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The TrumpShutdown Hashtag got far more Tweets than SchumerSchutdown http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumpshutdown-beats-schumershutdown-hashtag-battle-assign-blame/story?id=52487452. Twitter didn't make a political decision there. This is also in keeping with the fact that more Americans blame the Republicans than the Democrats for the shutdown https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-blame-republicans-than-democrats-for-potential-government-shutdown-post-abc-poll-finds/2018/01/19/c4fce2f6-fd32-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.2b05358862e7, and that you can make reasonable arguments blaming a whole bunch of groups for the shutdown depending on what you want to focus on https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/18/if-the-government-shuts-down-heres-your-cheat-sheet-on-which-party-to-blame/?utm_term=.e08056687732, but given that the Republicans control the House, the Senate and the Presidency, and Trump explicitly said repeatedly during the Obama administration that any shut down would be the President's fault http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/369756-trumps-comments-blaming-obama-for-2013-government-shutdown-resurface, #TrumpShutdown makes a fair bit of sense anyhow.

There was budget surpluses each year between 1998 and 2001, 2001 being the last year of Clinton's budgets. In 2002, the first year of Bush's budgets, we once again had a deficit.

In 2001, the projected 10 year surplus was ~5.6 trillion, with the national debt standing at ~5.7 trillion. That means, if the projection held true, we stood within 11 years of eliminating the national debt. And, of course, we remember what republicans did: a tax cut, a give away to big pharm, and two wars put straight onto the debt. Given the choice, republicans exploded the debt instead of paying it off. They actively chose to fuck over everyone except the 1%. And lets put this in perspective... that tax cut was supposed to cost 1.6 trillion over 10 years, but over just 8 years our debt exploded to 10.6 trillion... a 5 trillion dollar increase... BECAUSE republicans chose to say "the debt doesn't matter," right Dick.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/...

The Bush tax cuts are responsible for a full 1/3rd of our current national debt. You know, those tax cuts that republicans swore wer going to pay for themselves, increase growth, and increase revenue. And just as they did when Reagan passed his tax cut.... they didn't do anything the republicans swore they'd do. revenue fell (duh), growth was anemic at best (much slower job growth and slightly slower GDP growth than when Clinton was in office), and the national debt exploded.

And lets face it, this tax cut bullshit is ll based on Dick "the dick" Cheney's Laffer Curve which was never anything more than a line on a napkin...with no numbers attached. It was the basis for the supply-side economics bullshit that has driven this country into massive debt. Even the guy who developed it for Reagan says it doesn't work. But, true believes always have brown eyes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Quite simply put... there are no fiscally conservative republicans. All there is is a bunch of anti-federal government, anti-American politicians that are leeching everything they can out of this countries coffers for themselves and their wealthy benefactors.

Because, of course, while you have have republicans screaming about spending less, they're pushing through tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy: https://www.politico.com/story...

Reagan enacted two tax cuts, one in 1981, one in 1983. 11 tax increases later Bush Sr. was elected and he... raised taxes more.... then Clinton raised taxes a record with a record breaking increase. Net results after all those tax INCREASES.... longest period of growth in US history, and a budget surplus for 4 years. Took republicans less than 2 years to fuck it all up.

I've got a great idea... if this tax cut doesn't do what republicans say it is going to (which it wont, because they NEVER have), then every single congress person that voted for it, and every single citizen who voted in those congress people... every one of them should forfeit every single penny they have to pay for their fuckup. Reagan cut taxes, the debt exploded; Bush Jr cut taxes, the debt exploded; Who wants to bet on a 30 trillion national debt in 5 years?

How would spending millions of dollars running for president and thrust in the political lime light to be alienated by friends, donors, business associates, and politicians be in any way a winning strategy for getting richer? Have you thought this through at all?

Yes. Have you?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/11/amid-all-the-craziness-dont-forget-trump-is-using-the-presidency-to-enrich-his-family

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-07/the-art-of-the-trump-enrichment-program

https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/trump-already-profiting-2020-campaign

Trump's 2020 campaign has already paid $395,000 for space in New York’s pricey Trump Tower, ensuring the president and his family will profit.

Personally, I don't think that Trump is paid off by anything. He was aided by Russian interference, but I don't think he was an active colluder. A puppet, but an unwitting one.

Apparently, it's pretty well known that Trump had financial problems in the 90s-00s, couldn't get loans in the US and got in bed with Russian money. If he is conspiring to launder Russian mafia money , he's susceptible to blackmail, and that's obviously a national security concern.

Everyone shoots to kill. Shooting to wound or at the other guy's gun is a Hollywood fantasy.

Know what else is a Hollywood fantasy? Getting off a hip shot, at range, at armored targets in cover. But this guy didn't have a gun. I don't know about these cops, but I learned to always be sure of what I was shooting at when I took basic firearms safety.

When I was eight. And this man wasn't carrying anything, much less something that looked like a gun.

Shields and armor are only resistant, not bullet proof

Ballistic shields are bullet proof. If the man came out with a .50 caliber rifle at the ready position it might have been a different story, but that wasn't the case.

Really?? What are you 12 years old? Cops make an average of $52k/year, the average software engineer makes $92k. How much risk does your job entail? They sure as hell do not get paid commensurate with the risk that they put themselves in.

Are you? Being a cop isn't even in the top ten of the most dangerous jobs in the United States. Loggers, fishermen, roofers, garbage men, truckers, taxi drivers, pilots and ag workers all have it harder than cops do. And we don't allow any of those people to literally beat your brains out in the street for no reason, with impunity. Take out car accidents - which don't have anything to do with cops getting their guns off - and they aren't even in the top 20.

Here's how the Washington Post is reporting this: The planet just had its hottest 4 years in recorded history. Trump is dismantling efforts to fight climate change.

This is just speculation, but considering Amazon was paid $600 to setup a cloud system for our government(CIA, etc. )-- link below and owns the Washington Post -- which is an establishment mouth piece -- my guess is that they do give over our info. Anyways, like any corporation I don't hold my breath when it comes to my privacy, so I take steps to hopefully limit what I share.

A few top links about Amazon's $600 million deal with our goverment:
http://www.businessinsider.com...
https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

An early article from the Washington Post talking about the sell of it to Jeff Bezo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

No one worries about issues of propaganda when it was the MSM's version of fake news.

Actually the media is obsessed with navel gazing over accuracy. The "fake news" Trump complains about, on the other hand, is essentially just objective reality. Seriously, look at how often that man lies about obvious and easily disprovable things. Politifact Washington Post.

Only the most die hard Trump supporter would think a man who has decimated our standing in the world, weakened key government institutions, attacked the rule of law and our sense of reality, attacked the free press, and been a lightening rod for extremists, nazis, and racists here at home was the better candidate. Unless you think Roy Moore was better than Doug Jones, in which case you are so detached from reality you should know this: The rest of the country is getting tired of having your denials and whining fits continue to drag us down when the rest of the country wants progress. Trump is trying his hardest to make this country into a despotic shithole. Countries he obsesses over, like Norway? LIBERAL. Deal with that.

the cost for an EV will probably never come down to a parity with ICE cars

Most experts think that once the cost of a battery comes down, battery electric vehicles will cost less than ICE vehicles. Some people are claiming that BEVs are already cheaper than ICEVs if you take total cost of ownership into account.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/01/electric-cars-already-cheaper-to-own-and-run-than-petrol-or-diesel-study

I have seen several people repeating the claim that when lithium batteries for cars drop below $100 per kilowatt-hour, BEVs will cost less than ICEVs and consumers will start switching to them to save money. Elon Musk has in the past said that 2020 could be the year this happens. (For Tesla, anyway, since Tesla built its own battery factory just to get the lowest cost on batteries.)

https://electrek.co/2017/01/30/electric-vehicle-battery-cost-dropped-80-6-years-227kwh-tesla-190kwh/

the only hope is for some type of battery that does not involve lithium

I'll bet you that BEVs will boom in the next few years, still using lithium batteries. The high price of lithium is sending a signal to the free market, and as a result more development of lithium resources is happening. If prices are high enough, lithium and other metals can be recovered from sea water, and we aren't running out of sea water anytime soon. Also, we haven't really started recycling lithium car batteries yet, but that's coming too.

According to this article a Tesla Model S only needs 15 pounds / 7 kg of lithium, about as much as a bowling ball; and experts think that just the lithium available from mining would be enough for 185 years.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-lithium-battery-future/

Tons of research is going into batteries, but it is way too early to bet on a winning horse at this point.

For years I have been interested in batteries big enough to run an entire city ("grid-scale" batteries). I was assuming that something unusual like the liquid metal battery technology or flow batteries would be needed, but Tesla has started selling grid-scale lithium battery packs to Australia. So maybe lithium is even getting inexpensive enough for grid-scale. My understanding is that the Tesla battery in Australia can only supply power for a very short time, so I haven't lost interest in liquid metal or flow batteries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/26/teslas-enormous-battery-in-australia-just-weeks-old-is-already-responding-to-outages-in-record-time/

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/liquid-metal-battery-inventor-questions-lithium-ion-as-grid-scale-storage-solution-2017-03-29

The $1000 bonuses only go to workers with 20 years' service. Look it up -- MULTIPLE sources say the same thing.

OK, I looked it up. The retail giant said the pay raises would take effect Feb. 17 and the bonuses paid sometime after this month. It also plans to give one-time cash bonuses to some part-time and full-time workers, ranging from $200 (for workers who have been at Walmart for less than two years) to $1,000 (for those who have been working there for 20 or more years).

That meteor over Michigan last night? That was the BitCoin flashbang. Turn out the lights, the party's over....

go look at the shitshow the nc district map https://www.washingtonpost.com... thats how

No. Project Veritas claims to release all the videos. You have no idea how many videos they have that they didn't release. That videos are in large chunks doesn't mean there isn't released videos. And given that they never released any video with their attempted sting on the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.ed859f92fdc9, the idea they are releasing all their videos seems at best to be questionable.

Only if you have a ridiculously far right notion of what it means to be a republican (which you clearly do). RINO is a pathetic attempt to apply a purity test to a member of the party. By today's standards Reagan would be called a RINO. Heaven forbid someone attempt to have a fruitful negotiation with someone they don't agree with complete. Or *gasp* actually compromise about anything.

For decades the Washington Post kept a database of votes by Congresscritters. If you go to the 113th Senate (the last one before they shut the project down), and click on "Votes with party" it'll sort the Senators by what percentage of the time they vote with their party. You'll find that contrary to what the media has spun for years, it's actually Republicans who are more likely to cross the party aisle and vote with Democrats, not the other way around. I mean sure there are a few blues scattered in there, but the majority of the top of the list of low faithfulness to their party are Republicans. You have to go all the way back to Bush's first term to get a Senate where Democrats were more likely to vote against their own party.

Likewise, if you click it again to sort it by Senators most likely to toe the party line, you end up with a veritable sea of blue. So hate to break it to you but the media has been feeding you fake news. For the last decade and half, most of the moderates have been Republicans. It's Republicans who've been the ones more willing to compromise, Democrats the extremists who always vote with their party. In the Senate at least. The House is more of a mixed bag, but it's a straight majority vote there. The Senate is the one with (until recently) the funny rules where a minority could stall legislation if they got everyone in their party to vote together. Now, consider that Republican Senators got a reputation for doing that all the time, when their voting record clearly shows they didn't (or only did on a few issues they cared deeply about, which is exactly what the fillibuster rules were there for). That sort of deviation between perception and reality usually comes about when the media disproportionately focuses on one or a few rare incidents which are not representative of and contradictory to the whole.

I was wondering how much longer the Washington Post would keep the database running since the data so clearly contradicted the stories they typically ran.

I know right, like the time he totally took down the washington post! They never fake anything, it's right in the name "veritas". As a Trump level genius, that's all the proof I need!

"don't know how many of these cases were when an officer dropped a gun next to the dead person, but I do know that can happen." Well shit buddy, if the cops are that dirty, we should just get rid of all 900,000 of them because of 5 bad cops a year and strap on a gun when we get up in the morning. Lets just have wild wild west justice and we can shoot each other for stealing a TV...

You are pointing out that our current system is not perfect, I agree, but then you go full retard (never go full retard) and say all the cops are bad and suspect, when the facts just don't support that conclusion...

For your own safety, I will clarify a couple of glaring errors in your post in an effort to save your life on that of another reader that is misinformed by your ignorant post:

An officer in most US states can shoot your ass dead if you are resisting arrest and start getting the upper hand, because officers are allowed to use whatever force required (up to deadly force) to subdue a suspect, so sorry, but you are wrong, resisting arrest can carry a death sentence in the moment. Don't do it. It is even more dangerous because your perception and the officers perception of resisting arrest may not align, and the courts will side with him/her if you show any meaningful resistance.

Also, an officer in most if not all US states can shoot your ass dead in the back while fleeing if he reasonably believes that you are a continued eminent threat to the community (i.e. you just shot someone and are fleeing towards other people with a gun or you just shot someone and you are running towards an occupied car to car jack someone or you are fleeing in a car and are showing reckless disregard for other drivers or pedestrians safety. They can and will shoot you DEAD for that shit. Don't do it...

I don't want a police state, and you clearly have no clue what a police state is (that is what they have in Russia, China and Venezuela. If anyone in the US truly tried to enforce a police state, they would be facing 60,000,000 armed citizens, and it would not end well.

I want law and order, and I don't mind a pile of dead criminals to get it, they made the choice to break the laws and put innocents in harms way. It is a tragedy when innocent people are accidentally killed in the course of law enforcement, but we live in an imperfect world. 35,000 people die every year in car accidents and you are shitting a brick over 5 murders by police out of 900,000 police and 11,000,000 arrests? You need to get a better grasp on statistics.

It is asinine to reject the best most fair law enforcement in the world because it is not 100% perfect. I think body cameras and dash cameras are the way to go, and we should have a federal law that protects recording of law enforcement at any time, that is an improvement on our current system to ensure that the people we hire to be cops are doing their job right, but enough with the BS about all cops being killers and trigger happy, the facts just don't support it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...
(pick 2015 and hit the drop down to see the distribution of suspect circumstance (armed with a gun/knife/toy gun/unarmed/etc).

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-t...

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:

Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 2018, TheHill.com)

>

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:

Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 2018, TheHill.com)

>

That's otherwise known as a mistake (based on bad information provided by the utility to WaPo), and unlike some outlets (*cough*Fox*cough*), Washington Post corrects the record when new information becomes available.

No way are they going to be able to replace all of the energy lost from that plant from renewables. It's going to come from some other state, spewing coal and sulfur...

You sure about that? Germany's economy is larger than CA but using renewables they have more energy than they can use.

Don't be fooled, this is what shutting down the nuclear industry looks like in Germany.

Ahem, "getting" the police to kill someone should OF COURSE require much much more than an anonymous phone call. REALLY.

Let's try this again

GETTING THE POLICE TO KILL SOMEONE SHOULD REQUIRE MUCH MUCH MORE THAN AN ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL.

Kansas *and* Georgia disagree:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The Georgia case is even worse than described if you search for the details.

But... second amendment!

The courts have ruled that there is no second amendment right to be armed in your own home when the police pound on your door at unusual hours without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...

The recent Kansas case applies whether you are armed or not and it is not even the only murder by swatting incident this year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Oh please. The left invented the term to use as a trojan horse to get sites like Drudge censored, but now that their blatant hypocrisy let Trump gleefully and totally appropriate it you want it banned. Too bad.

There's already software that does this. It uses census blocks, so it tends to keep neighborhoods intact.

I don't think wikileaks was the only problem here. Half the US media was a parrot for Putin. What about all that infowars alt-right bullshit? You can't tell me there wasn't plenty of that. For fuck sake.. they had interviews with Aleksandr Dugin on their show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... That guy has a large influence on how the Russians view the world and global order and idiotic ideas about Eurasianism. Go read his books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics). This is documented in Rand Corporation's research, though they downplay the crazy.. but the crazy has a big influence on Russia's sense of itself. https://www.rand.org/content/d... And wikileaks was a parrot for Russia? Are you fucking dreaming? What about facebook? What did they do to stop any of this? They're more than happy to let people post their opinions, because that gets them hooked on facebook, so they get more ad revenue! It's very simple. Putin didn't like Hillary because she's a globalist (go read the credits in Kissinger's World Order book - https://www.washingtonpost.com..., or watch Bernie's attack on her over it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...). Putin wants to end Pax Americana, and he achieved it pretty well by fanning the flames of dividing western society by manipulating through agenda setting content. We've been using facebook and all this social media bullshit to re-enforce the echo chambers that's leading to our demise to divide us politically. Once again, go read the foundations of geopolitics. Quote from the wikipedia article on the Foundations of Geopolitics: "Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics." Then you get trump and his slime bucket PR master, Roger Stone, orchestrate the biggest campaign of hate the US has ever seen. Well surely the crazies on the left aren't gonna put up with this.. so their cognitive dissonance goes ballistic because they can't believe that Trump got into power, so now they're in battle stations, pushing their radical left agendas by shaming the public, virtue dropping that basically quells descent from moderate views. Is it not simple enough? It's a mess of our own making, fanned by Russia, political opportunists, opportunistic social networks and our self-interested "It's all about me", materialistic, narcissistic, uncivil society.

Care to provide an example of an edit in a Project Veritas video that wildly changed the context of the statement?

Dishonest from start to finish.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

https://www.snopes.com/2016/10...

If you live in Maryland and believe you are affected by unjust gerrymandering, you can pursue a case against the state.

It's already been done, and is currently on the Supreme Court docket for this term.

Purposely changing election maps in order to effectively disenfranchise citizens is unconstitutional? You've got to be kidding me.

In all seriousness, I do hope that something like this will be implemented in its stead:

https://www.washingtonpost.com... ...however, I'm not holding my breath.

algos have their own problems. Like they're data prejudiced. And a lot of people don't properly consider data for one. His maps (from my skimming) seem to be based on census data and since the census is under it's own form of attack that just presents it's own type of problem. This just effectively moves the goal from the map itself to the census. the second issue that jumped out was the bloby shape of his districts and one thing I learned when I was reading about districts a year or so ago was that it isn't always best to have blocky districts. I actually saw one of the examples on one of the last night shows once.

Now, some argue that compactness isn't a very good measure of district quality. Districts should also respect "communities of interest" — that is, there should be some common denominator among a district's residents. But defining a "community of interest" is another problem altogether. As Jonathan Bernstein wrote last year, a community of interest could be defined based on rural/urban divides, shared cultural background, economic interest, ethnic background, demographic similarity, political boundaries, geographic boundaries and on and on.

And therein lies the problem: You can define a "community of interest" pretty much however you want. If you're a politician in search of a figleaf justification for putting voters from disparate corners of the state into the same congressional district, you can always find one. Communities of interest are a great ideal, but in practice they're so fuzzy that they open the door to all manner of redistricting shenanigans, as we've seen.

and here we have a baby bathwater thing. Just because it's abused doesn't mean it serves no value. Community of interest can give marginalized people representation. Throwing that out for data based again just assumes the data is fair when it might not be. Just because it's faster doesn't mean it's better.

Found it. The video was a John Oliver video: (12:44) Gerrymandering

Democrats won in nine of the 10 most-gerrymandered districts. But eight out of 10 of those districts were drawn by Republicans. Both parties love to create districts - or agree to create districts - that guarantee safe seats. And when the fact is that "Maryland and North Carolina are essentially tied for the honor of most-gerrymandered state." but only North Carolina - a GOP State - is mentioned but Maryland - a Democrat State - is not, it's pretty clear that /. is also pretty gerrymandered...

Well Maryland is mentioned in the Wapo article you linked to so you must be complaining about the Slashdot summary which is about North Carolina's congressional map being ruled unconstitutionally gerrymandered so I'm not particularly surprised that Maryland is not mentioned since it is not a party to that lawsuit (Fun fact: The article the Slashdot summary links to actually mentions Maryland and the republican's complaints about that state's election map). Complaining that Maryland is not mentioned in the summary of an article whose primary topic of discussion is gerrymandering in North Carolina is like complaining that the summary of an article about rotten apples does not spend half of it's column space talking about rotten oranges .... (hint: it's because the article was about rotten apples).

Judge James A. Wynn Jr. was nominated by Clinton and renominated by Obama. He has been the democrat's 4th Circuit court go-to for political activism since 2011 and he personally has been accused of playing politics in law since 2001.

Please take into consideration that I am a politically independent academic researcher. If anything I should be pro democrat, but critical thinking comes first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne...
https://www.nccivitas.org/2016...
http://www.charlotteobserver.c...
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05...
http://womblencappellate.blogs...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.lawfareblog.com/ju...

When the democratic party wants something political done by the judicial branch. His name and opinions come up. He puts aside the law in favor of party. Lawyers and jurisprudence experts have been talking about it for a long time. This is merely the most recent and high-profile. Either he feels emboldened to ignore his duty (Why did he not go after the equally Gerrymandered democratic states while citing the equal protections clause?) or feels that he is at risk of being replaced.

In all seriousness, I do hope that something like this will be implemented in its stead:
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]

Whenever voting comes up the inevitable solution to 'fix' the elections follow. It maybe a great idea and the best idea ever to come up in civics and elections. You would go much further in convincing me that it's a great idea by implementing in your state. Elections are controlled by state and local governments and leading by example is a better way to prove your idea is good. I don't care what other countries do, they have no political stake in our elections and organize their elections according to their own needs. I want you to risk your political power to prove your idea works by actually practicing what you preach.

Democrats won in nine of the 10 most-gerrymandered districts. But eight out of 10 of those districts were drawn by Republicans. Both parties love to create districts - or agree to create districts - that guarantee safe seats. And when the fact is that "Maryland and North Carolina are essentially tied for the honor of most-gerrymandered state." but only North Carolina - a GOP State - is mentioned but Maryland - a Democrat State - is not, it's pretty clear that /. is also pretty gerrymandered...

they went along with the Gerrymandering because the R's carved out some safe districts for them

Indeed . . . and in blue states, the roles are reversed and Democrats directly gerrymander just as vigorously. E.g., deep blue Maryland's horribly gerrymandered map is on the Supreme Court's docket for this term.

Purposely changing election maps in order to effectively disenfranchise citizens is unconstitutional? You've got to be kidding me.

In all seriousness, I do hope that something like this will be implemented in its stead:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

...however, I'm not holding my breath.

Apparently the U.S. is no longer a democracy. Numerous mostly hidden agencies have control, and want more control.

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

> Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, 2017, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a

Apparently the U.S. is no longer a democracy. Numerous mostly hidden agencies have control, and want more control.

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

> Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, 2017, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a

Actually most people who read the news likely knew about it. That story was covered all over the place when it happened.

Just a sampling:

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://nypost.com/2017/10/16/...
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com....

One would have to be fairly ignorant to not have run across it on some news website after it happened.

Absolutely. But the economic version of natural selection still applies... if he doesn't do it, his company will tank and another will take over. So the choice is, "Do we push this problem onto the taxpayer or do we go bankrupt while someone else pushes it onto the taxpayer?"

Seems like an easy choice.

Yup. And the owners of many companies made the first choice. How 'bout we tax them for the burden they put on us?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/c...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h...
https://www.thenation.com/arti...
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.commercialappeal.co...

Many more where those came from.

It's almost like you think we've made absolutely zero progress in the past 50 years...

Everything Dr King said about economic inequality is just as true today as it was before he was assassinated. Median black family wealth is less than 10% of the median white family wealth. 20% of black families have less than zero net worth. Most of the rest have their wealth tied up in a depreciating asset - the car they need in order to drive to work. All of that is because practically none of the reforms Dr King called for were implemented, but plenty of racist policies were, like the war on drugs.

The most charitable interpretation of your posts is that they are the function of abject ignorance. Educate your damn self before going around smugly lecturing people who do actually know WTF they are talking about.

Threatening to sue and killing the cat of a rape victim to shut her up are two different things. One of them is Trump, the other one is Clinton.

Actually, coercive lawsuits are often quite a problem, as is manufacturing unverified, and even provablyfalse claims about another.

It's ok, you're just a partisan Stalwart, and can't help yourself. You jumped on the bandwagon, and will never get off.

"The New Orleans Levee breaches that caused all the flooding: OK, we should have seen that coming, but have we fixed the problems there? Would another hurricane cause as much damage?"

The hurricane didn't cause the damage. Katrina actually wasn't that bad of a hurricane after it made landfall. The levee breaches didn't happen until a couple of days later.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

That's the worst citation needed I've seen in a long time. A quick Google search brings up a SJW mouthpiece claiming 31% of Americans are white males.

Just like the evisceration of NN so the wealthy and powerful corporations can pillage- it no longer matters what we as consumers want. 80%+ of Americans supported Net Neutrality, yet it was killed anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
What you or I want as "free" Americans in a "Democratic" society no longer matter. If a company can extract our personal information it will at any cost to our liberties or pocket book.

While I can't comment on just simply shootings, the vast majority of people who get FATALLY shot by police in the US are "white". According to the washington post, in 2017, there were 987 fatal shootings and 457 of those were "white", while 223 were "black". How is 223 greater than 457?

nfortunately, the Black Lives Matter movement co-opted the police militarization issue, and claim (incorrectly) that police militarization is driven by racism.

Police militarization is driven by the war on drugs, which absolutely has racist foundations and enforcement. You can't argue otherwise when blacks and whites use drugs at the same rate but blacks are FAR more likely to be arrested. That said, the wankers who say "oh this wouldn't have happened to a white person" are just as obnoxious, as half the people murdered by cops are white.

show some numbers. Give any evidence to support your assertion that it's safe.

Easy peasy lemon squeeze. See how far down cops are? Take out car crashes (that kill everyday drivers every day) and they don't even make the top 20.

Use some common sense and realize that the over-armed aggressive police response is a response to imagined dangers in the job.

FTFY

Ok, so this punk will get the punishment he richly deserved long before an innocent man was killed.

Now, can we go back to punishing the actual killer — the cop, who pulled the trigger? Unlike certain Michael Brown, this victim really was raising his hands. Why was he shot at? Why will not you and me be shot at in the same situation?

It sure seems like police are trying to throw all of the responsibility on the prankster, the better to protect one of their own... We should not allow that to happen.

Give back to the people who worked for the corporations you drove out of business with illegally anticompetitive business practices, Bill. Give back to the people who had to clean up after your deliberate attempts to sabotage Linux. Give life back to the people that your investments have killed. Give back the tax revenues you've avoided paying even though you're one of the biggest beneficiaries of the system. Let us have back control of education. Please, Bill. Give Back.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Seriously, the one of the things that Donald Trump has been known for is racial divisiveness, going back decades.

Perhaps Donald Trump's first claim to fame, when he was in his 20s in the 1970s, was being sued by DOJ for violations of the Fair Housing Act for discriminating against tenants on race. The infamous lawyer Roy Cohn was brought on for that case, and Trump launched a ridiculous $100 million counter suit.

In 1989 there was the case of the Central Park Five, where 5 black and latino teens were accused and convicted of brutally raping a white woman in Central Park. In response, Trump ran full page ads in the NYC newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty for New York, referring to muggers and murderers and pretty clearly alluding to the Central Park Five for the cause of execution. Turns out that those black and latino teenagers were railroaded, the police extracted false confessions, and they were wrongly convicted, as confirmed 14 years later by DNA evidence and the capture of the actual rapist, Matias Reyes. Of course, Trump never backed down when confronted more recently with the truth that the political crusade of his earlier years was tainted by false convictions heavily bogged down by racial undertones, and refused to even accept that the Central Park Five were wrongly convicted.

Then there is Trump's more recent claim to fame as being the main champion of the utterly ridiculous conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not actually born in America but Kenya instead and thus was an illegitimate president. If I have to try to walk through the racism pouring through that hogwash, then it really isn't worth bothering because you won't read it anyway. Especially when you consider that Obama's original presidential rival, John McCain, literally was not born in any of the States proper within the United States, but rather the Panama Canal Zone, where his Navy Officer father was stationed. There was never any serious movement to consider McCain an illegitimate presidential candidate on the grounds of not being a naturally born American, despite the circumstances of McCain's birth being on much less clear legal grounds than those of Obama.

Do note that none of this includes the racial issues surrounding Trump in his more recent political run and what he has done as president.

And for a kicker, Fred Trump, Donald's father, was arrested after a KKK riot in Queens in 1927.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Seriously, the one of the things that Donald Trump has been known for is racial divisiveness, going back decades.

Perhaps Donald Trump's first claim to fame, when he was in his 20s in the 1970s, was being sued by DOJ for violations of the Fair Housing Act for discriminating against tenants on race. The infamous lawyer Roy Cohn was brought on for that case, and Trump launched a ridiculous $100 million counter suit.

In 1989 there was the case of the Central Park Five, where 5 black and latino teens were accused and convicted of brutally raping a white woman in Central Park. In response, Trump ran full page ads in the NYC newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty for New York, referring to muggers and murderers and pretty clearly alluding to the Central Park Five for the cause of execution. Turns out that those black and latino teenagers were railroaded, the police extracted false confessions, and they were wrongly convicted, as confirmed 14 years later by DNA evidence and the capture of the actual rapist, Matias Reyes. Of course, Trump never backed down when confronted more recently with the truth that the political crusade of his earlier years was tainted by false convictions heavily bogged down by racial undertones, and refused to even accept that the Central Park Five were wrongly convicted.

Then there is Trump's more recent claim to fame as being the main champion of the utterly ridiculous conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not actually born in America but Kenya instead and thus was an illegitimate president. If I have to try to walk through the racism pouring through that hogwash, then it really isn't worth bothering because you won't read it anyway. Especially when you consider that Obama's original presidential rival, John McCain, literally was not born in any of the States proper within the United States, but rather the Panama Canal Zone, where his Navy Officer father was stationed. There was never any serious movement to consider McCain an illegitimate presidential candidate on the grounds of not being a naturally born American, despite the circumstances of McCain's birth being on much less clear legal grounds than those of Obama.

Do note that none of this includes the racial issues surrounding Trump in his more recent political run and what he has done as president.

And for a kicker, Fred Trump, Donald's father, was arrested after a KKK riot in Queens in 1927.