Light News Dump

Emails Show Trump Administration Had No Plan to Track and Reunite Separated Families
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-administration-family-separations-emails.html

House votes to block Trump from exiting Paris climate accord
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/441785-house-votes-to-block-trump-from-exiting-paris-climate-accord

McConnell: Senate won't take up bill preventing US withdrawal from Paris deal
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/441814-mcconnell-senate-will-not-take-up-bill-preventing-us-withdrawal-from-paris

Facebook bans far-right leaders including Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos for being “dangerous”. Facebook said on Thursday it has permanently banned several far-right and anti-Semitic figures and organizations including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Infowars host Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and Laura Loomer for being “dangerous,” a sign that the social network is more aggressively enforcing its hate speech policies under pressure from civil rights groups. Facebook had removed the accounts, fan pages, and groups affiliated with these individuals after it reevaluated the content that they had posted previously, or had reexamined their activities outside of Facebook, the company said. The removal also pertains to at least one of the organizations run by these people, Jones’ Infowars. It is also banning Paul Nehlen, who described himself as a “pro-White Christian Candidate” when he ran for Congress and was also kicked off the website Breitbart News site last year for racist comments about Meghan Markle and ties to Neo-Nazis, and Paul Joseph Watson, a far-right YouTube personality and former editor of Infowars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/02/facebook-bans-far-right-leaders-including-louis-farrakhan-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos-being-dangerous/

Stephen Moore has withdrawn from Fed consideration
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/stephen-moore-has-withdrawn-from-fed-consideration-trump-says.html

Trump Fed choice Stephen Moore withdraws amid controversy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/trump-fed-choice-stephen-moore-withdraws-amid-controversy/2019/05/02/6467b2f8-6cf9-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html

Don’t Be Surprised by Barr’s Behavior. He Acted the Same Way 30 Years Ago.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/dont-be-surprised-by-barrs-behavior-he-acted-the-same-way-30-years-ago/

Barr admits to providing redacted names of Grand Jury investigations to the White House. @CSPAN This is obvious obstruction of justice.
https://twitter.com/DirkSchwenk/status/1123656314473844742

Trump's Tax Plan Provided Massive Tax Breaks to the Oil Industry
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-tax-plan-provided-massive-tax-breaks-to-the-oil-industry

India evacuates 800,000 people as country braces for Tropical Cyclone Fani
https://news.sky.com/story/cyclone-fani-800-000-evacuated-in-india-as-severe-storm-advances-11709101

Scientology cruise ship quarantined in St Lucia after crew member tests positive for measles
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/scientology-cruise-ship-quarantined-after-crew-member-tests-positive-for-measles/67-5a883284-d2a1-48ae-bcb6-0bd068657e77

CBO projects $12.7 trillion in deficits through 2029
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/441865-cbo-projects-127-trillion-in-deficits-through-2029

CBP, ICE Have No Idea If Their Thousands Of Warrantless Device Searches Are Actually Making The Country Safer
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190501/15325742126/cbp-ice-have-no-idea-if-their-thousands-warrantless-device-searches-are-actually-making-country-safer.shtml

Private-prison giant, resurgent in Trump era, gathers at president’s resort
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-business-booming-under-trump-private-prison-giant-gathers-at-presidents-resort/2017/10/25/b281d32c-adee-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html

Advocates Said School Nutrition Rollbacks Were Unnecessary. A New USDA Study Backs Them Up. | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2019/05/02/advocates-said-school-nutrition-rollbacks-were-unnecessary-a-new-usda-study-backs-them-up/

New Pentagon Report Significantly Undercounts Civilian Casualties
https://www.justsecurity.org/63896/new-pentagon-report-significantly-undercounts-civilian-casualties/

Senate fails to override Trump’s veto of resolution demanding end to U.S. involvement in Yemen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-fails-to-override-trumps-veto-of-resolution-demanding-end-to-us-involvement-in-yemen/2019/05/02/4bd0a524-6cf9-11e9-8f44-e8d8bb1df986_story.html

Trump rolls back safety rules meant to prevent another Deepwater Horizon spill
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/05/02/trump-rolls-back-safety-rules-meant-prevent-another-deepwater-horizon-spill/

Drugmakers’ lobbying spending at 10-year high as Washington targets soaring prices
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/drugmakers-lobbying-spending-at-10-year-high-as-washington-targets-soaring-prices-2019-05-02

Trump Tower: Seven Foreign Governments Rented Condos in 2017 Without Congressional Approval
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tower-seven-foreign-governments-rented-condos-in-2017-without-congressional-approval

Trump's golf club reportedly made undocumented employees work overtime for no pay
https://www.salon.com/2019/05/02/trumps-golf-club-reportedly-made-undocumented-employees-work-overtime-for-no-pay/

Kellyanne Conway broke the law attacking Joe Biden in the White House driveway and should be fired
https://www.newsweek.com/kellyanne-conway-broke-law-hatch-act-violation-joe-biden-1412883