Spare me the nonsense on sanctions. People are being slaughtered RIGHT NOW. Bombs are dropping on children RIGHT NOW. Instead of drafting sanctions bills, Republicans should use their massive leverage over the President to get him to change course. RIGHT NOW.
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1183581762653446144
British special forces are preparing to leave Syria. None have left so far, I understand, and there's no firm departure date (could be 24 hours, or weeks yet), but wheels are now in motion to conduct a staged drawdown.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-exit-will-mean-british-special-forces-leave-syria-kkn35qg23
To no one's suprise, Tencent has quietly resumed live broadcast of NBA preseason games today
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/tencent-airs-two-nba-games-as-chinese-state-tv-blackout-persists
Trump thought Turkey was bluffing and would never actually invade Syria, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-syria-mistake-thought-turkey-bluffed-invasion-axios-2019-10
Reminder: Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/us/politics/trump-video.html
Reminder: US forces in N Syria likely to be out within a day or 2, ceding ground to Pres. Assad & Russia. Strategic collapse of counter-terrorism aims & former anti-Assad goals. US policy of past eight years is in shreds.
https://twitter.com/BillNeelyNBC/status/1183688751362510848
More Localities Drop Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples’ Day — More than 100 communities had already renamed the holiday, and this year others joined them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/us/indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day.html
Defense Secretary Esper to comply with Democrats' subpoena
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/13/impeachment-defense-sec-esper-comply-democrats-subpoena/3968578002/
Protesters Chant 'Impeach Trump' Outside White House As Others Gather Outside Trump Golf Club With 'Traitor' Signs
https://www.newsweek.com/video-protesters-chant-impeach-trump-outside-white-house-others-gather-outside-trump-golf-club-1464919
Bill Barr's meeting with Fox News chairman should be investigated
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/opinions/bill-bar-rupert-murdoch-investigate-obeidallah/index.html
Nancy Pelosi's bill to lower prescription drug prices would save Medicare $345 billion over 10 years, according to a preliminary analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/nancy-pelosis-drug-pricing-plan-would-save-medicare-345-billion-cbo.html
SCOTUS decision saying the IRS can revoke tax exempt status of churches that deny interracial marriage: Bob Jones University v. United States
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jones_University_v._United_States
Mark Zuckerberg has been holding off-the-record dinners with influential conservatives including Tucker Carlson and Lindsey Graham
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-holding-private-dinners-with-conservatives-2019-10
The discussion in Silicon Valley is that Zuckerberg is very concerned about Barr's DOJ bringing an enforcement action to break up the company. So the fear is Zuckerberg is trying to appease the Trump administration by not cracking down on right-wing propaganda
https://mobile.twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1183790686178627587
Reminder: Russian Influence Reached 126 Million Through Facebook Alone
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/technology/facebook-google-russia.html
US officials are considering pulling nuclear weapons from Turkey, effectively severing the US-Turkey alliance
https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-threats-against-turkey-could-threaten-us-nuclear-arsenal-2019-10
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz Kicked Out of Fiona Hill Deposition
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/republican-rep-matt-gaetz-kicked-out-of-fiona-hill-deposition/
Manufacturing is now officially in recession, despite Trump's vow to boost industry
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-09/despite-trump-vow-manufacturing-in-recession
Trump is heading into reelection with a deep manufacturing recession -- September marked the worst month for U.S. manufacturing since the Great Recession
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/01/trump-is-heading-into-re-election-with-deep-manufacturing-recession/
The right is freaking out because Beto O’Rourke wants to take churches’ tax-exempt status away
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/10/right-freaking-beto-orourke-wants-take-churches-tax-exempt-status-away/
Here’s an Idea: Don’t Pay Them - Congressional Progressive Caucus cochair Mark Pocan has a great idea: If Trump appointees block congressional testimony, block their paychecks.
https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-ukraine-pompeo/
Trump administration illegally asks states for citizenship info despite Supreme Court ruling
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-administration-asks-states-citizenship-info-despite-supreme-court-ruling-n1065821
Turkish-Backed Forces Are Freeing Islamic State Prisoners
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/14/turkish-backed-forces-freeing-islamic-state-prisoners-syria/
Calling buyback programs "confiscation" is doing the NRA's work for them, @PeteButtigieg—and they don't need our help.
https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/1183780451439263744
leaving more than 5 million assault weapons on the street isn’t a ban. It’s a Band-Aid.
https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/1183827674281717760?s=21
UK refuses to join France, Germany and Netherlands in halting arms sales to Turkey
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/uk-turkey-arms-sales-syria-kurds-germany-france-netherlands-eu-embargo-a9155536.html
White House announcement Oct 6: *after a call between Trump and Erdogan,* “Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into northern Syria.” Now Esper is acting like the Turks pulled a fast one on us and we had nothing to do with it.
https://twitter.com/johnmdonnelly/status/1183850181634265089
Climate change is shaping Iowa's physical and political landscape | “There is some science I do believe we can look at but to setup a new government agency or more government regulation? I’m still wondering if that’s feasible," one farmer said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/climate-change-shaping-iowa-s-physical-political-landscape-n1065261
David Lieth has farmed about 600 acres near this southwest Iowa town for more than 30 years, but he won’t harvest a single ear of corn this year because flooding on the Missouri River covered his fields and didn’t allow him to plant any seed.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1183846913558405120
On an early September morning, Lieth and a roomful of farmers gathered at the local USDA office to find out how much money they would receive for the crops that never made it out of their grain bins and to consumers. (2/8)
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1183847946716102656
“There is some science I do believe we can look at but to setup a new government agency or more government regulation? I’m still wondering if that’s feasible,” Lieth says before the meeting. “I think we can be stewards best by ourselves.” (3/8)
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1183849386650034178
Mike Woltemath, who farms 2,100 acres along the Missouri River, agreed, but he says something needed to change. This year he was only able to plant 200 acres and lost 150,000 bushels to the floodwaters, and he says it happens with a regularity that is becoming concerning. (4/8)
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1183850337247080449
“Flooding doesn’t just happen here in the Midwest," Woltemath says. "It’s happening in the Dakotas. It’s happening in California. It needs to be addressed. Congress needs to do something about it.” (5/8)
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1183851346946150400
With the agriculture industry serving as a potent member of Iowa's economic engine, climate change is increasingly becoming an important political issue as the state inches closer to the Democratic primary and the 2020 presidential election. (6/8)
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1183852195533541376
Jessica Ewald lives on a 200-acre farm outside of Iowa City that was impacted by the flooding. The fourth-year PhD student at the Univ. of Iowa says people don’t mention climate change specifically but farmers do express a growing concern about a severe shift in weather. (7/8)
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1183852894803648512
“These are tangible changes that people are experiencing, and though they don’t call it climate change, I think we’re all aware of the same problem,” Ewald says. "It’s hard to deny a lived experience.”
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1183853582187204609
Ukrainian businessman Lev Parnas, one of two Giuliani associates arrested last week and charged for scheming to funnel foreign money into various US elections, is seen (on the left) in this Nov 6 2018 video I took at Governor Ron DeSantis' election victory party in Orlando.
https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1183830989044437005
McConnell: We Must Avoid Strategic Calamity in the Middle East | ‘Withdrawing American leadership from this pivotal region would not serve our nation’s short-, medium-, or long-term interests. It would only make a troubling situation much worse, not only for regional partners such as Israel and Jordan but for the United States as well. These are the reasons why I co-sponsored legislation earlier this year that warned against leaving Syria or Afghanistan prematurely. A bipartisan supermajority of senators supported it
https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/mcconnell-we-must-avoid-strategic-calamity-in-the-middle-east
U.S. Defense Secretary Esper says Turkey's offensive in Syria has resulted in "widespread casualties" and "the release of many dangerous ISIS detainees"
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1183852313439604736
Fiona Hill had high praise for Trump's ousted ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who had been targeted by Giuliani and his associates and criticized by Trump. She reportedly made her opinions known about Yovanovitch's removal during her deposition.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1183850023043289088
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-inquiry-10-14-2019/h_897d8550cb83917975be35167ee92868
Sanctioning Turkey after their invasion, more than a week after Trump greenlit the attack, seems designed simply to give the GOP cover and does not actually impede the Turkish invasion. In my view, we shouldn’t fall for it.
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1183849100493643776
On eve of Democratic debate, Tom Steyer says Ohio is no longer a swing state
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20191014/on-eve-of-democratic-debate-tom-steyer-says-ohio-is-no-longer-swing-state
Is Erdogan still invited to the White House?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1183833640507269120
Trump's statement on hitting Turkey with sanctions over the military operation in Syria does not mention the Kurds once.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into Rudy Giuliani's personal business relationships with Ukraine, which include his finances and time working for a city mayor, the Wall Street Journal reports. | Investigators also have examined Mr. Giuliani’s bank records, according to the people. Witnesses have been questioned about Mr. Giuliani since at least August by investigators, who also want to know more about Mr. Giuliani’s role in an alleged conspiracy involving two of his business associates, the people said. The investigation is being led by the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-prosecutors-scrutinize-rudy-giuliani-s-ukraine-business-dealings-finances-11571092100
National Enquirer Ordered Staff to Shred Several Secret Trump Documents
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/national-enquirer-allegedly-ordered-staff-to-shred-several-secret-trump-documents/
P. Micheal McKinley, former aide to U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, is expected to appear in Congress for closed session on Wednesday - U.S. official
https://news.yahoo.com/p-michael-mckinley-former-aide-224856183.html
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