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jodymarie aimee's JournalWHO CARES...brilliant response from our Ed Rendell..
Ed Rendell In response to new young guy on MSNBC's question about WHY Trump tweeted about TIME cover.....refreshing.....wish more of our guys would respond the same way to these inane talking heads' questions..WHO CARES???
IRS beefs up security for Trump's tax returns..WTF?
In a safe in a locked room.....go get 'em Rachel...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/money/irs-beefs-up-security-for-trumps-tax-returns/vi-BBFBBuN
Sit-ins, protests, rallies: activists' mammoth push to thwart Republican tax bill
Sit-ins, protests, rallies: activists' mammoth push to thwart Republican tax bill
Friday 24 November 2017 01.00 EST
Activists will launch a last-ditch effort to prevent Donald Trump’s tax bill from passing in the Senate on Monday, with scores of groups planning to lay siege to politicians’ offices.
Indivisible, the progressive group that aims to use Tea Party tactics to thwart the Republicans, has called for a day of action to stop the tax legislation, which the Senate is expected to vote on in the week after Thanksgiving.
According to some estimates, the GOP bill would actually raise taxes on middle-class workers over the next decade, and leave 13 million more people without insurance. A different tax bill passed the House on 16 November.
“Republicans are trying to rush this tax bill through,“ said Angel Padilla, the policy director at Indivisible. “And this is kind of standard practice for Republicans now – trying to rush things without any real public input. That’s what we saw on the healthcare bill and that’s what’s happening now.”
Activists are planning to hold sit-ins and demonstrations outside Republican senators’ offices across the country, in a protest they have dubbed “#TrumpTaxScam Sit-Ins”.
Indivisible, which is made up of more than 6,000 groups nationwide, has called for people to target seven senators in particular who it believes could vote against the bill: John McCain, Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowsi, Susan Collins, Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Capito and Bob Corker.
“They’re the most important of the bunch,” said a post on the Indivisible website.
In Phoenix, people are planning a “revolving sit-in” at the offices of Arizona senators McCain and Flake. Both are wavering on the legislation – Flake has said he is concerned it will add to the national deficit while McCain has previously voted against tax cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy. The reductions in the Senate bill would most benefit the country’s highest earners.
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Tanya Luken, an organizer with Indivisible Phoenix, said small groups of activists will sit outside the senators’ offices for 30 minutes at a time before being subbed out for others to reduce the risk of arrest.
“If you’re going to reform income tax law that is not the way to do it. I’m all for simplifying things but this tax bill does nothing but redistribute wealth upwards,” Luken said.
In Alaska an Indivisible group is planning a sit-in at Murkowski’s office in Anchorage. Murkowski rebelled against her party to vote against Republicans’ healthcare reform in July, although on Tuesday she wrote an op-ed in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner which suggested she might vote for the tax bill.
“I believe that the federal government should not force anyone to buy something they do not wish to buy in order to avoid being taxed,” Murkowski wrote – a reference to the Affordable Care Act’s “individual mandate”, which will be removed under the Senate tax plan, destabilizing healthcare insurance and, according to the Congressional Budget Office, seeing an additional 13 million people lose insurance. The CBO also predicted the tax bill would add $1.5tn to the nation’s debts.
In addition to Monday’s protests, a group called Not One Penny is stepping up the pressure on Republican senators by running TV adverts in key districts, highlighting inequality in the tax legislation. Both the Senate and the House are on recess this week, and politicians are likely to be spending time in their home states.
The group ran an advert in Maine on Tuesday which urged Republican senator Collins not to “lose her way”. Collins, like Murkowski, voted against the GOP’s healthcare legislation in the summer and activists hope she will do likewise on the tax bill.
Activists with the progressive group March forth Maine are planning to hold a demonstration outside Collins’ office in Portland, Maine, on Monday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/24/republican-tax-bill-protest-?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=253905&subid=17536001&CMP=GT_US_collection
Cable- TV- Ization of the Internet
Cable- TV- Ization of the internet...guy on Ali Velshi just coined that..RE: net neutrality....let's use that.
Trump has no wins??? Think again, he is packing courts for years to come....
The makeup of America’s judges is quietly becoming the site of one of Trump’s most unequivocal successes: nominating and installing judges who reflect his own worldview at a speed and volume unseen in recent memory. Trump could conceivably have handpicked more than 30% of the nation’s federal judges before the end of his first term, his advisers have suggested, and independent observers agree.
“The president himself has said that he expects this to be one of his major legacies. He is going to reshape the bench for generations to come,” said Douglas Keith, counsel with the fair courts arm of the Brennan Center for Justice.
“I do think this deserves more attention given the consequence, the significance of what will eventually be a wholesale change among the federal judiciary,” he continued.
Much has been made of Trump’s failure to get legislation through Congress and received wisdom suggests that he has little to show for his first 10 months in power. However, the lasting impact that court picks have on the lives of Americans means that Trump’s choices – and the sheer numbers involved – will help reshape America for the next half-century.
Until recently little attention has been paid to Trump’s judicial appointments. But Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware and a member of the Senate judiciary committee, identified the importance of these appointments early on. In June he said: “This will be the single most important legacy of the Trump administration. They will quickly be able to put judges on circuit courts all over the country, district courts all over the country, that will, given their youth and conservatism, have a significant impact on the shape and trajectory of American law for decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/22/federal-court-judicial-nominations-donald-trump?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=253487&subid=17536001&CMP=GT_US_collection
Republican Plan to Nuke the Internet Is About to Be Revealed
Republican Plan to Nuke the Internet Is About to Be Revealed..The F.C.C. is expected to gut Obama-era net-neutrality rules.
by
Maya Kosoff
November 21, 2017 10:05 am
“Two years ago, I warned that we were making a serious mistake,” Ajit Pai, the Trump-appointed head of the Federal Communications Commission, said in a speech in Washington in April, referring to net-neutrality rules that were enacted under Obama. “It’s basic economics,” he continued. “The more heavily you regulate something, the less of it you’re likely to get.” This week, Pai will move to put that theory to the test, rolling out plans to dismantle prohibitions that currently prevent Internet service providers from charging companies for faster access or from slowing down or speeding up services like Netflix or YouTube. According to The Wall Street Journal, the F.C.C. will unveil its proposal this week, less than three months after the end of a public feedback period that generated 22 million comments.
Current net-neutrality rules, including the F.C.C.’s Open Internet Order, were established under Obama-appointed F.C.C. Chair Tom Wheeler in 2015 to ensure an open and free Internet by requiring service providers to treat all data equally. Among other things, they prevent Internet service providers from prioritizing their own content—for example, Time Warner can’t choose to deliver content from CNN faster than content from Netflix or exempt CNN content from counting toward Time Warner users’ data caps. Internet service providers are also barred from creating so-called paid fast lanes or slowing/blocking Web content.
The rules are designed to ensure fair competition: while a large company like Google’s YouTube could afford to pay an Internet service provider’s fees for a better connection to consumers, small start-ups likely could not. While critics of net neutrality argue that the strict Obama-era guidelines have put a damper on investment in broadband, supporters say regulation is necessary to prevent large Internet service providers from destroying small businesses or overcharging consumers.
While the exact details of the plan are not yet public, Pai’s initial proposal, which sought to undo the Title II classification of service providers, was a roadmap to radically reshape the Internet. Rather than actually enforcing net-neutrality rules, the F.C.C. would ask Internet providers to promise in writing not to slow down competitors’ traffic or block Web sites, a voluntary system that the agency would not enforce. Enforcement powers would instead be handed to the Federal Trade Commission, which could punish Internet service providers for deceptive or unfair trade practices, but could not force them to make such promises to consumers in the first place. There would be nothing to stop Internet providers from changing their terms of service to allow them to control access speeds at will, though I.S.P.s have curiously insisted that they would welcome laws that ban throttling content.
During its 10 months in power, the Trump administration has moved to enact sweeping deregulations, but digital activists are alarmed at its newest target. “We are concerned with media reports that the F.C.C. chairman intends to surrender the legal authority of the F.C.C. over cable and telephone companies in exchange for legally unenforceable promises to protect an open Internet,” Ernesto Falcon, legislative counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told me earlier this year. “Such a plan would not preserve Internet freedom, but rather would destroy it by handing over the Internet to Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon. The F.C.C. should be fighting to enforce our rights, not negotiating the terms of their demise.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/fcc-net-neutrality-repeal?mbid=nl_CH_5a146c0a4f3ee5603ba625bc&CNDID=45600135&spMailingID=12410217&spUserID=MTYxNzY1ODQ1ODQ0S0&spJobID=1281988112&spReportId=MTI4MTk4ODExMgS2
1/2 of Americans voted in 2016, Russian chaos. These sex scandals are more of the same.
1/2 of Americans voted in 2016, Russian chaos. These sex scandals are more of the same.
Half of Americans voted in 2016, Russian chaos partly to blame. These sex scandals are more of the same...please see them with a clear head....
Will LESS vote in 2018..."oh, they are all perverts, why should I vote?"
The media has been enabling Trump for over 2 years now....we at DU are supposed be more thoughtful and see the big picture, not fall for the Trump media squirrels. And the divisions. We want to WIN elections, not get distracted by the sex sex sex 24/7.
1/2 of Americans voted in 2016, Russian chaos. These sex scandals are more of the same.
Half of Americans voted in 2016, Russian chaos partly to blame. These sex scandals are more of the same...please see them with a clear head....will LESS vote in 2018..."oh, they are all perverts, why should I vote?" the media has been enabling Trump for over 2 years now....we at DU are supposed be more thoughtful and see the big picture, not fall for the Trump media squirrels. And the divisions. We want to WIN elections, not get distracted by the sex sex sex 24/7.
Ari is doing AT&T story
President Baby is interfering with anti trust laws compromising first amendment. Fixated on CNN....President Baby wants them GONE.
Jesus God, what country are we living in?
Report: McMaster Called Trump Dope With The Smarts Of A Kindergartner
Report: McMaster Called Trump ‘Dope’ With The Smarts Of A ‘Kindergartner’
Susan Walsh/AP
By Esme Cribb Published November 20, 2017 12:41 pm
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was unsparingly critical of President Donald Trump at a July dinner with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, according to a report BuzzFeed News published on Monday.
McMaster called Trump an “idiot,” a “dope” and said he has the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” BuzzFeed reported, citing five unnamed sources with knowledge of McMaster’s and Catz’s conversation.
A sixth unnamed source told BuzzFeed News that McMaster made similar comments directly to the source in private, and said Trump did not have the smarts to understand the subjects the National Security Council deals with.
The White House referred TPM’s request for comment to the National Security Council, which did not immediately reply. Michael Anton, a spokesman for the council, told BuzzFeed News that “actual participants in the dinner deny that General McMaster made any of the comments attributed to him by anonymous sources.”
“Those false comments represent the diametric opposite of General McMaster’s actual views,” Anton told BuzzFeed News.
Oracle also vehemently denied that McMaster made any such remarks.
“None of the statements attributed to General McMaster were said,” Oracle senior VP for government affairs Ken Glueck told BuzzFeed News.
Two unnamed sources with knowledge of the situation told BuzzFeed News that members of Trump’s administration threatened retaliation against “several figures with knowledge of the July dinner” if they spoke to BuzzFeed News.
Glueck, however, denied that Oracle issued its response under pressure from the White House: “Ridiculous.”
McMaster would not be the first high-ranking member of Trump’s administration to call his boss’ intelligence into question: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly called Trump a “moron” at a meeting in July with Trump’s national security team and other members of the administration.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-tillerson-called-trump-idiot-dope-intelligence-of-a-kindergartner
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