what do you want obama to do during his last month in office?

idiot bones

I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

can't believe guy didn't want to go to jail, what an idiot

This thread you guys wtf happened

Loretta Lynch + James Clapper = Trump's East Germany

xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggodEBYL9MU

Crut wins everything

wasn't expecting to be reminded of that classic track when i clicked on this thread. a bonus.

vinyls to get from my parents' house

http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/15172-osha-agrees-to-pursue-standard-on-workplace-violence-prevention-for-health-care-social-services#.WHfRqTPuUXJ.twitter

I think he thought through the consequences very well, as he was already out of the country following the release.

he went straight to hong kong with the conviction they would defy their own extradition treaty with the us

he's a principled and brave young man with some blind spots, now stuck in a shitty situation, deserving of empathy

What are you talking about? He's breathing free in a modern, developed democracy! Good for brave, principled young men that there are such countries left in this world. Huzzah.

Anyway back on fucking topic

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/01/the-further-adventures-of-james-comey-straight-shooting-man-of-nonpartisan-integritude

Here’s the thing: Obama should fire Comey. He should explain exactly why he’s being fired. Every day Comey remains the FBI Director helps to normalize a stolen election. And if the alleged downside is that Trump could appoint a director who’s a mendacious hack who would let Republicans do whatever they want, I have some news: we already have one.

The more I think about the fact that Obama has *not* fired this guy, and that Comey hasn't even offered his resignation, the more I think there really are about 3 other layers of fishy, stinky, rotten awful shit going on. Beyond the obvious 3 layers you just thought of as soon as you read that.

Chelsea Manning to be freed in May

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

so pleasantly surprised!

Yeah this is great

So is Assange gonna surrender himself now, or was that a wishful thinking from a clickbait headline I didn't actually click?

I'm losing hope for the Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument being set aside. Trump will do zero for the environment, so there are just a couple of days left.

Lets see if Assange puts his money where his mouth is now :) https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

Xxp

btw, from last week

@Snowden
Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency as you exit the White House, please: free Chelsea Manning. You alone can save her life.

Noob question: Can Trump overturn this, since she's not freed by immediate effect?

NYT:

Until recently the military discharged transgender soldiers. In June, Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter changed that policy and said it would instead provide treatment for them, eventually including such surgery if doctors said it was necessary.

But President-elect Donald J. Trump mocked that change as excessively “politically correct,” raising the possibility that he will rescind it.

Even if he does, Ms. Manning will soon no longer be subject to the military’s control.

wow – out in five months

with all sincerity: THANKS, OBAMA!

Leonard Peltier next?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

O RLY

Lets see if Assange puts his money where his mouth is now :) https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

my guess is assange doesn't give a fuck about manning but needed an excuse to be extradited under his new bff president trump

umm, i don't think anyone saw this happening. assange likely assumed it wouldn't

Oh I fully agree iatee. If anything he tried to hardman to look favorable. Xp

i predicted it

there was a report a few weeks ago (last week maybe?) that Obama was seriously considering it, so I saw it coming. I don't think Assange was bluffing.

gonna be fun to see "progressives" line up to complain about this

https://twitter.com/owillis/status/821468232276148225

who the fuck is oliver willis

what a weird position to have

I don't know either but he's Verified™

I have no idea who Oliver Willis is and don't really care that he thinks Manning is a traitor since I think his opinion is as meaningless as my opinion that this is a good thing for the Obama administration to have done. What I do care about is that a black dude said The Wrong Thing on Twitter and apparently has a bunch of white people making fun of his appearance for it. So basically, as far as I can tell everyone needs to check themselves and shut the fuck up.

oliver willis is a nincompoop

very pleasantly surprised by obama's commutation of her sentence. what he put manning through was cruel and unjust and this implicitly acknowledges that

that kind of pile-on reminds me why i never tweet and it's part of why the internet has ruined everything.

just don't express regret that a whistleblower isn't going to be kept in solitary confinement until she successfully attempts suicide on twitter is my trick to avoided internet pile-ons

I also don't know who oliver willis is but he does have 58k followers who are presumably pretty left-wing, so it's not like it's just 'pile on random black dude'

Oliver Willis being a nincompoop doesn't justify thinly-veiled racism thrown at him by randos on Twitter.

he's obviously wrong but it's just the typical internet OTT response which is pretty eyerolling at best.

and at worst, yes what DJP said

This pile-on was instigated by Glenn Greenwald, btw.

Him and the others at intercept does this to women and poc all the time.

not really. willis is a well-known punching bag at this point

i definitely hate-read his timeline from time to time but i stopped tweeting mean things at him when i turned 20

Really. Greenwald retweeted him twice, then the racist abuse piled up. So yeah.

and how racist were the GG tweets?

well I guess we learned why JD suddenly cares about oliver willis' opinion on this matter