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Annnnnd the appeals court rejected Trump's attempt to reinstate the ban. I suppose this has been a bad week for him.

BOOM! In other news Kelly Anne Conway received a so-called "talking to" when she told everyone to go out and buy Ivanka's line of hot pants. This would be a violation of ethics since she is a high-profile public servant and shouldn't be trying to increase profits for a friend's brand.

I agree.

Which is also how you get metropolitan areas like mine where you have pretty solid funding in a fairly well-to-do county with high property values, and therefore good tax revenue. Then cross the street and it's shit, because a more impoverished county has higher educational needs AND lower tax revenue because the property isn't worth much.

And he got the recently reclusive Feist to come out of hiding!

Local control is often for the better, although sometimes it's a Trojan horse for cutting federal funding for programs. I have a more negative response to the rampant idea that public things should be run like businesses. When a business goes down the owners and investors stand to lose, but they chose it. When a public institution goes down people who rely on it get screwed. This doesn't begin to examine the differences in what the measures of success are for each.

In my unprofessional opinion the blind spot on the polls was voter turnout. Sure the wide majority of voters thought that Trump was unqualified, but not enough of them participated. It wasn't fake news, the data was pretty good. It was the spirit of the thing that they misread.

So it appears that the court system is one wheel Mr. Trump cannot grease. I think our friends in the judiciary branch could have a drink with certain Australian and Mexican officials. They have a lot to share.

I'm sorry, but all I can say is I would be so fucking pissed off if we went to war with Mexico. Unthinkable. Ugh....

Yes! Bring this line of questioning because it's the only way the left is going to conjure a winner who can actually help people. It's easy to forget that what you're questioning here is very important, while the 70 year old toddler throws an executive fit. I think someone smart could write a book to answer these questions. I'll try a few things: One- complacence. A certain cross section of liberals actually are coastal elites, they care about people but aren't always connected to their realities. Or to spin the lens around, maybe some are like me- middle class (a dying breed), in an econo

Perfect! I was just thinking about Treason a couple days ago. I haven't listened to these guys for a couple years now. I'm going to correct that asap. Husker Du It's Not Funny Anymore Chartered Trips I Apologize New Day Rising Something I Learned Today

My students haven't really been talking about it. It could be a number of political, parenting or unrelated, circumstantial stuff. I kind of want to initiate to see where they stand, but it could be a minefield. That and 4th and 5th graders tend to echo their parents slogans without really getting any nuance.... which makes them like many Americans.

Whoa. Proud of the Tweedy's for stepping out and representing, and not getting swept up in a cloud of ignorant hatred. Public death threats to strangers in passing...... these are strange days.

So many of his supporters know that it's a shit show. They're really insecure for having "won" the white house a month ago. It's just a question of how far he has to go for them to admit it's all a big mistake.

What's crazy is in terms of controversy/outrage per day, the Trump administration has already lapped the last five presidents. Bush seems almost mild now. It's like the beginning of the end of Nixon, already.

I just donated to the ACLU. Feels like the right thing to do. Hopefully many others with deeper pockets have also.

One of whom was an interpreter who works for our military in Iraq. Here's an odd thought. Could Trump become so politically toxic that GOP members of the house and Senate dust off their old obstructionist tools and start doing what they do best: nothing. A rep from a moderate right district is going to start scoring points for opposing him.

I'm not sure apathy is expressed in all capitals. You've created a paradox here.

New Pornos is confirmed. April 7. Cloud Nothings just released a new one. There are good things in 2017 in spite of all this political garbage.

Exactly- trade war!

Yeah, it's been a rush of bullshit. We no longer take refugees from muslim countries. Other ones are okay though. He posted something vague about getting to work on a wall today. I live in an underground bunker and have received several pigeons with notes about the collapse of our society.

Exactly. If we scatter the idea of truth on unimportant things then we've set a precedent when we talk about important things.

1. Trump cares enough to lie. 2. The rest of us care that the president is lying.

Yeah, it was well written. Do you think it bothered people who do agree politically?

There's a great Louis C.K. bit about the time he played one of his casinos. Trump came out on the floor where all the slot machines are and kind of shmoozed with the old ladies giving him all of their money. Then Louie ended up on the elevator with him and observed he was the most miserable, sad looking person he'd ever seen. He was in his golden castle surrounded by people who believe he's a big deal, shoveling money into his slots and he's just wretched. Louie said he figures he had a "president sized hole" inside of him. I thought that was quite astute. We all know the psychology of peo