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He only ever goes to his golf course
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His first pick was Neil "Frozen Trucker" Gorsuch
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Anteaterking posted...

Stephen Miller seems more like an "Ate the sushi but said he threw it out" kind of guy.

There are a couple Kellyanne Conway quotes in here that are absolutely things she came up with on the car ride home rather than in the moment
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/politics/louie-gohmert-jim-jordan-ohio-state-sexual-abuse-statement-defense/index.html

Rep. Louie Gohmert on Monday defended his Republican colleague, Jim Jordan of Ohio, arguing the former wrestlers who say Jordan knew about abuse allegations and did nothing about it were adults when the alleged abuse happened to them and that the accusers have not said that they specifically reported abuse to Jordan at the time.

"Unlike the Olympians who were minor children at the time they were abused, these former wrestlers were adults at the time they claim they were sexually abused by the Ohio State team doctor," the Texas Republican said in a statement. "Note that they do not claim they reported specific abuse to Jim Jordan or to anyone else. To the contrary, they specifically state they did not tell Jordan but instead say he should have known because there was talk around the locker room."

Jordan's fellow members in the conservative House Freedom Caucus were urged to stand by him amid allegations that he knew about, but did not report, the alleged sexual abuse of wrestlers he coached at Ohio State University in the early 1990s.

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Is a bit much

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/alan-dershowitz-marthas-vineyard.html

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005990123/dershowitzs-defense-of-trump-is-costing-him-friends.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/marthas-vineyard-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/us/politics/alan-dershowitz-trump.html

Four articles about the fact that OJ's lawyer is no longer welcome at dinner parties on America's prissiest island.
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Ah I misread
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SK8T3R215 posted...

Didn't they already rescue 8 of them and are going to get the remaining kids and coach out by Tuesday?

My dude put a submarine in a pool and wants credit for something happening on the other side of the Pacific
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Kaliesto posted...

Major chains like Dunkin Donuts, Wendys, Burger King, Arbys, Five Guys, Little Caesars, Popeyes, and Panera all force new employees to sign franchise agreements. Within that fine print is a clause that prevents the workers, who often cobble together paychecks from multiple jobs in order to make ends meet, from working at more than one location of the restaurant chain at a time.

Non-compete clauses are some bullshit.
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https://wapo.st/2m0v8km

For any new presidential team, the challenges of adapting to Washington include navigating a capital with its own unceasing rhythms and high-pitched atmospherics, not to mention a maze of madness-inducing traffic circles.

Yet for employees of Donald J. Trump the most singularly combative president of the modern era, a man who exists in his own tweet-driven ecosystem the challenges are magnified exponentially, particularly in a predominantly Democratic city where he won only 4 percent of the vote.

For as long as the White House has existed, its star occupants have inspired a voluble mix of demonstrations, insults and satire. On occasion, protesters have besieged the homes of presidential underlings, such as Karl Rove, George W. Bushs political strategist, who once looked out his living room window to find several hundred protesters on his lawn.

Yet what distinguishes the Trump eras turbulence is the sheer number of his deputies many of them largely anonymous before his inauguration who have become the focus of planned and sometimes spontaneous public fury.

Better be better! a stranger shouted at Stephen Miller, a senior Trump adviser and the architect of his zero-tolerance immigration policy, as he walked through Dupont Circle a few months ago. Millers visage subsequently appeared on Wanted posters someone placed on lampposts ringing his City Center apartment building.

One night, after Miller ordered $80 of takeout sushi from a restaurant near his apartment, a bartender followed him into the street and shouted, Stephen! When Miller turned around, the bartender raised both middle fingers and cursed at him, according to an account Miller has shared with White House colleagues.

Outraged, Miller threw the sushi away, he later told his colleagues.

On Saturday, as Stephen K. Bannon, Trumps former strategist, browsed at an antiquarian bookstore in Richmond, a woman in the shop called him a piece of trash. The woman left after Nick Cooke, owner of Black Swan Books, told her he would call the police.

We are a bookshop. Bookshops are all about ideas and tolerating different opinions and not about verbally assaulting somebody, which is what was happening, Cooke told the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which first reported the incident.

Steve Bannon was simply standing, looking at books, minding his own business, Cooke told the paper.

While he was a part of the presidents team, Bannon dealt with life in Washington, a city he freely described as enemy territory, by hiring security and rarely venturing out in public. When Bannon traveled, it was usually aboard a private plane.

For a time, a sign on the front steps of his Capitol Hill address read, STOP.
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A White House reporter, once on the phone with Sean Spicer while the then-press secretary was standing in his yard in Alexandria, said he could hear a passing motorist shouting curses at him. By then, Spicer had become a regular inspiration for mockery on Saturday Night Live, along with Trump, Conway, and Bannon.
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A week ago, it was a Sidwell Friends teacher who interrupted her lunch at Teaism in Penn Quarter to tell Scott Pruitt eating with an aide a few feet away that he should resign as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

By last Thursday morning, nearly half a million viewers had clicked on a video of the confrontation that the teacher, Kristin Mink, had posted on Facebook. By late Thursday afternoon, Pruitt quit.

I would say its burning people out, said Anthony Scaramucci, Trumps former communications director. I just think theres so much meanness, its causing some level of, What do I need this for? And I think its a recruiting speed bump for the administration. To be part of it, youve got to deal with the incoming of some of this viciousness.

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I don't think a quantity over quality approach is going to work for HBO. It's not even really working for Netflix.
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While I'm not a fan, I do find it just a little unsettling that a wide-reaching publication revolving around "African American issues" and politics is owned by a Mexican conglomerate.

Univision is not Mexican
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Terfs fucking suck
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She's not scrubbing toilets for $7.25 an hour
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The story is on the front page of BBC.com
https://imgur.com/lz2TBic
And The Guardian
https://imgur.com/fjzb8kL
And The Telegraph
https://imgur.com/2NcjUEM
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That Vice screencap is fake, btw.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/07/06/top-san-bernardino-county-gang-prosecutor-under-fire-for-offensive-social-media-posts/

The lead hard-core gang prosecutor in the San Bernardino County District Attorneys Office is under investigation for a series of offensive rants on social media, triggering demands for his dismissal.

Deputy District Attorney Michael Selyem, who joined the D.A.s Office 12 years ago, targeted outspoken U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, former first lady Michelle Obama, Mexican immigrants and the victim of a police shooting in Facebook and Instagram posts labeled by one critic as hateful rhetoric.

Of Waters, Selyem said: Being a loud-mouthed [c-word] in the ghetto you would think someone would have shot this bitch by now

In an online argument with someone over the police shooting of a civilian, Selyem wrote, That shitbag got exactly what he deserved. You reap what you sow. And by the way go fuck yourself you liberal shitbag.

It was unclear which police shooting Selyem was referencing, and whether or not it was an open case in San Bernardino County or had occurred elsewhere.

Selyem also posted a doctored picture of Michelle Obama holding a sign saying, Trump grabbed my penis.

Selyem, a 50-year-old resident of Placentia, is the lead attorney in a unit tasked with cracking down on criminal gang activity that surged as members moved inland from Los Angeles County in search of more affordable housing. Many of those gangs are predominantly Latino. One of Selyems posts showed a man in a giant sombrero with the words, Mexican word of the day: Hide.

The District Attorneys Office has been aware of the posts since June 25, when someone in the office complained. Since then, Selyem has been the subject of an internal investigation, sources said.

Selyem hung up on a reporter when reached by phone. He did not return calls and emails seeking comment on the posts that appeared under his name. Both his Facebook and Instagram accounts have been deleted.

In a statement Friday, outgoing District Attorney Mike Ramos said: We have been made aware of the negative comments and they do not represent the views of the District Attorneys Office. Since this is a personnel matter I cannot comment any further.

District attorneys spokesman Chris Lee would not say whether the office has an official policy on social media postings, or, if not, whether it is now considering implementing such a policy.

Some already have called for Selyems termination, saying the posts were not only offensive, unprofessional and beneath the dignity of a public prosecutor, but that anyone who publicly espouses such sentiments cannot impartially administer justice.

It is disgusting that a public official sworn to protect the public would have these ugly viewpoints, said Zeke Hernandez, president of the Santa Ana League of United Latin American Citizens No. 147. The district attorney needs to take any and all appropriate action to let the public know that it does not agree with Selyems hateful rhetoric.

That includes Selyems dismissal, Hernandez said.

This has gone beyond a simple error in judgment, he said. It is clearly outside the boundaries of civil service norms. Law enforcement personnel and officers of the court system should not incite violence.

Brian Levin, a Cal State San Bernardino professor who teaches criminal and hate crime law, said the district attorney needs to take this incredibly seriously and address it forthwith.
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He literally holds the lives of citizens in his hands, and its just not right, Cala said. I am disgusted by his spouting of racist, xenophobic and sexist posts. A person that harbors these types of views, and feels such courage to espouse them with impunity, does not belong in the District Attorneys office administering prejudiced and jaundiced jurisprudence.

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What GMG does do is draw a large and growing audience for its journalismaccording to ComScore, it drew 58 million unique U.S. visitors this Marchand make money off it. (Revenues are believed within GMG to have been up by a double-digit percentage last year; Univision declined to comment.) It is leanGMGs staff of about 200 pales in comparison to other digital media staffsand, according to a statement Univision issued in response to questions from GMG, thriving. BuzzFeeds news division alone is about 300 people, and that doesnt include BuzzFeed entertainment and BuzzFeed media brands, which include the likes of Tasty and Nifty. BuzzFeeds total staff is roughly 1,700 people.

Not only is GMG lean, but it is in an increasingly strong position relative to competitors, in part because of its relative lack of reliance on Facebook. According to ComScore, Buzzfeeds U.S. unique visitors were at 67 million this March, down nearly 20 percent from March 2017; GMG traffic is up by a third over the same period.

That seems to dispel the idea that nobody is reading
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Fusion hired big names from digital, print, and televisioninfamously, it reportedly paid financial journalist Felix Salmon, who came on proclaiming that he would be post-text, more than $400,000 a year to do, as far as anyone could tell, nothing in particularas well as a thick layer of friends of Isaac Lee known internally as FOILs. Felipe Holgun and Daniel Eilemberg were prime examples, but Lee has a long history of keeping it in the family. Back in 2008, according to a FOIL, when Lee was running a local magazine called Poder in Miami, he helped out a friend from the business community (he dubbed her his fairy godmother) by hiring her son as an intern after he graduated college. That same intern was then hired at the Univision network a month after Lee was, and eventually came to Fusion TV, too.

At the working level, a lack of clear editorial vision left employees adrift. Relentless pivots meant that people hired to do one job were often given different assignments within a matter of months, ending up working on projects that didnt align with their experience; meanwhile, executives seemed far more focused on creating the narrative of a fast-growing media company than on what that media company was actually producing.

We didnt know how our projects were helping the company or how they were being monetized, one Fusion TV employee said.

For years, money flowed into a series of pet projectsthis U.S.-Mexico border concert is a typical examplefavored by executives and FOILs, while editorial staffers were left confused about the value of the stories they were pushed to pursue and wondering about the long-term viability of a company spending huge amounts of money without doing much the public seemed especially interested in. (As far as anyone could tell, practically no one watched the Fusion channel.)

One often-mocked example was Project Earth, Fusion TVs environmental unit. Headed by Nico Ibargen, an environmentalist and FOIL in top standing, it produced so much content about sharks that it became not just an internal joke but a subject of outside coverage. There were teams that had to work on shark stuff, a former Fusion staffer said. It was, [Nico] is a genius and therefore we must make shark content because he wants it.
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Even perfect execution might not have made the concept work. Its digital offerings launched at the height of Facebooks dominance over the media industry, into a crowded marketplace where even sites with clear voices would have had difficulty standing out. Some of Fusions biggest-budget Facebook pushes struggled to gain the following necessary to organically propel the new publication to the top of the News Feedsomething that led to a new focus on viral-friendly video and, according to a source with direct knowledge, seven-figure sums spent on simply buying traffic.
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The lukewarm response to Univisions attempts to sell or go public over the years can largely be attributed to the long-term debt its owners burdened it with in the first place. Univision has shrunk that pot from more than $10 billion in 2007 to just under $8 billion today, according to its most recent year-end report. But that debt is still far more than the amount of money Univision makes each yearroughly six times the size of the companys EBITDA. Thats about one-third higher than the levels seen at Sinclair Broadcast Group and Netflix in 2017, according to Fitch, and more than double that of AMC Networks. The ratings agency Moodys said in a 2017 report that Univisions debt has junk-bond status.

Whats more, interest payments on debt still eat up a sizable chunk of Univisions earnings. Without such payments, the company would have been safely profitable since 2012. Univision financial reports show interest expenses totaled $442 million in 2017 alone; over the past three years, theyve amounted to $1.46 billion.

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Here is what they have to say about Univision's management
https://specialprojectsdesk.com/univision-is-a-fucking-mess-1825836622

We recently spoke to more than two dozen current and former Univision employees from every level of the company, private equity experts, and management consultants, and reviewed a wide range of documents, and the picture that emerged is clear: Despite the debt hanging over Univisions head, the company indulged a culture of complacency and excess, embodied in many ways by the operations of Fusion Media Group, an ill-fated attempt to stay relevant in the digital age. And now that the ship is off course, the rival interests in the company are at each others throats, in some cases diving off the ship and in some cases teaming up to force enemies off the gangplank. The first few months of this year have seen severe and ongoing cuts, the replacement of the chief financial officer, and the announcement that chief executive officer Randy Falcowho in a recent company-wide email announcing layoffs was reduced to describing them as disruption ... required to transform this business into a company that will not only exist but continue to thrivewill retire by December.

From routine human resources fuckups to vastly overselling the prospects of an IPO whose ultimate doom this March precipitated the companys current cost-cutting spree, Univision has been deeply mismanaged and is in the midst of making huge cuts that have, among other things, already claimed vast swaths of Univision Noticiasthe most vital newsgathering operation serving the Spanish-speaking community in the U.S.and Fusion Media Group. Consultants from Boston Consulting Group, who have reportedly recommended budget cuts of up to 35 percent in some parts of the company, have been combing through the books for months, and more than 150 people have been laid off so far. Plenty more cuts are pending (Univision president of news Daniel Coronell reportedly described them as catastrophic to his newsroom), including at GMG, the staff of which fears the newsroom may be cut by up to a third by the end of June, perhaps as part of a broader pivot toward video and branded content. What is happening to the company is not ultimately a failure of editorial or even executive management, though: If Univision was a mammoth whose failure to adapt slowed it down, it was private equity investors, consumed by the thought of turning their riches into more riches, who brought it down and bled it dry.

The pursuit of a public offering failed due to a combination of antsy investors, new competition, and a private equity deal that the Financial Times would later describe as a symbol of the excesses of the credit bubble. That last bit is the most important.

In 2007, a consortium including Texas Pacific Group, Thomas H. Lee, Madison Dearborn, Providence Equity, and Saban Capital took Univision private for $13.7 billion. These firmsexecutives of which still shape Univisions boardborrowed heavily to finance the deal, saddling their new prize with more than $10 billion of debt. According to an FCC filing, each firm holds between 20.6 and 7.1 percent of Univisions equity, and between 27.3 and zero percent of the voting interests.
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Univisions ratio, estimated at 12.5-to-1, made it highly leveraged even by the standards of the pre-crisis boom period. (In 2013, Obama administration regulators would urge banks to limit companies leverage to roughly half this level to reduce the risk of default.)
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Private equity firms typically cash out their investments after a few years, and Univisions backers have been looking for an exit since at least 2014, when they held preliminary negotiations with CBS and Time Warner to sell the company for a reported asking price of more than $20 billion. Those talks soon collapsed.

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This topic will get 100 posts about a thing for which there is no evidence.
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Gamefly does digital PC rentals, IIRC
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Word from who?
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If you want the people to have a say in who gets on the Supreme Court, seems like there's a simpler way to do that than creating caveats and restrictions on when the president and Senate are allowed to appoint them.
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Re: Obama

the New York Times posted...

The intensity of the administrations opposition to the breast-feeding resolution stunned public health officials and foreign diplomats, who described it as a marked contrast to the Obama administration, which largely supported W.H.O.s longstanding policy of encouraging breast-feeding.

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News outlets have gutted their staffs for the past 15 years at least, and copy editors are often among the first to go.

See: http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/29/media/new-york-times-copy-editor-walkout/index.html
http://j-source.ca/article/copy-editors-laid-off-more-than-other-newsroom-staffers-but-can-newspapers-credibility-afford-the-cut/
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Not everything you disagree with is socialist
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This article is from before the ACA

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bills/

The idea that that status quo was fine is ahistorical.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/10/13223742/trump-clinton-debate-time


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blablablax17 posted...

The south might not have interfered with Cuban independance

There were southerners around the time of the Civil War who talked about invading Cuba and a lot of other Latin American countries to grow their slave empire
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Well, a lot, but this topic is specifically about the ones who make baby formula

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html

A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.

Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mothers milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.

Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.

American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to protect, promote and support breast-feeding and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.

When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions. Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in the cross hairs.

The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.

The showdown over the issue was recounted by more than a dozen participants from several countries, many of whom requested anonymity because they feared retaliation from the United States.

Health advocates scrambled to find another sponsor for the resolution, but at least a dozen countries, most of them poor nations in Africa and Latin America, backed off, citing fears of retaliation, according to officials from Uruguay, Mexico and the United States.

We were astonished, appalled and also saddened, said Patti Rundall, the policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action, who has attended meetings of the assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, since the late 1980s.

What happened was tantamount to blackmail, with the U.S. holding the world hostage and trying to overturn nearly 40 years of consensus on best way to protect infant and young child health, she said.

In the end, the Americans efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure and the Americans did not threaten them.
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The intensity of the administrations opposition to the breast-feeding resolution stunned public health officials and foreign diplomats, who described it as a marked contrast to the Obama administration, which largely supported W.H.O.s longstanding policy of encouraging breast-feeding.

During the deliberations, some American delegates even suggested the United States might cut its contribution the W.H.O., several negotiators said. Washington is the single largest contributor to the health organization, providing $845 million, or roughly 15 percent of its budget, last year.

The confrontation was the latest example of the Trump administration siding with corporate interests on numerous public health and environmental issues.

In talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Americans have been pushing for language that would limit the ability of Canada, Mexico and the United States to put warning labels on junk food and sugary beverages, according to a draft of the proposal reviewed by The New York Times.

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Dash_Harber posted...

Perma-killed or beaten once? They keep coming back until you destroy their fortress.

Perma-killed
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Killed the Chosen Assassin tonight. The reaper wasn't really a good choice for the mission, but I managed to survive. "Fear of the Chosen" actually came in handy in getting me an extra shot on it
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https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2018/07/05/challenging-floridas-voter-restoration-process/

Erwin Jones, an African-American man, was standing before the governor and Cabinet on June 14 when Floridas Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis asked him how many children he had and how many different mothers to those children?

Jones had served time for a felony at least five years before. He was in Tallahassee that day to get permission from Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet, sitting as the Executive Clemency Board, to get back his civil rights to vote, sit on a jury, or run for public office.

The arbitrary public questioning about Jones family status is an example, advocates say, of the deeply flawed process felons face when seeking official clemency to restore their civil rights in Florida.

Later in the meeting, Patronis put another man William Reid Hicks on the spot, asking him if he went to church. Hicks was there seeking permission from the Executive Clemency Board to own a firearm so he could go hunting again with his wife. He hesitated to discuss the details of his devotion.

Not steady, he told the states top elected officials.

Patronis who is running for reelection in November thanked Hicks for being honest.

Richard Greenberg, a Tallahassee attorney with 28 years of experience representing people seeking clemency, said he was surprised to hear Patronis question applicants about their church attendance.

I dont think Ive heard anyone else ask that question. It seems totally irrelevant, Greenberg said.

In most states, felons automatically get their right to vote and other civil rights restored after completing their sentences, parole, probation and restitution. But Florida is one of only four states where former felons lose the right to vote permanently and have only the option of the opaque clemency process to get their rights restored.

An estimated 1.7 million people cannot vote in Florida, and more than one in five of those people are African-American, according to data gathered by The Sentencing Project.

Criminal justice activists are hoping to change things on Nov. 6, when voters will consider Amendment 4 to the state Constitution. The amendment would automatically restore voting rights to certain felons who have fulfilled their debt to society. Some categories of felons would be excluded from automatic rights restoration: those who have committed homicide or a felony sexual offense. People convicted of those crimes would still have to take their case to the Governor and Cabinet members, who could restore voting rights on a case-by-case basis.

A group called Second Chances, headed by a felon who is frustrated by Floridas arcane process, is campaigning for the amendment. The group says that passing Amendment 4 would put Florida in line with most states that use automatic restoration. Its not fair, they say, for Florida to cling to such an arbitrary process that has existed for 150 years and disenfranchises millions of people.
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In a significant legal ruling last spring, a federal judge found Floridas clemency process unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote that the states clemency process lacks standards and depends on the governor and cabinets unfettered discretion which results in arbitrary and discriminatory vote-restoration.

In a separate ruling, Walker noted that the governor and Cabinets decisions are perhaps driven by unconstitutional factors race, religion, gender, or viewpoint and are worse than flipping coins. He did not explicitly say clemency board members are motivated by such factors but noted several instances in which a persons religion or political leaning seemed to have had an impact. Walkers ruling is not against the individual members of the clemency board, but against a process which he said stands on mythical standards.

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Aristoph posted...

But I live in the U.S., so it's basically impossible to follow with any regularity or have a team you can track consistently.

I mean, do you have cable? The Premier League is on fairly early in the morning, but it is on. And you almost certainly have a local MLS team
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Yes. I follow the Premier League, Champions League, and MLS pretty regularly.
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They can have multiplayer modes/elements, but please choose based on their single player gameplay

1. XCom 2
2. Hitman
3. GTA V
4. Stardew Valley
5. Assassin's Creed Origins
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Honey, I shrunk the army
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One thing I'd say is just thinking through it, Brazil has an edge in those ratings because of South America's World Cup qualifying, which is much tougher than Europe's. They played every team in SA twice during qualifying, whereas the top teams of Europe were mostly in groups populated by much weaker sides.

England, for example, had to get past Slovakia, Scotland, Slovenia, Lithuania, and Malta to reach the WC.

Now, to Brazil's credit, they dominated qualifying in a way that few sides do.
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I don't have any desire to relitigate the 2016 primaries in 2018, but since we're here

- It's entirely correct that Hillary received more of the popular vote than Sanders
--There's a reasonable debate and discussion that could be had about the impact of media coverage which factored in her superdelegate advantage on that popular vote
- The institution of the DNC was clearly skewed in the primary towards Clinton in a way that I don't think is preferable from a party
-- "Rigged" strikes me as too strong a word to describe what happened, in much the same way that it does regarding the general election
- Those who make topics about this now are mostly doing so cynically from the right, without genuine interest liberal/left politics.
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People are skeptical of FIFA's official rankings, which take into account some questionable factors, but the ELO ratings are generally thought of fairly well:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Football_Elo_Ratings?wprov=sfla1
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Violence is fine, but I've never once advocated for executing people, much less "rounding up everyone who is successful." That is, at best, a willful misinterpretation of what socialism is, and at worst a blatant lie by a poster I have ignored for good reason. He will not provide any evidence of me posting something like that because it never fucking happened.
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Hard to make a definitive judgment of a national team based knockout round games every four years. But I would also note that Brazil hasn't won Copa America, the South American tournament, since 2007.
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https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
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I don't.
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Hitman 2
Ass Creed Odyssey
Forza Horizon 4
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AlCalavicci posted...

So so many Democrats push for this ?

Like 2 of them do. I'm glad we've seen the emergence of honest-to-God socialists because it really lays bare how silly the people who thought Obama was socialist are.
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Is it?
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NibeIungsnarf posted...

This could be entirely made up, but the sad thing is that I wouldn't know it just reading it.

It's real.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-mouth-musical-instrument
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