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GOP Gets More Pathetic By The Day

In Saner Thought

Closing Thought–08May19

The GOP is doing what it does best…LIES!

They need to spend more time trying to govern than trying to belittle everyone that does not agree with them.

With that said the newest BS coming from the Senate’s leader is just a continuation of the comedy they call “leadership”.

Mitch McConnell summed up his view of the Mueller report in two words on Tuesday: “case closed.” The Senate majority leader criticized Democrats for wanting to continue related investigations and issued a plea to “finally end this Groundhog Day spectacle,” reports NBC News. “Remember, Russia set out to sow discord, to create chaos in American politics and undermine confidence in our democracy,” McConnell said. “But on that front, given the left’s total fixation on delegitimizing the president—the president Americans chose—and shooting any messenger who tells them inconvenient truths, I’m afraid the Russians hardly needed to lift a finger.”

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GOP Gets More Pathetic By The Day – In Saner Thought

Was it over when the Benghazi investigation found nothing?  Was it nothing  about the Clinton emails?  These were the same were the same things they are accusing the Dems of doing…..but you see the GOP does stuff it is for the good of the country (read party) and not so when the Dems do something similar……that is as simple as I can break this stupidity down. The GOP no longer has a soul…..not all it is the enabler of an imperialistic presidency….PERIOD! Turn The Page!

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Bhairavi Desai On Why the Uber and Lyft Strikes are the Future of Labor

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On Wednesday, drivers for Uber, Lyft, and lesser-known services like Via and Juno will sign out of their apps and stop picking up passengers as part of a global strike against these companies’ abysmal treatment of drivers. The duration of these strikes will vary from city to city, and workers in Los Angeles,…

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Dicks, Cocaine, Racism and Sexual Harassment in the TN Statehouse

May I present to you not one, but two big-time small-time dicks: Tennessee’s Republican House Speaker Glen Casada and his chief of staff Cade Cothren, two dicks united together until Monday, when Cothren resigned. You hate to see dicks split like that.

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Woman arrested over #LGBT-friendly Virgin Mary in #Poland, where rainbows are apparently now illegal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/woman-arrested-poland-posters-virgin-mary-rainbow-halo-plock?CMP=share_btn_link …pic.twitter.com/tEZB5aNCPQ

Pedophile priests and politicians fear God serving gay people!

Woman arrested over #LGBT-friendly Virgin Mary in #Poland, where rainbows are apparently now illegal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/woman-arrested-poland-posters-virgin-mary-rainbow-halo-plock?CMP=share_btn_link … pic.twitter.com/tEZB5aNCPQ

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High court to rule on whether Indigenous people can be deported from Australia

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Lawyers say federal government’s attempts to deport Daniel Love and Brendan Thoms are ‘absurd’

The federal government’s attempts to deport two Indigenous men have gone before the high court, examining what lawyers for the two men have said are “absurd” circumstances.

The two men in the separate cases, Daniel Love and Brendan Thoms, were both born overseas to at least one parent who is Indigenous and holds Australian citizenship. They both have Indigenous children, and Thoms is a native title holder.

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The Eurovision boycott row confirms it: Palestinian lives don’t matter | Arwa Mahdawi

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It feels like there is no acceptable way for Palestinians to protest against oppression

Eurovision has always been an exercise in bad taste, but this year’s event takes things to an extreme. If you want to enjoy the kitschy song contest, which will take place from 12 to 14 May in Tel Aviv, Israel, then you have got to ignore the bloody political context that surrounds it. Indeed, Israel is so intent on keeping Eurovision politics-free that anyone it says might disrupt the event will be blocked from entering the country.

One of the most frustrating things about being Palestinian (I’m half-Palestinian myself) is that there seems to be no acceptable way to defend your humanity or protest agains your oppression. Calls to boycott Eurovision, for example, have been decried as divisive. Last month, celebrities including Stephen Fry, Sharon Osbourne and Marina Abramović signed a letter stating that Eurovision’s “spirit of togetherness” is “under attack by those calling to boycott [the competition] because it is being held in Israel, subverting the spirit of the contest and turning it from a tool of unity into a weapon of division”.

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241m Europeans ‘may have received Russian-linked disinformation’

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Research says malign actors online tried to craft individual narrative for each EU state

Around half of all Europeans could have been exposed to disinformation promoted by social media accounts linked to Russia before the European elections, an analysis suggests.

Evidence of 6,700 so-called “bad actors” posting enough content to reach up to 241 million users was discovered by researchers examining the scale of the threat.

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Wednesday Open Thread | Say Her Name: SANDRA BLAND

We found out yesterday that Sandra Bland recorded her encounter with the police. We find this out THREE YEARS after her death?

THREE YEARS???

HOW could it take THREE YEARS for this tape to come out and be noticed.

I asked SG2 and Ametia this question.

HOW could it take THREE YEARS?

HOW could her family not be told in all this time?

WHAT is going on with the District Attorney’s office?

WHAT level of corruption going on where a key piece of evidence is suppressed like this?

No other way to look at it other than suppression.

It is based like this which make support of District Attorney ‘s that do their job all the more important. It is obvious, with this revelation, that the District Attorney is in bed with the police department, and no one was interested in finding out the truth of what happened to Sandra Bland.

This video is compelling proof that Trooper Encinia lied, that Sandra Bland posed no threat, and that there was no basis for her arrest. This case should be reopened and justice should finally be served.

— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) May 7, 2019

Local authorities kept this cell phone video from Sandra Bland a secret for 4 years. Local journalists @WFAA fought to get it released.

Sandra Bland knew her rights. She never should’ve been arrested and threatened in the first place. A gross abuse of power from this officer. pic.twitter.com/rtVTxQKDye

— Shaun King (@shaunking) May 7, 2019

Turns out Sandra Bland recorded her interaction with police from her 2015 arrest. But even after police discovered the video 2 months after her death, it’s only now being released to the public. Bland’s family are asking for the investigation to be reopened. pic.twitter.com/NvRZR3rV14

— Atlanta Black Star (@ATLBlackStar) May 7, 2019