Abulsme.com: June 2018

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Something Purple Something

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s main topics are three recent Supreme Court cases, the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the proper place of civility in our public discourse, and the latest developments in the ongoing trade wars. But first, they check in with Sam’s family to get the latest developments on their cross country road trip!

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Recorded 2018-06-30
Length this week – 2:07:05

(0:00:15-0:18:10) Roadtrip
(0:20:08-0:50:20) SCOTUS Rulings
(0:52:03-1:27:51) SCOTUS Opening
(1:29:11-1:48:19) Civility
(1:48:55-2:06:45) Trade Wars

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-29 (UTC)

00:48:41 Wait, a mass shooter has a history of being abusive to women? Shocking! https://t.co/G3AFP5jgOY
01:14:56 Retweeted @joshrogin 2018-06-28 23:55:43 Exclusive: In a private WH meeting in April, Trump asked French President Macron, вЂњWhy don’t you leave the E.U.?вЂќ aвЂ¦ https://t.co/G0ITzAZsrn
01:38:48 Retweeted @joshrogin 00:59:37 And the hits just keep on coming: Trump privately floats plan to make a deal with Putin on SyriaвЂ¦ https://t.co/3wMWlOo8FI
01:40:22 Retweeted @AshaRangappa_ 01:14:49 omg does this dude still not get that he is going to be in jail for the rest of his life?? https://t.co/EHVF1iiabV
02:52:48 Retweeted @Delavegalaw 2018-06-28 11:19:22 A 3-yr old can count to a few numbers & knows some colors. A 3-yr old is learning to tie her shoes, eat foods w/a fвЂ¦ https://t.co/7eqKGyL222
12:24:21 Retweeted @axios 10:26:25 President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the WorldвЂ¦ https://t.co/YiGhW2tKd8
12:52:56 Reading – Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening – The New York Times https://t.co/8tUCUDtinz
16:34:13 Retweeted @DLind 13:13:49 SCOOP:The DOJ is drafting a SWEEPING new regulation that would dramatically restrict asylum.
One source called iвЂ¦ https://t.co/eBnZQhZTo3
18:34:11 Just read a вЂњ1-pagerвЂќ for work and I note with interest that people seem to have mastered using a really small fontвЂ¦ https://t.co/qvOEb8qDSm
19:11:24 Retweeted @CJR 18:53:08 A student journalist asked her school for records of harassment complaints against teachers.She ended up uncoveriвЂ¦ https://t.co/U0cpwHMQai
19:25:02 Retweeted @ddale8 18:46:17 Here is how Trump told the same story precisely six weeks apart. https://t.co/SaynyLrDLm
20:01:49 @rebliv I think we had a school field trip there when I was in elementary school living in Durham, NC. I don’t remeвЂ¦ https://t.co/640goC6KBO in reply to rebliv
20:21:53 Retweeted @anniekarni 19:25:24 More on sloppy protocol: Legislative affairs was notified of call, checked with Mendendez COS, who said he was notвЂ¦ https://t.co/YcD5DwvgTV
21:57:41 Sigh https://t.co/EWJoQJLKih
23:22:52 Sigh. https://t.co/T3aLh9fRhX

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-28 (UTC)

02:24:24 @imbou People are talking peeling off Flake or Collins. I’ll believe it when I see it. in reply to imbou
02:25:07 @marsfarmer75 @imbou They can certainly delay. But I think the chances of actually stopping anything are slim. Maybe not zero. But slim. in reply to marsfarmer75
02:50:57 @marsfarmer75 @imbou Maybe some house seats. But the flip side is a SCOTUS battle might be the thing to tip some reвЂ¦ https://t.co/bkxcfiFYwc in reply to marsfarmer75
03:09:29 Retweeted @WotDpod 03:07:24 Today’s episode of popular Wiki of the Day is on the article Anthony Kennedy.Listen to the new episode here:вЂ¦ https://t.co/6Cp23tzMJB
03:33:25 This made me laugh. But it does definitely capture some of the dynamic. https://t.co/JMK5fvfM0c
07:22:14 Retweeted @DDAVISSPACEART 2018-03-31 03:07:43 The last and best Martian landscape the Spirit rover would see. A rare low sun angle panorama was first mosaiced byвЂ¦ https://t.co/gKfnqvgnsr
09:49:50 Retweeted @kathygriffin 04:43:05 The response to racism and misogyny is not please, thank you, and I’m sorry.The appropriate response is go fuck yourself.
17:35:41 Trump’s SCOTUS List via NPR: https://t.co/iNFZWnThuy
18:59:13 The obvious solution is this level of transparency should be there for *ALL* ads. Not just political. I want to knoвЂ¦ https://t.co/8fpljeDgiJ
22:21:38 Wut? https://t.co/pOh5GFk5QU

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-27 (UTC)

01:48:15 Retweeted @AuthorLMendez 00:40:18 There’s a lot to digest here and I hope many of you give it a read. Especially @abulsme, @JMilesColeman,вЂ¦ https://t.co/Ag7Lky7x3P in reply to AuthorLMendez
01:50:50 @AuthorLMendez @JMilesColeman @rudnicknoah @LarrySabato @kkondik Nice summary Luis. The family (aside from me) is aвЂ¦ https://t.co/3U9Fwj78ZY in reply to AuthorLMendez
01:54:33 @AuthorLMendez Thanks! Don’t know if I’ll end up having time for a lot of the changes I wanted to make. But at theвЂ¦ https://t.co/pe2tYOoGpW in reply to AuthorLMendez
02:09:19 Reading – Earth-Moon Fire Pole (Randall Monroe – What If) https://t.co/5orsHczRrm
04:04:11 Retweeted @weedlewobble 03:33:22 My serious take on tonight’s result is that rank and file democrat voters are actually totally fine with moving lefвЂ¦ https://t.co/HG2pLT4NXR
04:12:06 Retweeted @pkcapitol 04:01:56 Who’s next? Don’t ask, I don’t know. But I threw together this piece explaining how scrambled House Dem leadershipвЂ¦ https://t.co/mg13pnbr4G
04:18:18 Retweeted @CBarcaQC 03:46:18 @kkondik Ocasio-Cortez has had an incredible ground game. Hundreds of dedicated canvassers and phone bankers. She sвЂ¦ https://t.co/FPbxMq9kzj in reply to CBarcaQC
04:24:09 Retweeted @eveewing 01:49:13 Teachers – a meaningful thing you can do right now is ensure that your students know how truly unpopular Dr. King’sвЂ¦ https://t.co/MLrvElmabM
04:38:00 Retweeted @BreakingNews 04:16:00 A federal judge in San Diego ordered immigration agents to stop separating migrant parents and children who have crвЂ¦ https://t.co/kUWpZ9EjIp
17:40:18 Reading – What exactly was this ‘interstellar visitor’? (Ashley Strickland – CNN) https://t.co/Tq5JFhKnLN
17:44:36 Reading – The Discovery of Complex Organic Molecules on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is a Huge Deal (George Dvorsky – GiвЂ¦ https://t.co/8q95faV5pt
18:04:40 Trump gets another SCOTUS pick. https://t.co/FtbU4o96Oz
18:12:31 But her emails.
18:33:47 Retweeted @kaitlancollins 18:22:39 Big news from the pool вЂ” Trump says he will pick Anthony Kennedy’s replacement from his existing list of 25 potentiвЂ¦ https://t.co/RGTZHbYSQ3
18:40:41 Matthews talking on MSNBC right now that Dems have to play hardball and make sure Trump’s pick doesn’t get confirmeвЂ¦ https://t.co/0q2gre5MQG
20:45:45 @jaketapper As much as folks deny it, it is only a matter of time until the legislative filibuster goes away too. IвЂ¦ https://t.co/IRA8dY0c31 in reply to jaketapper

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-26 (UTC)

05:33:30 Thread https://t.co/KwO9ok40IB
06:16:30 Retweeted @rgoodlaw 01:24:24 Further plunge into civil rights nightmare for America:Leaked audio footage of employee at child migrant detentioвЂ¦ https://t.co/3YL08Po33P
06:18:18 Retweeted @MatthewNussbaum 01:31:55 The speed with which attention has shifted from the separating of children as young as infants from their parents tвЂ¦ https://t.co/BUM1uTNFUm
14:59:31 My unpopular view: I think the travel ban is horrible from a policy view, but SCOTUS is probably quite right that tвЂ¦ https://t.co/yYVJdkYOtJ
15:14:52 Retweeted @jpbrammer 01:35:30 Let the gay swans attack straight people in peace https://t.co/b0PHFWJUF6
15:24:15 Retweeted @ZerlinaMaxwell 2018-06-25 16:14:52 The problem with this is that we still woulda been in chains if black people took this advice. The civil rights movвЂ¦ https://t.co/pRZ5pqiBrf
16:11:56 Reading – The Martian Dust Storm Has Covered The Entire Planet (Matt Williams – Universe Today) https://t.co/iSqjeWhPn3
16:57:13 Retweeted @HeerJeet 16:38:09 The civility people think things are far worse now than in 1960s. Fortunately, historians have the receipts. https://t.co/81cWevpSua
19:18:22 Retweeted @jaketapper 19:07:30 Writes вЃ¦@JVLastвЃ©: вЂњThe reason we have norms in the first place is because there is always an undercurrent of violenвЂ¦ https://t.co/m36uhtfyaf
21:56:58 Retweeted @JoyAnnReid 18:53:27 If you talk to Dem voters, that is what you’ll hear. People are scared. They feel the country sliding into fascismвЂ¦ https://t.co/r06LmJZujK in reply to JoyAnnReid
21:57:15 Retweeted @JoyAnnReid 18:53:25 People are looking at the last 17 months with genuine fear, not mild political complaint, and they see calls for noвЂ¦ https://t.co/hCz2OmCiDQ in reply to JoyAnnReid

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-25 (UTC)

01:40:01 Retweeted @tomscocca 2018-06-24 22:18:36 Trump doesn’t have a coalition; he has a single shrinking bloc that already believes it’s in a savage eliminationisвЂ¦ https://t.co/i4GPVSodDt
16:53:14 This is so bad -> Trump will reunite separated families вЂ” but only if they agree to deportation (Dara Lind – Vox) https://t.co/6OVYiVi5C0
18:11:01 Retweeted @WorldAndScience 03:00:22 New model predicts that we’re probably the only advanced civilization in the observable universe https://t.co/0ndpNWMN01
20:02:50 Retweeted @dandrezner 11:40:11 Oh good, the US has re-education camps now. https://t.co/ObBQSQ7S4w https://t.co/WqmVF5ACEz
20:17:12 Retweeted @rickhasen 18:22:14 My new one @Slate on today’s decision in Abbott v. Perez: Suppression of minority voting rights is about to get wayвЂ¦ https://t.co/UO3U0W9EVK
22:24:21 Retweeted @KatzOnEarth 21:59:55 (Supreme Court upholds suppression of nonwhite voters)
(President calls for end to due process for anyone suspectedвЂ¦ https://t.co/b9GHaEV4rz

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-24 (UTC)

02:53:16 Anonymous Squirrel https://t.co/dYWhZeXPcu https://t.co/9qkA4jcaih
02:56:26 Retweeted @MarkHarrisNYC 2018-06-23 19:38:53 People are going to hate this piece but the takeaway is valuable: Democrats can win only by mobilizing our side, inвЂ¦ https://t.co/sQ11mRUWn3
03:48:03 Retweeted @NickMiroff 02:33:43 DHS/HHS just sent out a fact sheet (at 10:20 pm on a Sat): The govt still has 2,053 separated minors in its care. 5вЂ¦ https://t.co/uZGVAwWODq
03:53:27 Oh that is horrible. I am triggered. https://t.co/cdLtTMq8rH
03:54:41 Retweeted @mattyglesias 02:07:12 Who is going to cook the food at Republican-only restaurants? https://t.co/XPhd527ruj
06:09:37 Retweeted @ocdwho 2018-01-22 21:52:17 https://t.co/EUWeR6woIC
15:34:35 Retweeted @TheHazelHayes 11:42:00 Chris Hardwick releasing texts from @skydart saying she wanted to get back with him (dick move btw) isn’t proof thaвЂ¦ https://t.co/M1f1yAH5l1 in reply to TheHazelHayes
15:42:49 Retweeted @MalcolmNance 10:47:10 The New York Times doesn’t know it but they are describing Stockholm Syndrome-the unconscious defensive reaction ofвЂ¦ https://t.co/ifDz15zYVs
15:47:26 The profiles of вЂњTrump votersвЂќ completely focus on the wrong ones. Get profiles of the вЂњbarely TrumpвЂќ folks, who coвЂ¦ https://t.co/Z2YtpiUM41
15:50:40 Of course you will find these are mostly disengaged low info folks. And I agree with those saying best Dem strategyвЂ¦ https://t.co/HhViuDEbqd in reply to abulsme
19:55:16 Retweeted @AsteadWesley 19:37:11 One of the biggest divides in politics right now isn’t Democrat/Republican, but a polite political class in WashingвЂ¦ https://t.co/oD9QoF0Vv2
19:58:55 Retweeted @PollsAndVotes 17:16:54 The gap in turnout between midterm and presidential years is enormous for younger voters, with a still significantвЂ¦ https://t.co/bzB27JRQgd
20:01:06 Retweeted @mattyglesias 19:43:27 The old formula was:Path to citizenship + whatever future flows changes pro-immigration republicans’ favorite loвЂ¦ https://t.co/LftXTcuoUN in reply to mattyglesias
20:16:05 Thread. https://t.co/WGbHMGvvLU
20:17:06 Retweeted @RadderssGaming 2018-06-23 13:48:16 I can’t think of a more disturbing coaster set https://t.co/YUanj3795G
20:25:53 Retweeted @KellyO 17:18:28 ACLU official responds to Trump tweet: вЂњWhat President Trump has suggested here is both illegal and unconstitutionaвЂ¦ https://t.co/3hVX5yT5PR
20:27:26 Retweeted @smotus 20:12:35 I really hope this is about Trump building concentration camps for toddlers rather than about people pointing out tвЂ¦ https://t.co/aNMguUpZxB
20:27:57 Retweeted @SarahLerner 19:51:52 Super interesting how вЂњfuck your feelingsвЂќ didn’t interfere with electoral victory for Trump in 2016, but any вЂњinciвЂ¦ https://t.co/q9EVoHtFVv
20:28:39 Retweeted @attackerman 17:40:38 I would hope this point is obvious but if not: without due process, an вЂњillegalвЂќ immigrant is whoever anyone with aвЂ¦ https://t.co/Ii9gippBAm
20:30:45 Retweeted @MittRomney 16:50:23 Here’s where I stand on the Trump Agenda; I appreciate the argument made by those who believe we should stay silentвЂ¦ https://t.co/n7UDn1fVRx
20:34:33 Retweeted @politicalwire 17:06:53 Sen. Mark Warner: вЂњIf you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you thвЂ¦ https://t.co/HRL2qNDQNx
20:37:29 Retweeted @jonfavs 20:09:35 And here’s where I started crying: https://t.co/O4LyQirn7O in reply to jonfavs
23:43:25 Retweeted @morningmoneyben 23:29:59 Epic ownage. https://t.co/g0aoqRoTH5
23:43:28 Retweeted @katierogers 23:28:45 NEW from me, @sherylnyt @maggienyt @katiebenner: Trump is frustrated that he can’t sign one big executive order toвЂ¦ https://t.co/TUwqsQ8y3t
23:46:13 Retweeted @TheRickWilson 20:47:53 As a smart pollster for a LOT of GOPers said, “At some point, you run out of 55+ white guys with a high school educвЂ¦ https://t.co/OnitEBAhYW
23:47:04 Retweeted @rudnicknoah 19:47:23 2020 Libertarian convention is going to be lit https://t.co/Tfkl0L1Tm1

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Anonymous Squirrel

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s main topic is the big immigration debate that has been dominating the headlines recently. They talk about the family separation policies and the larger debate about immigration, and also what watching this debate playing out tells us about our fellow citizens. Before that though, Sam gives his report from attending the Washington State Democratic Convention, and we hear a little bit about Sam’s family’s upcoming travel plans.

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Recorded 2018-06-22
Length this week – 1:47:54

(0:00:25-0:18:58) But First
(0:20:58-0:48:34) Convention
(0:49:54-1:47:34) Immigration

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-23 (UTC)

01:18:37 Retweeted @natsecHeather 2018-06-22 23:14:45 Never mind, @DanielSerwer , here’s the “worse than the Balkans” threshhold and we blew right past it. https://t.co/P88d6lqIHB
01:19:43 Thread https://t.co/pAXjanaI0b
01:20:07 Retweeted @HeerJeet 2018-06-22 13:15:12 Womp womp. https://t.co/37EQ52juta
02:36:12 WTAF https://t.co/LMve2k03XF
02:56:26 Retweeted @MikeMadden 01:40:54 Oh. https://t.co/j1OQRVejv0 https://t.co/KPAfjqLLJg
03:00:03 Retweeted @tedlieu 2018-06-22 18:20:23 2300 kids were ripped away from parents with no real plan to reunite them. I can’t play the @ProPublica audio of thвЂ¦ https://t.co/TVaFwnxyDq
03:01:49 Retweeted @KatCalvinLA 2018-06-20 19:07:04 These tent cities cost $775/person/night???? THEY COULD LITERALLY STAY AT THE RITZ. I LIVE in hotels and I don’t spвЂ¦ https://t.co/SbJrVmxnl0
14:51:34 Retweeted @adamgoldmanNYT 11:26:43 Ladies and gentleman, I give you @peterbakernyt https://t.co/s6qe9Wph7H https://t.co/3IADkepPKt
14:59:55 Retweeted @JackSmithIV 2018-06-22 18:51:13 A teenager jogging on the beach in Canada crossed the U.S. border accidentally. ICE and CPB drove her over 100 mileвЂ¦ https://t.co/0xF0LEeTU5
17:51:15 Retweeted @owillis 17:48:12 you don’t say.
how about that. https://t.co/30uDpfTZDP
17:58:41 Retweeted @soledadobrien 17:48:09 “Despite”. People: it’s a feature, not a bug. The sooner you wrap your heads around this the better. https://t.co/ETyEVszz9y
22:19:39 Retweeted @RedIsDead 2018-06-21 16:15:27 Koko the gorilla once ripped a sink out of the wall and, when her keepers confronted her about it, she blamed her kвЂ¦ https://t.co/6nin63pRhT
22:40:21 Just a few miles from usвЂ¦ https://t.co/HCs5GEMjUM
22:58:16 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 17:47:41 Is this the most informative way to describe the cofounder of a pro-confederate monuments astroturf PAC?вЂ¦ https://t.co/EoaISBTvCK

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-22 (UTC)

00:19:12 Retweeted @doctorow 2018-06-21 23:50:19 The EU’s new copyright filters will be catastrophic for the web, but they’re going to be even worse for your favourвЂ¦ https://t.co/bjSq04pujX
00:23:05 RIP Koko https://t.co/3Kglv8KUaL
07:10:17 Retweeted @chrislhayes 2018-06-21 23:19:20 First time illegal entry into the United States is a misdemeanor.Lying on or omitting materially relevant informaвЂ¦ https://t.co/coQm7JKwlL
14:24:42 The whole problem is people who think that it matters if they are вЂњourвЂќ kids. https://t.co/kgUvteuqqY
18:48:42 Retweeted @David_J_Bier 15:11:53 “Decades of nativists losing bigly” https://t.co/fMd6qUd7HI
19:22:04 Ha Ha -> Trump betrays House Republicans on immigration (Bade/Nelson – Politico) https://t.co/uvpVVzEBhk
19:33:46 Good! -> Defending Privacy, Supreme Court Says Warrants Are Generally Needed to Collect Cellphone Location Data (LiвЂ¦ https://t.co/iOj5Zl0Kjc
21:52:43 Retweeted @koush 03:24:25 https://t.co/ASOr8OVBTG
23:34:02 Listening to Note to Self A Different Kind of Streaking https://t.co/uLv5vHIZ9N

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