Manafort was found guilty on 8 (out of 18) counts.
Not coincidentally, Michael Cohen just pled guilty to paying off two women to influence the election, in violation of campaign finance laws, and is looking at some jail time.
Buttercup’s at a rally in West Virginia. I’m sure there will be some unbelievable footage to come out of that one. He must be losing his shit right now. I mean more than usual.
So fucking relieved.
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This is the price of voter apathy. This is what happens when good people sit on their hands and think they have no voice — that their vote just doesn’t matter:
Kids are snatched away from their parents and thrown in cages.
If we don’t get out in droves upon droves this November to kneecap this shart-slurping, retrograde prick who minces about like King Fuckwit in the West Wing, listening to nauseating encomiums from his fawning shit brigade while kids languish in concentration camps, we deserve to lose our democracy.
How much quasi-Nazi B.S. do we have to bear witness to in order to make the upcoming midterms a historic repudiation of our dictator-in-waiting?
My fear is that when November comes around, too many of us will forget what’s happening now.
But we can’t. We just can’t. Whatever happens, we need to be just as angry on November 6 as we are today. It’s the most important day of the year, by far. Fuck you, Christmas. Our holiday comes early this year.
We have to remember every outrage of the past two years. Every. One.
Remember family separation
Remember DACA
Remember Puerto Rico
Remember Parkland
Remember Charlottesville
Remember Obamacare sabotage
Remember the Paris Climate Accord
Remember the Iran Nuclear Deal
Remember “shithole countries”
Remember the travel ban
Remember the tax scam
Remember Roy Moore
Remember Joe Arpaio
Remember the baiting — and then praising — of Kim Jong Un
Remember the erosion of our best alliances
Remember Russian collusion
Remember the attacks on the rule of law
Remember Stormy Daniels
Remember the Keystone Pipeline
Remember “clean coal”
Remember Scott Pruitt
Remember Betsy DeVos
Remember our transgender soldiers
Remember the national anthem protests and our shitgibbon-in-chief’s shameful response to the same
Remember every outrage
Remember all of it, put it in a box if you must, and unwrap it in November. But take some time once in a while to let it sear your gut — enough so that you can’t even think about staying home when your one opportunity to send a meaningful fuck-you to this heedless medieval ass-tart comes around.
Get registered, get an ID if it’s required, do whatever the fuck you have to to make this devil pay for his inhumanity. And do it now.
If you’re in a safe Democratic district, vote anyway. We have to send a clear message. We want a tsunami, not a ripple.
If you’re in a safe Republican district, fuck you — there are no safe Republican districts anymore. We’re challenging them everywhere, up and down the ballot.
If someone has an R next to their name, bzzzz, sorry. Thanks for playing. His or her opportunity to stop this slow-motion car wreck has long since gone the way of the Mooch.
If you’re mad as a hornet now because of what’s happening at the border, make sure you’re just as mad in November, and put your anger — finally and fatefully — to good use.
No excuses. None.
Our democracy depends on you.
If you’re even thinking about not voting in November, f*ck you
When I was a child, my father would take me trout fishing, and I spent hours marveling from the riverbank at the trouts’ ability to, seemingly effortlessly, hold their position in the fast-moving water. As it turns out, those trout really were swimming effortlessly, in a manner demonstrated above. The fish you see here swimming behind the obstacle is dead. There’s nothing powering it, except the energy its flexible body can extract from the flow around it.
The obstacle sheds a wake of alternating vortices into the flow, and when the fish is properly positioned in that wake, the vortices themselves flex the fish’s body such that its head and its tail point in different directions. Under just the right conditions, there’s actually a resonance between the vortices and the fish’s body that generates enough thrust to overcome the fish’s drag. This means the fish can actually swim upstream without expending any energy of its own! The researchers came across this entirely by accident, and one of the questions that remains is how the trout is able to sense its surroundings well enough to intentionally take advantage of the effect. (Image and research credit: D. Beal et al.; via PhysicsBuzz; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh)
Oh my god what the fuck
teach me your ways, dead trout
A federal judge on Friday called on the U.S. government and the American Civil Liberties Union to come up with a plan to address the rights of parents and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum.
The request was made during a hearing a day after U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw extended a freeze on deportations of recently reunified families, giving a reprieve to hundreds of children and their parents who want to remain in the United States…
Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney representing separated families, said some deported parents should be allowed to return to accompany their children through the asylum process. He told the judge others should be let back in because they were misled into believing that if they agreed to be deported, they would be reunited with their children…
He [the judge] said claims of people persecuted in their homelands should at least be heard as they seek asylum…
“The court is upholding the rights provided to all persons under the United States Constitution, rights that are particularly important to minor children seeking refuge through asylum,” Sabraw wrote.
Hearseeno 