Month: December 2017

sallyyates:

sallyyates:

The chronological order of people Trump has fired/people who have resigned since January 20, 2017 [Posted August 27, 2017] [Edited September 30, 2017] [Edited November 17, 2017] [Edited December 13, 2017]:

Obama administration hold-overs:

  • Sally Yates (Attorney General) || Fired January 30, 2017 || 10 days served
  • Preet Bharara (NY Attorney) || Fired March 11, 2017 || 51 days served
  • Angela Reid (WH Chief Usher) || Resigned/Fired (?) May 5, 2017 || 105 days served
  • James Comey (FBI Director) || Fired May 9, 2017 || 110 days served
  • Walter Shaub (Office of Governmen Ethics Director) || Resigned July 6, 2017 || 180 days served
  • Richard Cordray (Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) || Resigned November 15, 2017 || 310 days served

Trump administration:

  • Mike Flynn (National Security Adviser) || 

    Resigned February 13, 2017 || 23 days served

  • Katie Walsh (Deputy WH Chief of Staff) || Fired March 31, 2017 || 69 days served
  • Michael Dubke (Communications Director) || Resigned May 30, 2017 || 86 days served
  • Sean Spicer (Press Secretary) || Resigned July 21, 2017 || 182 days served
  • Michael Short (Press Aide) || Resigned/Fired (?) July 25, 2017 || 186 days served
  • Reince Priebus (Chief of Staff) ||

    Resigned July 27, 2017 || 189 days served

  • Derek Harvey (Top Middle East Adviser for National Security) || Fired July 27, 2017 || 189 days served
  • Anthony Scaramucci (Communications Director) ||

    Fired July 31, 2017 || 11 days served

  • Steve Bannon (WH Chief Strategist) || Resigned August 18, 2017 || 210 days served
  • Sebastian Gorka (Deputy Assistant) || Fired August 25, 2017 || 217 days served
  • Tom Price (Health and Human Services) || Resigned September 29, 2017 || 233 days served
  • Omarosa Manigault (Director of the Office of Public Liaison) || Fired December 13, 2017 || 328 days served

Sources:

lizardtitties:

humansofnewyork:

“My first thought was ‘Oh no.’ I wasn’t ready for a kid. Her mother and I were fuck-ups and addicts. I’d just finished seven years in jail for robbery. But everything changed on Valentines Day, 1992. That’s when I found out the baby was going to be a girl. Right away I started buying all this girly stuff. I was excited. I became more civil. I was going to raise my daughter to be kind and respectful to everyone. So I became that person. And she became that person too. Every day I picked her up from school after work. We went to theaters, and museums, and Disney World three different times. Every year on my birthday we dressed up and got tea at the Four Seasons. She ended up being the valedictorian of her class. She went to Duke on a full scholarship. Now she’s in law school at NYU. I look at her and I think that she must have done all this by herself. Because I’m kinda ‘street.’ I grew up in the projects. And she’s gone so much farther than I ever could. So I always thought I had nothing to do with it. But I have friends who tell me that I made a big difference. And I did always teach her to work hard and do her best. And she told me recently, that when she had to write an essay for her SAT, she called it: ‘My Father, My Hero.’”

I don’t normally reblog these things but this got me hard in the feels

Source: humansofnewyork

Wishing that Pedestrians  Were as Valued as Drivers

andreashettle:

I wish that weather alerts would describe not only potentially dangerous driving conditions but also potentially dangerous walking conditions. Because, if you use walking in combination with public transit as your primary form of transportation, then walking conditions may matter more to you than driving conditions. And because clearing roads during/after a snow storm or ice storm usually is given higher precedence over clearing sidewalks and curb cuts, sidewalks can often remain dangerous to walk on even after the adjacent street has been completely cleared and safe to drive on. So, no, you can’t always extrapolate how safe it is to walk on sidewalks from reports on how safe it is to drive there. 

“Walking” conditions also matter a great deal for wheelchair users who may be effectively trapped in their own home until sidewalks are clear enough to drive a wheelchair over. And even if the sidewalks are cleared, they still need to wait until curb cuts are clear enough that they can actually get off or on the sidewalk rather than doing all their traveling in the road with the traffic. Even when someone has thought to clear the curb cut (which doesn’t always happen!), their work is often undone by a snow plow shoving snow from the street into the curb cut.

I realize it would be a lot harder to assess walking conditions because responsibility for sidewalks is spread out across many more people (with each store or private home responsible for its own adjacent strip of sidewalk), so a sidewalk that is mostly clear may still have ice in front of that one store where no one has come in to work in the past few days. But I do still wish there was at least an effort to help pedestrians make an informed decision on whether it’s safe to venture outdoors, like they do for drivers.

They kept doing some kind of work with hammers and a power saw upstairs while I was trying to sleep. So now it’s apparently time for the Friday night music to start up early 😩

Celebrating getting whatever that was finished? We can only hope it’s not just a break.