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Then again, someone wisely said that in education, the states have more power than the SOE will have and I now hope/believe that will be the case. @ReddFoxx I found this or really, this found me.

Someone mentioned how youthful and happy #44 looks. She said Necker Island must be better than Botox because Obama looks more like 2004 than 2012+ Obama. He won the surfing challenge too. I'm trying to look at a pleasant image so I don't have to fixate on the fact that Pence just voted DeVos in as Secretary of Education and our public schools may be on the road to decimation now, as a result.

So, of couse, Melanie has re-filed her lawsuiit for $150 Million.

Would it be mean to use the word demented? I mean, Jesus!

I'm seeing that Trump began his first ever address to the military at CENTCOM by guess what? If you said, talking about his election win, you'd be absolutely correct. What a trifling individual!

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And tennis needs to learn to apply the rules evenly. Shapovalov gets a $7,000 fine for nearly blinding a chair umpire, Venus got a $5,000 for skipping a press conference after a loss. Does anyone remember when Heather Watson got a $12,000 fine for slamming her racquet onto the grass court at Wimbledon? It was more for grass abuse. Djokovic has narrowly missed hitting ballkids on more than one occasion and got a warning.

@ChitHappens Shapovalov was DQed immediately by the umpire (per the rules) and GSM was called for Great Britain, which resulted in GB going onto the Quarterfinals as this was the 'Final Rubber' that was to decide who would move on, each country had been locked in a 2-2 tie before this final match. Here's a follow up on Shapovalov.

I was telling someone yesterday, that coaches and tennis tutors need to show this video to their pupils as a cautionary example of what NOT to do in this type of situation. This behavior needs to be 'nipped in the bud' before these players get to the Pro leagues, I've seen it happen way too many times and have seen plenty of 'near misses', it was bound to happen sometime. Fortunately, the chair umpire is alright according to a message sent from his sister. Imagine if a ball kid or a spectator had been hit that way, the ITF/Canadian Tennis Association might have been staring at a lawsuit!

Meanwhile Hawaii is invoking its power to 'intervene' and will join Washington state's filing against the Trump administration's travel ban. Hawaii Brief.pdf

Interesting how the outreach was stymied by lack of distribution of funds. The staff sound as if it was an intentional strategy not to try to reach AA voters and cede them to HRC, rather than it being a lack of sufficient funds. @dragonflies I hope people, especially those on FB continue to list very clearly the ways in which the reality of who Trump is and how he operates differs greatly from what he actually campaigned on. People need to be reminded over and over, with great detail until, at least some of them begin to 'get it'. @slick jones Melissa McCarthy was so spot-on. Sadly, the lampoon is pretty close to the actual reality. I don't know if anybody caught this but the part where the CNN correspondent is locked up in a cage, is pretty similar to how 'criminal' defendants are presented in Russian courts. Whereas in America, a dangerous inmate might have on cuffs but otherwise free or a 'white collar criminal' defendant would be behind a table and totally unrestrained, in Russia whether you are a Khodorkovsky or P*ussy Riot, they put you in a cage to answer the charges and face trial. SNL seems to have made that sly connection between the Trump administration's adaptation of Russian M.O.

Yes, I read about that too. The NY doctors have also offered to perform the surgery at no cost. Speaking of NYers getting the job done, NYC straphangers clean Nazi graffitti from a subway car. NEW YORKERS COME TOGETHER TO REMOVE SWASTIKAS INSIDE SUBWAY CAR ON UPPER WEST SIDE

By the way, Neiman Marcus is also said to be in the process of dropping Ivanka Trump's jewelry line. I learned this reading an article that suggested that the Trump "brand" looks to be hurting as a result of the Trump administration and their various "maneuvers". Well, I guess Trump has extra incentive for trying to roll back Dodd-Frank, so he and his cohort can rob the financial coffers at the taxpayer's expense.

I'm going to go on ahead and assume that he is talking about Trump supporters and certain aspects of the media as many people do care that the Trump administration lies seemingly without ceasing. Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying

Republicans face anger over Obamacare repeal during town halls

There's a term called political capital that all new presidents generally have to use at their discretion. I feel as if Trump is shooting his entire wad and likely will use up all of his political capital on these stupid initiatives that get dismantled quickly and easily by legal counsel/courts. He can do this several times for all I care, then if we are fortunate, he'll waste all of that political capital and will soon be rendered useless and by midterms, with the ideal scenario being Trump ending up as totally ineffective for the rest of his term, unable to get any legislation passed and then, he and his entire administration voted out at the first opportunity.

This thread is a definite read. This Adrian fellow produced all of the receipts! cc: @marceline @JaneAusten

Also, the Northeast Corridor which has been in dire need of restructuring for decades. We all know how badly it stings Trump that the states of New York and New Jersey (where he owns homes) did not vote for him and his unpopularity in NY especially bothers him. How ironic if the two 'coastal areas', derided as liberal enclaves by the right-wing for well over a decade now were to be beneficiaries of such an initiative. Assuming, however that Trump is still around to see that happen and not impeached by then.

Dems launch 'unprecedented early' effort to capture GOP districts So at least there's that. With news of all these personnel leaving/changes, this article in which management experts rated Trump's management style takes on a strange resonance. Case Study in Chaos: How Management Experts Grade a Trump White House Some interesting quotes from the article: " The unanimous verdict: Thus far, the Trump administration is a textbook case of how not to run a complex organization like the executive branch. " and of his executive actions “are so far from any responsible management approach” “Of course, this isn’t new,” he told me. “His campaign also violated every prudent management principle. Everyone including our friends on Wall Street somehow believed that once he was president he’d change. I don’t understand that logic.” “If you thought immigration was bad, just wait for health care,” Mr. Pfeffer warned. “I don’t really know what’s going on in the White House, so I don’t feel comfortable commenting on that specifically. But I can say in general that in organizational settings, less chaos is a good thing.” If this were the private sector, “someone would be fired,” “No good business makes decisions that are based on falsehoods,” he said. “My sense is that Trump takes no one’s counsel but his own. That’s bad management, period.”