may be realized.

The issue of work requirements goes back to the old saying, what problem are we trying to solve? Vitti said. Many people covered by the Medicaid expansion work. Those who do not often have a disability or care for someone with a disability and thus cant work.

You'll have to edit the link, the author's name contains an anti-Japanese slur, and the url also reads like trying to censor bypass the word shit. Just a real mess of a link.
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https://wapo.st/2mDOqfU

There are six panels at this festival whose titles start with The Future of, including one called The Future of Everything.
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This is not the real world, but Ozy Fest so wants to understand it and predict where its going. The festival is a production of Ozy Media, a 5-year-old news outlet whose goal is to make you smarter faster. Its U.S. Web audience has been shrinking, but this spinoff confab has been growing in scope and buzz since 2016, and its branding suggests a miniature East Coast version of South by Southwest, or an intellectuals Coachella, or an Aspen Ideas Festival for the masses.

The Internet was swift with ridicule: the music festival of your nightmares, the A.V. Club wrote last week, but this is not totally fair. Ozy Fest is a daydream, not a nightmare. It is a junket for brand pushers, and a two-day summer camp for progressive aesthetes who are biding their time before an anticipated blue wave hits the polls this autumn.

Ozy Fest is cheaper and more interactive than TED Talk conferences, and similar to Burning Man in the sense that Grover Norquist is here.

The only way were going to deal with an issue like marijuana prohibition is to go state by state, says the anti-tax celebutante, who took the stage with GOP exile Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) to almost no applause from the change generation, which is what Ozy Media calls its audience insatiable people with big curious minds who dont want to be in an echo chamber, according to Ozys founder, Carlos Watson.

Here in the flesh, though, the echoes are loud. Attendees are wearing T-shirts that say Im still with her and The future is female and Love trumps hate. They are getting their charts read by an astrologist wearing a feathered mohawk headdress. They are commissioning custom-made poetry from Brooklyn performer-artist Lynn Gentry, who sits behind a manual typewriter asking for a word or two of subject-matter inspiration.

Hillary Clinton, we say.

Check back later, the poet replies.

Clinton herself is here at Ozy Fest, in a flowing sky-blue caftan and white linen pants, looking like she was choppered in from East Hampton. For 45 minutes, she is the president of this little plot of Central Park, astride the ritziest Zip code in New York City, a bubble within a bubble within a bubble. Her interlocutor is billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the sixth richest woman on the planet and a primary investor in Ozy Media, whose name comes from the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem Ozymandias, which is about, uh, the dusty remains of a fallen empire.

The future the future the future. For all the talk about the future here, and the invocation of mega trends and super-forecasters in other panels, Clinton boils it all down to a simple instruction: Vote in November, she encourages, in a tone that seems to say I know some of you didnt last time around. Her husbands new beach-read political thriller, co-written with James Patterson, is featured in the festivals pop-up bookstore.

Also happening around the grounds: a campaign speech by New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, a panel on entrepreneurship with retired MLB performance-enhancer Alex Rodriguez, a dating game hosted by the drag queen Eureka, a chat about mass incarceration with the rapper Common, book-signings by Rose McGowan and Salman Rushdie and Roxane Gay. A special guest is on the program for 3:10 p.m. Sunday; a promotional video suggests the guest will be comparable in stature to Oprah or Obama.

Were such sheep that I regard it as an act of transgression to buy a Google laptop instead of an Apple laptop, scolds Malcolm Gladwell from the main stage, and yet some VIPs have their headphones on, so theyre hearing Chelsea Handler this time in conversation with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) ruefully admit that Yeah, Im an elitist. I tried very hard to become one.

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Is this about the time he advocated for killing striking miners?
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God bless
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I feel like there are some issues here that aren't being explored
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, to the extent that it's a trilogy with A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

They want you to run her cause they think she can't win.

It's a district that voted 80% Democratic and the GOP nominee is a guy who's main concern seems to be that he got ripped off in family court
http://www.therepublic.com/2018/07/17/us-ocasio-cortez-opponent/

But in his interview, Pappas mostly wanted to talk about his gripes with the judicial system over his decade-long divorce battle, which ended with findings that he was abusive to his wife and even made veiled threats against one judge.

I was motivated by my personal experience, Pappas said.

Pappas says a jury got it wrong when it granted his wife, Maria Pappas, a divorce on grounds of cruel and inhumane treatment. Judge Stanley Gartenstein got it wrong when he interpreted a letter from Pappas saying he may become a crusader as a threat. Judge Hope Schwartz Zimmerman got it wrong in 2013 when she found that Maria Pappas was terrified of the husband and ordered a 20-year restraining order.

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Breitbart got some guy who appears to be on the verge of death to say "she's to the left of Putin," which, I mean, is also true of Donald Trump
https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/07/22/exclusive-jackie-mason-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-to-the-left-of-putin/

Daily Caller had someone author the following without any apparent reflection.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/23/conservative-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rally/

But then Ocasio-Cortez spoke, followed by Bush, and I saw something truly terrifying. I saw just how easy it would be, were I less involved and less certain of our nations founding and its history, to fall for the populist lines they were shouting from that stage.

I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education.
I saw how easy it would be, as someone who has struggled to make ends meet, to accept the idea that a living wage was a human right.

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He doesn't come around these parts anymore
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I put a good amount of time into it the week or two following release, but it's been a while since I've played now. First update/patch is coming this week, maybe that will pique my interest
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/business/portugal-economy-austerity.html

Ramn Rivera had barely gotten his olive oil business started in the sun-swept Alentejo region of Portugal when Europes debt crisis struck. The economy crumbled, wages were cut, and unemployment doubled. The government in Lisbon had to accept a humiliating international bailout.

But as the misery deepened, Portugal took a daring stand: In 2015, it cast aside the harshest austerity measures its European creditors had imposed, igniting a virtuous cycle that put its economy back on a path to growth. The country reversed cuts to wages, pensions and social security, and offered incentives to businesses.

The governments U-turn, and willingness to spend, had a powerful effect. Creditors railed against the move, but the gloom that had gripped the nation through years of belt-tightening began to lift. Business confidence rebounded. Production and exports began to take off including at Mr. Riveras olive groves.

We had faith that Portugal would come out of the crisis, said Mr. Rivera, the general manager of Elaia. The company focused on state-of-the-art harvesting technology, and it is now one of Portugals biggest olive oil producers. We saw that this was the best place in the world to invest.

At a time of mounting uncertainty in Europe, Portugal has defied critics who have insisted on austerity as the answer to the Continents economic and financial crisis. While countries from Greece to Ireland and for a stretch, Portugal itself toed the line, Lisbon resisted, helping to stoke a revival that drove economic growth last year to its highest level in a decade.

The renewal is visible just about everywhere. Hotels, restaurants and shops have opened in droves, fueled by a tourism surge that has helped cut unemployment in half. In the Beato district of Lisbon, a mega-campus for start-ups rises from the rubble of a derelict military factory. Bosch, Google and Mercedes-Benz recently opened offices and digital research centers here, collectively employing thousands.

Foreign investment in aerospace, construction and other sectors is at a record high. And traditional Portuguese industries, including textiles and paper mills, are putting money into innovation, driving a boom in exports.

What happened in Portugal shows that too much austerity deepens a recession, and creates a vicious circle, Prime Minister Antnio Costa said in an interview. We devised an alternative to austerity, focusing on higher growth, and more and better jobs.

Voters ushered Mr. Costa, a center-left leader, into power in late 2015 after he promised to reverse cuts to their income, which the previous government had approved to reduce Portugals high deficit under the terms of an international bailout of 78 billion euros, or $90 billion. Mr. Costa formed an unusual alliance with Communist and radical-left parties, which had been shut out of power since the end of Portugals dictatorship in 1974. They united with the goal of beating back some of the toughest aspects of austerity, while balancing the books to meet eurozone rules.

The government raised public sector salaries, the minimum wage and pensions and even restored the amount of vacation days to prebailout levels over objections from creditors like Germany and the International Monetary Fund. Incentives to stimulate business included development subsidies, tax credits and funding for small and midsize companies.
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European officials are now admitting that Portugal may have found a better response to the crisis. Recently, they rewarded Lisbon by elevating the countrys finance minister, Mrio Centeno, who helped engineer the changes, to president of the Eurogroup, the influential collective of eurozone finance ministers.

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I couldn't tell you the difference between 30 and 60 FPS, provided both are smooth.
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Mario Sunshine looks great still
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Abyssea posted...

I'm not trying to be anti-trans, I'm just saying I wouldn't have trusted 11 year old me to make life changing decisions about my future. Would you Patty?

Did 11 year old you know you were gay?
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Not have hired
Scott Pruitt
Tom Price
Mick Mulvaney
Wilbur Ross
And all the other openly corrupt corporate roadies that have filled his administration since day one.

For starters
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