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Don Moynihan @donmoyn
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Scott Pruitt everybody: the grift that keeps on giving
Pruitt asking federal lawyers to help him get out of his rental lease without paying a penalty is the most Scott Pruitt thing ever washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
You know Scott Pruitt's already has plans to steal everything that is not nailed down on the day he is finally shitcanned
This op-ed I wrote about Pruitt back in April holds up pretty well. huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-…
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Grover Norquist knows how marginal tax rates works. He and his organization has done more to shape our current tax system than perhaps anyone else.
The point of this tweet is to underline that much of the conservative DC brains-trust are perfectly comfortable with propaganda. 1/
For those of you unfamiliar, Norquist is the leader of Americans for Tax Reform, whose great policy contribution has been to coerce Republican elected officials into signing a pledge to never raise taxes, promising to primary anyone who doesn't sign. 2/ newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Norquist is hugelyy influential, nominally because of his tax policy expertise. But given his obvious bad-faith arguments, why give him op-ed space? Every time he testifies in Congress, lawmakers first question should be "why should we take anything you say seriously?" 3/
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The debate about campus speech is a lot easier to understand when you get that it is mostly driven by people who care neither about campus or speech, but instead dislike universities because they assume they foster liberal thought. And its not just the US.
Authoritarian Orban in Hungary not just shut down an independent university - the definition of state censorship. He is also obsessed with removing gender studies from higher education. 2/ edition.cnn.com/2018/10/19/eur…
In the UK, the nationalist UKIP party has also blames university-inspired political correctness for the world's problem - including the EU! 3/
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Jazmine Headley went to a welfare office to get childcare vouchers so she could take a cleaning job. With no available chairs, she sat on the floor with her 1yr old. She was told to stand, refused. Then police came, yanked child away & arrested her. 1/ nytimes.com/2018/12/09/nyr…
Eyewitnesses said she was not blocking any entry way, but she is charged with obstruction. She is charged with endangering her child, even though it was the security officials and police who directly put the child in danger 2/
This story made me think of @jbsoss's work abt welfare encounters. I assign it to my students, who have mostly never encountered this sort of treatment by the state. Joe's work illustrates how such experiences teach citizens lessons abt their standing 3/ dropbox.com/s/7tsmsxugn7jk…
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For those of you asking how you can help with the migrant families who were released without warning by ICE at the El Paso Greyhound station, here's some information. The most important step, if you can afford it, is to donate to Annunciation House. paypal.com/donate/… 1/
Many have asked about donating used clothes. Annunciation House has enough used clothes right now; additional donations would cause logistical problems. So they ask that you not donate used items at this point. 2/
Donations of new underwear for adults and children are always welcome. Small and medium sizes especially. 3/
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#Help Personally #Verified
I met Shyla last year in a meeting. Her father had dreamt of making her a doctor. But his dreams drowned in the sewer he had died in. This is her story. (ruralindiaonline.org/articles/my-mo…)
Ten years later, Shyla is almost close to realising her father’s dream. She is doing her nursing course, and she needs help. As a society that sent her father down the sewers, I think it is our responsibility to see that she becomes a nurse.
When I met her again last month, Shyla was exuding confidence. “I will soon be a nurse and if you need anything, call me over” she told me and i cant wait.
Shyla’s course fee for third year comes close to Rs 1 lakh. I already have someone pledging Rs 10,000.
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You're married with kids, you both work, life is tough but you're getting by. You sometimes row but mostly get on.

One day the other half leaves you with the kids and the bills.

It's not an affair. It's worst. They're off to find themselves on a beach and have no plan.

Brexit
You have an OK job, it's not great but it pays. One day you get made redundant, it's devastating. How are you gonna pay the bills?

Your asshole boss says, "don't worry, you won't have to pay for the petrol to get to work, let's call that a bonus"

Brexit Dividend.
You lost your job. Luckily you had a bunch of mates who said you could share a flat with them.

You got back on your feet over time and found a nice new job after they clubbed together to help you.

Then you decided to bugger off without paying the rent. You're a tosser.

Brexit
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This all started because the #MetPolice & #LBRUT couldn't do their jobs properly & then decided to take the law into their own hands. The result of this decision has led to events stranger than fiction

#BBCNews #Skynews #Itvnews #Channel4News #ThisMorning #TheresaMay #UKGov #LBC
My company was raided. It should have been a straightforward matter. But the #MetPolice & #LBRUT forgot to seize my computer & came back to do a 2nd raid. The search warrant didn't permit a second entry, however, #LBRUT entered unlawfully

#Guardian #Telegraph #DailyMail #GMB #UK
Complaints were then made to my MP #VinceCable. He liaised with the #Metpolice & #LBRUT. And then weeks later, the search warrant was completely changed & was passed off as the search warrant executed on the day of the raids.

#DailyPolitics #Libdems #Conservatives #labour #bbcdp
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1/ If wondering if a @washingtonpost subscription is worth it, I thought it would be worth listing the stories we broke on Pruitt’s spending and management over the past year. So here's a top 10, featuring work by @brady_dennis @jdawsey1 with help from @ShawnBoburg @sullivank
1/ The fact that he ordered a soundproof phone booth for $25K-and then, that the price tag reached $43K
2/ That his Italy trip cost taxpayers more than 100K, and other first-class flights cost them thousands more.
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#Pruitt is a regular attendee of the weekly Bible Study run by the highly politicized Evangelical Capitol Ministries. Here is their sermon on environmentalism. Folks really need to understand what is happening here. #ScienceMatters capmin.org/coming-to-grip… …
This goes throughout this administration. This is not 'economic populism' #Pence /1 theintercept.com/2016/11/15/mik… …
#Sessions /2 thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/… …
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