A day earlier, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii handed the government its latest defeat by issuing a longer-lasting hold on Trump’s executive order.
Trump appeals Hawaii judge’s new ruling blocking travel ban – The Washington Post
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Category: Local Interest,
Super Sunday 2017: The history behind Mardi Gras Indian tradition and culture
While the rest of the nation recognizes Super Sunday as the day of the Super Bowl, it has a entirely different meaning in New Orleans.
Super Sunday 2017: The history behind Mardi Gras Indian tradition and culture – Curbed New Orleans
cool.
The Republican Party is dying in Hawaii
Beth Fukumoto was a leader in the GOP. Now because of Trump, she’s becoming a Democrat.
The Republican Party is dying in Hawaii | The Outline
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Texas ‘bathroom bill’ passes key vote
The law requiring people to use toilets corresponding to their birth gender must now go to state Senate.
Texas ‘bathroom bill’ passes key vote – BBC News
If we really want to protect our children where is the law about not using the same bathrooms as people who are an actual statistically more likely to assault them? Like the one against little boys using the same bathroom as Catholic priests? Or any children with family members?
(F’ing morons!)
The Oxford comma: A Maine court settled the grammar debate over serial commas with a ruling on overtime pay for dairy-truck drivers
In an impressively geeky retort, the drivers responded that all the other exempted activities were listed as gerunds, words ending with “-ing”: Canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing. The word “distribution,” they argued, was therefore not intended to be one of the items in the list.
The first court to hear the case ruled in the company’s favor, but the appellate court disagreed. Wrote Barron, since Maine’s overtime laws are meant to have “remedial purpose,” that is, to help the state’s workers, they should be read liberally. He and the appeals court therefore sided with the drivers, ruling that they are still eligible to receive their unpaid overtime.
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Lawrence mayor calls on Sununu to back up cross-border drug trafficking claims
Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday afternoon moved to defuse a brief cross-border skirmish over efforts to fight the drug crisis, complimenting Lawrence, Mass., officials for their efforts following a telephone call with Mayor Daniel Rivera.
Lawrence mayor calls on Sununu to back up cross-border drug trafficking claims
What an incompetent tool Sununu is. Clearly political talent is not hereditary.
New Hampshire fires back after White House’s false voting fraud claims
“There’s zero evidence to support it,” former state GOP chair Fergus Cullen said.
New Hampshire fires back after White House’s false voting fraud claims – POLITICO
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Mar-a-Lago Neighbors Discover Costs of Trump’s Visits
■ $200,000 in lost fuel sales at a large local airport in a single four-day visit this month.
■ 75 no-shows at a new restaurant in just one night.
■ $60,000 a day to pay overtime to sheriff’s deputies who guard the many closed roads, a tab that is about $1.5 million over all since the election.
■ 250 private flights grounded every day.
A month into his presidency, Mr. Trump arrived at Mar-a-Lago, his private club here, for a third weekend in a row this Presidents’ Day weekend. For the locals, that’s at least three days of clogged roads and strict security protocols that hurt local businesses and frustrate residents.
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NC court blocks law stripping governor of election powers
North Carolina’s Supreme Court on Monday again blocked a state law approved by Republicans that strips the new Democratic governor of powers to oversee elections.
NC court blocks law stripping governor of election powers – The Washington Post
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Data Disproves Stephen Miller and Donald Trump’s Obsession With Voter Fraud
There’s already been a deep-dive investigation into voter fraud in 2016, and the experts “didn’t find anything.”
…Those who live and die New Hampshire politics also deride the specifics of the New Hampshire allegations as folderol. To that extent, Miller and his boss have inspired impress bipartisanship – in demolishing the claims.
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Voter Fraud in New Hampshire? Trump Has No Proof and Many Skeptics
Somebody needs to design a Trump Pinocchio meme.
This man’s pants might literally be on fire.
Pathetic.
Trump aide says NH voter fraud claims in Election 2016 bigger news than travel ban
“You can start by providing evidence to back up your claims. Thanks for joining us this morning,” Stephanopoulos said.
Zero evidence of this exists. Zilch.
The aides proverbial pants are undoubtedly on fire.
Loyal White Knights head Robert Jones says rival KKK leader Frank Ancona ‘ain’t even white’
Two KKK groups in Illinois, the Loyal White Knights and the Traditionalist American Knights, are fighting about whether one of their leaders is “white” enough.
Heh.
The Imperial Wizard of the KKK was just found dead near Missouri river bank
A Ku Klux Klan leader missing since Wednesday was found dead by a river near his home in Missouri on Saturday morning. Frank Ancona called himself the imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and went missing Wednesday.
The Imperial Wizard of the KKK was just found dead near Missouri river bank (Details)
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Tishaura Jones slams Post editorial board while declining interview
You complained that “decades of sustained, abject neglect by city leaders have allowed a bombed-out graffiti-covered, war-zone image to prevail.” You said you were afraid to walk your dog at night and you called for a plan to “address blight and abate the graffiti that’s killing our city.”
You just moved here. It isn’t your city, yet. And graffiti is not what’s killing it.
What is killing our city is poverty. Since you’re new and you live in a great neighborhood, you probably don’t know that the poverty rate doubled during Mayor Francis G. Slay’s 16-year tenure.
What is killing our region is a systemic racism that pervades almost every public and private institution, including your newspaper, and makes it nearly impossible for either North St. Louis or the parts of South St. Louis where African Americans live to get better or safer or healthier or better-educated.
….But what the editorial board and certain other reporters have done is nothing short of thinly veiled racism and preference for the status quo past. Something this city has had enough of.
I think there might be enough city voters who are with me and are ready to vote for that change in March and April. After we do that, you and your dog will be safer. And maybe you will consider hiring an African-American editorial writer.
Tishaura Jones slams Post editorial board while declining interview | Local News | stlamerican.com
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California Republicans ask Trump administration to block bullet train funding
California’s House Republicans have asked the Trump administration to block a pending federal grant that will ultimately support the state’s high speed rail project until an audit of the project’s finances is completed.
California Republicans ask Trump administration to block bullet train funding
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Boston Police Applaud Rule-Breaker For Sticking It To The Man
There’s a lot going on here, but congratulations to the Boston PD for releasing a take bursting with so much Massholery that it’s incapable of being parodied.
Boston Police Applaud Rule-Breaker For Sticking It To The Man
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Tom Brady for Shields MRI. 5 Rings #Rogerthat on Vimeo
Roger that….<Snicker>
Boston bids goodbye to Paul Pierce
BOSTON – Boston sports fans might be storming the streets by the end of Sunday night. During the day, however, they stood on their feet as they said goodbye to one of their heroes. Paul Pierce played his 560th and final game at TD Garden Sunday afternoon as a member of the visiting Los Angeles Clippers. But he sure wasn’t sent off like a visitor. Instead, he was sent off in style, like the Celtics icon that he is.
Pierce Delivers Goodbye Message for the Ages | Boston Celtics
Awwww…. Glad to see boston showing the love. Pierce is a heck of a guy and a heck of a team player.
Police Escort Congressman After Rowdy California Town Hall
Congressman Tom McClintock, a Republican from California, on Saturday faced a rowdy crowd at a packed town hall meeting in Northern California, and had to be escorted by police as protesters followed him shouting “Shame on you!”
McClintock was constantly interrupted and booed as he defended his party’s national agenda during the hourlong event at a theater in downtown Roseville, the population center of his sprawling congressional district, the Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2k8fQHQ).
Hundreds of protesters stood outside chanting “Vote him out,” while those inside the theater held signs that read “Resist,” ”Dump Tom McTrump,” and “Climate change is real.”
Police Escort Congressman After Rowdy California Town Hall – ABC News
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Maggie Hassan is first Democratic governor to call for complete halt of Syrian refugees coming to U.S.
New England’s governors were split Monday on how to deal with the crisis in the wake of the Paris attacks.
A reality check for anyone who takes Senator Hassan’s current position on the refugee and immigration ban….
Senator Maggie Hassan’s Statement on President Trump’s Anti-American Immigration Ban
What a horrid, horrid woman.
Either she still supports the ban and won’t say so because it is politically inexpedient to do so or she never supported it in the first place but was fine with playing a racist on TV if it served her political ambitions.
Either way she is a spineless, unreliable liar with no moral compass.
Hassan Flip Flops on Refugee Suspension Order
A Democratic senator who banned Syrian refugees as governor called Donald Trump’s executive order bigoted.
Hassan Flip Flops on Refugee Suspension Order
Trumps’ executive order IS bigoted.
…And so is Maggie Hassan.
If she believed in the ban while campaigning and changed her mind now because it is political expedient to do so that also makes her spineless, hypocritical, dishonest and unreliable.
If she didn’t believe in the ban but supported it while campaigning that makes her an even bigger hypocrite.
Either way, the junior Senator from NH is 100% and total scum. Pure and simple. Here’s hoping she chokes on her racism (or her willingness to play a racist on TV when it suits her ambitions) every single day of the next six years and then is immediately put out to pasture where her shallow, lying, flip-flopping, backwards ass belongs.
Shaheen, Hassan Criticize Trump Order Banning Refugees, Citizens from Muslim Countries
New Hampshire’s Democratic U.S. Senators called Trump’s ban ‘disgraceful’ and ‘un-American.’
Shaheen, Hassan Criticize Trump Order Banning Refugees, Citizens from Muslim Countries | InDepthNH
What a disgraceful and un-American hypocrite Hassan is. Good on Shaheen though.
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