Light News Dump

Buttigieg: Republicans have 'lost all claim to ever use religious language' over family separations
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/450791-buttigieg-republicans-have-lost-all-claim-to-ever-use-religious-language

An amendment to require Congressional approval before funds are used for a strike on Iran FAILED in the Senate, 50-40, needing 60 votes to pass. The vote was held open for 10 hours and 8 minutes to allow dems who participated in the #DemDebate to return to DC to vote. White https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1144684928732413952

House Republicans pressuring G20 allies on climate language: French official - Washington Republicans are pressuring allies at the G20 to reject strong climate change language in the meeting's final statement, despite furious opposition from EU countries, a French presidential source said Friday.
https://www.france24.com/en/20190628-us-pressuring-g20-allies-climate-language-french-official

Nancy Pelosi Just Got Rolled by Mitch McConnell on Immigration: “I Think She Got Sabotaged” Senate Republicans got pretty much everything they wanted in a $4.5 billion border funding bill
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zmp5jj/nancy-pelosi-just-got-rolled-by-mitch-mcconnell-on-immigration-i-think-she-got-sabotaged

Joe Biden loses support of top campaign fundraiser in Bay Area after comments on segregationists and Hyde amendment | Tom McInerney: I would imagine I’m not alone,” said McInerney, who was a lead bundler for President Barack Obama in his first run for president. He helped Obama’s campaign raise at least $200,000 throughout that cycle, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/28/biden-loses-support-of-top-financier-after-segregationist-comments.html

Canada still shipping LAVs to Saudi Arabia despite human rights concerns - Canada shows no signs of slowing down shipments of light-armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia despite deepening concerns of human rights abuses and an outstanding debt to Canada of more than $1 billion.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-still-shipping-lavs-to-saudi-arabia-despite-human-rights-concerns-1.4486276

Trump Jokes to Putin They Should ‘Get Rid’ of Journalists
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jokes-to-putin-they-should-get-rid-of-journalists

Sand dunes at Trump golf course set to lose protected status after Scottish government says resort ‘destroyed’ ecosystem
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trump-international-golf-links-sand-dunes-protected-status-scotland-aberdeenshire-a8978896.html

'I'm Republican. I Never Thought I'd Fight for Medicaid.' | Medicaid expansion could benefit 4.5 million Americans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/north-carolina-medicaid-expansion.html

Joe Biden tried to pivot away from talking about his vote for the Iraq War. Bernie Sanders didn’t let him.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/849865/joe-biden-tried-pivot-away-from-talking-about-vote-iraq-war-bernie-sanders-didnt-let

Bernie Sanders says he would move to 'rotate' Supreme Court justices if elected
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/450800-bernie-sanders-says-he-would-move-to-rotate-supreme-court-justices-if

Boeing falsified records for 787 jet sold to Air Canada. It developed a fuel leak | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/boeing-air-canada-jet-fuel-leak-1.5193550

Harris confronts Biden over past efforts to block busing: 'That little girl was me'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/politics/democratic-primary-debate-night-two-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-kamala-harris/index.html

Congressman @BetoORourke visited Homestead detention center today. When asked for his thoughts, Beto was speechless. He could see children over the fence and began to shout, “we see you,” in Spanish.
https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1144355851924385796

No whales will be harpooned off the waters around Iceland this year, as the island nation's two whaling companies have decided to abandon the summer whaling season for the first time in 17 years
https://www.france24.com/en/20190627-iceland-will-skip-whaling-year-company

Iraq's drought unveils 3,400-year-old palace of mysterious empire
https://www.dw.com/en/iraqs-drought-unveils-3400-year-old-palace-of-mysterious-empire/a-49384876

Noah Syndergaard likes tweet saying Mickey Callaway should be fired
https://twitter.com/kfcbarstool/status/1144395159079178241?s=21

Thousands evacuated in Papua New Guineas two volcanoes erupt back to back of one another
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-28/eruption-of-second-volcano-strains-png-budget/11260518

Bernie Says Immigration Threatens the Social Safety Net. Research Shows Otherwise.
https://psmag.com/news/bernie-says-immigration-threatens-the-social-safety-net-research-shows-otherwise

Huge burst of mysterious cosmic radio waves traced back to exact location in galaxy billions of light years away
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cosmic-radio-waves-space-located-light-years-milky-way-csiro-telescope-space-a8978096.html

Ethics Complaint Alleges Funding Republicans Senators’ Walkout Violates Oregon Ethics, Campaign Law
https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2019/06/27/ethics-complaint-alleges-funding-republicans-senators-walkout-violate-oregon-ethics-or-campaign-law/

"My big takeaway is Beto is perceived as a much larger threat than I even thought this early in the race," after the debate, one of the donors on the call told CNBC on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was deemed private. Still, the donor also noted "the platform last night was clearly out of his comfort zone."
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/beto-orourke-donors-to-discuss-improving-debate-performance.html

France records all-time hottest temperature of 44.3C
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/28/france-on-red-alert-as-heatwave-forecast-to-reach-record-45c

Scientists successfully transfer first test tube rhino embryo back into a female, as part of an effort to save nearly extinct northern white rhinos
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-scientists-successfully-tube-rhino-embryo.html

The best part of the night, Biden avoiding Bernie’s hand
https://www.twitter.com/HaleighHoffman/status/1144432141096378373

India arrests after women's heads shaved for resisting rape - The group, which included a local official, ambushed the mother and daughter in their home with the intent of raping them, police said. When the women resisted, they assaulted them, shaved their heads and paraded them through the village.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48783253

Supreme Court will review Trump administration effort to end DACA program shielding young ‘dreamers’ from deportation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/06/28/supreme-court-will-review-trump-administration-effort-to-end-daca-program-shielding-young-dreamers-from-deportation/

Rep. Matt Gaetz To Be Investigated By House Ethics For Threatening Cohen Tweet — Gaetz Was Warned An Investigative Subcommittee Would Be Established Unless He Submit To An Interview, But He Declined.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-ethics-committee-to-investigate-rep-matt-gaetz-for-threatening-tweet


With 2019 Predicted to Be Among Planet's Hottest Years, France's 114º Heat Is 'Absolutely Consistent' With Warnings of Climate Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/28/2019-predicted-be-among-planets-hottest-years-frances-114o-heat-absolutely

A group of German rightwing extremists compiled a “death list” of leftwing and pro-refugee targets by accessing police records, then stockpiled weapons and ordered body bags and quicklime to kill and dispose of their victims, German media have reported, citing intelligence sources.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/28/german-far-right-group-used-police-data-to-compile-death-list