Light News Dump

Impeach Donald Trump ad will air on Fox News to "get Trump and D.C. Republicans' attention"
https://www.newsweek.com/impeach-trump-ad-fox-news-1445110

ICE raids targeting migrant families slated to start Sunday in major U.S. cities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/ice-raids-targeting-migrant-families-slated-to-start-sunday-in-major-us-cities/2019/06/21/f2936318-942e-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html

Felix Sater, a mafia-connected ex-Trump associate, FBI informant, and convicted felon who once gave the U.S. government Osama bin Laden‘s phone number, didn't show up  to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday as expected. (Illness) | House Democrats have responded nonetheless by promising a subpoena. They want Sater to testify about his involvement in plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, and will “compel” him to do so.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/felix-sater-didnt-show-up-to-testify-about-the-moscow-project-now-this-is-happening/

Felix Sater tells @politico he was sick this morning and slept through his alarm, causing him to miss his appearance before the House Intelligence Committee.

Tulsi Gabbard defends Joe Biden, saying “Critics have unfairly misrepresented his important message” She directly calls out Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris:

(1/3) @ewarren @KamalaHarris Joe Biden did not "celebrate" or “coddle” segregationists. His critics have unfairly misrepresented his important message to score cheap political points. I agree with @ClyburnSC06 and @JoeBiden: in order for Congress and the president to…
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1142174035758862336

(2/3) …get things done for the American people, there needs to be civility in Washington and in the country — the ability to work with those who we disagree, even those who hold some views which we abhor. In order for Congress to work for the American people…
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1142174036614512640

(3/3) …we need to find common ground with each other. That is not possible without civility. We don’t need another president who is going to continue to divide our country. We need a president who will unite us. United we stand, divided we fall.
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https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1142174037465956352

Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee @RepMikeRogersAL (R-Alabama) told @scottwongdc that he believes Pres. Trump has the authority to launch military attacks against Iran without seeking an #AUMF Watch #Newsmakers Sunday at 10am & 6pm ET http://cs.pn/31PE5kn
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1142154927155888130

‘Never again’ means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits - Yes, every situation is different. That doesn’t mean we can’t compare them. | But the Holocaust didn’t begin with gas chambers, and it’s not business as usual in America right now. We already know that the path to atrocity can be a process, and that the Holocaust began with dehumanizing propaganda, with discriminatory laws, with roundups and deportations, and with internment. Those things are happening in our country now, and they’re known as some of the stages of genocide first articulated by Genocide Watch in 1996. Having a historical reference point can help us understand our own moral obligations in this story and to make sense of it as it unfolds. Whether it has or ever will reach the stage of ultimate atrocity is not the question. What we should be asking is how articulating parallels can help us to see where we are, with clarity, now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/never-again-means-nothing-if-holocaust-analogies-are-always-off-limits/
http://www.genocidewatch.com/ten-stages-of-genocide
http://genocidewatch.net/genocide-2/8-stages-of-genocide/

Trump's tweets are destroying democracy in ways we won't see for years
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/21/trump-tweets-obscure-destruction-of-american-democracy-column/1472956001/

Trump Threatened Time Magazine Reporter With Prison Over Photo of Kim Jong Un Letter
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-threatened-time-reporter-with-prison-over-photo-of-kim-jong-un-letter

Trump's July 4 gala will drain security costs from special fund because he still hasn't paid his inauguration bill
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-july-4-gala-drain-security-costs-special-fund-1444088?f

One year ago, Trump outlawed family separation. It hasn’t stopped.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/opinion/family-separation-trump-migrants.html

I Fled Gangs In Honduras And The Cartel, But The U.S. Taking My Daughter Was Torture
https://www.newsweek.com/i-fled-gangs-honduras-cartel-us-taking-my-daughter-was-torture-opinion-1445093

Milk, bread, democracy: New Zealanders get to vote in supermarkets - “It’s important that ballot boxes are placed where people are going about their normal business and can therefore accommodate voting more easily into their busy lives”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/21/milk-bread-democracy-new-zealanders-vote-election-supermarkets

The Republican National Committee's ex-deputy finance chairman, Elliott Broidy, was paid 6 million dollars by the government of Angola for access to 2016 inaugural events, which would violate campaign finance laws or possibly statutes against money laundering
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/449676-prosecutors-examining-whether-trump-fundraiser-elliott-broidy-offered

Hong Kong protesters not backing down, demand police apology. Crowds gathered outside the police headquarters Friday demanding an apology for violent clashes between officers and protesters last week.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hong-kong-protesters-not-backing-down-demanding-police-apology-n1020131

Hong Kong police failed to display ID numbers, security chief: No room on uniform
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/21/hong-kong-activists-complain-police-failed-display-id-numbers-security-chief-says-uniform-no-room/

In a crime apparently intended to impress the Islamic State, two Scandinavian women were brutally slain in Morocco. The killings were seized on by the far right to attack Islam.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/06/21/murder-two-scandinavian-women-morocco-was-meant-impress-islamic-state-far-right-seized-it-attack-islam/

Armed Militias Pledge to Fight for Fugitive Oregon GOP Lawmakers ‘At Any Cost’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/armed-militias-pledge-to-fight-for-fugitive-oregon-gop-lawmakers-at-any-cost

White House illegally tells agencies they no longer have to weigh a project’s long-term climate impacts. The reversal may not be enough to satisfy the courts, which have repeatedly faulted agencies for not calculating their actions’ carbon footprint.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/06/21/white-house-tells-agencies-they-no-longer-have-weigh-projects-long-term-climate-impacts/

Blue States Roll Out Aggressive Climate Strategies. Red States Keep to the Sidelines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/climate/states-climate-change.html


Russia to release 100 belugas, orcas from 'whale jail' after international outcry
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/113662142/russia-to-release-100-belugas-orcas-from-whale-jail-after-international-outcry

8-year-old migrant children are being forced to care for toddlers in detention camps; kids are being fed un-defrosted meals, and infants don't have diapers
https://www.newsweek.com/migrant-children-detention-camps-donald-trump-1445313

California adds 19,400 jobs, a quarter of all U.S. employment growth in May
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-jobs-data-may-20190621-story.html

Republican state senators in Oregon say they are prepared to sue if the Senate president goes through with her threat to impose a $500 fine for each day they delay a vote on a landmark climate plan
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1142224456791863296
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-republicans-flee-facing-fines-state-police-chasing-democrats-demand-n1020571

4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/four-severely-ill-migrant-babies-hospitalized-after-lawyers-visited-border-patrol-facility_n_5d0d3bbce4b07ae90d9cfe4f

Trump tweets video showing him running for president indefinitely
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/449784-trump-tweets-video-showing-his-campaign-signs-for-thousands-of-years

Manafort and Hannity exchanged hundreds of text messages about Mueller probe
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/manafort-hannity-exchanged-hundreds-text-messages-about-mueller-russia-probe-n1020561

 Wow: New campaign finance filings made public last night show that so far in 2019, the RNC has a larger share (51%) of small-dollar donations under $200 than the DNC does (43%).
https://twitter.com/myhlee/status/1142071484749406208

So far in 2019:
-@GOP raised $75.6 million, with $38.2 million in donations under $200 (51%); $37 million in cash on hand.
-@DNC raised $31.8 million, with $13.6 million in donations under $200 (43%); $8.3 million in cash on hand, $6 million in debt.
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https://twitter.com/myhlee/status/1142075511595819008