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riversedge's JournalThese people keep getting rewarded for bad behavior--then we wonder why there's so much bad behavior.
I did not turn on TV today--I imagine wall to wall coverage???
These people keep getting rewarded for bad behavior—then we wonder why there's so much bad behavior. Ivanka was secretly working on a deal with the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign—as her dad was claiming he'd no dealings with Russia. Jared was being advised by foreign nationals.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1135521763339710464
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1135518747102515201
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? @Cruellaisdevine
Replying to @SethAbramson
I wish your words were on the front page of @washingtonpost everyday! So tired of the MSM normalizing & positioning all this as battle between Dems & GOP. Meanwhile, trump cements his persona of being the non-establishment hero of the “people”. Free campaigning on his behalf. 😡
8:09 AM - 3 Jun 2019
Trump's top economic adviser 'leaving shortly,' president writes on Twitter
Source: abc
Jun 3, 2019, 12:16 AM ET
WatchTop White House economist says Trump's GDP and unemployment claim was wrong
Top White House economist Kevin Hassett "will be leaving shortly," President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. .............................
Hassett had served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers since being confirmed by the Senate in September 2017.............................
.................... Hassett made waves last fall when he directly contradicted a tweet by Trump related to Gross Domestic Product and unemployment rates.
"I'm not," Hassett said at the time, "the chairman of the Council of Twitter Advisers." .......................
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-top-economic-adviser-leaving-shortly-president-writes/story?id=63443553
Not even 2 years and he is ready to fly the coup!
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1135374440513069058
https://twitter.com/Regina08851794/status/1135375112864194560
Trump Begins UK Trip By Insulting London Mayor Sadiq Khan
Source: HUFF POST
06/03/2019 04:24 am ET Updated 3 hours ago
The wheels of Air Force One hadn’t even touched the ground at the airport when Donald Trump announced his arrival to the UK by tweeting about London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Not content with comments he made last night about the mayor, the president repeated them and for good measure called him a “stone cold loser” as well.
In two tweets, he wrote: “Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly “nasty” to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom............................................................................
Khan’s spokesman responded by saying “childish insults” should be “beneath the president of the United States.”
They added: “Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country, warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of a growing far-right threat around the globe, which is putting at risk the basic values that have defined our liberal democracies for more than 70 years.”
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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-uk_n_5cf4d6f8e4b0e8085e3c6e77
Eugene is right. Trump reflects badly on ALL of us.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135453891326238721
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135453895277203458
Eugene Gu, MD
?Verified account @eugenegu
5h5 hours ago
Unbelievable. The President of the United States is attacking and bullying the mayor of the capital city of the country he is visiting. That’s like going to someone else’s house for dinner and just straight up spitting in the host’s face.
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Eugene Gu, MD
?Verified account @eugenegu
Replying to @eugenegu @realDonaldTrump @SadiqKhan
Calling the Mayor of London a “stone cold loser” so publicly and so crudely doesn’t just reflect badly on Trump. It reflects badly on all Americans. He’s on an official state visit to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day as the President of the United States.
Mulvaney: Attempt to move USS John McCain during Trump visit 'not unreasonable'
Source: the hill
By Rebecca Klar - 06/02/19 11:23 AM EDT
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that it wasn't "unreasonable" for an administration staffer to ask that the USS John S. McCain be hidden during President Trump's Japan visit last week.
Mulvaney said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he believes it was a "probably somebody on the advance team" who told the Navy to hide the ship based on the president's feelings toward late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
"The president's feelings towards the former senator are well known," Mulvaney said, adding that firing someone over the request "is silly."
"The fact that some 23- or 24-year-old person on the advance team went to that site and said, 'Oh my goodness. There's the John McCain. We all know how the president feels about the former senator. Maybe that's not the best backdrop. Can somebody look into moving it?' That's not an unreasonable thing to ask," Mulvaney said.
The Navy on Saturday confirmed receiving a request to "minimize visibility" of the USS John S. McCain, named for late senator's grandfather. ........................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/446526-mulvaney-attempt-to-move-uss-john-mccain-during-trump-visit-not
It was rude and crude to ask this. damn
Ohio public library cancels LGBTQ Pride week event amid pushback from GOP House Speaker
Source: the Hill
By Owen Daugherty - 06/02/19 06:28 PM EDT
A public library in Ohio canceled an LGBTQ event for teenagers during Pride week after the state’s Republican House Speaker publicly demanded it be stopped.
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (R) on Twitter Friday posted a screenshot of a letter he sent to the Ohio Library Council writing that “libraries should not be a resource for teenage boys to learn how to dress in drag. I demand it stop now!!!”
The Licking County Library in Newark, Ohio, had been planning an LGBTQ event geared towards teenagers that featured a drag queen makeup tutorial and a safe-sex program, among other events, according to the Newark Advocate.
Householder asserted in his letter that the “joke is apparently on the taxpayers, who fund our libraries. This is a stunningly bizarre breach of the public trust. And it must stop."
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The news outlet reports the Newark Ohio Pride Coalition cited “pressure from state-wide elected officials” in deciding to cancel the event.......................................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/446547-ohio-public-library-cancels-lgbtq-pride-week-event-amid-pushback-from
I am becoming very fearful of fair life in America.
https://twitter.com/HouseholderOH/status/1134557961748209664
Replying to @HouseholderOH
So, no free speech now in OHIO. #Shame on YOU
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Jessica Sullivan
? @Jessica731
Jun 1
Replying to @HouseholderOH
actually now that you mention it, as a taxpayer I request that all of my tax dollars that have been used to fund the “War on Terror” be reallocated to teaching teen boys to learn how to become drag queens. thank you.
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Max Littman
? @Juicewag
May 31
Replying to @HouseholderOH
“I’m for the first amendment”
“But not when it does something I don’t like.”
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MLB stands for Marxist-Leninist Baseball
? @blunted215
Jun 1
Replying to @HouseholderOH
Your family doesn't love you and they're right for it, Larry.
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Todd Munson
? @themunson
May 31
Replying to @HouseholderOH
Larry, there’s no need to put a space between your final sentence and the three (3) exclamation points.
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New conversation
Remoaner Lisa
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? @lisafryer9
Jun 1
Replying to @HouseholderOH
Are there books on how to shoot guns, in these libraries where right and wrong must be distinguished?
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Mike - Free Kevin Logan!
? @The_NavigatorBR
Jun 1
As a resident of Ohio, I can confirm you can find tons of books on firearms and how to use them. Been in 13 public libraries in northern Ohio, some in major cities others in fairly rural towns.
They all have books on firearms.
How a Sex Offender's Case Before the Supreme Court Could Bring Down the Administrative State
How a Sex Offender's Case Before the Supreme Court Could Bring Down the Administrative State
It has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with presidential power.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/02/supreme-court-gundy-rapist-227038
By TODD TUCKER
June 02, 2019
Herman Gundy was out on supervised release in 2004 from a 1996 crack distribution conviction when he met an 11-year-old girl. He served her cocaine and raped her.
As soon as Monday, the Supreme Court will rule on his fate.
While court-watchers have been focused on other headline issues the court may decide this term—including cases on abortion, citizenship questions on the Census, and partisan gerrymandering—the Gundy case could mark a watershed of its own. At issue isn’t the lurid crime itself, but just how much power Congress can delegate to the executive branch.
Along with a new trade-related case the court may choose to take up in the coming weeks, it’s part of a campaign to use the courts in service of a libertarian rollback of the administrative state. And a nation in which both Gundy and American Institute for International Steel (the trade case) go against the government could look very different.
Gundy has become a cause célèbre among libertarian legal activists, who see in his case an opening they’ve long sought. The question before the court turns on whether Congress delegated too much of its legislative power. It concerns the 2006 Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act—under which Gundy was convicted—a law named after the kidnapped and murdered child of “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh and which established detailed instructions for state governments to maintain sex offender registries. For sex offenders whose original offenses and convictions came before the law was enacted Congress opted to let the Department of Justice set up detailed rules for those registries.
This is where the libertarians and their lawyers have pounced: They argue that Gundy’s case is emblematic of a government that concentrates too much decision-making power in the hands of bureaucrats not directly accountable to the people. Gundy ran afoul of these rules when he did not register while living in a New York halfway house. He was rearrested, put on supervised release and ordered to register. If the underlying law were unconstitutional, then Congress would have to rewrite the law or he might skirt registration requirements in the future.
In a series of amicus briefs in his support, groups with names like DownsizeDC.org and Gun Owners of America,which considers itself even more hard-line on gun rights than the NRA, have cited everything from the Bible to the French philosopher Montesquieu in their efforts to attach the convicted rapist to a holy crusade for liberty from government interference.
This is part of a long argument over just how much power Capitol Hill can hand over to presidents. For adherents of the “nondelegation doctrine"—people who believe that any kind of law like this is an invitation to overreach by a bloated executive branch—Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution vests Congress with “all legislative powers.” This power is unalienable, meaning Congress can’t decide to let courts or agencies make law. Nonetheless, the line is blurry between law-writing, law-enforcing and law-interpreting.
The Supreme Court has only twice struck down laws under the so-called nondelegation doctrine—both times in the 1930s, reining in FDR’s New Deal. In Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan in 1935, the justices deemed that a New Deal oil conservation law provided “no criterion to govern the President’s course.” Five months later, in Schechter v. U.S., a unanimous ruling by liberals and conservatives on the bench found that New Deal “fair competition” codes for industry lacked “any adequate definition of the subject to which the codes [were] to be addressed,” allowing the president to restructure the whole economy............................
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Libertarian organizations dislike this deference. What they’d prefer is a regime in which Congress kept the power over the nitty-gritty of executing laws—which would mean, to their delight, lawmaking would basically screech to a halt in a morass of tiny details. This would make it nearly impossible for Congress to write rules for the economy. One of their strongest likely allies is the newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh, a member of the Federalist Society. As he has written in a lower court case against the Environmental Protection Agency, “Congress’s failure to enact general climate change legislation does not license an agency to take matters into its own hands, even to solve a pressing policy issue such as climate change.”........................
Trump: "Now I think I am really -- I hope -- I am really loved in the U.K.," he added. "I certainly lo
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brexit-referendum/trump-creates-diplomatic-headache-u-k-even-state-visit-n1008221
Trump creates diplomatic headache for U.K. even before state visit
June 1, 2019, 2:06 AM CDT / Updated June 1, 2019, 2:10 AM CDT
By Rachel Elbaum
LONDON — Britain and the U.S. may have a special relationship but President Donald Trump’s state visit will be a diplomatic balancing act for the U.K., where Trump is deeply unpopular.
................Trump is widely disliked in the U.K. He has a positive opinion rating of only 21 percent, according to YouGov, compared to 72 percent for former President Barack Obama.
But he told The Sun Friday that “I don’t imagine any U.S. president was ever closer to your great land.”
"Now I think I am really — I hope — I am really loved in the U.K.," he added. "I certainly love the U.K."
On Tuesday, the day after Trump’s arrival, thousands of people are expected to hit the streets of the capital to protest, like they did during his last visit in July..............................
The Troubling Rise of the Ghost Bike
I have not heard of these. Something good is coming from these horrible deaths--slowly. 
The Troubling Rise of the Ghost Bike
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-troubling-rise-of-the-ghost-bike?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Roadside shrines marking the site of cycling tragedies are showing up everywhere, a sign of how little progress we’ve made in making biking safer. It’s time we organize.
Marc Peruzzi
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Photo by Westhoff/iStock.
Paint an old bike white and place it at the roadside scene of a cyclist’s death and you have a ghost bike. It’s a variation on the crosses that dot the West to mark fatal crash sites, except ghost bikes are nondenominational and carry a second message other than grief, a message intended for drivers: Stop killing us.
On group rides in Boulder, Colorado, fellow cyclists would point out ghost bikes like they would potholes and rocks, with an outstretched arm and a flash of an index finger. There’s one for the college athlete from South America who overcooked a steep corner into oncoming traffic. Here’s another for a young father with three school-age kids and a passion for road racing; he was taken out by a sunburned drunk driver with half a 32-pack of domestic swill in her system. Take a right turn and there’s a third whited-out shrine for the Ironman triathlete who was killed while she rode within the cones, according to the legal team her family hired—the police said otherwise. (The police, a lawyer friend of mine recently vented to me, seem to always side with drivers over cyclists.)
Those were three of the seven biking deaths (plus at least two near-fatal traumatic brain injuries of former pro cyclists) that occurred in Boulder County within a roughly 12-month window culminating in 2017. The deaths and injuries roiled the cycling community.
Of that count, only in one death and one traumatic brain injury (that came with a severed arm) were the cyclists unquestionably at fault, both pushing Tour de France speeds on descents with oncoming traffic............................
Bike lanes and bike paths and free pancakes for commuters aren’t enough. Cyclists need to own their safety—there’s no denying that—but they also need to advocate for themselves. A new Boulder nonprofit is doing exactly that and should serve as a template for cycling towns everywhere. Cyclists 4 Community began as a fundraising enterprise to help the victims of the 2013 floods that devastated the towns of Jamestown and Lyons, popular destinations with area cyclists. The efforts were successful, with more than $250,000 raised to date. (Full disclosure: I ride with the C4C organizers and helped them develop promotional materials after the floods.)
After the towns were rebuilt, C4C found a long-term purpose in advocating for bike safety. Today, the group uses its fundraising and unifying chops to lobby local government to place lighted signs on busy cycling routes, reminding drivers and cyclists to share the road and to expect heavy traffic. One effort, says C4C’s Russ Chandler, co-owner of Boulder’s Full Cycle bike shop, is to petition the town’s transportation officials to build a short section of dedicated bike path to get road and gravel cyclists safely past a dangerous stretch of highway (two ghost bikes) and out onto the less-congested county roads. C4C also works with existing groups pushing for safe bike routes to schools. And the group has opened talks with the local mountain bike club to see how they can work together in getting mountain bikers to trailheads more safely. C4C also buys bike lights at cost or wrangles donations and hands them out for free. Even the strongest Boulder cyclists now run blinking taillights during daylight hours—a habit that was considered taboo only a few years ago. Locally, much of the credit for that belongs to C4C.
As testament to the power of such advocacy, a lawyer running for district attorney recently scheduled a talk with the Wednesday Morning Velo crowd—a weekly sponsored group ride with deep organizational ties to C4C that sees as many as 150 participants a week—in search of their support. He was running on the promise that he’ll hold drivers accountable for accidents involving bikes. This type of outreach only happens when cyclists organize.
Such organization is changing the tenor of cycling. As with backcountry skiers discussing the snowpack, bike safety is now something that’s talked about openly. ...............................
Walter Shaub--- Heed the signs and don't underestimate the threat to our republic from within: -Tr
much more at links
Heed the signs and don't underestimate the threat to our republic from within: -Trump obstructed justice -A McConnell-packed SCOTUS says precedent can be changed more easily than previously thought -AG Barr is an open partisan and slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre beneficiary
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1134616070789226496
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/walter-shaub-donald-trump-threat-republic-signs_n_5cf24b85e4b0e346ce7eb5f0?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067
Walter Shaub
?Verified account @waltshaub
19h19 hours ago
-White House ignores congressional subpoenas, document requests
-Mnuchin is violating a law on turning over taxes to House
-Barr & Senate allies want to investigate officials who investigated Trump to retaliate against them and deter future efforts to hold him to the rule of law
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1134616073096048640
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https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1134616085913853952
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