I’m furthering ignorance, certainly, but I don’t think people have died as a result of my work

Source: The Guardian



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/26/experience-i-write-fake-news?CMP=twt_gu&__twitter_impression=true

Jesus. H. Christ on a trailer hitch.

Source: NYT



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/books/lupita-nyongo-to-publish-a-childrens-book.html?smid=tw-nytimesarts&smtyp=cur

Source: The Hill

By Miranda Green - 01/25/18 02:28 PM EST
Zinke touts opening up public lands at Vegas gun show

Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke took his professed love for hunting to the world's largest gun trade show in Las Vegas this week, where he spread the word on the importance of public land access.

Speaking on the Josh Tolley radio show from the event Thursday morning, Zinke said he attended the Shooting, Hunting Outdoor Trade Show — which he referred to as "Trump country" — to "let people know that our public lands belong to our people and not the government."

"Local voices have been ignored," Zinke told the radio host, adding that the administration is "opening our roads and letting people enjoy their land and putting the 'R' back in recreation," appearing to allude to Republican.

"These special interest groups don’t want people on what they perceive as their land — you cannot even ride a mountain bike in a lot of lands, so we need to adjust that."

Read more: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/370733-zinke-touts-opening-up-public-lands-at-vegas-gun-show

Source: Gizmodo

This is starting to just get sad.

Prior to receiving notice from Gizmodo this morning, Kris Kobach’s office was leaking sensitive information belonging to thousands of state employees, including himself and nearly every member of the Kansas state legislature.

Among a bevy of personal information that, according to a statement on the website, was intended to be public, the Kansas Secretary of State’s website was exposing the last four digits of Social Security numbers (known as SSN4) of thousands of current and former candidates for office, as well as thousands, or potentially tens of thousands, of high-ranking state employees at apparently ever Kansas government agency.

The combination of a person’s name and SSN4 creates what’s commonly called “personally identifiable information,” the unauthorized disclosure of which is unlawful under numerous state and federal laws. Putting these statements of substantial interest online without redacting the SSN4 information is beyond reckless; it’s stupid.

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/kris-kobach-s-office-leaks-last-4-social-security-digit-1822415622

Source: The Hill

The employee responsible for sending a false mobile alert across Hawaii warning of an incoming ballistic missile is not cooperating with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigations looking into the matter, an FCC official said Thursday, according to media reports.

Lisa Fowlkes, who heads the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, told lawmakers at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that, while leaders at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency were cooperating with investigators, the employee who accidentally sent the notification was not.

"We are quite pleased with the level of cooperation we have received from the leadership of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency thus far," Fowlkes said, according to Axios.

"We are disappointed, however, that one key employee, the person who transmitted the false alert, is refusing to cooperate with our investigation," she added. "We hope that person will reconsider."

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/370722-employee-who-sent-false-alert-in-hawaii-not-cooperating-with-fcc-probe

Source: Think Progress


https://thinkprogress.org/nikki-haley-trump-conspiracy-theories-israel-palestinian-authority-2a24c28741d7/

Source: The Hill

John Conyers III, the son of former Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), is running for his father’s old seat, setting up a race to square off against one of his family members in the Democratic primary.

Conyers III filed paperwork on Wednesday for the seat vacated by his father who resigned in December amid sexual misconduct allegations, according to The Detroit News.

He will now face off against his cousin, state Sen. Ian Conyers (D), who has already jumped into the race.

When Conyers resigned from his seat — which he held for five decades — he endorsed his son. That decision surprised many, including Conyers III, who has never run for office.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/370681-conyerss-son-launches-campaign-for-his-house-seat-report

Source: PBS News Hour

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a racial discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security, the current head of the agency, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and the former acting head of the agency, Elaine C. Duke, over the Trump administration’s decision to rescind Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants.

The lawsuit, which the group filed in the U.S. District Court in Maryland, argues that the agency and its leaders’ move “discriminates against immigrants of color” and asks the court to void the decision and reinstate the status for thousands of Haitians. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which is a separate organization from the NAACP, is representing the NAACP and its Haitian members and says the the Department of Homeland Security took “irrational and discriminatory government action, denying Haitian immigrants their right to due process and equal protection under the Fifth Amendment.”

“Governmental decisions that target people based on racial discrimination violate our Constitution,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, President and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in a statement. “The decision by the Department of Homeland Security to rescind TPS status for Haitian immigrants was infected by racial discrimination. Every step taken by the Department to reach this decision reveals that far from a rational and fact-based determination, this decision was driven by calculated, determined and intentional discrimination against Haitian immigrants.”

To make its case, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund references in the lawsuit President Donald Trump’s alleged derogatory comments about Haitians and about limiting immigrants from the island nation to increase immigration from European countries.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/naacp-sues-over-trumps-decision-to-rescind-protected-status-for-haitians

Forget closer transatlantic ties and a state visit to London, it’s been a year of public clashes.

Source: Bloomberg



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-24/inside-the-dysfunctional-relationship-of-donald-trump-and-theresa-may