My name is Elizabeth Wood and I am a senior content strategist within the IBM corporate marketing department, based in New York City. I have worked hard to get to this stage in my career, and have been a valued member of my team at IBM. However, I have chosen to resign, as I can no longer contribute to an organization that would ignore the real needs of its workforce.
Last Tuesday, you shared with the world your open letter to president-elect Donald Trump, outlining ways for his administration’s success to conveniently dovetail with that of IBM products. Your letter offered the backing of IBM’s global workforce in support of his agenda that preys on marginalized people and threatens my well-being as a woman, a Latina and a concerned citizen.
The company’s hurry to do this was a tacit endorsement of his position, and has signaled to me something very important about IBM’s values: a willingness to legitimize threats to our country for financial gain.
[Breitbart] Jim Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, says his organization will "fight" Kellogg’s decision to shift from direct delivery of its foods to stores, a move that will result in the firing of more than 1,100 full-time workers at Kellogg’s facilities across the country.
"On February 8, The Kellogg Company announced its short-sighted plan to eliminate their U.S. (Keebler) snacks direct store delivery system across the country which will destroy nearly 1,200 good, Teamster jobs in key markets across the country," Hoffa said in press statement.
"It is an outrage for Kellogg’s ‐ an iconic American company ‐ to turn its back on working families," Hoffa said.
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but Jim, How can you criticize them? They supported Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street, and probably support anti-free speech rioters. Are you some right wing Trump supporter?
[The Hill] Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday called for nationwide rallies in support of ObamaCare, calling GOP efforts to repeal and replace the healthcare legislation "chaos."
"We are encouraging Democratic senators to lead rallies in their states. This is not a Democratic issue, a Republican issue or an Independent issue," the senators said in a letter.
"The overwhelming majority of Americans, regardless of political persuasion, understand that we have to go forward on health care, not backwards."
The letter calls for the rallies to take place on Saturday, Feb. 25. Democrats held rallies across the country last month in support of ObamaCare.
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Once and for all, we have the best healthcare in the world. What we have is a distorted payment system that needs rationalizing.
Forcing people to give up the level of insurance that they feel is appropriate to their needs and forcing them to pay hugely inflated amounts for what they don't want is hardly progress.
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Let's get the protesters to register for the bus ride and free lunch, then audit them.
These are mostly bums who don't work and live in their parents' basement -there's nothing to audit.
If the Democrats weren't so fucking shameless, they should forever shut the fuck up and be embarrassed by passing the worst federal legislation of my lifetime. Keep them far and away from any of their 'solutions' to 'fix' this piece of shit law.
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Role back the clean air and water standards to where they were originally set. End regulatory independence in making adjustments without Congressional approval.
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These kinds of things are set up so Congress doesn't appear to be responsible for unpopular legislation. Even though they are. Then subsequent administrations take advantage of them. And Congress continues to allow it.
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In reviewing Judge Gorsuch's nomination to Supreme Court Justice, I came across an article that revealed his mother's work at EPA, in the Washington Post:
"As a result, she slashed the EPA’s budget by nearly a quarter and, according to a Washington Post story at the time, boasted that she had reduced the thickness of the book of clean water regulations from six inches to a half inch"
I majored in Poli Sci and my first seminar course involved writing a paper on the bureaucracy and its interaction with the law. My subject matter (no comments please) was federal regulations regarding rodent control. If I remember correctly there were something like 75 laws and 15 agencies involved in the subject...........................this was in 1969.
[THEFEDERALISTPAPERS.ORG] After the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals played games with national security and the law by upholding the suspension of President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s executive order on travel/immigration, a move to dismantle the uber-Leftist court has entered the spotlight.
Fox News reported:
Republican Sens. Jeff Flake ...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years... and John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... of Arizona introduced legislation last month to carve six states out of the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... -based court circuit and create a brand new 12th Circuit.
They argue that the 9th is too big, too liberal and too slow resolving cases. If they succeed, only Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Oregon, Hawaii and two island districts would remain in the 9th’s judicial fiefdom.
Flake says it typically takes the court 15 months to hand down a decision.
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"Flake says it typically takes the court 15 months to hand down a decision!"
Better watch out. The 9 circus will jail you for contempt.
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I would much rather have a GOP Representative file articles of impeachment against Judge Robart. That would be sending a message, even if he survived that.
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I actually just want to break up the Circuit Court in to more regional Circuits that are more representative per se. Instead of having lunatics from San Francisco having Judicial Power over much of the Western Region.
When I lived out there, other States were having a real hard time with the liberal Federal and Judicial reach and they often talked of not having Representation in either arena.
So, It needs to become more representative of the region.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] "We're covering this president as we've covered presidents in the past," Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron bragged to the website Business Insider last week. "We haven't changed how we do our jobs."
True or false, that's a damning statement...
In that spirit, the Post's editorial board in late January compared Trump to Hitler.
If there is one thing everyone will remember years from now about Trump's campaign, it was his promise to restrict illegal immigration. Contrary to the opinion of Times' columnist Nicholas Kristof, who compared taking a pause on taking in Syrian refugees to the internment of Japanese Americans, a more orderly and selective immigration policy is pretty popular.
But after one undocumented Democrat who had been living in the U.S. for decades using a fraudulent Social Security number was deported last week, all three network prime-time newscasts put together packages on "the family she leaves behind" (CBS correspondent Carter Evans' words).
Trump's message to "Make America Great Again" (or as the media recall it, "The End Times") was powerful enough to overcome the minor controversies and tiffs that journalists covered so extensively.
It behooves the Times or the Post to get a writer who sees something good about Trump's appeal and the people who support him.
Instead we get Charles Blow who twice each week thinks he's making a smart and principled statement by referring to Trump as "president" in quotes.
We get Buzzfeed's top editor, Ben Smith, offering that for the media to cover Trump thoroughly, it may sometimes require "publishing unverified information."
That's not fake news. He said that after his website was torched for publishing the now infamous dossier of unsubstantiated claims about Trump's personal and financial life.
To admit a readiness to repeat that episode requires more soul-searching. Maybe the media will find something next time.
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They went to search their souls and evidently couldn't find them. You didn't sell them at some point, maybe?
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Media return from soul-searching empty-handed
Dunno who wrote it, but that headline could be Snark of the Day.
I'm guessing they also don't cast a reflection in a mirror.
Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump’s arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired. At the Treasury Department, civil servants are quietly gathering information about whistle-blower protections as they polish their résumés.
At the United States Digital Service -- the youthful cadre of employees who left jobs at Google, Facebook or Microsoft to join the Obama administration -- workers are debating how to stop Mr. Trump should he want to use the databases they made more efficient to target specific immigrant groups.
"It’s almost a sense of dread, as in, what will happen to us," said Gabrielle Martin, a trial lawyer and 30-year veteran at the Denver office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where colleagues now share daily, grim predictions about the fate of their jobs under Mr. Trump’s leadership.
"It’s like the movie music when the shark is coming," Ms. Martin said, referring to "Jaws," the 1975 thriller. "People are just wary -- is the shark going to come up out of the water?"
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Thirty years on the public teat and this lame Jaws analogy is the best she can do? There's a reason these bozos don't make it in the private sector.
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As Trump's to Jerusalem slumping
To empty your swamp, you'll be jumping
And lie, snapping, flapping,
While all of us, clapping,
Will pump out that stuff you've been dumping.
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Dear Ms. Rometty,
[The Hill] Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday called for nationwide rallies in support of ObamaCare, calling GOP efforts to repeal and replace the healthcare legislation "chaos." 
John 
[PJ] The feel-good story of the year so far:
