Navy official confirms White House requested USS McCain be kept away during Trump visit
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6042875831001/
The Effects of Climate Change Are Killing People in Alaska
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27677807/alaska-thin-ice-climate-change/
DHS watchdog finds 900 people at border facility with maximum capacity of 125
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/politics/inspector-general-warns-overcrowded-conditions/index.html
Trump administration to ask most US visa applicants for social media information
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/446336-trump-admin-to-ask-most-us-visa-applicants-for-social-media-information
Trump Administration Illegally Lifts Ethanol-Fuel Ban That Was Meant to Cut Smog
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/climate/trump-ethanol-fuel-ban.html
Trump Wants to End Worst-Case Climate Scenario Modeling. Here's Why That Matters. | Trump+Repblicans wants to limit the scope of federal climate assessments, which will leave policymakers and the public unprepared to deal with the consequences of climate change.
https://psmag.com/environment/trump-wants-to-end-worst-case-climate-scenario-modeling-heres-why-that-matters
Elizabeth Warren says she wants to make it legal to indict presidents
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/31/18647042/elizabeth-warren-trump-indictment-mueller
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Gave a Passionate Speech About Why Housing is a Human Right | “Our access and our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-housing-human-right/
Kim Jong-un executes top negotiator, punishes others, over collapse of talks with Trump
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/kim-jong-un-executes-top-negotiator-punishes-others-over-collapse-of-talks-with-trump-20190531-p51t41.html
Trump’s Favorite Dictator Reportedly Executed His Top Negotiator
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/kim-jong-un-trumps-favorite-dictator-reportedly-executed-his-top-negotiator
Impeachment Would Affirm the Will of the People. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. Can we stop imagining that holding him to account would overturn the country’s general will?
https://www.thenation.com/article/mueller-report-impeachment-would-affirm-the-will-of-the-people/'
Donald Trump's tariffs are paid by American consumers
https://eu.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2019/05/31/donald-trump-tariffs-china-american-consumers-pay/1289245001/
Business groups are considering legal action against the White House over Mexico tariffs
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/business-groups-are-considering-legal-action-against-the-white-house-over-mexico-tariffs.html
Trump's trade wars have cost the stock market $5 trillion and counting: Deutsche Bank
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/trumps-trade-wars-have-cost-the-stock-market-5-trillion-and-counting-deutsche-bank.html
Hundreds of migrant children held longer than legally allowed by Border Patrol
https://thehill.com/latino/446286-report-hundreds-of-migrant-children-being-held-longer-than-legally-allowed-by-border
Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Eddie Lampert: Billionaire’s effort to avoid paying $43 million in worker severance is a ‘betrayal’
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/warren-aoc-rail-at-eddie-lampert-for-shirking-sears-worker-severance.html
Voter Registration Is Surging—So Republicans Want to Criminalize It
https://prospect.org/article/voter-registration-surging-so-republicans-want-criminalize-it
Trump's new tariffs on American consumers threaten to derail a major trade agreement that took more than a year of bitter negotiation, and are even drawing the ire of a Republican ally
https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-mexico-tarrifs-threaten-usmca-criticized-gop-2019-5
Trump's Trade Tweets Could Blow Up in His Face | Beyond the obvious economic damage, imposing tariffs against Mexico would threaten the U.S.’s stature as a diplomatic partner globally.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-31/trump-s-twitter-trade-explosion-risks-blowing-up-in-his-face
Trump's poor mental health is grounds for impeachment
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/05/31/donald-trump-should-impeached-because-his-bad-mental-health-column/1260781001/
THANK YOU YEP: Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/politics/black-voters-impeachment.html
New Hampshire abolishes death penalty as lawmakers override governor's veto
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/30/728288240/new-hampshire-abolishes-death-penalty-as-lawmakers-override-governors-veto
Trump's Mexico tariffs would wreck the auto industry
https://www.axios.com/mexico-tariffs-trump-trade-war-auto-industry-effects-a1be01c0-4f61-4b62-a863-75c043412bae.html
House Democrats pass bill to force U.S. to stay in Paris climate agreement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/05/02/house-passes-bill-force-us-stay-paris-climate-agreement/
Republican disregard for democratic norms didn't start with Trump: Maddow points out that Republicans were already engaged in hyper-partisan behavior against President Obama, before that hyper-partisanship became couched in blind allegiance to Trump's destruction of democratic standards of conduct.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-disregard-for-democratic-norms-didn-t-start-with-trump-60602437959
Pelosi Statement on Louisiana’s Draconian Abortion Ban — Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on Louisiana’s new abortion ban, which prohibits abortion at as early as six weeks, before most women know they are pregnant, and does not contain exceptions for cases of rape or incest
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/53019-3/
Authorities Subpoena Information on Andrew Gillum’s 2018 Campaign
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/politics/andrew-gillum-campaign-subpoena.html
Committee Presses Investigation of Administration’s Attempt to Remove Education Department Watchdog. Washington, D.C. (May 30, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee Member Rep. Mark DeSaulnier sent a letter in response to the Department of Education’s ongoing refusal to produce documents regarding an attempt to remove Acting Inspector General Sandra D. Bruce—who was investigating the actions of Secretary Betsy DeVos—and replace her with Deputy General Counsel Philip H. Rosenfelt. Their letter directs the Department to produce all requested documents by June 10 and also seeks a transcribed interview with Deputy Secretary of Education Mitchell Zais.
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/committee-presses-investigation-of-administration-s-attempt-to-remove-education
Russia Deployed Its Trolls to Cover Up the Murder of 298 People on MH17
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mh17-russia-deployed-its-trolls-to-cover-up-the-murder-of-298-people
New Zealand government to prioritize 'well-being' over economic growth in national budget
https://thehill.com/policy/international/446254-new-zealand-government-to-prioritize-well-being-over-economic-growth-in
Dollar Tree breaks $1 promise, rolls out pricier products amid pressure from Trump's tariffs
https://www.businessinsider.com/dollar-tree-breaks-dollar-promise-more-expensive-products-2019-5
A former West Virginia county official who made headlines in 2016 for her racist online post about then-First Lady Michelle Obama was sentenced to prison Thursday for the embezzlement of disaster relief funds. Pamela Ramsey Taylor, 57, the former director at the Clay County Development Corporation, a West Virginia-based elderly non-profit group, was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison and fined $10,000 for admitting that she falsely registered for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster benefits, according to a report from local news outlet WSAZ. Taylor’s sentence also mandates her to pay restitution of $18,149.04; she will be confined to her home for two months after her release. Three years of supervised release will follow.
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/ex-county-official-who-called-michelle-obama-an-ape-sentenced-for-embezzling-fema-funds/
UN atomic agency: Iran in compliance with 2015 nuclear deal
https://apnews.com/0209af814f73484f97032945161523bb
Trump's Mexico tariffs could 'cripple' U.S. auto industry, raise average price of cars by $1,300
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps-mexico-tariffs-could-cripple-u-s-auto-industry-raise-average-price-of-cars-by-1-300
All Germans urged to wear kippah in protest against antisemitism - Call for solidarity follows warning that Jews wearing cap face abuse and attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/31/germans-urged-wear-kippah-protest-antisemitism
127 countries have some sort of plastic bag legislation, 91 of which include a ban or restriction on manufacturing, importation and retail distribution. Africa has 34 of these countries, followed by Europe with 29. A plastic bag ban comes into force in Tanzania over the weekend, as Africa leads efforts to stem the tide of plastic blighting the farthest reaches of the globe, and depths of the ocean
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1134546085295169536
Transcript released of Flynn voicemail from Trump lawyer showing possible attempt to obstruct: Hey, Rob, uhm, this is John again. Uh, maybe, I-I-I'm-I'm sympathetic; I understand your situation, but let me see if I can't ... state it in ... starker terms. If you have ... and it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal with, and, uh, work with the government, uh ... I understand that you can't join the joint defense; so that's one thing. If, on the other hand, we have, there's information that. .. implicates the President, then we've got a national security issue, or maybe a national security issue, I don't know ... some issue, we got to-we got to deal with, not only for the President, but for the country. So ... uh ... you know, then-then, you know, we need some kind of heads up. Um, just for the sake of ... protecting all our interests, if we can, without you having to give up any ... confidential information. So, uhm, and if it's the former, then, you know, remember what we've always said about the President and his feelings toward Flynn and, that still remains, but-Well, in any event, uhm, let me know, and, uh, I appreciate your listening and taking the time. Thanks, Pal.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/politics/michael-flynn-john-dowd-voicemail/index.html
Laura Ingraham Features White Supremacist Paul Nehlen, Cites Him As ‘Prominent Voice’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-fox-news-paul-nehlen-white-supremacist_n_5cf0ad6be4b0e8085e378c99
Trump administration is responsible for the largest reduction in protected land in US history
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/health/protected-land-conservation-study/
Italy is evicting Steve Bannon from the medieval monastery he planned to turn into a far-right training academy
https://qz.com/1632565/italy-to-evict-steve-bannon-from-his-far-right-training-academy/
Schiff writes to ODNI, NSA, CIA and FBI to denounce the declassification authorities newly bestowed on AG Barr, requests an in-person briefing, and urges the agencies to share any info and/or concerns they have about Barr’s potential declassification efforts.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D76tQZaWwAAO9i-.jpg
Leaked emails show disgraced former MO. Gov. Eric Greitens was allowed to rejoin the Navy only after pressure from Trump's Defense Undersecretary. Navy apparently not too happy about being forced to let Greitens back in. Greitens’s potential reemergence in the military, first reported by the Kansas City Star, has left the Navy facing questions about its judgment in an era in which sexual assault statistics in the military have drawn outrage. But in a move that has not previously been reported, the case also has prompted the chief of naval operations, Adm. John Richardson, to call for a new 30-day review of how the service handles personnel cases involving personal misconduct allegations, including Greitens’s. Richardson, writing May 26 in an email to other admirals, said the “recent events involving the transition of Mr. Greitens” have “excited a persistent frustration of mine that I want to address more comprehensively.” The Navy’s policies and practices for addressing personal misconduct are “too cumbersome and slow,” creating situations where officials end up retaining people “we’d rather see dismissed from our ranks.” Such decisions, Richardson concluded, weaken “the ethical fiber of our Navy” and put the service “in a situation that is hard to explain to ourselves, and even more difficult to explain to the American people.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/navy-review-launched-after-missouri-governor-who-resigned-amid-scandal-gets-new-military-assignment/2019/05/31/0b0f4742-8221-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html
A youth baseball team plays on as a possible tornado twists in the background. Several states have suffered from a streak of hundreds of tornadoes for nearly two weeks.
https://twitter.com/WEWS/status/1134496124193071104
A former aide to Trump confidant Roger Stone testified about WikiLeaks before a federal grand jury Friday in an investigation related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Andrew Miller testified for about two hours after losing a months-long legal battle to have the subpoena thrown out.
Although the Russia investigation is over, the grand jury that worked with Mueller still hears testimony in cases that are tied to the investigation. Mueller’s team handed off several cases, including the one against Stone, to other federal prosecutors. Prosecutors sought Miller’s testimony as they built a case against Stone, who was charged earlier this year with lying to Congress about his efforts to alert the Trump campaign to WikiLeaks’ plans to release damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.
https://apnews.com/2889971938154d10b808f1ef4e96b7fe
If the Trump administration follows through on all its tariff threats, the combined result will be a tax increase of up to $220.5 billion. This would shatter the post-war record for largest tax increase. @NTUF
https://twitter.com/NTU/status/1134530347616673792
Reminder: As Trump tweets about Pride Month, remember the Trump admin just proposed to scrap an Obama-era policy that prohibited health care providers from discriminating against transgender patients. The rule would also strike down protections for LGBTQ patients.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/24/transgender-patients-protections-health-care-1343005
Using drones, the Associated Press shows the stark, stunning beauty of the sites of the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy
https://apnews.com/f605011aac114e0298f5f75d6acbe0fe
https://apnews.com/f605011aac114e0298f5f75d6acbe0fe/gallery/9ad17aece7474851a822bf9d6c27d13d
$146 Million Default by Nursing Home Chain Leaves U.S. on the Hook. The failure of the Rosewood Care Centers is the biggest default in the history of a little-known program that underpins 15 percent of the nation’s nursing homes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/business/nursing-homes-mortgage-hud.html
Leon Redbone, a mysterious musician who evoked a bygone era, has died
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/entertainment/leon-redbone-singer-death-trnd/index.html
More sponsors drop Fresno Grizzlies over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vide
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-heineken-fresno-grizzlies-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-video-20190531-story.html
Conservationists find protected areas worldwide are shrinking
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-conservationists-areas-worldwide.html
Manitoba vets ban declawing - The Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association joins its counterparts in five other Canadian provinces in banning the procedure – a trend that began with the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association calling non-therapeutic declawing “ethically unacceptable” in 2017.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5333929/paws-itively-great-news-for-cats-manitoba-vets-ban-declawing/
Renewable energy costs hit new lows, now cheapest new power option for most of the world
https://electrek.co/2019/05/29/renewable-costs-new-lows-cheapest/
A genetically modified fungus wiped out malaria-carrying mosquitoes in a month and a half, in trials in west Africa which have come closer than ever before to studying the potential impact of releasing an engineered organism in the wild.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/malaria-mosquitoes-wiped-out-with-gm-fungus-in-first-controlled-real-world-tests-a8937146.html
Trade war, flooded fields leave Midwestern farmers thinking about skipping a year: 'What the heck am I doing farming?'
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-midwestern-farmers-floods-china-20190530-story.html
Want to end abortion? Hold men — fathers of those unplanned children — accountable.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/05/30/abortion-pro-life-men-responsibility-fatherhood-column/1258403001/
Reminder: North Korea Executes Five Officials After Failed U.S. Summit in February
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/north-korea-executes-official-for-failed-u-s-summit-report.html
Climate ‘apocalypse’ to leave Scotland with abandoned villages, doomed forests and no birdsong within decade | Warming world and commercial pressures putting country at risk of severe degradation, the head of the country’s environment agency warns
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-scotland-impact-forest-bird-wildlife-flooding-a8936661.html
More than 600 people, mostly children, test positive for HIV in Pakistan city, after doctor allegedly uses contaminated syringe. "Some 681 people, of which 537 were children from two to 12 years of age, had been tested positive for HIV" special health adviser Zafar Mirza said
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3011886/more-600-people-mostly-children-test-positive-hiv-pakistan
The Mueller Report Will Be Read Live This Weekend. The director Jackson Gay conceived the project, which started as her half-serious Facebook post but has grown into an event with over 100 volunteer readers. Participants are scheduled to include the theater directors Anne Kauffman, Leigh Silverman and Annie Dorsen; Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater; the actor Michael Urie; and the playwrights and performers Taylor Mac and Eisa Davis. Mac’s own marathon show, “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” became a 24-hour-long must-see in 2016.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/theater/mueller-report-reading-taylor-mac.html
Eleven people were killed in a shooting at the Virginia Beach municipal complex, police said. The shooter, who was was a public utilities worker, also is dead, Cervera said. The chief said the gunman fired "indiscriminately."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/us/virginia-beach-shooting/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/virginia-beach-shooting.html
Beto's Strategy: Knock On Doors: The nation’s largest super PAC devoted to grassroots Democratic turnout is launching its organizing efforts earlier than ever in seven swing states with a new campaign director and its largest budget to date: $80 million to $90 million. For Our Future announced Friday that it’s hiring former President Barack Obama’s onetime Florida campaign chair, Ashley Walker, to coordinate its swing-state operations with the goal of identifying and turning out Democratic-leaning 2020 voters, namely people of color and so-called “sporadic voters” who don’t frequently cast ballots. The committee, which was started in 2016 and historically has been funded by labor unions and billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer, plans to build a network of 4,000 paid staff and an army of volunteers in Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, states where it operated in 2018 and 2017. For Our Future operates in tandem with a “dark money” political nonprofit called For Our Future Action Fund that doesn’t have to disclose donors. With a mission of having person-to-person interactions with voters, For Our Future differs from most other super PACs, which are devoted to running TV and digital ads to turn out voters. While For Our Future utilizes digital ads and mailers, its mission revolves around on-the-ground staffers and grassroots volunteers meeting voters personally at their homes. The group says it knocked on 10.2 million doors in 2018. One reason the group was founded was that Republican-aligned groups, specifically those allied to the Koch brothers, were enjoying an asymmetrical advantage in election fundraising and organizing that Democrats were unable to match. As with conservative donors, there was a growing appetite among progressive contributors who wanted more of a say in how their money was spent outside the political party structure.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/democrats-super-pac-swing-states-1348502
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