Trump's grandfather was banned from going back to where he came from. | Friedrich Trump, a German, was issued with the document in February 1905, and ordered to leave the kingdom of Bavaria within eight weeks as punishment for having failed to do mandatory military service and failing to give authorities notice of his departure to the US when he first emigrated in 1885.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/trump-grandfather-friedrich-banished-germany-historian-royal-decree
The true cost of cheap, unhealthy food is a spiralling public health crisis and environmental destruction, according to a high-level commission. It said the UK’s food and farming system must be radically transformed and become sustainable within 10 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/16/true-cost-of-cheap-food-is-health-and-climate-crises-says-commission
Trump supporter: "It's really frustrating how people always think everything is racist"
Same Trump supporter after tweet: "tHaTs wHy i VoTeD fOr HiM"
No, you go home Donald, and take your anchor babies with you
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-racist-tweets-squad-aoc-omar-tlaib-pressley-a9006736.html
If there is an 'immigrant' who has failed to integrate in America, it's Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/15/donald-trump-immigrant-failed-integrate
Jeffrey Epstein Has a Fake Saudi Passport and a Safe Full of Cash and Diamonds, Prosecutors Say
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnjjk/jeffrey-epstein-has-a-fake-saudi-passport-and-a-safe-full-of-cash-and-diamonds-prosecutors-say
New York, NY, July 15, 2019 … The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today condemned President Trump’s racist tweets about four U.S. congresswomen, in which he said they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” and his defense of these remarks by saying the congresswomen hate Israel and are anti-Semitic. “As Jews, we are all too familiar with this kind of divisive prejudice,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director. “While ADL has publicly disagreed with these congresswomen on some issues, the president is echoing the racist talking points of white nationalists and cynically using the Jewish people and the state of Israel as a shield to double down on his remarks. Politicizing the widespread, bipartisan support for Israel and throwing around accusations of anti-Semitism is damaging to the security of Israel and the Jewish community. He should lead by example, stop politicizing these issues and stop smearing members of Congress.”
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-condemns-president-trumps-racist-tweets-and-his-use-of-israel-and-jews-as-a
As backlash against Trump’s ‘go back’ comments builds, here’s Ronald Reagan’s ‘love letter to immigrants’: ‘You can go to live in Germany, Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become German, Turk or Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/as-backlash-against-trumps-go-back-comments-builds-heres-ronald-reagans-love-letter-to-immigrants-2019-07-16
A deported Marine Corps veteran who has been blocked from returning to the U.S. for more than a decade was denied entry on Monday for a citizenship interview, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Roman Sabal, who is from Belize, reportedly reached the San Ysidro Port of Entry in California on Monday morning, with his attorney, Victoria Starrett, and requested that he be allowed entry to go to a naturalization interview in San Diego later that day. Border officials, who are able to temporarily let people into the U.S. for “humanitarian or significant public benefit,” ultimately turned away, the Union-Tribune reports. When he first came to the U.S., Sabal, now 58, had a tourist visa and couldn’t stay permanently, the newspaper noted, adding that his goal from the beginning was to enlist in the Marine Corps. He joined the service with a fake ID document, the Union-Tribune reported. When he came clean about it in boot camp, he was told, “Don’t worry about it. You’re a Marine now,” it added. Sabal served in the Marines for six years and then for several more years in the Army Reserves, the newspaper reports, adding that he was later honorably discharged and returned to Belize because he had developed diabetes and sought treatment from his mother back home. An immigration court judge ordered Sabal to be deported when he didn't show up for a hearing when he tried to return to the U.S., the paper reports. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on Monday reportedly sent the Sabal and Starrett back to Mexico, where Sabal plans to wait a few days for a solution before being forced to travel back to Belize.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/453225-marine-corps-veteran-denied-entry-to-us-for-citizenship-interview
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2019-07-15/cbp-denies-marine-corps-veteran-entry-for-citizenship-interview
Ikea is closing its only US factory and moving production to Europe
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/business/ikea-us-factory-closing/index.html
House Oversight to vote to hold Kellyanne Conway in contempt unless she testifies
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/kellyanne-conway-subpoena-house-oversight-committee/index.html
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin Should Pay $14 Million To Trolling Victim, Judge Rules — Anglin was also ordered to pay more than $4 million to a Muslim-American radio host last month after his website falsely accused the man of terrorism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/andrew-anglin-daily-stormer-14-million_n_5d2d28efe4b085eda5a09586
The founder and editor of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer should be ordered to pay more than $14 million to a Montana real estate agent against whom he organized an anti-Semitic "troll storm," a federal magistrate judge found on Monday. The judgment was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Montana, against Andrew Anglin, who encouraged the online intimidation campaign against Tanya Gersh, a Jewish real estate agent in the Montana resort town of Whitefish, her husband and their 12-year-old son. In an opinion that must still be approved by U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, the magistrate judge, Jeremiah C. Lynch, recommended a default judgment against Anglin, who failed to appear for a deposition in April. But Lynch went further than finding for Gersh on procedural grounds: He recommended that Christensen order Anglin, who is in his mid-30s, to pay $4,042,438 in compensatory damages and $10 million, the maximum under state law, in punitive damages for "the particularly egregious and reprehensible nature of Anglin's conduct."
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/founder-neo-nazi-site-daily-stormer-should-pay-14-million-n1030211
Committee Demands Documents Withheld by Secretary DeVos for More than Two Years in Bipartisan Personal Email Investigation
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/committee-demands-documents-withheld-by-secretary-devos-for-more-than-two-years
North Korea warned Tuesday that planned military exercises involving U.S. and South Korean forces would jeopardize proposed disarmament talks with Washington, and hinted it might respond by resuming nuclear and missile tests. In a statement, the North’s Foreign Ministry accused the United States of violating the spirit of negotiations between President Trump and dictator Kim Jong Un by proceeding with military maneuvers scheduled for next month. At their first meeting in Singapore last year, Trump agreed to cancel major exercises with South Korea to avoid provoking Pyongyang. The North said its moratorium on nuclear and missile tests “is a promise we made in hopes of improving bilateral relations, not something we wrote into law.” “Are we obliged to keep the promise unilaterally when the other side does not?,” it said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-hints-it-may-resume-nuclear-tests-accuses-us-of-reneging-on-pact/2019/07/16/de4f87a8-a7a0-11e9-8733-48c87235f396_story.html
Reminder: "Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!"
https://www.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1006837823469735936
(Beto also qualifies for September and October debates with new NH poll showing him at 2%): Beto O'Rourke Raises More Than $13 Million and Meets the DNC's Unique Donor Requirement for Fall Debates During the Four Months Since Launching Presidential Campaign. Beto's campaign added more than $3.6 million in Q2 with an average donation of $30, without a dime from PACs, corporations or federal lobbyists. EL PASO, TEXAS -- Beto O'Rourke raised more than $13 million during the first four months of his presidential campaign from nearly 200,000 donors across the country. His more than $3.6 million in Q2 came from 119,888 contributions with an average donation of $30. Beto has officially met the DNC's 130,000 unique donor requirement for the fall primary debates. Relying on small-dollar donations and with teachers, nurses, and students across the nation as the top contributors by occupation, 98% of the contributions made during Q2 were below $200. A full 99% of the Q2 fundraising came in online. The campaign received donations from every single state and D.C. during the three month FEC reporting period. Signaling growing grassroots support, nearly half -- 48% -- of the contributors who pitched in during Q2 were new donors to Beto's presidential campaign. For a comprehensive post-Q2 campaign update, please see the following memo from campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon. I joined this campaign because I believe in Beto and I know he is the best person to lead our country forward. This country is facing existential challenges like climate change, economic inequality, gun violence and Trump's immigration policies that have caused chaos at the border and rejected our values as a country. Beto believes that we can’t solve these problems with the same old approach. We need to bring about a new kind of politics, where millions of Americans are finally brought into our democracy. | Organizing by the numbers: Grassroots events held: 3,551 Event attendees: More than 47,486 (31,454 in Q2) Volunteers: Over 100,000 States we’ve canvassed in: 50 Fundraising: A lot of folks have asked about our fundraising numbers. Overall, here’s where we are: $13 million total raised, campaign-to-date $3.6 million Q2 raised $30 average contribution 193,105 total number of donors
https://twitter.com/patricksvitek/status/1150935276451172354?s=21
Kellyanne Conway Should 'Be Fired' and 'In Prison' For Defying Subpoena on Hatch Act Vioolations: Democrats, Watchdogs
https://www.newsweek.com/kellyanne-conway-fired-prison-defy-subpoena-1449350
Trump supporters stand by the president amid inflammatory tweets: "That's why I voted for him"
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-tweets-supporters-stand-by-president-amid-racist-tweets/
Oregon to require schools to teach about Holocaust
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/453224-oregon-to-require-schools-to-teach-about-holocaust
Eric Garner's Death Will Not Lead to Federal Charges for N.Y.P.D. Officer. The Justice Department will not bring federal charges against a New York City police officer in the death of Eric Garner, ending a yearslong inquiry into a case that sharply divided officials and prompted national protests over excessive force by the police. The United States attorney in Brooklyn, Richard P. Donoghue, announced the decision not to bring criminal civil rights charges on Tuesday morning, one day before the fifth anniversary of Mr. Garner’s death. That is the deadline by which they would have to file some of the possible charges against the officer, Daniel Pantaleo. Mr. Donoghue called Mr. Garner’s death a tragedy, but said “the evidence does not support charging Police Officer Pantaleo with a federal civil rights violation.” He went over the entire arrest step-by-step and said the government could not prove Officer Pantaleo willfully used excessive force to violate Mr. Garner’s rights as required under the law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/nyregion/eric-garner-daniel-pantaleo.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
E.P.A. Broke Rules in Shake-Up of Science Panels
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/climate/epa-advisory-panels-gao-report.html
Trump’s threat to investigate Google isn’t based on evidence. It’s based on Fox News.
https://www.vox.com/2019/7/16/20696131/trump-google-investigation-peter-thiel-fox-news
YEP: Democrat Sherrod Brown torches Facebook at hearing: 'They broke journalism, helped incite a genocide' | The top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee said Tuesday that it would be “crazy” to allow Facebook to launch a cryptocurrency payment platform, arguing that the “dangerous” social media company cannot be trusted as part of the global financial system. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) argued that “Facebook has demonstrated through scandal after scandal that it doesn't deserve our trust” to operate Project Libra, its proposed payment network based on a proprietary cryptocurrency. “Their motto has been move fast and break things. They certainly have,” Brown said. "They moved fast and broke journalism. They moved fast and helped incite a genocide," referring to the Myanmar military's use of Facebook to incite a genocide against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority group in 2018. “It takes a breathtaking amount of arrogance to look at that track record and think, 'You know, really what we really ought to do next? Let's run our own bank and our own for-profit version of the Federal Reserve. Let’s do it for the whole world.' "
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/453281-democrat-sherrod-brown-torches-facebook-at-hearing-they-broke-journalism
Location of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe accidentally revealed in report from NATO body
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/07/16/location-us-nuclear-weapons-europe-accidentally-revealed-report-nato-body/
Irish-Italian immigrant Kellyanne Conway Says German-Scottish immigrant Trump's 'Get Out' Demand Applies To Anyone Criticizing America (Except Himself, The Biggest Criticizer Of America Of Them All)
https://www.newsweek.com/kellyanne-conway-get-out-america-fox-news-antisemitism-1449518
Elephant extinction in Africa would ‘speed up climate crisis by letting more greenhouse gases escape’ - But conserving forest elephants may reverse the trend, providing a service worth $43bn (£34.3bn) in storing carbon, the academics found.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/elephants-extinct-africa-climate-change-trees-study-carbon-co2-forest-a9005536.html
A police union is urging its officers to post ‘The Punisher’ logo — The logo is supposed to show solidarity with officers under investigation for racist Facebook posts.
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/police-union-the-punisher-logo/
If you didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, fuck yourself. And you can call me a snowflake or a libtard all you want but I hope your purity vote was good enough for kids in cages, the SCOTUS lost for a generation, and the undying rage in which we all seem to daily live.
https://twitter.com/CCXIII/status/1150921652831698944?s=09
Trump denies racist tweets were racist
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tweet-racist-aoc-omar-pelosi-republican-weak-democrats-ocasio-cortez-a9006951.html
Donald Trump has made it clear: the only 'real Americans' are white and Christian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/16/trump-real-americans-white-christian
Reminder: White House projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019
https://www.axios.com/white-house-projects-1-trillion-deficit-for-2019-ee45c1b0-44d3-4c94-9f02-442e8fcf61dc.html
'Good,' Says Elizabeth Warren, After Billionaire Right-Winger Alt-Right Conspiracy Theorist Nutjob Peter Thiel Says She's 2020 Democrat He Is 'Most Scared By'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/16/good-says-elizabeth-warren-after-billionaire-right-winger-peter-thiel-says-shes-2020
Neolithic settlement — the largest ever discovered in Israel and the Levant, say archaeologists — is currently being excavated ahead of highway construction five kilometers from Jerusalem, it was announced on Tuesday. The 9,000-year-old site, located near the town of Motza, is the “Big Bang” for prehistory settlement research due to its size and the preservation of its material culture, said Jacob Vardi, co-director of the excavations at Motza on behalf of the Antiquities Authority. “It’s a game changer, a site that will drastically shift what we know about the Neolithic era,” said Vardi. Already some international scholars are beginning to realize the existence of the site may necessitate revisions to their work, he said. “So far, it was believed that the Judea area was empty, and that sites of that size existed only on the other bank of the Jordan river, or in the Northern Levant. Instead of an uninhabited area from that period, we have found a complex site, where varied economic means of subsistence existed, and all this only several dozens of centimeters below the surface,” according to Vardi and co-director Dr. Hamoudi Khalaily in an IAA press release. Roughly half a kilometer from point to point, the site would have housed an expected population of some 3,000 residents. In today’s terms, said Vardi, prehistoric Motza would be comparable to the stature of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv — “a real metropolis.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/vast-and-developed-9000-year-old-settlement-uncovered-near-jerusalem/
Nobody Is Surprised: House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said that Republican leadership is urging all Republicans to vote against the resolution condemning Trump's racist tweets.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1151220074558025728
House Democrats Overwhemling Vote To Stop Republican Motion to Gut Pelosi's Resolution Condemning Trump's Racist Tweets, 232-190
https://www.c-span.org/networks/?channel=c-span
It's bigger than that vulgar secret Facebook group for border agents: Since 2016, @CBP Office of Professional Responsibility has investigated 80 indiv for inappropriate posts on social media, in min 3 diff groups. 70 indiv under investigation now. https://lat.ms/2GaRlXh @latimes
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-border-patrol-facebook-20190715-story.html
Much of the consternation among Democrats on the floor seems to be that there is a rule that prevents calling someone a racist. Lots of chatter between the parliamentarians office and Dems about this. Between 2016-2018, House Republicans added rules around to prevent calling DJT a racist or sexual predator?
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1151218387613188098
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_nzAVtXsAAljmA.jpg
Mitch McConnell sidesteps question about his wife, who's an immigrant
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-racist-tweet-immigration-july-2019/h_a2e32c9f38a2257bf383778721179927
Epstein’s Abuse Continued While He Was on Work Release From Jail | In a press conference Tuesday, attorney Brad Edwards, who is representing some of Epstein’s accusers, said at least one woman in Florida alleges abuse at the hands of Epstein while he was on work release. Epstein was also visited during this time by others for “sexual contact,” Edwards said, adding that he doesn’t know if any of the visitors were underage. “They believed that they were going there for something other than a sexual purpose,” Edwards said of Epstein’s visitors. “While there, surprisingly to them, the situation turned sexual.” Edwards continued: “He was in his office most of the day, and what I can tell you he had visitors, female visitors. I don’t know if any of them were underage. The female visitors were there not for business and engaged in very similar conduct of that which was described in the Palm Beach police report. It was sexual in nature.” Edwards said he wanted to share the information because Epstein’s lawyers have claimed that he’s been a model citizen since serving his 2008 sentence. But Edwards said that Epstein was still engaging in problematic behavior, even if his alleged victims were not underage.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/lawyer-epsteins-abuse-continued-while-on-work-release.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-abused-victims-while-serving-time-in-florida-lawyer-brad-edwards-says
A New York federal judge has issued an order definitively blocking the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census in any form, despite the administration's insistence it has abandoned plans to add a question on the census. Judge Jesse Furman, in his two-page order, also indicated the seriousness with which the court will continue to monitor this controversial issue, saying,"The Court will retain jurisdiction in this case to enforce the terms of this Order until the 2020 census results are processed and sent to the President by December 31, 2020."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/judge-permanently-blocks-citizenship-question-2020-census/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/politics/trump-census-executive-action/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/politics/census-citizenship-question-alternatives/index.html
Not One Republican Votes to Allow Debate on Resolution Condemning Trump's Racist Attacks. "House Democrats must stand together and listen to these new leaders in the party who are fighting for their communities by standing up to Trump's hate."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/16/not-one-republican-votes-allow-debate-resolution-condemning-trumps-racist-attacks
The U.S. factory sector declined in the three months ended in June, the second straight quarterly decline, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday. For the second quarter, production was down 1.2% after a 1.9% decline in the first three months of the year. Manufacturing fell at a 2.2% rate in the second quarter after a 1.9% drop in the first three months of the year. For June, industrial production was flat, slightly below the 0.1% gain expected by Wall Street economists.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-industrial-production-slumps-in-second-quarter-2019-07-16
Another major coal producer will file for bankruptcy. It employs 2,800 in KY and WV.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article232728492.html
Six officials at Southwest Key, nonprofit running migrant child shelters, earned more than $1 million in 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/six-officials-at-southwest-key-nonprofit-running-migrant-child-shelters-earned-more-than-1-million-in-2017/2019/07/16/e2e42cfe-a7d9-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.8f69ab577446
Kentucky racing billboard defaced to say 'Trump 2020: America's Day as the Racist'
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/453379-kentucky-racing-billboard-defaced-to-say-trump-2020-americas
Prosecution of Child-Sex Traffickers Plummeted Under Trump
https://www.courthousenews.com/prosecution-of-kiddie-traffickers-plummeted-under-trump/
Trump Officials Face Cover-Up Allegations After Failed Citizenship Question Push
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742259233/trump-officials-face-cover-up-allegations-after-failed-citizenship-question-push
Trump hangs photographs of himself and Kim Jong-un in White House - next to picture of the Queen
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kim-jong-un-west-wing-white-house-dmz-queen-photographs-a9007511.html
Republican support for Trump rises after racially charged tweets: Reuters/Ipsos poll
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-poll/republican-support-for-trump-rises-after-racially-charged-tweets-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1UB2UD
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