House Committee sues Treasury for Trump tax returns
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/house-committee-sues-treasury-for-trump-tax-returns.html
Nationwide #CloseTheCamps Protests Call For Shutting Down Migrant Detention Centers Amid Outrage Over Conditions
https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-protests-close-camps-migrant-detention-conditions-1447083
Joaquin Castro
Verified account @JoaquinCastrotx
Our border patrol system is broken. And part of the reason it stays broken is because it’s kept secret. The American people must see what is being carried out in their name. The @HispanicCaucus led a delegation of members of Congress to visit 2 border patrol facilities.
https://twitter.com/JoaquinCastrotx/status/1145837840405860353
Joaquin Castro Smuggles Device Into Migrant Detention Facility, Captures Photos Of ‘Prison-Like’ Cell
https://www.newsweek.com/joaquin-castro-smuggles-device-migrant-detention-facility-captures-photos-prison-like-cell-1447025
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1145855501533663232
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
Spent the morning in TX at Clint and El Paso detention facilities. Big takeaways -- 1) @CBP was very resistant to Congressional oversight. They tried to restrict what we saw, take our phones, block photos and video. Atmosphere was contentious and uncooperative.
https://twitter.com/RepJoeKennedy/status/1145791291986460672
Judy Chu
Verified account @RepJudyChu
"If you want water, just drink from a toilet." That's what border patrol told one thirsty woman we met on today's #DemsAtTheBorder trip. These are the same CBP personnel who threatened to throw burritos at members of Congress. Changes must be made. #DontLookAway
https://twitter.com/RepJudyChu/status/1145779501080743939
Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Who Oversaw Flint Water Crisis Named Harvard Fellow: Harvard is facing fury for handing a fellowship to Snyder, whose cellphone was recently seized in a criminal probe of the drinking water catastrophe.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harvard-appoints-michigan-gov-rick-snyder-flint-water-crisis_n_5d1a379ae4b03d61163fd36d
#NeverAgainIsNow: 36 Arrested As Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Block Road to Migrant Detention Center
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/01/neveragainisnow-36-arrested-hundreds-jewish-protesters-block-road-migrant-detention
Jewish protesters block entrance to Trump administration's 'concentration camps' for migrants
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-migrant-camps-us-border-detained-concentration-camps-new-jersey-aoc-a8982186.html
Trump to Tucker Carlson: Homelessness Is a ‘Phenomenon That Started Two Years Ago’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-to-tucker-on-fox-news-homelessness-is-a-phenomenon-that-started-two-years-ago
Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump’s July 4 Event
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/veterans-john-mccain-donald-trump-july-4_n_5d1a43ace4b07f6ca581c21e
Two Wyoming coal mines close, send 700 workers home after bankruptcy filing
https://trib.com/business/energy/two-wyoming-coal-mines-close-send-workers-home-after-bankruptcy/article_773100d1-b5b4-57d8-af49-842518b9e219.html
June was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/june-hottest-month-ever-earth-2019-weather-heatwave-hot-a8984691.html
A 30-Year-Old Father Died After Being Detained For Weeks By ICE | The Honduran man had previously been sent back to Mexico under a Trump administration program requiring Central American immigrants to wait outside the US.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/hamedaleaziz/immigrant-father-dies-ice-custody-honduras-mexico
Trump 'demands US military chiefs stand next to him' at 4th of July parade and they will because they love him
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/salute-to-america-trump-4th-july-military-parade-tanks-aircraft-salute-to-america-washington-army-a8983776.html
Trump Administration Misses Deadline to Print Census Forms
https://www.thedailybeast.com/2020-census-trump-administration-misses-deadline-to-print-census-forms
An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every single minute, according to satellite data. The rate of losses has accelerated as Brazil's new right-wing president favours development over conservation. The largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming. A senior Brazilian official, speaking anonymously, told us his government was encouraging deforestation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48827490
Donald Trump Aide Blasted Obama For Visiting Cuba In 2016, Calling It Equivalent To Going To North Korea
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-aide-blasted-obama-cuba-north-korea-1447087
A black hospital patient went on a walk with an IV drip. Police arrested him on suspicion of stealing medical equipment
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/us/illinois-man-with-iv-arrested/index.html
Alaska Governor’s “Unprecedented” Higher Education Cuts Could Shutter Entire Departments
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/alaska-governor-guts-state-higher-education-funding.html
Antarctica has lost more ice in four years than the Arctic has in 34 years
https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/02/antarctica-has-lost-more-ice-in-four-years-than-the-arctic-has-in-34-years
UK Tesco suspends chicken sales from ‘ethical’ farm after video shows injured birds being kicked and hurled into crates - The Animal Justice Project said the footage shows the suffering of high welfare chickens who are raised for meat production.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chicken-tesco-animal-abuse-video-investigation-rspca-red-tractor-a8982861.html
UK warns China of serious consequences if Hong Kong rights not honored
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-britain/uk-warns-china-of-serious-consequences-if-hong-kong-rights-not-honored-idUSKCN1TX0XU
Oregon governor ready to use executive privilege to pass carbon tax legislation to avoid another Senate walk out on climate change bill
https://www.apnews.com/06323bf0b26a4c468b0db0be8c1f1d65
Military spends more on Viagra than on transgender recruits. So why ban trans?
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article232079172.html
Roy Moore “likely failed” a December 2017 polygraph he took in an effort to clear his name from accusations made against him by women during the Senate race that year, according to a lawsuit filing Monday. Attorneys for Leigh Corfman, who maintains she was sexually molested as a 14-year-old by the then-32-year-old Moore in 1979, filed the motion in Montgomery County circuit court in an ongoing effort to reopen Moore’s deposition in the defamation lawsuit she filed against him in January 2018.
https://www.al.com/news/2019/07/roy-moore-likely-failed-polygraph-test-corfman-says.html
https://www.al.com/news/2017/11/roy_moore_accused_of_sexual_mi.html
https://www.al.com/news/2018/01/roy_moore_accuser_leigh_corfma_1.html
Heatwave cooks mussels in their shells on California shore. Temperatures lead to what appears to be largest local die-off in 15 years, raising fears for broader ecosystem
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/28/california-mussels-cooked-heat?CMP=share_btn_tw
Over 200 major companies sign Supreme Court brief in favor of LGBTQ workers, arguing that excluding sexual orientation and gender identity from federal civil rights law “would undermine the nation’s business interests.”
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1146136716425748483
The Trump administration is seeking to impose hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines on some unauthorized immigrants for failing to leave the U.S. after being ordered to do so, according to government documents obtained by NPR.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1146130220300345345
Trump and R.N.C. Raised $105 Million in 2nd Quarter, a Sign He Will Have Far More Money Than 1n 2016 | Campaign officials said they received 725,000 individual donations online, with supporters giving an average of $48. In some cases, they said, people may have donated more than once. An R.N.C. official said the small-dollar enthusiasm for Mr. Trump was something unprecedented in Republican politics, and noted that for the first time ever, the R.N.C. attracted a larger share of donations under $200 than the Democratic National Committee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/us/politics/trump-fund-raising-2020.html
Chris Jansing
Verified account @ChrisJansing
Should Dems worry? @MichaelSteele “This is a staggering number...if he’s just in this last quarter $105 million with 2 quarters left in the year, by the end of the year he could be at close to a half a billion before he even turns the corner into the primary season”
https://twitter.com/ChrisJansing/status/1146132225123115009
Fox hosts used to decry the notion of talking to dictators. Not anymore. Hours after President Trump crossed into North Korea on Sunday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham was slamming “liberals” for criticizing Trump’s “historic” meeting. “Liberals once believed that it was a sign of strength for a president to go to extraordinary lengths for peace,” Ingraham tweeted. “President Trump did this today in North Korea. Historic, regardless of the outcome.” It was a far cry from Ingraham’s tweet about President Barack Obama three years earlier: “It's 5p ET, which means Pres Obama must be meeting with some dictator somewhere. Are there any left?” As with much of Fox’s coverage of Trump’s presidency, issues that hosts and pundits used to admonish Obama about are copacetic now that Trump is president, examples of which you can watch in the video above. When Obama criticized Fox News’s coverage of him, host Sean Hannity called it “bullying.” Now according to Hannity, there is a “destroy-Trump media” out to get the president. Fox ran countless segments on golf trips during Obama’s eight years. Now its hosts jokingly take bets for when Trump will golf next. When both presidents added an identical number of jobs to the economy, Obama was the one “aggressively sustaining mediocrity.” If both presidents reached out to authoritarians around the world, Obama was “sleeping with the enemy” while Trump is displaying his “genius.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/02/fox-hosts-used-decry-notion-talking-dictators-not-anymore/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/01/trump-is-giving-kim-jong-un-major-concessions-he-may-now-be-asking-less-return/?utm_term=.18eb3091c132
https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1145297120217448449
https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/717457553639227392
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_0rcz_6lN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly8wfEBAz60
https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1095725098202525703
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrp87nUVRrc
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/07/01/fox-gushes-over-trumps-dmz-photo-op-while-foreign-policy-experts-slam-him-granting-legitimacy-north/224098
FBI, DOJ ‘Deprioritize’ Investigating Far-Right Violence
https://www.voanews.com/usa/report-fbi-doj-deprioritize-investigating-far-right-violence
Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists' phones: Software extracts emails, texts and contacts and could be used to track movements
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones
US partially lifts ban on Huawei following extensive lobbying campaign
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/07/us-lifts-ban-on-huawei-after-lobbying/
Bipartisan bill aims to stop child pornography trafficking on Defense Department's network
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/politics/house-bill-defense-department-network-child-pornography/index.html
This Is Who Sells Those Crappy Shampoo Packets AOC Found in Migrant Detention: The Bob Barker Company was once accused of profiting off sweatshop labor, among other strange and disturbing episodes in its past.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3n9qz/this-is-who-sells-those-crappy-shampoo-packets-aoc-found-in-migrant-detention
Vegan chocolate chip cookie dough and raspberry cheesecake donuts
https://i.redd.it/nnugk86idw731.jpg
Trump Administration Drops Bid To Put Citizenship Question On 2020 Census
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-census-citizenship-question-2020_n_5d1bbeaae4b07f6ca5857afe?8nh
Trump Facebook Ads Use Models to Portray Actual Supporters
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-07-02/trump-facebook-ads-use-models-to-portray-actual-supporters
MSNBC Won't Air Trump's July 4th Event Live
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/451453-msnbc-wont-air-trumps-july-4th-event-live
Federal judge blocks Barr order on indefinite detention for asylum seekers
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/451456-federal-judge-blocks-barr-order-on-indefinite-detention-for-asylum
Mark Kelly raised $4.2 million during his second quarter in the Arizona Senate Race, exceeding first quarter haul
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/07/02/mark-kelly-arizona-democratic-senate-hopeful-raised-4-2-million-during-2nd-quarter/1631551001/
Congress Investigates Rollback of the Clean Car Standards – an Epic Oversight Hearing
https://blog.ucsusa.org/jonna-hamilton/congress-investigates-rollback-of-clean-car-standards
2012 HUD report reveals that San Antonio failed to properly spend funds approved by Congress to combat the housing crisis while Julian Castro was mayor of the city.
https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/julian-castro-san-antonio-hud-money-106848
With Apologies to ‘The Washington Post,’ What Bernie Sanders Says About Economic Inequality Is Especially Meaningful | The senator should not be taking heat for using “numbers that add up” to make a point about economic injustice.
https://www.thenation.com/article/washington-post-bernie-sanders-2020/
The Small American Business in a Trump Campaign Ad Is Actually in Tokyo
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/trump-campaign-ad-american-business-tokyo.html
Oregon just passed the most robust paid time off maternity and sick leave for workers in the United States
https://www.ktvz.com/news/oregon-lawmakers-ok-paid-family-and-medical-leave/1090710712
No comments:
Post a Comment