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Justice Dept. Keeps Wiretaps Secret in Flynn Case, Rejecting Judge’s Order https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/politics/flynn-kislyak-wiretap.html

Our democracy is under attack, but not just from Russia. We have 3 Co-equal branches of government. By refusinf a court order the Justice department is attempting to place the executive branch above the other 2.

The judicial branch of government must not be ignored.

Yahoo! Mail Pro Subscription

I recently signed up for Yahoo! Mail Pro. I know, why would I volunteer to pay for Yahoo Mail...

Well, I get 2 Terabytes of data, I also get Filckr pro included.

I downloaded the Flickr app to my Andriod phone and enabled the autobackup. Now I have all my photos on Flickr!

I love this. I use Gmail for work and am a Google “Guru” for my company, but my first love is Yahoo. I love the simplicity. I love the wallpaper templates for my email, and I love the easy photo, documents and receipts filters for my mail.

I didn’t realize the subscription also got me Flickr pro as well. It’s a really great app that makes life so much simpler. For 35 dollars a year I am thrilled.

It’s the best 35 dollars I’ve spent.

"Now I begin to love my God."

- St. Francis de Sales credits this to David.

I was sitting in the a room once, and it was said of God, may you find him now. It occurred to me, that's the only place we're going to find him.

That isn't exactly how St. Francis de Sales meant it, in context he said "Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God."

In essence though, both are about new beginnings. Saints are not perfect in this life, they are perfected.

It is our failings that are our strength. God does not love us in spite of who were, but precisely for who we are.

St. Paul the Apostle in his letter to the Philippians wrote:It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it, since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ. Brothers, I for my part do not consider myself to have taken possession. Just one thing :forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit to the goal, the prize of God's upward calling, in Christ Jesus.

There is such hope in this passage so efficiently conveyed. "Perfect maturity" implies that our end is in Christ, this or final cause, as much as our formal calling.

When I am warring with myself, and am mine own worst enemy, divided, as it were, against myself, I turn to Philippians.

I am reminded that none would judged the destination by the path taken, and that is precisely what I do both to myself and my brother seeing him only where on his path I find him, presuming I know the destination.

Judge me not as I have so coarsely judged others, but rather help me to love my brother as you love me, that while practicing this romance I may be patient not to give up on my own path toward you.

http://time.com/5471437/mikhail-gorbachev-george-hw-bush-war-peace/

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Ever wonder what Gorbachev thinks about the end of the cold war and what's going on now?

This is a great article written by Gorbachev in time magazine.

How One Journalist’s Death Provoked a Backlash That Thousands Dead in Yemen Did Not https://nyti.ms/2AfMD8d

This headline is telling. Thousands have died in Yemen. Yemen is in famine with children dieing daily.

Yet somehow it took the death of a journalist to provoke the senate to act.

When do values trump political interests?

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A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

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I'm still digesting this. I started this blog on tumblr because I thought it was a great tool without all the Facebook insanity. I'm not sure what I think of banning content.

I've seen some pretty horrific things on tumblr and have often wondered if anonymity (or the appearance of it) nurtures our darker more anti social natures.

What I mean by "darker" and "more anti social natures" is that we all have dark sides to our character.

I believe in the adage, feed the one you want to win.

I want to live in a world without hate crimes, violence against children, and human trafficking, to name just a few elements I would rather not encourage in our society.

I do believe in freedom of speech. I'm not sure I believe in freedom of anonymous speech. I'm still trying to discern that one.

Adult content implies content made for adults.

Is it adult to binge? You may be free to do so on your own dime, but can you really argue that it is acting like an adult?

It seems that an adult is capable of telling themselves no. They are responsible, not only for themselves, but for the society they are a part of.

The idea that we say one thing when our name is attached to it, but then wink and nod allowing for these playgrounds of anonymous indiscretion is more then curious. It calls into question our authenticity.

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Whoever has my voodoo doll please take that bitch to the gym

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Nice.

Democrats pressed Judge Kavanaugh to explain fresh disclosures on abortion rights, affirmative action and previous testimony to the Senate.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh believes the ends justify the means. It is a dangerous belief that can lead a well intentioned person to commit tragic misjudgements and even crimes. Lying to the senate, condoning torture, separating families at the border, obtaining stolen documents... There are plenty of good judges, but this isn't one of them.

Russian company latches on to 'witch hunt' accusations https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBMDaLO?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare

The Oligarchs Playbook: "When you can't defend yourself against the charges, claim the charges are biased."

The president hinted that he would take action against the search giant in his latest attack on a technology company.

President Trump wants to censor Google because of all the bad press.

The GOP candidate’s controversial views on Russia follow his three-decade quest to do business there.

Here is an article taken from June of 2016.

The President said he had “no ties” with Russia. He said he had never met Vladimir Putin. Why would the President of the USA ever work with the Russian government against the interest of the USA.

Money.

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

#money #politics #russia #trump

The Day Trump Told Us There Was Attempted Collusion with Russia

So this isn't something that was made up. These are tweets that you can look up on Twitter put out by President Trump, or if you want to be excessively generous, by someone with access to President Trump's account.

Just so we are clear, President Trump tweeted that his son, a high ranking member of his campaign, met with a Russian lawyer with a track record of working closely with Vladimir Putin, to obtain intelligence about his political opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Fox News host wrong that no law bans Russia-Trump collusion

He then instructed his son to lie about the meeting and dictated a cover story about adoption.

All of this is a matter of public record, not made up by the press.

So the President instructed his son to lie, thereby aiding and abetting.

The question isn't if the President broke the law, aided in covering up a crime, and used his political power and his bully pulpit to shield his family from legal inquiry, rather is he above the law, that is to say can he be indicted.

Is any man above the law? Was Bill Clinton? Was Richard Nixon?

We are a nation of laws, built on the idea that all are equal. None stand above the law.

And isn't it interesting, that his pick for the US Supreme Court had decided and told the President, prior to his nomination, that he did not think a sitting President could be indicted.

It more important that the chief executive of the laws obey them, not get a pass because he is the chief.

Trump Revokes Ex-C.I.A. Director John Brennan’s Security Clearance https://nyti.ms/2OGVnsz

President Trump is, it would appear, trying to make an example of Mr. Brennan. Does he hope to silence his critics? Does he imagine they will think twice about criticizing him? No. I should say, he knows they'll think twice.

He knows that the blunt exercise of power has served him well in the past. He must assume it will in the future. My father was from the Bronx. He said, pick the biggest guy out there and bring him down. His buddies will scatter. I imagine the President had similar thoughts, though he isn't quite going after the biggest.

Those who might stand against the President in his own party have been bribed or threatened into submission.

Perhaps this last sentence sounds unfair. A bribe as I use it here, means they get something they want, ( eg a Supreme Court Justice) by doing something contrary to their conscience, or turn a blind eye or remain silent when they would normally stand against such words or actions. (emollients, womanizing hush money, requesting the aid of a foreign hostile power in an election on national television)

Wouldn't it be a grand gesture for those on President Trump's list to come together in a joint statement condemning the President's action. Even more powerful, if past Presidents stepped forward with them. (when I stated this, the joint press conference had not been held)

Will he strip all their security clearances?

If pushed hard enough, he will roll over. How do we know this? If we keep up the pressure he will back down, recant, claim to be magnanimous and reconsider. We have countless examples, (the Muslim ban, the good people on both sides, the birther story, the Putin pandering saying Putin denied it). If we stand together he can be stopped.

No he won't admit he's wrong. Those cards aren't in his hand. The question is do we call his bluff.

Believe it. He is testing the waters to see what he can get away with.

We need to send a clear message.

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