Section 501c3 tax code prohibits non-profits "from supporting or opposing political candidates during a campaign." But "FACT" under Whittaker did that more than once.
"in 2016 [Whitaker] earned more than twice what leaders of similar groups were paid on average that year"
Charity Navigator is our friend, not his.
His THREE-person board of directors that included just one unsalaried member.
Georgia's Republican Secretary of State/Gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp has a three-year history of ignoring elections security, which makes his Sunday accusation about the state Democratic Party even more suspect. themoderatevoice.com/brian-kemps-ha…
"Brian Kemp is both overseeing the governor’s election, as a secretary of state, and running in that election, as the Republican nominee. And he’s behaving shamefully." nytimes.com/2018/11/05/opi… #sayNoToBrianKemp
Deconstructing Trump on Lee and Grant (image) - comments made at Ohio political rally cnn.com/politics/live-…
FACT: Robert E. Lee was a slave owner who chose to lead a traitorous rebellion. He supported a war designed to keep humans enslaved via an economic and social system of white supremacy.
Trump’s Lost Cause frame on Robert E. Lee was not scripted, so this appears to be what Trump believes (or at least holds in his head)
Nothing about how they manage your data, protect your #privacy , who is advisory board, who makes decisions, etc. #Opaque.
You can find two names buried near the bottom of long, densely-packed about page. No details/links.
Via Google search:
ED is Jason @Putorti
Tool built by @EricRies (per @Mlsif)
“In a 2014 address to Yale Law students, [Kavanaugh] recalled a night of ‘group chugs’ in Boston that ended with his group “falling out of the bus onto the front steps of Yale Law School at about 4:45 a.m.” nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/…
Drinking to excess is not synonymous with blacking out (having memory gaps). Kavanaugh implied the former by denying the latter.
Kavanaugh claimed it was “legal to drink” in his senior year. Not true. The legal drinking age in Maryland had been raised to 21 before he turned 18. And 1982, the summer in question, was the summer BEFORE his senior year. He turned 18 in 1983.
“These are cats that like to bring dead mice to the Kremlin,” says Mark Galeotti, a leading expert in Putin’s influence operations at the Prague-based Institute of International Relations. time.com/5401645/putins…
Lots of lines woven together in this @shustry analysis for @TIME
Details the links between the oligarchs and Putin, not just Russia-Trump
These “omg we have to vote now else democracy is lost” hypocrites held open a SCOTUS justice seat for ONE YEAR AND 53 DAYS because they did not want the country’s first black president to make that appointment.
"In the face of warnings that climate change was making" storms like Florence "more common" NC created an 'insurer of last resort' and "has written policies for thousands of coastal properties worth tens of billions of dollars." #NoFederalBailOutForNC propublica.org/article/hurric…
Why did the NC politicians do this?
Because "nationally known insurance companies pulled out of the state’s coastal communities". You know, they assessed the risk and said 'hell no.'
State Farm stopped writing new homeowner policies for houses within a mile of the ocean in 2006. By the end of 2008, Farmers Insurance and Encompass Insurance joined SF.
At @noaafish_wcro public hearing on Southern Resident Orca Recovery and J50.
Q: which is preferred, “Orca” or “killer whale”?
Investments in research (seems like spinning wheels) - reduced salmon harvest - $$$ in salmon recovery. Critical to achieve sustainable wild salmon populations for both salmon and whale recovery.
The wealthiest GOP supporter in Ohio told a small audience in Columbus that “he is fed up and has quit the Republican Party.” Former President Obama spoke at the event on civility and bipartisanship. dispatch.com/news/20180915/…
Advisers and staff from Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton participated.
Obama encouraged attendees to act (rather than focus on identity). So did Wexner.
Storm surge built up over of several days, starting when #florence was a cat 4 or strong cat 3 storm. That "baked in” the roughly-10ft storm surge from Cape Hatteras to Myrtle Beach, NC. @MichaelEMann at gu.com/p/9ckb6/stw
Because warmer oceans mean more moisture in the atmosphere, "for each 1C of warming, there is about 7% more moisture in the air". #florencehurricane is generating about 10% more rainfall due to 1.5C-above-normal temps, increasing risk of additional inland flooding.
The destructive potential of a hurricane is the cube of wind speed. (News to me.) #florencehurricane had a 11% increase in wind speed due to warm water; that's a 33% increase in destructive potential.
In Washington state, Branson Myers, a 22-year-old, crossed the center line with his truck and KILLED two motorcyclists and severely injured two others.
He "may have fallen asleep behind the wheel."
The charge? Second-degree negligent driving ... a traffic infraction subject to a $250 fine. tdn.com/news/local/hon…
It reinforces @chucktodd essay in @TheAtlantic about Roger Ailes and FOX 'news': "Ailes helped destroy Dukakis by making him seem an other to many Americans."
@TuckerCarlson stokes fear of "the other" for personal gain
A reminder that @Kaepernick7 began kneeling during the national anthem in 2016 after talking with former Green Beret and brief NFL long snapper Nate Boyer, who supports Colin. ninersnation.com/2016/9/1/12761…
"John McCain knew what he was doing... He wanted a pageant of everything this administration* has trashed and put up for sale ... a morality play shot through with Shakespearian portent and foreshadowing, a pageant of democracy's vengeance." esquire.com/news-politics/…
"This was a funeral with more than one purpose—to celebrate the passing of John McCain and to summon a rebirth of politics that did not so much reek of grift and vodka."
Kudos to @esquire and @CharlesPPierce
Every news organization that reported "teen hacks election site" from DefCon earlier this month should run this @propublica@liliavchang story as a mea culpa.
Of course, @Facebook AND @Twitter encourage video theft because they privilege the appearance on their own platform relative to YouTube. See @BadLipReading posts v @freedom_moates with his stolen embed
If @freedom_moates truly wanted to provide credit, @BadLipReading handle should have been included in tweet with copyright theft.
Instead, Moates doesn't even call them out by name and links to YT channel, not this video. Yet he's a "JD candidate"? FFS.
Plus, I’ve done the research on breast cancer risk and alcohol. There’s a real threshold effect there, too.
IMO, there is a FAR greater risk to more people from highly processed foods. Direct correlation with obesity and substituting sugar-for-fat in packaged food. SUGAR IN EVERYTHING (not just HFCS). Food manufacturers treating us like guinea pigs in a poorly designed “study.”
Mike Malone, the consultant who recommended closing voting precincts in Randolph County, Georgia "told residents that [GOP Gubernatorial candidate Kemp] recommended precinct consolidation."
Of course, he told the @ajc "that he didn’t recall hearing the [former] secretary of state say that." Notice the @ajc reporter doesn't ID Kemp as GOP candidate in this graph. politics.myajc.com/news/state--re…
Kemp has not criticized Malone's "handiwork in 10 other counties with similarly diverse demographics. " slate.com/news-and-polit…
“NDAs for government workers, when they go beyond prohibiting the disclosure of classified information, are unconstitutional on their face.” washingtonpost.com/news/postevery…
n 1961, President John F. Kennedy said the “very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.”
”Those words came in a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, in which Kennedy supported the right of a free press to criticize his administration while working together to protect national security.”
