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2014 photo of Trump and indicted Giuliani associate took place at Ivanka Trump hosted fashion show | A March 2014 photograph showing Donald Trump with a recently indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani appears to have been taken at a fashion show hosted by Ivanka Trump at the Trump National Doral in Florida, a CNN KFile review reveals. | Parnas' attendance at a Trump event in 2014 raises questions about whether he had any existing relationship with the Trump. Trump said last week he didn't know Parnas or Fruman.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/parnas-trump-doral-kfile/index.html

The Amazon hasn't stopped burning. There were 19,925 fire outbreaks last month and 'more fires' are in the future
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/18/amazon-rainforest-still-burning-more-fires-future/4011238002/

On Oct. 25, 2008, the owner of a property in Florida in which Lev Parnas had been living told Parnas to leave. When the men began to argue and the owner told Parnas he would call the police, Parnas told the man, "If you call the cops, they are not going to find you ever," according to a petition for a restraining order filed by the landl/rd in Miami-Dade county court and obtained by POLITICO. Three days later, the men met to discuss the matter again. According to the petition, Parnas held a gun to the man’s head and said, "This is my last warning to you," then got into his car, a dark blue Porsche Cayenne, and drove off. Three days after that, on Halloween, the police seized from Parnas a .38 revolver, a 9mm pistol, an automatic pistol, and a .40-caliber Glock pistol, according to a court motion filed later by Parnas seeking return of the firearms.
The condo at the heart of the dispute was on the 42nd floor of Trump Palace in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/17/lev-parnas-giuliani-ukraine-past-049677

Republican Senators Advance Another Trump Court Pick Rated ‘Not Qualified’ To Serve - Justin Walker lacks the experience to be a lifetime federal judge, the American Bar Association says. But Republicans are ready to confirm him anyway.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-trump-court-pick-justin-walker-not-qualified_n_5da8a558e4b0b24e75def646?

In the wake of Rep. Elijah Cummings’ death at the age of 68, his colleagues in the House and Senate such as @SpeakerPelosi @repJohnLewis and @senatemajldr shared their thoughts and memories with NBC.
https://twitter.com/NBCNewsNow/status/1184971400660111360

One of dozens of workers injured in the deadly collapse of the half-built Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans has been detained for deportation by immigration authorities after he spoke about his experience enduring the disaster with a Spanish-language television news network, his attorneys said Friday. Delmer Joel Ramirez, a native of Honduras, is one of five laborers who filed a lawsuit at Orleans Parish Civil District Court on Friday seeking damages over physical wounds they suffered from the main players behind the ill-fated hotel project, whom the plaintiffs accuse of failing to design and build in compliance with local, state and federal standards.
https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_4a375132-f1c8-11e9-9a58-d76da7c8e09e.html

U.S. astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir spot California from space, where they are making history as the first two women to do a spacewalk together. https://abcn.ws/2VUntVT
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1185254558492172289
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/astronauts-make-history-1st-female-spacewalk/story?id=66341621

Mick Mulvaney Issues Furious Denial of Mick Mulvaney’s “Quid Pro Quo” Allegations
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/mick-mulvaney-issues-furious-denial-of-mick-mulvaneys-quid-pro-quo-allegations/

Mysterious traders made $3.5 billion off stock bets timed to Trump's trade-war comments
https://www.businessinsider.com/traders-made-billions-off-trump-trade-war-tweets-vanity-fair-reports-2019-10

Conspiracy Theorist Hate Group Who Believed Obama Was Muslim to Hold Event at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
https://www.newsweek.com/marlago-trump-muslim-csp-1466150

Erdogan says Turkey will take necessary steps against Trump's 'disrespectful' letter
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-trump-letter-syria-ceasefire-latest-response-a9161626.html

Evidence in case against Giuliani’s South Florida associates includes 50 bank accounts
https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article236353143.html

Senate Republicans To Hold "Save The Senate" Retreat At Trump Hotel
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/senate-republicans-trump-hotel-retreat/

Democrats Prepare Subpoena For Trump’s D.C. Hotel Documents: The hotel occupies a federally owned building and has become a hot spot for lobbyists, foreign governments and others to put money in the president's pocket.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hotel-subpoena_n_5da9bfd2e4b04c4d24eb4980?ri18n=true

Reps Lieu and Rice Call For Investigation Into Suspicious Futures Trading Around Geopolitical Events, Trump Statements
https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-lieu-and-rice-call-investigation-suspicious-futures-trading-around

New Florida bill would require public schools to offer Bible courses
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/466154-new-florida-law-would-require-public-schools-to-offer-bible-courses

We're all more than tired of a self righteous 78 year old asshole who leeches off Democratic Party infrastructure while spitting in our faces and throwing strawmen in our path while we try to improve the healthcare system.
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1185025839160840192?s=21

This is a frustrating strawman. I don’t see any Democratic candidate doing this. Embracing a different UHC plan doesn’t mean “defense” of the current state of affairs.
https://twitter.com/a_m_dolan/status/1185147061802536963?s=21

The fucking entitled arrogance of Bernie and his campaign and supporters and their hashtag NoMiddleGround. Are you fucking kidding me? Trump is in court today trying to eliminate pre-existing coverage exemptions and they're still all or bust? Bernie is a fucking cancer.
https://twitter.com/ag_due/status/1185243586557812736?s=21

So Mr. Unity Pledge sent out a fundraising letter today with the subject Joe Biden. A full letter attacking Biden. Nothing like that unity, isn't it. He's attacked Warren, too. I am not supporting either of those two at the moment, but Bernie is a two-faced grifting asshole.
https://twitter.com/cajsa/status/1185260747204358145?s=21

"Congress cannot continue to cede its powers to another branch, regardless of who is President or which party holds a majority," the senators wrote in the letter, which was released on Friday. | But the letter comes as the Senate failed to override Trump's veto of a resolution that would have nixed his emergency declaration to secure funding for the border wall. The resolution canceling the declaration initially passed the Senate last month with 54 votes.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/466451-senators-want-vote-on-bill-to-rein-in-presidents-emergency-powers

State Sen. Kai Kahele criticizes Tulsi Gabbard for missing House vote on Syria
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/10/16/hawaii-news/kai-kahele-calls-out-tulsi-gabbard-for-missing-vote-on-syria/

John Kasich tells Ana Cabrera that Trump should be impeached. "I say it with great sadness. This is not something that I really wanted to do. ...But this behavior, in my opinion, cannot be tolerated."
https://twitter.com/RebeccaBuck/status/1185261903544586245

A Colorado Springs lawyer appointed by Trump to a federal education board is a prolific author of self-help Illuminati books whose education company has been accused of handing out certificates to undeserving applicants."
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/16/george-mentz-trump-presidential-scholars/

I’m fascinated by the different quid pro quos operating simultaneously. Some WH officials believed the deal was for a meeting. Others for aid. Some believe the ask was investigating DNC conspiracies. Others Burisma. A lovely mix of pervasive corruption and poor communication.
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1185255293225058305

"A multiyear State Department probe of emails that were sent to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private computer server concluded there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information by department employees."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-department-probe-of-clinton-emails-finds-no-deliberate-mishandling-of-classified-information/2019/10/18/83339446-f1dc-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html

38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe. Could not find fault. | Retroactive classification to fabricate violations to attack Democrats. Hillary not one of the persons named LOL.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/38-people-cited-violations-clinton-email-probe-n1068851

Leaked Audio Reveals How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plastics-pollution/

Ethics Watchdog Calls for Twitter to Suspend Kellyanne Conway for Constantly Violating the Hatch Act
https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/ethics-watchdog-calls-for-twitter-to-ban-kellyanne-conway-for-constantly-violating-the-hatch-act/

A big honor bestowed: "Today, @SpeakerPelosi announced that Chairman Elijah E. Cummings will lie in state in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol on Thursday, October 24."
https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1185305083229159425

Gabbard's primary challenger for her House seat: Did Donald Trump steal Tulsi's phone?
https://twitter.com/kaikahele/status/1185303589171814400

HA-02 Democratic Primary: Support Kai Kahele for Congress NOW. Reject Assad & Putin apologist Tulsi Gabbard.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kaiforcongress

(regarding the idiotic braindead mentally ill tweets on Tulsi Gabbard's twitter)
https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/1185297928195395586

Folks, listen to the podcast. She doesn’t say the Russians are grooming anyone. It was a question about Republicans.
https://twitter.com/NickMerrill/status/1185348133779394560

Assad day for your candidacy.
https://twitter.com/NickMerrill/status/1185295332034301953

Kevin Moley, the top U.S. diplomat overseeing international organizations affairs, will retire next month.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/18/pompeo-senior-diplomat-accused-of-mismanagement-to-step-down-international-orgnizations/

Scalise, during colloquy with Hoyer, says the whistleblower complaint has been largely "debunked" even though virtually every aspect has been bolstered and supported by subsequent testimony.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1185219540952719362

Saclise is the idiot who was shot by an alt-right libertarian Sanders supporter and in the aftermath blamed Democrats for shooting him and said Democrats wanted to take everybody's gun and use the guns to gun down White Republican Christians. He ran campaign ads saying that for his re-election.

The House is expected to vote next week on a resolution condemning Trump's decision to hold the G7 at Trump's own golf resort in Miami.
https://www.newsweek.com/house-formally-rebuke-trump-hosting-g7-summit-florida-golf-resort-1466369

Julián Castro fundraising email hits Pete Buttigieg over Steve Patton donation: "I applaud Mayor Buttigieg for returning the contribution, but at a time where police violence remains such a critical issue, it shouldn’t take four months to return such a problematic contribution."
https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1185309566348738565

One word that is not in this op-ed: "Trump." One word that is in this op-ed three times: "Obama." McConnell EXPLICITALLY blames Democrats and Obama and the current Democratic candidates for the ENTIRE PLANET'S inability to stop global Islamic terrorism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-withdrawing-from-syria-is-a-grave-mistake/2019/10/18/c0a811a8-f1cd-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

HUD officials knowingly failed 'to comply with the law,' stalled Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hud-officials-knowingly-failed-comply-law-stalled-puerto-rico-hurricane-n1068761

Giuliani asked the State Dept. to give a visa to the former Ukraine prosecutor (himself under investigation for corruption) who could deliver dirt on Biden. State Dept. said no, so Giuliani appealed to the WH. Visa wasn't granted.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/giuliani-shokin-state-visa-george-kent/index.html

Clinton’s not wrong here: RT’s cultivation/promotion of Jill Stein and her supporters was off the charts in 2015-16. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-putin-played-the-far-left
https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/1185214330205327360

On this day 3 years ago, Hillary Clinton became the only person in the world to ever call Donald Trump a puppet of Vladimir Putin to his face, on national television, in front of millions of people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qIN1-z_JqQ

PG&E CEO Says It Could Impose Blackouts in California for a Decade | Bill Johnson makes the disclosure in a hearing at which California officials blast PG&E’s shutoffs this month
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-ceo-says-it-could-impose-blackouts-in-california-for-a-decade-11571438206

Hillary Clinton has pulled out of the Fortune Most Powerful Women summit -- a source close to the decision says she wouldn't share a bill with Kirstjen Nielsen. | Tulsi Gabbard, Anita Hill are still on the bill with the child-caging former Homeland Security chief.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/hillary-clinton-fortune-summit-kirstjen-nielsen.html