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That might by why haha
As governor candidates make frantic final primary push, N.J. asks: 'What election?'

 

I don't know how true this is, but they're saying The Intercept fucked up:

Errata Security: How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner

 

Ohio lawsuit reveals jaw-dropping stats about the opioid crisis

 

It probably is. The Intercept shouldn't have shown the actual document, but the leaker also messed up by emailing the Intercept ("the News Outlet") from her work desk so she would have probably been caught anyway.

 

This is some Kim Jong-un type shit

 

since i was now curious, apparently he's actually a decent golfer (which would make sense considering how frequent he golfs...)

How Good is Trump the Golfer? - Golf Digest

 

Somebody likes rewarding themselves with participation trophies

 

Part of it is that, but part of it per what Tate posted yesterday is they were able to verify the leaker was the only person who emailed that news outlet

 

Golf is the one thing I totally believe he's good at. It goes both ways: he should be good because he golfs so much, and there's no way he'd golf that much if he wasn't good. It's pretty much impossible to enjoy golfing more than once in a while if you're not at least decent at it

 

i mean, everything listed in that article is a net positive. and i say this as someone with more experience volunteering in STEM education than the average bear (albeit only really at the HS/8th grade levels). And anecdotally, (working with a less wealthy school that has iPad programs as a result of similar outreach efforts and whatnot at the same time as a wealthier school without those programs) education programs like that do have a positive effect.

and code.org/hour of code initiatives are nothing short of amazing. coding should be as much a part of education as things like chemistry and music (ie. everyone learns it but you don't use most of it IRL unless you're actually in the fields)

 

I assume he takes a gimme frequently

 

Gotdamn.

 

DeVos is getting grilled and is awful.

 

Been saying this forever

 

Sen. Jack Reed trying really hard to get DeVos to expose that she has no idea what the federal law says lol

 

Guilty as charged.

 

lol.

Though I've been throwing the "thoughts and prayers" bullshit back in conservatives' faces, as if that isn't their go-to solution to mass shootings. Along with "now is not the right time to talk about this."

 

Trump will live-tweet during testimony of former FBI Director James Comey: report

Seems wise for him.

 

The tweets will prob be akin to "okjagsfoanwriytwejgrbkjwntygfuubwyuayinfopawuiehr" bc he's going to go into convulsions while Comey testifies.

Or he may be too stupid to understand how bad it can be for him.

 

Trump to speak at religious conference during Comey testimony

i wish it were true

this is bad for fake news ammo

 

Confused why median over mean. I've never been good at statistics though.