Squire wrote:For what its worth, I absolutely support recount measures. We place far too much emphasis on speed and our desire to know right away than accuracy. And frankly, I don't trust the safety mechanisms with regard to the automated machines and my fellow Americans ability to do basic math with respect to the non-automated votes. The election is 11/8 and the electoral college doesn't vote until Mid-December and inaurguaration another month after that. Not too hard to insist on getting things right. And I literally don't care about "concessions" and think that that concept is one of the stupider concepts in politics. Secretary Clinton doesn't have the right to disenfranchise the people who voted for her.

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The independent team reviewed emails from the Attorney General’s Office’s servers, and emails from government employees across the state who sent or received messages from the A.G.’s Office. Gansler wrote in his report that more than 11,930 inappropriate emails were flagged; they were sent by more than 370 state prosecutors or personnel members, and more than 25 members of the state judiciary.

About 25 percent of the emails contained “obscene material or nudity,” while 75 percent had racist or sexist content. Gansler and his law firm flagged 38 people as “high-volume” senders of offensive material, meaning they’d passed along at least 50 such emails. And 13 were singled because they were senior government officials or judges. (Two judges you already know about: Former state Supreme Court Justices Seamus McCaffery and Michael Eakin, who both resigned after their emails previously became public. Three others were not named, but the Judicial Conduct Board is now supposedly investigating.)

In the report, Gansler walks through the process his team relied on to sort through the emails, including its use of software that could figure out how likely it was that email attachments contained pornographic material. And of course they found gems, like an email titled, “Fw: The Bald Eagle XX” that was sent on March 30th, 2009, from a personal email account of an A.G.’s Office employee to 16 people. A written introduction about the beauty of the “Spread Eagle” gave way to photos of “nude women with their legs spread apart. Several of the photographs depict oral sex, masturbation, or sexual intercourse. Accompanying some of the photographs are captions like ‘The Spread Eagle is a beautiful, elegant creature…but a very, very messy eater,'” according to the report.

There are more offensive messages, of course. Some contain jokes about Michelle Obama, Rock Hudson, Hindu women, and “Asian midgets dressed as clowns.” (Yeah. Seriously.) But you already knew that.

Beemer talked about how the Porngate-related lawsuits and investigations have sapped the office of time and money, and pulled it away from fighting against the heroin epidemic, or protecting children from predators, or consumers from scammers. And that all seems true enough — but it also conveniently skips assigning any blame to the people who used state computers and state time to circulate the material in the first place.

Turkey, which aspires to join the EU, has dismissed or detained more than 110,000 civil servants, members of the security forces and other officials in a crackdown it says is justified by the gravity of the threat from the July 15 putsch.

Erdogan has ridden a wave of nationalist support since the abortive coup, vowing to crack down on Turkey's enemies at home and abroad, and support from the MHP will be vital for realizing his ambition of a stronger presidency.


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MHP leader Devlet Bahceli has indicated his party could support the reforms and said on Tuesday that party lawyers were assessing the AKP's latest draft.

Any constitutional change needs the support of at least 367 deputies in the 550-seat assembly to pass directly, and of 330 to go to a referendum. The AKP has 317 seats, and the MHP 39.

Turkey’s government has withdrawn a controversial bill that would have granted amnesty to some men convicted of child sex assault if they married their victims.

The announcement on the bill, a rare concession to popular opposition in the country, came after street protests at the weekend and criticism from civil society groups, including a women’s rights organisation whose deputy chief is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s daughter, Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar.

CalvinBall wrote:heard on the radio that the 11k is incredibly inflated fwiw. they flagged any email that contained a myraid of words like hispanic or black even though there wasn't any racist anything in those emails

pacino wrote:then you haven't listened to Sheamus McCaffrey enough. He was the 'Eagles judge' and used to go on WIP with Cataldi. I have little doubt he had a bunch of judge buddies where they sent racist and sexist crap back and forth.

Todd Schulte ‏@TheToddSchulte
NEW: Q-poll records their highest support ever for pathway to citizenship. 72% want legalization only 25% deport all

Hadas Gold ‏@Hadas_Gold 11h11 hours ago
NYT ed board after Trump meeting: 'it was alarming to confront how thinly thought through many of (his) stances actually are.”

jerseyhoya wrote:

Todd Schulte ‏@TheToddSchulte
NEW: Q-poll records their highest support ever for pathway to citizenship. 72% want legalization only 25% deport all

The American people right now are a somewhat confused bunch.

American voters oppose other possible Trump initiatives:
67 - 29 percent against lowering taxes on the wealthy;
48 - 38 percent against removing regulations on businesses and corporations;
57 - 38 percent against making it easier for people to carry guns;
60 - 32 percent against "reducing taxes across the board even if it means increasing the deficit."

jerseyhoya wrote:

Todd Schulte ‏@TheToddSchulte
NEW: Q-poll records their highest support ever for pathway to citizenship. 72% want legalization only 25% deport all

The American people right now are a somewhat confused bunch.