Light News Dump

Fake Biden Campaign Website Being Run Secretly By Trump Campaign Operative: Report
https://www.newsweek.com/fake-biden-campaign-website-being-run-secretly-trump-campaign-operative-report-1446693

Sanders is right: Republican tax cuts cost more than forgiving student debt
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2019/jun/30/student-debt-loan-forgiveness-bernie-sanders

The "he needs to do his homework" crack was a personal attack. Both Castro bros are very much aware of Beto's work on immigration & border issues. Joaquin & Beto were co-sponsors of the Keep Families Together Act which would've ended family separation for good.
https://twitter.com/susiedrapes/status/1145163892903075840

New White House press secretary left with bruises after scuffles between North Korean security guards and journalists
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-korea-meeting-fight-stephanie-grisham-scuffle-kim-jong-un-dmz-a8981181.html

"I'm not meeing North Korean leader. I'm not going to DMZ": Trump and Kim Jong Un meet in the DMZ
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-kim-jong-un-meet-dmz-n1025041

Trump becomes first sitting US president in history to cross border into North Korea
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/30/rtrs-190630-trump-kim-quotes-dmz-eu.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out Ivanka Trump's G20 Summit blunder: 'Being someone's daughter actually isn't a career'
https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-ivanka-trump-g20-145813839.html

Donald Trump invites Kim Jong-un to US after entering North Korea. The military needs to get involved if that brutal dictator is allowed to step foot on US soil at the request of Trump. The war with North Korea has never truly ending and this is Treason. Donald Trump and anyone who supports him has betrayed the United States. This is why we needed well regulated militias apparently, to stop the Republican party. He invited the murderous lunatic to the White House and said it was a 'great honor' to cross the border into NK. He PRAISED THEIR MASS MURDERING TROOPS WHO RUN SLAVE LABOUR CONCENTRATION CAMPS It's like he's the junior country trying to ingratiate himself with someone much more important. It's completely crazy, and it's everything the Kim family has desperately wanted for themselves since the 1960s. And so far, NK hasn't had to give a single thing for all this special treatment by the US. Trump AND ALL PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT HIM ARE EVIL TERRORISTS.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/30/trump-to-travel-to-demilitarised-zone-for-possible-meeting-with-kim-jong-un

An oil spill that began 15 years ago is up to a thousand times worse than the rig owner's estimate, study finds. A new federal study estimates that each day, about 380 to 4,500 gallons of oil are flowing at the site where a company's oil platform was damaged after a hurricane. That's about a hundred to a thousand times worse than the company's initial estimate, which put the amount of oil flowing into the ocean at less than three gallons a day. The report, released this past week and written by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and one at Florida State University, also contradicted assertions from the Taylor Energy Company about where the oil was coming from. The leak started in 2004, when an oil platform belonging to the Taylor Energy Company was damaged by a mudslide after Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf of Mexico. A bundle of pipes and wells sank to the ocean floor and became partially buried under mud and sediment.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/29/us/taylor-oil-spill-trnd/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/us/taylor-energy-oil-largest-spill-disaster-ivan-golf-of-mexico-environment-trnd/index.html

Any issue with @JoeBiden civil rights record, particularly on busing, in light of debate? @BetoORourke cites lessons learned in Texas about education disparities and says "my focus is going to be forward" to address them. From earlier today in Houston:
https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1145043261809201152
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-QB0HNX4AAaJci.png

How can we achieve peace in the Middle East when Palestinians who fly to peace conferences are subjected to threats, imprisonment, torture, beatings and insults when they return back home to West-Bank/Gaza? The PA administrations are clearly corrupt and against global peace.
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1145136689850941440

Boris Johnson says his descriptions of black people having 'watermelon smiles' and gay men being 'bumboys' were 'wholly satirical'
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-defends-his-offensive-articles-about-black-and-gay-people-2019-6

Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Madrid on Saturday to oppose the newly elected conservative mayor's decision to reverse car pollution restrictions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48814970

'Balloon ban’ passed in Australian city due to impact on marine life
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/balloon-ban-passed-in-australian-city-due-to-impact-on-marine-life-a4178406.html

We died in your hills, we died in your deserts. We died in your valleys and died on your plains. We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes. Both sides of the river, we die just the same. -Woody Guthrie
https://twitter.com/gabaldonart/status/1144724405647478784

Guthrie was feverishly penning tunes lambasting Fred Trump for racist behavior. “Old Man Trump,” Guthrie’s song about Fred, exposed a dark world where the landlord and rumored KKK affiliate profited from an apartment complex that housed only white 1/
https://twitter.com/frannygtops/status/1144828700942188544
https://medium.com/@editors_91459/trumps-dad-was-so-racist-woody-guthrie-wrote-a-song-about-it-deea588fa11a

2/ families. It included the scathing lines, “I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate/He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts/When he drawed that color line.”
https://twitter.com/frannygtops/status/1144828744776871937

Trump Admits He ‘Gets Along’ Better With Dictators Than With American Journalists: “I get along with everybody, except you people ... I get along with President Putin, I get along with Mohammed [bin Salman] from Saudi Arabia.” Trump also often touts his friendship with NK leader Kim Jong Un.Trump
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-dictators-jim-acosta-reporters_n_5d17fee4e4b07f6ca57e7974

Let the Doctors In — I was one of the lawyers who visited the Clint detention facility. I want to know why the government won’t let independent physicians assess the sickest children.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/child-detention-border-sick-quarantine-doctors.html

Pentagon study: Russia outgunning U.S. in race for global influence -- "A divided America is failing to counter Moscow's efforts to undermine democracy and cast doubt on U.S. alliances, says the report, which warns of a surge in 'political warfare.'"
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/30/pentagon-russia-influence-putin-trump-1535243

Elizabeth Warren wants answers from JPMorgan on new forced arbitration policy
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-warren-jpmorgan-forced-arbitration-200622412.html

Tim Ryan savages Trump on North Korea, Huawei. | “I have no idea why he is shaking hands with a dictator who just in May was sending missiles into the Sea of Japan,” Ryan told host Maria Bartiromo. “You don’t reward that kind of behavior with a visit to your country from the president of the United States.”| Ryan also expressed anger over the news that Trump intended to loosen sanctions against the Chinese company Huawei Technologies as he tries to resolve differences with China over trade. Huawei has come under fire not only for its business practices but also for posing security risks to the United States. “I thought that was the one piece that we could count on President Trump to hold the line on for national security reasons,” Ryan said, adding that the president had “folded like a cheap suit” on the issue.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/30/tim-ryan-trump-appeasement-1390791

Booker blasts Biden again, saying he is ‘causing a lot of frustration and even pain’ with his talk on race
https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/06/booker-blasts-biden-again-saying-he-is-causing-a-lot-of-frustration-and-even-pain-with-his-talk-on-race.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVJFyG80nj8

Trump Took Tucker Carlson, Not John Bolton, To North Korea
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-took-tucker-carlson-not-bolton-north-korea-2%28TPMNews%29 

Inbox: @BetoORourke campaign, writing to list on last day of Q2, asks supporters to donate to El Paso org that offers legal services to detained migrants
https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1145425990702837760
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/diocesan-migrant-refugee-services