Dozens of gold miners have invaded a remote indigenous reserve in the Brazilian Amazon where a local leader was stabbed to death and have taken over a village after the community fled in fear, local politicians and indigenous leaders said. The authorities said police were on their way to investigate. Illegal gold mining is at epidemic proportions in the Amazon and the heavily polluting activities of garimpeiros – as miners are called – devastate forests and poison rivers with mercury. About 50 garimpeiros were reported to have invaded the 600,000-hectare Waiãpi indigenous reserve in the state of Amapá on Saturday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/28/amazon-gold-miners-invade-indigenous-village-brazil-leader-killed
Nadler says Trump should be impeached because 'he's violated the laws six ways from Sunday'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/politics/jerry-nadler-trump-investigation-impeachment/
Jerry Nadler: We have impeachment resolutions before the House Judiciary Committee
https://www.axios.com/impeachment-jerry-nadler-house-judiciary-committee-3bc2483e-b44c-4063-9c80-629ad4aaa8c7.html
Rural hospitals struggle in states that declined Obamacare
https://www.newbernsj.com/news/20190728/rural-hospitals-struggle-in-states-that-declined-obamacare
Baltimore Sun editorial board lashes out at Trump: 'Better to have a few rats than to be one'
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/455033-baltimore-sun-lashes-out-at-trump-in-fiery-editorial-better-to-have-a-few-rats
Trump critics post photos of poverty, homelessness in Republican districts across U.S.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-critics-post-photos-poverty-homelessness-republican-districts-across-us-1451472
Special Counsel Mueller and FBI Director Wray Just Confirmed We Need to Do More to Protect Our Democracy From Putin’s Interference. So Why is Majority Leader Mcconnell Blocking Commonsense Election Security Legislation?
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/special-counsel-mueller-and-fbi-director-wray-just-confirmed-we-need-to-do-more-to-protect-our-democracy-from-putins-interference-so-why-is-majority-leader-mcconnell-blocking-commonsense-election-security-legislation
Trump Wants to Declare Antifa a Terrorist Organization, Even Though Right-Wing Extremists Have Been More Violent
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wants-declare-antifa-terrorist-organization-even-though-right-wing-extremists-have-been-1451444
Illinois eliminates statute of limitations for sex crimes
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/455024-illinois-eliminates-statue-of-limitations-for-sex-crimes
Republican States are illegally ordering schools to paint "In G/d We Trust" on the walls of public schools. | South Dakota’s Republican lawmakers said it was about history — the motto appears on money, on license plates and in the fourth stanza of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” It’s also likely to be discussed in the classroom, where historical inquiry is a key part of the state’s social studies curriculum. But legislators said they wanted to make it more clear; they wanted to “reaffirm” it. So this fall, when students return to school, a new and compulsory message will greet them: “In God We Trust.” It’ll be the first new academic year since South Dakota’s GOP leadership passed a law requiring every public school to display the American maxim “in a prominent location” and in a font no smaller than 12 by 12 inches. South Dakota joins a growing list of states that force their schools to display the motto. At least half a dozen passed “In God We Trust” bills last year, and 10 more have introduced or passed the legislation so far in 2019. Similar signage is going up in Kentucky schools this summer, and Missouri could be next.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/07/27/red-state-is-plastering-god-we-trust-walls-public-schools-its-mandatory/
U.S. cybersecurity agency uses pineapple pizza to demonstrate vulnerability to foreign influence. Within 24 hours of the first tweet, the fake war on pineapple had begun to have its intended effect.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-cybersecurity-agency-uses-pineapple-pizza-demonstrate-vulnerability-foreign-n1035296?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma
State department now illegally requires social media information from visa applicants
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-now-requires-us-visa-applicants-to-share-social-media-accounts-2019-06-01/
Beyer, House Democrats Introduce Fair Representation Act Following Supreme Court Decision On Gerrymandering
https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4487
Leading architects and engineers are calling for all-glass skyscrapers to be banned because they are too difficult and expensive to cool. “If you’re building a greenhouse in a climate emergency, it’s a pretty odd thing to do to say the least”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/28/ban-all-glass-skscrapers-to-save-energy-in-climate-crisis
Dan Coats Expected to Step Down as Intelligence Chief. To replace him, the people said, the president was likely to tap Representative John Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican and staunch defender of Mr. Trump. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, he sharply questioned Robert S. Mueller III...at last week’s hearing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/politics/dan-coats-intelligence-chief-out.html
Coats recently announced the creation of a new, senior-level position within the intelligence community whose focus will be on coordinating its election security efforts. He has basically been fired for doing so. A pro-Trump lackey will be replacing him
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/intel-chief-dan-coats-creates-new-role-to-coordinate-election-security-efforts/
2.5 years in, the Trump admin has had significantly more cabinet turnover than any modern President for the entirety of their first term. Upon Coat's resignation, this is what nominees for the 22 cabinet level positions look like:
1 Resigned in Protest (Mattis)
5 Resigned in Disgrace (Acosta, Zinkie, Price, Shulkin, Pruitt)
3 Withdrawn in Disgrace Pre-Confirmation (Puzder, Jackson, Shanahan)
5 Fired (Tillerson, Sessions, Kelly, Nielsen, Coats)
1 Resigned - Cabinet Position Abolished (Haley)
1 Resigned Normally (McMahon)
2 Forced to become Chief of Staff (Kelly, Mulvaney)
2 embroiled in serious, likely terminal, controversy (Ross, Bernhardt)
4 embroiled in less serious controversy, fates unclear (Carson, DeVos, Mnuchin, Chao)
3 relatively normal cabinet appointees (Perdue, Perry, Lighthizer)
That's to say nothing of his Campaign Chairman or National Security Advisor, both of whom are now convicted felons, or the dumpster fires at crucial WH positions like Comms Director or Press Secretary.
Only the best people, folks.
Jared Kushner owns Baltimore area housing projects that have racked up hundreds of building code violations |https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jared-kushner-baltimore-housing-projects-racked-code-violations-1451479
32,000 Jews live in Baltimore district, Trump: 'No human' wants to
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/32000-Jews-live-in-Baltimore-district-Trump-No-human-wants-to-597016
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) said there's no way the Republican-controlled Senate would impeach President Trump even if House Democrats started an inquiry. "The issue for Democrats is, are we going to spend all our time talking about impeachment, which we know they can't get him in the Senate?" McAuliffe said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I mean, he could rob a bank and the Senate would not convict him. It doesn't matter," he added.
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/455059-ex-virginia-governor-trump-could-rob-a-bank-and-senate-wouldnt
Hundreds of Alaska children expected to lose access to pre-K under governor’s budget veto
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/education/2019/07/26/hundreds-of-alaska-children-expected-to-lose-access-to-pre-k-under-governors-budget-veto/
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