Amash blasts Trump for inviting Taliban leaders to Camp David week of 9/11
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/460428-amash-blasts-trump-for-inviting-taliban-leaders-to-camp-david-week-of-9-11
The World Health Organization has classified processed meats as a group one carcinogen - the same cancer-causing category as cigarettes.
https://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
The loss of more than 100 million pigs to 'pig ebola' is forcing China to consider releasing its massive emergency reserves of frozen pig meat to boost dwindling supplies. China is home to more than 1/2 of all the pigs on the planet and the swine fever epidemic has wiped out 1/3 of this population.
https://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/118246/20190905/swine-fever-forces-china-release-emergency-pork-reserves.htm
EU will refuse Brexit delay in current circumstances | [France's Foreign Minister] Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday that as things stand, a delay beyond the October 31 deadline would not be granted. Asked if a Brexit delay was possible, the French minister told Europe 1 radio not under the current conditions. "We are not going to do [extend] this every three months," he added. "The British must tell us what they want."
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-news-latest-eu-will-refuse-delay-in-current-circumstances-france-says-a4231506.html
The @POTUS gives false info putting millions of Americans on edge, and scientists and professionals are warned not to contradict him?
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1170736208109957122
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/noaa-staff-warned-in-sept-1-directive-against-contradicting-trump/2019/09/07/12a52d1a-d18f-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Report Up to $135 Million in 2018 Income
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/business/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-net-worth.html
‘Sharpiegate’ is nothing to laugh at. It’s one more example of Trump’s unchecked presidential powers | But in all the back and forth over “Sharpiegate,” we’ve missed the much more important story. Contrary to what we hear, this isn’t just about presidential lies and delicate egos. It’s about presidential power and the “unitary executive theory,” which posits that the president has unilateral and plenary authority to enforce the law as the president sees fit. In taking a Sharpie to the center’s map, the president wasn’t just trying to shore up political support or save face; he was actually changing reality, at least as it’s understood for the purpose of policymaking within his administration. This is perhaps the most sweeping, and most breathtaking, kind of executive authority. And it’s real cause for worry. | In these and many other areas, Trump has a well-established track record of unilaterally fashioning his own false reality within the executive branch, and shaping policies around it. This power may seem outsized. But it shouldn’t surprise anyone paying attention to shifts in presidential power over the last couple of decades. In particular, supporters of robust presidential authority have gained substantial traction for their claim that under the Constitution the president is a “unitary executive.” Under that theory, in order to enforce laws as he sees fit, the president has absolute authority over the entire executive branch, including the bureaucracy and even independent agencies. These include agencies like the Federal Reserve Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and offices like the special counsel — all familiar targets of Trump’s political ire. | In other words, when the president reworks or even outright falsifies the work of an agency, he isn’t so much changing the work of the executive branch. He’s actually doing that work — by himself, without oversight, as the unitary executive. That’s a kind of unilateral and unchecked power that no responsible democracy can countenance.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-07/trump-sharpiegate-executive-power-abuse
Trump says he never spoke to Mike Pence about staying at his Doonbeg hotel -- US president contradicts vice-president's chief of staff amid row over Ireland visit
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/trump-says-he-never-spoke-to-mike-pence-about-staying-at-his-doonbeg-hotel-1.4008000
Sooner or Later, the Barriers to Gun Control Legislation Will Fall - America has reached the point when the political costs of inaction are greater than the risks of enraging the NRA.
https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/sooner-or-later-barriers-gun-control-legislation-will-fall
About 60 percent of physicians in the United States thought the Affordable Care Act gave more people access to the medical treatment they wouldn't otherwise have had, according to research published September in the journal Health Affairs.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00224?journalCode=hlthaff
Smaller communities are “seceding” from larger school districts. It’s accelerating school segregation. America’s schools are becoming increasingly segregated, research has found, with black and Latino students attending schools that are more likely to be predominately non-white and low-income than that of their white peers. Now, a new study finds that the creation of predominately white “splinter” school districts plays a significant role, by making it even harder for school integration to occur. The findings come from research recently published in AERA Open, a journal from the American Educational Research Association. The study focuses on what education activists refer to as school “secession,” a process where smaller, new school systems are broken off from larger school districts, with supporters of the split usually arguing that they want to have more local control over funding and school resources in the newer district. But the study finds that these moves largely have a racial and economic impact: the smaller districts created through the secession process are usually whiter and have more affluent residents than the districts they leave behind, which are larger, have more nonwhite students, and more students in low-income or impoverished households. Those differences mean that when a splinter district breaks off it can reinforce, and in some cases worsen, school segregation. The study was conducted by academics from Pennsylvania State University and Virginia Commonwealth University along with a research analyst from Sanametrix, a technology and research organization. The new study looks specifically at 18 of these “splinter” districts in the South, all of which seceded from larger school districts in the years between 2000 and 2015 and are concentrated in seven counties in Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee. The study authors explain that because schools in the South usually have a one-school district per county system, and because federal desegregation efforts were largely concentrated in the South, it is easier to see the extent and impact of recent school district secessions on the racial makeup of larger school districts. “Recent Southern secessions reflect a narrowing conception of what is ‘public’ about public education as newly created districts seek to preserve relative racial and economic advantages for more homogeneous White areas,” the study authors write. These areas are far from the only districts to have seceded, dozens of other communities across the country have also attempted to create new school districts in the past two decades. These decisions have often been opposed by education advocates, who argue that many of the school secessions go against the intent of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. | The study, published earlier in September, is the first to examine how the boundaries created by new school districts are leading to increased segregation for students, and to a lesser degree for residents, in the examined areas. The study notes that this increase has multiple effects, not only reducing the number of white students in counties where secessions have occurred, but also reducing the ability for schools to serve as a place where students of different races interact with one another. ”If this trend continues, students of color increasingly will be sorted into schools with fewer resources, segregation will become more ingrained,” Frankenberg notes. “All students will have fewer opportunities to experience the educational benefits of a diverse learning environment.” The study fits into a growing body of research and media attention to school secession efforts in recent years. Research from EdBuild, an education nonprofit that highlights disparities in school funding, shows that 128 communities in states like Maine, Alabama, and Utah have attempted to secede since 2000, 73 of them have been successful while another 17 efforts are ongoing. The report notes that the number of school secession efforts have increased, especially in the past two years.
https://www.vox.com/2019/9/6/20853091/school-secession-racial-segregation-louisiana-alabama
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/5/17080218/school-segregation-getting-worse-data
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858419860152
https://edbuild.org/content/fractured/fractured-full-report.pdf
Klobuchar blasts Trump’s Taliban explanation: ‘This isn’t a game show’
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/08/klobuchar-trump-afghanistan-taliban-1485254
John Lambert, the man who helped create the Republican lobby group Students for Trump has admitted running a scam in which he pretended to be a lawyer and took money for dispensing legal advice.
https://www.newsweek.com/john-lambert-maga-donald-trump-students-trump-manhattan-1452963
John Lambert is seen arriving at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse on August 6, 2019 in New York. Lambert, the co-founder of Students for Trump, was expected to plead guilty this afternoon; he was expected to plead guilty to posing as a lawyer in a $50,000 legal advice scam
https://twitter.com/TheBigSXC/status/1158948156513673216
JP Morgan has created an index to track the effect of Trumps tweets on financial markets: 'Volfefe index'
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/08/donald-trump-is-tweeting-more-and-its-impacting-the-bond-market.html
Immigration agents arrest Houston father and community activist lauded by the city after he invited ICE to a town hall
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Immigration-agents-arrest-Houston-father-and-14420588.php
Doctors Say This Woman With A Rare Disorder Who Is Being Treated In The US Will Die If She Is Deported
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/immigrant-mps-6-treatment-deportation-orders
France says 1,500 died in summer's heat wave
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/france-1500-died-summers-heat-wave-65466010
Increase in Amazon fires being driven by China-US trade war after China turned to Brazil to replace certain US crops, says CEO of international crop trading company Teucrium Trading
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-china-trade-war-soybean-tariff-amazon-rainforest-fires-opinion-2019-9
Boris Johnson must 'obey law', his own justice secretary reminds him in extraordinary warning
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-latest-no-deal-brexit-law-robert-buckland-a9096646.html
That a Marine who served our nation faithfully, sits in a detention center— facing deportation and being denied medical care for the wounds he suffered in combat— makes my blood boil beyond words. We need to straighten this shit out. #DeportingVeterans
https://twitter.com/USMCLiberal/status/1170480840591269889
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/i-refuse-to-die-in-here-the-marine-who-survived-two-tours-and-is-now-fighting-deportation
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Verified account @chefjoseandres
Loading up 2000 pounds of fruit and hundreds of sandwiches to take to Elbow Cay in the seaplane this morning! 🥪🍊 #ChefsForBahamas @WCKitchen
https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/1170763713747533825
Rep. Stephanie Murphy, the Democrat who represents parts of Seminole County and Orange County, has a bone to pick with the U.S. intelligence community. In an op-ed column for the Washington Post published earlier this week, Murphy renewed her objection to the lack of public knowledge about Russian attempts to hack into Florida’s electoral system in 2016. Security officials, Murphy argued, have been less than forthcoming about Russia’s interference efforts. It took Murphy ― and her Republican colleague, Michael Waltz, R-6 ― requesting a private briefing for officials to disclose that two counties had been penetrated by Russians, Murphy writes. And in fact, there may have been even more counties affected. Murphy herself is not sure, she wrote. Murphy is not allowed to share key details she has learned ― the names of the counties, for example ― with the public, she said. Murphy has a problem with this arrangement. “It’s self-defeating to be given incomplete information and then be required to remain silent about the few facts we do know,” Murphy said. The piece contained further sharp warnings about election security in 2020: “If we can’t form a clear picture of past election interference efforts, we won’t learn how best to fend off future attacks,” Murphy wrote. It made the case for transparency in the area of election security:
https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/09/08/a-florida-congresswoman-is-wondering-why-she-cant-talk-openly-about-russian-election-hacking/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-the-russian-medding-in-2016-such-a-big-secret-im-not-allowed-to-say/2019/09/03/c7c2ea50-ce85-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html
Reminder: House Democrats return to Washington this week poised to significantly broaden their nascent impeachment inquiry into President Trump beyond the findings of the Russia investigation, but they will confront a fast-dwindling political clock. Undeterred by lackluster public support for impeachment, Democratic lawmakers and aides have sketched out a robust four-month itinerary of hearings and court arguments that they hope will provide the evidence they need to credibly portray Mr. Trump as corrupt and abusing his power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/us/politics/impeachment-investigation-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Reminder, one of the few things Republicans were right on: Bush after returning from Camp David on Oct 14, 2001, "Turn him over; turn his cohorts over; turn any hostages they hold over; destroy all the terrorist camps. There's no need to negotiate. There's no discussions. I told them exactly what they need to do"
https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1170827165757296652
At the Venice Film Festival, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger took on President Trump's environmental policies and slammed him for leaving the Paris climate agreement
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1170822888817135616
About a week after Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Abaco Islands as the strongest hurricane to hit the Bahamas on record, those remaining here at the site of the devastation said the storm took away everything from them. On the island of Great Abaco, wrecked boats and flipped-over cars were strewn across streets of completely flattened houses, crushed businesses and mangled playgrounds. Downed power lines and the frames of buildings lined the sides of the roads. Some cars were impaled by flying pieces of wood and steel. The smell of death was in the air. | By Sunday, Great Abaco was becoming a ghost town, as thousands of people try to evacuate by plane and boat.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/everything-s-gone-abaco-islands-lives-shattered-hurricane-dorian-s-n1051251?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_nw
Two federal agencies illegally spent money during the record-setting partial government shutdown earlier this year, an oversight body has ruled, warning that future violations could result in penalties including fines and jail time. | In one legal decision, GAO said the Interior Department violated the Anti-Deficiency Act when it used recreation fees collected by the National Park Service to keep parks open and continue services such as trash collection and restroom maintenance. In another, GAO faulted the Agriculture Department for disbursing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits early during the shutdown.
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2019/09/trump-administration-threatened-fines-jail-time-over-illegal-spending-during-shutdown/159709/
https://www.gao.gov/products/B-330776
https://www.gao.gov/products/B-331094
The DNC research team has mined thousands of lawsuits from nearly 50 states as part of a massive new trove on Trump that will be weaponized through pols and reporters in key battlegrounds. | At a meeting last week with about 20 Democratic operatives and strategists, Perez said the plan is to "make it about [Trump's] performance as president, not his bigotry or awfulness," according to one source in the room. "Prosecute the case that he is bad at his job and it is hurting people in real ways."
https://www.axios.com/democratic-national-committee-trump-2020-opposition-research-7050a0f5-1e33-46ae-b83e-6fd331407173.html
The Pentagon is considering recommending a former Navy SEAL who has bragged about his tequila drinking for the top civilian post overseeing special operations forces — eliciting concerns about whether he has the mindset to rein in a pattern of misconduct.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1170843029718147078
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/08/navy-seal-lou-bremer-assistant-secretary-defense-1686744
Is this a presidential campaign first? @AndrewYang crowd surfing?
https://twitter.com/DaniellaMicaela/status/1170837438337564673
The Trump admin has proposed a tariff of up to 100% on $25 billion in European items. Romano, Parmesan and Gouda are all on the list. But it's not just cheese. The tariff is proposed to hit a variety of items like wines, meats, olive oil, olives and pasta.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1170413952175607808
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/07/politics/trade-war-europe-cheese-wine-trump/index.html
Meanwhile, the country continues to stagger along, functionally operating without an executive branch. Unless by "executive branch" we mean a cabal of lawyers working with Mitch McConnell to appoint judges, hand out some favors to industry pals and some Russians. /1
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1170813394984820736
In foreign policy, the entire diplomatic and national security apparatus reverse-engineers rationales for whatever the President blurts out at any given time, almost entirely based on what the Trump WH thinks moves the media and the polls, rather than the national interest. /2
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1170813891644932102
All this, while the most powerful man in the world wrecks our alliances, starts a trade war, coddles our enemies, invites terrorists to Camp David, and then, when people question his grip on reality, responds by tweeting out cat memes while the rubes cheer. Good job, GOP. /3x
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1170814411113738241
Suicide. Suicide. September is #SuicideAwarenessMonth . 800k killed a year. Major amount of homicide by gun? Suicide. Isolation, feeling you are a burden; that nothing can get better...Check in on people. Be a life-saver at best; be a decent person at least
https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1170850395150835713
Am at the @Newseum in Washington and they have the desk from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and this may be the closest I’ve ever came to fanboying in public
https://twitter.com/HughDoherty98/status/1170775369919672326
NASA satellites reveal that currently 18,700 sq. km of Amazon is burning, and over 57,000 fires so far this year. President Jair Bolsonaro tries to dismiss the growing intensity of the fires by calling news “hysterical,” “misleading” and “sensationalist.”
https://time.com/5670432/amazon-fires-from-space/
HUD is Violating the Law by Withholding Billions in Disaster Aid From Puerto Rico
https://www.newsweek.com/hud-violating-law-withholding-puerto-rico-disaster-relief-democrats-say-1458109
Five senior mosque officials have been banned from office after management failures gave an extremist the opportunity to recruit a ‘children’s army’ of terrorists. Umar Haque was jailed for life last year after using his position as a school administrator to show beheading videos to children as young as 11 as he tried to groom recruit them into a mini militia. Haque, 25, worked at an Islamic private school and a mosque in east London, where he staged training exercises during Islamic studies classes to prepare children for ISIS-inspired attacks in London.
https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/london-mosque-officials-failed-to-halt-isis-child-recruiter-1.907139
German Neo-Nazi elected as town council chief with support of mainstream parties: “We have nobody else, particularly no younger people who are familiar with computers and who can send emails,” a CDU representative said
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/08/german-neo-nazi-elected-town-council-chief-support-mainstream/
Hilman Jordan was let out of a D.C. mental hospital 17 years after shooting a man. Now he’s accused of killing again. | Now the victim’s widow, Nafisa Hoodbhoy, 63, angrily wonders why the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health, legally obligated to monitor Jordan, wasn’t also required to warn City View residents that he was a St. Elizabeths outpatient with a homicidal history. And echoing others, she questions why Jordan was allowed to remain free despite what neighbors say was his chronic pot smoking — a trigger for his psychotic delusions and a violation of his court-approved release terms. After Bhutto was shot to death March 1, detectives say, they saw Jordan sitting calmly on his balcony overlooking the crime scene, his right shoe stained with blood. They say they found a 9mm Smith & Wesson and a marijuana joint in the condo. “Someone didn’t do their job, obviously,” Hoodbhoy, a journalist, says bitterly. “Someone who should have been watching this insane murderer didn’t do their job.” Schizophrenia and paranoia had driven Jordan to kill years earlier. The court order authorizing his release from hospital confinement in 2015 required Behavioral Health staffers to screen his urine regularly for traces of intoxicants, and a failed test was supposed to land him back in St. Elizabeths immediately. Yet he rapped about pot use in YouTube videos that show him with apparent marijuana joints on his balcony, his eyes narrowing as he smokes. Neighbors say he would sit outside getting high for hours. Seven weeks before the shooting, Bhutto, who lived directly above Jordan, complained to Jordan’s landlord about the persistent odor of marijuana coming from downstairs, and the landlord says he warned Jordan that Bhutto was upset. After the killing, a prosecutor said in court, Jordan “tested positive for PCP,” or phencyclidine, a powerful hallucinogen. The drug, often mixed with marijuana, can induce frenzied aggression, especially in users who are prone to violence. Jordan, about 5-foot-10 and heavyset with graying whiskers, also was forbidden to have a firearm; how he allegedly got one isn’t publicly known.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/local/insane-plea-murder/?tid=ss_tw
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