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Remember kids, keep it civil.

If democrats want to abort their own future by killing their potential voters that is their choice republicans will outbreed them.

This is the kind of bill RINOS get paid to pretend to support.

Around 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday, hours after the incident on the Senate floor, Warren sent an email to supporters soliciting donations, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported Wednesday evening. The email explained what happened that night and included a donation button.

Minutes after sending her email to supporters, Warren called CNN's Don Lemon to discuss the incident on television.

MoveOn members contributed $250,000 to Warren's re-election campaign in about 12 hours, CNN reported.

Warren received an enormous amount of publicity after she violated Rule 19, which included a trending hashtag #LetLizSpeak on Twitter. Even McConnell's statement on why he invoked Rule 19 against Warren left her with a new hashtag.

"She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted," McConnell said, sparking #ShePersisted to appear throughout Twitter, often accompanied with pictures of historic female figures (and Princess Leia).

“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted." #ShePersists

— Brian Jay Jones (@brianjayjones) February 8, 2017

In the face of racism, in order to get an education, #ShePersisted #ElizabethEckford

— Kelsey Ratliff (@KelsCalrissian) February 9, 2017

She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.

— Marc (@MarcSnetiker) February 8, 2017

Warren later unleashed a Twitter storm once Sessions was confirmed on Wednesday, sending out eight tweets that ended with: "Consider this MY warning: We won't be silent. We will speak out. And we WILL persist."

I'm ecstatic that this was posted and that Warren was schooled by DeVos

I don't get it. What am I supposed to be outraged about? That she wrote a book?

>After the 2015 episode, Mr. Kara-Murza recuperated in the United States and suffered lingering nerve damage for about a year, but returned to his political activism in Russia despite threats. The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for example, posted a photograph of Mr. Kara-Murza in cross hairs.

>Last month, Mr. Kara-Murza submitted a letter critical of Mr. Putin’s government to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during cabinet confirmation hearings for Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state.

>“There are higher risks than slander or imprisonment for those who oppose the regime,” Mr. Kara-Murza wrote. In Russia, he had been traveling to provincial cities to show a documentary about another Russian politician, Boris Y. Nemtsov, who was shot and killed on a Moscow bridge two years ago.

>On the Fox program, Mr. Trump said he respected Mr. Putin and hoped Russia and the United States could join forces to defeat Islamic terrorism. The host, Mr. O’Reilly, responded: “He’s a killer though. Putin’s a killer.” It was unclear whether the characterization referred to the unsolved assassination of dissidents, muckraking journalists and opposition politicians or allegations of war crimes in Syria, Ukraine or Chechnya.

>The Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters Monday that the description was “unacceptable, insulting.”

>The Soviet Union operated a secret laboratory to research untraceable poisons that were tested on condemned gulag prisoners, security service defectors have said.

>In 2006, a Russian law legalized targeted killing abroad. Russia has never acknowledged using the authority under that law and has specifically denied any government ties to high-profile poisoning cases.

>But after whistle-blowers and opponents of Mr. Putin in recent years began dying from exotic poisons, including radioactive plutonium and a rare Himalayan plant toxin, critics of the Russian government and independent researchers have asserted that the post-Soviet government has turned again to its poison arsenal.

Dat timing tho

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>While some conservative Christians would like to see the rule abolished, others, especially the younger generation, support a clear separation of church and political endorsements. Many liberal churches are also active on policy issues, and could potentially get more involved in partisan politics.

>Mayer noted that for some religious leaders, the IRS rule has given them a way to avoid political pressure for an endorsement.

>"Now a church that wants to say no has an easy answer, it's illegal," Mayer said.

>Repeal does not appear to have widespread public support. Eight in 10 Americans said it was inappropriate for pastors to endorse a candidate in church in a poll released last September by Lifeway Research, a religious survey firm based in Nashville.

>For many religious conservatives, a more pressing issue they hope he will address is protection for faith-based charities, schools and ministries who object to same-sex marriage and abortion.

>The president made no mention at the prayer breakfast of other steps he may take, saying only that religious freedom is a "sacred right."

>Kelly Shackelford, head of First Liberty Institute, a non-profit legal group that specializes in religious freedom cases said that "there's a number of things he laid out that we expect we'll eventually see action on."

>Trump also defended his recent executive order on immigration, decrying "generous" immigration policies and arguing that there are people who seek to enter the country "for the purpose of spreading violence or oppressing other people based upon their faith." He also pledged to take more immigration action in the name of religious liberty.

>"In the coming days we will develop a system to help ensure that those admitted into our country fully embrace our values of religious and personal liberty and that they reject any form of oppression and discrimination," Trump said.

>LGBTQ groups have been anxious that the president could use his executive powers to curb legal advances they have made. Emily Hecht-McGowan, chief policy officer for the Family Equality Council, said that she was "anticipating more to come," noting that some draft documents have been circulating, suggesting plans for a more sweeping order.

>White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday that "there's nothing new on that front."

>Earlier this week, the Trump administration announced that the president would leave intact a 2014 executive order that protects workers for federal contractors from anti-LGBTQ discrimination, saying in a statement that Trump "continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election."

>Religious conservatives, who saw a series of defeats on same-sex marriage, abortion and other issues under former President Barack Obama, have been bolstered by Trump's win. In a letter last year to Roman Catholics, Trump pledged, "I will defend your religious liberties and the right to fully and freely practice your religion, as individuals, business owners and academic institutions."

>Trump's Supreme Court pick this week was also considered a positive sign for conservatives.

>A favorite of conservatives, Neil Gorsuch serves on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he sided with Hobby Lobby and the Little Sisters of the Poor when they mounted religious objections to the Obama administration's requirement that employers provide health insurance that includes contraceptives.

>During his remarks, Trump also took a dig at Arnold Schwarzenegger, the new host of "The Apprentice," the reality TV show Trump previously headlined. Trump said that since Schwarzenegger took over, the show's ratings have been down, and he asked the audience to "pray for Arnold." Schwarzenegger tweeted in response that he and Trump should switch jobs and Americans would sleep better.

>Associated Press

Hope you guys like living in a christian version of ISIL 'cause that is likely if this rule gets killed.

Spend between $25 and $100 a month to receive a box that helps you be a better ally. That’s the business plan set up by Grand Rapids, Michigan entrepreneurs Marissa Johnson and Leslie Mac, at least.

Every month, they send their subscribers the Safety Pin Box, which Vice reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro describes as being “designed to wake up white people to the realities of being black in America.”

…The Box has only a few hundred subscribers (it would be fun to do a pool estimating how many of them are white Brooklyn liberals), Johnson and Mac are donating some of the proceeds to black female activists, and liberals and lefties themselves have been highly critical of the exercise.

Finally, in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington, there is the Complicity Cleanse. The goal of this activity is lofty: Freeing yourself from the “triumph of patriarchy, sexism, xenophobia, heterosexism”…and, of course, racism.

https://www.complicitycleanse.com/

After you sign up, you will be sent a “menu” that contains a daily dose of information, resources, questions, actions, challenges– little things to do every single day. The idea is to create a platform of presence in order to forge habits that divest our complicity from the mechanisms of oppression. Once we are aware of our entanglements, we can earnestly begin to dismantle all that allows for the pernicious “-isms” of American identity. Everything on the menu is a suggestion, that will hopefully become a contemplation, a conversation, an act, and eventually an awakened pattern. Little by little we will lesson our enurement with white supremacist, patriarchal rule, and our complicity in the suffering of others.


Hi! I’m Leslie and I would enjoy the privilege of never reporting on “Racists Anonymous,” safety pins, or Complicity Cleanses again.

No word on whether you have to wear a Pussy Hat when you take that cleanse, however.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/01/pussy-hat-protests-planned-for-trumps-inauguration/

The GoFundMe site for the tortured teen has earned nearly $160,000 to help in the recovery from his “white privilege”. We hope that during Trump’s presidency that the racial divide is lessened and the inane, progressive products and dramas disappear entirely

http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/34231120/nearly-158000-raised-for-chicago-area-beating-victim

>>99768
>Last week, we covered the videoptaped torture of a mentally disabled Chicago teen at the hands of 4 black thugs, who taunted him with anti-white and anti-Trump insults.
Wasn't that video confirmed to be fake?

If America can't even stop psychos from mass shootings when they broadcast the fact that they are psychos online, then we don't deserve safety from mass shootings
>muh cold ded hands!
That may be much more real than the NRA ever intended

>>110130
A, you didn't link to the right video
B, the correct video is from some nobody soccer mom SJW with 1000 subscribers
C, the reported Lucas Werner is clearly just a retarded /pol/ user.

Why is this news? It's barely even a Youtube video.

literally who?

>>109963
wow! good footage. thanks for posting, OP.

>>109963
Karma? Consequences? Seems harsh, but valid.

So what's flammable in a subway train? brake line fluid?

The researchers, under the guidance of senior author Guillermo Bazan at UCSB, built a molecule called DFSO+, which contains an iron atom at its core. To add the DFSO+ to bacteria, the researchers dissolved a small amount of the rust-colored powder into water and added that solution to bacteria. Within a few minutes, the synthetic molecule found its way into the bacteria's cell membranes and began conducting current through its iron core, providing a new pathway for the bacteria to shuttle electrons from inside to outside the cell.

Because the DFSO+ molecule's shape mirrors the structure of cell membranes, it can quickly slip into the membranes and remain there comfortably for weeks. The approach might need some tweaking before being applied to long-term power generation, the researchers say, but it's an encouraging initial finding.

This chemical approach to changing bacteria's capabilities will most likely be cheaper than bacteria genetically engineered to do the same job. "It's a totally different strategy for microbial electrical energy generation," says the other co-first author, Nate Kirchhofer (@natekirchhofer), formerly a grad student at UCSB and now a postdoctoral researcher at Asylum Research in Santa Barbara, CA. "Before, we were building these devices, and we were limited to optimizing them by changing reactor materials and architectures or using genetic engineering techniques."

The researchers call the DFSO+ molecule a "protein prosthetic" because it is a non-protein chemical that does a protein's job. "It's sort of analogous to a prosthetic limb, where you're using a plastic limb that's not actually made out of someone else's body," says Rengert.

Understanding how electrogenic bacteria consume organic fuels and use their metabolic processes to generate electric currents could lead to more efficient biological electricity-generating technology. "It's useful to have a well-defined, well-understood molecule that we can interrogate," says Kirchhofer. "We know how it's interfaced with the bacteria, so it gives us very precise electrochemical control over the bacteria. While this molecule might not be the best one that will ever exist, it's the first generation of this kind of molecule."

A Ferrocene-Based Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte Catalyzes Bacterial Electrode Respiration
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451929417300013

It's time to crash and burn these SJW cucks, fam.

nice /pol/bait

>>109610
>>>/leftypol/

>>109124
Hope these people surves as an example on how to run a community as opposed to these niggers.

>>109124

been there done that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia

>>109129
>how to run a community
>create a fucking snownigger ghetto
>incest shithole uber alles

#smiling jews dancing everywhere.

>>110127
They are spies and peeping toms/janes: What else do you expect from them but suspicious activity?

>a prophet Mohammed cartoon contest
Well what did they expect to happen?

>>110257
It was a trap, ded srs.

epic trolling

>While Dorsey and Twitter have taken major steps recently to address some of users’ biggest concerns, including clamping down on hate speech and abuse , this has yet to make a notable difference in drawing new users. For the final three months of 2016, Twitter averaged 319 million monthly users, up just 4 percent from a year ago.

>Meanwhile, Twitter has yet to address other issues, including simple ones such as the ability to edit tweets.

>“Just like Myspace perhaps Twitter does not what to ‘change the formula’ for fear of losing its unique simple user experience, but the shareholders and CEO Jack Dorsey are running out of time,” Mark Skilton, a professor at Warwick Business School, wrote in an email.

>Twitter’s revenue growth has stalled for more than two years, and the company is cutting costs and shuffling executives. Dorsey, the Twitter co-founder who rejoined the company in late 2015 with hopes of reviving it, called 2016 “a transformative year as we reset and focused on why people use Twitter: It’s the fastest way to see what’s happening and what everyone’s talking about.”

>Even before he was elected president, Donald Trump has used Twitter like no other world leader, firing out broadsides and accolades in rapid succession and generating headline after headline with 140-character missives.
...

>His election has created a more active landscape for Twitter. Average daily active usage rose 11 percent compared with the same time last year. But Trump’s tweets haven’t inspired people to sign up for the service en masse. The increased usage is mostly among existing users.

>Because of Twitter’s public nature, users can see a lot of the content on it — such as Trump’s tweetstorms — without creating an account. And the service can be difficult to use for people not versed in lingo like hashtags, @-replies and the like. The company also hasn’t quite been able to explain just why people need it, unlike Facebook, for example, which is widely seen as a place to keep up with friends and family. Facebook’s 1.86 billion monthly users is nearly six times that of Twitter.

>Meanwhile, Instagram attracts 600 million monthly users who want to share photos and videos with friends or the broader world. And Snapchat, best known for disappearing photos and messages and quirky facial filters, is a favorite among millennials. It has 158 million daily users (the company doesn’t disclose monthly users, as rivals do).

>In a charged political and social environment, Twitter is trying to balance its position as a platform for free speech while curtailing hate speech and bullying. Twitter has taken several steps to address abuse, though it’s too early to tell whether they are working. This week, Twitter said it has begun identifying people who have been banned for abusive behavior and will stop them from creating new accounts. Twitter also said it’s creating a “safe search” feature to remove tweets with potentially sensitive content and those from accounts you have blocked or “muted,” which is slightly less drastic than blocking someone.
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>But what matters most to Wall Street is making a profit — something Twitter has yet to do in its 11-year existence. Losses for Twitter swelled to $167 million in the fourth quarter, from $90.2 million a year earlier, as revenue inched up 1 percent to $717 million.

>Excluding special items such as expenses for stock compensation, per-share earnings of 16 cents was 4 cents better than expected, but that was overshadowed by its outlook. A lean profit outlook for the current quarter sent Twitter shares plunging more than 12 percent, or $2.31, to close Thursday at $16.41.

>There was some silver lining in the results: video. The company says it streamed more than 600 hours of live premium video from sports, news and entertainment events during the quarter, drawing 31 million unique visitors. Live video is important for Twitter because of the potential ad dollars.

HAHAHAH that's what happens when the president defends a family business from his position of Prez. not an indictment or legal procceds but we do get one hell of a funny meme

Lets make fashion GREAT AGAIN
if you don't my daddy will send a mean tweet

This is going to sound real faggy but, have you seen the shit she sells in that line? It's all cheaply made, overpriced, and fugly. It's no wonder it didn't sell well.

It's funny seeing them cry about a republicunt getting slapped by the invisible hand of the marketplace though.

How do you even pronounce Kellyanne? Kehl-yawn?