Trump’s accounting firm must turn over eight years of financial records to a House committee, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, handing the president a significant defeat in his attempts to block the release of the returns. | On Friday, a three-judge federal panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided 2-1 with the Democrats, saying that the committee has the right to the documents. | It is unsurprising that no case law supports the dissent. Under its view, Congress’s power to investigate, when it comes to the President and all other impeachable officials, would no longer be “co-extensive with [its] power to legislate.”…The dissent would reorder the very structure of the Constitution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/us/politics/mazars-trump-tax-returns.html
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/10/11/opinion.mazars.pdf
Make no mistake. This is not just a swipe at the Trump-appointed judge. This is a rebuttal to Trump’s letter stating he will not participate in this “sham” impeachment.
Turkey Bombs US Special Forces In Syria Attack
https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-syria-turkey-1464727
US federal court decisions handed down Trump today:
- appeal over financial records subpoena
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-loses-appeal-over-house-subpoena-financial-records-n1065016
- public charge rule for immigrants receiving public assistance
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-loses-appeal-over-house-subpoena-financial-records-n1065016
- wall funding with national emergency
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-wall-funding-national-emergency-n1065216
Federal court rules Trump's national emergency proclamation for border is unlawful
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/federal-court-rules-president-donald-trumps-national-emergency-proclamation-for-border-is-unlawful/29442165
U.S. judge blocks Trump rule limiting green cards for poor immigrants
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/u-s-judge-blocks-trump-rule-limiting-green-cards-for-poor-immigrants-idUSKBN1WQ2G7
Rudy Giuliani's relationship with arrested men is subject of criminal investigation:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rudy-giulianis-relationship-arrested-men-subject-criminal-investigation/story?id=66212654
Isis militants break out of prison in Syria after bombing by Turkey
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-turkey-syria-prison-bombing-kurds-sdf-a9152536.html
Facebook Is Threatening Our Elections—Again | A new policy gives politicians free rein to spread misinformation and inflame racial tensions.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/11/facebook-threatening-elections-again-229844/
GOOD. New York City Council Member Fernando Cabrera (D) has launched a primary bid to unseat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Cabrera filed last week with the Federal Election Commission to run for the seat in New York's 14th District, which includes parts of the Bronx and Queens. Cabrera has represented the Bronx in New York's City Council since 2010, his campaign website notes. He officially launched his campaign on Thursday. “I’m a centrist and she’s a socialist,” he said told The Hill, referring to Ocasio-Cortez’s democratic socialist beliefs. “No matter how many adjectives you put in front of the word socialist, socialist means a socialist.” As an example of his centrist beliefs, he cited his support for former Vice President Joe Biden's health care plan, which he said "gives people options." The city councilman said Ocasio-Cortez's opposition to Amazon's now-scrapped plan to open a second headquarters in Queens made him believe "we had a congresswoman that was literally clueless...on how government works and how the economy works.” He said that he thinks he is the best person for the seat because of his track record. “I passed 31 bills. She passed none," Cabrera said. "I brought close to $200 million into my district. She brought zero money.” He added that he thinks he best represents the values of family, faith, community and quality of life.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465319-democrat-launches-primary-challenge-to-ocasio-cortez
Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel peace prize
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/oct/11/nobel-peace-prize-greta-thunberg-abiy-ahmed-jacinda-ardern-among-those-tipped-win-live-news
Odd because he's literally an average leader with a fair share of controversy and bad policies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiy_Ahmed
Rudy Giuliani was reportedly planning to leave Thursday for Vienna, Austria, a day after two business associates who helped him with his dealings with Ukraine officials were arrested as they were headed to the same destination.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-fly-vienna-after-arrested-associates-flight_n_5d9fb8d1e4b087efdbab7b0a
Ukrainian Andrey Kukushkin, Linked To Giuliani Associates, Arrested In San Francisco On Campaign Finance Violations
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/10/11/andrey-kukushkin-ukraine-campaign-finance-violations-rudy-giuliani/
White House accidentally sends Ukraine talking points to Democrats again
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/465457-white-house-accidentally-sends-ukraine-talking-points-to-democrats-again
An Iowa Democrat outraised incumbent Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in the third quarter of 2019 in the Hawkeye State’s competitive Senate race. Theresa Greenfield, who launched her campaign to unseat Ernst in June, said she raised more than $1.1 million in the year’s third quarter, compared with reports that Ernst raised just under $1 million in the same span.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465440-iowa-democrat-outraises-ernst-in-third-quarter-in-senate-race
Michael McKinley, a career diplomat and senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has resigned his position amid rising dissatisfaction and plummeting morale inside the State Department over what is seen as Pompeo’s failure to support personnel ensnared in the Ukraine controversy. A senior officer who has held a range of diplomatic posts, including ambassador to Afghanistan, Colombia and Peru, McKinley was serving as ambassador to Brazil last year when Pompeo recruited him as a policy adviser and a conduit between his office and the career service.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senior-adviser-to-pompeo-resigns/2019/10/10/0d771aa2-ebb5-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html
Pentagon officials deemed withholding of aid to Ukraine was illegal
https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-officials-deemed-withholding-of-aid-to-ukraine-was-illegal-090046566.html
New potential whistleblowers are coming forward to the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, two congressional sources tell The Daily Beast. | Congressional investigators are currently vetting the new accounts they’ve received for credibility. Accordingly, knowledgeable sources would not discuss where in the government these new would-be whistleblowers come from, nor what they purport to have to say.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/more-potential-whistleblowers-are-contacting-congress
Fiona Hill, who was until recently Donald Trump’s top aide on Russia and Europe, plans to tell Congress that Rudy Giuliani and E.U. ambassador Gordon Sondland circumvented the National Security Council and the normal White House process to pursue a shadow policy on Ukraine
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-former-russia-adviser-set-give-damning-testimony-giuliani-n1064846
From the lawyer to Ambassador Gordon Sondland: "After consultation with Committee Staff, his testimony is now scheduled for Thursday, October 17. Notwithstanding the State Department's current direction to not testify, Ambassador Sondland will honor the Committees' subpoena."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1182640751378927617
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/politics/sondland-testimony-subpoena-house/index.html
US soldier who ran over and killed a British Army captain, 46, with a forklift truck at Iraqi base fails to show up for inquest hearing after an American general dropped all charges against him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7559383/US-soldier-run-British-army-captain-refuses-travel-UK-inquest.html
Campgrounds in national parks set to be illegally privatized in new Trump plan
https://news.yahoo.com/campgrounds-in-national-parks-set-to-be-privatized-in-new-trump-plan-090019066.html
The 5 states adopting the Trump administration's healthcare plan for poor Americans paid more than $400 million just to process paperwork, government watchdog says
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-healthcare-plan-medicaid-cost-400-million-in-paperwork-2019-10
A federal judge in Texas ruled that Trump's plan to divert money from other sources to fund border wall construction is unlawful — he's asked both sides to weigh in on the scope of any injunction, so that's not settled yet
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6467669/10-11-19-El-Paso-v-Trump-Opinion.pdf
'Tip of the Iceberg': Prosecutors Allege Vast Criminal Conspiracy by Giuliani Associates to Funnel Foreign Cash to Trump and GOP
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/10/tip-iceberg-prosecutors-allege-vast-criminal-conspiracy-giuliani-associates-funnel
Beto O’Rourke says he’d revoke tax-exempt status of religious groups that oppose same sex marriage
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/10/11/beto-orourke-says-hed-revoke-tax-exempt-status-of-religious-groups-that-oppose-same-sex-marriage/
Former Executive Claims Deutsche Bank may have destroyed copies of Trump's tax returns, cleansed servers
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tax-returns-deutsche-bank-servers-copies-1464576
Cracks found on 38 of 810 Boeing 737 NG jets inspected globally
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-boeing-airplanes/cracks-found-on-38-of-810-boeing-737-ng-jets-inspected-globally-idUKKBN1WP29S?il=0
Uganda announces 'Kill the Gays' law imposing death penalty on homosexuals
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/uganda-death-penalty-kill-the-gays-homosexuals-lgbt-a9151411.html
El Paso’s Beto O’Rourke among strongest new LGBT allies in Congress
Jan 4, 2013 | 0
https://dallasvoice.com/newly-sworn-west-texas-congressman-lgbt-ally/
Senate report has a clear verdict: Russians meddled in 2016; Rudy's conspiracy theory is crap; Bipartisan report, signed by every member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, debunks Trump-Giuliani theory
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/11/senate-report-has-a-clear-verdict-russians-meddled-in-2016-rudys-conspiracy-theory-is-crap/
Prince's estate rebukes Trump for playing Purple Rain at rally - use of Purple Rain reportedly breaches written agreement stating that Trump campaign would no longer play Prince’s music
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/11/princes-estate-rebukes-trump-for-playing-purple-rain-at-rally
Trump Sued For Failing To Protect Hawaii’s Cauliflower Coral
https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/trump-sued-for-failing-to-protect-hawaiis-cauliflower-coral/
Hong Kong Protester Says She Was Sexually Assaulted by Police After Being Arrested - While Hong Kong police have said they will investigate, they have also warned the student that she and her parents could be arrested for making false
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne89zz/hong-kong-otester-says-she-was-sexually-assaulted-by-police-after-being-arrested
Amazon Is Severing Contracts With Delivery Firms Linked To Deaths | More than 2,000 workers in eight states will lose their jobs after Amazon terminated its relationship with the firms following BuzzFeed News and ProPublica reports. | The contract terminations follow recent investigations of Amazon’s fast-growing delivery network by BuzzFeed News and ProPublica, which focused on how the intense financial and deadline pressure Amazon puts on its growing fleet of independent delivery contractors can lead to worker mistreatment and threaten public safety. The news organizations documented deaths linked to each of these three contractors.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/amazon-is-severing-contracts-with-delivery-firms-linked-to
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon-next-day-delivery-deaths
https://features.propublica.org/amazon-delivery-crashes/how-amazon-hooked-america-on-fast-delivery-while-avoiding-responsibility-for-crashes/
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, who this week sharply criticized his House colleagues for their Ukraine-related impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, last year accepted campaign donations from one of the foreign nationals arrested Wednesday as part of the widening Ukrainian investigation.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article236028068.html
Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub said on Thursday that she "will not be silenced" after a Republican congressman requested she be investigated for ethics violations for doing her job.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/politics/fec-chairwoman-responds-to-gop-lawmaker-investigation-request/index.html
Trump says his border wall is 'impenetrable.' It took climbers in Kentucky mere seconds
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/contests/2019/10/11/trump-border-wall-replica-kentucky-scaled-mere-seconds/3922494002/
Mountain climbers scale replica of Trump's border wall in under one minute
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/465415-mountain-climbers-scale-replica-of-trumps-border-wall-in-under-1-minute-report
Fired EPA scientists to release air pollution report they say agency unqualified to issue
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fired-epa-scientists-release-air-pollution-report-they-say-agency-n1064456
Pentagon to deploy nearly 2,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to boost defenses against Iran
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/10/11/pentagon-to-deploy-nearly-2000-troops-to-saudi-arabia-to-boost-defenses-against-iran/
Trump says he’s ending the US role in Middle East wars. He’s sending 1,800 troops to Saudi Arabia.
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/10/11/20909932/trump-iran-saudi-arabia-troops-esper
YEP: These stories are incredibly unfair to @dmorey and the Rockets. There was no groundswell of anger in China about Morey's tweet. Twitter is banned in China! The government pushed around his anodyne comment and manufactured a bunch of outrage with state-run media.
https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1182779721265729538
The wildfire burning on the northern edge of Los Angeles has grown to more than 11 square miles (28 square kilometers) but there is also some containment.
https://apnews.com/fdcfb73a3a63402c9cbaf94dc8530ad6
Shepard Smith, the chief news anchor of Fox News whose reporting often drew the ire of Trump, said on Friday that he was leaving the cable news network after 23 years, an abrupt move that left some of his co-workers openly stunned. | Since Mr. Trump took office, Mr. Smith has stood out at Fox News for his tough coverage of the White House — a stark contrast from the Trump cheerleading often displayed by the network’s prime-time and morning-show commentators. Mr. Smith’s reporting has sometimes frustrated Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly taunted the anchor on Twitter, referring to him as Fox’s “lowest rated anchor.” On Thursday, Mr. Trump cited Mr. Smith by name, along with the former Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, arguing that Fox News was “much different than it used to be in the good old days.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/business/media/shepard-smith-fox-news.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/business/media/fox-news-sean-hannity.html
Bill Barr probably asked Rupert Murdoch to push out Shep Smith
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/politics/barr-murdoch-trump.html
The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to stop the release of Trump’s tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, arguing that local prosecutors should have to meet a very high legal bar before investigating a sitting president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/nyregion/trump-tax-returns-lawsuit.html
The distancing begins: Asked if Rudy Giuliani was still his personal attorney, Pres. Trump says, "Well, I don't know. I haven't spoken to Rudy. I spoke to him yesterday briefly. He's a very good attorney and he has been my attorney. Yeah, sure."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rudy-giulianis-relationship-arrested-men-subject-criminal-investigation/story?id=66212654
Turkish forces have fired on a declared U.S. military outpost in northern Syria. Turkey knows all of our locations down to the precise grid coordinate as confirmed by SECDEF and CJCS only two hours ago. This was not a mistake.
https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/1182756792675139584
Secretary Mnuchin today briefed from the WH podium that Trump signed an authorization to impose sanctions but that no sanctions have been imposed. This is meaningless nonsense. 100k people are already displaced and US soldiers are being fired upon. What’s the bar for sanctions?
https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/1182756804377239552
O'Rourke's aides said they saw a 130% increase in money raised per day after he returned to the campaign trail in mid-August -- and a 150% leap in average contributions per day, an indicator that he brought in more small-dollar donors.
https://twitter.com/ericbradner/status/1182771034430132224
So in the first week after Trump elected to remove the 50-100 soldiers that were keeping safe our Kurdish allies, who were in turn keeping 10,000 ISIS combatants under lock and key:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-to-pull-troops-from-northern-syria-as-turkey-readies-offensive/2019/10/07/a965e466-e8b3-11e9-bafb-da248f8d5734_story.html
Turkey immediately invaded and began shelling civilians.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turkey-invades-syria-kurds-civilians-reportedly-killed-as-turkey-assault-escalates-today-live-updates/
ISIS militants have already escaped prison in an area Turkey is bombing.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-turkey-syria-prison-bombing-kurds-sdf-a9152536.html
Turkey has bombed US servicemen in the area.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-syria-turkey-1464727
The US commits to deploy 2000 troops to Saudi Arabia to prepare for a military confrontation with Iran.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-to-deploy-around-2-000-additional-troops-to-saudi-arabia-11570809038
<Laughs in Russian> Because of the Treasonous Puppet in the White House, two NATO allies have been in a military conflict with each other.
US veterans condemn Trump for allowing ‘wholesale slaughter’ of allies in Syria | 'Just like there are Kurds who are alive because of US forces, there are Americans who are alive because of sacrifices the Kurds made for us'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/trump-syria-turkey-invasion-troops-withdrawal-kurds-veterans-a9151081.html
Less Than 24 Hours After Saying 'Time to Bring 'Em Home,' Trump Orders 1,800 US Troops to Saudi Arabia: "Remember when Donald Trump tweeted that he was 'trying to end the endless wars?' That was yesterday."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/11/less-24-hours-after-saying-time-bring-em-home-trump-orders-1800-us-troops-saudi
It's World Egg Day, a day celebrating an industry that kills 6 billion newly hatched chicks a year by grinding them up alive or suffocating them to death
https://i.redd.it/1876xbtvixr31.jpg
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan has resigned after spending six months on the job, according to a tweet Friday night from Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-homeland-security-secretary-kevin-mcaleenan-trump-tweet/story?id=66210840
McAleenan is the 464th person leave the Trump administration since the beginning.
http://www.45chaos.com/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qw7uAkCag7FPX6qI9pBAAzi1a4sgyD3k5xvleIOwL-s/edit?usp=sharing
Should note he was never even confirmed. Same with so many other Trump officials, in defiance of a constitutional system that requires Senate confirmation of senior officials. It’s a massive circumvention of Congress.
https://twitter.com/sbg1/status/1182807967118303234
US troops in vicinity of Kobani in Syria came under artillery fire from Turkish positions; an explosion occurred in an area known by the Turks to have US forces present; there were no injuries to US forces, and they have not withdrawn from Kobani.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1182808843052605442
So Trump lied yesterday when he said there were no US troops in Syria.
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