StrangeSox

UN warns of 'unacceptable' greenhouse gas emissions gap Report reveals large gap between government pledges and the reductions needed to prevent dangerous global warming We're not cutting emissions fast enough to avoid a 2C rise. Might as well bake that in as the minimum rise going forward and try to plan mitigations around that (we won't; we're more likely to have state governments explicitly ban state agencies from accounting for AGW).

It's also people pointing out where a substantial portion of the country gets their (dis)information from. Conservative media has spent decades hammering home the idea that you cannot trust anyone but them. Everyone else is part of a grand conspiracy who's lying to you, who is an enemy that must be crushed and defeated. Trumpism is the end result of that ideological push that goes back at least as far as the Birchers and has now taken over a substantial portion of the GOP.

Ta-Nehisi Coates had a pretty good twitter thread (ugh) this morning laying out just how wrong Kelly's ideas on the Confederacy, slavery and compromise are and how pervasive white supremacist ideology can be. Starts here: https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/925289478943633408

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 31, 2017 -> 08:27 AM) The "sane" one in the room. Back when he was head of DHS, he advocated for allowing "somewhere between 0 and 1" refugees into the country a year and helped kick off the disgusting actions ICE and CBP have been taking this year. He's just as awful as everyone else in the administration.

Kelly is a Lost Cause Confederate apologist and refuses to apologize for slandering rep. Waters

Upstairs at home, with the TV on, Trump fumes over Russia indictments http://wapo.st/2iMViss Good look inside the White House today based on 20 sources.

One of the key witnesses against Manafort is....Manafort's lawyer.

The hottest of takes, courtesy of the WSJ opinion pages https://www.wsj.com/articles/begging-your-p...dent-1509302308

looks like the unnamed "high ranking campaign official" who Papadopolous kept talking to about Russian contacts is Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager before Manafort. https://twitter.com/maxbergmann/status/925089186117570560

In other good news, the courts struck down part of Trump's military transgender ban today.

Fox News is stepping up their anti-Mueller campaign, which is what will give Republicans cover when Trump fires him.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 11:00 AM) Sessions ran the National Security Advisory Council, of which Papadopolous was a member. Sessions has already lied under oath about Russian contacts multiple times, so you gotta wonder just how deep this goes and how much he knew/when he knew it. Here's why this is potentially really important: PapaD's "Campaign Supervisor" encouraged him to go to Russia to meet with Russian government contacts.

QUOTE (Quin @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:59 AM) Source? Sessions ran the National Security Advisory Council, of which Papadopolous was a member. Sessions has already lied under oath about Russian contacts multiple times, so you gotta wonder just how deep this goes and how much he knew/when he knew it.

Papadopolous worked for Sessions during the campaign. I wonder how many times and just how badly Sessions perjured himself beyond what we already know.

Tom Brady didn't even start in the NFL for the first 10 years of his career He went straight from pop warner football to winning SB's

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 08:49 AM) Saw the same thing. Wow. Hopefully the guy is OK. No idea it was THAT serious. Reminds me of the stories that came out about Teddy Bridgewater almost losing his leg.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:14 AM) So let's say the best case scenario happens and Trump get arrested for treason. What is the protocol for the policies he has enacted? Do they get rolled back or do they stay as is? Our system has zero mechanisms for handling this. We'd get a President Pence or, if he were also brought down in this, President Paul Ryan.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:06 AM) From the Papa indictment: Really curious to know who the "High-Ranking Campaign Official" here is because this looks like such obvious collusion. this indictment is collusion.pdf

From the Papa indictment: Really curious to know who the "High-Ranking Campaign Official" here is because this looks like such obvious collusion.

The FBI's interview with Papadopolous occured on Jan. 27th, the same day Trump asked Comey for a loyalty pledge. Could just be a coincidence...

Trump also said that shortly after his son, son-in-law, and criminally indicted campaign manager knowingly met with Russian agents to discuss the Russian government's efforts to help Trump. Trump fired Comey because he wouldn't stop the Russia investigation and then bragged about it to a Russian spy in a closed-door meeting that the White House didn't even disclose the spy attended. They don't even try to hide it.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 09:54 AM) Thats why he was indicted first. He's going to flip immediately. Papa already did flip, and his indictment is heavy with very direct and explicit attempts at collusion with the Russian government, particularly over HER EMAILS.

more from the Papadopolus indictment full document here: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/...ent-Offense.pdf Lots of Russian contacts, including up to "Putin's niece (it wasn't, but he thought she was)." Manafort will be the headline, but this guy taking a plea deal over these allegations is the bigger story imo.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 09:32 AM) Mueller's probe has been so airtight. While I believe they probably do have something ready for Flynn, I don't think that source would have actual knowledge. True. Flynn could be indicted just on what's already public knowledge along similar lines to Manafort, e.g. not registering as a foreign agent during his time as a Trump campaign adviser and National Security Adviser.

lmao (The indictment specifically mentions "through 2017")