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January 3, 2020
Deleted Tweet From Eric Trump Hints He May Have Known About Strike Against Iranian Military Leader Days Ahead Of Time
BY CHRIS WALKER January 3, 2020
Eric Trump is not a member of the Trump administration, and helps his brother, Donald Trump Jr., with operations of the Trump Organization. His knowledge of an impending attack against a foreign leader would be a breach of security protocols, and highly unusual.
"Bout to open up a big ol' can of whoop ass," Eric Trump tweeted on dec 31st
https://hillreporter.com/deleted-tweet-from-eric-trump-hints-he-may-have-known-about-strike-against-iranian-military-leader-days-ahead-of-time-54791Deleted Tweet From Eric Trump Hints He May Have Known About Strike Against Iranian Military Leader Days Ahead Of Time
BY CHRIS WALKER January 3, 2020
Eric Trump is not a member of the Trump administration, and helps his brother, Donald Trump Jr., with operations of the Trump Organization. His knowledge of an impending attack against a foreign leader would be a breach of security protocols, and highly unusual.
January 3, 2020
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DETROIT – Detroit's fire commissioner says he will investigate the circumstances of a New Year's Eve photograph posted on social media showing 18 firefighters posing in front of roaring house fire, according to media reports.
The photo was posted on the "Detroit Fire Incidents Page" on Facebook along with the caption "crews take a moment to get a selfie on New Years!" In the background is a house engulfed in flames. The post has since been taken down.
Detroit Fire Commissioner Eric Jones told WXYZ-TV in a statement that if the photo "is verified," then "discipline will be in order."
“There are a lot of ways to celebrate a retirement," Jones said in the statement. "Taking a photo in front of a building fire is not one of them."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/02/detroit-firefighters-photo-burning-home/2793802001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories
Detroit firefighters under fire for posing in photo in front of burning home
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DETROIT – Detroit's fire commissioner says he will investigate the circumstances of a New Year's Eve photograph posted on social media showing 18 firefighters posing in front of roaring house fire, according to media reports.
The photo was posted on the "Detroit Fire Incidents Page" on Facebook along with the caption "crews take a moment to get a selfie on New Years!" In the background is a house engulfed in flames. The post has since been taken down.
Detroit Fire Commissioner Eric Jones told WXYZ-TV in a statement that if the photo "is verified," then "discipline will be in order."
“There are a lot of ways to celebrate a retirement," Jones said in the statement. "Taking a photo in front of a building fire is not one of them."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/02/detroit-firefighters-photo-burning-home/2793802001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories
January 2, 2020
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https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/wild-video-shows-violent-vigilante-beatdown-of-bronx-subway-abductor/
A man was arrested for trying to abduct a woman on a Bronx subway train early Sunday — a horrifying encounter that was recorded by a nearby straphanger, police said.
Bronx resident Sonny Alloway, 48, was charged with unlawful imprisonment for allegedly grabbing the woman and carrying her off a 6 train at the Morrison Avenue-Soundview station about 2:45 a.m., according to police.
The victim was able to escape the fiend’s clutches just moments later, according to footage of the crime.
Alloway sat across from the woman, who was next to another man. He taps her several times as the train is in motion and tries to talk to her.
As the train pulls into the station — and the trains doors open — Alloway strikes.
The woman can heard cursing, saying, “What the f–k!”
https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/see-it-man-attempts-to-abduct-woman-on-bronx-subway-train/
A group of vigilantes served up some street justice to a Bronx man charged with trying to abduct a young woman on the subway, disturbing new video shows.
The clip, which appears to have been recorded sometime after the early Sunday kidnapping attempt, shows at least three men pummeling and kicking the suspect, Sonny Alloway, who is lying on a sidewalk.
“You’re a f–king rapist, n—a!” one of the men screams.
One man spits in Alloway’s bloodied face after he sputters, “I tried to help her, bro. I didn’t try to rape her.”
The violent video was posted to social media after a first recording allegedly showed Alloway, 48, grabbing the young woman on a 6 train around 2:35 a.m. Sunday and trying to haul her off the train at the Morrison Avenue-Soundview station, police said.
Alloway scurried away to a nearby deli, where he was held by the same group of men until cops came to arrest him, police added. He was taken to a hospital for minor injuries.
https://www.amny.com/bronx/viral-video-shows-apparent-abduction-attempt-on-bronx-subway-train/
https://nypost.com/2020/01/02/alleged-bronx-kidnapper-claims-hes-actually-good-samaritan/
vigilantes assault man who picked up (literally) woman and carried her off subway
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https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/wild-video-shows-violent-vigilante-beatdown-of-bronx-subway-abductor/
A man was arrested for trying to abduct a woman on a Bronx subway train early Sunday — a horrifying encounter that was recorded by a nearby straphanger, police said.
Bronx resident Sonny Alloway, 48, was charged with unlawful imprisonment for allegedly grabbing the woman and carrying her off a 6 train at the Morrison Avenue-Soundview station about 2:45 a.m., according to police.
The victim was able to escape the fiend’s clutches just moments later, according to footage of the crime.
Alloway sat across from the woman, who was next to another man. He taps her several times as the train is in motion and tries to talk to her.
As the train pulls into the station — and the trains doors open — Alloway strikes.
The woman can heard cursing, saying, “What the f–k!”
https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/see-it-man-attempts-to-abduct-woman-on-bronx-subway-train/
A group of vigilantes served up some street justice to a Bronx man charged with trying to abduct a young woman on the subway, disturbing new video shows.
The clip, which appears to have been recorded sometime after the early Sunday kidnapping attempt, shows at least three men pummeling and kicking the suspect, Sonny Alloway, who is lying on a sidewalk.
“You’re a f–king rapist, n—a!” one of the men screams.
One man spits in Alloway’s bloodied face after he sputters, “I tried to help her, bro. I didn’t try to rape her.”
The violent video was posted to social media after a first recording allegedly showed Alloway, 48, grabbing the young woman on a 6 train around 2:35 a.m. Sunday and trying to haul her off the train at the Morrison Avenue-Soundview station, police said.
Alloway scurried away to a nearby deli, where he was held by the same group of men until cops came to arrest him, police added. He was taken to a hospital for minor injuries.
https://www.amny.com/bronx/viral-video-shows-apparent-abduction-attempt-on-bronx-subway-train/
https://nypost.com/2020/01/02/alleged-bronx-kidnapper-claims-hes-actually-good-samaritan/
January 2, 2020
Psychiatrist: Trump's projection on Chairman Schiff is 'primitive'
Psychiatrist Lance Dodes joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss Donald Trump’s behavior abroad as the impeachment investigation advances at home. Dr. Dodes says President Trump is "running a really simple program" with "limited capacity" and exemplifying "early emotional development."
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/psychiatrist-trump-s-projection-on-chairman-schiff-is-primitive-74462277699
January 2, 2020
President Trump appears to be fine with AT&T slashing jobs.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/2/21046768/att-layoffs-2020-jobs-outsourcing-cnn-trump-twitter
President Donald Trump is very mad about AT&T over CNN. The thousands of jobs it’s cutting, not so much.
The telecommunications giant, which acquired CNN through its $85 billion merger with Time Warner in 2018, has generated scrutiny among the press, organizers, and activists over job cuts it has made over the past several months. Most recently, Axios reported that thousands of AT&T workers were about to lose their posts after training foreigners in line to replace them this year. Trump has positioned himself as a job creator and a crusader against outsourcing, but when it comes to AT&T, he’s not saying anything — well, at least not about jobs. His focus is on his ongoing annoyance with CNN.
On Wednesday, three days after the Axios report, Trump took to Twitter to take a swipe at CNN after a supposed “ratings dive” and suggested parent-company AT&T “should make changes.” It’s not clear what specific changes he would want.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
Can’t believe @ATT keeps the management after yet another @CNN ratings dive. Nobody watching, NO CREDIBILITY! Maybe they should make changes at AT&T?
This is hardly the first time Trump has called for AT&T to do something about CNN — which presumably translates to shifting to coverage that’s more favorable to him. He spoke out against the AT&T-Time Warner merger from the get-go, and while there were plenty of legitimate reasons to oppose the deal — it marked a significant amount of consolidation in the media industry, and multiple lawmakers raised red flags about it — Trump’s animus toward CNN was evidently in play. He has called on AT&T to fire CNN chief Jeff Zucker, and over the summer, the president pushed for people to stop “using or subscribing” to AT&T in order to force changes at the network.
AT&T is cutting jobs, but Trump is focused on its management of CNN instead
AT&T is cutting jobs, but Trump is focused on its management of CNN insteadPresident Trump appears to be fine with AT&T slashing jobs.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/2/21046768/att-layoffs-2020-jobs-outsourcing-cnn-trump-twitter
President Donald Trump is very mad about AT&T over CNN. The thousands of jobs it’s cutting, not so much.
The telecommunications giant, which acquired CNN through its $85 billion merger with Time Warner in 2018, has generated scrutiny among the press, organizers, and activists over job cuts it has made over the past several months. Most recently, Axios reported that thousands of AT&T workers were about to lose their posts after training foreigners in line to replace them this year. Trump has positioned himself as a job creator and a crusader against outsourcing, but when it comes to AT&T, he’s not saying anything — well, at least not about jobs. His focus is on his ongoing annoyance with CNN.
On Wednesday, three days after the Axios report, Trump took to Twitter to take a swipe at CNN after a supposed “ratings dive” and suggested parent-company AT&T “should make changes.” It’s not clear what specific changes he would want.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
Can’t believe @ATT keeps the management after yet another @CNN ratings dive. Nobody watching, NO CREDIBILITY! Maybe they should make changes at AT&T?
This is hardly the first time Trump has called for AT&T to do something about CNN — which presumably translates to shifting to coverage that’s more favorable to him. He spoke out against the AT&T-Time Warner merger from the get-go, and while there were plenty of legitimate reasons to oppose the deal — it marked a significant amount of consolidation in the media industry, and multiple lawmakers raised red flags about it — Trump’s animus toward CNN was evidently in play. He has called on AT&T to fire CNN chief Jeff Zucker, and over the summer, the president pushed for people to stop “using or subscribing” to AT&T in order to force changes at the network.
January 2, 2020
What if the president of the United States was mentally ill — and no one really cared?
As we turn the page on 2019, our president is mentally unwell — but that's only one symptom of deeper illness
Sick societies normalize the aberrant and abhorrent behavior of their leaders and other elites. This behavior in turn becomes a type of pathology the infects the general public.
Last week, Dr. Bandy Lee, a professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and editor of the bestselling book"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” told Salon that Nancy Pelosi could have Donald Trump involuntarily evaluated, because he may be a threat to public safety:
As a coworker, she has the right to have him submit to an involuntary evaluation, but she has not…. Anyone can call 911 to report someone who seems dangerous, and family members are the most typical ones to do so. But so can coworkers, and even passersby on the street. The law dictates who can determine right to treatment, or civil commitment, and in all 50 U.S. states this includes a psychiatrist.
The advantage of a coworker starting this process is that a court can mandate a mental capacity evaluation before the dangerous person returns to work. The committing physician is preferably the patient's treater, but does not have to be.
Predictably, Lee’s suggestion became the outrage of the day across the right-wing disinformation echo chamber. But she is clearly not alone in her concerns about Donald Trump.
Lee is one of many hundreds of prominent mental health experts, historians, attorneys, and other professionals who since 2016 have tried to sound the alarm about the dire threat that Donald Trump and his regime represent to America and the world.
Is it legal at this time to commit Donald Trump to a mental institution? The answer is no. But is Trump a threat to the United States and the world? The answer to that is absolutely yes.
The abundance of public evidence suggests that President Trump is mentally unwell.
Will the Republican Party and its followers place the good of the country over partisan fealty and an addiction to (white) power? Of course not.
Lee and other mental health professionals’ repeated warnings about Trump’s state of mind and behavior should, of course, be of great public concern. But such warnings no longer cause public panic and mass action -- and never did. That fact carries ominous implications for the present and future of America.
As we turn the page on 2019, our president is mentally unwell -- but that's only one symptom of deepe
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/01/what-if-the-president-of-the-united-states-was-mentally-ill-and-no-one-really-cared/What if the president of the United States was mentally ill — and no one really cared?
As we turn the page on 2019, our president is mentally unwell — but that's only one symptom of deeper illness
Sick societies normalize the aberrant and abhorrent behavior of their leaders and other elites. This behavior in turn becomes a type of pathology the infects the general public.
Last week, Dr. Bandy Lee, a professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and editor of the bestselling book"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” told Salon that Nancy Pelosi could have Donald Trump involuntarily evaluated, because he may be a threat to public safety:
As a coworker, she has the right to have him submit to an involuntary evaluation, but she has not…. Anyone can call 911 to report someone who seems dangerous, and family members are the most typical ones to do so. But so can coworkers, and even passersby on the street. The law dictates who can determine right to treatment, or civil commitment, and in all 50 U.S. states this includes a psychiatrist.
The advantage of a coworker starting this process is that a court can mandate a mental capacity evaluation before the dangerous person returns to work. The committing physician is preferably the patient's treater, but does not have to be.
Predictably, Lee’s suggestion became the outrage of the day across the right-wing disinformation echo chamber. But she is clearly not alone in her concerns about Donald Trump.
Lee is one of many hundreds of prominent mental health experts, historians, attorneys, and other professionals who since 2016 have tried to sound the alarm about the dire threat that Donald Trump and his regime represent to America and the world.
Is it legal at this time to commit Donald Trump to a mental institution? The answer is no. But is Trump a threat to the United States and the world? The answer to that is absolutely yes.
The abundance of public evidence suggests that President Trump is mentally unwell.
Will the Republican Party and its followers place the good of the country over partisan fealty and an addiction to (white) power? Of course not.
Lee and other mental health professionals’ repeated warnings about Trump’s state of mind and behavior should, of course, be of great public concern. But such warnings no longer cause public panic and mass action -- and never did. That fact carries ominous implications for the present and future of America.
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