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Al talking about how Bannon traffics in Muslim hate chatter.
Tommy Christopher?Verified account @tommyxtopher 20m20 minutes ago
.@alfranken grills DOJ official at hate crime hearing: "What message does it send" for Trump to have Bannon in the WH?
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/859495128490049536
This...he does it all the time! White power sign.
I have not seen him do it--but I only found out a while ago-this was a white power sign.
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Wendy Marcinkiewicz? @WendyMarcinkie1 21h21 hours ago
Replying to @tribelaw @baebae3017
This...he does it all the time! White power sign.
https://twitter.com/WendyMarcinkie1/status/859167040573255680
Sheila Phelan? @smp00 21h21 hours ago
Replying to @WendyMarcinkie1 @tribelaw @baebae3017
It creeps me out when he does that finger stuff.
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Wendy Marcinkiewicz? @WendyMarcinkie1 21h21 hours ago
Me too! It especially bothered me during the Debates.
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Sheila Phelan? @smp00 21h21 hours ago
That and the way he says 'our'. Nails on chalkboard. It's the content not the style I realize - still the whole package is cringeworthy
Hi Paul RyanGod doesn't answer the prayers of people willing to strip healthcare from the poor and s
Oh my
https://twitter.com/RaisingOneBrow/status/859445387773571072
The WH moved swiftly on Tuesday to counteract Mr. Trumps contention that he had been forced into an
It was funny--first Trump goes on this long shutdown the Gov angry tweetstorm--then his aides have to bail him out.
Trump Says U.S. Needs Government ‘Shutdown’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/good-shutdown-congress-trump.html
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
MAY 2, 2017
..........The White House moved swiftly on Tuesday to counteract Mr. Trump’s contention that he had been forced into an agreement he dislikes, claiming victory on the spending package and arguing that the White House had actually outfoxed Democrats who were spoiling for a shutdown.
“They wanted to try and make this president look like he could not govern,” Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump’s budget director, told reporters in a conference call. “They wanted to make this president look like he did not know what he was doing, and he beat them on that at the very, very highest level.”
He praised the large increase in military spending in the bill, which dwarfed the money for domestic programs, and said that although no wall funding had been included, increases for border technology, maintenance and repairs would help beef up security on the line between the United States and Mexico.
Democrats, Mr. Mulvaney added, “were desperate to show that we were not reasonable, and we completely destroyed that narrative by negotiating this deal. This is a huge victory for the president.”
But by publicly courting a future shutdown, an extraordinary move for a sitting president, Mr. Trump instead seemed to be confirming his reputation for rash statements that may yield little in the way of follow-through.
“President Trump may not like what he sees in this budget deal, but it’s dangerous and irresponsible to respond by calling for a shutdown,” said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington and the ranking members of the appropriations committee. “Hopefully, Republicans in Congress will do for the next budget what they did for this one: ignore President Trump’s demands, work with Democrats, and get it done.”......................
msnbc. We are taking care of our military. Rump bragging last 5 minutes how the
budget will dramatically increase. Surrounded by military. over and over.
Several times knocking, mocking the Democrats also so far.
Protests erupt, classes canceled after racist notes enrage a Minnesota college
The students who did this--and they will be found--should be banned from campus.
Protests erupt, classes canceled after racist notes enrage a Minnesota college
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/05/01/protests-erupt-classes-canceled-after-racist-notes-enrage-a-minnesota-college/?utm_term=.b3bf31326159
By Lindsey Bever
May 1 at 3:31 PM
Following days of demonstrations against hate speech at a liberal arts college in Minnesota, the school has reached an agreement with student protesters.
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The students had been protesting racism at the school in Northfield, Minn., since the weekend, when a black student reported having found a note on the windshield of her car that read: “I am so glad that you are leaving soon. One less n‑‑‑‑‑ that this school has to deal with. You have spoken up too much. You will change nothing. Shut up or I will shut you up.” Students gathered Saturday night inside a student union building, sharing their own on-campus experiences with racism and chanting: “This ends now.”
The protests continued through Monday, when students were expected to boycott. Then the school administration canceled classes “so that we may have time for faculty, students, and staff to continue the discussions about racism and diversity on our campus,” St. Olaf spokeswoman Kari VanDerVeen said at the time.
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The racist note was the latest incident in a series of similar expressions against students.
“It’s been something that’s been going on all year,” Samantha Wells, a senior who said she found the racist note, told fellow students during the weekend demonstrations, according to the Northfield News. “We’ve done so much digging and this stuff has happened for decades. There’s one thing that happens and it stops and then it happens again and then it kind of stops. I think the big message is we shouldn’t let this happen again. The administration needs to do something that stops it indefinitely.”..........................
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTfzWZoBPaQ/
Trump Fondly Remembers the Fake Civil War Battle That Took Place on His Golf Course
Well worth it to read the entire story
What a big story teller Trump is--even about a serious event in U.S. History!!
Trump Fondly Remembers the Fake Civil War Battle That Took Place on His Golf Course
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54842/trump-civil-war-river-of-blood/
What do you mean you've never heard of the "River of Blood"?
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By Jack Holmes
May 2, 2017
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.............The Times article links to the paper's 2015 report on the incident, which recounted how Trump bought the course in Virginia—now renamed the Trump National Golf Club—back in 2009, and got to work getting it up to The Trump Standard. That included building a flagpole along the river complete with a plaque commemorating the "River of Blood," a dramatic name for a harrowing event that never happened. But the plaque begged to differ:
via NYTimes
"Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot," the inscription reads. "The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as 'The River of Blood.'"
This actually sounds like it was dictated by Trump, who in a phone interview with the Times called himself "a big history fan." Reporters from the paper told him they'd spoken with multiple local historians, all of whom said there was no Civil War event within 11 miles of the plaque. The exchange that followed was quintessentially Trumpian:
"That was a prime site for river crossings," Mr. Trump said. "So, if people are crossing the river, and you happen to be in a civil war, I would say that people were shot — a lot of them."
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..............The Trump administration's history with history is so bad because they spend their days trying to warp reality to their own devices. Sometimes that bleeds from the present to the past, and leaves you with a River of Blood.
Tammy Baldwin campaign calls foul on new radio ad
Tammy Baldwin campaign calls foul on new radio ad
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2017/04/28/tammy-baldwin-campaign-calls-foul-new-radio-ad/101011060/
Bill Glauber , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 6:45 a.m. CT April 28, 2017 | Updated
8:33 p.m. CT April 28, 2017
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More than a year and a half before she faces re-election, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is confronting a controversial radio ad barrage.
On Thursday, several stations temporarily pulled the ad after a complaint was lodged by Baldwin's campaign. But Iowa-based Americas PAC is doubling down on its attack against Baldwin and is moving forward with a $650,000 ad buy.
On Friday, three radio station groups returned the ad to the air.
"There's 12,000-plus ads that will run over the next five months," said Tom Donelson, treasurer of the PAC. "I hope she has fun. We're ready to fight over the next five months."
Donelson said funding for the ad was provided by Solutions for Wisconsin, a super-PAC that received a $2 million cash infusion from GOP mega-donor Richard Uihlein. Solutions for Wisconsin has endorsed U.S. Marine veteran and businessman Kevin Nicholson, who has not yet formally declared his candidacy for an expected Republican Party primary.
Chaffetz just had surgery for a pre-existing condition, but will return to vote YES on bill that wo
Please contact your REPS Today--heard that #trumpcare2 might come in for a vote today!!
Chaffetz twitter handle is @JasonintheHouse
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Chaffetz just had surgery for a pre-existing condition, but will return to vote YES on bill that won't cover pre-existing conditions for us.
https://twitter.com/vickscan/status/859260113726603264
Milwaukee May Day March Targets Sheriff Who Runs Jail Where Inmate Died After Week With No Water
Source: NBCnews.com
May 1 2017, 9:05 pm ET
Thousands converged upon the streets of Milwaukee on Monday to protest a controversial local sheriff who is not only aggressively advocating an immigration policy that authorizes local law enforcement to act as federal immigration agents, but also faced sharp criticism for the death of a man who died in his custody after not getting water for a week.
And on Monday afternoon, as protesters gathered at a Milwaukee courthouse, a jury recommended charging seven jail staffers with abuse of an inmate in the April 24, 2016 death of 38-year-old Terrill Thomas, the Associated Press reported.
[Thousands Gather For May Day Protests in New York and Los Angeles]
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The protesters had come by the hundreds on buses from at least twelve cities around the Badger State as a part of the "Day Without Latinos, Immigrants & Refugees," a statewide movement in conjunction with the May 1st national day of resistance for immigrant and worker rights.
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At issue were questionable policies under tough-talking Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who was in charge of Thomas when he died of dehydration after being kept in solitary confinement for seven days without water in April of 2016.
Image; Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. listens to remarks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, Feb. 23, 2017.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. listens to remarks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, Feb. 23, 2017. Mike Theiler / AFP/Getty Images
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Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/milwaukee-may-day-march-targets-sheriff-who-let-inmate-die-n753501?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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This is not the first time Pitchfork Clarke has been protested against!
Protesters gather at the Milwaukee County Courthouse where they held a rally against President Donald Trumps policy on immigration Feb. 13, 2017 in Milwaukee, Wis. Darren Hauck / Getty Images
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