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riversedge's Journal#EsteemedElectors Undisclosed taxes hide Trumps conflicts of interest, danger 2 nat'l security. He
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! ?@mmpadellan 1h1 hour ago
#EsteemedElectors
Undisclosed taxes hide Trump’s conflicts of interest, danger 2 nat'l security.
He is compromised.
Vote ur consciences. pic.twitter.com/p4Xbf51gDx
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Ron Johnson not sold on CIA conclusion that Russia tried to tip election to Donald Trump
Source: madison.com
MARK SOMMERHAUSER msommerhauser@madison.com 5 hrs ago 73
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said he isn’t yet convinced of the CIA’s assessment that Russia meddled in the presidential election to help President-elect Donald Trump.
Unlike Trump, Johnson, R-Oshkosh, didn’t outright reject the CIA assessment, made public last week in a report by The Washington Post.
But Johnson told the Wisconsin State Journal in a statement that he “would need more definitive information before drawing further conclusions” about Russian interference in the election — which appears to have included hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
Johnson, who just was elected to a second term, is a leading senator on national security issues. He is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, sits on the Foreign Relations Committee and is chairman of its subcommittee on Europe.
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The hacked DNC and Podesta emails were made public by the international group WikiLeaks..........................
Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/ron-johnson-not-sold-on-cia-conclusion-that-russia-tried/article_9fd3fee3-d864-59ca-98a7-1412930c1553.html#utm_source=host.madison.com&utm_campaign=%2Femail%2Fwsj-news%2F%3Fref%3Demail&utm_medium=email
Johnson is a slimmy teabagger . He will obstruct any investigation any way he can.
From Catfish to Kombucha, Conservatives Target 200-Plus Rules' No clean air, nutritous
food for kids, energy efficient fans and cars. Out the door now with Repugs in charge.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-14/from-catfish-to-kombucha-conservatives-target-200-plus-rules?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-politics
From Catfish to Kombucha, Conservatives Target 200-Plus Rules
by Erik Wasson and Ari Natter
December 14, 2016, 3:03 PM CST
Freedom Caucus names 228 regulations it wants canceled
Wall Street, fossil fuel, junk food makers stand to benefit
A fisherman displays a catfish that was fished out of a pond on an aquaculture farm in Alabama, on July 10, 2015. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg
House conservatives have a message for President-elect Donald Trump: use your first 100 days to scrap regulations on everything from catfish to ceiling fans to the Export-Import Bank.
The House Freedom Caucus wish list, sent by chairman Mark Meadows to Trump’s transition team, includes 228 federal regulations to examine or revoke. It’s designed to hold Trump to his campaign promise to use his presidential pen to loosen rules on businesses. It’s also certain to trigger partisan fights in Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is also on board. "The president-elect has made it clear he’s going to move on as many regulatory changes as he can make as soon as he takes office," McConnell said at a news conference this week.
High on the Freedom Caucus’s agenda are ending President Barack Obama’s executive actions protecting undocumented immigrants who arrived as children and ending the Export-Import Bank, of which Boeing Co. is the biggest beneficiary. The list also calls for undoing the 1905 law that created the Overseas Private Investment Corp. which helps U.S. businesses gain a foothold in emerging markets.
The list also targets First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative against childhood obesity, rules requiring for-profit colleges to teach employable skills, regulations intended to make ceiling fans and washing machines more energy efficient. Net neutrality rules that benefit internet content providers over broadband providers also make the list.....................................
Breitbart writer targets transgender UWM student
Source: Milwaukee-Journal Sentinal
Karen Herzog ,
12:45 a.m. CST December 15, 2016
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A firebrand speaker who was permanently banned from Twitter for "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others" blasted a transgender student by name at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, prompting the school's chancellor to immediately condemn the speech in a campus-wide email.
Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos brought his "Dangerous Faggot Tour" to the Student Union at UWM on Tuesday night at the invitation of a new student group called Turning Point USA.
During his speech to a crowd the university estimated at 325 to 350 people, plus others watching via live stream on the Breitbart website, Yiannopoulos singled out a transgender student who had protested against a new UWM policy created for its recreation center's locker rooms.
The policy was adopted after the student — who is in the process of physical transition from male to female — used the sauna in the women's locker room last January. The new policy requires that "non-conforming genitalia be covered at all times," and the university added private showers and changing rooms with curtains to make that easier.
Yiannopoulos named and showed a picture of the student to his audience, and accused the student of being a man trying to find his way into women's bathrooms.
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Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2016/12/14/breitbart-writer-targets-transgender-uwm-student/95420206/
good article. Read the entire article to get the full story.
I am so sad that over 300 students-or whoever showed up for this hate event in Wisconsin.
Trump does the same-calls out individuals in his tweets. It is a dangerous time for the USA.
Today is #BlockOutTrump day! (I followed him JUST to Unfollow). Get your BLOCK
Just saw this tweet and did not know it was a special day. I do not follow Trump anyway.
Short video clip at tweet link.
TWEETS
BrooklynDad_Defiant! ?@mmpadellan 5h5 hours ago
Today is #BlockOutTrump day!
(I followed him JUST to Unfollow).
Get your BLOCK on!
#TheResistance
#wednesdaywisdom
#InformTheElectors
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https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/809042436265824256
dicks out for pepe
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@mmpadellan im confused on why anyone would like this? This shit is fucking dumb. Your not proving a damn thing
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highserenity ?@highserenity49 32m32 minutes ago
.@TrentHallgren says dicks out for pepe who lies about being a marine and is another TRUMP STOLEN VALOR CULT MEMBER @mmpadellan
Olivia Engel, 6 #SandyHook
I do not have TV on but Jake must be doing a segment on this anniversary of Sandy Hook.
Jake Tapper Verified account
?@jaketapper
Olivia Engel, 6
#SandyHook
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/809101973001736192
Engineer from CA ?@enggirl 1h1 hour ago
Thank you @jaketapper for remembering #SandyHook Saddened that there has been no change in gun laws
Ohio Republicans Advance Nationwide Wage-Suppression Campaign
Source: Alternet
State lawmakers move to prevent municipalities from boosting pay for low-wage workers—a growing obstacle in the Fight for $15.
By Justin Miller / The American Prospect
December 14, 2016
...................................................But there was another harsh measure in the mix that flew under the radar: a measure that would force Ohio localities to comply with state minimum-wage regulations that top out at $8.10 an hour.
The legislation aims to block Cleveland, one of Ohio’s largest and poorest cities, from unilaterally boosting wages for its low-wage workers. According to U.S. census data, 35,000 Clevelanders work full-time for less than $15 an hour, and 50 percent of those workers are black.
After the Cleveland City Council rejected a both a Fight for 15 campaign lobbying effort to pass a $15 minimum wage in August and an attempt to get the issue on the November ballot, labor advocates succeeded in securing a special election for May2017. Voters will decide whether to establish a $12 minimum wage beginning in 2018, with annual one-dollar increases up to $15 over three years and cost-of-living-indexed increases thereafter.
“It’s corporate interests like the fast-food lobby fighting to keep pay low," says Paul Sonn, the National Employment Law Project’s general counsel. “When cities take matters into their own hands, they push conservative legislators to block that, too.”
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The Cleveland ballot measure, and future attempts to raise minimum wages in Cincinnati, Columbus, or Dayton, would be stopped in their tracks if Kasich signs the legislation. Whether he will remains unclear, but a decision could come as early as Friday. ................
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker launched the first major Republican preemption effort in 2011 when he signed legislation that prevented localities from requiring mandatory paid sick time. .............
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/labor/ohio-republicans-advance-nationwide-wage-suppression-campaign
Article lists several Repug states with wage suppression laws already in place. The WI law was headed by ALEC!!
Pantsuit Nation made it easy to ask for an inquiry into Russian election interference. Text INVESTIG
I have already emailed some so I did not do this. But I trust George to send out good information
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George Takei ?@GeorgeTakei 2m2 minutes ago
Pantsuit Nation made it easy to ask for an inquiry into Russian election interference. Text INVESTIGATE to 526-86, follow the instructions.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/809038192531951616
Photo: A lone file desk and a lone computer.
I found the photo to be as interesting as the story. A lone file desk and a lone computer. This time all was lost. All is lost.
Tweet:
NYT Politics Verified account
?@nytpolitics
Missed signals and slow responses let Russia mount a hacking effort to influence the election. A NYT investigation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0
The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0
By ERIC LIPTON, DAVID E. SANGER and SCOTT SHANEDEC. 13, 2016
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A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.
His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named “the Dukes,” a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.
The F.B.I. knew it well: ...............................
Yared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for “the Dukes” and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks — in part because he wasn’t certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.
“I had no way of differentiating the call I....................................
It was the cryptic first sign of a cyberespionage and information-warfare campaign devised to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, the first such attempt by a foreign power in American history. What started as an information-gathering operation, intelligence officials believe, ultimately morphed into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent, Donald J. Trump..................................
Where opiates killed the most people in 2015
more maps at link.
Where opiates killed the most people in 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/13/where-opiates-killed-the-most-people-in-2015/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_opioids-0830pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fb88e0f262a6
By Christopher Ingraham December 13 at 7:00 AM
Used syringes are discarded at a needle exchange clinic in Vermont in 2014 where users can pick up new syringes and other clean items for those dependent on heroin. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
More than 33,000 people died of opioid overdoses in the United States last year. But speaking of an “opiate epidemic” is in some ways a misnomer. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the country is in fact dealing with multiple opioid epidemics right now — each with a distinct geographic footprint.
The geography of opioid deaths
Starting with the big picture, here's a map of total opioid death rates by state. County-level data would be preferable, but the CDC suppresses data for many small counties to protect the privacy of the people who live there. The data in this map encompasses everything from heroin to hydrocodone to more powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl.................
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
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