News Dump

Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-19/solar-and-wind-power-so-cheap-they-re-outgrowing-subsidies

Black carbon particles found in human placentas | Pollution emitted from vehicles, factory smokestacks or coal power plants may be able to penetrate the placenta in pregnant women, researchers said on Tuesday
https://www.dw.com/en/black-carbon-particles-found-in-human-placentas/a-50482938

'This Really Is Something': UN Chief Praised for Move to Block Coal-Backing Nations From Speaking at Climate Summit | In all the time I have worked on climate change I’ve never seen the UN take a powerful stand like this
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/18/really-something-un-chief-praised-move-block-coal-backing-nations-speaking-climate

Nearly Half of US Adults Are Now Consuming Plant-Based Meat and Milk: A new survey shows that 48 percent of adult consumers have consumed plant-based alternatives between April and June this year.
https://vegnews.com/2019/9/nearly-half-of-us-adults-are-now-consuming-plant-based-meat-and-milk

Schiff Floats Taking DNI To Court To Get Details Of Whistleblower Complaint
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/schiff-dni-courts-funds-whistleblower-complaint

Smartphones hurting the environment more than any other household electronics - Extending the lifespan of electrical goods, such as smartphones, washing machines and laptops, could cut 10 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in the EU each year
https://www.ns-businesshub.com/science/smartphone-environmental-impact/

US drone strike intended for Isis hideout kills 30 pine nut workers in Afghanistan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/19/us-drone-strike-deaths-afghanistan-pine-nut-workers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-drones/u-s-drone-strike-kills-30-pine-nut-farm-workers-in-afghanistan-idUSKBN1W40NW

Court says wedding invitation makers can refuse gay couples: "A license to discriminate"
https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-wedding-invitation-gagy-supreme-court-1459627

Applause as Federal Court Blocks 'Unconstitutional' South Dakota Law That Would Hit Pipeline Protesters With Up to 25 Years in Prison
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/19/applause-federal-court-blocks-unconstitutional-south-dakota-law-would-hit-pipeline

COWARD Trump sues Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance over attempt to get tax returns
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/19/trump-sues-manhattan-district-attorney-cyrus-vance-over-attempt-to-get-tax-returns.html

Why would @BarackObama be spending millions of dollars to hide his records if there was nothing to hide?
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/225326558234148864

WI Gov. Tony Evers says he'd consider a mandatory gun buyback program (via Patrick Marley, Twitter)
https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/1174702573544202241?s=20

Many people want to set aside half of Earth as nature - Half-Earth plan is "necessary" to meet the Paris climate target of limiting global warming to 1.5C | “People want what is scientifically needed for us to have a secure future."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/09/poll-extinction-public-slow-extinction/

Greta Thunberg: ‘We are ignoring natural climate solutions’ | The protection and restoration of living ecosystems such as forests, mangroves and seagrass meadows can repair the planet’s broken climate - but are being overlooked, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have warned in a new short film
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/19/greta-thunberg-we-are-ignoring-natural-climate-solutions

Polio, a vaccine preventable disease, reemerges in the Philippines 19 years after its eradication
https://www.cnn.ph/news/2019/9/19/Polio-epidemic-reemergence-DOH-Philippines.html

Millions expected to make Friday climate protest the largest in history
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/09/19/millions-expected-make-friday-climate-protest-largest-history/

Schiff: DNI's refusal to turn over whistleblower complaint is "unprecedented"
https://www.axios.com/whistleblower-complaint-dni-trump-adam-schiff-8671be5c-3476-411f-a4e2-f305fa626ed1.html

General Tells Trump To Keep Quiet About 'Wired' Border Wall And Tweeters Go Loud
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-border-wall-technology_n_5d83615de4b0849d47244b98

Trump tells reporters border wall is ‘wired’, immediately after army general asks him not to discuss in public
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-border-wall-california-wired-immigration-us-mexico-a9111721.html

UK 'cannot meet' EU deadline for Brexit plan and needs another year, government says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deadline-irish-backstop-no-deal-stephen-barclay-october-a9111756.html

The number of Americans who died from firearms surpassed those who died in car accidents for the first time in 2017, according to a new far-reaching report on gun violence. The report, released Wednesday by Democratic members of the congressional Joint Economic Committee (JEC), found that nearly 40,000 people were killed in the U.S. by a gun, including approximately 2,500 school-age children.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/462085-2017-marked-first-year-firearms-killed-more-people-than-car
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/b2ee3158-aff4-4563-8c3b-0183ba4a8135/economic-costs-of-gun-violence.pdf

Pelosi tells Democrats Lewandowski deserves to be held in contempt
https://www.axios.com/pelosi-lewandowski-should-be-held-in-contempt-452314db-1548-45bc-9db1-9ca7d2cea7ce.html

New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly said that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed to let them interview him for their upcoming book ― as long as they would publicly lie about it. Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington on Wednesday, Kelly and Pogrebin said that Kavanaugh said he would talk to the reporters to provide them with background information as long as they falsely noted in the book that he declined to be interviewed. | The Times reporters said their talks about setting up an interview with Kavanaugh took place when the book was in its final stages. Kelly and Pogrebin said they couldn’t agree to the justice’s terms, so they couldn’t conduct the interview.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-times-reporters-kavanaugh-lie-interview_n_5d82da62e4b0849d47233e56
https://twitter.com/Profepps/status/1174467694076321792
https://twitter.com/abeaujon/status/1174466499953725441

O'Rourke unveils plan to legalize marijuana -- the issue that launched his political career
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/politics/beto-orourke-legalize-marijuana-drug-plan/index.html

Donald Trump Whistleblower Complaint: Likely Evidence of 'Gross Abuse of Power' Claims Supreme Court Lawyer—'Truth Will Come Out'
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-whistleblower-complaint-likely-evidence-gross-abuse-power-claims-supreme-court-1460144

BDS works both ways: Iran suspended from world judo federation over Israel boycott policy
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-suspended-from-world-judo-federation-over-israel-boycott-policy/

RIGHT ANSWER: - I do not support criminalizing sex workers, many of whom have experienced significant trauma, and whose interactions with the justice system would remove them further from the resources they may need to live a life away from sex work. But, we cannot decriminalize this system entirely, as no one has the right to buy or trade another person. Pimps, individuals buying sex, and individuals trafficking others, must continue to face consequences of their actions.
https://www.reddit.com/user/betoorourke/comments/

FIFA tells Iran: Women have to be allowed into football stadiums
https://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/news/women-have-to-be-allowed-into-football-stadiums-in-iran

Beto O'Rourke proposes 'drug war justice grants' for marijuana offenders
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/19/beto-orourke-marijuana-drug-war-grants-1502301

Perspective and context on what the #Rays accomplished this morning with their latest win. That's 90 wins in back to back seasons and 7 times in 12 years. Only 3 teams have as many or more 90 win years over that stretch
https://twitter.com/neilsolondz/status/1174690763399204865?s=21

Gun Violence Costs the U.S. Economy Over $200 Billion Annually
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gun-violence-costs-the-u-s-economy-over-200-billion-annually-report-886857/

BDS has consequences: Anti-Israel Activist Voted Off Women's March Board After Two Days
https://freebeacon.com/politics/anti-israel-activist-voted-off-womens-march-board-after-two-days/

Australia’s capital city switches to 100% renewable energy - Canberra will be the first major region in the Southern Hemisphere to purchase all its energy from renewable sources.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02804-0

Parts of Chile 'turning to desert' in worst drought in 60 years: "We are talking about desertification rather than a temporary drought," says the director of Chile's resilience institute
https://news.sky.com/story/chile-turning-to-desert-in-worst-drought-in-60-years-11792743

Millions risk jail as Indonesia to outlaw sex outside marriage
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-politics-rights-idUSKBN1W32BV

The anti-vax movement is effectively reversing decades of progress in disease prevention
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anti-vax-movement-effectively-reversing-124638324.html

Foreign Relations Committee Delays Consideration Of Darrell Issa After Menendez Raises Serious Outstanding Vetting Issues
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/foreign-relations-committee-delays-consideration-of-darrell-issa-after-menendez-raises-serious-outstanding-vetting-issues-

Republican mayor calls for his city to ban assault weapons because 'my prayers aren’t working’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gun-control-prayer-republican-mayor-florida-george-cretenkos-clearwater-a9112191.html

Senate Democrats released on Thursday a report outlining dozens of times the Trump administration has censored or minimized climate science across the federal government at agencies including the EPA and the Department of Homeland Security. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, also publicly released a list of more than 1,400 climate studies that Department of Agriculture researchers have published during the current administration after POLITICO reported that USDA buried its own research and failed to release its plan to study the issue. The matter is increasingly urgent for farmers and ranchers dealing with erratic and extreme weather. The trove of studies by USDA researchers carry warnings about climate change that the government is largely not communicating to farmers and ranchers or the public. The list published includes research showing that climate change is likely to drive down yields for some crops, harm milk production, and lead to a drop in nutrient density for key crops like rice and wheat. “These studies show how climate change is affecting crop production, disrupting how food is grown and increasing risk to communities,” Stabenow said during a press conference on Thursday. Stabenow also serves as chairwoman of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, the research arm of Senate Democrats. The Michigan Democrat called it “outrageous” that “critical information for communities, for farmers, for those of us who care deeply about what’s happening to agriculture, these are not being shared with the people who need to know but they are being paid for by them, as taxpayers.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/19/climate-studies-hidden-by-trump-administration-1753631
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016d-4aa1-de7e-ab6d-efb938460000
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/agriculture-department-climate-change-1376413
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/18/usda-suppresses-climate-change-plan-1598987

Pro-Trump Republican Conservative Bush II-Appointed federal judge has sided with the Trump campaign's request to halt a new California law that would require presidential candidates to release their tax returns.
https://apnews.com/edecc983c5994590b262cf8d95e55f97

There are 3 billion fewer birds winging across the U.S. and Canada than there were 50 years ago -- a 29 percent decline overall. "This is the loss of nature."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-america-canada.html
https://science.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aaw1313

The Department of Justice today announced that Alexei Saab, 42, of Morristown, New Jersey, also known as Ali Hassan Saab, Alex Saab, or Rachid, was charged today in a nine-count indictment for offenses related to his support for Hizballah and separate marriage-fraud offenses. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe. “According to the allegations, while living in the United States, Saab served as an operative of Hizballah and conducted surveillance of possible target locations in order to help the foreign terrorist organization prepare for potential future attacks against the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. “Such covert activities conducted on U.S. soil are a clear threat to our national security and I applaud the agents, analysts, and prosecutors who are responsible for this investigation and prosecution.”
https://breaking911.com/breaking-details-terrorist-scoped-out-photographed-attack-targets-in-nyc-boston-dc-feds/

Perspective and context on what the #Rays accomplished this morning with their latest win. That's 90 wins in back to back seasons and 7 times in 12 years. Only 3 teams have as many or more 90 win years over that stretch - BOS/NYY/LAD.
https://twitter.com/neilsolondz/status/1174690763399204865?s=21

Mayor Pete Buttigieg says Sen. Elizabeth Warren is being “evasive” about how she would pay for her “Medicare for All” plan. Buttigieg says his newly released health care plan would not raise taxes on the middle class. “It does create a way for everybody to be covered.”
https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1174789450624356367
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE2wyRPXUAEYgKm.png:large

“I think it's a puzzling that when everybody knows the answer to that question of whether her plan and Senator Sanders' plan will raise middle class taxes is yes. Why you wouldn't just say so, and then explain why you think that's the better way forward?”
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1174789495960588305

An American woman whose traumatized, dust-covered face summed up the horrors of the September 11, 2001, attacks has died of stomach cancer at age 42. Marcy Borders, known as "The Dust Lady" thanks to the photograph taken in the immediate aftermath, became one of the most recognizable survivors. She had started work at Bank of America a month before the attack and was working on the 81st floor of the World Trade Center when the first plane hit. | In the years since 9/11, many hundreds of people caught up in the attacks have been found to have cancer. Figures from July 2014 showed that more than 2,500 police officers, firefighters, ambulance employees, and sanitation workers reported they had cancer in 2013 — twice as many as said they had the disease 12 months earlier.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-dust-lady-of-911-a-new-jersey-banker-dies-at-age-42-of-stomach-cancer-2015-8

Drug dealers have a booming marketplace in Instagram’s opioid recovery hashtags. “Oxys, Roxy, Xans, Addy, codeine, perc...Available 24.7 for delivery.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/drug-dealers-have-a-booming-marketplace-in-instagrams

Greenhouse gas emissions from commercial air travel are growing at a faster clip than predicted in previous, already dire, projections, according to new research — putting pressure on airline regulators to take stronger action as they prepare for a summit next week. The United Nations aviation body forecasts that airplane that airplane emissions of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, will reach just over 900 million metric tons in 2018, and then triple by 2050. But the new research, from the International Council on Clean Transportation, found that emissions from global air travel may be increasing more than 1.5 times as fast as the U.N. estimate. The researchers analyzed nearly 40 million flights around the world last year. “Airlines, for all intents and purposes, are becoming more fuel efficient. But we’re seeing demand outstrip any of that,” said Brandon Graver, who led the new study. “The climate challenge for aviation is worse than anyone expected.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/climate/air-travel-emissions.html
https://www.icao.int/Meetings/A40/Documents/WP/wp_054_en.pdf
https://theicct.org/publications/co2-emissions-commercial-aviation-2018

Medical deferred action has been reinstated by the Trump administration, meaning immigrants receiving life saving treatment here may have a chance to stay rather than face deportation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medical-deferred-action-trump-administration-reinstates-deportation-relief-for-sick-immigrants-after-uproar/

There’s a lot of bad things going on in the world but Brian Cox teaching Hamlet's Soliloquy to a toddler will make everything better, I promise.
https://twitter.com/mrjoshz/status/1174424378458759171

The Fed pumps another $75 billion into markets — its 3rd straight daily injection | Markets Insider
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/fed-repo-injects-another-75-billion-into-market-2019-9-1028537926

The Trump Administration Spent $33 Million To Keep A Child Detention Center Open That Doesn’t House A Single Child
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/child-detention-immigrant-homestead-trump-cost

Whistleblower Filed Complaint Over Multiple Trump Actions | The NYT says a complaint to top intelligence community officials about alleged conduct by the president involves more alleged incidents than first reported. | The Times reported Thursday that Atkinson told lawmakers in a private briefing Thursday that the whistleblower’s concerns involve multiple instances rather than a single promise. On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, shared with reporters two letters Atkinson sent to the committee expressing concern about the whistleblower’s allegations and claiming they fall within the jurisdiction of the director of national intelligence. One of the letters, sent to the Intelligence Committee on Sept. 17, said the whistleblower’s disclosure of potential misconduct “not only falls within the DNI’s jurisdiction, but relates to one of the most significant and important of the DNI’s responsibilities to the American people.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-whistleblower-complaint-intelligence_n_5d83d812e4b0957256b3af7a
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190917_-_ic_ig_second_letter_to_hpsci_on_whistleblower.pdf

Bernie Sanders hits 1 million donors
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/09/19/bernie-sanders-1-million-donors-1504970

‘It’s Not Fake News’: Legal Experts Erupt as Trump Dismisses Whistleblower Complaint
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/its-not-fake-news-legal-experts-erupt-as-trump-dismisses-whistleblower-complaint/

How the Trump administration is silencing science - Six ex-government scientists explain how they were made to bury climate science and why they decided to blow the whistle
https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-how-the-trump-administration-is-silencing-science

Miss Iraq: Conclusion.... an antisemite like @IlhanMN who hate #israel sticking her nose in Israeli elections & asking Israelis to vote against Netanyahu is a strong indication he must be good for Israel & pose a threat for Islamists with agenda like her
https://twitter.com/RealSarahIdan/status/1174025646906806272?s=19

Stephen Miller’s girlfriend hired as Mike Pence’s press secretary
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stephen-millers-girlfriend-just-got-a-job-as-vice-president-mike-pences-press-secretary-2019-09-19

Former Pinellas school guardian Erick Russell, 37, is accused of pawning the Glock 17 9mm semiautomatic pistol, body armor and two magazines he was issued to protect students, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. He told deputies he needed gas money. | Those allegations came to light after Russell was arrested Sept. 5 on charges of domestic battery and false imprisonment. That arrest led to his termination from the Pinellas County School District, spokeswoman Lisa Wolf-Chason said.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2019/09/19/issued-a-glock-pinellas-school-guardian-pawned-it-detectives-say/

It’s been a DAY.
https://twitter.com/theferocity/status/1174807651533971456

The “I’m not dumb enough to get caught” explanation. Essentially, “I wouldn’t say anything inappropriate when I knew people were listening.” OK, then. Why go to such extraordinary lengths to keep Congress from seeing the IG report?
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1174816349538983936

Alabama federal court rejects defamation lawsuit against the SPLC for designating Coral Ridge Ministries as a "hate group."
https://twitter.com/adamsteinbaugh/status/1174816182131744768
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.64434/gov.uscourts.almd.64434.68.0.pdf

MSNBC to moderate candidate gun safety forum in Las Vegas | The October event will feature the 10 leading Democrats who took part in the September primary debate. | "MSNBC Live" anchor Craig Melvin will moderate the Oct. 2 "2020 Gun Safety Forum," which was announced by gun control activist groups March For Our Lives and Giffords. It will take place one day after the second anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest music festival mass shooting that left nearly 60 people dead at a Las Vegas concert. It was the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/msnbc-moderate-candidate-gun-safety-forum-las-vegas-n1056246

Jews being hit with rocks. Jews being chased down and punched. Jews being beaten with belts. Jews being stabbed on the street. Jewish school buses being set on fire. Jewish women having their wigs ripped off. Swastikas being painted on sidewalks. Jews being forced to take off their kippot. These are scenes that could be straight out of 1940s Nazi Germany, or perhaps from France today, but they’re not. These recent assaults have all happened in Brooklyn, New York. The worst part is, no one seems to care. Every so often a video is shared on Twitter — like this recent one, showing four assailants chasing down and assaulting a Hasidic Jew. Jewish community leaders come together to condemn it, and increasingly, to ask why nothing is being done. | ‘If [Bill de Blasio] was serious about this epidemic,’ Bari Weiss tweeted, ‘he would be organizing a kippah walk through Brooklyn.’ Bethany Mandel noted the mayor had endless options to show support: ‘A solidarity march through Crown Heights arm in arm with Hasidic men. A press conference in front of 770 about increased NYPD coverage. Community building events like a frickin potluck. Do SOMETHING.’ | Part of the issue here is that Hasidic Jews don’t look like other American Jews, and they certainly don’t look like other Americans. To lawmakers and, unfortunately, sometimes to other Jews, they seem a distinct category not always worthy of the same protection as more assimilated Jews, who are themselves not receiving appropriate levels of protection and support.

For modern Jews, assimilation has always functioned as a first line of protection. But Hasidic Jews are entirely unassimilated. They dress in a unique garb that immediately identifies them as religious Jews. It singles them out from the crowd and shouts, ‘Look at me, I’m different.’ In a world that hates particularism, and increasingly Jews too, this is not a meaningless fashion choice. Hasidic Jews are thus the first and easiest targets — and per capita the most likely to be victims of racially and religiously motivated assault in the US. Visibly different Jews are the canaries in the coal mine, the public face of what it means to look Jewish. We’re fools if we don’t realize that the response — or lack thereof — to this violence predicts the response we can expect when things inevitably get worse for American Jewry. We should have realized as much in 1991 when then-mayor David Dinkins did very little for three days to quell the Crown Heights riots. That pogrom saw Jews in contemporary America being beaten up and targeted for being Jewish by African American mobs. It saw cars destroyed and shops looted. Dinkins lost his reelection campaign in large part due to his relative inaction during the riots. Bill de Blasio would be wise to remember that, now he’s spending all of his time on the campaign trail. According to reports, he spent only seven hours in City Hall during the month he declared his candidacy.
https://spectator.us/bill-de-blasio-anti-semitism-brooklyn/

A whistleblower complaint about Trump made by an intelligence official centers on Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter, which has set off a struggle between Congress and the executive branch. | Two and a half weeks before the complaint was filed, Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian and political newcomer who was elected in a landslide in May. That call is already under investigation by House Democrats who are examining whether Trump and his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani sought to manipulate the Ukrainian government into helping Trump’s reelection campaign. Lawmakers have demanded a full transcript and a list of participants on the call.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/whistleblower-complaint-about-president-trump-involves-ukraine-according-to-two-people-familiar-with-the-matter/2019/09/19/07e33f0a-daf6-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/he-once-played-ukraines-president-on-tv-now-he-just-took-office-as-the-real-one/2019/05/20/594c6322-77e5-11e9-a7bf-c8a43b84ee31_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/democrats-investigate-whether-trump-giuliani-pressured-ukraine-to-aid-2020-reelection-bid/2019/09/09/fc3c39de-d31d-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html

Bernie Sanders Is Only Major Candidate to Sit Out Both LGBTQ Events
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/9/19/bernie-sanders-only-major-candidate-sit-out-both-lgbtq-events

Weed dispensary, San Quentin, Skid Row: Beto is going where other Dems won’t
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Weed-dispensary-San-Quentin-Skid-Row-Beto-is-14453751.php

Betsy DeVos’s DOE Violated Court Order Prohibiting Collection of Loan Payments from Scammed Students
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/betsy-devoss-doe-violated-court-order-prohibiting-collection-of-loan-payments-from-scammed-students/

Majority support ‘mandatory buybacks’ of AR-15s
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/gun-shock-majority-support-mandatory-buybacks-of-ar-15s

Black Leaders Condemn Attacks by Sanders Supporters Amid Fallout From WFP's Warren Endorsement
https://splinternews.com/black-leaders-condemn-attacks-by-sanders-supporters-ami-1838259737?rev=1568932819970

Trump officials considering plan to divert billions of dollars in additional funds for border barrier | Senior Trump administration officials are considering a plan to again divert billions of dollars in military funding to pay for border barrier construction next year, a way to circumvent congressional opposition to putting more taxpayer money toward the president’s signature project, according to three administration officials. Trump has pledged to complete nearly 500 miles of new barrier by the 2020 election — stirring chants of “Build the Wall!” at his campaign rallies. But that construction goal will require a total of $18.4 billion in funding through 2020, far more than the administration has publicly disclosed, the administration’s latest internal projections show.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-officials-considering-plan-to-divert-billions-of-dollars-in-additional-funds-for-border-barrier/2019/09/19/52897dce-d652-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html

    July 25th - Trump allegedly tells Ukraine's President Zelensky that good relations with the US depend upon them opening investigations into Biden
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ukraine-joe-biden-military-aid-zelensky-kiev-a9111106.html

    Days later, Giuliani flies to Spain to directly apply pressure on Zelensky in person, but claims he is acting as a private citizen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/giuliani-ukraine.html

    July 28th - Trump fires Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Coats and attempts to install a sycophant, but fails, so the highly respected deputy Sue Gordon takes over.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/politics/dan-coats-intelligence-chief-out.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ratcliffe-withdraws-from-consideration-for-intelligence-chief-trump-says/2019/08/02/9f3c42cc-b551-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html

    August 9th - Trump forces the resignation of DNI Sue Gordon.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/sue-gordon-has-resigned-deputy-director-national-intelligence-n1040616

    August 29th - Trump threatens to withhold $250 million in promised aid to Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ukraine/trump-may-block-250-million-in-aid-to-ukraine-officials-idUSKCN1VJ1T8

    September 10th - Adam Schiff formally requests a previously unknown whistleblower complaint from DNI Maguire, which Trump's own Inspector General appointee has designated "credible and urgent".
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190910_-_chm_schiff_letter_to_acting_dni_maguire.pdf

    September 12th - Trump releases the promised aid.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-releases-250-million-in-ukraine-military-aid/

    September 19th - We learn that the Department of Justice, and likely the White House itself, [directed the DNI not to transmit the complaint] to Congress](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/schiff-trump-or-people-around-him-likely-behind-effort-keep-n1056496) the whistleblower complaint, an act unprecedented in the history of DNI.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/schiff-trump-or-people-around-him-likely-behind-effort-keep-n1056496