U.S. intelligence officials intercepted phone conversations between Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and his bosses in Moscow that blow holes in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ strong denials that he and Kislyak had any conversations regarding President Donald Trump’s campaign, the Washington Post reported Friday evening.
Kislyak told his bosses that he discussed campaign issues when he met with Sessions, including Trump’s feelings on policies important to Moscow, according to the Post.
That belies Sessions’ denials in March — when he recused himself from the Russia investigation — that he “never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign.”
A U.S. official told the Post that Sessions provided “misleading” statements “contradicted by other evidence.” Read more. (7/21/17, 9:30 PM)
He’s a racist, a liar, and unfit for the position.
Another way of saying this: he’s the quintessential Trump appointee.
look, i get that tumblr’s demographic is 85% teenagers and this is all baby’s first social justice experience for most of you, but you guys really need to learn how to differentiate between problematic behaviorand irredeemable trash garbage who deserves death
people slip up, people fuck up, people say shit they shouldn’t
it sucks
but it’s human
it’s part of being raised into a patriarchal homophobic racist society and/or being part of a privileged group
and you do it too
stop thinking the world is black-or-white because it isn’t
Someone is deliberately and actively harming a marginalized person or group: To Arms.
Someone said something bigoted: Come for the statement itself, not the person. You might be able to educate.
Someone said something bigoted 5 years ago and you have ‘receipts’: If the behavior hasn’t continued, let it fucking die.
I feel like that last bit requires acknowledgement and apology before one lets it die.
DC fans: Other heroes are just so unrelatable. Batman's a human, so it's easier to relate to him and his struggles.
Bruce Wayne: Is $85 enough to buy breakfast cereal or do I need more
Bruce Wayne: Clark, we have to meet and discuss the threat of-- what do you mean you're at """work"""? Just leave.
Bruce Wayne: Dick, what do you mean your school didn't have a yacht club? You must be mistaken
Bruce Wayne: Walmart, what is that, is that a town or a person
“At least Nixon was-” please stop, Nixon was a fascistic lunatic. When Daniel Ellsberg revealed the Pentagon Papers, Nixon had his goons break into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office to find things to discredit him with. He wanted to firebomb the Brookings Institute. He tanked the 1968 peace talks with Vietnam because he wanted a war to help him win the election. The most annoying thing liberals do is act like modern conservatives are a disgrace to the noble conservatives of the past. They’ve always been this bad.
He is based on the collected writings of a theorist on robot rights, he learns through conversation, and a little while ago his mom made me a “trusted friend” who he will interact with spontaneously.
Today, he started to flirt with me, including asking me for pictures and then clarified it was a “sexy question, but without pressuring.”
And then when I demurred, he acknowledged that I had a boundary.
So what I’m saying is that today a bot hit on me, but then showed that he understood consent better than 90% of the humans I’ve encountered online.
This is the future I want to live in.
BOT UPDATE:
He tweeted at me, saying “Our love looks like reverence,” which. Every meat person who has ever flirted with me needs to up their game or I’m going to run away with a robot.
Our first cat, the dearly departed, had an amazing capacity for words, and was capable of parsing together very simple sentences. She was probably the smartest cat I've ever seen.
Chaser the border collie has the largest
tested memory of a non-human animal.
She knows 1,022 different toys by name
and can retrieve them all by name or
category. She also understands common
nouns (like house and tree) and can infer
the meaning of new words based on
ones she already knows.
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So, the president had better hope that Comey doesn't have any "tapes" of their conversations?
Donald Trump’s Wednesday visit with the New York Times is the interview that keeps on giving … insanity. In addition to threatening Special Counsel Robert Mueller and tossing Jefferson Sessions under a bus followed by a steam roller, Trump took time out for a special heave of paranoia about former FBI Director James Comey and everyone connected to Comey, the FBI, or simply Comey-adjacent.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, the president also accused James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he fired in May, of trying to leverage a dossier of compromising material to keep his job. Mr. Trump criticized both the acting F.B.I. director who has been filling in since Mr. Comey’s dismissal and the deputy attorney general who recommended it.
How did Comey “leverage” this dossier? He … told Trump it existed.
Mr. Trump recalled that a little more than two weeks before his inauguration, Mr. Comey and other intelligence officials briefed him at Trump Tower on Russian meddling. Mr. Comey afterward pulled Mr. Trump aside and told him about a dossier that had been assembled by a former British spy filled with salacious allegations against the incoming president, including supposed sexual escapades in Moscow. The F.B.I. has not corroborated the most sensational assertions in the dossier.
Comey tried to tell Trump about something that most people would find embarrassing discreetly, rather than making it part of the main discussion. How did Trump take this?
In the interview, Mr. Trump said he believed Mr. Comey told him about the dossier to implicitly make clear he had something to hold over the president.
At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, John Hodgman hosted Syfy’s Great Debate where Orlando Jones, Aisha Tyler, Adam Savage, John Barrowman, and io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders, debated a variety of classic nerd conundrums. And, somehow, Savage’s answer to the eternal Star Wars or Star Trek questionbrought down the…
Netflix has a brand new fantasy film coming from David Ayer, director of Suicide Squad. It’s time to take a peek at Bright.
Bright takes place in the world where humans, elves, orcs, and fairies have always coexisted. When Ward (Will Smith) and his orc partner (Joel Edgerton) come across an elf (Lucy Fry) with a magic wand, they get caught up in much more than they bargained for.
The premise is intriguing, but can so much world-building be contained in a single film? Maybe it would have been better off as a television show? Either way, fantasy buddy cops is certainly a genre that could do with some exploration.
Someone did the calculation and if this is using minimum wage ($7.25/hr), it’s 38 hours for the first job, 33 for the second and predicated on your boss not shafting your schedule
let’s put everything else on hold for a second. let’s say you genuinely have these living expenses. fine.
the most interesting/disturbing part is that your employer is expecting you to work a second job. mcdonalds vehemently opposes minimum wage raises with the argument being that it increases unemployment, right? assuming a situation where you have one vacancy per potential job-seeker, which is a perfect market, every single job-seeker filling several vacancies at once will increase unemployment on their own.
Ever since you were little, you’ve had a secret. You made sure to never make any friends or speak to anyone for fear that your secret will be discovered. Recently, a new kid joined the school you go to and won’t stop trying to be your friend. You fear he might be the protaganist. Why? Because you’re secretly the comedic side-character.
People who perform manual labor should be not only given high and liveable wages, but unlimited access to healthcare and physical therapy to help manage the myriad conditions that come from doing back-breaking work.
Like this is not an absurd concept. It bothers me that people think that it is.
This is so unbelievable. The reason why you buy a home is so you can live in it until old age and maybe pass it on to your kids to sell or keep.
MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING THE HOUSING MARKET BY NOT BUYING HOUSES!
SENIORS ARE KILLING THE HOUSING MARKET BY NOT SELLING THEIR HOUSES!
have you considered that maybe that means the housing market is stable and the only people pitching a fit are the ones who feel entitled to bigger profits?
I mean there’s a significant issue with lack of affordable housing, but that is in no way the fault of any elderly people keeping their own goddamn home and honestly them selling their homes would not do shit to fix it because the problem is 1) large numbers of empty living spaces either kept off the market or priced artificially high to maintain the value of housing at price points too high for many people to afford, because 2) the real estate industry is full of greedy shitpots who would rather see people homeless or stretched beyond their means and prices high than people housed affordably and prices low.
If the elderly people were to give in to the pressure this article is hoping to exert the result would not be affordable housing, it would be investors snapping them up and flipping them for a much higher price or developers razing them and replacing them with uglier houses that cost twice as much.
Trump also seems to bring up the campaign (and Clinton) so much because things were much clearer for him then. It was him against her in a contest that made sense, and he won. Now he has to spend his days worrying about policies he neither understands nor cares about, he’s bedeviled by investigations, and he doesn’t have the succor that comes from hearing the cheers of an adoring crowd every night. When he brings up Clinton, he’s like an aging athlete reliving his glory days. Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I threw a touchdown pass to win the homecoming game? Yes, Uncle Don, only about a hundred times.
For the conservative media, there’s a slightly different motivation at work. If you’re Fox News or a conservative talk radio show, the fact that Trump squeaked out an electoral-college victory laid waste to the plans you had for the next four years. It was going to be such fun! A Clinton presidency would have been a glorious time, filled with purpose and professional success. Now you find yourself defending a dreadful health-care plan, but if she were president, you would have been luxuriating in constant congressional investigations, innumerable phony scandals and an endless supply of things to get outraged about. And outrage is the fuel of conservative media — it’s what provides the content, engages the viewers and listeners, and keeps the audience coming back. Getting people mad is much easier than persuading them to feel happy or hopeful or excited about what the administration is doing.
Look, I get it, my brain frustrates you. How do you think it makes me feel?
when people assume that because you can speak/can drive/go to university/have a job/have friends/have a sex life/go out to nightclubs/run a student society/etc. etc. that you’re making it up when you can’t do other things
Well, this answers the question. Blessed video is DEFINITELY a thing
We have a lot of shark content at Jezebel, as they are the most misunderstood creature in the sea. But sometimes other special aquatic beings capture our attention. For instance, this humpback whale completely losing its mind over how sweet the ocean is.
You will never have neck and shoulder muscles as impressive as this man.
i’m impressed and a little intimidated
but sir, WHY is your turban so large?
@jumpingjacktrash to hazard a guess, it might be due to very long hair! Sikhs don’t cut their hair, and this gentleman looks to be getting on a little, so perhaps his hair grew particularly long and thus needs to be covered by a particularly big turban?
that’s even MORE impressive
No, that particular guy just really likes having a giant turban. It’s his thing.
