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Federal Prison Inmates Told Us Why Mueller Totally Blew It From my time inside America’s vast penal system, I know a certain fraction of inmates follow politics closely, while most simply don’t care unless the issue or personality in question might affect their own sentence in some way. But among the news junkies in the federal Bureau of Prisons, Robert Mueller’s finding last month that there was no prosecutable evidence of a conspiracy between Donald Trump and those close to him and the Russians who interfered in the 2016 election landed hard. Not only did it quickly serve to reinforce the longstanding perception among prisoners—mirroring views held by some in the general public—that the game was rigged against those of lesser means, it shattered inmates’ hopes that a clownish villain who preyed on America’s fears of crime might finally get his. “Once again, we see that the rich and well-connected don’t have to worry about their criminal actions,” Augie Abascal, who got ten years in the feds for trafficking meth, told VICE. “Once again, we see how privileged white people protect their own.“ In his suggestion that Mueller—a consummate DC legal insider—let excessive prosecutorial caution stand in the way of obvious facts, Abascal wasn’t alone. Still, even cynics who have seen the system from the other side of a cell couldn’t help getting excited about the idea of a president possibly being indicted. "Ever since Trump became president, I watch people on CNN, ABC, and CBS tell me that this time they really got Trump by the balls, that this time he’ll finally be exposed for being the illegitimate president that he really is, but I never thought it would happen until Mueller was finished,” an inmate called "Mac 10,” an Ohio man doing time in Indiana for illegally possessing firearms and who like some others quoted in this piece requested anonymity for fear of reprisal from the feds, told VICE. “With all of those lies Trump and his people told, they couldn’t come up with any evidence of even a single [collusion-related] crime? Get the fuck out of here. If there’s still someone out there who don’t think that our so-called justice system is a shame, then you high as fuck.” As a former federal prisoner, I know that when the government really wants to, it can indict just about anyone. My friends and I learned that prosecutors sometimes didn’t even need dope to find people guilty of drug conspiracies—they just needed testimony to corroborate and support their indictments. That made this an even more bitter pill to swallow for some inmates. “Should we now believe that no collusion ever existed?” a Missouri man called "Louy” doing life on a meth conspiracy wondered. “I don’t think so. I think Republican Robert Mueller needs to answer questions about this in front of one of the House committees.” (Democrats seem to agree, by the way, moving toward subpoenaing the full report and previously suggesting Mueller might personally be called to testify.) Leaving aside the president’s own culpability or lack thereof, “Frank,” an inmate doing life for cocaine and racketeering conspiracy convictions, argued Trump’s family was getting a pass, too. “The problem is that no one really knows what’s in the Mueller Report,” he said, alluding to the public only having seen a brief summary of a nearly 400-page document. “Right now we have no way of knowing how far Don[ald Trump] Jr. and Jared Kushner’s involvement went in this.“ With previous reports suggesting Trump Jr. repeatedly lied about his infamous Trump Tower meeting and that Kushner misled security officials about his meetings with Russians, Frank found it hard to accept the duo getting off the hook. “There’s no way those two didn’t commit some kind of crime,” he said. “I’m not even talking [about something] related to Russian collusion. Like Manafort, Cohen and Flynn, Mueller and his team could have got Trump’s real inner-circle for something. Why did he choose not to?” While Mueller and Attorney General William Barr would surely argue they simply followed where the evidence led, it does seem as if the special counsel may have respected the president’s “red line” warning against aggressive digging into his personal finances and business dealings. Of course, that wasn’t enough discretion to satisfy those denizens of the prison-industrial complex who actually supported the president. “I think Special Counsel Mueller and his entire team was one of the greatest waste of taxpayer dollars perpetrated entirely by the Democrats. who have betrayed the entire nation and public trust,“ Bryan Chappell, an Arkansas man doing 20 years for possession of counterfeit cash and other crimes, told VICE. “It was a shameful witch hunt that produced nothing.” (In fact, Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, another Republican.) But criminal justice advocates and experts said inmates dubious the system was ever capable of going after a rich and powerful person were onto something. “It may well be that prosecutors shy away from charging the president and his family with such crimes, even if ample evidence exists, simply because of their inherent bias in favor of the wealthy,” Paul Wright, an ex-con and director of the Human Rights Defense Center, an inmate advocacy group, told VICE. “We see this in the steep decline in financial fraud prosecutions over the past 20 years. Part of the problem is “collusion" doesn’t really have a legal definition, nor is it illegal. It appears likely that if anything is going to lead to charges against the president and his children it will be mundane money laundering and bank fraud charges, which would not seem to be a surprise to anyone.” As Wright suggested, Trump and his family are not out of hot water yet. Investigations are ongoing in the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, and state-level prosecution remains possible. “We really do not know the contents of the Muller report. Barr only gave the American public an interpretation of what is in that report,“ noted Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist at the University of Baltimore. But "Denny,” a California man doing life for drugs and guns, argued some cases simply aren’t more complicated than they look, suggesting lower-level criminals who changed their stories this many times would be lucky to escape jail-time. “Hell, everyone in the Trump orbit didn’t lie about Russians contacts and business dealing just for shits and giggles,“ he said. “I don’t give a damn what Mueller didn’t find—it don’t take almost two years to figure out that Trump ain’t nothing but a crime boss.” Robert Rosso contributed reporting to this story. 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April 03, 2019
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19 British Menswear Heroes That Defined The Way We Dress We hate to toot our own horn, especially when this island nation isn’t in the most secure predicament at the moment, but when it comes to fashion, Britain punches far above its relatively small population. Edward VII and Hardy Amies, Vivienne Westwood and Paul Smith, David Gandy and David Beckham: there are pioneers and icons of menswear here to spare, but rather than give you an endless list of names, let’s take a whistle-stop tour of the trophy cabinet. From products first conceived and perfected on these shores, we move to the trends and movements that have helped define some of menswear’s most enduring looks before settling on the geographical places that any savvy consumer should go to restock their wardrobes. These are the heroes of British menswear, the pieces that have helped define not just fashion in this fair isle but the world over. Great British Style Inventions Harrington Jacket The Harrington Jacket is a tale of two British menswear brands, Baracuta and Grenfell. It’s debated as to which one originally came up with the design, Baracuta having designed its G9 model, the OG Harrington, in 1939, while Grenfell supposedly came up with a rather similar lightweight golfing jacket earlier in the decade. Whichever one it was, this is a worthy victory for Britain, the waist length jacket having successfully stayed in the wardrobes of men the world over thanks to a flattering cut, simple block colouring that makes it easy to style (although a white tee and jeans a la James Dean is still the best) and an ingenious back yoke that allows water to run down the jacket leaving the wearer dry underneath. Baracuta Running Shoes While Adi Dassler, yeah the one who gave the first portion of his name to the monolithic German sportswear brand, can lay claim to having invented the modern interpretation of the running shoe, it was the Brits who came up with the primitive version. The inventor of these was Joseph William Foster, co-founder of the Boulton Company, later Reebok, who would later in an incestuous turn of events be owned by Adidas, who first had the bright idea of putting spikes on rubber plimsolls to help improve grip for early casual runners. Adi might have modernised it, but we won the race. Norman Walsh Dinner Jacket Nobody does it better than James Bond, of course, but somebody did do it before him – the future king of England. Back in the 1860s, when Edward VII was still the Prince of Wales, he asked his friend and tailor Henry Poole to design him a jacket to wear at dinner without the usual tails. The design went on to become the focal point for the entire black tie dress code (although the original was midnight blue). Known more commonly as a tuxedo in the US, designers are experimenting with the form today, but it barely changed in its first 150 years. Distinguished by satin or grosgrain lapels, worn with a bow tie and side-stripe trousers, it’s is the last word in dressing up. Henry Poole Desert Boots This casual ankle boot actually has its origins overseas, where British Army units were said to wear they style. Brought back to the UK and popularised by Nathan Clark, the great grandson of James Clark (the founder of the high street shoe company), the style has been a wearable classic for more than half a century. One a crepe sole in a soft caramel-coloured suede, we challenge you to find a boot that is simultaneously more versatile or more comfortable. Clarks Polo Neck The polo neck, sometimes called the turtleneck but really they’re the complete same thing, is so called because of the British polo players who started sporting them in the mid 19th century. Salty sea dogs and fishy fisherman also began to take on the style for its ability to keep the wearer warm in the most trying of conditions before British playwright Noel Coward brought the turtleneck to the consciousness of high society, the famous cad able to slip one on for comfort without losing any of his well-dressed style. Which is exactly why it’s remained so popular to this day, an easy to emulate style that works for all rungs of the societal ladder from the Hollywood A-listers to mere mortals. John Smedley Wax Jacket Lousy British weather has a lot to answer for, but not all of it’s bad. It forced textile designers to come up with ingenious ways to keep people from this country warm and dry and the wax jacket is a good example. Okay, so sailors have been waxing their outerwear since the times of ancient Egypt, but nobody made them look as good as British heritage brands like Barbour and Belstaff. Their signature designs, made for motorcycling and outdoor pursuits have lasted decades and today look just as good in the city as they do in the wilds of Britain. Barbour Brogues Brogues may be at home on pretty much anyone’s feet these days, but in their formative years on the soles of Scotsmen and Irishmen, they were fence sitting shoes. Being neither smart nor casual they were stuck in footwear limbo and best suited for the great outdoors. A practical hiking boot of yore, if you will, the telltale perforations as much about getting water out as looking good. Today brogues have come in from the cold and are most often worn in formal settings, though they have that magic ability to dress up more casual leaning outfits without looking completely ridiculous. The magic must be in those perforations which add enough interest to have them welcomed into your off-duty wardrobe, but not enough to scare away your work tailoring. We love a good all-rounder. Crockett & Jones Rugby Shirt The first rugby shirt was originally a collared dress shirt worn with a bow tie by its posh schoolboy players. The shirt gradually developed to meet the demands of the sport with the buttons taken off the front so they didn’t scratch the face of tacklers and a thick cotton jersey construction that suited the winter weather the sport was played in. That toned-down poshness meant the jersey perfectly encapsulated smart-casual style off the field of play, with preppy American students in the 1950s hijacking the top and making it a mainstay of the collegiate look, where it has stayed ever since. More recently, it’s been adopted the streetwear and skatewear camps, too. Gieves & Hawkes Three-Piece Suit For today’s comfort over conformity generation, it’s easy to forget that the three-piece suit is one of the most revolutionary and resilient menswear heroes of all time. Before the suit, well-dressed men were all silk stockings, tailcoats and knee breeches, which presumably made getting ready in the morning a bloody hassle. You’ve got Beau Brummell to thank for the easy convenience of the suit as we know it today. Rejecting the fussy styles of the early 1800s, Brummell helped to popularise trousers that reached the ankles and a simple jacket and waistcoat to sit alongside it. Now, the three-piece suit may be only drawn upon for the most formal occasions or for those who are never knowingly underdressed. Either way, without it, you’d probably still be wearing stockings. Charles Tyrwhitt Cardigan The cardigan has gone up and down in the estimations of menswear enthusiasts. To some, it’s best left to your grandad, to others it’s one of the most versatile, smart-casual pieces in menswear, rocked by style icons as diverse as Kurt Cobain and Steve McQueen. The first cardigans were worn as wool waistcoats by British soldiers during the Crimean War, and it was the war’s hero the Earl of Cardigan who popularised the look and gave this menswear hero its name. We still enjoy this way of wearing them, as a less natty alternative to the waistcoat, but it was the way that Cobain and co wore them, chunky and oversized, that really brought the piece out of its mid-century retirement. Burton Chelsea Boots While the Chelsea boot is more closely associated with menswear these days, it was our dear Queen Victoria, who popularised the style, her personal cobbler J. Sparkes-Hall having designed the style as a more comfortable alternative to riding boots. The name didn’t come till a century later though when the ‘Chelsea set’ a group of high-falutin’ artists and socialites saw the boots as the perfect complement to their natty, off-kilter tailoring. They’ve since become the most reached-for shoe in the menswear wardrobe, the sleek shape following the silhouette of a contemporary slim pair of trousers or jeans perfectly for a marriage made in menswear heaven. Dr. Martens Game-Changing Trends & Movements Punk Not a single menswear tribe is as indelibly linked to a musical subculture as closely as punk. Ripped jeans, leather jackets, and slogan tees were all major orchestrators in the musically driven movement that swept through the 1970s led by British band The Sex Pistols and more importantly their manager Malcolm McClaren and his for-a-time partner, the designer Vivienne Westwood. McClaren’s inspiration for the look actually came from the American singer Richard Hell (shhhh), but the impresario had the know-how to run back to Kings Road, London with the style under his arms and claim it for us Brits. The look is less in-your-face then back in the 70s but its counter-culture beginnings have meant its retained its place as a gritty alternative to the more uptight parts of British style. AllSaints All Black Everything As is the case with much of British sartorial history, the Royals came up with this one first. It was Queen Vic again who, upon the death of her husband Prince Albert, decreed that she would wear black everything, every day for the rest of her life. Less a style statement, more a touching tribute, this period ending up stretching to 40 years, proof that if we were ever forced to wear a colour for the rest of our life, black would be the safest and most stylish, although we’d personally go for the simple tee rather than a bonnet. Reiss Football Casuals In the late ’70s and 80s, British football fans turned to sportswear for fashion at around the same time hip-hop culture was doing the same in the US. The British version was an eclectic mix of heritage brands (Fred Perry) and Italian imports (Sergio Tacchini, Stone Island). Terrace fashion had a lasting impact on menswear, not least in casuals’ devotion to Adidas trainers – sneakerheads 30 years before anyone came up with that term – and the fact that sportswear could be luxury. Fred Perry Turned Up Trousers It’s one of the oldest tricks in the menswear book, and one first created for wholly practical reasons as the ever-stylish King Edward VII first came up with the genius idea of turning up the hems of his trousers in bad weather so that they wouldn’t get muddy. As well as dirt prevention, a turn-up will also prevent unsightly bunches from collecting around your ankles, will create a much-needed visual break on gangly limbs and will, of course, show off any dandy footwear you’re wearing. And it’s all thanks to King Eddie. King & Tuckfield Sartorialism Twelve years ago the way men dressed practically changed overnight, when Mad Men aired for the first time. With it, great swathes of the male population had their eyes opened to tailoring as a style choice, not something imposed by office dress rules. Pocket square sales went through the roof, and slim ties became the new norm for office workers everywhere. Now, Don Draper was American, but the style it inspired was a particularly British take on tailoring, with precise lines and unwavering formality the standout characteristics. Around the same time Instagram came along, prompting wannabe David Gandys to share their buttoned up OOTDs, complete with tie bars and the appropriate hashtags. Since then, tailoring has entered a new, more casual phase – relaxed suits with T-shirts and trainers are here to stay. But it’ll always be rooted in the old school and we wouldn’t be surprised if the tie makes a comeback any day now. Gieves & Hawkes Menswear Hubs Northampton Shoes On first sight, there’s not much to the Midlands town of Northampton. There is a lovely church and a good rugby club side, but so far, so non-descript. That’s until you find out that this market town and the surrounding region is actually the shoemaking capital of the world with some of the world’s most iconic and high-quality shoe brands – Dr. Martens, Grenson, Cheaney, Crockett & Jones, John Lobb – having their origins there. There’s something in the water, quite literally, with the town’s proximity to 11 rivers encouraging the industry to flock to the town as well as the abundance of oak bark for tanning the shoe leather in the forests of Northamptonshire. Expect three things from a Northampton shoe – high-end luxury, hand made quality and classic silhouettes – three features that have made the town an enduring part of the footwear and fashion industry as a whole. Grenson Savile Row Tailoring There’s only one road that’s synonymous with tailoring in the world: Savile Row. From Gieves & Hawkes to Huntsman, numerous prestigious houses call this corner of London’s Mayfair home and have done since the 19th century. The Row even has a style of its own that has become shorthand proper formal suiting: straight lines, stiff canvas, padded shoulders. It’s loosening up these days but whatever your taste, if you’re looking for bespoke tailoring or a made-to-measure suit, there’s nowhere better. Huntsman Scottish Knitwear Smoked salmon, whisky, five-star hotels – the Scottish really know how to perfect the finer things in life, although we’d give the deep fried Mars bars a miss. Knitwear is intertwined with the culture of the country, and more specifically the finest of all knits, cashmere, the epicentre of the industry being Hawick, 50 miles south of Edinburgh. Knitwear brands Pringle and Lyle & Scott are the two most famous sons of the town, the former having popularised the Argyle, a diamond patterned jumper named and based on the tartan of Clan Campbell from the Scottish town of the same name. French luxury brand Chanel also own a knitwear mill in the area, but why the area ever become a hub is confusing. Cashmere goats that provide the fabric are native to most of Asia, some few thousand miles away. Rather it’s the first knitting machines that were brought to Scotland in the mid-18th century and the way the locals perfected the use of them that explains the nations standing as true experts in this king of all clothing materials. Pringle Jermyn Street Shirts Some tailors do make their own shirts, but most rely on dedicated shirtmakers to draw them up. And most of the best in the UK are located on one road – Jermyn Street. Here you’ll find Turnbull & Asser, Emma Willis and Emmett shirts, among others, and T.M. Lewin even started out there. There’s nowhere better for dress shirts or casual linen options especially. Emma Willis via FashionBeans Full RSS Feed http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 3, 2019 at 03:33AM DMT.NEWS, @, @dmtbarbershop April 3, 2019 at 04:56AM

April 03, 2019
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Trump Vows to Close Border, Even if It Hurts the Economy WASHINGTON — President Trump acknowledged Tuesday that closing the southern border with Mexico could damage the United States economy, but said protecting America’s security was more important than trade. In remarks from the Oval Office, Mr. Trump reiterated his threat to shut the border if Mexico, America’s third largest trading partner, cannot restrict a flow of asylum seekers trying to cross into the United States. But the president’s economic team, concerned about the damage from such a move, said it was looking for ways to limit the fallout if Mr. Trump does do so. “Sure, it’s going to have a negative impact on the economy,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “but security is most important.” “Security is more important to me than trade,” he said. Republican lawmakers, economists and business groups largely disagree with that assessment and warned this week that closing the border could cripple the flow of goods and workers and devastate American automakers and farmers, as well as other industries that depend on Mexico for sales and goods. “Closing down the border would have a potentially catastrophic economic impact on our country,” Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, said in an interview. “I would hope that we would not be doing that sort of thing.” Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, said that “a full shutdown of the U.S.-Mexican border of more than several weeks would be the fodder for recessions in both Mexico and the U.S.” Mr. Trump’s economic advisers have briefed him on the potential financial damage from a border shutdown and started looking for ways to mitigate it, including possibly keeping certain trading avenues open. Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said Tuesday in a brief interview that the Trump administration was trying to secure the border without harming the economy. “The question is,” he said, “can we deal with that and not have any economic damage? I think the answer is we can. People are looking at different options.” Mr. Kudlow added that the administration was “looking for ways to allow the freight passage — some people call it truck roads.” “There are ways you can do that, which would ameliorate the breakdown in supply chains,” he said. But business leaders say there is no way to contain the damage from even a partial shutdown of the 2,000-mile border that the United States shares with Mexico. Nearly $1.7 billion of goods and services flow across the border daily, as well as nearly a half-million legal workers, students, shoppers and tourists, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Monday. On Tuesday, officials with the chamber called a partial border shutdown “uncharted territory” and said such a policy would have negative economic consequences, particularly for communities along the border. “We don’t know whether that is feasible or not,” said Neil Bradley, the chamber’s executive vice president and chief policy officer. Even if it is possible, a partial shutdown would still cause significant disruptions for industries that are highly integrated across the border, including automobiles, machinery and electronic equipment. “The North American auto industry will be crippled” in a week, Kristin Dziczek, a vice president for the Center for Automotive Research, an industry research group, said in a tweet. Mr. Trump’s pledge to close the border comes in response to what officials with the Department of Homeland Security say is an increase in migrant families who are flooding America’s immigration system, leading to overflowing detention centers and mass releases of migrants. The president told reporters that if Mexico cannot restrict the flow of asylum seekers trying to cross into the United States, and if Congress cannot agree to several immigration restrictions that Mr. Trump has long pushed for, “the border is going to be closed.” While 76,000 migrants crossed the border in February, that number is nowhere near the migration levels seen in the early 2000s. And a majority of the migrants crossing the border now are Central American families looking for asylum, as opposed to Mexican individuals looking for work. Homeland security officials could quickly deport Mexican individuals seeking employment, but, by law, they cannot swiftly deport Central American families or unaccompanied children. Homeland security officials have said they expect the number of crossings to surpass 100,000 this month. And a senior department official said those traveling in and out of ports of entry were already feeling an effect: There was a three-hour wait at the port of entry in Brownsville, Tex., according to the official, and there were around 150 trucks backed up and waiting to cross at Otay Mesa, in California. On Monday, Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, she would divert up to 750 border patrol officials from ports of entry to areas in between the ports to handle large groups of migrants crossing the border. A senior homeland security official also said the administration could start closing traffic lanes at the ports. “The crisis at our border is worsening,” Ms. Nielsen said, “and D.H.S. will do everything in its power to end it.” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and one of Mr. Trump’s external advisers, has been urging the president to ease off the threat. On Tuesday, Mr. Graham portrayed Mr. Trump’s latest broadside as less an eventuality and more a calculated bargaining position. “You are taking a bad problem and, by closing the ports of entry, you are creating another problem,” he said during an interview. “To the extent that he wants to redeploy resources to the points of entry to deal with the ungoverned spaces — that will create economic upheaval, but that will hopefully lead to a solution.” Border activity makes up a relatively larger share of Mexico’s economy than the United States’, meaning Mexico would most likely have more economic damage from a border closing, Mr. Zandi said. But that does not mean the United States would be in a winning position. Communities across the country would probably see supply chain disruptions, product shortages, seizures in stock and bond markets and a plunge in already-fragile business confidence, Mr. Zandi said. The disruption would be especially sharp in the border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, which all have Mexico as their No. 1 export market. Any closure could have far-ranging implications for a wide range of industries — including automotive, electronics and apparel — that source small components and deliver their products on a just-in-time basis on both sides of the border. It could also be devastating for the agriculture industry. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement began in 1994, American farmers have moved toward specializing in corn, soybeans, chicken, dairy, pork and beef to supply to Mexico, while Mexican farmers have specialized in fresh fruits and vegetables to send to the United States. Any delays in deliveries of these products could lead to near immediate price hikes and empty supermarket shelves, which would hit low-income Mexicans and Americans the hardest. Christin Fernandez, the vice president for communications at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, said that slowing or halting screenings at major ports near the border would lead to product delays and potentially higher shipping costs. “The entire retail ecosystem is sustained on the expectation that America’s retailers can provide consumers with the goods they want and need, when they need it, at the best possible prices,” Ms. Fernandez said. “If our suppliers are feeling the pain, retailers will feel the pain, and, ultimately, it is consumers that will bear the burden.” Stock markets do not appear to be pricing in any risk of a border closure. The S&P 500 was essentially unchanged on Tuesday, and it remains near a six-month high. 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April 02, 2019
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AAF Suspends All Football Operations: Report The Alliance of American Football, aka the AAF, has been on the verge of folding for the last few weeks and it now appears the league’s demise is imminent. Just eight weeks after the inaugural season kicked off, the AAF has reportedly decided to suspend all football operations today. Action Network's Darren Rovell reports that Tom Dundon, owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, bought a majority stake in mid-February, just after the AAF’s inaugural season kicked off. AAF co-founders Charlie Ebersol and Bill Polian originally planned to develop the league for three years, with the ultimate goal of becoming a “minor league” of sorts for the NFL, but Dundon didn’t want to wait that long and he has apparently opted to stop funding the league. According to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, “The move comes in the aftermath of ominous comments from Tom Dundon, who became majority owner of the AAF several weeks ago. Dundon committed $250 million in funding to the league, but he had the ability to pull funding, and he obviously has.” “Last night, a source told PFT that the AAF needed roughly $20 million to get to the end of its first season. Instead, the season will end with two weeks left in the regular season, and with a four-team postseason that never comes to fruition.” via HotNewHipHop.com http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 2, 2019 at 01:26PM DMT.NEWS, @Kyle Rooney, @dmtbarbershop April 2, 2019 at 11:46PM

April 02, 2019
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Lori Lightfoot Is Elected Chicago Mayor, Becoming First Black Woman to Lead City CHICAGO — Chicago became the largest American city ever to elect a black woman as its mayor as voters on Tuesday chose Lori Lightfoot, a former prosecutor, to replace Rahm Emanuel. When she takes office in May, Ms. Lightfoot also will be the city’s first openly gay mayor. Ms. Lightfoot, who has never held elective office, easily won the race, overwhelming a better-known, longtime politician and turning her outsider status into an asset in a city with a history of corruption and insider dealings. Ms. Lightfoot, 56, beat Toni Preckwinkle, a former alderman who is president of the Cook County Board and who had for years been viewed as a highly formidable candidate for mayor. For Chicago, Ms. Lightfoot’s win signaled a notable shift in the mood of voters and a rejection of an entrenched political culture that has more often rewarded insiders and dismissed unknowns. For many voters, the notion that someone with no political ties might become mayor of Chicago seemed an eye-opening counterpoint to a decades-old, often-repeated mantra about this city’s political order: “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” For some of Ms. Lightfoot’s supporters, the significance of her victory was monumental, going beyond a single candidate or city. “Look, nothing personal, but it’s not the good old boys club anymore,” said Kimberly Smith, 40, who was born and raised on the South Side and said she thought the election marked a turning point in Chicago politics. “I feel empowered.” National advocates for gay rights celebrated Ms. Lightfoot’s win. “Now young queer women and women of color can see themselves reflected in a position of major political leadership,” said Stephanie Sandberg, executive director of LPAC, an organization that works to build the political power of L.G.B.T.Q. women. Image Abraham Lacy and his son Isaac took a selfie with Chicago mayoral candidate Toni Preckwinkle on Tuesday.CreditJoshua Lott/Reuters Ms. Lightfoot’s rise was unexpected only weeks ago, when 13 other candidates were vying to run the nation’s third-largest city, many of them far better known — with decades of experience in Chicago politics and with dynastic names like Daley. Ms. Lightfoot is a lawyer who has served in appointed positions, including as head of the Chicago Police Board and as a leader of a task force that issued a scathing report on relations between the Chicago police and black residents, but she was not widely known around the city until recent months. Ms. Lightfoot — Chicago’s 56th mayor — arrives at a pivotal moment for a Democratic city that has for the past eight years been led by Mr. Emanuel, who surprised many residents when he chose not to seek re-election. Chicago, a city of 2.7 million residents, is wrestling with dueling realities: Tech jobs and convention business have poured into its shimmering downtown while public schools have been shuttered on the South and West Sides, and thousands of black residents have moved away. Mr. Emanuel’s administration made strides to shore up the city’s fiscal woes but residents have complained about mounting taxes and fees. Chicago’s new mayor still must come up with an additional $1 billion in the next four years to continue pulling the city out of a pension crisis. And the city says its crime problems have been improving over the past two years, recording about half as many murders this year as it did during the same period in 2016. Still, gun and gang violence are pervasive and the city had more than 550 homicides in 2018, more than in the nation’s two larger cities, New York and Los Angeles. Race has often played an outsize role in politics in Chicago, which is essentially evenly split between white, black and Latino residents. On Tuesday, though, the contest between two African-American women scrambled the usual political calculus, or what one Chicagoan, Ra Joy, described as its habit of “tribal voting,” in which politicians count on support from voters of their own race. In February, during the most crowded mayoral primary in city history, Ms. Lightfoot and Ms. Preckwinkle topped a far larger array of candidates of various ethnicities, races and genders, removing all the others from Tuesday’s runoff. That left political alignments few Chicagoans had seen before: Ms. Lightfoot pursuing white voters on the city’s Northwest and Southwest Sides; both women seeking black voters from a base on the South Side that had leaned toward a different black candidate in February; parts of Chicago’s North Side lakefront loaded with signs for Ms. Lightfoot. Image Lori Lightfoot greeted commuters in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago on Tuesday.CreditScott Olson/Getty Images Some residents said the history-making nature of the election was energizing while others seemed nonchalant, perhaps partly because Chicago has seen similar milestones. In 1983, the city picked its first black mayor, Harold Washington, in a racially charged election; a term before that, in 1979, the city chose its first female mayor, Jane Byrne. “It’s not as shocking as it was back then, so that’s wonderful progress,” Kathy Byrne, the daughter of Jane Byrne, who died in 2014, said of the historic nature of this year’s election. “Why it’s taken so long? I don’t know.” In many ways, the election transformed into a referendum on Chicago’s political culture, known for its miserable ranking on most measures of corruption, its political machine and its habit of keeping family dynasties in power. Ms. Lightfoot, who was partner at a prominent law firm, Mayer Brown, portrayed her newcomer status as a sign of strength, pledging to dismantle City Hall’s old political ways and to “bring in the light.” Still, her claim of being an outsider was questioned by some younger activists in the city, who pointed to her jobs in the Richard M. Daley administration and as a police oversight official during Mr. Emanuel’s tenure, not to mention her role as a prosecutor. Ms. Preckwinkle, the longtime Cook County board president, had tried to cast her experience as essential for managing a city the size of Chicago, while simultaneously reminding voters that she had — when she was first elected as an alderman years ago — regularly bucked the political establishment. But as the election season played out, impatience over political corruption seemed to intensify among voters, in part because a major corruption scandal was unfolding at City Hall. Federal authorities have accused the City Council’s longest-serving alderman, Ed Burke, of running an old-school shakedown, even as the local news media reported that a second alderman had cooperated with the authorities, secretly recording his conversations at City Hall for months. Image A voter at Carter Temple in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago.CreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times Of the city’s 50 aldermen, 15 seats were up for runoff elections on Tuesday. Mr. Burke, who has denied any wrongdoing, won re-election to another term in February, winning a margin large enough to avoid a runoff. Rarely does this city get new, unexpected mayors. So Chicagoans watched with curiosity and uncertainty about what a Lightfoot administration would truly look like. Ms. Lightfoot has portrayed herself as a progressive, who promised to usher in a new era of accountability and transparency at City Hall. At times, she seemed to be running against Chicago politics in the public imagination: A television ad used an image of a smoke-filled room and spoke darkly of the “Chicago machine.” Ms. Lightfoot has spoken frequently of equity and inclusion, of redistributing city funds to spread the prosperity of downtown and the North Side to neighborhoods that have been neglected. “It’s unacceptable, the condition of our communities on the South and West Sides,” she said during the campaign. “The only way we are going to carve a new path for the city, to take us in a direction that our communities don’t continue to be resource-starved, is to vote for change.” Ms. Lightfoot favors an elected school board, which would take power away from her own office. (Currently, the mayor appoints members of the school board.) She has vowed to significantly change the Chicago Police Department, increasing training and reducing officer misconduct. Image A pile of bracelets for voters.CreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times But her answers to the urgent question of how the city will pay its staggering bills have not been comprehensive. She has said that she will help the city meet its financial commitments by legalizing recreational marijuana and building a casino in Chicago. But she has not explained fully how she would solve the city’s imminent pension crisis. “Whoever is elected as mayor is going to face a very difficult financial situation,” said Laurence Msall, the president of the Civic Federation, a watchdog group. For Abraham Lacy, 33, a Chicagoan who voted for Ms. Lightfoot’s opponent on the South Side on Tuesday, the city’s urgent challenges of finances, schools and crime called for someone with deep experience. “It’s tough to have someone new come in when you have this many things going on,” Mr. Lacy said. In the end, though, many voters said they were driven more by their perceptions about politics than about policy. Ms. Lightfoot, her supporters said, offered the promise of a new order and a rejection of the politics of a generation ago. “It’s because of Chicago,” Deepti Pareenja, 37, said, after casting her ballot on the city’s Northwest Side for Ms. Lightfoot. “We have a history of corruption with people who’ve been ingrained in politics for multiple decades.” Chicagoans Reflect on What Having a Black Woman as Mayor Will Mean April 2, 2019 Chicago Is Picking a New Mayor. Either Outcome Will Make History. Feb. 27, 2019 A New Mayor is Coming to Chicago in History-Making Election April 1, 2019 via NYT > Home Page http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 2, 2019 at 09:09PM DMT.NEWS, @JULIE BOSMAN, MITCH SMITH and MONICA DAVEY, @dmtbarbershop April 2, 2019 at 11:46PM

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The Best-Dressed Football Managers There are basically a few different schools of thought for managers when it comes to dressing. Most elect for a simple shirt and trousers combination, usually topped with a suit jacket or an official club overcoat. Many look to forgo the formal clobber and go for something altogether more casual. They can often end up looking similar to some of their players which is perhaps why managers choose to go another way. But there are some out there who do things their own way. Managers are spotted in everything from scarves to jumpers and jeans – much to the distrust of the English media. It can go awry, of course, just ask Zinedine Zidane and his worryingly skinny turn-up jeans. Instead, let’s take a look at some of those football managers who haven’t just gone for a quick dash around the club shop prior to their 3:00 pm kickoff. Pep Guardiola Pep Guardiola is one of the greatest managers of all time and the current Manchester City boss has to be considered amongst the best-dressed managers in the game. The Spaniard takes as much care of his appearance as his team does of the football. When he first came onto the managerial scene at FC Barcelona, Guardiola barely strayed further than the simple suit jacket and trousers. He eventually threw an under-blazer jumper into the mix and seemed to have found his look. Things changed when he left the Spanish side for Germany and Bayern Munich. The official club training gear came out as Guardiola switched it up. Now, he’s gone full circle and the Spaniard seems to switch his dress sense up as much as he changes his attacking lineup. There are now jumpers, scarves, and coats aplenty and he even had the audacity to show up in a full-length cardigan back in December 2018. Diego Simeone Why wear any other colour when you can just wear black? Diego Simeone takes this to heart when he picks out his matchday attire. The Atletico Madrid boss was a no-nonsense player and that extends to his managerial dress sense. The Argentine is never not wearing a two-piece black suit complete with black shirt and tie. He wouldn’t have to do much work if he were to attend a post-match funeral either. Win-win. Joachim Loew The manager of the German national team is well-known for his dress sense. Joachim Loew has been in charge of his national side since way back in 2006 and always seems to have dressed the part. Whether he’s adding an oversized scarf to a simple two-piece suit or going casual with the sleeves rolled up on a formal shirt, Loew always makes an effort. Of course, some of his hard work was undone when he was shown making some rather unhygienic snack choices back in 2016 but Loew’s stock wasn’t harmed. This is partly because of the incredible success of the German national team. They won the World Cup in 2014 and are amongst the favourites to go all the way at Euro 2020 at 7/1 on Betway as of 29 March. Loew also gets bonus points for often making his assistants and coaches dress up in the same way as he does. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Quique Sanchez Flores The former Watford boss is a man who never seemed to wear the same clothes twice. Quique Sanchez Flores was always dressed up to the nines when he stood at the dugout at Vicarage Road, it’s just a shame that his side didn’t play accordingly. Flores would always switch it up whether that was with something as small as an oversized scarf or even swapping the two-piece suit for a jumper or long coat. Luis Enrique Talk about slightly tweaking a tested formula. Luis Enrique did just that when he took charge of an already-successful FC Barcelona side back in 2014. His small changes helped the Spanish side win an unprecedented treble and it seems as if that idea of tiny acorns can be applied to his dress sense just as much as his management style. Enrique is often seen sporting the classic two-piece suit but switches things up completely with a pair of trainers or basketball shoes. A lot of men dislike formal dress shoes and it is certainly understandable for a football manager considering they spend much of their playing days in thin trainers and boots. Luis Enrique certainly makes an effort. via Men Style Fashion http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 2, 2019 at 05:24PM DMT.NEWS, @Men Style Fashion, @dmtbarbershop April 2, 2019 at 09:03PM

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Action Bronson Gets Aggravated After Podcast Host Brings Up Ghostface Killah Action Bronson’s always been compared to Ghostface Killah throughout his career. They even worked together on “Meteor Hammer” with Termanology which was included on both Blue Chips 1 & 2 as well as Wu-Tang Clan's Legendary Weapons. However, the two had a falling out over the Internet which resulted in Papa Wu getting in Bronson’s face at Sean Price’s funeral. Clearly, the minor feud between the two still bothers Action since he got noticeably agitated when he was asked both the Wu-Tang rapper. Kevin Clancy of Barstool Sports shared a clip of an upcoming interview with Action Bronson. The short clip runs for a bit over a minute so it’s unsure whether the entire context is there. Action Bronson was asked which celebrity would make a good ambassador to aliens. Bronson said Prince but he was then asked if there was a particular rapper he thought would be a good ambassador. “There’s lots of respect but I don’t know to that extent,” Bronson replied before one of the hosts suggested Ghostface Killah. “Why would we want to send him there?” He asked before becoming noticeable irritated by the question. “That’s fuckin’ ridiculous. I bet you think that’s really cute, right, that you brought that up… That’s fuckin’ stupid, no. It’s dumb…. There’s no beef anywhere.” The host attempted to change the topic of conversation to wrestling to ease the tense situation, although it didn’t help in any way. “I’d like to throw you through a wall.” According to @Barstool_Quotes, Dave Portney commented on the incident, reportedly saying, “Action Bronson I think wanted to do a podcast with us, and he stormed out. He was supposed to meet with me and Erika after about doing something but he cancelled. Seemed pretty thin skinned.” Peep Kevin Clancy’s reaction below. via HotNewHipHop.com http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 2, 2019 at 08:26PM DMT.NEWS, @Aron A., @dmtbarbershop April 2, 2019 at 09:03PM

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NBA Style Has Literally Become the Wild West NBA players are almost nothing like the rest of us. They’re taller. They’re faster. They’re richer, and they’ll wear purple leather capri pants without thinking twice about it. This excess in height, wealth, and confidence can make copying their moves feel daunting—sometimes hilariously wrong, even in these radical times in menswear. DeAndre Jordan and Evan Turner, who both recently walked the tunnel in extremely high-end Southwestern robes from Greg Lauren, are a good example of this. As one of Turner’s Instagram followers put it, “You look like your [sic] wearing something my mom wore in the late 90’s”. Here’s what we hear: “I couldn’t pull this off.” Matteo Marchi/MSG Photos It’d be wrong to say that there’s a regular dude spin on every NBA trend (see: suits worn without shirts), but this is one play that’s repeatable even if you aren’t a pro. That’s because the only daring aspect of it is the outerwear itself—everything else is classic, pared down, and done in solid colors. Think about it: You probably own most of these items already. White shirt, slim pants, suede shoes. Check, check, check. Now all you have to do is adjust the volume on the jacket until it feels right. Instead of a robe, you could go for a cardigan. Instead of a patchwork kimono, find a jacket with some patches. You get where we’re going with this. This is an extremely wild time to be getting dressed and no one exemplifies that like the men of the NBA, but that doesn’t mean you need to go full fashion cowboy. Feel free to go at your own pace—and if you can keep up with DeAndre, great. Alanui x Greg Lauren denim and cashmere patch cardigan Buy Now Greg Lauren contrast knit kimono jacket Buy Now Kapital printed voile jacket Buy Now Pendleton Pagosa big horn jacket Buy Now Levi’s Daule fleece cardigan Buy Now Polo Ralph Lauren sherpa lined shirt jacket Buy Now via GQ http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 2, 2019 at 03:10PM DMT.NEWS, @Megan Gustashaw, @dmtbarbershop April 2, 2019 at 09:02PM

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Bald Eagles, Symbol of America, Are Dumping Trash on the Seattle Suburbs Perhaps Ben Franklin had a point. While other founders favored the bald eagle as a national symbol for its strength and majestic beauty, Franklin condemned the bird’s habit of scavenging and stealing food from other animals, calling it lazy and “often very lousy.” A generation ago, that was rarely a problem. Between hunting, habitat destruction and the pesticide DDT (which led to fragile eggshells that meant many offspring died in incubation), the bald eagle was in danger of extinction. Only about 500 nesting pairs were left in the contiguous United States in the 1960s. Thankfully, the species has mounted a comeback to 10,000 nesting pairs and is no longer classified as threatened, much less endangered — a striking success story of conservation and federal protection for the bird of prey that graces the nation’s Great Seal. That rebound, however, has not come without issue: It turns out bald eagles are a real pain in the neck around trash dumps. They can grip all manner of waste, some of it rather vile, and fly away with it from the landfill, only to let it slip over the surrounding neighborhoods. The problem has come to a head in the Seattle suburbs, as the King County Council’s struggles to figure out what to do with all its garbage, and with a landfill that was supposed to have been filled to capacity years ago, complicated by about 200 bald eagles regularly feasting off the dump’s mountains of food waste and other detritus. So, too, do many gulls and crows and other birds, of course. But the strength and power that make the bald eagle such a proud national symbol also make it a disgusting neighbor for the people who live around the dump. “Anybody that lives within close flying distance of the landfill knows that the eagles deposit this stuff everywhere,” one resident, David Vogel, said during a public meeting last month, according to The Seattle Times. As he spoke, Mr. Vogel held a Ziploc bag that contained a biohazard container filled with human blood that he found in his yard. “The eagle population has exploded in the last five years, and why? Because they have a free lunch at the dump,” he said. This week, the King County Council ordered up a study to see what can be done to prevent birds from dropping landfill garbage into nearby yards. “We’re not talking about calling in the guys from ‘Duck Dynasty,’” said Reagan Dunn, vice chairman of the King County Council. But he said the problem described by Mr. Vogel was no exaggeration and has become a source of real frustration for homeowners as the eagle population has risen. “We’re trying to reduce the aerial bombardment that is happening to our neighbors,” Mr. Dunn said, adding that the local population of ducks and ducklings — occasional prey for bald eagles — has been on the wane. Landfills pose hazards for bald eagles, too. While dumps tend to be favored by younger birds that aren’t yet skilled at hunting down healthier game, some bald eagles have died from eating contaminated waste, including secondary poisoning by barbiturates from scavenging corpses of dogs and cats euthanized by animal shelters. Nor are the problems isolated. In Alaska, a fishing port in the Aleutian Islands typically sees six to 10 people treated for head gashes and other injuries from bald eagle attacks every year. The town, Unalaska — sometimes called the nation’s “eagle attack capital” — is favored by the birds because of the mounds of tasty waste produced by fish processors. And in Anchorage, the state’s largest city, several hundred eagles — along with other birds — have posed more than just the normal problems at the municipal landfill, where they converge in the winter in hopes of feasting on fish guts. The wildlife is also a danger to planes using the runway at the nearby Air Force base. A large radar jet crashed there in 1995 after sucking geese into its engines, killing 24 crew members. So, “hazers” have been hired to keep the birds at bay, at least to the extent they can. Meaning, as the local newspaper observed, that people are “employed by the government to, in part, harass the national bird.” Which raises another problem: There really aren’t all that many options for remediation. Though the birds are no longer classified as endangered, you still, obviously, cannot hurt them. “It’s a dilemma that’s becoming more and more frequent as the population that was once driven down has come back,” said Kevin McGowan, an ornithologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “Bald eagles are back in a big way in places that hadn’t had them in a half-century.” Drones and scarecrows have been used to frighten the birds. But in Washington State, the eagles also attack the drones. Falconers might be helpful against gulls, but not bald eagles. Netting is used sometimes, but that’s better for small, discrete areas. “About the only thing you can do is harass them,” Dr. McGowan said. One favored technique: A souped-up bottle rocket that fires out of a pistol, flies a hundred yards with a screaming sound, and explodes. “That’s a pretty good thing to get an eagle to move away.” But even useful tactics — like professional hazers or the bottle rockets — aren’t a permanent fix. “It’s like shoveling snow,” Dr. McGowan said. “You do it once, then you’re going to have to do it again.” via NYT > Home Page http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 2, 2019 at 08:39PM DMT.NEWS, @RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., @dmtbarbershop April 2, 2019 at 09:01PM

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Trump Lashes Out Again at Puerto Rico, Bewildering the Island WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Puerto Rico’s local lawmakers as “grossly incompetent” and singled out one of his favorite targets, Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, as “crazed and incompetent.” Mr. Trump’s latest invective toward the local leaders of an island devastated by a hurricane in September 2017 came in a torrent of tweets, which began on Monday night and spilled into Tuesday morning. Mr. Trump was reacting after the Senate on Monday blocked billions of dollars in disaster aid for Midwestern states, in part because Democrats said a proposed $600 million in nutritional assistance to Puerto Rico fell short of its needs. “Puerto Rico got far more money than Texas & Florida combined, yet their government can’t do anything right, the place is a mess — nothing works,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. He also stated, incorrectly, that Puerto Rico had received $91 billion in aid from the federal government. In fact, FEMA and other agencies have so far distributed $11.2 billion in aid to Puerto Rico, according to the Office of Management and Budget. Some $41 billion in aid has been allocated, while $91 billion is the budget office’s estimate of how much the island could receive over the next two decades. Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico, a Democrat, responded to Mr. Trump in a tweet of his own on Tuesday. “Mr. President, once again, we are not your adversaries, we are your citizens,” Mr. Rosselló wrote. Mr. Trump has long been sensitive when it comes to the subject of Puerto Rico, where the American government’s response to Hurricane Maria was widely criticized as too slow. Aides and allies said Mr. Trump had vented privately that Puerto Ricans had complained too much, and he had also noted privately that Hurricane Maria, which killed 2,975 people as a result of the storm and its effects, was not as bad as Hurricane Katrina, in which fewer people — 1,833 — were killed. Mr. Trump has long hit back at Ms. Cruz, who during the disaster became the most outspoken critic of the federal response. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump seemed to imply in his tweets that Puerto Rico was not part of the United States, noting that local elected officials “only take from USA.” Hogan Gidley, a White House spokesman, seemed to underscore the view in the White House that Puerto Ricans were not Americans when he twice referred to the island as “that country” during an appearance on MSNBC. Mr. Trump’s apparent disdain for the island’s leadership has led to a breakdown of communication between local officials and the White House. For weeks, Mr. Rosselló has asked the White House for a private meeting with Mr. Trump to lay out the island’s case for why it desperately needs federal funds for rebuilding after Hurricane Maria. But Mr. Rosselló’s request has gone unanswered, and he has tried instead to communicate with the president publicly, saying in cable news interviews, in official appearances and on Twitter that he fears Mr. Trump has been misled about Puerto Rico’s needs. Mr. Rosselló’s fight may be an uphill battle with a president who has made it clear that he views more federal aid to Puerto Rico as throwing money away. His advisers also view the pleas from local officials as part of a campaign to shift the blame for what they view as severe mismanagement of the supplies and money sent after the storm. In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Rosselló mentioned, unprompted, that Puerto Rico’s population was almost entirely Latino and said that historically, there have been “ethnic undertones” to the treatment of Puerto Ricans by Washington. “We don’t want special treatment,” he said. “We just want equal treatment.” The governor also has bigger issues to deal with at home: The resignations of two power players in his cabinet became public late on Monday. Julia Keleher, the education secretary, and Héctor M. Pesquera, the public safety secretary, had been among the least popular members of Mr. Rosselló’s government. Their departures dominated the headlines in the local news media, which made little reference to what is widely seen here as yet another episode of presidential bluster. That is not to say Puerto Ricans necessarily disagree with Mr. Trump’s criticism of the commonwealth’s leaders, even if many locals dislike the president himself, or the disdainful way he sometimes refers to the island. “We have a political caste that is opportunistic and extremely corrupt,” said Eduardo Lalo, a well-known local novelist, humanities professor and opinion columnist who supports Puerto Rican independence. “What the president says, of course it’s clumsy and tremendously vulgar, and he says it for reasons of his own that are not substantive. But it’s also objective.” Image “We are not your adversaries, we are your citizens,” Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico said in a tweet to President Trump.CreditThais Llorca/EPA, via Shutterstock The truth is, he said, “Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States, and therefore its hands are completely tied.” At a bakery in the comfortable San Juan neighborhood of Ocean Park on Tuesday, the morning crowd was hardly abuzz about Mr. Trump’s comments, though people had noticed them. One patron, Miguel Rodríguez, 54, pulled out his cellphone to show how, moments earlier, a friend had posted on Facebook that she agreed with the president for the first time in praising Puerto Ricans but labeling their leaders as “corrupt.” Mr. Rodríguez, the owner of a company that installs security systems, scrolled down to the comment he left under his friend’s post: “We do not lack resources, we have too many thieves.” “The government wants to keep demanding money from the government of the United States,” Mr. Rodríguez said. “But much of that help doesn’t reach the people.” Politically, Mr. Rosselló is in an unenviable position experienced by all of his predecessors: Puerto Rico cannot get funding even for its food stamp program without approval from Congress, but it has no congressional representation to make its case in Washington. (Representative Jenniffer González-Colón, a Republican, has no vote in the House.) None of the previous governors, however, had to deal with the dire consequences of a devastating hurricane in the middle of a government bankruptcy. “Neither Trump nor any president of the United States nor any official in the United States has assumed the responsibility it has with Puerto Rico,” Professor Lalo said. “The great tragedy of the Puerto Rican people is that for 120 years, it calls Washington and no one picks up the phone.” Mr. Rosselló, who is up for re-election next year, has faced intense criticism on the island for trying to work cooperatively with Mr. Trump even as the president was repeatedly deriding Puerto Rican leaders. Last week, the governor amped up his language against Mr. Trump, appearing to refer to him as a “bully” in an interview with CNN. “If the bully gets close, I’ll punch the bully in the mouth,” he said. “It would be a mistake to confuse courtesy with courage.” He later characterized his comments as a “metaphor.” Mr. Trump has refrained from going after Mr. Rosselló by name, preferring to focus his attention Ms. Cruz, his political nemesis since her outspoken comments criticizing the Trump administration’s failure to provide swift and meaningful help in the weeks after Hurricane Maria. After Mr. Trump called Ms. Cruz “crazed and incompetent” on Twitter on Monday, she fired back, calling him “unhinged.” “He can huff & puff all he wants but he cannot escape the death of 3,000 on his watch,” she wrote. “SHAME ON YOU!” Ms. Cruz recently declared her candidacy for governor. She and several other candidates are hoping to unseat Mr. Rosselló in 2020. He is a supporter of Puerto Rican statehood; she is not. “When he doesn’t get his way, he tries to pit people against each other,” Ms. Cruz said in an interview on Tuesday. “Three thousand people died under his watch and he has never acknowledged it. He’s now trying to weaponize help — and, in his desperation, he’s lying about it.” Calling Puerto Rican leaders “corrupt” reflects poorly on Mr. Trump’s own administration, she added. “If he thinks that the money that has come to Puerto Rico is money that we shouldn’t have received, then he doesn’t trust FEMA,” she said. “He shows his inability to lead and that he is incapable of understanding how his own government works.” Impasse Over Aid for Puerto Rico Stalls Billions in Federal Disaster Relief April 1, 2019 On Hurricane Maria Anniversary, Puerto Rico Is Still in Ruins Sept. 20, 2018 $3,700 Generators and $666 Sinks: FEMA Contractors Charged Steep Markups on Puerto Rico Repairs Nov. 26, 2018 FEMA Was Sorely Unprepared for Puerto Rico Hurricane, Report Says July 12, 2018 via NYT > Home Page http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 2, 2019 at 07:27PM DMT.NEWS, @ANNIE KARNI and PATRICIA MAZZEI, @dmtbarbershop April 2, 2019 at 09:00PM

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50 Cent Breaks Character To Mourn The Loss Of Nipsey Hussle 50 Cent has developed a reputation as somewhat of a villain, though his undeniable charisma prevents him from devolving into “heel” status. Yet every so often, 50 Cent breaks character to reveal his gentler nature. Today, the G-Unit rapper took to Instagram to offer his sincere condolences to Nipsey Hussle’s friends and family. “To: Nipsey’s Real friends and family I send my Sincere condolences,” he writes, alongside a picture of himself. “I’m sorry for your loss God bless.” For whatever reason, Fif decided to stay slightly on-brand, including a shameless plug for his “Chemin Du Roi” champagne. While the advertisement does feel a tad insensitive, the fact that 50 spoke out at all highlights the impact of Nipsey’s death. For those who don’t remember, 50 and Nip actually shared a collaboration, the YG quarterbacked “I Wanna Benz.” Both business-minded individuals, it’s likely they might have enjoyed a conversation or two if given the opportunity. Rest in peace, Nipsey Hussle. His loss continues to be felt by the entire hip-hop community, and 50 Cent is but one of many to issue their condolences. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images via HotNewHipHop.com http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 2, 2019 at 03:13PM DMT.NEWS, @Mitch Findlay, @dmtbarbershop April 2, 2019 at 07:07PM

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