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Governors Refuse to Send National Guard to Border, Citing Child Separation Practice
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/us/national-guard-trump-children-immigration.html
http://www.governing.com/topics/pub...er-Citing-Trumps-Child-Separation-Policy.html
( It would appear that people have actually read [ and digested the modern implications of ] Daniel Goldhagen's book... )
Mattis approves request to send military lawyers to southern border
https://www.axios.com/mattis-approv...der-3ae208ba-0b71-41c2-a06f-0cbf482c9f3c.html
Burger King apologizes for offensive Russian World Cup pregnancy ad
MOSCOW — Burger King has apologized for an extraordinarily insensitive advertisement that promised Russian women a lifetime supply of free meals and a cash “prize” if they were to become pregnant with a child fathered by a World Cup soccer player.
The chain launched the campaign on Russian social media outlet VK, promising a payment of $47,000 plus a lifetime supply of Whoppers.
The offer was extended to “girls who manage to get the best football genes” and “lay down the success of the Russian national football team”, the indication being that the offspring produced by such liaisons would grow up to be soccer stars. “It is a reward for the girls who would get pregnant from the international football superstars,” the message continued.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/spo...russian-women-sleep-world-cup-stars/36239749/
MOSCOW — Burger King has apologized for an extraordinarily insensitive advertisement that promised Russian women a lifetime supply of free meals and a cash “prize” if they were to become pregnant with a child fathered by a World Cup soccer player.
The chain launched the campaign on Russian social media outlet VK, promising a payment of $47,000 plus a lifetime supply of Whoppers.
The offer was extended to “girls who manage to get the best football genes” and “lay down the success of the Russian national football team”, the indication being that the offspring produced by such liaisons would grow up to be soccer stars. “It is a reward for the girls who would get pregnant from the international football superstars,” the message continued.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/spo...russian-women-sleep-world-cup-stars/36239749/
Likes:
Wyntyr
Then:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/05/07/melania-trump-be-best-campaign-sot.cnn
Now:
She is well aware that nothing a first lady wears is “just” an anything, especially nothing she wears to a public event in which she remains silent, but knows she will be photographed — as her experience with the high heels to Texas would have taught her (and taught her advisers).
To accept the idea she just threw the Zara jacket on in practically the same situation because — hey, it was close at hand and she was maybe a little bit cool (or something like that) is simply unbelievable.
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After all, she wore the jacket again deplaning later at Andrews — wore it unapologetically knowing all the hoo-ha it had caused, the confusion and umbrage, the distraction from what she said was her core message of compassion. Wore it as if to give direct proof to the words on her back. That would be kind of meta.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/style/zara-jacket-melania-trump.html
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/05/07/melania-trump-be-best-campaign-sot.cnn
Now:
She is well aware that nothing a first lady wears is “just” an anything, especially nothing she wears to a public event in which she remains silent, but knows she will be photographed — as her experience with the high heels to Texas would have taught her (and taught her advisers).
To accept the idea she just threw the Zara jacket on in practically the same situation because — hey, it was close at hand and she was maybe a little bit cool (or something like that) is simply unbelievable.
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After all, she wore the jacket again deplaning later at Andrews — wore it unapologetically knowing all the hoo-ha it had caused, the confusion and umbrage, the distraction from what she said was her core message of compassion. Wore it as if to give direct proof to the words on her back. That would be kind of meta.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/style/zara-jacket-melania-trump.html
Families will no longer be separated at the border. But where are my clients’ kids?
At another hearing before a different judge, as one of my colleagues asked the agent on the stand about the whereabouts of my client’s child, the prosecutor objected to the relevance of the questions. The judge turned on the prosecutor, demanding to know why this wasn’t relevant. At one point, he slammed his hand on the desk, sending a pen flying. This type of emotional display is unheard of in federal court. I can’t understand this, the judge said. If someone at the jail takes your wallet, they give you a receipt. They take your kids, and you get nothing? Not even a slip of paper?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...e59a0-74b6-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?
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