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He hailed his plan for the "single biggest tax cut in American history," even though he hasn't proposed a plan and Congress hasn't acted on one. He said "no one would have believed" his election could have created so many new jobs over the past seven months (1.1 million), even though more jobs (1.3 million) were created in the previous seven months.

Taking turns to praise the leader

Typically, a president's initial comments mark the end of on-camera coverage of White House Cabinet meetings, with administration aides then escorting members of the small press "pool" out of the room. But Trump invited reporters to remain as he called on his senior-most advisers to "go around, name your position" and say a few words about the administration's work.

"Start with Mike," Trump said, referring to his vice president. Mike Pence, whom Trump kept in the dark for two weeks after learning that then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had given the vice president false information earlier this year, responded by saying that serving as Trump's number two is "the greatest privilege of my life."

"An honor to be here," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recently offered his resignation amid strains over the Russia investigation.

"My hat is off to you," said Energy Secretary Rick Perry, referring to the president's explanation of his decision to abandon a global climate change agreement.

"We thank you for the opportunity and blessing you've given us to serve your agenda and the American people," said Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, the subject of recent reports that Trump may fire him.

The spectacle was so unusual that Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and his aides made a video mocking it.

New Gallup numbers don't look good

In more than three decades of covering the White House, I've never seen such an extended public display of flattery for a president from his chosen subordinates. At moments it resembled the kind of fawning that some of the strongmen rulers Trump has praised — such as Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte — might receive from their deputies.

When it was over, reporters in the room asked questions of the president related to the ongoing Russia investigations. Trump answered, "Thank you," signaling his aides to usher the media out of the room.

Trump succeeded in getting cable television networks to air the spectacle. What's unclear is whether that helps or hurts the president with his political problems.

Shortly after the Cabinet coverage, the Gallup organization released its updated tracking poll of how Americans view their president's performance. He is fighting from a deep hole: 36 percent approve his handling of the job, 59 percent disapprove.

>>148529
How fucked is Lynch?

>>148536
She is going to super jail

What's the difference between a matter and an investigation?

>Even though the tweets may have "disagreed or ridiculed you," the letter says, "they were protected by the First Amendment." The Supreme Court has supported protections of "sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks" as part of the "robust political debate encouraged by the First Amendment," the letter says.

>That means Twitter followers should not be excluded from the ongoing debate on the network — since they are blocked, they no longer see Trump's tweets and, subsequently, they cannot post replies that would be seen by other Trump followers.

>Trump's use of Twitter is reminiscent of how other presidents have used media — Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio addresses and John F. Kennedy's TV press briefings — to "go around the press in the past," said Gene Policinski, chief operating officer at the Newseum Institute and First Amendment Center.

>But Trump has "basically turned" his Twitter feed "into a public forum," such as a town hall meeting, he said. "I would suspect he could retain the right to block people who are abusive by commonly accepted terms, but just to block people for being critical, you could argue they are protected by the First Amendment. ... We have the right to talk back to our leaders without penalty."

>The Knight Institute's attorneys plan legal action if Twitter followers who have been blocked because of their views are not unblocked. “Though the architects of the Constitution surely didn’t contemplate presidential Twitter accounts, they understood that the President must not be allowed to banish views from public discourse simply because he finds them objectionable," said Jameel Jaffer, the institute’s executive director, in a statement. "Having opened this forum to all comers, the President can’t exclude people from it merely because he dislikes what they’re saying.”

>Trump also has 18.7 million followers on the @POTUS account on which he has posted 647 tweets. Twitter didn't credit Trump with bringing more users to the network, but Twitter saw a 6% uptick in average monthly active users during the first three months of 2017, the company said when it announced its first-quarter financials in April.

>"His use of Twitter is obviously unique and unprecedented in this area," said Katie Fallow, a senior litigator at the institute.

>The institute became "aware of a trend over the past week or so of (Trump) or someone who administers his account blocking people who are critical of him," she said. "You are blocking those users so they can’t see his tweets and can’t reply to him. It both affects their ability to hear the speech of the president but also affects their ability to participate in what is a very lively and active public conversation."

>Trump regularly keeps a steady stream of tweets going and when he goes quiet — as he did during recent nine-day overseas trip — the news media notices. In the last day alone, the president tweeted about the Gulf nations' sanctions against Qatar, a Republican meeting on tax cuts and health care, the travel ban, air traffic control plan, the remembrance of the D-Day Invasion and the media.

>Trump's use of Twitter is reminiscent of how other presidents have used media — Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio addresses and John F. Kennedy's TV press briefings — to "go around the press in the past," said Gene Policinski, chief operating officer at the Newseum Institute and First Amendment Center.

>But Trump has "basically turned" his Twitter feed "into a public forum," such as a town hall meeting, he said. "I would suspect he could retain the right to block people who are abusive by commonly accepted terms, but just to block people for being critical, you could argue they are protected by the First Amendment. ... We have the right to talk back to our leaders without penalty."

Lol @ democrats

>>148796
As President Trump finds himself embroiled in headlines about possible collusion between his campaign associates and Russia during the 2016 campaign, his disapproval rating have yet again rocketed to their all-time high.
As of June 11, 59% of voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing as President, according to the Gallup daily tracking poll, while just 36% approve.
The last time the president’s disapproval rating was at 59% in the Gallup poll was on March 28, the day he signed an executive order to begin undoing environmental regulations from the Obama era.
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That same day, his Gallup approval rating reached an all-time low of 35%.
The latest numbers come after former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump unexpectedly fired last month, testified before Congress that Trump had asked him for total loyalty and requested he halt any investigations into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Trump subsequently took to Twitter, calling Comey “very cowardly.”
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>>148797
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When Harris said Rosenstein had joked about his ability to filibuster, Burr again told her to suspend her questioning and asked Rosenstein to finish his answer.

Rosenstein pointed out that the Senate allowed the independent counsel statute to sunset because lawmakers did not want independent counsels to be completely independent of the Justice Department.

"Under the regulation, he has, I believe, adequate authority to conduct this investigation, and your ultimate check, senator, is, number one, the integrity people of the people involved in the investigation, but number two, the fact that if he were overruled, if he were fired, we would be required to report to the Congress," he said. "I believe that is an appropriate check."

Later on Twitter, Harris defended her methods.

"The American people deserve to know whether the special counsel is fully independent," she wrote. "We need the truth. I won't stop until we get it."

EMILY's List, the political action committee dedicated to getting more pro-choice Democratic women to run for office, called out Burr for his treatment of Harris, saying it was "shameful."

"We’d expect this behavior from Donald Trump – but once again, it looks like the Republican orange doesn’t fall far from the tree. We need more women – and far fewer Burrs – in Congress," the group said in a statement.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts – who was cut short by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell while she gave a speech against the nomination of then-Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general – also cheered Harris on.

GOP is just terrified that since Russians also hacked the RNC, they've dirt that they may leverage if Trump is removed from office.

She probably would have gotten her sound-bite is she didn't keep interrupting like a bitch.

What I got was that the total independence of a special counsel was allowed to sunset to allow reigning in an out of control investigation (like Whitewater). The justice department can overrule the investigation with the consequence of being called before Congress to explain their action.

>>148054
Quote the article and archive link?

I actually went to school with the kid from elementary to high school.

He was extremely shy; wouldn't look you in the eye. He had a handful of friends. He was in a lot of my classes. We actually had three years of German class together. I thought of him as an anxious shy kid, but harmless. When in-reality there were some dark stuff going on his head.

I was shocked that he did this. We come from a small town (Dallas, PA). It’s rare you see that kind of crime around here, and I can't believe he did this. He had a ton of social media accounts. They are all up and have disturbing content on all of them. Just google his name and they will show up, but I don’t advise doing that. I hope they are taken down soon…. Based on those accounts it looks like he's been very delusional for some time now. It looks like for the last few years.

It's really sad that this happened and that no-one gave him support, I mean maybe his family did. He lived with them. But whatever they were doing wasn’t helping. Maybe they thought it would pass, but like I mean come on, the guy had shot guns and Disney posters in his room. He made extremely disturbing youtube videos too. Maybe the parents didn’t know how to help him….It’s all really a damn shame.

>>148054
>Can't spell Columbine without /co/

>>148965
Thatll teach people to hate Islam!

>The developments come seven years after a Pakistan court temporarily blocked local access to Facebook after the social network was used to promote a contest to draw images of Prophet Muhammad - an act considered to be offensive by many Muslims.

Yet again /b/ makes the news

FUCK ISLAM, FUCK MUHAMMAD,

BOMB THE MUSLIMS...
NUKE THEM ALL

>>148727
This is the second time they voted for statehood. The dummies voted in a governor who has refused statehood and is very outspoken against it. Aka it isn't happening....again.

>>148730
>Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo A. Rosselló of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, said he planned to take the victory to Washington and press Congress to admit Puerto Rico to the union.

I hope he's been hitting the gym then lol

>>148612
So much Trump articles holy fuck

>>148612
But why loli?

Don't you know this is a sfw board? If I had been viewing this in public people would think I was pedoing like a champ.

>>148636
He can't go 2 days without a major controversy. Half of it is his own distractions and the other half is a mix of malice and incompetence. People keep pointing out how the media is biased but maybe he can try and do something good. Like donate some money to a charity. Don't just do a fundraiser. Even his veterans fundraiser is in controversy for lying about the sum they donated (any of it) Like holy fuck just let them have the donation. Why intentionally be an asshole at every opportunity?

>The new details, buttressed by a classified National Security Agency document recently disclosed by the Intercept, show the scope of alleged hacking that federal investigators are scrutinizing as they look into whether Trump campaign officials may have colluded in the efforts. But they also paint a worrisome picture for future elections: The newest portrayal of potentially deep vulnerabilities in the U.S.’s patchwork of voting technologies comes less than a week after former FBI Director James Comey warned Congress that Moscow isn’t done meddling.

>“They’re coming after America,” Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in the election. “They will be back.”

>One of the mysteries about the 2016 presidential election is why Russian intelligence, after gaining access to state and local systems, didn’t try to disrupt the vote. One possibility is that the American warning was effective. Another former senior U.S. official, who asked for anonymity to discuss the classified U.S. probe into pre-election hacking, said a more likely explanation is that several months of hacking failed to give the attackers the access they needed to master America’s disparate voting systems spread across more than 7,000 local jurisdictions.

>Such operations need not change votes to be effective. In fact, the Obama administration believed that the Russians were possibly preparing to delete voter registration information or slow vote tallying in order to undermine confidence in the election. That effort went far beyond the carefully timed release of private communications by individuals and parties.

>One former senior U.S. official expressed concern that the Russians now have three years to build on their knowledge of U.S. voting systems before the next presidential election, and there is every reason to believe they will use what they have learned in future attacks.

>>148907
How do they know it was Russia?

All it ways is investigators found evidence of "cyber intruders"

And then you have the fact that this was apparently impossible like a few months ago

>>148910
>I don't know shit about cyber-forensics, therefore there's no such thing.

>Time is running out to protect Earth from the disastrous effects of climate change. An international team of eight researchers said we have just 10 years to save the planet. But their news isn’t all bad: they’ve come up with a model for balancing carbon dioxide emissions with carbon sinks, like forests, to keep temperatures from passing the 1.5 degree Celsius mark widely considered safe for life as we know it.

>Scientists say if the world actually intends to stick to the Paris agreement, the next decade will be critical. They say there are two ways to reduce carbon emissions: by slashing the emissions we humans produce and by restoring carbon sinks, and it’s time to take action on both. They detailed their plan in a Nature Communications study, published online yesterday.

>World Bank consultant Brian Walsh, who led the study while doing research for the Austria-based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), said they scrutinized carbon emissions from fossil fuels, agriculture, food production, bioenergy, and land use. They also accounted for natural ecosystems taking in carbon emissions to determine where they originate and where they go.

>Here’s the recommendation: we must reduce fossil fuel use to the point where it’s under 25 percent of the global energy supply by 2100; it’s at 95 percent right now. And we need to reduce deforestation to attain a 42 percent decrease in emissions by 2100.

>Renewable energy is also part of the answer. The researchers considered four scenarios for energy development in the future. A high-renewable scenario would see wind, solar, and bioenergy use increase by five percent a year so emissions would peak by 2022. Even that pathway would lead to a 2.5 degrees Celsius temperature increase if we don’t also employ negative emissions technologies.

>IIASA Energy Program Director and co-author Keywan Riahi said, “Earlier work on mitigation strategies by IIASA has shown the importance of demand-side measures, including efficiency, conservation, and behavioral change. Success in these areas may explain the difference between reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius instead of 2 degrees Celsius.”

>Almost 75% of Japan's biggest coral reef has died from bleaching, says report

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/12/almost-75-of-japans-biggest-coral-reef-has-died-from-bleaching-says-report

>The spokesman for the American-led task force that is fighting the militants, Col. Ryan Dillon, said that as a matter of policy he could not discuss the use of specific munitions. But he added that “in accordance with the law of armed conflict, white phosphorus rounds are used for screening, obscuring and marking in a way that fully considers the possible incidental effects on civilians and civilian structures.”

>It has not been determined whether the shells that appeared to contain white phosphorus landed in populated areas, but tens of thousands of civilians are believed to still be in Raqqa, even as many Islamic State leaders have fled south to Mayadeen in Deir al-Zour Province. Unicef, the United Nations Children’s Fund, warned that 40,000 children are believed to be trapped in the city.

>Residents said that most of the Islamic State fighters left in Raqqa were local recruits, along with some foreign fighters, and that the most experienced commanders and fighters having decamped.

>Abdullah, a Raqqa resident living in Beirut, said his relatives had seen what they believed was white phosphorus being used in the city. He also said that an internet cafe had recently been hit by missiles, killing around 20 people who were trying to reach relatives for possibly the last time after the Islamic State threatened to shut down all internet providers.

>One of those killed in the cafe was an activist sending a report to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, according to the group’s founder, Rami Abdulrahman.

>The Islamic State has become increasingly restrictive about sharing information with the outside world, so residents spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

>The assault on Raqqa is being carried out by the Syrian Democratic Forces, made up of Syrian-Kurdish and Syrian-Arab militias that are receiving arms, training and air support from the United States and its anti-Islamic State coalition.

>Residents say they have received contradictory instructions from the coalition’s recent leaflet drops, with the latest urging them to shelter in place after earlier warnings to leave the city.

>Doctors Without Borders issued a statement warning that civilians faced dangers, whether staying or trying to flee.

>“Parents have to make an impossible decision,” an emergency coordinator with the group, Puk Leenders, said in a statement. “Either they stay in Raqqa, subjecting their children to increased violence and airstrikes, or they take them over the front-line, knowing they will need to cross minefields and may be caught in crossfire.”

>>148433
This isn't new. We've been using willy pete since forever

>>148720

Teacher suspended

A teacher who advised the yearbook staff has been suspended pending the result of an investigation, Wall Township Public Schools Superintendent Cheryl Dyer said Monday. She did not identify the teacher.

Dyer had sent a letter to parents on Friday, saying she was investigating the matter.

"There is nothing in our student dress code that would prevent a student from expressing his or her political views and support for a candidate for political office via appropriate clothing. Rather, I applaud students for becoming involved in politics and for participation in our democratic society," she wrote.

"The high school administration was not aware of and does not condone any censorship of political views on the part of our students. This includes statements that they might make or clothing with references to candidates for public office that they might wear."

The school's dress code does prohibit references to illegal activity such as use of drugs, alcohol or weapons, she noted.

Montana Dobrovich-Fago had requested a quote from Trump be printed under her yearbook photo.

Both the Berardos and the Dobrovich-Fagos want the school to issue new yearbooks with the original photos and quotes.

"There is an opportunity to use this as a teaching moment for the kids, and for the teachers as well," Joseph Berardo said. "This is a First Amendment, freedom of speech issue."

In a statement released June 10, Dyer said the school district's staffers "strongly value the principles of free speech and inquiry in our schools and society, viewing them as the bedrock upon which our community and educational system is built. The allegations referenced above are disturbing, and any inappropriate challenge to these principles will be rectified as swiftly and thoroughly as possible."

cont.

>>148721

'This is for every student'

Dyer said neither she nor the school's administrators were involved in the alteration of the photos.

"We were not aware of it until the books were distributed, we do not condone it, and we working on a remedy to the issue," she told CNN Sunday. "I cannot discuss personnel matters, but I take this very seriously and it will be addressed appropriately."

Donald Trump was not completely removed from the yearbook. One page mentions the 2016 presidential election.

Joseph Berardo said he asked the school whether students' shirts supporting Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders had been changed but "we haven't seen that. No one has said anything, but it's still the same issue."

"This is not just about my kids. This is for every student," said Janet Dobrovich-Fago.
Both families plan to meet with the principal and the yearbook adviser this week.

FIN

>>148720
How petty can you get to want to remove a president slogan from a yearbook, holy shit

>>148581
Deus vult.

>>148581
Why are they in such massive debt? Is it a Hispanic cultural thing to be a horrible government that runs into deficits?

>>148654
Well actually... Yeah. The Spanish crown had no idea how to actually govern and utilize it's territories beyond natural resource grabbing and when they lost it all, there was not really a whole lot the territories had in place besides local weak governments and their crops. They had to establish their own infrastructure, commerce because they relied on people in Spain solely for all that. Which is why so much of the Spanish territories wanted to fall under the US for support, except the Philippines which to be honest were just fine because the Spanish never developed a whole lot of their own influence there besides leaving a couple last names.

>Flynn has emerged as a central figure -- and Trump's biggest liability -- in the intensifying investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. His financial ties to Turkish government interests, which paid him $530,000 in a lobbying deal that he failed to disclose during the campaign, are also under scrutiny by federal investigators.

>One major concern for Obama administration officials was the subject of conversations between Flynn and Kislyak that took place shortly after President Barack Obama slapped new sanctions on Russia for meddling in the election. Sources tell CNN that Flynn told Kislyak that the Trump administration would look favorably on a decision by Russia to hold off on retaliating with its own sanctions. The next day, Putin said he wouldn't retaliate.

>Sources say Flynn also told Kislyak that the incoming Trump administration would revisit US sanctions on Russia once in office. The US has applied sanctions on Russia since 2014 for its actions in Ukraine.

>Flynn's calls with Kislyak in December have received the most attention, but his relationship with the Russian ambassador goes back four years.

>He first met Kislyak in June 2013 during an official trip to Russia, according to The Washington Post. He led the Defense Intelligence Agency at the time and met his counterparts at the Russian military intelligence agency known as the GRU.

>In December 2015, Flynn attended a gala honoring the Kremlin-run TV network RT. Documents released last month revealed that Flynn was paid $45,000 to attend the event, where he sat at the same table as Russian President Vladimir Putin.
...

>Officials noticed an uptick in communication between Flynn and Kislyak shortly after Flynn's trip to Moscow in December 2015.

>Trump angrily denied any collusion with Russia this week and denounced the newest investigation -- now in the hands of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III -- as "a witch hunt."

>And he has remained steadfast in his loyalty to Flynn, even as the scrutiny surrounding his fired aide continues to weigh down his presidency. Trump urged then-FBI Director James Comey in February to drop the bureau's investigation into Flynn and "let this go," according to a memo Comey wrote at the time. The conversation, first reported by The New York Times earlier this week, has opened the President up to charges from critics of obstruction of justice.

>Trump's obvious bond with Flynn, like his relationship with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other top advisers, appears rooted in the fact that they supported his then-longshot presidential campaign last year at a time when most Republicans were ostracizing him.

>>141524
>First on CNN: Russian officials

FAKE.