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Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:31 pm
Skinypupy wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:25 pm Just got a breaking news alert that Rick Perry is stepping down at Energy.
Didn't he announce that a week or two ago? Or has the date been moved up?
Moved up. I think November was the original date for him leaving.
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Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:31 pm
Skinypupy wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:25 pm Just got a breaking news alert that Rick Perry is stepping down at Energy.
Didn't he announce that a week or two ago? Or has the date been moved up?
I think it was reported that he was considering it.

It’s now official.
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Skinypupy wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:29 pm
Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:31 pm
Skinypupy wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:25 pm Just got a breaking news alert that Rick Perry is stepping down at Energy.
Didn't he announce that a week or two ago? Or has the date been moved up?
I think it was reported that he was considering it.

It’s now official.
Matt Taibbi called Rick Perry "The best little whore in Texas" If Perry leaves then Trump must be up to his eyeballs in stuff even Perry won't touch.

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Trump's DHS picks aren't qualified:
The White House personnel director told President Trump that his top two candidates to become Secretary of Homeland Security — Ken Cuccinelli and Mark Morgan — are not qualified to fill the position
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Are they rich and white and potentially compromised? Totally qualified!
Pyperkub wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 4:27 pm Trump's DHS picks aren't qualified:
The White House personnel director told President Trump that his top two candidates to become Secretary of Homeland Security — Ken Cuccinelli and Mark Morgan — are not qualified to fill the position
OK, I went and read the "article" and looks like it is just saying they aren't eligible because Trump hasn't nominated them. *shrug*
Both men are serving on an acting basis, and neither has been nominated by Mr. Trump for permanent roles, which would require Senate confirmation. As a result, neither man is eligible to be elevated to the Department’s top job.
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What happens in Trump's Cabinet meetings?
Under Trump, Cabinet meetings have become less about the business of his Cabinet than an opportunity for the president to invite in the assembled press to boast of his own accomplishments, lash out at his critics and to hear the praise flow forth from advisers seated around a large oval table. The gatherings, with the press in attendance, often stretch for 60 to 90 minutes.

During a June 2017 Cabinet meeting, Trump went around the table, allowing his top aides to thank him for allowing them to serve his administration. Then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus called the opportunity a “blessing.”
What a waste. The definition of a snowflake President.
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Mattis aide describes Trump's first major Pentagon briefing.

Tl;dr: Trump doesn't know, doesn't care, wants a parade.
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Another Industry Lobbyist joins the Cabinet!
On Friday came the latest lobbyist elevation. Out went Energy Secretary Rick Perry, the genial former governor of Texas and onetime Dancing with the Stars contestant. In came his deputy, Dan Brouillette, who spent much of his career as a senior vice president of the United Services Automobile Association, a financial services company, and at the Ford Motor Company.
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A trove of documents released Tuesday by the House Education and Labor Committee shows the Education Department provided $10.7 million in federal loans and grants to students at the Illinois Institute of Art and the Art Institute of Colorado even though officials knew the for-profit colleges were not accredited and ineligible to receive such aid.

The documents build on prior reports from the committee describing efforts by Education Department officials to shield Dream Center Education Holdings, owner of the Art Institutes and Argosy University, from the consequences of lying to students about the accreditation of its since-closed schools. Now it appears the Education Department tried to shield itself from an ill-fated decision to allow millions of dollars to flow to those schools.

Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.), chairman of the House Education Committee, is threatening to subpoena Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for more documents related to the department’s role in Dream Center’s actions. Scott says the agency has obstructed the committee’s investigation and refused to answer questions, as emails and letters paint a picture of a federal agency complicit in an effort to place profits before students.
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Letters from senior Education Department official Michael Frola to the presidents of the two Art Institute campuses were among the documents made public Tuesday by House Democrats. Frola acknowledges in the May 2018 letters that the schools’ accreditation status made them ineligible to receive federal loans and grants through their students.

The for-profit schools’ downgraded designation as “preaccredited” institutions prohibited the receipt of federal student aid, although nonprofit schools with the same status can receive aid. To rectify the problem, Frola said, the department would retroactively — and temporarily — designate the Art Institutes as nonprofits effective Jan. 20, 2018, the date they lost their accreditation.

At the time, Dream Center was seeking approval from the Education Department, the accrediting commission and the Internal Revenue Service to turn the chain of for-profit colleges it purchased in 2016 into nonprofit schools. That designation would shield the company from having to report whether graduates were earning enough to repay their student loans.
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The Dream Center is a Christian non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in Los Angeles, California, established in 1994.
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In 2017, a subsidiary of the Dream Center, in partnership with a private equity fund, purchased the Art Institutes, South University, and Argosy University systems of for-profit colleges from Education Management Corporation. The transaction received significant scrutiny, due to concerns about Dream Center's ability to successfully manage the acquired schools, and criticism that the transaction was designed to allow the schools to avoid increased regulation of for-profit colleges. The transaction, which was not approved by the Department of Education under the Obama Administration, was approved in 2017 by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. In 2019, a number of the art institutes and other colleges were closed, with some closures announced abruptly in the middle of the academic year. Some of the Art Institute programs were transferred to Studio Enterprise, a Los Angeles creative arts training firm funded by principals of the private equity firm Colbeck Capital Management.
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Seems perfectly above-board. :roll:
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How did I miss this?
Speaking of human scum, the new White House press secretary has two DUI arrests and has lost two previous jobs amid alleged charges of plagiarism and cheating on expenses.
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Pyperkub wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2019 5:46 pm How did I miss this?
Speaking of human scum, the new White House press secretary has two DUI arrests and has lost two previous jobs amid alleged charges of plagiarism and cheating on expenses.
Press Secretary has two more DUIs and two more firings than she has given press briefings.
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The Trump administration’s education department has been fined $100,000 for violating a court order to stop demanding money from student fraud victims.

Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, was held in contempt of court by a federal judge after her department continued to collect loan repayments from former students of a now-defunct college chain.
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This week, the judge said Ms DeVos and the education department had made “only minimal efforts” to comply with the 2018 court order. She ruled that the administration must now file monthly reports to prove it is complying with the order.

The judge wrote there was “no question” the department violated the court order and had “not provided evidence that they were unable to comply with the preliminary injunction".

The education department said it was “disappointed in the court’s ruling” but accepted loan servicers had “made unacceptable mistakes".

The department has previously acknowledged it had incorrectly sent loan bills to more than 16,000 former Corinthian students, prompting more than 3,000 to send payments, and seized wages or tax refunds from 1,800 borrowers.

It also provided credit agencies with negative reports for about 800 borrowers.
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Ms Kim has threatened to impose further sanctions on the department if it fails to follow the order.

The $100,000 fine will help repay students for expenses they incurred while raising the issue to the court.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said Ms DeVos should pay the fine instead of US taxpayers having to foot the bill.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 1:28 pm
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said Ms DeVos should pay the fine instead of US taxpayers having to foot the bill.

That's what I don't get. Had DeVos ever showed any concern about spending tax payer money to get her way? (This says nothing of the millions her family spends for political power and favor, where $100,000 isn't even in the realm of punitive. It's an indulgence.)
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Sweet mother of god, the following is a direct quote from Trump’s minister of propaganda after hearing John Kelly saying Trump needed someone like him in the WH to keep him from going too far.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham added, "I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President."
I’m surprised she didn’t then throw her arm up in the air and demand the blood of a Zionist. That’s some straight up dictator shit.
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hepcat wrote:Sweet mother of god, the following is a direct quote from Trump’s minister of propaganda after hearing John Kelly saying Trump needed someone like him in the WH to keep him from going too far.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham added, "I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President."
I’m surprised she didn’t then throw her arm up in the air and demand the blood of a Zionist. That’s some straight up dictator shit.
Plays well with the Blood and Soil crowd.
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It amazes me any woman would work for this pussy grabber.
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People like her should be committed not advanced.
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Dana Milbank writes a blistering account of Barr's misdeeds. An excerpt of the beginning is below but it is a heck of a read.
Washington Post wrote:For Bill Barr, it’s too little, too late.

In my news colleagues’ latest scoop, The Post’s Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey and Carol Leonnig report that the attorney general declined to fulfill President Trump’s request that he publicly exonerate Trump’s “perfect” call with Ukraine’s president — following several actions recently in which “the Justice Department has sought some distance from the White House.”

Right. Like a barnacle seeks distance from a whale.

The distancing maneuver is plainly an attempt by those sympathetic to Barr to make him look a bit less like the president’s mob lawyer — done anonymously so that Trump wouldn’t rage at Barr but instead blame the “degenerate” Post, as he did Thursday. But Barr has sealed his fate. As Trump’s impeachment looms, Barr has degraded the office Elliot Richardson once dignified. Barr has turned the Justice Department into a shield for presidential misconduct and a sword wielded against political opponents.

Even as Barr’s latest distancing gambit debuted, he was due to huddle Wednesday with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Trump’s loyal defender, to decide how to release an inspector general’s report examining the FBI’s investigation into Russian 2016 interference and Trump’s campaign. Notably, the Justice Department inspector general himself, Michael Horowitz, was “not expected to attend,” The Post reported, leaving Barr and Graham free to decide what should be declassified to put Trump in the best possible light.
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Former Breitbart editor dumps trove of emails outing Stephen Miller's white supremacy.

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It's always the people you most suspect.
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El Guapo wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:03 pm It's always the people you most suspect.
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Senior State Dept official lied about being a Harvard grad and greatly embellished her non-profit work to score an Assistant Secretary position.

Fun side note: Before this all came out, she was being considered for a more prominent State Dept role that would have had her overseeing a budget of over $1B



This would be political suicide in any other timeline. In this one, it's just an average Tuesday.
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Skinypupy wrote:


This would be political suicide in any other timeline. In this one, it's just an average Tuesday.
Ahh, management material in the current administration.
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I mean, the fake Time cover is just right in this administration's wheelhouse.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 5:06 pm I mean, the fake Time cover is just right in this administration's wheelhouse.
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all.


Brian Bulatao, a top figure in the State Department and longtime friend of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, attended a fundraiser for her nonprofit in Dallas and once donated $5,500 to her charity, according to a former colleague of Chang's.
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Chang, who assumed her post in April, also invented a role on a U.N. panel, claimed she had addressed both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and implied she had testified before Congress.
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Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos claimed the state of America's education system was so substandard that a future generation of law enforcement officials lacked knowledge about one of the most significant events in the nation's history.

"I recently had a revealing conversation with FBI Director [Christopher] Wray. He told me that many incoming FBI agents are so young, they don't really know what happened on September 11, 2001," DeVos said, according to prepared remarks from the Department of Education. "'Some people did something,' we've heard it said."

The education secretary shared the anecdote while accepting an award at the Independent Women's Forum (IWF), a conservative non-profit organization, annual gala on Wednesday night. She used her speech to highlight problems she saw in the education system, including a lack of proficiency in reading, math and U.S. history, and the solution, which she claimed is her Education Freedom Scholarships proposal.
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Ugh.
When DeVos had to sign off on thousands of claims that had already been approved by the Obama administration, she added three words below her signature: "with extreme displeasure."
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Did she mention how Michigan used to have toward the top of the nation in K-12 education and ever since she and Engler shit down our necks we are are either at the bottom of the middle or the the top of the bottom, depending on who you source?
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LordMortis wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2019 3:36 pm Did she mention how Michigan used to have toward the top of the nation in K-12 education and ever since she and Engler shit down our necks we are are either at the bottom of the middle or the the top of the bottom, depending on who you source?
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The State Dept official who faked her resume and TIME cover and etc just resigned.

Meanwhile there has been another dump of odious white-supremacist Stephen Miller communications. There's no question of firing him because Trump is a racist.
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He has access to the intelligence. He knows this is bullshit.

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Trump and Bill Barr corrupts the DOJ entirely. Remember this. The Democratic candidate will be under investigation. It is almost certain now. This country is in *severe danger*.

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Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report — that the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horo­witz, is due to release his long-awaited findings in a week, but behind the scenes at the Justice Department, disagreement has surfaced about one of Horowitz’s central conclusions on the origins of the Russia investigation. The discord could be the prelude to a major fissure within federal law enforcement on the controversial question of investigating a presidential campaign.

Barr has not been swayed by Horowitz’s rationale for concluding that the FBI had sufficient basis to open an investigation on July 31, 2016, these people said.
Edit: Shit got weirder - the DOJ Spokesperson dropped this statement off after the WaPo article. Some are reading it as a break within DOJ. Others are pointing out that the DOJ did something similar with Barr's very misleading summary of the Mueller report.

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Documents obtained by NPR shed new light on a bitter fight between defrauded student borrowers and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

These borrowers — more than 200,000 of them — say some for-profit colleges lied to them about their job prospects and the transferability of credits. They argue they were defrauded and that the Education Department should erase their federal student loan debt under a rule called "borrower defense."

DeVos disagrees: She says most student borrowers still got value from these schools and deserve only partial relief from their federal loans.

Now, internal Education Department memos obtained by NPR show that career staff in the department's Borrower Defense Unit came down firmly on the side of defrauded borrowers.
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Until now, these internal department memos have been hidden from public view. Lawmakers had previously requested access to them, but DeVos and her department refused to hand them over. Instead, DeVos has criticized the Obama administration for lack of due diligence in processing borrower defense claims. In a Nov. 7 letter to Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., the chairman of the House education committee, DeVos wrote, "the clear intent of the prior Administration was to eventually provide blanket relief without review of the facts and evidence."
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The education secretary has the authority to override the recommendations of department staff, and DeVos has done just that. On Tuesday, the department unveiled a new plan to calculate how much defrauded students benefited from their educations and thus how much, if any, debt relief they deserve. Under this new model, most borrowers are unlikely to qualify for full relief.
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I hated growing up in West MI and couldn't wait to move away. It was a wonderful place -- prosperous, clean, safe -- if you conformed to conservative Christianity, and oppressive to those who did not.

Quibble: the Vanity Fair story casually calls Christian Reformed "Reformed," but that's inaccurate. The Reformed Church in America (in which I was raised) is a small, somewhat more liberal offshoot of the much stricter Christian Reformed Church. The RCA allowed dancing and watching movies, for example, whereas the CRC shunned them as "graven images" (but TV was fine, for some reason, except on Sundays). Anyway, us Reformed types took umbrage at being called Christian Reformed because we had reformed from them!
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