Tuesday June 19th.
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
$109 million for approximately 80 properties, all in cash deals and through LLC’s to hide the true owner. Smells like Money Laundering
I’m not buying it yet. Every word out of his mouth is a half-truth or outright lie. His idea of “cooperating” is not actively getting in the way. The same way one “helps” the paramedics at the scene of an accident by pulling over to let the ambulance pass.
- FBI Chief Stands by Mueller While Republicans Attack Probe
- Yet another Russia contact with the Trump campaign team. What are they hiding?
- Rudy Giuliani Says FBI Questioned Him On Leaks That Hurt Clinton Campaign | HuffPost
Like I said yesterday in Daily Check-In 06/18/2018, Rudy’s past connections to FBI agents leaking to him will come out.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, interrupted Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Tuesday as he questioned Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz in doing so accused House Republicans of conspiring to “fire” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein by the end of the week.
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“Well, is it not appropriate to raise the question as to what is the germaneness of the gentleman’s line of questioning and whether or not we’re dealing with the report of Mr. Horowitz or whether we’re dealing with the Republicans’ attempt to undermine the Mueller investigation as well as fire Deputy Attoney General Rosenstein, which you are planning to do on Friday?” Lee shot back.
Lee appeared to be referring to Gowdy’s claim on Sunday that House Speaker Paul Ryan warned top Justice Department and FBI officials during a meeting they would face the House’s “full arsenal of constitutional weapons to gain compliance” on outstanding subpoenas if they didn’t do so by Friday.
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While lawmakers cannot “fire” Rosenstein, they can find him in contempt of Congress or may introduce impeachment proceedings.
COHEN
- CNN: Michael Cohen ‘Willing to Give’ Info on Trump
- Breaking: Michael Cohen, Holding His Cards Close to the Vest, Has Hired a New Lawyer
Cohen’s got a new lawyer, and taking bids on whether to flip or have the RNC pay his legal bills again.
Forcing a person to pay for a good or service against their will or betterment for fear of retribution or release of damaging information. Sounds a lot like extortion.
CHARITY CASE
- Trump ‘charity’ exposed as scheme to make golf debts go away
- It was a Trump favorite. Now lawyers want the famously discreet Beverly Hills Hotel to share its secrets.
IMMIGRATION
6,000
- US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant kids
- Broken Children In Cages Are Sobbing For Mommy and Daddy, and Mobsters Are Governing America
- What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’
- A congressman answers the question ‘where are the girls’
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) tweeted the answer after touring the facility in Brownsville, but he explained in more detail when we spoke by phone on Tuesday.
“There are separate facilities for younger children, there are separate facilities for girls,” Pocan says he was told. Because Brownsville and McAllen have been the focus of attention, only boys have been depicted. In a conference call with reporters on Tuesday, HHS officials pledged to releasephotos of detained girls and toddlers “within the next two days.”
In some cases, the same facility holds both boys and girls, though in separate areas. Our reporter noted in his article that “detainees had been sorted into groups — unaccompanied boys 17 and under; unaccompanied girls 17 and under; male heads of household with their families; and female heads of household with their families.”
Trump Started It
- Memo separating families from January 25, 2017
- Trump Finally Admits He’s Responsible: “You Have to Take the Children Away”
- Trump says immigrants will ‘pour into and infest our country’ in rant about US border
- Trump’s Cruelty and the Crying Children
- The children separated from their parents have some famous advocates
- In Trump’s efficient U.S. family separation system, reunions take far longer
- Trump is defiant as border crisis escalates, prepares to lobby House GOP on immigration bills
- Trump: Immigrants Are Threatening to ‘Infest’ U.S. – The Daily Beast
States Fighting Back
- Gov. Sununu says if asked, he wouldn’t send Guard troops to border ‘to separate families’ | New Hampshire
- Governor Cuomo Announces Intent to File Multi-Agency Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration for Violating Constitutional Rights of Children and Families
- Maryland governor pulls National Guard from New Mexico amidst WH family separations
States that have pulled their National Guard troops and/or declined to deploy:
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
- Maryland
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Colorado
- Massachusettes
- New Jersey
- New York
- Deleware
- New Hampshire
Lawsuit
This is big. This is the first lawsuit challenging the legality of this policy, and will likely cause a judge to strike down the child separation policy.
Fighting Back
- Nationwide protests against Trump’s family separation policy planned for June 30
- “Christians everywhere should be up in arms”: Willie Nelson speaks out on immigrant family separations at border
- Wikipedia Added US Border ‘Detention Centers’ to Its List of Concentration Camps
- Zero-tolerance policy separating families is new, and ‘horrific,’ ex-Customs and Border chief says
- Harris calls for DHS secretary to resign over family separations at the border
- Elizabeth Warren Says Let’s Be Clear: Trump Is Holding “Thousands of Kids Hostage to Try and Get Congress to Pay for His Stupid Wall”
- A reporter at the White House decided to play the audio of children sobbing. Somebody had to.
June 30th. I’ll update this site with more details and locations as they come out.
Business Leaders
- Top U.S. business group urges end to child separation policy
- Tim Cook says family separations at US border are “inhumane” and “need to stop”
- Trump Explains That “You Have to Take the Children Away” in Unhinged Speech to Small-Business Owners
Religion
- More Than 600 Members Of Jeff Sessions’ Church Have Filed A Formal Complaint Against Him Over Immigrant Family Separations
- Jeff Sessions Charged With ‘Child Abuse’ By United Methodist Church After Implementing Child Separation Policy
- Methodists may expel Jeff Sessions on ‘child abuse’ & ‘immorality’ charges
- WSFA : Hundreds of United Methodist clergy bring church charges against Jeff Sessions
- Evangelical Christians ‘sold’ their principles in supporting Trump, says evangelical pastor
- Hundreds of members at Sessions’s church write formal complaint over immigration policy
I don’t know if the Methodists have excommunication, but if they do, Sessions has earned it.
Defending the Indefensible
- Republican senator Pat Toomey says migrant family separations ‘exaggerated’, then admits he has no idea and maybe it’s happening a lot
- Ivanka Trump, children’s advocate, has nothing to say about family separation
- Why is the party of Trump comfortable with televised sadism? | Spectator USA
Sick Pieces of Shit
- Stephen Miller, the Trump aide behind the harshest immigration policies, is a descendent of asylum-seekers
- Lewandowski on Girl With Down Syndrome Separated From Mother: ‘Womp Womp’
I had an unnatural, overwhelming hatred of Corey Lewandowski, even before this. Now, I’ve gone from “not pissing on him if he were on fire” to “wouldn’t even call for an ambulance if he got hit by a truck walking across the street.” Fuck him.
Fact Checks
- Fact check: There is no law that requires family separation at the border, despite Trump administration’s claims
- No, Donald Trump’s separation of immigrant families was not Barack Obama’s policy
- The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border
Internment Camps
- ‘At Least During the Internment …’ Are Words I Thought I’d Never Utter: George Takei
- George Takei: At least during my internment, I was not taken from my parents
Literal Nazis
- Yes, You Should Be Comparing Trump to Hitler
- Jeff Sessions tries to beat back Nazi comparisons, gets literally everything wrong
- US Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims Nazis did not deport Jews
- ICE director rejects Nazi comparisons with same argument used by Nazis to justify their actions
COLD WAR 2.0
- U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today
- U.S. expected to back away from U.N. Human Rights Council
- Russia denied membership of UN human rights council
- Mike Huckabee Praised Qatar Without Revealing He Was Paid $50,000 by Qatar
- North Korea’s Kim makes another trip to China. That complicates things for Trump.
- Trump escalates China trade war, threatens tariffs on $200 billion in products
- China-based campaign breached satellite, defense companies: Symantec
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators, defense contractors and telecommunications companies in the United States and southeast Asia, security researchers at Symantec Corp said on Tuesday.
#NEVERAGAIN
[–]SmallGerbilColorado [score hidden]
For anyone seeking a TL;DR – these are the companies so far:
- Cabelas
- Beaches / Sandals Resorts
- ACE Hardware
- SiriusXM
- Carfax
- John Deere
- IAC (advertising / publishing / media holding company
- Americans own 40 percent of world’s firearms: study
- 14-year-old wounded in Lawrence birthday party shooting dies – FOX59
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- Fox Entertainment Icons: We’re ‘Disgusted’ to Work With Same Company as Fox News
- Fox Creators Revolt as Fox News Condones Trump’s Immigration Policy
- Angry over Fox News coverage, ‘Modern Family’ co-creator Steve Levitan says he’s leaving Fox’s TV studio
- ‘Modern Family’ co-creator denounces Fox, says he’ll be ‘setting up shop elsewhere’
- ‘Fox & Friends’ host: Many migrant children ‘turn into MS-13’
- MS-13 Gang Leader Getting Some Pretty Great Ideas From Watching ICE Work: The Onion
- Ann Coulter Claims Crying Immigrant Children Are ‘Child Actors,’ But Author She Cited Slams Her as ‘Illiterate’
- From ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ to ‘Change the Laws!’
WHITE HOUSE CHAOS
- More than half of Americans back impeachment if Trump pardons himself: poll
- Poverty Rampant, Puerto Rico Destroyed, Single Payer “Too Expensive,” and Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Water. But You Can Have Space Force!
- Commerce Secretary Shorted Stock as Negative Coverage Loomed
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- Senate Could Screw Over Military’s Afghan Interpreters
- Ajit Pai Now Trying To Pretend That Everybody Supported Net Neutrality Repeal
- Judge orders Kris Kobach, lead lawyer behind the voter fraud myth, to attend legal classes
- How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
SAY GOODBYE TO THE ECONOMY
- Dow falls 325 points as trade war fears escalate
- Trump’s “Easy-to-Win” Trade War Wipes Out 2018 Dow Gains
- Trump escalates China trade war, threatens tariffs on $200 billion in products
- How America’s refugee policy is damaging to the world and to itself – Open Future
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- “Thief-In-Law” Razhden Shulaya Convicted Of Racketeering In Manhattan Federal Court
- Judge orders Kris Kobach, lead lawyer behind the voter fraud myth, to attend legal classes
- Ex-CIA employee charged in major leak of agency hacking tools
PROGRESS IS PROGRESS
- Richmond school honoring Confederate general to be renamed for Obama
- Justin Trudeau’s campaign promise to legalize weed in Canada is expected to come true
- Heckler yells ‘Mr. President, f— you’ as Trump arrives at Capitol
- Millennials tip the least, but it may not be for the reasons you think
- Sleep study: Discrimination doesn’t doze off
- We’ll be cleaning up Trump’s mess for generations
- Video game addiction is a real condition, WHO says. Here’s what that means.
I’m not addicted, I can quit any time I want…
Y’all got any more of them space
RUMOR MILL
That’s it for Tuesday. Let’s see how Wednesday goes.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda”
– Katy Tur
None of this is Normal 