News Dump

Reminder: Teen Mom And Prematurely Born Baby Neglected At Border Patrol Facility For 7 Days
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teen-mother-and-her-premature-infant-neglected-in-border-patrol-custody-for-seven-days_n_5d02ae24e4b0304a120c411b

The youngest known child separated from his parents at the border under Trump was only 4 months old
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/the-weekly/trump-immigration-border-separation-family.html

Alabama court forces rape survivor to allow rapist to have visitation with children. A 32-year-old woman in Birmingham, Alabama says the state's laws have forced her to face the man she says raped her again and again. With Alabama's recent abortion ban, Jessica's story has gotten national attention, showing how the state is failing rape survivors. Jessica asked to have her last name omitted from this story to protect her children. Jessica says she was continually raped years ago by her uncle, her mother's half-brother. Despite the evidence, including a DNA test, he was never convicted. "Well, it all started when I was 12 or 13 years old, and he started climbing in my bed at night," she said. She was impregnated 4 times as a result. At 14, she miscarried. At 16, she had a baby boy. At 18, she had her third child. He later died due to a disease common in cases of incest. At 19, she had her youngest son. "I literally just felt like I didn't have any options," she said. In another interview, Jessica told The Washington Post she was forced by her family to marry her rapist. That marriage was later deemed illegal by a court due to a "familial relationship." Recently, her accused rapist has been taking her to court and winning for visitation of her sons. Jessica says she is sharing her story in hopes it brings change.
https://www.knoe.com/content/news/Alabama-court-forces-rape-survivor-to-allow-rapist-to-have-visitation-with-children-511195642.html

Forget “No Collusion,” Trump Is Now Pro-Collusion
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/forget-no-collusion-trump-is-now-pro-collusion

Trump’s Campaign Says It Will Handle Foreign Intel on Opponents on ‘Case by Case’ Basis.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-campaign-says-it-will-handle-foreign-intel-on-opponents-on-case-by-case-basis

NY ends vaccination exemptions for religious beliefs
https://www.axios.com/ny-ends-vaccination-exemptions-religious-beliefs-bd546d05-0a13-4261-a0f2-9346d6c09cd8.html


Devin Nunes illegally spent campaign cash on private flight. A federal agency illegally dropped the complaint
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article231519723.html

FOIA Data Show Thousands Exceed Payment Limit for Trump’s Farm Bailout
https://www.ewg.org/agmag/2019/06/foia-data-show-thousands-exceed-payment-limit-trump-s-farm-bailout

5,200 people in ICE custody quarantined for exposure to mumps or chicken pox
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/politics/mumps-chicken-pox-quarantine-ice/index.html

Trump Has Spent Nearly $1 Million Wishing Himself (and Melania) Happy Birthday on Facebook — The Trump campaign is spending more money wishing the Trump family happy birthday than any other single issue by any candidate.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k345b/trump-has-spent-nearly-dollar1-million-wishing-himself-and-melania-happy-birthday-on-facebook

Appeals court says Trump admin cannot block unaccompanied migrant minors in custody from access to abortions
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/politics/abortion-undocumented-migrant-minors-court-of-appeals/index.html

Hundreds protest in Japan after father was cleared of raping his underage daughter when court ruled she could have resisted if she wanted to
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7137969/Hundreds-protest-Japan-father-cleared-raping-underage-daughter.html

The U.S. Treasury saw a 31% drop in corporate tax revenues last year, almost twice the decline official budget forecasters had predicted. Receipts were projected to rebound sharply this year, but so far they’ve only continued to fall.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/big-businesses-pay-less-tax-law-1364591

In El Paso, Border Patrol Is Detaining Migrants in ‘a Human Dog Pound’
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/border-patrol-outdoor-detention-migrants-el-paso/

Here’s How the Candidates Will Be Divided for the First Democratic Debates (Sanders and Hickenlooper will be on same night LOL)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/us/politics/democratic-debates-2020.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_debates_and_forums

More Greenpeace activists climb on BP drilling rig after arrests: “We can’t give up and let oil giants carry on with business as usual because that means giving up on a habitable planet and our kids’ future.”
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-bp-greenpeace-protests/more-greenpeace-activists-climb-on-bp-drilling-rig-after-arrests-idUKKCN1TF1CR

The Pentagon emits more greenhouse gases than Portugal, study finds | Environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/12/pentagon-greenhouse-gas-emissions-portugal

Germany: U.S video not enough to attribute blame over oil tanker attacks
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-attacks-germany-maas/germany-u-s-video-not-enough-to-attribute-blame-over-oil-tanker-attacks-idUSKCN1TF1SA

Vietnam seizes 7.5 tons of elephant ivory, pangolin scales
https://apnews.com/ba5fc7c98f7d474098f955535cd89855


George Clooney: How Congress Can Help Stop the Killing in Sudan. The U.S. has tools to combat corruption and human rights abuses in Sudan. It’s time to use them.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/11/george-clooney-congress-save-sudan-227102

ARM has revealed what it considers to be, the first unbiased audit of operations at Fair Oaks Farms and the Fairlife Corporation. The atrocities will shock you. #dairyfree #Dairy #dairyfarm #animalrights #publix #GameChanger https://bit.ly/2KxMQci
https://twitter.com/ARMInvestigatio/status/1135984623622787079

A few days late: Happy #WorldOceansDay! Join us alongside @beautyandplanet at any of our 27 beach cleanups across the country today. Let's celebrate our ocean, keep our coastlines clean and share our #smallactsoflove. https://www.surfrider.org/pages/2019-World-Oceans-Day …
https://twitter.com/Surfrider/status/1137374523962023937
https://www.surfrider.org/pages/2019-World-Oceans-Day

"The world is getting warmer faster than it's ever gotten in history. Climate change and global warming are the same thing." — Bill Nye
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1137826978827001856

Make a $9 gift to Heal the Bay in honor of #WorldOceansDay! Let’s take on the toxic plastic tide, water quality issues and impacts from climate change together. http://healthebay.org/sustainers
https://twitter.com/HealTheBay/status/1137427403779612673

Sudan is in the midst of a political crisis after security forces opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in the capital, Khartoum killing at least 100 people The BBC's @fergalkeane47 spoke to victims and those who witnessed the violence
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1139609098268397568
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48511226

The Trump administration argued that it could force undocumented minors to carry their rapist's fetus to term to deter other minors from coming to the U.S. for "abortion tourism." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/brett-kavanaugh-abortion-undocumented-minors-appeals-court.html

Hundreds of active-duty and retired law enforcement officers from across the U.S. were members of Confederate, anti-Islam, misogynistic or anti-government militia groups on @Facebook.
https://twitter.com/reveal/status/1139565108357677056
https://www.revealnews.org/article/inside-hate-groups-on-facebook-police-officers-trade-racist-memes-conspiracy-theories-and-islamophobia/

New York City Allocates $250,000 for Abortions, Challenging Conservative States. The money will go to a nonprofit fund that pays clinics for abortions performed on women who cannot pay, a third of whom live outside New York. New York City will spend $250,000 to help poor women who travel from other states to obtain abortions here, inserting itself into the increasingly contentious debate over access to the procedure. While the amount of money is relatively small, the allocation is a symbolic if provocative move as more conservative states take steps to all but ban abortion. The money will go to the New York Abortion Access Fund, according to City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, a Democrat from Manhattan, and Jennifer Fermino, a spokeswoman for the Council speaker, Corey Johnson. Abortion rights activists believe that this is the first time that a city will allocate money specifically for abortions. City officials said the contribution, which would be included in the budget being negotiated between the Council and the mayor’s office, would allow about 500 women to terminate their pregnancies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/nyregion/abortion-funding-ny.html

Jared and Ivanka, Who “Sacrificed” Everything to Join the White House, Made $135 Million in 2018, Including a Cool $4 Million From President Daddy’s Nearby Hotel.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-2018-income\

Sara Gideon, Maine's Democratic House Speaker, To Run Against Senator Susan Collins
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/susan-collins-democratic-challenger-sara-gideon_n_5d029422e4b0304a120bf5de

An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border - "Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz."
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentration-camps-southern-border-migrant-detention-facilities-trump/

Trump's July 4 Gala To Drain Security Costs From Special Fund Because He Hasn't Paid His Last Bill
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-july-4-gala-drain-security-costs-special-fund-1444088

Extinction Rebellion: London roads blocked off by climate change activists in major rush-hour protest | Protesters are handing out leaflets and cake to apologise for the disruption caused to drivers and passengers on a main route into central London
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/extinction-rebellion-lewisham-london-roads-blocked-off-by-climate-change-activists-in-major-rush-hour-protest/ar-AACS64Q

UK 'has secret cocaine addiction and drug is used everywhere' - major study suggests - Experts say cocaine use in the UK is much greater than previously thought after thousands of drug users admitted taking the Class A drug on a regular basis, Sky News can exclusively reveal.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-has-secret-cocaine-addiction-and-drug-is-used-everywhere-major-study-suggests-11741220

Chemical that castrates frogs among new pesticides approved by Bolsonaro in Brazil despite being banned elsewhere: Brazil has approved more than 1,200 pesticides and weedkillers in the last three years with a significant spike in approvals since president Jair Bolsonaro came to power.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/pesticides-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-amazon-deforestation-agribusiness-a8957261.html

DeSantis signs ‘sanctuary cities’ ban into law. There aren’t any in Florid
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article231552873.html?

US donors, not French tycoons, foot Notre Dame works bills
https://www.apnews.com/d69824caa68b4d24b13e91fed77dd953

The federal minimum wage sets a record for not rising
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-minimum-wage-sets-record-for-length-with-no-increase/

Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice yesterday, which is very unusual
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/us/greenland-sudden-ice-melt-wxc/index.html

Trump directs agencies to cut advisory boards by 'at least' one third
https://thehill.com/regulation/energy-environment/448678-trump-directs-agencies-to-cut-advisory-boards-by-at-least-one

RNC’s Doral Fundraiser Will Pour Money Into Donald Trump’s Pocket. Again.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-doral-resort-golf-taxpayers_n_5d040795e4b0304a120f940a

When Assange was warned that publishing the names of Afghans who had cooperated with US forces might put *THEIR* lives at risk, he replied: "Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/18/julian-assange-wikileaks-nick-cohen

21-year-old Holden Matthew allegedly set fire to the churches over the span of 10 days in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, because of "the religious characters of the properties." Matthew is the son of a local sheriff's deputy.    He is being charged with three counts of intentional damage to religious property, which is a hate crime under the Church Arson Prevention Act. He's also being charged with three counts of using fire to commit a felony.
https://www.axios.com/louisiana-black-churches-suspect-charged-14111034-bc4e-455a-9dee-3e8c5f4ad703.html

FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub: "It's actually a matter of black-letter law. It's pretty straightforward. Anyone in the U.S. is not allowed to accept anything of value from a foreign national, particularly a foreign government, in connection with an election."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1139540726495240198
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/fec-chair-entire-us-gov-t-must-speak-out-61916229695

An NBC News investigation exposed a lack of basic safety protections for millions of American families living in properties overseen by the federal government. Carbon monoxide is killing public housing residents, but HUD doesn't require detectors.
https://www.nbcnews.com/carbon-monoxide-hud

Trump's latest tweet about the legislation that Marsha Blackburn blocked is wrong. Blackburn blocked a bill that would require campaigns to report any offers of foreign assistance to the FBI. It was not about a "do-over on the Mueller report," as he falsely claims.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1139642580336091137

The president is repeating debunked conspiracy theories without challenge on national television right now.
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1139506373501341696

Beto O’Rourke took a path somewhat less traveled on Friday, meeting with a small group representing a community of slave descendants in South Carolina as he strives to make connections with the black voters who will play a dominant role in next year’s Southern presidential primaries. In a Baptist church in Beaufort, the Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman met with leaders of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, a culture of coastal slave descendants whose separation from the mainland allowed them to retain much of their African heritage, including a unique dialect and skills such as cast-net fishing and basket weaving. O’Rourke, addressing questions on topics including health care, housing affordability and education, acknowledged what he identified as his own struggle with not knowing enough about the history of slavery in the United States and its ongoing ramifications. “White Americans do not know this story,” O’Rourke said, noting that until a tour of the church’s grounds, he hadn’t known anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman had lived in the area. O’Rourke has addressed issues concerning white privilege before, telling a crowd at a historically black college in South Carolina earlier this year that he might not know their struggles but wanted to try to help them. In Iowa, he said he didn’t think being a white man in a historically diverse field of candidates put him at a disadvantage because his sex and race have given him inherent advantages for years. On Friday, asked if he supported reparations, O’Rourke said that he did, though he still supports the creation of a commission to further study the issue and how to ameliorate it. “The answer is yes. We must repair this country from its very founding, kidnapping peoples from West Africa, bringing them here in bondage to literally build the wealth of the United States,” he said. “The path there, though, has to come through learning and telling this American story with everyone. Then, I think, we define what reparations look like.”
https://apnews.com/6bf8c69ffc8744adbccbb944b75e52e3
https://apnews.com/0480ea26e0c74adbad7b88485ea6909f
https://www.apnews.com/6c5781673cf64a8ab01832778fbd743a