Deutsche Bank and Wall Street banks reportedly just gave Congress thousands of documents related to Russians with possible ties to Trump | Six banks including Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, have been providing Congressional committees thousands of documents related to an investigation into Trump's Russia ties.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/deutsche-bank-jpmorgan-give-congress-donald-trump-russia-documents-2019-8-1028431306
Banks Hand Over Trump Docs To House, State Investigators
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/wsj-banks-hand-over-trump-docs-to-house-state-investigators
Hours after Trump Visit to El Paso, Trump Supporter Arrested with possession of a knife and gun outside Immigration Center | Meanwhile, El Paso police arrested a Trump supporter Wednesday as he sat outside an organizing space for immigrant activists, wearing blue latex gloves and brandishing a knife. Organizers with Casa Carmelita say police also recovered a loaded gun, ammunition and a bag of white powder from the man’s truck, which sported a large banner portraying Donald Trump as Rambo and bumper stickers for the far-right conspiracy website InfoWars. The man appears to be 21-year-old Thomas Bartram, who was profiled earlier on Wednesday by the Washington Examiner. Bartram told the paper he was an “open-carry kind of guy” at political rallies; a photo accompanying the article shows Bartram making what appears to be a white nationalist hand gesture.
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/8/headlines/trump_supporter_with_loaded_pistol_knife_arrested_outside_el_paso_immigrant_center
Beto O’Rourke Flatly Calls Trump A White Supremacist On Live TV
https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1159221564891652096
Montana Man Who Body Slammed Boy On His Head Over National Anthem Believed He Was Following Trump's Orders, Attorney Says
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rhetoric-influence-montana-man-assault-national-anthem-wearing-hat-missoula-1453321
Trump : "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK? Just knock the hell ... I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise," he said on Feb. 1, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x_c6cvBR8s
U.S. Deported a Detroit Man to Iraq, Where He’d Never Been and Didn’t Speak the Language. He Died on the Streets.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/detroit-michigan-man-deported-died-iraq-diabetic-homeless.html
A 41-year-old Detroit man deported to Iraq in June died Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union and two people close to the man’s family. The man, Jimmy Aldaoud, spent most of his life in the U.S., but was swept up in President Donald Trump’s intensified immigration enforcement efforts. Edward Bajoka, an immigration attorney who described himself as close to Aldaoud’s family, wrote on Facebook that the death appeared to be linked to the man’s inability to obtain insulin in Baghdad to treat his diabetes. Aldaoud was an Iraqi national, but he was born in Greece and came to the U.S. as a young child, his family friend said. He had never lived in Iraq and did not speak Arabic, according to Bajoka.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/iraqi-man-dies-deportation-trump-administration-1643512
ICE Mississippi raid that saw 680 workers arrested took place on first day of school, causing chaos for children
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-mississippi-raid-that-saw-680-workers-arrested-took-place-first-day-school-causing-chaos-1453207
Senate GOP plans to divert health, education funds to border wall
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/senate-gop-plans-to-divert-health-education-funds-to-border-wall
During El Paso hospital visit, Trump compared his and O’Rourke’s crowd sizes at political rallies, video shows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/during-el-paso-hospital-visit-trump-compared-his-and-orourkes-crowd-sizes-at-political-rallies-video-shows/2019/08/08/573a3e68-b9eb-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html
A judge has barred the Trump administration from withholding public safety grants from the state and the city of Portland over Oregon’s sanctuary law that directs police not to help federal agents enforce immigration policies. U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane, who is based in Eugene, Oregon, also said in the decision issued late Wednesday that the federal government can’t impose immigration-related conditions on the grant awards.
https://www.apnews.com/f68034c2c8ba45a6adbcbe2065a4b456
Trump campaign ad featured QAnon signs despite FBI warning that conspiracy could motivate extremists
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/08/trump-campaign-ad-featured-qanon-signs-despite-fbi-warning-that-conspiracy-could-motivate-extremists/
How Donald Trump Has Used A Secretive Justice System To Keep Lawsuits Against Him Quiet | Trump, his campaign, and his companies have used arbitration to try to move potentially damaging and embarrassing claims out of the public court process.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/donald-trump-lawsuits-secret-arbitration
None of the 8 still-hospitalized survivors of the El Paso mass shooting wanted to meet with Trump during his visit to the city
https://www.businessinsider.com/no-hospitalized-el-paso-shooting-survivors-wanted-meet-trump-2019-8
Why Is Virginia Winemaker Eric Trump Smiling? -- Maybe It’s Because His Dad Is Threatening to Slap a Big, New Tariff on French Wines
https://www.dcreport.org/2019/08/08/why-is-virginia-winemaker-eric-trump-smiling/
Toxic Pesticides Are Driving Insect ‘Apocalypse’ in the U.S.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/toxic-pesticides-are-driving-us-insect-apocalypse-study-warns-180972839/
The White House is rafting an order to stop anti-Republican social media commentary/postings
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20759191/white-house-trump-administration-social-media-bias-executive-order-report
NY state sues ExxonMobil on charges that it knew the risks of climate change and defrauded investors by misrepresenting them.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28636123/exxonmobil-lawsuit-climage-change-new-york/
China delivers its most explicit threat to use military force in Hong Kong if protests get bigger and more violent
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-threatens-military-invasion-in-hong-kong-over-protests-2019-8
Beto O'Rourke: No matter our geographic distance from the other centers of power and population, this problem will find you. This problem of gun violence. This problem of hatred. This problem of white nationalist terrorism. It'll come find you, so it's on all of us.
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1159281565396025344
Immigration: Nearly half of those arrested in raid released | In an email Thursday, Bryan Cox said more than 300 of the 680 people arrested Wednesday have been released from custody. He says about 30 were released at the plants and about 270 others were released from the military hangar where they had been brought after the raids to be processed.
https://apnews.com/379ceb154aa34469832a8ccbc22cf2e5
Today, ICE carried out what is believed to be the largest immigration raid in decades when they detained 680 workers at seven poultry plants in Morton, Mississippi. The workers, many of them members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), were employed by a company called Koch Foods Inc, which employs 13,000 workers throughout the US. (Koch Foods INC has no connection or relation to the billionaire political donor Koch Brothers). The UFCW, which represents workers at the plant, has been meeting with community groups and immigrants rights activists to mobilize community and legal support on behalf of the workers. As buses full of poultry workers arrived pulled up to the Mississippi National Guard base at Flowood, Mississippi 70 family members and supporters families gathered shouting at the armed guards, “Let Them Go! Let Them Go!” as workers were taken into the makeshift detention facility. The detention suffered by immigrants is yet another abuse suffered by immigrant poultry workers employed by Koch Foods Inc in Morton, Mississippi. In 2018, following a nearly eight-year-long legal battle, Koch Foods Inc. settled a $3.5 million brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Koch Food Inc at the plant. The lawsuit alleged that Koch Foods Inc supervisors engaged in both racial and sexual harassment of Latina workers at its Morton, Mississippi plant. The lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Koch Food Inc’s alleged “that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday work activities.” As part of its settlement, Koch Foods Inc. agreed to a three-year federal consent decree to change its discriminatory practices. As part of the consent decree, Koch Foods Inc. was forced to create a 24-hour-a-day bilingual hotline for workers to use to file complaints. Many immigrants rights advocates have speculated that workers are targeted for raids after their facilities get investigated for worker abuse. In June of 2018, ICE raided a unionized Fresh Mark meatpacking plant in Salem, Ohio; arresting 140 workers. A week before the raid on a Fresh Mark’s Salem facility, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined Fresh Mark $211,194 for three separate incidents in which proper guards for dangerous machinery were not in place. OSHA found that the lack of safety guards resulted in the death of an undocumented worker. In December of 2017, Domingo Ramos, a 49-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala, was killed in the plant when his foot was sucked into a rotating auger, ripping off his lower leg and leading to him bleeding to death. Suspicious was also raised that workers complaining about working conditions in plants lead to raids when the Southeastern Provision in Morristown, Tennesse. The raid came after federal authorities were tipped off by a local bank that the owner of the plant may have been paying undocumented workers under the table. The United Food and Commercial Workers, which represents workers employed by Koch Food Inc. did not return an immediate request for comment about actions they intend to protect workers targeted by the raid. The UFCW has previously represented workers in its plant targeted by raids. According to sources in the immigrants’ rights movement, the UFCW has already been meeting with local immigrants activists in Mississippi to coordinate a strategy to respond to the raid. While it’s unclear if the raids are being triggered by federal authorities responding to the mistreatment of workers, the overall effect of these raids has had a chilling effect on workers speaking out. “These raids send a real signal to immigrant workers not to speak up, and we feel like these raids enable employers in the most dangerous industry to cut corners and violate labor standards,” said Debbie Berkowitz, who served as chief of staff of OSHA under Obama from 2009 to 2013 and now serves as the director of the worker health and safety program at the National Employment Law Project (NELP).
http://paydayreport.com/ice-raids-miss-plant-after-3-5-million-sexual-harassment-settlement/amp/
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/08/01/koch-foods-mississippi-pay-3-75-m-settle-discrimination-lawsuits/875688002/
https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/8-1-18b.cfm
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/29/ohio-ice-meatpacking-industry-deportations
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OPA/newsreleases/OSHA20180939.pdf
Trump Fires Deputy DNI Director Sue Gordon
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dni-deputy-director-sue-gordon-resign
A scathing new Pentagon report blames Trump for the return of ISIS in Syria and Iraq
https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-blames-trump-for-return-of-isis-syria-and-iraq-2019-8
Pelosi Writes to President Trump Calling on Him to Bring McConnell, Senate Back to Washington to Consider House-Passed Bipartisan Gun Violence Prevention Legislation
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/8819-3/
McConnell indicates he won't call Senate back early for gun debate
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/456758-mcconnell-indicates-he-wont-call-senate-back-early-for-gun-debate
Lindsey Graham vows to eliminate the rest of the PPACA (which has already been gutted) if GOP takes control in 2020
https://thinkprogress.org/lindsey-graham-vows-obamacare-repeal-if-gop-takes-control-2020-1e14cdc2267a/
A majority of Americans with employer-based health insurance said they want to keep their current coverage
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-americans-employer-based-plans-healthcare-medicare-for-all-2019-8
Per new Monmouth poll, Beto's Medicare for America (keep what you have or try Medicare) has most support amongst Dems in Iowa. We can have universal coverage and allow choice for people. This isn’t about what naysayers want. This is what Dems want. Iowa Dems: 21% support single payer. 56% support alllowing people to choose between Medicare for everyone and keeping their private plan.
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1159504032853045248
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1159505753692147712
Report Warns ISIS is "Resurging" in Syria After Trump Ordered a Partial Troop Withdrawal
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/report-isis-resurging-syria-trump-troop-withdrawal/
Green energy isn't enough to fix climate change, this report warns, we need to change our food production and land management.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-08/ipcc-report-climate-change-land-use/11391180
Critics Say Monsanto's Spying and Intimidation Operation Show Why BioTech Giant 'Needs To Be Destroyed Now':New documents reveal Monsanto's 'fusion center' aimed at targeting and discrediting journalists and critics
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/08/critics-say-monsantos-spying-and-intimidation-operation-show-why-biotech-giant-needs
How Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/07/monsanto-fusion-center-journalists-roundup-neil-young
FBI wants to monitor Facebook and Instagram for domestic threats in real time
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/08/tech/fbi-facebook-instagram-twitter-data/index.html
ALEC’s ‘redistricting’ workshops will help GOP lawmakers gerrymander, watchdog groups warn
https://thinkprogress.org/alecs-redistricting-workshops-will-help-gop-lawmakers-gerrymander-watchdog-groups-warn-2013be8e41ff/
The gun group’s lawyer said “not a cent” of the nonprofit’s money was spent on helping executive Wayne LaPierre’s mansion search. A document we obtained shows that payments were flagged by internal accountants for doing just that.
https://www.propublica.org/article/documents-show-nra-money-helped-chief-wayne-lapierre-search-personal-mansion
McConnell told radio station he has a message to protestors (HIS OWN VOTERS) in front of his house: 'I will not be intimidated by you people (HIS OWN VOTERS) -- not a chance. Not a single thing you (HIS OWN VOTERS) do is going to alter how I operate on behalf of my constituents (THE PROTESTORS ARE HIS CONSTITUENTS) and the country."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1159578696841408518
What if plastic was no longer waste? French chemicals company Carbios has developed enzyme-based processes which rethink the life cycle of plastics so they can be endlessly recycled
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1159575510789369880
Sue Gordon was due to become DNI on August 15th, by law. Sue Gordon is universally respected across the political spectrum as non-partisan and extremely competent. Trump could not allow someone competent and not loyal to him personally, even someone he appointed, to occupy the DNI position. She was fired (not resigned). This is precisely the same reason DHS Deputy Claire Grady's resignation was compelled in April when Kirstjen Nielsen "resigned". Donald Trump is filling the most important positions with hateful racists with no congressional oversight.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/u-s-deputy-intelligence-director-is-out-after-trump-meeting
ICE agents try to raid Brooklyn homeless shelter without warrants
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-christine-quinn-win-ice-homeless-trump-20190808-djlqkfnkkbcdzdvf5kirafifvm-story.html
Texas Is Illegally Throwing Out Mail-In Ballots, Lawsuit Says
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-signature-mismatch-absentee-ballot_n_5d4b414ae4b01e44e4749888?3cl
DOJ Official Behind Failed Census Citizenship Question To Leave Department | John Gore, the main Justice Department official behind the Trump administration's failed push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, is set to leave the department Friday.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/749573662/doj-official-behind-failed-census-citizenship-question-to-leave-department
Kim Briear "Resigns" | The State Department’s top diplomat for Latin American matters has resigned after a dispute with the White House over Guatemalan immigration policy, according to The Washington Post. A senior administration official told the newspaper Kim Breier, assistant secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, is leaving her post after White House policy adviser Stephen Miller berated her in an email chain for what he perceived as an insufficient defense of the Trump administration’s “safe third country” asylum agreement with Guatemala. Miller told Breier that it was "her job" to defend the agreement, which requires Central American migrants to seek asylum in Guatemala before applying for asylum in the U.S., the official added. The Post notes that it is unclear whether this was a primary cause of her resignation.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456674-assistant-secretary-of-state-resigns-over-immigration-policy-report
Beto to Breitbart: "I went to Ciudad Juárez today because eight Mexican citizens died in our country—a consequence of our gun laws, of our president's racism, and of websites like yours, which are havens for white supremacy."
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1159612451983372289
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