“Trump’s New Jersey golf club accused of giving fake green cards, Social Security numbers to undocumented employees”

another crooked Trump enterprise

Trump has acted like laws don’t apply to him. I hope he winds up in jail.

OUR COVER: Supervisors at Pres. Trump’s Garden State golf club may have committed federal immigration crimes — New Jersey AG, prosecutors, Mueller, FBI played part in the inquiry.
✏️By @C_Sommerfeldt #TrumpGolf #Mueller

What do you think? pic.twitter.com/Eucme8Zhiy

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 29, 2018

"…handed over fraudulent green cards and Social Security numbers that management at the club allegedly procured and gave his clients" https://t.co/WaskZvQmn0

— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 29, 2018

Investigators gather documents of immigrants without legal status who allegedly worked at Trump golf course, lawyer says https://t.co/hCelU10iUV

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 30, 2018

Trump's New Jersey golf club accused of giving fake green cards, Social Security numbers to undocumented employees https://t.co/cjITYUeddT pic.twitter.com/9jQzvJNN7P

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 29, 2018

Articles on hangover cures

just passing these along – don’t know if they work

That's right folks, I wrote about pickles for @BBC_Travel. https://t.co/k4Oal6WqLa

— Paul Benjamin Osterlund (@Paul_Osterlund) December 27, 2018

Rough night while you're away? Or want to get ahead of your next trip? Here's some advice. https://t.co/H9hiS8yZV2

— Men's Journal + Fitness (@mjfit) December 29, 2018

Finally. https://t.co/3E8iTyvXB8

— Men's Health Mag (@MensHealthMag) December 27, 2018

Pedialyte's New Packets Are Finally For Adults – Is Pedialyte A Good Hangover Cure? https://t.co/qSkQmEQprJ

— Darby Lyons (@darbyjlyons) December 28, 2018

Baltimore’s population loss and efforts to revitalize it

Baltimore has led all U.S. cities in population loss for the last two years. But efforts to revitalize are picking up in overwhelmingly black neighborhoods crushed by decades of neglect. https://t.co/r3Ue3WLnkB pic.twitter.com/kzeL63R4Wu
— AP South U.S. Region (@APSouthRegion) December 29, 2018

Significant about how the list of largest cities has changed since 1950–
Baltimore and St Louis–no longer in top 10–are the only 2 'independent' cities. Each losing population to their separated counties. https://t.co/hPOO5k9QGP
— Jayne Miller (@jemillerbalt) November 17, 2022

Trump learned nothing from the massive Republican House losses in the midterms

This will hurt Trump and the Republicans going forward (which is fine with me). Trump just lives in his Fox News bubble and ignores the facts.

“He’s playing poker holding two threes and suddenly putting all of his chips in. It’s pure emotion, the mark of a panicking amateur.”https://t.co/kBMSraYTqD
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 29, 2018

from the article linked to above:

“Republican critics, such as veteran strategist Mike Murphy, say Trump is threatening the GOP by “learning nothing from November and playing to the third of the country that he already has.””

Repeating this point, but the tendency of presidents to recover after bad midterms doesn't necessarily happen automatically—it may happen because it prompts them to pivot. Not clear if there's any recovery if there's no pivot, and Trump isn't pivoting. https://t.co/u6qD9Vvrcr pic.twitter.com/nsjrrdS7FO
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 29, 2018

A great illustration of how Republican hands are tied: they lose 40 seats in the House because voters reject Trumpism, but take no steps to move from him bc their remaining members (and leaders) are in mostly Trumpy districts

The president won Wyo by 40https://t.co/t3f46diWoz
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) February 10, 2019

Trump cancels pay raise for civilian federal employees

I guess he thinks they’re mostly Democrats. Trump only cares about his base. He has no interest in being the president of the entire country. Budget restraints are partially caused by his tax cuts which reduced revenue.

Trump signed an executive order Friday eliminating a 2.1% pay raise for federal workers due to take effect in January, writing in August that "federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases." https://t.co/rV6d7r1iFY

— Axios (@axios) December 29, 2018

NEWS: President Trump says he's eliminating a pay raise for civilian federal employees slated for 2019 in order to "put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course." pic.twitter.com/7wNAgoMdKX

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 30, 2018

Trump has told Congress that he is canceling a pay raise that most civilian federal employees were due to receive in January, and he's citing budgetary constraints: https://t.co/0Ha88hIRpS

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 30, 2018

“Let them eat wall” https://t.co/Osnlls9GvY

— Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov) December 29, 2018

Trump has the gall to say he’s stiffing the entire civilian federal workforce – 30% of whom are veterans – on their scheduled pay raise to put the country on “a sound fiscal footing” as he creates historic deficits by blowing trillions on a tax cut that will mostly go to the rich https://t.co/KhWhV62nNv

— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) December 29, 2018

I assume there’ll be a move to overturn this in Congress by adding the pay raise to the CR Congress has to pass before Sep. 30. Great issue for Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10) to take lead on. And in Senate, a tough vote for Ted Cruz (lots of civilian federal workers in TX). https://t.co/7wOgDURNCi

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 30, 2018

The Trump shutdown

He owns it.

The majority doesn’t want the wall and more people blame Republicans than Democrats for the shutdown.

For the last time, Nancy Pelosi is not the Speaker of the House. Until she becomes Speaker on January 3, 2019, she cannot convene the House, schedule a vote or open the government. Republicans control all three branches of government. The #TrumpShutdown is entirely on them. pic.twitter.com/4N1W16IIXF

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 29, 2018

It’s always a woman’s fault™️ https://t.co/KcVnLQR4z6

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 29, 2018

Americans are blaming Trump for shutdown that is likely to last into 2019. https://t.co/0A2mY3jZtK

— Slate (@Slate) December 29, 2018

Read some of the sample letters the government suggests federal workers could send to their creditors, as hundreds of thousands of them are expecting to begin the new year furloughed or working without pay due to the partial shutdown https://t.co/1AlbeNwilw pic.twitter.com/k5pFeuR9Yc

— CNN (@CNN) December 29, 2018

Narrator: Ths is a lie, the Democrats had already offered $1.6 billion for border security in exchange for DACA, everyone was on board, and Trump killed the deal at the last minute.

PS Note that Trump once again admits that it is HE who shut down the government. https://t.co/bm0q3mkKik

— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) December 29, 2018

Our President is threatening to shut down the southern border over funding for his $5,000,000,000 wall. Experts say doing so would cost our economy hundreds of millions of dollars a day, maybe over a billion.

This isn't leadership, it's the world's most expensive temper tantrum.

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) December 28, 2018

“Donald Trump suggesting that President Barack Obama should have been fired for a government shutdown. Priceless.” https://t.co/5zjiaFooIe

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 29, 2018

Poll: Most Americans don’t understand scope of the government shutdown @HillTVLive https://t.co/jcKnIXTVnx pic.twitter.com/AwGRr1aOlw

— The Hill (@thehill) December 29, 2018

Donald Trump too busy watching Fox News to contact Nancy Pelosi about ending government shutdown, senator suggests https://t.co/R2F6NGlzTj pic.twitter.com/rHRs6juUxV

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 29, 2018

Some pundits argue that the shutdown is no big deal because federal employees will eventually receive back pay.

What they forget to mention is that it also means that government contractors will be forced to work without pay or even be laid off. https://t.co/b6s3uk5n3i

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) December 29, 2018

Except there’s no amount of salesmanship that can change the fact that the shutdown is Trump’s fault. He asked for it, he said he’d take the blame for it, and he can end it by dropping his demand for a wall that the majority of Americans and Congress don’t want. https://t.co/j5vntnkHuL

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 29, 2018

Trump’s pathetic attack on Democrats over deaths of two migrant children

He is way out of bounds by blaming Democrats for the death of two migrant children. They died because of his inhumane policies if you’re going to blame anyone. This tragedy should not be politicized.

Exactly, @MalcolmNance. Good for you for pulling no punches. Trump aids, abets, and enables the needless deaths of innocent children. And does so without pity or responsibility, blaming anyone but himself. Donald Redrum Trump. Pathetic excuse for a human being. https://t.co/jRMEYl9cKp

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 29, 2018

Pretty sure this is a new low. (Also, what he calls Democratic policies were in place for decades and kids weren’t dying in US govt custody.) https://t.co/0Zig4dqNZh

— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) December 29, 2018

President Trump didn’t just wrongly blame Democrats for two Guatemalan children dying in @CBP custody, on his watch. He also blamed the father of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal for her death, telling an outright lie about how “he hadn’t given her water for days.” https://t.co/53ThXccV3y

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) December 29, 2018

This is pretty depraved but also an amazing window into his mind. It’s not that the government bureaucracy has failed or the system is overwhelmed and needs to be changed. It’s that his opponents are to blame. https://t.co/mJqhkUXFnC

— Sam Stein (@samstein) December 29, 2018

The tweets marked Trump’s first public comments about the deaths of the immigrant children, and he offered no empathy to the families and took no responsibility for the government’s handling of their cases. https://t.co/AOlg6EEKWv

— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) December 30, 2018

Think about this for a second. The guy is supposed to be President of the United States of America…all of America. Think about what he’s saying here. There are no more lines to be crossed. https://t.co/yoy3bsJvvj

— Mike Barnicle (@mikebarnicle) December 29, 2018

"White House officials say that the president, who is concerned about the collapse of his own political support, feels good about his stance on the shutdown, and sees no urgency toward making a deal with the incoming Democratic majority." https://t.co/GwVuFBUIaa

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 29, 2018

This isn’t what either the families nor CBP are saying. CBP is investigating both deaths. The extent to which Trump, in the name of defending Border Patrol, runs roughshod over what the people closer to the ground are actually doing is really underappreciated. https://t.co/FF5RF6LAlq

— Dara Lind (@DLind) December 29, 2018

Trump’s casual cruelty is always breathtaking. We can’t become immune to it. https://t.co/u3rPsMVSMq

— Elise Jordan (@Elise_Jordan) December 29, 2018

What would be the reaction if another president blamed another political party for children who died in his government’s custody?

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) December 29, 2018

Any sympathy for the dead child? https://t.co/Y87K2dqVYc

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) December 29, 2018

Donald Trump implemented a series of new policies that resulted in the deaths of two young children in a few weeks and Trump’s first comment was to blame Democrats and use their deaths to push for his “wall” rather than expressing any sympathy that two kids died in US custody.

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 29, 2018

Democrats in power for 10 years – 0 deaths, Trump in power for 2 years – 2 children dead. But sure, blame the democrats for the deaths you caused. pic.twitter.com/L58rKjmX5j

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 29, 2018

Trump tried to blame the recent deaths of two migrant children on Democrats. Before the two incidents this month, it had been more than a decade since a migrant child died in CBP custody.

— Jane’s not Tame (@JksKathryn) December 29, 2018

President Trump, lying? Naming fake scapegoats? No, not possible! https://t.co/iCdnA2NqIk

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 29, 2018

Fact check from June: "The Trump administration owns this family-separation policy, and its spin deserves Four Pinocchios." https://t.co/fEB7NAMKIQ https://t.co/UoaBK1YpYe

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) December 29, 2018

Ethereal Cereal commercial from the film Putney Swope

Putney Swope was a 1969 satire directed by Robert Downey, Sr.

I love the Ethereal Cereal commercial:

Covers: Let Me In

songwriter: Yvonne Baker

The Sensations recorded the 1961 original version of “Let Me In”

It was covered by Bonnie Raitt in 1973.

Sensations

Bonnie Raitt

The original version is used in a current (December 2018) Cadillac commercial which is what got me to post this.

Oppose Barr for Attorney General

.@JoyceWhiteVance makes a compelling case that confirming Barr would do serious damage to the US Department of Justice and to our legal system. Senators need to read this ⬇️https://t.co/BpeEDFiEox

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 28, 2018

WSJ: Trump’s attorney-general pick pushed pardons for some in Iran-Contra affair because he thought they had been unjustly treated by a special counsel. https://t.co/Z3egFA6QFe via @WSJ

— Will Rabbe (@WillRabbe) December 28, 2018

Trump’s AG pick, Bill Barr, sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to the Justice Department this year excoriating Mueller’s obstruction of justice investigation. He apparently told Trump about the memo and said it could come up during his confirmation hearings. https://t.co/tw2NcKAjHt

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 20, 2018

Now we know why Trump picked Barr. https://t.co/tob9dToX3S

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) December 20, 2018

This is a pretty devastating attack on nominee Barr's memo, a memo which effectively puts the President above the law. The Senate should really scrutinize this memo and ask if our Founders really fought King George III to establish such a regime. https://t.co/IhVe0pPECO

— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) December 26, 2018

Barr’s memo takes an indefensibly regal view of a president’s powers. We wouldn’t have fought a revolution to end up with a presidency unbound by law. Any Senator who finds the views in this memo acceptable either doesn’t understand it or is a sellout.https://t.co/OiygNwgB4A

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 28, 2018