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Senate Set for ‘Nuclear’ Showdown Over SCOTUS Nominee Neil Gorsuch
Senate Set for ‘Nuclear’ Showdown Over SCOTUS Nominee Neil Gorsuch
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination to a full vote in the U.S. Senate. Democrats reached the 14 votes necessary to block Gorsuch’s nomination via filibuster, setting the stage for an unprecedented “nuclear” move by Republicans to change Senate rules so that Gorsuch can be confirmed by a simple majority of 51 votes.
Four Democrats announced their opposition to Gorsuch Monday morning, including three on the Senate Judiciary Committee who spent the morning debating his nomination.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Sunday indicated that he will proceed with the co-called “nuclear option” to change Senate rules and avoid a filibuster
“Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed this week. How that happens will really depend on what will happen with our Democratic friends,” said McConnell on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Republicans currently hold 52 seats in the Senate.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused the Democrats of setting “a very dangerous precedent” by stopping Gorsuch’s nomination with a filibuster.
Watch:
DNC Chairman Tom Perez said that the situation compels Donald Trump to choose a new nominee:
“Neil Gorsuch ruled against a truck driver who was fired for choosing to save his own life rather than freeze to death, and against an autistic child simply seeking a better education. If confirmed, he would only continue building on his long record of cruel rulings that favor powerful and corporate interests over individuals. It’s plain and simple: Gorsuch has not earned the votes in the Senate to join the Supreme Court. Republicans can’t fix Gorsuch by changing the rules. They need to change the nominee.”
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The World’s Largest Party for Queer Women Happened This Weekend (Photos)
The World’s Largest Party for Queer Women Happened This Weekend (Photos)
www.advocate.com/women/2017/4/03/worlds-largest-party-queer-women-happened-weekend-photos
Grindr catfish reveals what made him lie to get your private pics
Grindr catfish reveals what made him lie to get your private pics
It’s a perspective worth hearing out.
St. Petersburg, Melania Trump, Justin Trudeau, Zac Efron, Zachary Quinto, Rainbow Flag: HOT LINKS
St. Petersburg, Melania Trump, Justin Trudeau, Zac Efron, Zachary Quinto, Rainbow Flag: HOT LINKS
ST. PETERSBURG. 10 dead, dozens injured after subway explosion. “The explosion occurred on a subway train traveling between the Technology Institute and Sennaya Square stations, according to the Investigative Committee, Russia’s federal criminal investigation agency. At the time of the attack, President Vladimir V. Putin was a few miles away in St. Petersburg, his hometown and the country’s second-largest city and former capital, on official business.”
JUSTIN TRUDEAU. He’d like to punch Matthew Perry.
MELANIA TRUMP. Her first official White House portrait.
Official Portrait of First Lady pic.twitter.com/K1DUVE5kSI
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) April 3, 2017
GILBERT BAKER. The definitive obituary of the activist who created the rainbow flag.
ART. Rainbow flag to be hoisted over Tate Britain: “A rainbow flag is to be hoisted over Tate Britain as the gallery opens the first major exhibition dedicated to queer British art, from covert images of same-sex desire by Simeon Solomon to the couldn’t care less enjoyment of David Hockney. The gallery is marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, a momentous, transformative moment which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales.”
NOTRE DAME. Rainbow stickers cause controversy: “Following the stickers being torn down a second time last week, vice chancellor Celia Hammond wrote an email to Gojak saying that the university does not endorse the rainbow flag but also disapproves of the way the NDSA stickers were torn down.”
CLEVELAND. Man threatened at gas station for being gay. “The 20-year-old victim was inside the gas station when a man walked through the door and approached him. The man shoved the victim out of the way and asked him “What are you doing in here, you gay (expletive)?” the report says. ”
NYC. Subway rider assaulted in homophobic attack: “‘You’re a f—–g f—-t and are probably f—–g the guy right next to you,’ the assailant seethed, before repeatedly punching the 29-year-old victim in the face on a Manhattan-bound C train about 9 a.m. Thursday, police said. The unprovoked attack erupted as the train was headed toward the Lafayette Ave. station in Fort Greene. ‘N—–s like me take care of f—–s like you,’ the unhinged assailant said before spitting in the victim’s face and punching him two more times, according to cops.”
ZACHARY QUINTO. He April Fooled the hell out of his boyfriend Miles McMillan.
ZAC EFRON. Showing his guns in Dubai.
GENIUS JUNIOR. Neil Patrick Harris to host game show for smart 12-year-olds: “‘Genius Junior’ is the ultimate test of smarts. Twelve teams of the most incredible children in the country will compete to be crowned Genius Junior. Over five grueling rounds, with each round tougher than the last, teams of three children will have to work together to beat the competition. It’s not enough to win a spelling bee, be a mathlete or even a memory champion – to win ‘Genius Junior’ you have to be brilliant at everything.”
MALE MODEL MONDAY. Justin Petzschke. More here.
IN YOUR FACE. Grandma by flying poo at John Ball zoo.
MONDAY MUSCLE. Ralph Rint.
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St. Petersburg, Melania Trump, Justin Trudeau, Zac Efron, Zachary Quinto, Rainbow Flag: HOT LINKS
中国で人気急上昇、ポップグループFFC-Acrushは5人全員「性別なし」です
中国で人気急上昇、ポップグループFFC-Acrushは5人全員「性別なし」です
産まれた時の性別は女性、だけど見た目は「超イケメン」の5人組。
もっと見る: ライフスタイル, Lifestyle, アンドロギュノス, ジェンダーレス, Ffc-Acrush, Acrush, イケメン, ポップグループ, Lgbt, ウェイボー, 美男子, Japan News
www.huffingtonpost.jp/2017/04/03/this-boy-band-is-genderless_n_15772344.html
Meet the gay cop who is kicking butt and looking hot on ‘The Amazing Race’
‘L.A. Times’ Publishes Part 2 of Savage Denunciation of ‘Liar in Chief’ Donald Trump
‘L.A. Times’ Publishes Part 2 of Savage Denunciation of ‘Liar in Chief’ Donald Trump
The L.A. Times today published part two of a savage editorial denouncing Donald Trump, the “liar in chief” and it should be required reading.
He has made himself the stooge, the mark, for every crazy blogger, political quack, racial theorist, foreign leader or nutcase peddling a story that he might repackage to his benefit as a tweet, an appointment, an executive order or a policy. He is a stranger to the concept of verification, the insistence on evidence and the standards of proof that apply in a courtroom or a medical lab — and that ought to prevail in the White House.
There have always been those who accept the intellectually bankrupt notion that people are entitled to invent their own facts — consider the “9/11 was an inside job” trope — but Trump’s ascent marks the first time that the culture of alternative reality has made its home at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
If Americans are unsure which Trump they have — the Machiavellian negotiator who lies to manipulate simpler minds, or one of those simpler minds himself — does it really matter? In either case he puts the nation in danger by undermining the role of truth in public discourse and policymaking, as well as the notion of truth being verifiable and mutually intelligible.
In the months ahead, Trump will bring his embrace of alternative facts on the nation’s behalf into talks with China, North Korea or any number of powers with interests counter to ours and that constitute an existential threat. At home, Trump now becomes the embodiment of the populist notion (with roots planted at least as deeply in the Left as the Right) that verifiable truth is merely a concept invented by fusty intellectuals, and that popular leaders can provide some equally valid substitute. We’ve seen people like that before, and we have a name for them: demagogues.
Our civilization is defined in part by the disciplines — science, law, journalism — that have developed systematic methods to arrive at the truth. Citizenship brings with it the obligation to engage in a similar process. Good citizens test assumptions, question leaders, argue details, research claims.
Investigate. Read. Write. Listen. Speak. Think. Be wary of those who disparage the investigators, the readers, the writers, the listeners, the speakers and the thinkers. Be suspicious of those who confuse reality with reality TV, and those who repeat falsehoods while insisting, against all evidence, that they are true. To defend freedom, demand fact.
Part 1 was even more brutal:
It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office.
Instead, seventy-some days in — and with about 1,400 to go before his term is completed — it is increasingly clear that those hopes were misplaced.
In a matter of weeks, President Trump has taken dozens of real-life steps that, if they are not reversed, will rip families apart, foul rivers and pollute the air, intensify the calamitous effects of climate change and profoundly weaken the system of American public education for all.
His attempt to de-insure millions of people who had finally received healthcare coverage and, along the way, enact a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich has been put on hold for the moment. But he is proceeding with his efforts to defang the government’s regulatory agencies and bloat the Pentagon’s budget even as he supposedly retreats from the global stage.
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‘L.A. Times’ Publishes Part 2 of Savage Denunciation of ‘Liar in Chief’ Donald Trump
MARDI GRAS PARADE 2013
White House staffers think Jared Kushner is a loser and make fun of him behind his back. Sad!
White House staffers think Jared Kushner is a loser and make fun of him behind his back. Sad!
Jared Kushner is the second biggest laughing stock inside the White House.
