Microsoft Vows to Defend Dreamers, House Subpoenas Pee Dossier Docs, Sheriff Clarke Takes Trump Super PAC Job: A.M. Links

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  Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer said the company "will pay for legal counsel for Dreamer employees in any deportation case and file a brief in the company's name."

• Former Sheriff David Clarke is staying off the federal payroll for now, instead taking a position as a spokesman and senior adviser for Trump super PAC America First Action.
• The U.S. House Intelligence Committee is demanding FBI records related to the "pee dossier."
• Remembering Indian journalist and human-rights activist Gauri Lankesh, who was gunned down outside her home on Monday.
• A Cuban man in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody died after being found unconscious in his hospital-room shower. He is the 11th detainee to die in ICE custody this year.
• Behold hate-crime laws in action.
• The Huffington Post is so intersectional it publishes the pro-censorship group formerly known as Morality in Media urging harsher criminal sentencing for folks involved in gay sex work.
• Big changes could be coming to the Title IX office this week.
• A man who launched a pro-"Hillary Democrats" social platform called Verrit has been having a Twitter meltdown for days after Clinton's endorsement of the site also brought a lot of skeptics.
• Celebrate these bad bills that didn't make it out of the California legislature in the 2017 session.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

ENB bringing the links.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

And yet, all Trump did was send DACA to Congress and force them to, you know, do their fucking JOBS.

[Crusty Juggler]

When is this Trump fella gonna get a fair shake, that's what I want to know?

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

He's obviously doing fine, it's the public which needs a fair shake by knowing what's actually going on. And that need isn't served by the legacy media with their daily ration of "Trump's fault" and "Trump's a Nazi!"

[Crusty Juggler]

When is the media going to give Trump a fair shake?

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

Seriously?

I guess that depends on which media. Some of them are fair, the "legacy media" and some allied outlets will be happy to give him a fair shake as soon as another Republican President is in office and they can get nostalgic about Responsible Republicans like Trump.

[Crusty Juggler]

No, not seriously. I think the media overreaction to everything he does is part of his strategy, because it just riles up his sycophantic, populist base, who thrive off the predictable media overreaction.

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

I have no doubt Trump has sycophants, but not all of his base can be put in that category, some of them simply think the other politicians are so bad that Trump starts looking good.

[Citizen X - #6]

Media overreaction also riles up the Democrats' base, so it's a win for everybody! You know, aside from people who want to be left alone to make sense of the world.

[Crusty Juggler]

Media overreaction also riles up the Democrats' base

Yes - it's part of both their little game of, "I want to control you and steal your money." The Dems just have more prominent figures, while the Team Trump has people on Fox News and the Alex Jones' of the world.

[Crusty Juggler]

Please strike the "both" from my above comment - thank you, webmaster.

[Sevo]

Crusty Juggler|9.6.17 @ 9:41AM|#
"...I think the media overreaction to everything he does is part of his strategy, because it just riles up his sycophantic, populist base, who thrive off the predictable media overreaction."

So he's really good at 5D chess?
How about he's a blowhard who gets something right now and then, but the press hates him with a passion?

[Rufus The Monocled]

As an outsider looking in, what Obama did was take an action without proper consent of the people via the established channels as prescribed by law.

And this is just my impression of observing eight years of that doofus-chooch, it wouldn't surprise me he knew acting unilaterally that way was probably illegal but assumed no one would dare challenge or even rescind his action. I wonder if Brad Smith would feel the same way about copyright laws. I doubt it.

Obama cynically did it for votes because if he really cared he would have worked with Congress as is ethical, proper and legal.

Of course, I could be misreading all this but it's just the 'maintain order' Canadian in me.

Dudley Do Right and Sam Steele and all that.

[Crusty Juggler]

As an outsider looking in, what Obama did was take an action without proper consent of the people via the established channels as prescribed by law.

Obama cynically did it for votes because if he really cared he would have worked with Congress as is ethical, proper and legal.

So, Trump is doing this because he both honors the Constitution and doesn't care about the wishes of voters?

[Rufus The Monocled]

I don't know what his shtick is but it's kinda of a good thing to send this back to Congress, no?

Otherwise, just concentrate more power into the Executive and be done with it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hey, jerkfaces, this first comment thread is supposed to be a safe space where we talk about the quantity of links that ENB delivered on time this morning. Don't ruin it with politics.

[Citizen X - #6]

You're not the boss of us, Eugene. Or of anybody, or even yourself.

[Chinny Chin Chin]

it wouldn't surprise me he knew acting unilaterally that way was probably illegal but assumed no one would dare challenge or even rescind his action.

I think Obama approaches the Constitution in the same manner as a good statistician approaches a data set: it can mean anything you want it to, given enough mental gymnastics.

My guess is that Obama's legal team wrote lots of reports on how his executive action would be legal and ethical, and they were counting on public outcry to keep it in place after St. O ascended from office.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Huh. Interesting. Possible and one way of looking at it.

/sticks tongue out at FOE.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

And they're better than yours. That's right, they're better than yours.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Celebrate these bad bills that didn't make it out of the California legislature in the 2017 session.

There's always 2018.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A man who launched a pro-"Hillary Democrats" social platform called Verrit has been having a Twitter meltdown for days after Clinton's endorsement of the site also brought a lot of skeptics.

Hillary ruined his safe space?

[Libertarian]

There are so many skeptics. Enough to elect Trump, anyway.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Big changes could be coming to the Title IX office this week.

Every SJW is popping a secret boner at the idea of a new influx of outrage porn about to be released.

[Rhywun]

I'm kind of worn out from all the Dreamer outrage porn.

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

Tired of all the "Git Those Brown 3rd Worlders In Railcars And Ship The Lot Of 'Em Out!"(*) porn already? Why, you must be a globalist!

(* No, I am not exaggerating. I wish I was.)

[Rhywun]

The great thing about porn is there's something for everyone's taste.

[BYODB]

What could possibly be more globalist than a world without borders, pray tell?

[Citizen X - #6]

I didn't know you were into that.

[Crusty Juggler]

Rami Malek: First look at Mr Robot star as Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic

It's a photo, and he looks like Freddie. Also, Mr. Robot is trash.

[Citizen X - #6]

Mr. Robot has a kickass soundtrack, awesome cinematography, and Stephanie Corneliussen nude, so once again your opinion is invalid.

Also, there was an episode with ALF in it, and he killed a guy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Mr. Robot looks like it should be better than it is.

[Rhywun]

I enjoyed season 1 but didn't make it past episode 1 of season 2. Then I reflected on season 1 and realized what utter crap the story is.

[Crusty Juggler]

Finally someone else with good taste.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

awesome cinematography

Oh, X...

[Citizen X - #6]

It's a good-looking show, and i do not apologize to you or any other.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

It's like a college student was given the resources for a Prestige Cable Drama with no supervision or pushback.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Also, the only interesting and relatable character in the show is the evil CEO guy (as of the first season; never watched the second). He's the only character that a) appears human and b) is not a nag.

Just like the first season of Girls, where the only interesting characters were the men.

[Rhywun]

I liked the drug dealer/girlfriend they killed off in the middle of the season for no particular reason.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Right! She had something.

I would rather have followed her around. Her schizo FWB could be an amusing side character in that show.

[Mickey Rat]

You watched "Girls"? Willingly, or were you being tortured?

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I watched the first season a year or so later, because people were still praising it and I was in a good mood.

My favorite memory of that experience: Dunham directed the first few episodes. Halfway through episode 4 or 5, I thought to myself that this episode is much better directed than the others. Better use of the camera, better staging, better editing. Sure enough, it was the first episode directed by someone else.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer said the company "will pay for legal counsel for Dreamer employees in any deportation case and file a brief in the company's name."

"It looks like you are drafting a brief to stay in the country. Would you like help with that?"

[Rhywun]

This is outstanding. I wonder what other outrages Microsoft is willing to buy your freedom from. Busted for marijuana? Sex-offender registry?

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

That assumes Congress decides to keep the law as is, which I don't think many Congresscritters actually want...that is, they are happy to have the law as is so long as it's not enforced, once they think the stuff they pass will be enforced they flip out.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Huffington Post is so intersectional it publishes the pro-censorship group formerly known as Morality in Media urging harsher criminal sentencing for folks involved in gay sex work.

You have to be a jigsaw puzzle expert to figure out how to fit these wedge issues together sometimes.

[Crusty Juggler]

Death of NFL inevitable as middle class abandons the game

Herrera cares about the lessons the game can teach. He and other coaches are deadly serious about instilling "heads up" tackling techniques to protect the heads of their players.

"But it's the parents," he said. "They're worried about the brain."

It is all about the brain. The brains that are injured in the game, yes, but also about how the human mind works, as the American middle class withdraws from football, a cultural trend that will cut the NFL away from American virtue.

What is virtuous about brain damage? I'd prefer to watch prizefighters. At least prizefighting is honest about its violence. It doesn't wrap itself up in mom and apple pie.

Where my 'Murca gone?

[Citizen X - #6]

It is gone where the woodbine twineth.

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

Get your lungs ready for a long and strong "Gooooool!"

[Libertarian]

There's always curling.

[Rhywun]

If it isn't 3 hours of commercials with 30 minutes of action here and there, sign me up.

[Huzzah]

Ghoul?

[Don't look at me.]

Everyone likes gladiators,but nobody wants their kids to be one.

[Crusty Juggler]

Do you like gladiator movies?

[Stormy Dragon]

"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."

[dantheserene]

That's a good point. Definite Shower Thought material.

[Stormy Dragon]

It was part of an Emo Phillips routine.

[Mickey Rat]

Dancing on the NFL's grave should wait until the thing has actually died.

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer said the company "will pay for legal counsel for Dreamer employees in any deportation case and file a brief in the company's name."

Their lawyers use Windows Vista...

A Cuban man in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody died after being found unconscious in his hospital-room shower. He is the 11th detainee to die in ICE custody this year.

ICE channeled Ch

[Citizen X - #6]

A man who launched a pro-"Hillary Democrats" social platform called Verrit has been having a Twitter meltdown for days after Clinton's endorsement of the site also brought a lot of skeptics.

My god, what a tiresome little man. Does Peter Daou troll here?

[Crusty Juggler]

Woman ends Tinder date stuck in window trying to grab her own poop

Thought your first date was crap? This Tinder hookup ended with a woman being pried off of a window after she got stuck trying to grab her poop.

Fact: never go out with an English bird.

t all started when Smyth took his date to Nando's, a Portuguese restaurant in Bristol, UK. Afterward, he took her back to his apartment, where they Netflix'd and chilled.

But when his date got up and went to the bathroom, she returned panicked.

"?'I went for a poo in your toilet,' she told me," Smyth wrote on his GoFundMe campaign site. But when the toilet wouldn't flush, she lost her head a little: "I reached into the toilet bowl, wrapped it in tissue paper, and threw it out of the window."

Unfortunately, her poop didn't make it out the window at all. Due to a design quirk, the bundle instead fell inside the wide gap between the window's two panes.

C'mon.

[Libertarian]

I read this story last night. Color me skeptical.

[Crusty Juggler]

Color me skeptical

It's not like there's a brownout on photos of the lady stuck in the window.

[Citizen X - #6]

She seems like a real winner.

[Crusty Juggler]

In Conversation: Bill de Blasio

In 2013, you ran on reducing income inequality. Where has it been hardest to make progress? Wages, housing, schools?
What's been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there's a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that's the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development.

Fact: private property rights exist in Westchester.

[Citizen X - #6]

Christ, what an asshole.

[Rhywun]

You got that right.

But this grandiosity fits a man who, in the same New York interview, expressed bewilderment that, given the incredible successes of his administration, he is not more widely celebrated. "You'd assume," said de Blasio, "they'd be having parades out in the streets."

[Mickey Rat]

"...joyously shouting 'Duce! Duce!'"

[Jerryskids]

"Christ, what an asshole" doesn't even begin to cover this one.

[Rhywun]

And people think I'm exaggerating when I say the man is a communist.

[Libertarian]

Property rights have been increasingly elevated? INCREASINGLY? When does NYC elect the next mayor?

[Rhywun]

Two months from tomorrow. The communist is expected to win in another "landslide", i.e. he will get 80% of the 15%-20% of voters that show up.

[Mickey Rat]

You live in a place unfit for human habitation. Get out while you can.

[Rhywun]

We're not in 'Escape From' territory yet...

[Eek Barba Durkle]

Only yesterday, I had some one argue that Ayn Rand's books were totally worthless, since they bear no reflection to the real world.

I wish at least one of Rand's statist critics had read any of her books, so they would know how stupid their complaints are.

[Rhywun]

Fact: private property rights exist in Westchester.

You're welcome.

/Trump administration

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I was simultaneously appalled and impressed when I read this. At least he's saying it bluntly, you know?

[Crusty Juggler]

Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience

From the probiotics aisle to the vaguely ridiculous Organic Integrity outreach effort (more on that later), Whole Foods has all the ingredients necessary to give Richard Dawkins nightmares. And if you want a sense of how weird, and how fraught, the relationship between science, politics, and commerce is in our modern world, then there's really no better place to go. Because anti-science isn't just a religious, conservative phenomenon?and the way in which it crosses cultural lines can tell us a lot about why places like the Creation Museum inspire so much rage, while places like Whole Foods don't.

*swoons*

[Libertarian]

I'd love to see a Venn diagram showing the overlap between people who label skeptics of global warming "science deniers" and believers in homeopathy.

[Charles Easterly]

I visited a Whole Foods earlier this week and was surprised to notice a decal on the door stating that they did not allow either open carry or concealed carry.

I used to enjoy enjoy going there ever since a nice lady in the deli department offered me free samples.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

One of those articles I've bookmarked and intend to share any time I see talk of 'fact-based reality' or whatever the hell trendy progressives say.

[Rufus The Monocled]

So. Microsoft's Brad Smith is suggesting the government is acting 'meanly' and advocating the breaking of the law, eh?

I guarantee you one thing, this shit doesn't happen in Canada. You come illegal and they catch you, DEHORS.

Out.

Start over.

You can't break the law and then 'wave the kids' and 'we work here now' in the face of the law. You send a very bad message if you do.

It's nuts and a good example of how laws become meaningless. The West is what it is because of the Rule of Law and private property rights. As well of freedom of speech.

Period.

Grow a pair America.

Love Rufus.
Allow cracks in either of those things and you're done.

[paranoid android]

You do realize we're talking about people who came to the US when they were children, had no choice in the matter whatsoever, and have no ties to their home country, correct? Do you really believe it's our highest imperative right now to devote national law enforcement resources to ruining their lives?

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

Re: paranoid android,

Do you really believe it's our highest imperative right now to devote national law enforcement resources to ruining their lives?

You're describing pretty much what Trumpistas wet-dream about.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Well, maybe the people who broke the law in the first place should have thought of this, no? Why do they not face any responsibility or consequences for their actions? And if America cares so much about its laws, what's so bad about Congress fixing this? He's not ending it, he's asking Congress put a legit face on it. I admit I could be over reaching on that one.

If you permit me, you seem to be engaging in a bit of an appeal to emotion and maybe the focus should be on people who committed the illegal act who shouldn't have done so to begin with. If you don't close or fix this matter why bother having immigration rules and laws on the books if they won't be enforced? That's a little waving of the 'what about the children'.

Basically what you're saying is 'okay. You broke the law but you have kids here so we'll grant them whatever'. From a humanist position it's the correct stance but legally and the signal it sends, not so much.

Know what I'm saying?

[paranoid android]

If you permit me, you seem to be engaging in a bit of an appeal to emotion and maybe the focus should be on people who committed the illegal act who shouldn't have done so to begin with.

I think it's more an appeal to common sense than anything, but if you prefer, we can talk about the NAP. Whatever law may have been broken, the persons affected by DACA had no choice in the matter whatsoever. These persons have committed absolutely no aggression against anyone by being here, and to penalize them for it is an injustice.

The status of the parents in fact has no bearing on any of this. DACA didn't cover them and rescinding it doesn't affect them either. They live in just as much fear of being discovered and deported as they ever did, if that makes you feel better.

Immigration law does need to be fixed, I can't believe you don't see how Trump's stoking of racial divisions actually prevents a more just policy from being created.

As an aside, do you get as worked up about marijuana dispensaries in Colorado and Washington operating in technical defiance of federal law? Is it an outrage that the DEA hasn't been sent in to put these business owners and their customers in prison? Would doing so promote liberty because the law is the law and must be enforced with maximum intensity in all cases?

[Rhywun]

Trump's stoking of racial divisions

LOL, nobody beats the master when it comes to stoking racial divisions over the 8 years prior to Trump.

Trump, OTOH, telling Congress to do its job is hardly "stoking racial divisions".

[BYODB]

Anarchy isn't a long-term, or even short term, replacement for the rule of law you know. I know that a lot of people around here seem to think that it is, but those people would be badly mistaken.

[BYODB]

Also, the comparison to dispensaries in Colorado and Washington are not as delusional as claiming that Congress isn't 'allowed' to set rules for immigration, but yes it also drives plenty of us insane that an entire fledgling industry only exists according to the whims of the king.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Whew, thank Christ there were no cracks in the Rule of Law before now.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A Cuban man in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody died after being found unconscious in his hospital-room shower.

He could have stayed in Cuba and gotten the same treatment.

[Juice]

But America grew a pair or something.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If we're not opening the doors for refugees from communism then I don't know what America stands for anymore. AND, NO, THAT'S NOT SNARK.

[Mickey Rat]

Obama closed the door to refugees from communism. An article approving of this change in policy appeared in Hit n Run

[Fist of Etiquette]

Foot wet foot dry, yes. As he was walking out the door, to appease the commie fucks for some reason, I guess.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee is demanding FBI records related to the "pee dossier."

Uh-oh, Mr. President. Urine big trouble.

[Charles Easterly]

Narrows gaze in the manner of Swiss Servitor.

[Eek Barba Durkle]

Way to keep the flow going in the absence of our gaze-narrowing whiz.

[Citizen X - #6]

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee is demanding FBI records related to the "pee dossier."

In real life, it is often very difficult to determine whether something is tragedy or comedy.

[dantheserene]

X-
I'd just call it farce.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Former Sheriff David Clarke is staying off the federal payroll for now, instead taking a position as a spokesman and senior adviser for Trump super PAC America First Action.

K Street is as far from the federal payroll as you can get!

[Crusty Juggler]

The Huffington Post is so intersectional it publishes the pro-censorship group formerly known as Morality in Media urging harsher criminal sentencing for folks involved in gay sex work.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has chosen to speak out on this matter because it believes every individual, no matter their sex or sexual orientation, should be free from the harms of prostitution and sex trafficking, and the Rentboy.com sentence has shown how easily people can sexually exploit others?especially when the victims are male or transgendered?and avoid justice.

Prior to his trial and subsequent arrest, Mr. Hurant ran what the government has called "one of the largest sex work ventures ever prosecuted." Rentboy.com, has now been taken offline, but was portrayed by Mr. Hurant during this trial as a profitable online enterprise and provider of important "social services" to prostituted males who were solicited on Rentboy.com. Mr. Hurant claimed that the purpose of his website was to help those in prostitution avoid the ills of drugs, pimps, abuse, harassment, and violence, as well as help the gay community.

In truth, this "noble mission" was a farce and a front facilitation of prostitution?i.e. pimping? and sex trafficking in the interest of making money.

HuffPo really will print anything.

[Rhywun]

Because pushing prostitution and sex trafficking - generous of them to imply that there is a difference - underground will totally solve the ills of drugs, pimps, abuse, harassment, and violence that are in no way associated with black market businesses. Sounds legit.

[damikesc]

I hope Microsoft shareholders file suit over their counsel's claim.

[jcw]

You should totally boycott Microsoft. That'll show 'em.

[damikesc]

Nah. Love my Xbox. But corporations need to learn that it is not THEIR money. Shareholders are the ultimate boss.

[jcw]

Unless those shareholders are dreamer employees.

[BYODB]

Do you believe they forfeit those shares if they are foreign? China is curious.

[Rebel Scum]

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee is demanding FBI records related to the "pee dossier."

Time to dish out the golden shower of justice.

[Griffin3]

Great. You just made it weird.

[dantheserene]

G3-
This one started weird and shows no sign of change.

[Rebel Scum]

Big changes could be coming to the Title IX office this week.

Fingers crossed for it's elimination.

[Rebel Scum]

A man who launched a pro-"Hillary Democrats" social platform

Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube weren't enough I guess.

having a Twitter meltdown...brought a lot of skeptics

Any opinion that does not treat HerSelf as royalty and respect HerSelf's inherent greatness shall not be tolerated!

[Crusty Juggler]

Bernie Sanders calls Trump's DACA decision 'ugliest and most cruel decision made by a US president in modern history'

TW: Autoplay, and really, all you need is the headline.

Contest! Name something more cruel a president has done in recent modern history.

[Rhywun]

Trump should executive-order puppies and rainbows on his way out and watch the fun as his successor reverses it.

[lap83]

Obama didn't make himself God-Emperor and now the alt-reich is in charge. Thanks, Obama

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

Winner!

(And I say that with sorrow in my libertarian soul...)

[Don't look at me.]

Drone strikes?

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

Nixon getting off the gold standard, duh.

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

George Bush p?re signing ADA.

It inflicted upon unsuspecting Americans a pack of hungry lawyers looking to extort a quick buck.

[Citizen X - #6]

Does drone-bombing Pashto weddings count?

[Chinny Chin Chin]

The Bill Clinton-led sanctions on Iraq that led to the deaths of ~500,000 children. (Bonus quote, "Straddlin'" Madeline Albright: "We think the price was worth it")

[paranoid android]

If you're not aware, recent research suggests that this claim was Saddam propaganda and never happened.

[Chinny Chin Chin]

Huh, did not know. Thanks.

[SRVolunteer]

True or not, Madeline Albright being dumb enough not to push back when Leslie Stahl asked her about it on 60 minutes has every one of George Bush's gaffes beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4

[Crusty Juggler]

Bill Clinton approving Janet Reno's assault on the Branch Davidians?

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

Ooohh. Kinky! 😉

[TrickyVic (old school)]

That's not the same as the TSA approved sexual assaults.

[Libertarian]

Aiding Saudi Arabia in Yemen.

[drops mic]

[sarcasmic]

Sign the Unaffordable Care Act.

[Mickey Rat]

Is FDR still modern history to Bernie?

[Mickey Rat]

Jspanese internment camps. The givernment destroying surplus food during the Depression, and so on...

[TrickyVic (old school)]

It's amazing what kind of pass you get for evil doing when you offer people a new deal.

[Jerryskids]

Bush the Elder getting the CIA to invent crack.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

A man who launched a pro-"Hillary Democrats" social platform called Verrit

Savage, ENB.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""social platform called Verrit"'

Curious, does verrit mean unrelenting washed up old hag in some language?

[Jerryskids]

"Verrit" is the sound you make when you get stepped on by a frog.

[Mock-star]

From the Latin Verros: To hide, conceal, or clean...like with a cloth.

Im not making that up.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer said the company "will pay for legal counsel for Dreamer employees in any deportation case and file a brief in the company's name."

Naturally, many libertarians will now complain about a private company defending its employees from government policies that would harm the company's competitiveness.

[Rhywun]

I'm curious how they managed to get jobs at Microsoft. I have to prove I'm in the US legally to get a job.

[Rhywun]

Or I guess they were hired after Obama made them legal...

[BYODB]

See, Rhywun asks the correct question here.

Another good question is do any illegal aliens actually work at Microsoft at all? If the answer is 'no' do they still get mad social props for being 'woke'?

I refuse to call them 'dreamers' since it's a soft 'feel good' label, thus I am forced to use the phrase illegal alien to counter act the inherent lie that is the label.

[paranoid android]

Clearly, they hate America. If they really wanted to be civil rights heroes they'd refuse to serve gay people, like real patriots.

[Jerryskids]

A Cuban man in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody died after being found unconscious in his hospital-room shower.

As God is my witness, I thought Cubans could swim.

[Rhywun]

I wonder if we have any Turks in custody.

[BYODB]

Oh my gosh! A poor immigrant died in one of our American Immigration Gulags! THE INHUMANITY!

Osvadis Montesino-Cabrera, 37, was admitted to Larkin Community Hospital Aug. 22 after ICE Health Service Corps medical personnel at the Krome Detention Center diagnosed him with urinary retention and transferred him to the hospital where Larkin medical staff admitted him for further evaluation and treatment.

Oh...so he had the benefit of Cuba's nationalized healthcare system but died here in the United States in one of our hospitals on the government dime. Clearly, it's because he was used to a far higher quality of care in his home nation.

Now, how many of you open borders types would be ok with it if ICE had dumped the guy on a street corner, free as bird, to die like a dog? You heartless monsters!

/sarc