only if they are incapable of providing those services.
only if who is incapable of providing the services? The state government?
only if they are incapable of providing those services.
only if who is incapable of providing the services? The state government?
This is enraging and sickening.
But education groups oppose the law and want it changed, saying the decision of when to start school should be decided at the local level.
True, and year-round school years prevent the loss of learning over the summer (like the related article ad says and like I've heard from teachers previously)
But in a nod to the tourism industry, which has long supported the post Labor Day start requirement, the legislation would prohibit schools from holding class on Mondays or Fridays in August.
Then what's the point? To ease into the school year???
writing legislation that would punish scientific journals that publish research that doesn’t fit standards of peer review crafted by Smith and the committee (although he didn’t say how that would be accomplished).
is he a researcher? I don't think so
he term politically correct science.”
ffs
Michael Mann, a climate researcher at Pennsylvania State University in State College and a frequent target of climate change doubters. “That’s why this hearing is going to be so much fun,” Smith said with a huge grin on his normally impassive face.
wow, this isn't bullying at ALL sarcasm
The audience cheered loudly as Smith read the names of three witnesses—climate scientist Judith Curry, who recently retired from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; policy specialist Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado in Boulder; and John Christy, a professor of earth system science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville—he expects to support his view that climate change is a politically driven fabrication and that taking steps to mitigate its impact will harm the U.S. economy
And I'm sure none of them have received funding from the Oil and Gas Industry
“Next week we’re going to have a hearing on our favorite subject of climate change and also on the scientific method, which has been repeatedly ignored by the so-called self-professed climate scientists,
No it hasn't. Super condescending
The most basic thing you can do if and when your service provider tries to collect and sell your data? Switch to another provider—assuming you can find one that won’t turn around and do the same.
And this is assuming you have the option of another provider
What’s more, the measure bars the FCC from passing similar protections in the future.
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE
(The Senate’s approval last week stuck strictly to party lines.)
ugh I was wondering about that
In April 2016, an anti-encryption bill was submitted to the Senate, which proposed that people should be required to comply with any authorized court order for data and that if that data is “unintelligible” – meaning encrypted – then it must be decrypted for the court.[
pretty sure this didn't go anywhere though
The university has promised to give the descendants preferential admissions status at the school.
not, I dunno, SCHOLARSHIPS OR MONEY????
“I don’t hate anyone. I don’t think it is on my level,” he said
what....
“I got depressed. ... I saw it was too late. It’s irreversible,” he said, adding, “I didn’t want to put my family through any more pain.”
wat
Acquired By Estee Lauder Nov. 2016
ugh well I'm sure they'll stop catering as well to WOC now
really fair, look for something more silvery or pinkish to complement your tone, says Quynh
what if you're not fair-skinned? Got any suggestions for darker skin tones?
In 1990, educational computer researcher Margaret Neiss dismissed programming as being an outdated skill unnecessary for teachers to master
hahahaha
Top-down, one-size-fits-all regulations by Washington bureaucrats won’t help make affordable housing more accessible to those who need it. The best way to reduce the cost of housing and increase access is to enable state and local authorities to make decisions that are best suited to the needs of their communities and residents.
generic
shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that housing policies that inadvertently hurt minorities were just as bad as those that explicitly discriminated
WEIRD
Romney’s initiative, which by no means addressed every local government that violated the FHA, was soon reeled in by Nixon.
because of course
He dubbed his initiative "Open Communities" and did not clear it with the White House.
LOVE IT
The legislation seeks to nullify the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which gives concrete guidance to entities receiving federal funds on how to proactively dismantle historical patterns of housing segregation—a requirement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
ffs Marco Rubio
Reif calculated the social value of the reduction in elderly mortality attributable to Medicare Part D at $5 billion per year
what does "social value" mean?
confirmed that one of the prosecutors was fired because Republican politicians complained to the White House that he was not prosecuting Democrats for voter fraud and corruption
wtf
were supplied with bottled water at taxpayer expense even as the state insisted that the water was safe for the poor people of Flint to drink.
wtf
The School also placed in the top ten for Archives and Preservation, Health Librarianship, and Information Systems.
This doesn't even make sense - there's no archives program at this iSchool
from to existing multidisciplinary data repositories,
I don't think the "to" should be here
he State Department came under fire for selecting McPike to go on the trip, rather than following tradition and allowing a pool reporter to go. “When I have something important and useful to say, I know where everybody is and I know how to go out there and say it,” Tillerson said. He also said taking fewer reporters with him means the plane “flies faster, allows me to be more efficient,” and noted that there’s plenty of media in the places he’s going to get the story out.
way to be partisan
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday dismissed concerns over his decision not to let a pool reporter travel with him on his trip to Asia, saying he’s simply “not a big media press access person.”
yeah, we can tell with your use of an outside email address and alias
Trump reportedly called his predecessor to thank him for the letter he left in the Oval Office but that overture was never returned
fabulous!
They dropped for a few days after Mr. Sessions, who is viewed as a bullish influence on the stocks, came under pressure for failing to disclose to the Senate that he had met twice with the Russian ambassador, amid a furor over possible Russian meddling in the presidential election. But Mr. Trump has stoutly backed Mr. Sessions, and “the stocks responded positively,” Mr. Kodesch said.
some bs
Investor expectations that the actual business of incarceration and detention will expand under Mr. Trump have fueled their levitating share prices.
INCARCERATION AND DETENTION SHOULD NOT BE A BUSINESS.
Since the election, CoreCivic’s stock price has climbed 120 percent, and Geo’s has gained 80 percent.
this is disgusting
“I think the starting position is that we’re not going to support regulating broadband as a telecom service or utility, the Title II provisions,” Wicker told The Hill in an interview Wednesday. “It’s just completely unacceptable in a world where technology changes every few weeks.”
boooo
That uncertainty has many in the tech world hoping Congress can craft lasting rules and has Thune and Wicker believing they have an opening.
great
Melvin also noted that the NASA Education program MUREP, which helps fund students seeking STEM degrees at historically black colleges and universities, will be eliminated — weeks after Trump signed an executive order moving oversight of a federal initiative to support HBCUs from the Education Department to the White House.
damn, I missed this
Nothing stops officials, whether at public schools or public colleges, from promoting sensitivity, tolerance of difference, and civil behavior.
literally everything you say does
Walk away, don’t listen, or respond
NOT EVERYONE HAS THAT PRIVILEGE. LIKE IF THEY'RE IN THE SAME CLASS AS YOU, YOU CAN'T WALK AWAY, FFS
principals can’t punish children who hurl racist and sexist insults at classmates unless the slur is accompanied by physical acts.
UH WHAT. NO THAT IS HARASSMENT. HARASSMENT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PHYSICAL.
That means allowing students to wear Confederate symbols unless a school has a history of serious racial conflict, including violent incidents.
THAT IS LITERALLY ALL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Insults, group disparagement, and offensive speech targeting individuals are, naturally, a shock to young men and women who have been shielded from them.
I can't
eschewing the logic of what we have come to know as "microaggressions," the justices rebuked officials who claimed they had acted in part to spare the feelings, and avoid the possible reactions, of students who were friends with a recent graduate who had died in the war.
said like someone with a whole lot of white privilge
unable to distinguish between harassment and a legitimate theological stance, a high-school teacher in Michigan removed Daniel Glowacki from a Spirit Day anti-bullying lesson after Glowacki objected to the message, explaining that, as a Roman Catholic, "I don’t accept gays."
Uhm, the high school teacher isn't the one who can't distinguish between harassment and legitimate theological stances. When a theology teaches hatred, it ceases to be legitimate.
symbols like the Confederate flag
this is a symbol of Hate. The same way public schools don't allow students to wear gang symbols, so should the Confederate flag, Nazi symbols, and other symbols of hatred and ethnic cleansing, be banned.
but they also often censor and punish controversial constitutionally protected speech of all sorts.
more from minority students than white students I bet
Indeed, with speech codes sometimes stricter than those of public schools, colleges only reinforce students’ ignorance of, if not disdain for, crucial free-speech principles.
needs citation
40 percent of millennials believe that society should prevent speech that offends minority groups.
Hate speech should not be protected by the First Amendment. Hate speech is not Free speech
CBO predicted 89 percent of the nonelderly would be covered by last year. CDC put the actual percentage at 89.7 percent.
wow
CBO greatly overestimated the number who would get government-subsidized coverage through the new insurance exchanges.
especially considering the mandatory expansion of medicaid wasn't upheld by SCOTUS
CBO projected that in 2016 that nonelderly rate would fall to 11 percent, and the latest figure put the actual rate at 10.3 percent.
nonelderly rate of what?
The US has a net neutrality rule that prohibits ISPs from blocking websites
for now
Efforts that limit access to federal data can harm the local decisionmakers the bill aims to protect.
"protect"
eliminate the collection of local housing data, stating that “no Federal funds may be used to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing.”
uggggh
shouldn’t be encumbered by lawsuits while in office.
and yet...
The Independent that the initial registration of a long-denied Trump trademark "certainly seems to run afoul of the foreign emoluments clause" of the US Constitution.
hmm, they were denied before?
The trip is now a focus of congressional and FBI investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.
Oh so there is an FBI investigation then?
Kennedy plans to work with a local architect, reports Berkeleyside, and use union labor to address any such problems in Berkeley.
or maybe just moving forward?
an unspecified parcel of city land, possibly in a stack of 100 that reaches up four stories. The rent for the units is $1,000 a month, which would be paid by the city and is well below Berkeley’s average apartment rent of $3,233.
that's still more than my mortgage
when President Bush used his power to make recess appointments to circumvent a filibuster by Senate Democrats.
Obama should have done this
a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that doesn’t reveal its donors but seems to have plenty of money to throw around these days. Last year it spent more than $7 million, by its own count, encouraging GOP senators to stand fast against filling Scalia’s seat in a campaign it dubbed “Let the People Decide.”
disgusting
Another member of that class: Norm Eisen, Obama’s former ethics czar, who has been vociferously critical of conflicts of interest in the Trump administration.
this is a totally unnecessary sentence
All the justices except Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas have an average estimated net worth of more than $1.5 million.
fascinating
One somewhat extreme method he suggests is to set up two-factor authentication for your sensitive accounts, so that accessing them requires entering not only a password but a code sent to your phone via text message. Then, before you cross the border, make sure you don’t have the SIM card that allows you—or customs officials—to receive that text message, essentially denying yourself the ability to cooperate with agents even if you wanted to.
there are other methods of two-factor authorization tho
preferably an iPhone,
no
authorizes an attorney to visit you if you are detained at the border, but it has to be completed and signed in advance of your crossing.
why does this have to be completed at all? Isn't having access to a lawyer part of fundamental rights??
nd as a result put preclearance back on the table for Texas.
!!!! I'm sure Sessions won't do it though
the DOJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,” Judge Smith wrote.
I mean, where is the lie
To deactivate the filter, you would have to request it in writing, prove that you are 18 or older and pay a $20 deactivation fee.
wtf
It would require the manufacturers of mobile devices that have internet access to create and impose the filter. It’s up to the manufacturers to decide whether material is obscene.
this is stupid
He hasn't donated the items, saying he doesn’t trust they’d be added.
what an idiot
he man at the Ronning branch Leneker called out for refusing his donation told Fick he didn’t recall the interaction.
hahahahaha
“They’re focusing and limiting the knowledge of people who are using their library,” said Leneker, who wrote another letter to the Argus Leader expressing his frustration over the donation issue. “Some people don’t like history because they have an agenda.”
do you even library bro
He suspects the political content of the materials was behind that.
Uh, did he check to see if the library, I don't know, MAYBE ALREADY HAD IT
Pundit Glenn Beck has endorsed it and interviewed its author, G. Edward Griffin.
oh lord
ally in Rotterdam for a Turkish referendum on constitutional reforms to expand presidential powers, which the Dutch see as a step backward from democracy.
don't the Dutch have Freedom of Speech though?
he right of Turkish government officials to speak about their political plans at rallies in Europe.
why wouldn't they be allowed to do so?
Eventually, Germany could also lower corporate taxes and social contributions, making itself more attractive to international companies.
haha yeah right
Banks also said that he was mistakenly registered as a lobbyist due to an error by his office manager.
uh huh
Trump’s order also removed the requirement to provide a public interest justification for waivers.
like ffs
banning them from directly handling issues on which they had lobbied.
okay butt Pruitt
"has everything to do with an understaffed, overworked U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services."
uh huh
Iowa and Kansas have prohibited the use of Black Asphalt by law enforcement agencies because of concerns that it “might not be a legal law enforcement tool,”
holy crap
ICE’s enforcement focuses overwhelmingly on immigrants, the ICM funding documents make clear the intelligence tool can also be aimed at U.S. citizens. “Citizenship can be established a variety of ways to include biographical and biometric system checks,” one document states. “U.S. Citizens are still subject to criminal prosecution and thus are a part of ICM.”
wtf
The system provides its users access to intelligence platforms maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and an array of other federal and private law enforcement entities.
uh, is this legal?
seized by deputies, who informed the protestors that they could pick the guns up at the sheriff’s office.
the Black Panther Party had their guns seized, eh?
instituting voluntary background checks
well duh
by the benefits accrued to their professional reputation when other scholars read, and cite, their published work. They care about recognition, not royalties.
Plus, the authors rarely see any income from those royalties; the publishers usually get all of it
it’s unclear if probable cause is a requirement for police to seize property in Illinois. Even if an owner is never charged or convicted of a crime, law enforcement agencies are not obligated to return property that was seized during an investigation.
that's so ridiculous
WikiLeaks has a long track record of releasing top secret government documents.
it's not that long of a history
saying, if we mandate everybody buys what we say they have to buy, then the government will always estimate that they’ll buy it.”
the ACA doesn't do that
“What matters is that we're the lowering costs of health care and giving people access to affordable health care plans,” Ryan responded.
but lots of these people are ALREADY on affordable health insurance plans
lowering costs for everyone was more important.
uh huh
It is not unusual for a new president to replace United States attorneys appointed by a predecessor, especially when there has been a change in which party controls the White House.
whew
the scrubbing of Nexis-Lexis data about Jeff Sessions just before his Senate confirmation;
woah, I missed this
I got the results of my campus tenure vote and I PASSED. Of the people voting for me, no one voted no on my dossier at the campus level. Couple of absence/abstention so I can’t say unanimous but I’ll take an overwhelming majority and no one against.
YAY!
The money was seized because law-enforcement officials believed that it was “substantially connected to criminal activity,” including the sale of narcotics. James Leonard’s mother, Lisa Olivia Leonard, claimed to be the rightful owner of the money from the house sale and sued the government to regain it. But because she didn’t raise her due-process claims at the trial level, the Supreme Court declined to hear her case, leaving her with little recourse.
wtf
And I just don't know how you do that if you have someone looking over your shoulder and sort of coughing slightly to let you know when you're off."
that's not what this is
People are more sensitive now, she says, but literature can't come from a place of fear.
Or more vocally conscientious? Have more tools for vocalizing criticism?
"We're not boycotting Israeli companies. We're only trying to divest in companies that are involved in the internationally recognized illegal activities of the Israeli government and military within Palestinian territories," he said
so in the occupied Gaza Strip territories?
The Republican sponsors of the legislation have argued that the government should not crowd out private financial firms, which offer such services.
Obviously private financial firms aren't meeting a necessary demand and don't want to meet it, which is why the states found it necessary to do so. This is literally how the free market is supposed to work.
younger researchers, female researchers, and researchers in developing countries.
not researchers of color?
Facebook is outsourcing its decision-making power about what’s in your News Feed
this just reinforces the so-called "echo-chamber" effect
“You and your family are fired,” the text read. “I hope you enjoyed your day off, and you can enjoy many more. Love you.”
wtf
What mechanism must be created to foster a more nimble, reflexive, responsive, and even proactive national voice?
or empowered?
The counterpoint is that developing, maintaining and publishing technical codes is expensive, which is why the current copyright system should remain in place.
the current copyright system is too restrictive in favor of copyright holders rather than in favor of the Public
There is, however, debate over whether the formatting is sufficiently accessible.
so they're not usable for screen readers then
the technical codes are available online for free, which is true.
Literally earlier in this article it says "The standards in question were written by these organizations and incorporated into law in Georgia. They were then made available in reading rooms and libraries for viewing in person, or for purchase from the standard organizations." - where does it say they're available for free online???
the resulting opinion questioned whether copyright law as it relates to this issue was in the interest of the public, going so far as to suggest that changes be made in Congress.
that's something at least
anyone who subsequently posts them online is committing a copyright violation.
that is some BS
This debate was at the center of a recent court ruling that questioned whether technical standards created by private entities and incorporated into law can be copyrighted. The answer, as passed down by a U.S. District Court, was indeed they can
ugh
The emphasis switched from leukemia to lung cancer, and a change in medical record software rendered Watson incompatible without an overhaul. Moreover, the info used to feed Watson is outdated.
how so?
ederal records apply to all “federal agencies” in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, but do not include the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol.
why not??
the state-run program will allow more rural health clinics to offer family planning services.
Uh, how?
The proprietary data held by Ringgold, such as the Ringgold ID, metadata, demographics and organizational relationships are not shared in this dataset.
boo
I regret if anyone was offended by my choice of metaphors but my intention was to focus on the protesters being hateful and to open up a dialogue on this point."
man, you're an idiot
The drawing depicts a woman passively walking while being protected from angry protesters. Isn't that what went down the other day when Devos visited a school to do her job?
because she wants to dismantle those schools and continue segregation. That's why people protested her
So far, jurisdictions in 21 states have passed laws regarding body camera footage -- most of them restricting it. The state of South Carolina has exempted the footage from public records requests altogether.
this defeats the entire purpose of requiring body cameras then.
“What if we had a band playing outside inviting young people in to rock the library? What if there was live music on the weekends? A lot of kids out there don’t have places to go, and a lot of the time they go to the wrong places. What if this would become that place?” Christopher said, noting that the Cybrary will also have a themed coffee shop and restaurant.
Public libraries across the US are already doing these things. See also: "Phoenix Public Library Teen Central"
Before you know it libraries across the country will want a Cybrary in their community,”
They already do. This isn't unique. See: "makerspaces"
Christopher said one goal is to have the Cybrary bring in revenue to the city. The city even trademarked the “Cybrary” brand.
LIBRARIES AREN'T FOR REVENUE GENERATING. THEY'RE A SERVICE
“Most of it will be free but there are going to be aspects of it that there will probably be a charge for. Most of these decisions have not been made,” Porter said.
This is some bullshit
How long books stay around will depend on their popularity.
Oh you mean like they are currently?
council members asked 20 high school students if they had been to the library in the past two years. Only two students raised their hands. At the time, the city already had starting planning the Cybrary and wanted to know where conventional libraries fall short.
Did they ask if the students had been to, I don't know, their school library? Did they go to the library and ask the students who are there (because there are always HS students at the public library) how often they show up?
What if children weren’t hushed but rather encouraged and inspired to really want to read, to learn, to explore new places to really engage?” said Tony Christopher, Landmark’s founder, CEO and president.
are you fucking kidding me
no shushing, no boredom
Librarians don't shush very much anymore. Books aren't boring. People often go to libraries specifically for the quiet areas.
“When you think about bettering this thing called a library, which has been around since before 300 B.C, do you turn to the library scientists — the librarians — to create a fresh and new thing, or do you turn to people who have expertise in the areas of entertainment and attraction?”
wow, this is a super condescending statement. Why take input from the people who have to work in this library every day?
the world’s first “Cybrary,” or cyber library.
someone didn't hear about the one in Austin
Senate votes on key Trump nominations.
why not EPA/Pruitt???
she could have told me where to go for it. But she wouldn’t because she needed me to be pregnant for her case.”
or maybe because it was illegal????
Norma Nelson — her middle name was variously spelled Lea, Leah and Leigh — was born in Simmesport, La., on Sept. 22, 1947. Her father, a television repairman, was largely absent from her life.
what about her mother?
Polemics
n. A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation. - wordnik
Mr. Trump tells foreign leaders in his phone calls. Some staff members have turned to encrypted communications to talk with their colleagues, after hearing that Mr. Trump’s top advisers are considering an “insider threat” program that could result in monitoring cellphones and emails for leaks.
wow. That is terrifying
The president has complained to at least one person about "how his people didn't give him good advice" on rolling out the travel ban and that he should have waited to sign it instead of "rushing it like they wanted me to."
that's what happens when you appoint a bunch of people with no government experience
https://git.io/vPZbh
broken link
https://git.io/vPZbF
broken link
In order to facilitate identification of ISA-Tab component files, specific naming patterns SHOULD follow:
builds in a file naming convention of a sort
The school declined to respond to WSBTV’s inquiries about the situation, telling the news station that the police would handle it. The sheriff’s office was involved, according to the news station.
jfc
the Neighborhood Learning Center, telling her that that day would be her son’s last at the school.
wtf
Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to use existing federal law to prosecute those who commit crimes against law enforcement officers.
ffs
In June, 20-year-old Regina Elsea was crushed to death by a robot at a Kia and Hyundai auto parts supplier in Alabama.
omg
Another part of the bill would require staffing firms to track race, gender and ethnicity of job applicants. Last year, the investigative news organization Reveal found that companies sometimes direct temp agencies to filter out African Americans or assign work based on gender.
wtf
the newspaper executive agreed to Johnson’s demand for a letter promising editorial support in exchange for letting the merger through. The Antitrust Division had been critical of the deal but was overruled by Johnson.
wow
rump has moderated his tone on the AT&T-Time Warner deal. He also appointed transition antitrust experts who are friendlier to corporate consolidation than the Obama administration.
because of course
anyone who uses the RNC email for White House work has to forward or copy those communications to the government email system within 20 days.
which was deemed "not good enough" when Hillary did it
Author List A list of Strings The list of authors associated with that publication.
no author URIs? Like ORCID or ResearcherID?
Data nodes
only filename should be included for data nodes???
SHOULD NOT be preceded by any node
this section would make a lot more sense if "Study graphs" and "Assay graphs" were each described in their own sub-sections.
Study graph
wtf is a study graph? What's the difference between a study graph and an Assay graph?
Experimental graphs
what is the point of experimental graphs?
ypically follows the steps of one particular experimental workflow described by a particular protocol.
okay, I think I get it. So each Study is a particular experiment?
An
This should be "A classification"
contextualising information for one or more Assay
okay, what is an Assay?
A Study is a central concept containing information on the subject under study, its characteristics and any treatments applied.
this doesn't make a whole lot of sense
description
don't define a word or concept with itself!!
Mike Pence made a pitch to congregants for their vote, citing two main reasons to vote for his ticket: the promise to appoint justices to the Supreme Court “who will uphold our constitution and the rights of the unborn” — in other words, someone with conservative views on religious freedom and abortion — and a promise to repeal the Johnson Amendment
wow, how is that not illegal?
When numbers are down there is no “gotcha” response; no senseless finger-pointing.
not necessarily true
picayune
noun. Something trivial. "Picayune." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2017.
When asked about some of the risks cited by other statisticians – the increasing role of the private sector in public data collection, changes in methodologies which could make numbers appear more favorable – Groshen was confident in repeatedly asserting “the BLS is independent of the administration”.
yeah right
state that “no Federal funds may be used to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities”.
jfc
simply the defunding of specific statistical programs. This is already under way. Two Republican-sponsored bills are attempting to nullify a 2015 housing regulation aimed at addressing racial segregation in cities such as Baltimore and Chicago, simply by halting data collection
wow
Heritage Foundation for more information on privacy and technology issues: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/05/technologies-that-can-protect-privacy-as-information-is-shared-to-combat-terrorism)
irony here is that the Heritage Foundation advocates for de-funding the IMLS
During the course of their dependency proceedings, however, the children were disenrolled, though their mother was allowed to remain on the rolls
why were they dis-enrolled??
ICWA
Indian Child Welfare Act: http://www.nicwa.org/Indian_Child_Welfare_Act/faq/
But now, instead of risking Bismarck, the route could threaten the Standing Rock Sioux.
this is textbook environmental racism
The pipeline was originally designed to run much farther north — near Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota. But as Bill McKibben wrote in The New Yorker, officials rerouted it when people there raised concerns that it could jeopardize the community's water supply.
WEIRD
many GOP-dominated states are likely to preserve expansion while adding so-called personal responsibility policies that have been proposed in Kentucky and adopted in Arkansas and five other states. Those policies include monthly premiums, copays and work requirements for low-income beneficiaries
ugh
Assay
Assay: to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components <assayed the="" gold="" to="" determine="" its="" purity="">
In any election where the outcome was that close, a recount is a virtual certainty.
In Michigan, these votes wouldn't have been eligible for recount http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/05/recount-unrecountable/95007392/
optical scanners that jammed on election day.
this is still unacceptable
some files apparently had "metadata inconsistencies," tech jargon that the company neither elaborated upon nor clarified, despite Fortune's inquiries
that's cute. Metadata inconsistencies shouldn't keep a file from being deleted
Normally, Dropbox permanently wipes files—eradicating the data from its servers—60 days after a person deletes them, in accordance with the company's privacy policy. Something went wrong, in this case, that prevented the company from following through with the process.
something went wrong for EIGHT YEARS??
It goes on to particularly underline the need to support Medicaid, which President Donald Trump has suggested could be converted from the current system, in which the U.S. picks up most of the costs, to a block grant that would give the state more freedom to cut costs but also limit federal financial liability.
ugh
an online randomized survey (polling 2,167 people), conducted via Amazon Mechanical Turk
interesting choice of platforms
n.b.
"mark well". Used to call attention to something. - "Nota Bene." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2017.
Stopping Bolton—who on Monday suggested aloud that the Russian hacks may have been an Obama administration false-flag operation—should become the top priority
wtf
Bob Gate
who is that?
the similarly hawkish Marco Rubio add up to 51 votes—enough to stifle Trump appointees in the post-filibuster era.
except Rubio caved.
hyperbolic,
"of, relating to, or marked by language that exaggerates or overstates the truth : of, relating to, or marked by hyperbole <hyperbolic claims="">". Merriam-Webster' Dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbolic
"This report assumes a situation that simply doesn’t exist and that no one in Congress advocates."
uh huh
The new guidelines would cap the public comment section to 30 minutes at Board of Trustees meetings.
that is some bs
11 resulted in offers withdrawn.
I'd like to know the demographics of the people who had offers withdrawn
two other Democrats joined 11 Republicans last week on a bill to end protections for wolves in the Great Lakes and Wyoming.
poor woofs :(
Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, suggested in an interview that one species should be removed from the list every time another is added.
ffs, that's not how the real world works
include placing limits on lawsuits that have been used to maintain protections for some species and force decisions on others, as well as adopting a cap on how many species can be protected and giving states a greater say in the process.
that is some BS
“It has never been used for the rehabilitation of species. It’s been used for control of the land,” said House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop. “We’ve missed the entire purpose of the Endangered Species Act. It has been hijacked.”
uh, no
A more important driver of the declining abortion rate, Jones said, appears to be improved access to contraception, particularly long-acting birth control options like IUDs
HMMM
having fewer clinics didn't always translate into having fewer abortions."
interesting
requiring women seeking abortions to get an ultrasound, which she said are having a "real, measurable impact on abortion."
nooope
the Guttmacher report shows new state restrictions on abortion are working
in that case the teen pregnancy rate and the number of unintended pregnancies would have increased.
no ethnic groups in Tanzania are more indigenous than others because all Tanzanians are equal under the law.
uh huh
whose surname translates to “Warthog” in the Barabaig language
is this necessary? Do we do this for European-language based names?
he interviewed more than 100 candidates.
yeah right
A
love this box of useful metadata!
“Donald hired somebody who’s an anti-Semite, even though his son-in-law is a practicing Orthodox Jew?” developer Richard LeFrak, one of Trump’s few close friends in New York real estate, said incredulously. “A lot of his best friends are Jewish! Come on, really. What does this all stem from, this hysteria?”
ffs
Henry Kissinger — a Kushner admirer — would call constructive ambiguit
ugh
CNN and the Times were implacably against Trump, Kushner said, the campaign cut a deal to grant softball interviews to a local broadcast chain with a strong presence in the Midwest
CNN literally hired the Trump campaign's former manger to be a pro-Trump commentator
claiming his own computer models told him the morning of the election that Trump would capture more than 300 electoral votes.
uh huh
saying that he had once lived in a “bubble” on the Upper East Side. He thought about immigration in terms of Silicon Valley’s needs, about education the way Robin Hood Foundation philanthropists did, about climate change in terms of carbon emissions, not mining jobs.
ugh