Brand new Texas group sues Harvard and NYU Law Reviews this weekend claiming reverse discrimination. Lawyer on case: Trump nominee

Harvard filed Sat. NYU on Sun.

Timing a coincidence? I think not.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Story also @ law.com (paywall) Complainant : Texas-based ‘Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences’

From @Bloomberg- goal to “restore meritocracy at American universities by eliminating the use of race and sex preferences.”

Frivolous suit: no individuals named as having been harmed

Dear @resistbot developers

STOP asking for DOB which you are linking to first and last names and phone over insecure SMS.

I’m stunned. This is the sort of info we opposed Trump’s gathering en masse last year.

#justSayNo to today’s ask about being registered to vote. Reminder that @resistbot org fails basic transparency test on “about” page.

Resist.bot/about

Nothing about how they manage your data, protect your #privacy , who is advisory board, who makes decisions, etc. #Opaque.

“In a 2014 address to Yale Law students, [Kavanaugh] recalled a night of ‘group chugs’ in Boston that ended with his group “falling out of the bus onto the front steps of Yale Law School at about 4:45 a.m.”
nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/… Drinking to excess is not synonymous with blacking out (having memory gaps). Kavanaugh implied the former by denying the latter.

Plan in place in S Africa and UK by a CANADIAN company. John Hancock is not US-owned.

Welcome to global rule by capitalists.

Example of news-release-“reporting” or zero curiosity on the part of the writer.
#privacy #elitism #dataBreachRisk reuters.com/article/us-man… Do you want ANY corporation monitoring your whereabouts and behavior 24x7? Hell no.

And a reminder that “insurance” wasn’t created to help the most secure/fit. Franklin’s vision: to spread risk throughout a community.

h/t @MrAlanCooper

Lost in the fevered GOP rhetoric that there is a proverbial time-bomb counting down on the Kavanaugh nomination:

In 2016, some in the GOP said they’d not let Clinton appoint a SCOTUS justice.
h/t @KevinMKruse

pbs.org/newshour/polit… These “omg we have to vote now else democracy is lost” hypocrites held open a SCOTUS justice seat for ONE YEAR AND 53 DAYS because they did not want the country’s first black president to make that appointment.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-m…

"In the face of warnings that climate change was making" storms like Florence "more common" NC created an 'insurer of last resort' and "has written policies for thousands of coastal properties worth tens of billions of dollars." #NoFederalBailOutForNC
propublica.org/article/hurric… Why did the NC politicians do this?
Because "nationally known insurance companies pulled out of the state’s coastal communities". You know, they assessed the risk and said 'hell no.'

⚡️ “Trump and Kavanaugh: to the GOP, sexual assault is insignificant”

twitter.com/i/moments/1041… Unless, of course, the person being accused is a Democrat.

At @noaafish_wcro public hearing on Southern Resident Orca Recovery and J50.

Q: which is preferred, “Orca” or “killer whale”? Investments in research (seems like spinning wheels) - reduced salmon harvest - $$$ in salmon recovery. Critical to achieve sustainable wild salmon populations for both salmon and whale recovery.

Storm surge built up over of several days, starting when #florence was a cat 4 or strong cat 3 storm. That "baked in” the roughly-10ft storm surge from Cape Hatteras to Myrtle Beach, NC.
@MichaelEMann at gu.com/p/9ckb6/stw Because warmer oceans mean more moisture in the atmosphere, "for each 1C of warming, there is about 7% more moisture in the air". #florencehurricane is generating about 10% more rainfall due to 1.5C-above-normal temps, increasing risk of additional inland flooding.

Our justice system isn't.

In Washington state, Branson Myers, a 22-year-old, crossed the center line with his truck and KILLED two motorcyclists and severely injured two others. He "may have fallen asleep behind the wheel."

The charge? Second-degree negligent driving ... a traffic infraction subject to a $250 fine.
tdn.com/news/local/hon…

This @CJR @lyzl essay is gold.

It reinforces @chucktodd essay in @TheAtlantic about Roger Ailes and FOX 'news': "Ailes helped destroy Dukakis by making him seem an other to many Americans."

@TuckerCarlson stokes fear of "the other" for personal gain

cjr.org/the_profile/tu… Read it.

Then think about who @TuckerCarlson's propaganda benefits. (Tucker Carlson inherited wealth and has a net worth of more than $8 million.)

cjr.org/the_profile/tu…

A reminder that @Kaepernick7 began kneeling during the national anthem in 2016 after talking with former Green Beret and brief NFL long snapper Nate Boyer, who supports Colin.
ninersnation.com/2016/9/1/12761…

https://twitter.com/kaepernick7/status/1036695513251434498

The Star Spangled Banner was born in the War of 1812. Francis Scott Key, the author of the poem in 1814, owned slaves.

The third verse “claims that the ‘foul footsteps’ of the slaves who fought on the side of the British have polluted America.”

baltimoresun.com/entertainment/…

Every news organization that reported "teen hacks election site" from DefCon earlier this month should run this @propublica @liliavchang story as a mea culpa.

propublica.org/article/defcon… I'm looking at you, @politico, just like @electionland did:

https://twitter.com/electionland/status/1034086636278226944

OMG.
@GFuelEnergy fire your social media director. Now.
#tasteless #corporate #marketingShit #idiots
cc @Weave @markdavidson

https://twitter.com/gfuelenergy/status/1033819481095720960

The @GFuelEnergy tweeted nonsense at least an hour after the #JacksonvilleShooting

TY @aaronecarroll
This article - and those of its ilk - do more harm than good. RELATIVE RISK? NOPE.

Most of us don’t understand risk at all. We’re innumerate.

Any health-related article for lay people that does not provide context for risk should Not see daylight.

https://twitter.com/aaronecarroll/status/1033026291476426752

Plus, I’ve done the research on breast cancer risk and alcohol. There’s a real threshold effect there, too.

Mike Malone, the consultant who recommended closing voting precincts in Randolph County, Georgia "told residents that [GOP Gubernatorial candidate Kemp] recommended precinct consolidation." Of course, he told the @ajc "that he didn’t recall hearing the [former] secretary of state say that." Notice the @ajc reporter doesn't ID Kemp as GOP candidate in this graph.
politics.myajc.com/news/state--re…

The most in-depth and critical examination of WV's proposed mobile app voting (@Voatz) is from @DerSPIEGEL but it falls prey to the claim of "cumbersome absentee ballots" for service members. SOS Mac Warner KNOWS better.

spiegel.de/international/… WV service and overseas voters can receive ballots electronically and return them by email or fax. It's a transparent process. How "cumbersome" is that?
overseasvotefoundation.org/vote/svid.htm?…

"Trump and my nephew [Stephen Miller] both know their immigrant and refugee roots. Yet, they repeat the insults and false accusations of earlier generations against these refugees to make them seem less than human."
Powerful and moving #mustRead
politico.com/magazine/story… "The Glossers [Miller's maternal lineage] came to the U.S. just a few years [starting in 1903] before the fear and prejudice of the 'America First' nativists of the day closed U.S. borders to Jewish refugees."

The infamous Heartland Institute has reportedly distributed its 2016 non-scientific report to teachers

https://twitter.com/justinhgillis/status/1027324998438940672

In 2016, @guardian debunked “Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming,” which Heartland sent to public officials.

google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…

Chris Collins, R-N.Y charged with using "his position with an Australian biotech firm to help his family make illicit stock trades — and avoid more than $768,000 in losses.... also charged with lying to the FBI."

https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1027233319438753792

Quotes are from the @NBCNews story linked to by @MotherJones

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

When the entire globe is "the commons" ... #climateChange is poised to be the last "tragedy of the commons"

A reminder that @TheEconomist is not a far-left publication. Natural resource economists have been silent here for far too long.

economist.com/leaders/2018/0… Another 50-year mark:
Science published
The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin
on 13 Dec 1968

science.sciencemag.org/content/162/38…

Cartoon, Kirk Anderson, Pioneer Press

https://twitter.com/tulenheimo/status/382527247770341378