Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Light News Dump

Trump EPA OKs ‘Emergency’ Use of Bee-Killing Pesticide on 13.9 Million Acres
https://www.ecowatch.com/emergency-trump-epa-pesticides-2638979880.html

Trump congratulates Navy Seal who committed war crime with dead body: 'Glad I could help!'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-navy-seal-war-crime-isis-prisoner-edward-gallagher-a8986736.html

Trump's military parade to divert $2.5 million away from national parks
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-military-parade-costs-national-parks-millions-fees-2019-7

DHS Inspector General Finds 'Dangerous Overcrowding' in Border Patrol Facilities
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/738179391/dhs-inspector-general-finds-dangerous-overcrowding-in-border-patrol-facilities

879% drug price hike is one of 3,400 in 2019 so far; rate of hikes increasing
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/big-pharma-raising-drug-prices-even-more-in-2019-3400-hikes-as-high-as-879/

Trump schedules a campaign rally in N.C. on same day Mueller testifies publicly to Congress
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-schedules-a-campaign-rally-in-nc-on-same-day-mueller-testifies-publicly-to-congress/2019/07/03/29f68f94-9d79-11e9-85d6-5211733f92c7_story.html

Reminder: Facebook ads for Trump's 2020 campaign used models to depict supporters and a Japanese storefront to show a US business
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-2020-facebook-ads-models-and-stock-video-2019-7

Buttigieg Proposes National Service Programs for Climate Change and Mental Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/us/politics/buttigieg-national-service.html

AOC goes to war with Kellyanne Conway: ‘Actually do your job instead of calling Fox and Friends’: Democrat tells top Trump aide: ‘Show up to a Congressional hearing next time you want to talk to me’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-kellyanne-conway-fox-news-friends-twitter-migrant-camp-mexico-border-a8986296.html

A Fox News host compared desperately overcrowded migrant detention centers to "a big party" with too many guests
https://www.businessinsider.com/foxs-brian-kilmeade-says-migrant-centers-like-crowded-house-party-2019-7

#BoycottTrump4thOfJuly Trends On Twitter As Criticism Pours In For Trump Military Parade Costing Millions
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-july-4-parade-twitter-president-independence-day-1447344

CBP Agent Tells CNN His Supervisor Joked About ‘Running Over Illegals,’ Criticizes ‘Filthy’ Detention Centers
https://www.newsweek.com/cbp-agent-supervisor-joked-running-over-illegals-filthy-detention-centers-1447328

Court Orders Release of Sealed Docs About Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Sex Ring
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-court-orders-release-of-sealed-docs-about-alleged-sex-ring

ICE Told Agents ‘Happy Hunting!’ As They Prepped for Raid | The documents detail “Operation MEGA,” a nationwide raid targeting at least 8,400 people—as well as the excited, even giddy anticipation of immigration enforcement agents.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-told-agents-happy-hunting-as-they-prepped-for-raid

Heather Nauert received a salary from Fox while working for the Trump administration
https://thinkprogress.org/heather-nauert-salary-21st-century-fox-working-for-trump-administration-89119e9f6b7b/

Millions of Kids Could Lose Health Insurance and Food Assistance Under Republicans' Public Charge Rule | A new study estimates that as many as 8.3 million kids are at risk of losing their benefits.
https://psmag.com/news/millions-of-kids-could-lose-health-insurance-and-food-assistance-under-trumps-public-charge-rule

The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point: Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, black voters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. The president’s ability to execute that cruelty through word and deed makes them euphoric. It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy, it makes them feel united. And as long as he makes them feel that way, they will let him get away with anything, no matter what it costs them.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/

Prosecutors in Alabama said on Wednesday that they were dropping a manslaughter charge against Marshae Jones over the death of the fetus she was carrying when she was shot in the belly. The case stirred outrage across the country in late June after a grand jury indicted Ms. Jones, who was accused of starting a fight that resulted in the shooting. The state recognizes a fetus at any stage of development as a “person” for criminal homicide or assaults. The same grand jury declined to charge the woman who fired the shot, Ebony Jemison, finding that she had fired in self-defense during an altercation with Ms. Jones on Dec. 4. The police have said that Ms. Jones, 28, who was five months pregnant, started the fight and failed to remove herself and her fetus from harm’s way.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/us/charges-dropped-alabama-woman-pregnant.html

The judge in the NY census citizenship Q case has ordered the govt to file a response by 6pm ET explaining what happened on the call in the Maryland case (set for 3:30pm) and a statement on the government's "position and intentions" after this single Trump tweet:  The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE! We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-kw8Z5X4AIg0gJ.jpg
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1146435093491277824

Federal appeals court says Amazon is liable for third-party sellers’ products
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/03/appeals-court-says-amazon-is-liable-for-third-party-sellers-products.html

A federal judge on Ohio has blocked the state's six-week abortion ban — plaintiffs likely to succeedin arguing that the law is "unconstitutional on its face," the judge wrote https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6182242/7-3-19-Pre-Term-Cleveland-Opinion.pdf

The FBI Somehow Lost Its Files About White Supremacist Forum Stormfront: The feds can’t find some of its own investigative records about the hateful neo-Nazi haven.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb9899/the-fbi-somehow-lost-its-files-about-white-supremacist-forum-stormfront

Bernie Sanders on target saying 3 richest have as much wealth as bottom half of all Americans
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jul/03/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-target-saying-3-richest-have-much-w/

After Outcry Over His Role In Flint's Water Crisis, Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Withdraws From Harvard Post
https://www.wbur.org/edify/2019/07/03/after-outcry-over-his-role-in-flints-water-crisis-former-michigan-gov-rick-snyder-withdraws-from-harvard-post

1. The Trump Administration agreed to keep defense spending unchanged for a year rather than risk another shutdown. The President has tweeted that the military is at peak readiness. 2. 15 Senate Republicans say they would risk a shutdown to increase military funding.
https://twitter.com/govtrack/status/1146501219147493376

How members-turned-lobbyists patrol the Capitol, popping into prayer breakfasts, hanging in off-limit hallways and storing their luggage in senators' offices -- as David Vitter did a few days ago. He wouldn't answer our questions about his work for a Russian oligarch. Our piece:
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1146172576944676864

Trump administration ending in-person interpreters at immigrants’ first hearings
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Trump-administration-ending-in-person-14070403.php

White supremacists and anti-fascists head to DC ahead of Trump July 4 celebration
https://qz.com/1658096/white-supremacists-head-to-washington-for-trumps-july-4-party/

Pediatricians Share Disturbing Drawings by Young Migrant Children of Their Time in U.S. Custody
https://ktla.com/2019/07/03/pediatricians-share-disturbing-drawings-by-young-migrant-children-of-their-time-in-u-s-custody/

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