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Just another normal Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Noel Francisco eyes his liquor cabinet*
The reason this poetry is truly eerie is that in 1973, there was no Associate AG position, so the SG was next after the DAG. But now there's an AAG position — except it's currently held by an acting official, making the SG the guy once again.
FWIW, I had TweetDeck minimized while doing some work, so I didn't see the news until my phone buzzed with this tweet. Which feels, well, very 2018.
This would make sense.
*record scratch*

*Peter Carr cracks his knuckles, places his finger over his no-comment button*
Love to be alive in the world rn
To be fair, it's also theoretically possible that Trump will nominate me as the next deputy attorney general
Rod Rosenfine
“hey dude you’re on the news” – high school classmate
lol
excited to do this all again on Thursday
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The Justice Department is about to announce charges against Chinese government (APT10) hackers for a long-running economic espionage campaign against U.S. and other Western businesses.

Watch live: justice.gov/live
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein: "Today, the Department of Justice is announcing a criminal indictment of two hackers associated with the Chinese government" for attacks on "dozens of companies in the United States and around the world."
Rosenstein: The charges are for attacks on "managed service providers" that provide IT services to other companies.
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Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein is about to deliver remarks at a Georgetown Law/DOJ cybercrime conference.
Rosenstein talking about the risks of new technology.

“We need to place security on the same footing as novelty and convenience, and design technology accordingly.”

Offers cars as an example.
Rosenstein: “We cannot accept a culture in which technology companies considers it part of their responsibility to defeat legitimate law enforcement” activities.
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Senate Rules is convening now for a hearing with Trump's EAC nominees, Donald Palmer and Benjamin Hovland.

If the Senate confirms them, the EAC will have a quorum and will be able to take major policy steps like approving new voting system guidelines.

rules.senate.gov/hearings/nomin…
Chairman Blunt, opening the hearing says that he used to be skeptical about the need for the EAC, but "the events of the last couple of years indicate that the [EAC] in many ways is likely to be more important right now and in the future than it’s been up until now."
Palmer: “If confirmed, my goal as a commissioner would be to leave the United States electoral system stronger and more secure for the next generation of Americans … [and] to upgrade our voting process with new technologies to meet the expectations of voters.”
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#poetry

at the barre

i live life en pointe these days,
always poised for the next wave,
alert, with nostrils open,
sniffing for the swift salt tide incoming

how i cling to that bright barre
because i know i’ll need
its safety, its sure clamping
to the wall of what is real
if i let go i will be washed away
to those deep currents
from which there is no rescue,
my spirit willing but my arms too weak

how ill-equipped am i
after decades of bought courage
i have no coin remaining with which
to buy another swimmer for to save me
and though i’ve tried repeatedly
to buff my soul and body
to withstand whatever’s coming
it has, even now, all been for naught
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Melanismo:
EL SECRETO DE LA PANTERA NEGRA

#Hilo (largo) de celebración por los 10.000 seguidores 🥳🎉🥳🎉
Dedicado en especial a la buena @Ipathia_ , que sabe un montón sobre gatetes 😙
1)
Muchos nos sentimos fascinados por los animales con colores atípicamente "blancos" o "negros"

Tal vez esto se deba a que los mamíferos tenemos colores tan sosos (😜😜) que tanto la ausencia de pigmentos como su exceso llaman nuestra atención

...

2)
 De vez en cuando, en una población de cierta especie, aparece un ejemplar "blanco".
Ese color tan llamativo se produce por ausencia de un pigmento denominado melanina.

Se tiende a decir que esos animales son "albinos" (un término amplísimo que daría para un hilo muy largo 😉)
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SG Noel Francisco, talking about Masterpiece Cakeshop: "I actually think this line of cases is going to be one of the more important line of cases" addressed by the Supreme Court in the coming years. "It really is using the First Amendment to defend the right of dissent."
DOJ weighed in on the side of the baker, and Francisco argued in support of that position before the justices last year. Our @BuzzFeedNews story from the arguments: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
@BuzzFeedNews Francisco and Appeals Court Judge Thomas Hardiman, from the 3rd Circuit (and on Trump's #SCOTUS short-list), are talking about the First Amendment here (livestream available) —> edtech.msl.duq.edu/Mediasite/Cata…
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#poetry
an old fairytale from 2012
The art is Arthur Rackham - Princess and Troll

The Troll’s Wife

I’ve lived, for what seems ages,
under a wooden bridge
with my constant husband.
He is a troll.
I have been enchanted, spellbound,
but no longer.
I brewed his tea with herbs of sleep
and found his magick book
and while he slept
unwove each charm
I let him bind around me.

I don’t know how this came to be,
this sorry state of wedlock.

No – that’s a lie.
I remember it well.
I was a stupid child
grown to a stupid woman,
a willing victim
never understanding there are those
who play with people:
out of ego, spite at life
or mere amusement.
I wandered blindly,
always ready to taste
the sweet but meeting only the sour.
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#poetry

declaration

not for me the cryptic tongues of men
who even as they yearn deny it readily,
not for me the pious tongues of saints
who even as they burn deny it steadily,
not for me the artful smile and arch uplifted brow
by which the maiden signifies that she is ready now,
no i will speak in forthright tones
that resonate from blood and bones
and tell you plainly to your face
with no attempt at girlish grace
i want you now and for all time
at matins, lauds, at tierce and prime
to take me, own me, every part,
impress yourself upon my heart,
and when no longer passion rages
love lives on in these bound pages.

© 1999 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
always, my darling man
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#poetry
#sonnet

Invoking Morpheus

The night, of late, is nothing but a blank;
no dreams are surfacing on break of day.
Is this phenomenon something to thank,
or has all inspiration gone astray?
I do not wish for nightmares to invade,
but strange it is that nothing I recall
of hours spent in Morpheus's glade,
as if beyond the purview of life's scrawl.
Oh shine a lantern, daemon god of dreams,
illuminate the secrets of the mind,
that better I will see beyond what streams
while wakeful, and there understanding find.
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