Barr testiffied he did not interfere with any of muellers investigations.....: AG Bill Barr killed 7 Robert Mueller investigations — 10 days after he submitted his report. Attorney General Bill Barr killed seven different investigations started by special counsel Robert Mueller just ten days after he submitted his report. CNN’s Katelyn Polantz had filed a request to unseal documents related to the special counsel’s investigation and on Monday the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia agreed. Chief Judge Beryl A Howell ordered the release of multiple documents, including Attachment B, which listed information on applications for court orders requested by Mueller. The 65-page document shows seven cases that were closed on April Fools Day — only ten days after Mueller submitted his report. The document reveals the orders involved the companies AT&T, Twitter and Facebook.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/ag-bill-barr-killed-7-robert-mueller-investigations-10-days-after-he-submitted-his-report/
Trump’s Child Detention Camps Cost $775 Per Person Every Day — The daily cost for a child in a detention camp is more than a stay in a deluxe room at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
https://www.gq.com/story/trump-detention-camps-cost
Shocking image emerges of migrant father and child drowned at the US-Mexico border
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/25/americas/mexico-photo-of-father-and-daughter-dead-in-rio-grande/index.html
Senate GOP blocks election security bill
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/450334-senate-gop-blocks-election-security-bill
Republican Rep. Michael Burgess on conditions in camp: 'Any child is free to leave at anytime'
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-on-conditions-in-camp-any-child-is-free-to-leave-at-anytime-62597701961
https://flipboard.com/@msnbc/gop-rep-on-conditions-in-camp-%E2%80%98any-child-is-free-to-leave-at-anytime%E2%80%99/a-Bzt74T_2SSmtLjc5pkMW_g%3Aa%3A3195436-361187baf7/msnbc.com
The resignation of John Sanders, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's acting commissioner, came shortly after agency officials said that more than 100 children have been returned to a troubled Border Patrol station in Texas
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/migrant-children-border.html
Oregon Republicans gloat on Fox News while hiding in Idaho to escape climate change vote
https://www.newsweek.com/oregon-republicans-flee-idaho-fox-news-climate-change-bill-gloat-1445731
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Stop Trump From Starting War With Iran — No More Presidential Wars
https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-tulsi-gabbard-stop-trump-starting-war-iran-no-more-presidential-wars
Iran's president says Trump White House 'afflicted by mental retardation'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/trump-iran-news-crisis-rouhani-tensions-middle-east-latest-a8973326.html
Florida Vet and Naval Officer: Beto just listened for over two hours to our roundtable discussion on veterans issues, the VA, the need to end the "forever wars", and how to improve vet entrepreneurship opportunities. Thank you for coming to Tampa and for laying out your plans for us Beto!
https://twitter.com/AndrewLearned/status/1143188821116379136
Former top Commerce aide says he was directed by Ross to add Census citizenship question
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-top-commerce-aide-says-he-was-directed-by-ross-to-add-census-citizenship-question/2019/06/24/4ba75f2c-96d2-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html
Ireland poised to end fur farming, sparing thousands of mink from ‘lives of misery’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-fur-farm-ban-mink-farming-jobs-ispca-animal-welfare-a8972546.html
Maryland judge rules sufficient evidence to reopen 2020 census case citing racial motives
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-judge-rules-sufficient-evidence-to-reopen-2020-census-case-citing-racial-motives/
In his sanctions announcement, Trump accidentally named the wrong supreme leader of Iran, who has been dead since 1989
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-accidentally-named-dead-iranian-leader-in-sanctions-announcement-2019-6
Parkland’s David Hogg: ‘Children having to go through active shooter drills is not what freedom looks like to me’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/parklands-david-hogg-children-having-to-go-through-active-shooter-drills-is-not-what-freedom-looks-like-to-me/2019/06/24/ee5c8982-8182-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html
Committee Files Contempt Report Against AG Barr and Commerce Secretary Ross, Releases Transcripts from Census Investigation
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/committee-files-contempt-report-against-ag-barr-and-commerce-secretary-ross
Perdue admits farmers are casualties of Trump’s trade policies, won’t promise additional aid – Trump's agriculture secretary just said the quiet part out loud.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-agriculture-secretary-sonny-perdue-admits-farmers-casualties-trump-trade-policies-wont-promise-aid-8716e18eb0e4/
Indicted Criminal Republical Rep. Duncan Hunter used campaign funds to pursue affairs
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/25/duncan-hunter-campaign-funds-affairs-1382197
Trump Names Stephanie Grisham, Aide to First Lady, as White House Press Secretary
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/politics/stephanie-grisham-press-secretary.html
Democrats’ emoluments lawsuit against President Trump can proceed, federal judge rules
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/democrats-emoluments-lawsuit-against-president-trump-can-proceed-federal-judge-rules/2019/06/25/73bcc6ac-8b95-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?utm_term=.dc4e77883508
Iran to abandon more nuclear deal commitments
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-says-new-sanctions-mean-end-diplomacy-n1021311?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Elizabeth Warren: Repeal The Law That Criminalizes Migrants — The Democratic presidential candidate wants to repeal a decades-old law put forth by a famed segregationist.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-immigration_n_5d1238bae4b07ae90da46c88?2ha
As Ebola Deaths Mount in Africa, Trump Is Screwing Up the Response
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/as-ebola-deaths-mount-in-africa-trump-is-screwing-up-the-response/
Father-daughter border drowning highlights migrants’ perils. The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl’s head tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.
https://apnews.com/2f8422c820104d6eaad9b73d939063a9
Trump Shrugs Off Rape Accuser as 'Not My Type.' Accuser Natasha Stoynoff Shoots Back: Your 'Type' Is Any Woman in Reach — "To Trump, a man who has bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, a bit of rape in a department store change room must be no big deal at all"
https://people.com/politics/natasha-stoynoff-responds-donald-trump-attacks-accuser-physical-appearances/
Tamp Bay Rays ignorant trash owner Stu Sternberg’s comments about coordination w/Bronfman on Montreal sister-city concept prior to 2028 sparked legal inquiry from #StPete mayor’s office, which reviewed today’s press conference for indications contract may have been violated
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/299694-did-rays-stu-sternberg-violate-his-contract-with-st-petersburg
Sanders is a LIAR. Anybody who says we can afford free college tuition, free healthcare, and write off student debt without raising taxes is just LYING to get votes. Sanders supporters are no different from Trump supporters in coal country. They want to be LIED to and told what they want to hear.
Trump on Tuesday threatened to attack Iran in retaliation for any strikes by Tehran "on anything American," after Iran said new U.S. sanctions precluded any diplomacy and called the White House actions "mentally retarded."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-trump/trump-threatens-attacks-on-iran-in-retaliation-for-strikes-idUSKCN1TQ1YE
UN expert says human rights may not survive - The world is increasingly at risk of “climate apartheid”, where the rich pay to escape heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of the world suffers, a report from a UN human rights expert has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/25/climate-apartheid-united-nations-expert-says-human-rights-may-not-survive-crisis
Men's fertility irreversibly damaged by age of 18 thanks to Western junk food diet, study finds - A groundbreaking investigation has established that teenagers who favour high-fat and processed foods like pizzas, chips and snacks are killing off sperm-producing cells that can never be replaced.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/24/mens-fertility-irreversibly-damaged-age-18-thanks-western-junk/
Human waste left by a record number of mountaineers crowding Mount Everest this climbing season threatens to contaminate drinking water for local communities
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/human-waste-left-by-record-number-of-everest-climbers-threatens-local-drinking-water-a4174356.html
G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/25/g20-nations-triple-coal-power-subsidies-climate-crisis
Trump’s repeated defense against assault accusations: call the accuser unattractive. When the president says E. Jean Carroll is “not my type,” he wants us to think sexual assault is about sex and not power.
https://www.vox.com/2019/6/25/18744356/donald-trump-jean-carroll-not-my-type
Italy's Salvini is refusing to allow a boat of rescued migrants permission to land, calling it a "pirate ship"
https://www.newsweek.com/italy-salvini-sea-watch-3-migrants-pirate-ship-1445697
Five years after Russia had its voting rights removed because of the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly has voted to restore them. The assembly backed the proposal in the face of angry opposition from Ukraine, whose delegation later walked out.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48755606
Veteras Affairs health care workers say managers are trying to silence them on veteran care
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/25/veterans-affairs-health-care-workers-say-punished-speaking-out/1549658001/
The 2020 Summer Olympics: These Games will see the introduction of additional disciplines within several of the Summer Olympics sports, including 3x3 basketball, freestyle BMX and Madison cycling, as well as further mixed events. Under new IOC policies that allow sports to be added to the Games' programme to augment the permanent "core" Olympic events, these Games will see karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding make their Olympic debuts, and the return of baseball and softball (which were removed from the summer program after 2008).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics
O'Rourke's proposal is logistically pretty simple. When a new war is authorized, a tax would automatically go into effect to help pay for it. The tax would be levied on all families "without current members of the Armed Forces or veterans of the Armed Forces," and it would be progressive. Households making more than $200,000 would pay $1,000 a year. Those making less than $30,000 would pay $25 a year. The proceeds from the tax would go into a fund to support veterans health care. | Nonetheless, it is in fact a potentially transformative foreign policy proposal. Currently, wars are financed through debt and borrowing. Most people therefore don't feel the effects of these conflicts in any direct concrete way. A war tax would change that, as Sarah Kreps, author of "Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy," explained to me. "If people were forced to pay the cost of war, they would make some sort of calculation in their minds about whether the war being fought is worth the fiscal sacrifice they're making," Kreps says. "And as soon as those are no longer in alignment, they would start putting pressure on leaders to find a suitable end to the war." Kreps has data to back this up. In 2017, she and Cornell government professor Gustavo A. Flores-Macías published a paper in the Journal of Conflict Resolution examining the link between support for war and the method by which the war was financed. They conducted a public opinion survey of 2,500 adults in the United States and 2,122 in the United Kingdom in June 2013. Their results were striking. Wars financed by borrowing alone were 8 to 12 points more popular than wars financed by borrowing and taxes. More, this effect held regardless of partisanship. In the U.S., both Republican and Democratic support for war fell when the public was directly taxed to support the conflict. Partisan differences were not significant. Twelve points is a significant gap. That means that a war that had 55 percent support could drop to only 43 percent if a war tax were attached. More, as Kreps pointed out, imposing specific taxes for unpopular projects tends to have volatile results. A new fuel tax in France to control climate emissions inspired violent protests just last year. A war tax, if instituted, could plausibly inspire very strong reactions in Americans the next time war is declared. | Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both made promises to restrain intervention, too. Both ended up with often aggressive military policies driven by a vast military industrial complex and a default political calculus that doing something looks more impressive than doing nothing.Even Sanders as president would likely have trouble defying those institutional incentives. That's why O'Rourke's proposal is so important. A war tax isn't a personal promise to be less interventionist. It's a policy designed to change the calculus for all politicians. And it challenges other Democratic candidates to develop specific counterproposals. If you don't want a war tax, what would you offer instead? By how much would you cut the defense budget, and what would you do with the reallocated funds? How could we strengthen the War Powers Act, which Sanders was able to leverage in the Senate to condemn the war in Yemen? How do you spread the costs of war more equitably so that the public can no longer ignore them while soldiers, veterans and people overseas suffer?
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/beto-o-rourke-s-war-tax-could-radically-change-political-ncna1021606
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022002715600762
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/french-protesters-angry-over-fuel-taxes-clash-police-n939716
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-military/trump-lays-out-non-interventionist-u-s-military-policy-idUSKBN13W06L
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/13/18263894/yemen-war-senate-sanders-murphy-lee
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