Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
Too late. That database exists and it’s called Facebook. It even links Muslims to other Muslims. Who they are related to, where they went to school, how Starbucks misspelled their names….
Author: Stable Genius
I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.
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Watch Fox’s Shepard Smith Debunk Trump’s False Claims Scrubbing Russia Of Involvement In The US Elec
Watch Fox’s Shepard Smith Debunk Trump’s False Claims Scrubbing Russia Of Involvement In The US Elec
To my friends on the right and those who support Trump. Is Shep smith a democratic shill also? Is Fox News biased against republicans?
Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations
ICE contracted with Palantir, founded by Trump adviser Peter Thiel, to create an intelligence-sharing database used to track and deport immigrants. (via Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations) The swamp just got ten feet deeper.
How to help the rust belt: Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest
Time to shift economic activity from the overcrowded coasts to places that need more of it. (via Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest – Vox) This would help the rust belt.
Nearly a third of Republicans don’t know that Trump lost the popular vote
Nearly a third of Republicans don’t know that Trump lost the popular vote
This will be sent down the memory hole, like Saddam and 9/11. Republicans will just know that Trump won the popular vote, actual facts be damned.
Investors think Trump’s giving SoftBank regulatory favors in exchange for a nice press release – Vox
Hints of systematic corruption. (via Investors think Trump’s giving SoftBank regulatory favors in exchange for a nice press release – Vox) Worth a read. This is not normal. In any other administration, this would be a huge scandal. Under Trump this is being played off as an ethical rounding error.
Divesting the Trump commercial holdings how about Congressional insider trading? – Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes, I absolutely favor enforcing clear commercial conflict of interest regulations on any president, if only for reasons of perception and legitimacy. But may I quote Alex T. from way back when (2010, the rest of the passage is him note I am not double indenting)? Bloomberg: Your senator learns that a much- maligned weapons… Continue reading Divesting the Trump commercial holdings how about Congressional insider trading? – Marginal REVOLUTION
Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history.“
Both of these statements are false.
The CIA didn’t say Saddam had WMD. That was the Bush 43 White house.
And his EC victory was the weakest since Bush 43 in 2000. It wasn’t a landslide.