News Dump

191 House Republicans oppose emergency border funding after weeks of decrying ‘humanitarian crisis’
https://thinkprogress.org/191-house-republicans-oppose-emergency-border-funding-after-weeks-of-decrying-humanitarian-crisis-44d0196fa581/

'It is a Stain on Our Country': Warren Joins Protest Outside Child Detention Facility in Florida
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/26/it-stain-our-country-warren-joins-protest-outside-child-detention-facility-florida

Warren visits migrant care shelter, says children being marched 'like little prisoners'
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/450436-warren-visits-migrant-care-shelter-children-being-marched-like

Indonesia city of Surakarta slaughtering 13,000 dogs a month to match demand for animal's meat - Video footage captured in slaughterhouses in the Indonesian city of Surakarta shows the animals being beaten and strung up to bleed out while still conscious. Islam is terrorism.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/dogs-slaughtered-meat-death-toll-trade-indonesia-solo-investigation-a8975371.html

More than 100 Oregon bills in jeopardy as GOP state senators stay in hiding
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-senate-walkout-more-than-100-bills-in-jeopardy-as-gop-senators-stay-in-hiding/

The National Rifle Association has shut down production at NRATV. The N.R.A. on Tuesday also severed all business with its estranged advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen, which operates NRATV, the N.R.A.’s live broadcasting media arm, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/nra-nratv-ackerman-mcqueen.html

This 4-month-old baby was separated from his parents at the border. Now he is nearly 2 and still can't speak or walk.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-family-separation-constantin-mutu-2019-6
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/us/baby-constantine-romania-migrants.html

House panel votes to authorize subpoena for Kellyanne Conway after White House blocks her testimony on alleged Hatch Act violations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/06/26/house-panel-votes-to-authorize-subpoena-for-kellyanne-conway-after-white-house-blocks-her-testimony-on-alleged-hatch-act-violations/

Top EPA official stepping down amid ethics probe. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) air policy chief is leaving amid ethics concerns. The agency on Wednesday announced that Bill Wehrum, the head of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, will leave the agency by the end of June.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/450416-top-epa-official-stepping-down-amid-ethics-probe

More political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could soon have the authority to weigh in on public information requests. The rule is expected to be published in the Federal Register as early as Wednesday and will not allow for a public comment period. According to the new language in the FOIA rule signed by EPA chief Andrew Wheeler last week, the administrator and other officials would be allowed to review all materials that fit a FOIA request criteria, known as responsive documents, and then decide “whether to release or withhold a record or a portion of a record on the basis of responsiveness or under one or more exemptions under the FOIA, and to issue ‘no records’ responses.” Lawyers outside the agency who specialize in FOIA requests say the “no records” response could lead to a situation where records seekers are being told there are no documents meeting their search criteria, even if they were found by EPA staffers who handle FOIA requests, with those documents ultimately withheld by political appointees. “It’s allowing political appointees to make the decision that records someone has presumably identified as being responsive are not actually responsive. That theoretically would allow sensitive documents, that the agency doesn't want to send you, to withhold those records -- and that should shake out eventually in a lawsuit if that's what's happening,” said Matt Topic, government transparency and First Amendment lawyer at Loevy & Loevy, a Chicago-based firm that specializes in civil rights.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/450169-new-epa-rule-would-allow-more-administration-officials-to-weigh-in-on-foia-requests
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-13290.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pi+subscription+mailing+list&utm_source=federalregister.gov

Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese government used some of the world’s biggest technology service providers as launchpads to attack to their clients, stealing reams of corporate and government secrets for years: Inside the West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers. Eight of the world's biggest technology service providers were hacked by Chinese cyber spies in an elaborate and years-long invasion, Reuters found. The invasion exploited weaknesses in those companies, their customers, and the Western system of technological defense.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-cyber-cloudhopper/

California to require background checks for ammo purchases
https://apnews.com/91d7589c6263466295e99ac01a0de8f4

‘Knitting Has Always Been Political’: Ravelry Bans Pro-Trump Content, and Reactions Flood In
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/style/ravelry-knitting-ban-trump.html

Maine governor signs net neutrality bill
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/article231941258.html

House Republicans to challenge Trump appointee over his report urging Conway’s firing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-republicans-to-challenge-trump-appointee-over-his-report-urging-conways-firing/2019/06/25/441ebcfa-9754-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html

North Korea reveals explosive HIV outbreak—after claiming to be disease-free
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/north-korea-reveals-explosive-hiv-outbreak-after-claiming-to-be-disease-free/

John Kelly joins board of company operating largest shelter for unaccompanied migrant children
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/john-kelly-joins-board-of-caliburn-international-company-operating-largest-unaccompanied-migrant-children-shelter/

A Georgian-American businessman who pitched a plan in 2015 to build a Trump Tower in Moscow met on Tuesday with the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating possible counterintelligence concerns related to President Trump’s business dealings in Russia during the 2016 campaign. Giorgi Rtskhiladze said in an interview that he met with committee staff from both parties for more than eight hours, during which he was asked about his proposal for a Moscow tower, his interactions with the Trump Organization and his reference to allegedly compromising tapes of Mr. Trump in a 2016 text message.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-panel-questioned-georgian-american-businessman-on-trumps-real-estate-dealings-in-moscow-11561571049

Kyle Griffin
‏Verified account @kylegriffin1
3m3 minutes ago
.@AliVelshi fact checks Trump: "He keeps on saying China never paid us a cent and now they're paying us lots of money. There are all sorts of journalists who correct the president ... at this point, we have to say he knows he's wrong & he keeps saying it, which is what a lie is."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1143942023269036033

Zeke Miller
‏Verified account @ZekeJMiller
Trump on Putin meeting before leaving WH: "I’ll have a very good conversation with him. What I say to him is none of your business." (it is ALL OF AMERICA'S BUSINESS, LEGALLY AND ETHICALLY)
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1143940737802940433

Kellyanne Conway Had More Hatch Act Violation Reports Filed Against Her Than Anyone Else in 30 Years
https://www.newsweek.com/kellyanne-conway-subpoena-hatch-act-1446085

Former Trump FEMA chief repaid taxpayers only 2 percent of $151k spent on personal travel
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/26/brock-long-fema-personal-travel-1553951

'We've become third world' – Rome runs out of space for its rubbish | World News
https://news.sky.com/story/an-incredible-stink-rome-has-run-out-of-space-for-its-rubbish-11749299

Over 3000 migrants have died in the Arizona desert since January of 1999
https://i.redd.it/dkisb6trfq631.png

Debris from satellite blown up by India still flying around Earth, six weeks after Delhi claimed it should have decayed - In April, Nasa chief Jim Bridenstine called India’s destruction of a satellite as “terrible, terrible thing” that could endanger astronauts in the International Space Station.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/india-satellite-debris-space-junk-missile-test-nasa-earth-orbit-a8975231.html

Trump says ‘tens of thousands’ couldn’t get into his Orlando rally. Video, photos tell different story.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-trump-claims-outside-orlando-rally-20190626-7yzvuhemuzeufkywozsc5z5vvm-story.html

Native American groups press Congress to rescind Wounded Knee medals
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/450125-native-american-groups-press-congress-to-rescind-wounded-knee-medals

Warren and Kobluchar visited the Homestead detention center in Florida today. Beto, Harris, Buttigieg, Castro, Gillibrand will all visit later this week. Sanders is sending his wife instead.
https://twitter.com/amandawgolden/status/1143920563909476352
https://twitter.com/amandawgolden/status/1143920876066430976

He lost the nomination by four million votes, mostly the votes of people of color. The only system rigged against him was the 15th Amendment.
https://twitter.com/iversonSLC/status/1143985268266979328

Trump’s bizarre attack on McCain lowlights raucous speech to evangelical group
https://www.vox.com/2019/6/26/18759973/trump-faith-freedom-coalition-mccain

Proposed Bill Would Rescind Medals of Honor Given For Wounded Knee Massacre
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/politics/medal-of-honor-wounded-knee-trnd/index.html

Contractors with white ancestry were awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts reserved for minorities by making unsubstantiated claims to being Native American, a Times investigation found. To qualify for the minority contracting programs, they used membership in unrecognized Cherokee groups that federally recognized tribes and Native American experts consider illegitimate.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-na-cherokee-minority-contracts-20190626-story.html

House backs ban on White House spending at Trump’s properties, sending message to president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-backs-ban-on-white-house-spending-at-trumps-properties-sending-message-to-president/2019/06/26/fac81964-984f-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html?utm_term=.afbe86fb38c9

Senate to vote Friday on Trump's Iran war authority
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/450500-senate-to-vote-friday-on-trumps-iran-war-authority