And so it begins.
And while this is happening, too much of the the political class + Trump Cultists, the chattering scribes, and media snowflakes are extremely upset by the funny truths spoken by court jester Michelle Wolf at a dinner ostensibly honoring the 1st Amendment but is really about comforting the comfortable.
I have to admit, they got their timing right on this one.
If you are going to remove sections on Press Freedom from the DoJ manual, what better time then when all the national press is collectively on the fainting couch over a comedienne??
I bet the comments made by a comedienne at a roast gets more airtime than the DOJ removing press freedoms from their manual. THIS is something they should be outraged about.
And so it continues.
Rosenstein “led the charge” on this??!! And he’s what’s standing between tRump and Meuller’s firing?! Okay, okay. Deep breaths here. Probably one of Sessions’ butt lickers did this dirty little deed in the middle of the night, but these fuckers have got to be stopped!
Death (of democracy) happening by a 1000 cuts.
Yeaaah…that’s gonna leave a mark. 
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, Prior said the manual is meant to be a
“quick and ready reference” for lawyers, not “an exhaustive list of
constitutional rights, statutory law, regulatory law, or generalized
principles of our legal system.”
It’s not obvious that this is a sufficient justification for removing the statement on press freedom that’s been in the manual for 30 years. Surely, there’s “quick and ready” way to affirm a principle that prior DOJ officials have thought worth acknowledging. I’d be curious to hear from a veteran DOJ person about the legitimacy of Prior’s justification.
What are they trying to hide?
Oh, wait, we know that already.
Well, there’s a surprise! Who could possibly have guessed that our would-be Fascist minders would remove the press freedom section from the DOJ manual?
I feel a need to lie down.
Take back our country!
Run for office- and run FOR something! Don’t just run against Trump. You’ll either be preaching to the choir or confirming, in some people’s minds, that ‘the elites’ are out to get their man.
Get REAL specific, too. You want to run on jobs or healthcare reform or the new landfill? You must have a plan. Show what’s needed and show how to make it work. THEN point out the differences between having a plan and vague promises to work on a plan “very soon”.
This site, https://www.runforoffice.org/, allows you to enter your ZIP code and see what offices are available to you and the filing window for that office. They also have a few video short-courses on running a campaign. In my state you file for office during a 1-week period in May.
Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes it’s a Ward officer. Meet your neighbors and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.
Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump, and half of all voters stayed home last November. HALF! Today’s 12-year olds will be voting for President in 6 years. Make sure they’re prepared.
Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly. And get on your Planning Commission.
Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020 when we’ll redraw Congressional Districts. Make them fair and open. Trump is ALREADY trying to rig the census- talk about ‘voter fraud’!
Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led voter-run-around campaign help them do that. This site, https://www.aauw.org/resource/organize-a-voter-registration-drive/, has a how-to on organizing a voter registration drive. Or even sitting outside Wal Mart with a folding chair and a card table. Yes, that’s the American Association of University Women. And while we’re here organize a League of Women Voters chapter in your community if you don’t already have one. Fair, honest and above board. Democracy functions better with them involved.
Civics, civility and civilization all share the same roots.
Somebody got his fee fees hurt.
OT except for fee fees hurt…and the lash back:
I doubt the Cherry Trees donated by Japan were quarantined.
Louis XIV had orange trees from all over the world, places like Arabia, planted at Versailles and I seriously doubt they “quarantined” them before planting.
The tyrannical brat in the Oval Office must be removed. ASAP.
I find the very idea of a DOJ manual for federal prosecutors a bit odd. There already is a manual and it was last updated in May 1992, when the 27th Amendment was ratified.
No—and so it continues.
and the actual PRESS are just fine with it.
They are too busy complaining that a mean COMEDIAN made FUN of them at the WHCD!
Doesn’t she know who they ARE!?!?!?!?!
Without a functioning 4th Estate, this country is doomed to slip into outright Fascism within the next 4 years.
Almost the entire MSM is spouting, verbatim, the WH Talking Points about both the WHCD and Trump’s racist, vile speech in Michigan (how “Freewheeling” it was) and how their fee-fees were hurt by that mean old Comedian at the WHCD.
wow.
We do have a lot of problems with various invasive species (fungi, insects, plants).
The Dutch Elm Disease (a fungus spread by a beetle) has been a disaster, killing all our Elm trees here in DK and most of Europe, so I understand the need for Quarantine.
(But why didn’t the French Embassy, - they usually occupy the nicest buildings in the various capitals - provide a sapling from its own garden ? Or they could have planned a little ahead in so many ways… )
Not with you on that one
You can’t joke around with plant borne disease
To much of a history of bad things happening , Dutch Elm , Citrus greening etc
The sapling itself had significance because of where they got it (historic battlefield), but yes they could of done the quarantine ahead of time.