Daily Check-In 11/05/2018

Monday, November 5th, and the weekend.

THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION

RIGHT WING TERRORISM & WHITE NATIONALISM

Caroline Orr: Far-right violence in the past 3 wks: -Proud boys mob attack in NYC -White supremacist kills black couple in Kroger -Trump fan mails pipe bombs to Trump foes & media -Deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history -Far-right incel kills 2 women, injures 5 at Tallahassee yoga studio Thread
Elementary school teachers in Idaho dressed up as a MAGA border wall for Halloween – CNN
Idaho Elementary Teachers Who Dressed Up As Mexicans And The Border Wall Suspended
America is on the path to permanent minority rule
‘We were never taught’: Young Jews in the U.S. encounter anti-Semitism firsthand
At least 3 dead, including gunman, in shooting at Tallahassee yoga studio, police say
Florida Yoga Studio Shooting Suspect Was A Far-Right Misogynist
Nationalism is not a good thing
‘No Blame’? ABC News finds 17 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats or alleged assaults
Pittsburgh rabbi told Trump that hate speech led to synagogue massacre
Is this the most racist US midterms campaign ever?
Law Enforcement Experts: Right-Wing Extremists Should Be Treated Like ISIS
‘A License to Violently Act Out’: Mom of Alleged MAGABomber Calls Out Trump’s Rhetoric in Letter
Mika Brzezinski: Trump Told Me He Knew Birtherism Was ‘Bad. But It Works’
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto leads his city through its darkest days
Trump Isn’t Inciting Violence by Mistake, But on Purpose. He Just Told Us.
Trump phoned Pittsburgh mayor moments after synagogue shooting to moan about death penalty

KHASHOGGI & SAUDI ARABIA

COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS

SCOTUS & #METOO

TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET

TRAITOR TOTS

FIGHTING BACK

Emptywheel: One justification the press should use in covering what Trump does and says a lot less is that he doesn’t actually spend much time Presidenting.

One justification the press should use in covering what Trump does and says a lot less is that he doesn’t actually spend much time Presidenting.

Why cover a crazy old man’s Fox-watching habit? Would you do it if he were your senile dad?

But if you’re going to cover Mr. Trump’s carnival barkering, it should be clearly labeled as such: “While Trump was neglecting Puerto Rico after Maria, he spent 3 hours on Twitter creating this faux scandal and watched 4 straight hours of Fox and Friends”

Then talk about what the people who are doing the job of the President are doing. “While Mr. Trump watched his third hour of Fox, John Bolton was dismantling the global legal order based on his own authority, and Stephen Miller was kidnapping brown children.”

Enough indictments to field a football team? According to my running list on The Indicted, there 42 people and companies that have been indicted so far. 5 of them have not been indicted by Mueller’s team, and 3 of them are companies. Even still, that gives us 34 people that have been charged with crimes by the Special Counselor’s Office. That’s more than an average High School Varsity Football team in a decent sized school district. Considering that 11 players are on the field at a time, we could realistically meet that statement with 17 or 18 indictments. But 34-42 puts us in a small college team, almost at an NFL sized active roster. An NFL team dresses 46 players for a game, with 7 more listed at inactive. We’re only 4 indictments away from determining who’s riding the pine. That means sitting on the bench.

IMMIGRATION

COLD WAR 2.0

#NEVERAGAIN

FIXING THE INTERNET

‘Real Teeth’: Senator’s Bill Would Punish CEOs With Up to 20 Years in Jail for Violating Consumer Privacy Rules

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE

TRADE WAR AND ECONOMY

GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE

ELECTION 2018

IN OTHER NEWS…

RUMOR MILL

Tea Pain: There’s a dang good chance we’ll hand Trump a huge loss on Tuesday, then Mueller cuts loose a few days later. This could easily turn out to be the worst week of Trump’s disastrous presidency. The best part? Trump deserves it.
Sara Danner Dukic: Dominionists, Cheka and the mob have much in common.
Unholy Trinity
911corlebra777: The visit to Saudi Arabia by a US Evangelical Delegation should leave no one in doubt about the political nature of the Evangelical leadership. They also visited UAE. I wonder who else has been visiting those 2 countries🤔
PostimusMaximus: There is something fundamentally wrong with how we as a society discuss terrible things. Its apparent with Trump, its apparent with mass shootings, it apparent with social media. We unintentionally boost the signal in a quest to point out how bad it is or try to correct it.
Claude Taylor: He’s six, two. What’s his real weight? Photo was taken a week ago… I have him at 310-320.
Alt Scales of Justice: I expect we’ll soon find out that Russia has been laundering money through @realDonaldTrump’s businesses for decades, with his full knowledge, & they used that leverage to blackmail & control him through the campaign, & through the present. Time and Mueller will tell if I’m right
Ming: Paul ryan is in a postion to know both what the gop did and the intel. this is why he retiring.
Tea Pain: FUN FACT: If Republicans turned their clocks ahead 100 years tonight, it would be 1961
Angry White House Staffer: I completely understand the desire to not spread his message — and I totally respect the opinion of people who say not to RT him — but I will never normalize POTUS being a fucking traitorous moron. When we stop pointing out that he’s a gross pathological liar, he wins.
Rantt Media: Trump isn’t an accident. He’s the natural outcome of the @GOP’s Southern Strategy. Since it began, Republicans have gaslit their base into believing minorities are to blame for their economic woes, all while filling their donors’ pockets. It’s the biggest con job in US history
ArsonCrafts Thread on Cambridge Analytica

THREAD (update): Are BRAD PARSCALE and DATA PROPRIA trying to “rig” the 2018 midtems by using absentee ballots for SICK and DYING voters across the country? /1

This thread is an update to a previous one of mine in which I discovered that Parscale is running a cloud for a mysterious organization called “Clarus Healthcare,” and that Parscale’s cloud for Clarus was pipelining data to Data Propria. /2

Clarus Healthcare is a trademark of a company called “Clarus Health Services, LLC,” which was incorporated on 7/14/16. The “Clarus Healthcare” trademark was filed on 8/23/16. /3

Clarus was created to provide a unique level of care to palliative (sick, dying) patients and is affiliated with Crossroads Hospice, which has facilities in 7 states: GA, MO, OH, OK, PA, TN, KS. /4

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The first archived reference to “Giles-Parscale” on Clarus’ website (clarushealthcare[.]com, which had been offline for at least a couple months) was on 5/3/17, but this reference was removed by at least 7/31/17. /5

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Behind the scenes, however, things were still happening between Clarus, Parscale, and Data Propria. Strange things. One of the strangest things is that DATA PROPRIA (IP 45 33 4 19) hosted the clarushealthcare[.]com domain BEFORE Parscale began hosting it on 4/22/18! /6

This is strange because I never found any indication that Clarus was working with Data Propria, only Parscale. Did Parscale mess up by having Data Propria host the domain first and then move it to his cloud because he knew this would look bad?! /7

After Parscale moved the Clarus domain from Data Propria to his cloud on 4/22/18, it was @ushadrons who then found on 7/1/18 that Parscale’s cloud for Clarus (“clarushealthcare@vm11[.]com[.]parscalecloud[.]com”) was pipelining data to Data Propria. /8

So “clarushealthcare@vm11[.]com[.]parscalecloud[.]com” was the cloud Parscale set up to interface w/ Data Propria. While “clarushealthcare@vm15[.]com[.]parscalecloud[.]com”) was the one set up to interface w/ Clarus. Did Clarus even know their data was going to Data Propria?! /9

Parscale and Data Propria try to act like they’re not working together, but they are. They’re both owned by CloudCommerce, which is run by Andrew Van Noy. Van Noy is listed on ALL three business registrations as either president or director./10

Also, Andre Van Noy, who is top dog at CloudCommerce, which owns Parscale Digital and Data Propria, is not at all an ethical person and doesn’t sound like a good business one either. He stole $100k from an investor, which he paid back after a lawsuit. /11

One question I’ve had while researching is, do we know for sure Data Propria/Parscale have access to “health data” on the clouds they run for Clarus? Well, answer may be “yes.” Prior to Parscale & DP hosting, Liquid Web was host. And they offer “HIPAA Compliance Solutions.” /12

Also… is Parscale’s/Data Propria’s relationship w/ Clarus connected–or similar in purpose–to the odd server pinging detected between Trump Org, Alfa Bank (Russia), and Spectrum Health before ’16 election? Spectrum provides palliative and hospice care to 9 counties in MI. /13

A key thing to understand in all this is that Data Propria has ex-Cambridge Analytica employees (including Matt Oczkowski), is assisting the RNC w/ 2018 midterms, and is running Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. Whatever they did in 2016, they’re seeking to replicate again. /14

From same article above, this very well will again include using “psychographic” profiles to target voters for purposes of influencing their votes. Parscale. Data Propria. Oczkowski. Cambridge Analytica. RNC. Trump. Mercer. GOP. Health data. They’re all in this together. /15

Here’s my original thread researching link between Parscale, Data Propria & Clarus. Clarus, and therefore Parscale & DP, could potentially have access to patient data in other states, as other players are involved, which I’ll withhold sharing for now./16x
Tea Pain: If we vote big and win on Tuesday, we clear the road for Bob Mueller to finish his work and hold this corrupt administration responsible for its numerous crimes. If you still believe in justice and the rule of law, be a true Patriot and vote!
Rogue Senior White House Advisor: Trump is working himself into a meat induced fury over Election Day – freaking out that it’s all going to come crashing down. Well it will if you get out and vote! Make this flaccid puppet pay tomorrow.
Pace: Trump just complained that because of “Political Correctness” he can’t make comments about his daughter’s sexiness. This is going the wrong way even faster?
Emptywheel: Here’s the single question journalists should be pursuing with Brian Kemp’s false accusations: Did he make them because he was planning on tampering with the vote and he had to make a counter-accusation to avoid scrutiny? Or is he just trying to cover up his negligence?
Eric Garland: Sorry NYT, you misspelled “this sanctioned oligarch conspired with Paul Manafort to attack Western democracy, is a Mobster, and bought a house next to KellyAnne Conway, whose family worked with Philly drug dealer Little Nicky Scarfo.” A Mobster attacked America with the help of traitors, and you’re describing his PR strategy like it’s a sophomore year business school paper. Because of course. #JuanCarlosSlim
Lincoln’s Bible: Deripaska is full-on Russian mafia, who was once approached by our intel agencies 4 information on Bob Levinson – the longest-held, US captive in history. Oleg knows what happened to Bob. He wanted a visa. We were willing to give him 1 for Bob. But he couldn’t cross his mob boss.
Countercheckist: I don’t care if reports put Democrats winning by double digits on Tuesday— show up and vote anyway. We Americans need to send a message; treason and attacking the rule of law will not be tolerated. Ever. Bury the GOP in an avalanche of patriotism.
Claude Taylor: Keep your eyes on Georgia. Those bastards are going to try to win by cheating.
Angry White House Staff: If you’re legally able to vote tomorrow and don’t plan on it, it is my deepest wish that you step on a lego.
Rick Wilson: One of my moments just now. Wow. Member. Friend, not client ex via Superpac stuff. Knows s/he is about to lose. MEMBER: How bad? ME: You? Or everyone? MEMBER: Both, I guess. ME: -35. You by 2-3. MEMBER: (4 minute rant about Trump)

That’s it for the last few days. And tomorrow’s the big day. Whatever happens, it’ll resonate for a long time. Either we’ll see the most corrupt politician in American history get a free pass from his party to trash this country, or the people send a message that this is a nation of laws.

Right now, it feels like things are paused as everyone holds their breath, waiting to see what happens. There are lots of rumors from both sides that things will get crazy starting Wednesday, but I’m not so certain about that.

Here’s why. The House and Senate aren’t in session every day until next year, working weekends and burning the candle at both ends. They’re scheduled for 19 more working days this session. 19. They work 4 days next week, the last week of November, and the first two weeks of December. A lot of that time is going to be spent organizing for the next session, selecting the new leadership bodies, and passing some last minute resolutions and appointments. This type of session is called a Lame Duck Session. Traditionally, nothing gets done. Imagine the mentality of a workplace where 1/3rd of the staff has either put in their notice or will be fired at the end of the month. Now, combine that don’t-give-a-fuck attitude with the replacements coming in, acting like they’ll make a difference, and you’ve got nothing getting done.

This is why I’m hesitant to buy in to the rumors surrounding Jeff Sessions or Rod Rosenstein getting fired or resigning. If one or both of them get fired, who’s going to replace them? Even if they were fired on Wednesday and a replacement nominated the same day, there is no guarantee that the Senate would be able to clear their calendar to make room for this appointment. Unless the Republicans hold on to the Senate, firing is a dangerous option as there’s once again no guarantee that they’d be able to get anything other than a known quantity through the Senate in a hurry.

As far as Mueller dropping some bombshells this week, that once again depends on timing and the election results. I’ve never gotten the sense that partisan politics plays into this, but if Mueller releases dangerous information against Trump and Pence that implicates them directly in crimes against the United States, I can see the craziest scenario taking place where, in an effort to keep the White House under Republican control until 2020, they fast track an Impeachment against Trump and Pence, get Pence to resign, vote in the Senate to remove Trump from office, and following the chain of succession, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan gets sworn in as President to finish out the term. The odd of that happening are pretty damn low. More likely would be Pence resigns, Trump appoints a safe choice as VP like Marco Rubio or John Kasich, then gets voted out in the next session. Still highly unlikely, but I like to spitball these things.

Things will get crazy later this week. Wednesday morning will be spent doing a Postmortem by one party and a celebration by the other. But we’ve got at least a day before that happens.

Go out and Vote.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

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