News Dump

Reminder: Mueller testifies Wednesday July 24th
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/22/robert-mueller-testimony-1424333

Mueller files report. Trump claims report exonerates him of any wrongdoing. Mueller says report is his testimony, and all his testimony answers will come from it. Trump threatens Mueller because he’s scared shitless of what he’ll say from a report that Trump says exonerates him..
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mueller-hearing-russia-collusion-twitter-us-president-democrats-congress-a9015651.html

I'm still amazed Aaron Nevins isn't a bigger deal in this. He is a Republican operative who received stolen data from the DCCC from the Russians and distributed it to state level Republican campaigns. All through Rodger Stone. How is everyone just forgetting this?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-alleged-russian-hacker-teamed-up-with-florida-gop-operative-1495724787

Reminder: Mueller couldn't find sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a criminal conspiracy. To read what Mueller did find and say that it's good news for Trump is intellectually bankrupt. Mueller said if had the authority to file charges he would have.

FFS Animal rights activists designated ‘domestic terrorists’ in Australia
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/animal-rights-activists-australia-domestic-terrorists-new-south-wales-a9015346.html

A Dallas-born citizen picked up by the Border Patrol has been detained for three weeks
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2019/07/22/dallas-born-citizen-picked-border-patrol-detained-three-weeks

New York becomes first state to ban declawing of cats
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/454169-new-york-becomes-first-state-to-ban-declawing-of-cats

Medicare for those that want it, with choice between private or national health insurance program, is polling at 70%. M4A with the elimination of private insurance is polling at 41%. NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll of 1,346 National Adults.
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_1907190926.pdf#page=3

Trump to expand expedited removal, eg deportation w/o the rt to see an immigration judge, throughout the US; could have devastating consequences, subjecting millions to immediate detention & deportation. Fed Reg Notice 2b published tomorrow https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-15710.pdf …
https://twitter.com/DavidLeopold/status/1153298129497837570
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-15710.pdf

To emphasize, this is a BFD. Potentially gives Trump admin carte blanch to round up, lock up & deport people without even seeing a judge.
https://twitter.com/DavidLeopold/status/1153301118962872322

Babies Born Near Oil and Gas Wells Are Up to 70% More Likely to Have Congenital Heart Defects, New Study Shows — Researchers at the University of Colorado studied pregnant women who are among the 17 million Americans living within a mile from an active oil or gas well
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/19/babies-born-near-oil-and-gas-wells-are-70-more-likely-have-congenital-heart-defects

Hong Kong police made no arrests after mob assaulted commuters, protesters, journalists in Yuen Long
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/22/hong-kong-police-made-no-arrests-mob-assaulted-commuters-protesters-journalists-yuen-long/

Trump Promotes Far-Right Racist Antisemitic Commentator Who Blames Jews For Deadly U.S. Synagogue Attack
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-hopkins-trump-anti-semitic-ocasio-cortez-omar-tlaib-pressley_n_5d34f9ece4b020cd99453a4f

Agreed: Pete Buttigieg says white supremacy could be 'issue that ends this country
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/presidential-candidate-pete-buttigieg-says-white-supremacy-could-053548886--abc-news-topstories.html

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Can’t Stop Falling Asleep in Meetings
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wilbur-ross-cant-stop-falling-asleep-in-meetings-at-commerce-department-says-report

Federal Officials Are Illegally Campaigning for Trump at Work
https://truthout.org/articles/federal-officials-are-illegally-campaigning-for-trump-at-work/

Coward House Democrats Should Prepare Criminal Referral of A.G. Barr for Lying to Congress
https://www.justsecurity.org/64972/house-should-prepare-criminal-referral-of-a-g-barr-for-lying-to-congress/

Trump claims he didn't have 'talking points' to degrade Rep. Ilhan Omar. Here's a picture of him holding them.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/854119/trump-claims-didnt-have-talking-points-degrade-rep-ilhan-omar-heres-picture-holding

Hindu Priest Brutally Attacked Outside Temple, Faith Groups Blame Trump's Attack on Immigrants: 'This Results in Real Harm Inflicted on Our Communities'
https://www.newsweek.com/hindu-priest-attck-new-york-trump-1450462

Ukrainian officials and Giuliani are illegally sharing back-channel campaign information
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/454133-ukrainian-officials-and-giuliani-are-sharing-back-channel-campaign

Coward Democratic Senators say they regret calling for Al Franken's resignation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/al-franken-resignation-senators-regret

The American Bar Association says US immigration courts are 'on the brink of collapse'
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/20/politics/american-bar-association-immigration-court/index.html

Eugene Scalia has defended Wall Street, Walmart and SeaWorld. Now he’s Trump’s pick for labor secretary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/eugene-scalia-has-defended-wall-street-walmart-and-seaworld-now-hes-trumps-pick-for-labor-secretary/2019/07/19/6f2819f0-aa55-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.e2d695b127f3

Trump Plans to Deport Thousands of Latin Americans Without Due Process
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kzmm8e/trump-plans-to-deport-thousands-of-new-migrants-without-due-process

Mueller, drop the Yoda act. It's time for Robert Mueller to lose the mystery, drop the double-speak and stop the riddling. He needs to tell the American public where he stands -- straight, clear and in plain English.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/opinions/congress-robert-mueller-questions-honig/index.html

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her family are among the groups that have seen an income boon of millions through their own investments since Trump's tax plan was signed, according to her latest annual financial disclosure report.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1153375528646299649

Two Unofficial US Operatives Reporting To Trump’s Lawyer Privately Lobbied A Foreign Government In A Bid To Help The President Win In 2020. Two unofficial envoys reporting directly to Donald Trump’s personal lawyer have waged a remarkable back-channel campaign to discredit the president’s rivals and undermine the special counsel’s inquiry into Russian meddling in US elections. In a whirlwind of private meetings, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman — who pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into Republican campaigns and dined with the president — gathered repeatedly with top officials in Ukraine and set up meetings for Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani as they turned up information that could be weaponized in the 2020 presidential race. The two men urged prosecutors to investigate allegations against Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. And they pushed for a probe into accusations that Ukrainian officials plotted to rig the 2016 election in Hillary Clinton’s favor by leaking evidence against Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chair, in what became a cornerstone of the special counsel’s inquiry. They also waged an aggressive campaign in the United States, staying at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, and meeting with key members of Congress as they joined in a successful push that led to the removal of the ambassador to Ukraine after she angered their allies in Kiev.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesallah/rudy-giuliani-ukraine-trump-parnas-fruman

Trump has turned the Department of Labor into the Department of Employer Rights
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-22/trump-attack-on-labor

Asylum Seekers That Followed Trump Rule Now Don’t Qualify Because of New Trump Rule
https://www.propublica.org/article/asylum-seekers-that-followed-trump-rule-now-dont-qualify-because-of-new-trump-rule

People can exchange trash for free food at India’s first 'Garbage Cafe' - All the plastic waste collected will be recycled and used to build stronger roads
https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/xwnb3j/people-can-exchange-trash-for-free-food-at-indias-first-garbage-cafe

Icelandic memorial warns future: ‘Only you know if we saved glaciers’ - The first of Iceland’s 400 glaciers to be lost to the climate crisis will be remembered with a memorial plaque – and a sombre warning for the future – to be unveiled by scientists and local people next month.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/22/memorial-to-mark-icelandic-glacier-lost-to-climate-crisis

Leaked documents show Huawei helped North Korea build wireless network
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/454101-leaked-documents-show-huawei-helped-north-korea-wireless-network-report

Barr intimidating the witness already. Letter to Mueller from Associate Deputy AG about Testimony
https://www.scribd.com/document/419414703/Mueller-Letter-072219

(Lousiana) The Gretna Police Department has fired two officers Monday after an incident in which one posted a comment on Facebook week that suggested U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot. The author of the post, Charlie Rispoli, and another officer who "liked" it, Angelo Varisco, have been fired, Gretna police chief Arthur Lawson announced at a press conference Monday afternoon.
https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_7c4edae6-acb8-11e9-80c4-2b2e15730e4f.html

The same Cumulus Media who blocks country radio stations from airing the Pete Buttigieg interview. Imagine that:    In reality, the station, which is owned by Cumulus Media, was a struggling conservative talk-radio station whose survival plan was to become the most pro-Trump station in Los Angeles.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

Bernie Sanders Introduces "Right To A Secure Retirement" Plan
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/22/headlines/bernie_sanders_introduces_right_to_a_secure_retirement_plan

Donald Trump Says He 'Could Win' Afghanistan War 'In A Week' But Doesn't Want To Kill '10 Million People'. "Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk."
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-kill-10-million-afghanistan-war-1450528?piano_t=1

Investigation finds dozens of Alaska police officers were hired despite disqualifying past criminal convictions
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/454180-investigation-finds-dozens-of-alaska-police-officers-were-hired-despite

Beto O'Rourke: Our voting rights plan returns power to people. It will: 🔵Enact automatic & same-day registration 🔵Make Election Day a federal holiday 🔵Protect the Voting Rights Act 🔵Abolish racist voter ID laws 🔵Increase turnout to 65% 🔵Ban PAC contributions 🔵End gerrymandering https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1153424092265144321

Trump Might Use the G-7 Summit to Bail Out His Struggling Golf Club
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/trump-might-use-the-g-7-summit-to-bail-out-his-struggling-golf-club/

House Oversight schedules Thursday vote to hold Kellyanne Conway in contempt
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/454211-house-oversight-schedules-thursday-vote-to-hold-kellyanne-conway-in-contempt

Trump announces $1.37 trillion budget deal with Democrats, avoiding new shutdown
https://abc7.com/politics/trump-announces-$137-trillion-budget-deal-with-democrats/5411839/

Why do prominent Democrats see Trump's racism everywhere and Democrat's anti-Semitism nowhere at all?
https://twitter.com/JakeTurx/status/1153448082832596992

Currently, undocumented immigrants who cross into the U.S. by land can be deported without an immigration hearing if they are arrested within 100 miles of the border during the first 14 days after their arrival. Those who arrive by sea can be deported without legal proceedings if they are unable to prove they have been living in the U.S. for two years or more.    But under the latest proposal, all geographical limitations would be lifted and rapid removal proceedings would be applied to all undocumented immigrants who have been in the country for less than two years.    The change dramatically expands the ability of the Department of Homeland Security to quickly deport certain immigrants without any of the due-process protections granted to most other people, including the right to an attorney and to a hearing before a judge. People who are deported under expedited removal regulations have no right to appeal. It is set to go into effect Tuesday.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744177726/trump-administration-moves-to-speed-up-deportations-with-expedited-removal-expan