"This effort to gut protections for endangered and threatened species has the same two features of most Trump administration actions: it's a gift to industry, and it's illegal. We'll see the Trump administration in court about it," Drew Caputo, a vice president of litigation for the conservation advocacy group Earthjustice.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/457086-trump-administration-rolls-back-endangered-species-protections
Trump tore out magazine picture of Justin Trudeau, scrawled odd message and mailed it to Canadian embassy, report claims
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-justin-trudeau-magazine-message-canadian-embassy-bloomberg-a9053576.html
Trump Used Accents To Mock Japanese, Korean Allies At Hamptons Fundraiser
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-accent-japan-korea-hamptons-fundraiser
U.S. Officials Suspect New Nuclear Missile in Explosion That Killed 7 Russians
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/world/europe/russia-nuclear-accident-putin.html
Heather Heyer’s Mom: I Have to Hide Her Grave From Neo-Nazis
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heather-heyers-mom-im-starting-to-hold-trump-responsible-for-her-murder-in-charlottesville
Bayer gets help from Donald Trump as US regulators veto warnings its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-helps-bayer-regulators-nix-roundup-cancer-warnings-2019-8
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#TrumpsBodyCount pins blame on Trump for mass shooting and migrant deaths — ‘7 immigrant toddlers, countless immigrant adults, 19 in Philadelphia Synagogue, 9 in CA, 1 in Charlottesville, 22 in El Paso
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trumpsbodycount-twitter/
From 2018: Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states
Texas Latina progressive, Cristina Tzinztún Ramirez, launches Democratic Senate campaign. The founder of the group Jolt Initiative, which mobilizes young voters, wants to unseat Sen. John Cornyn.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-latina-progressive-cristina-tzinztun-ramirez-launches-democratic-senate-campaign-n1041291
Trump And Republican Reviewing Illegal Unconstitutional Rule That Would Allow Drug Testing for Unemployment Benefits. Supreme Court Has Already Ruled On This.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/12/degrading-and-unconstitutional-trump-reviewing-rule-would-allow-drug-testing?amp
The people who backed Donald Trump for president in 2016 have largely continued to support him. In the previous election, many of them pointed to cultural anxiety as one of their main reasons for backing Trump’s pledge to “make America great again.” But as more Americans label the president a racist due to his worldview, the voters who continue to back him are becoming bolder in justifying their support, citing retaliation for being viewed as backing a racist. | But fear of being accused of backing a white supremacist worldview caused many Trump fans to remain silent about their support for the real estate developer or to publicly express support for someone else while privately backing Trump. Many Trump supporters express indignation at being labeled racist, but the worldview they admittedly embrace demonstrates a hostility to diversity. In a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, a D.C.-based nonpartisan research organization, more than 60 percent of Republicans said the shift of the United States to being a majority nonwhite country would be a mostly negative development. Six in 10 Republicans also said that they felt like strangers in their own country, and nearly 6 in 10 white evangelical Protestants — one of the most pro-Trump demographic groups in the country — said immigrants are a threat to American society.
While criticism of Trump is increasing, the president’s most loyal voters are not reconsidering their support for him but are doubling down and showing signs of continuing to do so as we move closer to the 2020 elections. But in 2020, cultural anxiety may no longer be cited as the reason for supporting Trump. Instead, an aversion to being labeled a racist appears to be a main motivator for those whose idea of a great America is more reminiscent of the past than the future.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/12/anger-being-labeled-racist-is-new-cultural-anxiety-trump-supporters/
https://www.prri.org/research/partisan-polarization-dominates-trump-era-findings-from-the-2018-american-values-survey/
https://www.prri.org/research/partisan-polarization-dominates-trump-era-findings-from-the-2018-american-values-survey/
ICE’s Raids Were a Win for Corporate Exploitation - Destroying families won't end migration. But it will make abused workers less likely to speak up.
https://newrepublic.com/article/154732/ices-raids-win-corporate-exploitation
Flights out of Hong Kong International Airport cancelled after protest sit-in
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022411/after-woman-shot-eye-angry-protesters-descend-hong-kong
London Library rejects £1m Sackler family donation: Family owns Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, the controversial opioid prescription painkiller
https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/london-library-rejects-1m-sackler-family-donation-20190812
Investigating Trump family self-dealing, the D.C. A.G. has subpoenaed docs from Melania's former right-hand woman, Vanity Fair reports. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff has handed over a trove of docs related to her inauguration work with Trump family businesses.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/investigating-trump-family
The White House lifted its freeze on foreign aid spending, after pressure from Congress and Pompeo. But now the admin is trying a different tack to block the State Department and USAID from distributing several billion dollars in foreign aid: a daily cap.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/white-house-targets-foreign-aid-cash-with-caps-limiting-spending
A new New York law will enable Jeffrey Epstein's victims to sue for damages
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-new-york-law-will-enable-jeffrey-epstein-s-alleged-n1041446
U.S. Budget Deficit Already Exceeds Last Year’s Total Figure
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/u-s-budget-deficit-already-exceeds-last-year-s-total-figure
Top White House reporter asks if Trump will erase 'Give me your tired, your poor' from Statue of Liberty
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-white-house-reporter-asks-if-trump-will-erase-give-me-your-tired-your-poor-from-statue-of-liberty
San Diego’s city attorney is taking away hundreds of guns from those who shouldn’t have them | Under California’s red flag law, enacted in 2014, a law enforcement official or immediate family member can ask a judge to issue a Gun Violence Restraining Order if a gun owner is feared to be a danger to himself or others. If the order is issued — and it almost always is — the gun owner’s weapons will be seized by law enforcement for up to a year. After a year, the restraining order can be renewed.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-11/skelton-gun-control-california-san-diego-city-attorney
Dow sinks more than 450 points, loses grip on 26,000 as 10-year Treasury hits 1.63%
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dow-futures-down-200-points-on-us-china-trade-worries-hong-kong-unrest-2019-08-12
Federal charges filed against friend of Dayton gunman Connor Betts for allegedly lying on federal firearms forms
https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-charges-filed-friend-dayton-gunman-connor-betts/story?id=64925831
US cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here's why it matters and how you can stop it
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/20/health/iyw-cities-losing-36-million-trees-how-to-help-trnd/index.html
Democrat Galloway launches Missouri gubernatorial campaign
https://apnews.com/45aef9ef051a403f8889af884a4e2484
States vow suit over endangered species rollback
https://www.apnews.com/2050b9a895ba4e4fb266d5ba4852d284
FBI Searching Epstein's Virgin Island Mansion
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/Jeffrey-Epstein-Suicide-MCC-New-York-Prison-537408641.html
Beto O'Rourke: When President Trump visited University Medical Center in the aftermath of one of the deadliest mass shootings in history, instead of consoling our community, he bragged about how much people love him. That shows you how sick this guy is—and how unfit he is for office.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1160572548809187328
Muslim women 'sterilised' in China detention camps, say former detainees
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uighur-muslim-china-sterilisation-women-internment-camps-xinjiang-a9054641.html
What would happen if the entire US stopped eating meat? Research says it'd be like taking 60 million cars off the road and there’s no nutritional downside.
http://www.businessinsider.com/switch-from-meat-to-meatless-diet-environmental-benefits-2019-8
Trump says Kim Apologised for previous missile tests, though North Korea launched more missiles hours later
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-kim-missile-launches-south-korea-dmz-1453637
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