Beneath the glitz and glamour of Vegas casinos there’s a network of tunnels where hundreds of homeless individuals escape the heat. Today @JulianCastro toured those tunnels in a “housing is a human right” T-shirt.
https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1121946842009182208
https://twitter.com/i/status/1121946842009182208
Four shot, injured at Southern California Chabad synagogue on last day of Passover. Today’s shooting at a synagogue in Poway falls on the same day as the six month mark since the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/four-shot-injured-southern-california-synagogue-n999191
Kyrsten Sinema does not support pursuing impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of the release of the Mueller report. Vote her out already. She votes 65%+ of the time with Republicans. She voted for Kavanaugh. She's a Republican scumbag, not a Democrat.
https://twitter.com/azcentral/status/1121898071082844161
N.R.A. President to Step Down as New York Attorney General Investigates
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/us/oliver-north-nra.html
For the second day in a row, more than 20 new #Ebola cases diagnosed today in DRC. 1,417 total cases, 914 deaths, according to the health ministry
https://twitter.com/PoliticsReid/status/1122235904364613633
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Trump's Federal Reserve Pick Said The Working Poor Aren't Taxed Enough
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-stephen-moore-tax-working-poor_n_5cc36831e4b0fd8e35bc4065
Half A Billion Fewer Animals Were Killed Per Year Since 2007 Because People Are Eating Less Meat
https://www.collectivespark.xyz/2019/04/half-billion-fewer-animals-were-killed.html
'Trove of documents' related to the Flint water crisis found in state building basement
https://www.wxyz.com/news/trove-of-documents-related-to-the-flint-water-crisis-found-in-state-building-basement
Former deficit Hawk Mick Mulvaney admits Trump admin is ‘spending a bunch of money on stuff we’re not supposed to,’ as U.S. debt soars
https://www.newsweek.com/mick-mulvaney-debt-ceiling-trump-hamburgers-1407461
Trump Acts Out Paris Terror Attacks on NRA Stage, Complete With Shooting Gestures and Sound Effects
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-acts-out-paris-terror-attacks-on-nra-stage-complete-with-shooting-gestures-and-sound-effects
NRA In Chaos As Wayne LaPierre Is Reportedly Asked To Resign
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wayne-lapierre-oliver-north-nra-extortion_n_5cc3860ce4b08e4e34822671
Australia is killing millions of feral cats with poisoned sausages
https://nypost.com/2019/04/26/australia-is-killing-millions-of-feral-cats-with-poisoned-sausages/
Dying Healthcare Activist Ady Barkan to Testify at Congress's First-Ever Medicare for All Hearing
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/26/dying-healthcare-activist-ady-barkan-testify-congresss-first-ever-medicare-all
A Trump-Linked Super PAC Is Trying to Push Europe’s Voters to the Far Right
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/26/trump-linked-super-pac-trying-push-europes-voters-far-right
In 10 Years, Half of Elders Won’t Be Able to Afford Housing and Medical Care
https://truthout.org/articles/in-10-years-half-of-elders-wont-be-able-to-afford-housing-and-medical-care/
Elizabeth Warren rolls out plan to reward hospitals that make childbirth safer for African-American women
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/politics/elizabeth-warren-african-american-maternal-mortality-plan/index.html
The Supreme Court’s Anti-Worker Rulings Are So Routine Now That We Hardly Notice Them. Big Mistake
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/sheldon-whitehouse-roberts-supreme-court-lamps-plus.html
Saudi Arabia has repeatedly helped Saudi citizens evade prosecutors and the police in the US and flee back to their homeland after being accused of serious crimes here. The FBI, the DHS and other agencies have been aware of the Saudi actions for at least a decade
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-knew-that-saudi-diplomats-were-helping-fugitives-the-us-2019-4?
March 2019: In an interview Sanders cannot cite any laws he passed to help black people and so he falls back on his Jesse Jackson and MLK stories
https://www.mediaite.com/online/bernie-sanders-stammers-when-asked-if-hes-passed-laws-that-help-black-people-not-specifically/
F.B.I. Warns of Russian Interference in 2020 Race and Boosts Counterintelligence Operations
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/politics/fbi-russian-election-interference.html
Sri Lanka gun battle with militants kills 15, U.S. pulls citizens out. A gun battle between troops and suspected Islamist militants on Sri Lanka’s east coast left 15 dead, including six children, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people on the island. The government has said that the attacks on three churches and four hotels, most of which were in the capital Colombo, were carried out by nine well-educated Sri Lankans, eight of whom have been identified.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-blasts/sri-lanka-gun-battle-with-militants-kills-15-u-s-pulls-citizens-out-idUSKCN1S303Q
Uranium miner coaxed government to water down extinction safeguards - A multinational uranium miner persuaded the federal government to drop a requirement forcing it to show that a mine in outback Western Australia would not make any species extinct before it could go ahead.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/27/uranium-miner-coaxed-government-to-water-down-extinction-safeguards
Kyler Murray, a Black Man, Was the Number One NFL Draft Pick. Trump Congratulated the Number Two Pick Instead
http://time.com/5579131/kyler-murray-nick-bosa-donald-trump/
15 Michigan state and local officials facing charges in Flint Water Crisis.
https://nbc25news.com/news/local/15-michigan-state-and-local-officials-facing-charges-in-flint-water-crisis
Appeals court rejects challenge to Massachusetts assault weapons ban
https://www2.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/26/appeals-court-rejects-challenge-massachusetts-assault-weapons-ban/tpZaG7DfTmrHcaitDOwZzN/story.html
New restrictions placed on New England fishing industry to protect whales
https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20190426/new-restrictions-placed-on-new-england-fishing-industry-to-protect-whales
The universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it’s about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says. And that’s sending a shudder through the world of physics, making astronomers re-think some of their most basic concepts.
https://apnews.com/fac50d45a19f4239848b1712cfd22c36
https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0004-637X
Pakistan suspends polio vaccine drive after health worker attacks - At least three polio workers have been killed in April, while thousands of parents have refused to allow their children to be inoculated. Pakistan is one of the three countries in the world where polio is endemic.
https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-suspends-polio-vaccine-drive-after-health-worker-attacks/a-48510718
The Oceans Are Getting Stormier - "These changes have impacts that are felt all over the world.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xg94/the-oceans-are-getting-stormier
Interpol: 157 children rescued from West Africa trafficking ring
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/africa/dozens-of-human-trafficking-rescued-africa-intl/index.html
LA City Departments Saw 40% Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The city has established new targets to reduce its emissions by 55% from 2008 levels by 2025 and to be carbon-neutral by 2045. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Reduction-in-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-509153431.html
Blackwater founder Erik Prince’s new company is operating in Iraq
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/blackwater-erik-prince-frontier-services-group-iraq
Trump tried to sabotage a plan to close the gender pay gap. A judge wouldn’t have it.
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18515920/gender-pay-gap-rule-eeoc
Oliver North stepping down as National Rifle Association president
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-nra-idUSKCN1S30EQ
NRA CEO accuses its president of extortion - CEO Wayne LaPierre claims President Oliver North tried to extort him
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/4/27/18519685/nra-ceo-accuses-president-extortion-wayne-lapierre-oliver-north
Internal NRA Memos Reveal Hidden Payments to Enrich Top Executives
https://www.thetrace.org/features/nra-financial-misconduct-ackerman-mcqueen/
More than 41,000 people will run the London Marathon on Sunday. When they reach mile 23, they'll be handed edible pods made of seaweed extracts instead of a plastic water bottle.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/26/business/london-marathon-seaweed-water-bottles/index.html
Elizabeth Warren’s book, The Two-Income Trap, explained (
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/23/18183091/two-income-trap-elizabeth-warren-book
David Attenborough Says He Hasn't Got Many Years Left As He Urges Others To Fight Climate Change
http://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film-and-tv-david-attenborough-says-he-hasnt-got-long-left-to-live-20190427
Jon Favreau (Pod Save America) explaining how Beto’s comment was totally taken out of context about the farm to tables issue. Appreciate this a lot since he has a huge platform.
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/1122251811736285185?s=21
NY Times Apologizes for Printing Anti-semitic Anti-Israel Cartoon. They're Not Sorry, They Were The First To Publish A Cover With A Nazi Swastika When Trump Said Some Of White Nationalist Protestors In Charlotte Were Good People
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/440957-ny-times-opinion-apologizes-for-cartoon-depicting-anti-semitic-tropes
No future for Jews in Germany says teenager. German Jews explain why they are relocating to Israel.
https://m.jpost.com/International/No-future-for-Jews-in-Germany-says-German-Jewish-teenager-588016
Beto's "farm to table" quote that has been deliberately taken out of context was about an actual farming experiment in an impoverished community, Bonton Farms, in Dallas Texas.
https://twitter.com/a_for2day/status/1121983918465605635
What if we helped ensure that high schools could coordinate with trade schools, unions.... to graduate at 18 not just with a diploma, but a certificate towards being a welder, electrician or plumber. - Beto
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