Monday, April 22, 2019 to Wednesday April 24. Published on Thursday April 25.
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
Mueller Report
- Look again: The Mueller report spells it out; Putin’s Russian hack delivered America to Donald Trump
- Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a ‘Useful Idiot’ | Imagine if after 9/11, George W. Bush had directed his anger at the NYPD instead of Osama bin Laden, or if FDR had devoted the two years after Pearl Harbor to insulting the US Navy rather than going to war against Japan.
- Mueller Proved Comey Told the Truth
- Mueller report proves Trump failed to sound the alarm on Russia, an impeachable offense
- Mueller Report Reveals Trump’s Fixation on Using Law Enforcement to Target a Rival
- Mueller report: “Miners for Trump” rally in Pittsburgh was a fake
- Mueller report: Russia hacked state databases and voting machine companies – Russian intelligence officers injected malicious SQL code and then ran commands to extract information
- Mueller: “The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.” // Trump’s response: “Nobody disobeys my orders”
- Mueller: Hannity was tipped off about Trump Tower meeting
- Mueller’s team was reportedly stumped by all the shifty, unreliable people in Trump’s orbit or employ
- Opinion | Hillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Here’s how to respond.
- Russians used a photo of his father as pro-Trump propaganda. He saw it in the Mueller report.
- The Mueller Report Is Clear: Donald Trump Repeatedly Tried to Obstruct Justice
- What you missed in the Mueller report | POLITICO dived back into the report and its 2,000-plus footnotes to unearth a few details that have not gotten much attention.
- Yes, Trump, Mueller’s report means the end of your presidency
- Joe Walsh: Cut thru the bullshit: 5 days since the Report hit, it’s still clear that: Trump knew about & encouraged Russian interference. He lied. And lied. And lied. He directed everyone else to lie. He obstructed justice. You’re either ok with this behavior, or you’re not. I’m not.
- ‘No collusion’? I managed Russia operations at the CIA. Read between the lines.
- Giuliani banished the goalposts to Siberia: There’s “nothing wrong” with the Trump campaign taking information from the Russians. While they were attacking our country. Remember when it was “I have nothing to do with Russia”? Trump directed his own son to publicly lie about the Trump Tower meeting.
- New Revelations in Maria Butina Case Highlight Russia’s Infiltration Efforts in 2016 – A Justice Department filing details a Russian influence scheme possibly related to the Trump-Russia scandal.
- 911corlebra777: The Chinese f*ckery in South Florida is looking more & more like a major Chinese intelligence operation day by day, per @MiamiHerald
- How a Chinese Communist Party promoter tied to Cindy Yang joined the Trump campaign
- Barr gets waiver on case linked to inquiry into Trump’s re-election effort
- Natasha Bertrand: New: Bill Barr has received a waiver to participate in the probe of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). The waiver could give him a window into an investigation in New York that involves the Trump Victory committee & potentially illegal foreign donations.
- Surely It’s a Coincidence That a Firm Tied to a Russian Oligarch Is Pouring Millions Into Kentucky
- Is Braidy Industries of Kentucky getting in bed with Russian mobsters?
- Molly McKew: Why local journalism is important: Kentucky governor put taxpayer $$ into an aluminum plant owned by one of his backers. Then the 2 KY senators, McConnell+Paul, were 2 of 3 votes needed to overturn sanctions on Deripaska, whose Rusal then invested $200mil in the plant. Get it? Molly McKew added,
- Jared Kushner gave copy of Putin-approved U.S.-Russia reconciliation plan to Rex Tillerson: Mueller report
- Jared Kushner wrong on scope of Russia’s interference
- Justice Department filing contradicts Kushner’s view of Russia threat
- Kushner insider: ‘So Dangerous’ TSA PreCheck wouldn’t clear him
- Kushner says Russia investigations more harmful to US ‘than a couple Facebook ads’: In his first public comments since Mueller’s report was released, Kushner downplayed & twisted the conclusions of the report, which found there was a massive Russian effort to manipulate the election via social media
- Official Working to Protect 2020 Election From Russia ‘Was Told to Keep it Secret From Trump’
- Senator Ron Wyden: “Let me get this straight…the White House won’t secure our elections against foreign hackers because they don’t want to hurt Trump’s feelings.”
- Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort is now in federal prison
- Mueller: Manafort Discussed Enlisting Trump to Aid Russia in Ukraine | A “backdoor” plan to help Putin.
- Paul Manafort is now in federal prison
CONGRESS
Subpoenas
- Democrats Consider Fines for Trump Officials Who Spurn Subpoenas
- Kyle Griffin: At a meeting of House leaders this month, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler suggested fining officials personally if they deny or ignore subpoenas, Bloomberg reports. Nadler even mentioned jailing admin officials as a consequence for contempt of Congress.
- Oversight chair wants to hold ex-White House official in contempt
- Rick Wilson: Democrats have a narrow window in which to demonstrate seriousness over the subpoena question. Trump is calling their bluff, and unless they take trophy very soon now, he’ll set a precedent.
- Nadler suggested fining, jailing Trump officials who resist subpoenas
- Congress Needs To Lock Up Non-Complying Witnesses
- House Democrats grapple with how to respond to Trump’s refusal to cooperate with investigations
- House panel moves to hold former White House official in contempt after he obeys Trump administration’s instruction not to testify
- Third Article of Impeachment against Nixon, he: “failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas issued by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives”
- Trump Vows Stonewall of ‘All’ House Subpoenas, Setting Up Fight Over Powers
- Trump: ‘No reason’ for White House to comply with congressional investigations
- WH Tells Witness To Ignore Cummings Subpoena In Security Clearance Probe
- White House Orders Former Security Director to Defy Oversight Committee Subpoena
- White House Orders Official Not to Comply With Dem Subpoena Over Security Clearances
- Cummings calls on Stephen Miller to testify before Congress
- White House says Stephen Miller won’t testify on immigration to House Oversight
- White House tells official who gave Kushner security clearance: Don’t comply with subpoena
- William Barr directs Justice Department official to defy congressional subpoena to testify about 2020 census
- House Democrats issue subpoena for former White House lawyer McGahn
- House Judiciary Committee issues subpoena to former White House counsel Don McGahn
- Why is Trump raging again? Because Don McGahn will further expose his corruption.
- The White House Escalates Its Battle to Keep Don McGahn Silent
- The White House is calling former White House Counsel Don McGahn a liar. The White House is also planning a fight to prevent him from testifying to Congress.
- Rep. Adam Schiff: Today, Trump said he is the most transparent president in the history of our nation. If by transparent, he means opposing every request for documents and testimony by Congress, And obstructing Mueller’s investigation, Then I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.
- Caroline Orr: Speaking to reporters, Trump said: “I’ve been the most transparent president …most transparent administration in the history of our country.” Moments later, he said he’s “fighting all the subpoenas” from Congress.🙃
Taxes and Financial Records
- IRS fails to meet congressional deadline for Trump tax returns
- Mnuchin says he cannot meet deadline to turn over Trump tax returns to House panel
- Trump and his business sue House Oversight chairman to block congressional subpoena of financial records
- Today’s The Deadline For The IRS To Hand Over Trump’s Tax Returns
- Treasury Department ignores Democrats’ 2nd deadline for Trump’s tax returns
- Treasury likely to defy Tuesday deadline to turn over Trump tax returns
- Treasury Misses Congressional Deadline To Produce Trump’s Taxes // The House is now expected to sue to obtain the documents.
- Trump sues in bid to block congressional subpoena of financial records
- Trump sues to block subpoena from House Democrats seeking information on his finances
- Trump suggests Mueller ‘checked my taxes,’ despite no mention of them in report
- Dem lawmaker: ‘Very serious doubts’ that IRS is ‘properly auditing’ Trump
Impeachment
- Democrats Are Beginning to Break with Nancy Pelosi on Impeachment
- Everybody Is Wrong. Impeachment Will Help Democrats.
- Failing to impeach Trump would set a dangerous precedent
- Former Trump Transition Official Calls For Impeachment: ‘This Is Serious Stuff’
- George W. Bush’s top speechwriter is now calling for Trump’s impeachment
- Harvard Impeachment Expert: Trump Impeachable for Mueller Report
- House Democratic leaders say no immediate plans to open impeachment proceedings against Trump
- I Was a Trump Transition Staffer, and I’ve Seen Enough. It’s Time for Impeachment; I started out as a pragmatist, but the Mueller report was my tipping point.
- If Democratic investigations of Trump lead to impeachment, ‘that’s the place we have to go’: Nancy Pelosi
- Is Obstruction an Impeachable Offense? History Says Yes: The historical comparisons make out a solid case for an article of impeachment against Trump for obstruction of justice in both the technical legal sense and in the more general sense of an attempt to subvert U.S. legal process & institutions.
- Pelosi: Dems may get to impeachment but ‘we’re not there yet’
- Prepare the public for impeachment and get on with it
- Rep. Cummings: Trump Deserves the Mark of Impeachment
- Speier: Mueller Put Up Neon Sign to Impeachment
- Kamala Harris: It’s Time to Impeach Donald Trump
- The Daily 202: Kamala Harris vs. Nancy Pelosi on impeachment highlights the conflicting incentives for Democrats
- Maxine Waters: We’re Going to have to Impeach
- Mueller’s report: A profile of a president willing to sell out his country — It’s hard to come to any conclusion other than Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office
- Sen. Warren defends her call to impeach Trump: ‘I took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States’
- So I am done being wishy-washy. Impeach him. Now
- Waters: ‘We must impeach Putin’s president Trump’
- Trump’s shameless obstruction of justice shows no signs of stopping: With the president thumbing his nose at the law, the only reasonable response is to start impeachment hearings
- Tea Pain: FUN IMPEACHMENT FACTS: Nixon before Watergate hearings Approval: 48% Americans favoring impeachment: 19% Trump (today) before Obstruction hearings Approval: 37% Americans favoring impeachment: 34%
- Greg Olear: This is EXACTLY why we must impeach as soon as strategically possible .
- David Jolly: Trump’s terrified of being impeached. More terrified that he doesn’t control the process.
- Bernie Sanders Warns That Talk of Trump Impeachment Risks Party Agenda
- Greg Olear: I’ve been outspoken in my contempt for this candidate, but here goes Mr. Vote Against Russian Sanctions, yet again. THIS IS DISQUALIFYING. Period.
- Angry White House Staffer: Trump: Congress can’t do anything because they’re focused on impeachment Also Trump: <sends 43 Tweets a day about why he shouldn’t be impeached>
- Countercheckist: I’m old enough to remember when Congress launched impeachment proceedings over the president lying about an extramarital affair. tRUmp’s Twitter conduct alone far exceeds that threshold. And Donald is terrified about the prospect…
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
- Very Cool, Very Legal: Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York’s attorney general
- Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York’s attorney general
- Deutsche Bank has begun to provide documents on financing for some of President Donald Trump’s projects to New York State authorities
- Deutsche Bank starts turning over Trump financial records to NY officials: reports
- Fmr. Trump Org. exec.: Trump asked employees to do things that were illegal
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET A.K.A INDIVIDUAL-1
- Trump’s re-election campaign is refusing to publicly state that it will not use hacked materials to its advantage in the 2020 election.
- Trump and his business sue House Oversight chairman to block congressional subpoena of financial records
- Trump sues in bid to block congressional subpoena of financial records
- Donald Trump ‘Thinks He’s a Dictator,’ CNN Guest Claims, as IRS Misses President’s Tax Return Deadline
- Donald Trump’s Tax-Return Lawsuit Is a Frivolous Attempt to Avoid Law | National Review
- ‘This is risky’: Trump’s thirst for Mueller revenge could land him in trouble | Team Trump’s bellicose tweets and public statements in the last few days could expose the president to fresh charges of witness intimidation and obstruction of justice.
- Bad news for Trump: 64% of Americans think attempting and failing to obstruct justice is as bad as obstructing justice
- Constraints on presidency being redefined in Trump era, report fallout shows
- Did Trump ‘fully’ cooperate with Mueller investigation? No
- Retired Lt. Colonel: Trump’s WH departure will be ugly
- Trump Claimed ‘Nobody Disobeys’ His Orders After Robert Mueller Literally Said the Exact Opposite
- Trump erupts over impeachment as congressional proceedings loom: ‘You can’t impeach’
- Trump Flips Out at New York Times, Says It Should ‘Beg’ on Its Knees for His Mercy
- Trump hated that his aides took notes, according to notes acquired by Mueller’s team
- Trump orders boycott of White House Correspondents’ Dinner
- Trump Refuses to Defend His Country | The president won’t take action to protect U.S. elections from foreign meddling, because he finds it politically and personally unpalatable.
- Trump reportedly thinks that the Mueller report is an existential threat and that the only way out is a relentless attack on everyone involved
- Trump says he is opposed to White House aides testifying to Congress, deepening power struggle with Hill
- Trump’s 50 Tweets in 24 Hours Are a Frightening Window Into the Presidential Mind | Fox News is playing on loop in the background, reassuring him that all his critics are lying enemies of the state. What could go wrong?
- Trump’s Approval Rating Tumbles To Below 40% After Mueller Report In New Polls
- Trump’s authoritarianism can never be treated like business as usual — A multicultural democracy cannot peacefully coexist with white nationalism, which Trump continues to court
- Trump’s empty schedule directly correlates to his 24-hour tweet storm
- Trump’s next tactic is to attack former White House Counsel Don McGahn, who repeatedly took steps to prevent Trump’s most obstructive acts. The House has asked McGahn to testify publicly on May 21. Trump’s argument seems to rely on his use of “coded” language. And that lawyers shouldn’t take notes.
- Poll: Trump approval sinks 5 points after Mueller report, tying all-time low
TRAITOR TOTS
- Lindsey Graham prepared to ignore Mueller report’s findings
- Lindsey Graham tells Trump to ‘expect impeachment proceedings’
- Sen. Lindsey Graham Says Lying President Should Quit — But Not That Lying President
- Pence hasn’t released any tax returns since becoming VP: report
FIGHTING BACK
- Joe Walsh: I’m not trying to be snarky at all here. He just doesn’t care about anything but himself. He doesn’t care about the Constitution. He doesn’t care about separation of powers. He doesn’t care about checks & balances. He doesn’t care about the rule of law. Kinda scary, huh?
- Rick Wilson: You know what winners do? Winners who are totally exonerated and in the clear? They go on a three-day ragetweeting bender.
- Garry Kasparov: Trump & his team are ignoring all the red flags in the Mueller report and giving a green light to Putin to keep attacking US elections. Because they know who he’s going to help—again.
- George Conway: “Exactly right… ‘by obstructing the probe, Trump impeded the inquiry into not just his conduct, but also into the Russian attack on our political system’ …in fact, it’s why Trump’s misconduct is worse than the misconduct that led to Nixon’s resignation.”
- Jennifer Rubin: mainstream media’s report on the incidents Mueller examined with regard to obstruction were, in virtually all cases, completely correct. The White House’s denials were bogus and right-wing cheerleaders who claimed the media got it “wrong” were wrong.
- Joe Walsh: Donald Trump has never, ever gotten angry at Russia for interfering with our election. He gets angry all the time at the Americans who investigated the interference. But he’s never, ever gotten angry at the Russians. Pretty telling, huh?
- Robert Reich: Robert Mueller proved Donald Trump is the living embodiment of the seven deadly sins
- Trump obstruction ‘at least 100 times worse’ than Bill Clinton’s perjury, congressman Cummings says
- Rick Wilson: Didn’t lay a glove on you? Dude. You’re sweating like a Roy Moore at a middle-school gym class.
EMERGENCIES, SHUTDOWN, & IMMIGRATION
- Border Patrol finds crying 3-year-old left in cornfield with his name and phone number written on his shoes
- Florida House passes bill that forbids ‘sanctuary cities,’ would issue fines for failing to help federal immigration authorities
- ‘Should Send Chills Down the Spine of Anyone With a Conscience’: Trump Reportedly Considered Detaining Kids at Guantanamo
- Nations targeted by U.S. for high rates of visa overstays account for small number of violators
- Trump Just Confirmed His Administration Is Lying in Census Case
RACISM, RIGHT WING TERRORISM & WHITE NATIONALISM
- ‘Liberty Guns Bible Trump BBQ’: Deputy on leave after writing an anti-LGBTQ post mocking bullied dead teen
- ‘Please god let there be a race war.’ Coast Guard officer’s ‘views on race’ drove his plans to launch terrorist attack, prosecutors allege
- Militia leader at the border said members were training to kill Obama, Clinton and Soros, FBI said
- The white supremacist who murdered James Byrd Jr. was just executed for his 1998 hate crime
- Leader of right-wing militia ‘planned assassination of Obama, Clinton, and Soros’, FBI claims
SCOTUS & COURTS
- The Supreme Court Has No Role in Impeachment
- Trump says he would ask Supreme Court to intervene if Democrats move to impeach him
- Trump says he would ‘head to the Supreme Court’ to block impeachment
- Trump thinks the Supreme Court can save him from impeachment it can’t
- Trump thinks the Supreme Court is his personal goon squad. Blame Chief Justice Roberts.
- Sorry Trump, Say Experts, You Can’t Just ‘Head to the Supreme Court’ If Impeached: “So much wrong with this president and with the election of a man who is ignorant about the Constitution.”
- Justice Ginsburg schools her conservative colleagues on the meaning of the word ‘consent’
- Supreme Court to decide if anti-discrimination employment laws protect on basis of sexual orientation, gender identity
- Supreme Court’s conservatives appear likely to let Trump add citizenship question to 2020 Census
- A Wisconsin DUI case in which police drew blood from an unconscious man is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
- Another Cosby accuser steps forward in Toledo, Ohio
- I watched 21 Marvel movies this month — and witnessed a decade of progress for women
COLD WAR 2.0
- Student slated to attend Western Michigan University beheaded in Saudi Arabia
- Bill Browder: If the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi wasn’t enough, have a read of this thread of how the Saudis executed three people under the age of 18 after extracting confessions through torture and then putting them on a mass trial ending in a death sentence. Simply barbaric
- The Post’s View: The Trump administration is complicit in Saudi atrocities
- The al-Qaeda suspect was stripped naked and shot. Will Trump pardon his murderer?
- State Department office manager admits conspiring to hide contacts with Chinese agents
- Trump Backed Libyan Strongman’s Attack on Tripoli, U.S. Officials Say
- Sri Lanka blames local Islamist extremist group for Easter bombings that killed 290
- Sri Lanka Easter bombings were retaliation for Christchurch mosque shootings, official says
- Sri Lanka’s Muslims fear retaliation after Easter attacks on Christians
- Sri Lanka’s social media shutdown illustrates global discontent with Silicon Valley
- Trump plans state visit to United Kingdom in early June
- Trump promotes conspiracy theory that UK helped Obama administration spy on his presidential campaign
- Less than 24 hours after being invited for a State Visit with the Queen, Trump promotes baseless conspiracy theory that the UK “spied” on his campaign.
- Donald Trump’s U.K. State Visit Faces ‘Maximum Disruption,’ Protesters Vow to Make Trip ‘as Unpleasant as Possible’
- Putin refuses to congratulate new Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky
- New Coast Guard strategy for the Arctic calls for ‘projecting sovereignty’ to contest China and Russia
- Sanders Calls for Veto Override Vote on Yemen Resolution
- The big winner from Trump’s Iran oil boycott: Vladimir Putin
#NEVERAGAIN
- Shannon Watts: Dear politicians: THIS is how you answer a question about gun safety.
- Shannon Watts: This is what is so wrong and exhausting about politics. The same lawmakers outraged over the hypothetical voting rights of a mass shooter still haven’t closed the Charleston loophole that allowed him to buy the gun that he used to murder nine Black Americans in the first place.
FIXING THE INTERNET
- Twitter CEO Gently Tells Trump: Your ‘Lost’ Followers Are Bots and Spam Accounts
- Twitter launches reporting tool to curb misinformation during campaigns
- Twitter shuts down 5,000 pro-Trump bots retweeting anti-Mueller report invective — Bots were tied to account formerly used for pro-Saudi messaging.
- After Mueller report, Twitter bots pushed ‘Russiagate hoax’ narrative
- Trump Reportedly Used Twitter Meeting About Opioid Epidemic To Ask Why His Followers Kept Disappearing
- A network of more than 5,000 pro-Trump Twitter bots railed against the “Russiagate hoax” shortly after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week. The network was connected to Saudi Arabia.
- Report: 5,000 Twitter bots pushed ‘Russiagate hoax’ out after Mueller Report
- Trump just met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in the Oval Office, and spent his time complaining about his own lost Twitter followers. Dorsey gently explained: your ‘lost’ followers are bots and spam accounts. This was a top issue for the most powerful person in the world on Tuesday.
- Trump ‘repeatedly complains about Obama having more Twitter followers than him’
- How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
- Iranian FM makes public prisoner swap offer to US | The Times of Israel
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- ‘Morning Joe’ hosts suggest media should boycott White House aides ‘who repeatedly lie’
- ‘You do great work’: Trump wages war on White House press corps but has soft spot for its photographers
- How Sean Hannity aided the Trump Tower meeting clean-up effort: Hannity, host of a show on Fox News, apparently could have broken the story. He didn’t. The goal was to defend Trump from accusations of working with Russia. Breaking the story about the Trump Tower meeting clearly didn’t meet that goal
- Meet the Press? Don’t Bother ; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, nominally the White House press secretary, has abandoned the custom of briefing the news media.
- Sanders releases internal poll showing lead over Trump in PA, WI and MI
- Sarah Sanders has not had a formal press briefing in 43 days, setting a new White House record.
- Sarah Sanders Lies About Reporter Who Called for Her to Be Fired for Lying
- Trump press aide Sarah Sanders must be fired after admitting she made false claims, say White House reporters
- Trump repeatedly takes aim at the media, including a New York Times columnist critical of Republicans
- WikiLeaks and Fox News Are Silent on the Debunked Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory: Mueller confirmed the DNC staffer didn’t steal his own party’s emails. Why won’t Sean Hannity or Julian Assange apologize for spreading misinformation?
TRADE WAR, HEALTH CARE, & ECONOMY
- A state senator said nurses ‘probably play cards’ at work. Facing mass outrage, she’s apologized.
- Drone company Wing gets ‘air carrier’ approval from FAA, allowing deliveries that will launch in Virginia
- Elizabeth Warren Wants to Make It Easier to Prosecute Executives
- Dental care is tough to find for people with autism, other developmental disorders
- Getting rid of debt may actually make your brain work better
- Herman Cain withdraws from consideration for the Federal Reserve
- Move over, Big Mac. McDonald’s plans to import Stroopwafel McFlurry and other global items.
- Over 7,000 Writers Fire Their Agents as New Reality Takes Hold
- Trump Fed Board pick under fire for writing that women should not be allowed to be men’s sports referees — unless they’re good-looking
- What Andrew Yang’s universal basic income would actually look like
- Capitalism in crisis: U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system that made them rich
- Disney heir calls on company to give 50% of exec bonuses to lowest-paid employees
- Gilead defied a government HIV patent. The Justice Department has opened a review.
- Trump’s washing-machine tariffs cost U.S. consumers $815,000 for every job created
STUDENT ISSUES
- College admission scandal: Loughlin and accused parents want to see evidence before filing substantive motions
- Lori Loughlin Is Worried Her Daughters Could Face Charges: Source
- Warren unveils $640 billion college debt forgiveness plan
- Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling student loan debt and offering free public college
- Elizabeth Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Eliminate Tuition and Cancel Student Debt
- High school journalists were barred from a Betsy DeVos event. So they took her to task in an editorial
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- The Great Republican Abdication | A party that no longer believes in American values.
- Iowa lawmaker cites disapproval with Donald Trump as reason he’s leaving Republican Party
- ‘If this is the new normal, I want no part of it’: Citing Trump, Iowa’s longest-serving Republican leaves party
- Blasting Trump’s ‘Unacceptable Behavior,’ Iowa Lawmaker Leaves GOP After 40+ Years
- Iowa Republican lawmaker leaves party, plans to vote with Democrats
- Washington Democrats call for GOP state Rep. Matt Shea to be expelled after latest allegations
- GOP Does Not Want AOC Helping Kentucky Miners
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- Brothers file defamation suit against Jussie Smollett’s lawyers
- Coachella woman arrested after dumping seven puppies in the trash, authorities say
- Elizabeth Warren was asked about keeping police safe. Her answer was a primer on racial justice. – The senator from Massachusetts says police will be safer when the American criminal justice system is more fair.
- Federal appeals court says tire-chalking by parking enforcement officers is unconstitutional
- How maximum security inmates took on Cambridge in a debate about nuclear weapons — and won
- Teenager sues Apple for $1bn, claiming facial recognition led to false arrest (updated)
- Texas Couple Get 7 Years in Prison for Enslaving Guinean Girl for 16 Years
- Court rules police wrongdoing list must be made public
- FBI’s Cyber Guardian is ‘unreliable,’ watchdog finds
- First major drug distribution company, former execs, criminally charged in opioid crisis
- Police came to a house to serve a citation — and found guns, ammo and kids in cage-like cribs
PRIESTS & RELIGION
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- Democratic Senators Announce the Creation of an Environmental Justice Caucus
- Jerrie Cobb, decorated pilot once in line to become first female astronaut, dies at 88
- Judge rules former Michigan Governor Snyder, EPA can be sued by Flint residents
- Malawi becomes 1st nation to immunize kids against malaria
- Rate of ice loss from Greenland has grown by a factor of six since the 1980s, scientists find
- Taxpayer spending on U.S. disaster fund explodes amid climate change, population trends
- Why two orphaned gorillas stood tall like humans in a park ranger’s selfie
- Listen to the eerie rumble of the first ‘Mars quake’ ever detected
- Measles cases break record since disease was eliminated in United States in 2000
- World health officials take a hard line on screen time for kids. Will busy parents comply?
ELECTIONS
- ‘They think they are above the law’: the firms that own America’s voting system: In the US, democracy is conducted by a few private companies that have little oversight and keep information secret
- Young people actually rocked the vote in 2018, new Census Bureau data finds
- ‘You pointless fossil’: John Cornyn’s campaign picked a fight with Patton Oswalt, and the comedian hit back
- GOP pollster says party needs to talk about foreign election interference
THINKING AHEAD
- In New Hampshire, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he’s seriously considering a primary challenge to Trump
- Joe Biden to enter 2020 presidential race with Thursday video announcement
- RNC pays tiny, unknown intelligence firm for 2020 opposition research on Democrats
- Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling student loan debt and offering free public college
- Elizabeth Warren was asked about keeping police safe. Her answer was a primer on racial justice. – The senator from Massachusetts says police will be safer when the American criminal justice system is more fair.
- Elizabeth Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Eliminate Tuition and Cancel Student Debt
- What Andrew Yang’s universal basic income would actually look like
- Weld: It’s Time for Trump to Resign
- Presidential hopeful John Delaney wants you to unfollow Trump on Twitter: ‘Hit him where it actually hurts him… his ego,’ Delaney said
- Questions on race, faith and tradition confront Buttigieg in South Carolina
- Elizabeth Warren keeps offering detailed policy proposals. Why do so few Democrats seem to care?
- Bernie Sanders is the new #1 in our 2020 rankings
- Bernie Sanders set off a firestorm over prisoners voting, but his facts are straight
- Bill Weld calls on Donald Trump to resign, calling him a ‘one-man crime wave’
- Booker releases 10 years of tax returns, gave 15 percent of income to charity in 2018
- Sanders slams Florida bill requiring felons to pay court fees before voting as ‘racist and unconstitutional’
- Trump GOP primary challenger: ‘If Donald Trump is an American patriot, he should resign’
- Trump’s re-election campaign is refusing to publicly state that it will not use hacked materials to its advantage in the 2020 election.
IN OTHER NEWS…
- ‘Jeopardy!’ winner James Holzhauer keeps dominating. Does it matter if he broke the game?
- 2019 NFL draft: Ranking the top 50 prospects
- The big ‘Game of Thrones’ battle is coming. Which major characters are most likely to die?
- A 70-year-old woman fell to her death at the Grand Canyon, the fourth fatality there in a month
- The Night King is the true hero of ‘Game of Thrones,’ so maybe we should all be rooting for him
RUMOR MILL
- Countercheckist: We cannot return to the partisanship of 2016. The coalition of ideologies, bound together by a common desire to protect democratic values, must remain into the future. Every so often, events force Americans to join together and act as one. This is one of those times, patriots.
- Angry White House Staffer: Oh good, we’re back to the caravans. Trump is so panicked that he’s literally just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
- Kelby Adams: Thread. 1/ – The End Bear with me because it’s going to take some serious wordcount and sourcing for me to comfortably spell all this out. Richard Nixon was charged on three articles of impeachment, and as of yesterday, when the White House failed to release Donald Trump’s
- Thread by @KelbyAdams: “Thread. 1/ – The End Bear with me because it’s going to take some serious wordcount and sourcing for me to comfortably spell all this out. R […]” #ImpeachDonaldTrump #Impeach45 #ImpeachTrumpNow #ObstructionOfJustice
That’s it for the last few days. The Rumor Mill section is a little light for 3 days. I’ve been more or less not going on social media the last few days. As much as I want to get back into the swing of things on this site, I’m swamped with personal stuff. I sold my childhood home over the weekend, and the next several weekends will be spent trying to get it ready for sale. I also have to handle his affairs. I hate calling him my father because that term implies a loving and respectful relationship, but I won’t use his name here.
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, shit will get crazy before they finish. The next few weeks will be spent going through the Mueller Report and parsing things apart and watching Trump and his cronies attack Congress while they try to do their job. In my opinion, Impeachment is no longer an if, but a when. When will it start? When will the investigations hit full speed? When will the shit hit the fan?
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
None of this is Normal 