Odessa shooting suspect previously failed gun background check
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/459678-texas-gov-abbott-odessa-shooter-previously-failed-gun-background-check
Texas Governor Shocked Shooter Got Rifle In State With Spotty Background Checks
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/greg-abbott-texas-mass-shoooter-odessa-criminal-record_n_5d6d89e8e4b0cdfe057458b3
Trump congratulates Poland on its Nazi invasion anniversary | And he still doesn’t seem to know what FARC is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/03/trump-congratulates-poland-its-nazi-invasion/
Mike Pence is staying at Trump’s Doonbeg resort during his trip to Dublin, Ireland. Will fly to his meetings in Dublin 140 miles away. Violation of Constitution (Emolument)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mike-pence-trump-golf-resort-doonbeg-ireland-visit-leo-varadkar-a9089541.html
Mike Pence’s Political Team Has Spent Nearly a Quarter Million Dollars at Trump Properties
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-pences-political-team-has-spent-nearly-a-quarter-million-dollars-at-trump-properties
How much destruction is needed for us to take climate change seriously? Whether human civilization stays intact amid this worsening weather depends on recognizing our shared humanity – and designing policy accordingly
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/03/how-much-destruction-is-needed-for-us-to-take-climate-change-seriously
House Democrats planning to hold hearings regarding Trump's role in hush-money payments: report
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459658-house-democrats-planning-to-hold-hearings-regarding-trumps-role-in
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congressional-democrats-plan-to-launch-inquiry-into-trumps-alleged-role-in-scheme-to-silence-affair-accusations/2019/09/02/d5075548-c9ad-11e9-8067-196d9f17af68_story.html
Dow drops 400 points on new tariffs and global economic troubles
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/investing/dow-stock-market-today/index.html
Trump allies aim to raise $2 million to investigate reporters
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/459675-trump-allies-aim-to-raise-2-million-to-investigate-reporters-editors-ahead
Caucuses are outdated and irrational. Replace them with primaries. | Democratic National Committee leaders on Friday moved to reject Iowa’s plans to allow people to vote by phone in “virtual caucuses,” out of concern that remote caucusing might be vulnerable to hacking. Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential nominating event, scheduled for Feb. 3, 2020, is a fossil: an outdated and irrational system that has nevertheless hardened into tradition. Instead of trying to engineer a way around the fact that caucuses are awful ways to select presidential candidates, Iowa and every other caucus state should simply switch to holding primary votes. Caucuses typically occur at a set time and can last for hours, during which attendees may be expected to participate in an organized discussion or cast their votes publicly. Byzantine rules govern them, and horse-trading is common. Unsurprisingly, only the committed turn out. Research shows that substantially fewer people show up to caucuses than to primaries. And those who do tend toward the ideological fringe, relative to primary voters. Caucuses therefore tend to favor more extreme candidates. Despite complaints that the Democratic Party’s nominating system was rigged for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential cycle, the caucus system in fact favored Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). For some voters, caucuses are simply exclusionary. They make it hard for night-shift workers or the disabled to have their say. That’s plainly inequitable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/caucuses-are-outdated-and-irrational-replace-them-with-primaries/2019/09/02/d37a6264-cb52-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html
After a great deal of thought, I have reached the conclusion that it is no longer possible to serve my constituents’ and country’s best interests as a Conservative Member of Parliament. My letter to the Prime Minister:
https://twitter.com/DrPhillipLeeMP/status/1168898191103864832
The British Conservative party, currently in government under UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has lost its working majority in Parliament after conservative member of Parliament Philip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats.
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1168898267993772032
Boris Johnson secretly agreed to suspend parliament two weeks before denying it would happen, documents reveal
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-prorogue-parliament-brexit-dominic-cummings-email-court-scotland-a9089911.html
Facebook recorded a $1.1 billion tax expense because of the Altera-IRS tax case, while Google's parent reversed a $418 million benefit it had previously taken. | Facebook, Google are among firms caught in a battle between the IRS and an Intel unit over rules issued in 2003
https://www.wsj.com/articles/yearslong-tax-dispute-could-cost-big-tech-companies-billions-11567503000?mod=rsswn
If a Democrat takes the White House, Manchin will wield enormous power in the Senate. | Joe Manchin will not run for governor of West Virginia in 2020 against Republican Gov. Jim Justice, the Democratic senator announced Tuesday.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/03/joe-manchin-wont-run-for-governor-of-west-virginia-1479602
Owners Near Foxconn Say They Were Misled. Now Their Homes Are Gone
https://www.wpr.org/owners-near-foxconn-say-they-were-misled-now-their-homes-are-gone
McConnell Complains ‘Moscow Mitch’ Moniker Is ‘Over The Top’ (So was blocking Merrick Garland from sitting on the Supreme Court. Or the time he filibustered his own bill. Or that time he called elections security "full bore socialism." Or rushing through a Supreme Court candidate who was credibly accused of sexual assault, including calling only his accuser and Kavanugh himself to testify, literally turning the hearing into "he said, she said.")
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mcconnell-complain-moscow-mitch-over-the-top
Each year we seem to hear about a storm that has no precedent in the records of previous storms. The bad news is that Hurricane Dorian represents the new "normal." Higher average temperatures, because of global warming, lead to three effects: 1. Water evaporates faster when the temperature is higher. 2. Air can hold more water vapor when the temperature is higher. 3. Storms get their energy by extracting warmth from the surfaces they pass over. As the average temperature goes up, we can expect to see more storms that are bigger, stronger and contain more water than before. If you do not believe in global warming, that is fine. But your beliefs have no effect on the weather. The frequency of such bigger, stronger, wetter storms appears to have increased in the past few years. How many more years of such storms that are ever increasing in size, strength and water content do we have to have before even the most disbelieving of global warming among us get the message? Global warming is real, and it is coming to a storm near you.
Here's an idea. Let's have intensive, taxpayer-subsidized development in the areas most at risk, and every time the buildings and infrastructure are destroyed--which is inevitable--the taxpayers will pay to rebuild. Again. And again. And again. Because the people who can't afford waterfront should be bankrolling the people who can.
No Kentucky coal company has complied with a law designed to protect miner wages
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article234398952.html
Khalid Benefit Concert Raises $500,000 for El Paso Shooting Victims
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/khalid-benefit-concert-raises-500-000-for-el-paso-shoo-1837834085
So, Bernie's speechwriter has once again targeted a private citizen. She has him blocked, but he searched for his name under an alternative account, screenshotted her, then tweeted about her to his thousands of followers. This is not normal behavior for campaign staff.
https://twitter.com/magi_jay/status/1168735145928646657?s=09
- UK lawmakers voted to seize control of the parliamentary agenda on Wednesday in an effort to block the government's Brexit plans.
- A substantial defeat: Boris Johnson lost the first vote of his premiership 301-328 -- a margin of 27 votes -- meaning a significant number of politicians from his own Conservative party voted against the government and with the opposition.
- The plan: Tomorrow, opposition and rebel Conservative MPs will try to pass a bill that would prevent Johnson from taking the UK out of the EU on October 31 without a deal, as he has pledged to do if necessary.
- Election threat: Johnson responded by warning that he would seek early elections if MPs passed a bill ruling out a no-deal Brexit. The opposition said it wouldn't vote for new elections until no-deal was ruled out.
- PM loses majority: The government entered Tuesday evening with a razor-thin parliamentary majority of 1 MP. But after Phillip Lee defected from the Conservative Party in dramatic fashion, that number has dropped to zero.
https://edition.cnn.com/uk/live-news/boris-johnson-brexit-parliament-tuesday-dle-gbr-intl/index.html
House of Commons votes 328 to 301 to approve the emergency debate motion on European Union (Withdrawal). This removes control of the business on 4 September 2019 from the Government, enabling the introduction of further EU Withdrawal legislation.
https://twitter.com/HouseofCommons/status/1168994974588907520
The Cherokee Nation has named its first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Former Obama appointee Kimberly Teehee's nomination was approved by the tribe's council on Thursday. Although the treaty that created this nonvoting position is almost 200 years old, it had never been filled.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/756048206/cherokee-nation-names-first-delegate-to-congress
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at @ClintonFdn @ClintonSchool lecture series, introduction given by President @BillClinton – LIVE at 7:30pm ET on C-SPAN https://cs.pn/2NETqPP
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1168972256992813056
North Carolina judges toss districts drawn for GOP advantage
http://www.startribune.com/north-carolina-judges-toss-districts-drawn-for-gop-advantage/559285092/
Trump was so angry after China's trade retaliation that he wanted to double tariffs
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/03/trump-wanted-to-double-china-trade-tariffs-after-latest-retaliation.html
Pentagon to take money from 127 projects to pay for $3.6 billion in border wall construction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/09/03/pentagon-to-take-money-from-127-projects-to-pay-for-3-6-billion-in-border-wall-construction/
Texas shooter evaded background check by purchasing weapon in private sale
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-shooter-evaded-background-check-by-purchasing-weapon-private-sale-2019-09-03/
Odessa, Texas shooter bought gun via private sale without background check
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/03/odessa-texas-shooter-bought-gun-private-sale-without-background-check/
Mitch McConnell’s actions lead to Federal Election Commission paralysis 14 months before 2020 election
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/08/mitch-mcconnells-actions-lead-to-federal-election-commission-paralysis-14-months-before-2020-election.html
Judge Orders Trump to Restore Reporter's White House Badge
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/judge-orders-trump-restore-reporters-white-house-badge-1234827
Trump is killing U.S. manufacturing
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-03/hiltzik-trump-is-killing-us-manufacturing
Voting Rights Advocates Celebrate 'Huge Win for Democracy' as NC State Court Strikes Down GOP's Gerrymandered District Map
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/03/voting-rights-advocates-celebrate-huge-win-democracy-nc-state-court-strikes-down
Pro-Trump super PAC paid thousands to firm owned by Trump's campaign manager
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/30/politics/pro-trump-super-pac-paid-thousands-to-firm-owned-by-brad-parscales-wife/index.html
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