What is wrong with this country that the public cannot see through blatant fallacy, they cannot identify that they are led by a man with rampant personality disorders. Why is nobody educated anymore?
The identity politics of liberalism have been profoundly damaging, who you are as a person doesn't matter any more, it's all about your gender/race/sexuality, it contributed to the general breakdown of empathy where it was meant to increase empathy. And sure, the right wing were the first to play those tricks.
"The public will never be made to believe that an appointment of a relative is made on the ground of merit... nor can they ever see w/ approbation offices, the disposal of which they entrust to their Presidents for public purposes, divided out as family property"—Thomas Jefferson
Trump Is Committing 'Felony Bribery' by Giving Fundraising Cash to GOP Senators Ahead of Impeachment Trial: Ex-Bush Ethics Lawyer
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-committing-felony-bribery-giving-fundraising-cash-gop-senators-ahead-impeachment-trial-1468946
Keystone Pipeline leaks 383,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/us/keystone-pipeline-leak-trnd/index.html
Katie Hill: "I'm leaving, but we have men who have been credibly accused of intentional acts of sexual violence and remain in boardrooms, on the Supreme Court, in this very body, and worst of all, in the Oval Office."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1189975380318457857
Republicans to Roll Back Obama-Era Rules Controlling Toxic Metals from Coal Plants
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/climate/epa-coal-ash.html
Report says CIA-trained Afghan forces behind war atrocities | But that’s not enough, says Human Rights Watch in a new report released Thursday documenting what it says are mounting atrocities by U.S.-backed Afghan special forces and rising civilian deaths by both American and Afghan forces. It calls for an investigation into whether the U.S. has committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
https://apnews.com/e87fd2e57c2b44d0aec67a58bcf6ca42
The House of Representatives today passed a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry into Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/31/us/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-house-vote.html
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1189908884162568193
They all voted against the idea of doing exactly what they complained about, they screamed across the entire planet for this resolution and when presented with it they all vote Nay
Trump is not an aberration within the GOP. He is the republican party stripped bare of any pretense of civility. Every republican representative stood by Trump in this vote - not because they are too cowardly to stand up to him. They simply agree with Trump and his agenda. NEVER FORGET THAT dumb fucking "leftist" shitstains who are hellbent on helping Trump and Republicans get re-elected,
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, who was repeatedly raped when held captive by ISIS for 3 months before escaping, calls for ISIS fighters to be tried like the Nazis at Nuremberg. "Those captured alive need to be brought to justice in an open court for the world to see."
https://www.newsweek.com/nobel-prize-winner-welcomes-death-isis-leader-1468117
White House lawyer John Eisenberg moved transcript of Trump call to classified server after Ukraine adviser raised alarms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-lawyer-moved-transcript-of-trump-call-to-classified-server-after-ukraine-adviser-raised-alarms/2019/10/30/ba0fbdb6-fb4e-11e9-8190-6be4deb56e01_story.html
Donald Trump Jr. tells Hannity: "I wish my name was Hunter Biden" so "I could make millions off my father's presidency."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jr-tells-hannity-i-wish-my-name-was-hunter-biden-so-i-could-make-millions-off-my-1468843
Donald Trump Jr, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said he wishes he were Hunter Biden so he could get rich off his dad. Trump Jr probably has a net worth in the double-digit millions.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-jr-wants-to-be-hunter-biden-make-millions-presidency-2019-10
Facebook let a fake page posing as the Trump campaign run political ads
http://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/tech/facebook-fake-trump-page/index.html
White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/white-house-trump-russia-ukraine-state-department
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt blocks vote on voting rights bill that would require Trump to disclose his tax returns
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-sen-roy-blunt-blocks-vote-voting-rights-bill-that-would-require-trump-disclose-his-1468830
Mark Zuckerberg launched an impassioned defense of political ads on Facebook, just minutes after Twitter banned them
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-defends-political-ads-after-twitter-bans-them-2019-10
Foie Gras, Served in 1,000 Restaurants in New York City, Is Banned | Most foie gras is produced through a process known as gavage; ducks are force-fed a fatty corn-based mixture that engorges their livers. The process requires tubes to be inserted into a duck’s throat for a 20-day feeding regimen, swelling the liver to up to 10 times its normal size. The procedure can leave ducks too big to walk or even breathe before they are slaughtered, animal activists say. Carlina Rivera, a Manhattan councilwoman who sponsored the foie gras legislation, said her bill “tackles the most inhumane process” in the commercial food industry. “This is one of the most violent practices and it’s done for a purely luxury product,” she said. | Other legislation passed in the package will prevent horse carriages from working on humid days (measured using the equine heat index, a measure of temperature and relative humidity), create a mayor’s office of animal welfare and prohibit the capture and transfer of wild birds like pigeons. New York City’s ubiquitous birds are sometimes trapped and transported out of state to be used as targets in game shooting. | Allie Feldman Taylor, founder and president of Voters for Animal Rights, said the animal rights package will protect animals used for food, entertainment, and also protects wildlife. She characterized the bills as the “most significant animal rights legislation in our city’s history,” serving as evidence that New York City is becoming more compassionate, she said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/nyregion/foie-gras-ban-nyc.html
https://nyc.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3860318&GUID=13DA12A3-FDAA-4ED4-B102-9C6E3C19A350&Options=ID|Text|&Search=equine+heat+index
https://nyc.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3903474&GUID=8B91EDDB-1A5E-423C-8AAF-C3C7C508E210&Options=ID|Text|&Search=animal+welfare
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian took 16 weeks of paid paternal leave after his daughter with Serena Williams was born in 2017. Now he's taking the fight for paid family leave to Congress — and explaining why.
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-cofounder-alexis-ohanian-fight-paternity-leave-congress-parenting-quotes-2019-6
The Republican Healthcare Plan Is to Hollow Out Obamacare Until It's Functionally Nonexistent
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29644086/republicans-hollow-out-obamacare-junk-insurance-waivers/
On Same Day as Trump State Department's Pipeline Hearing, Keystone Springs Crude Oil Leak in North Dakota — "Pipelines leak. Pipeline companies lie about it. That's the only permanent thing about them."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/31/same-day-trump-state-departments-pipeline-hearing-keystone-springs-crude-oil-leak
McConnell advised Trump to stop attacking Senate Republicans
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/politics/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-impeachment-senate-republicans/index.html
Bernie Bros angry they can’t flip Joe Manchin are hilarious. Bernie’s entire argument is that he is uniquely positioned to win back the white working class and the politicians who represent them. But its clear that was all false
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1189932083210272769
The point being that Manchin is white working class and refuses to support Sanders
Listen to @BernieSanders talk to young people about how you deal with drug pushers: "We made it very clear to drug pushers that they were not welcome in Burlington or in the state of VT and they will be arrested and punished as harshly as they can be."
https://twitter.com/m_mendozaferrer/status/1189727655337365505
I want that Bernie Sanders, not the current antisemitic shitstain
The 2014 Detroit Tigers once had a starting pitching rotation of Justin Verlander, David Price, Max Scherzer, Anibal Sanchez and Rick Porcello. Five years later, they have all won the World Series.
https://twitter.com/freep/status/1189751474164838403
YEP: [Sydel Curry] Look the Warriors are what they are and that is what it is...but CHASE fans, y’all gotta do better. They brought it within 12 & 3/4 of y’all were waiting for Bart. Not okay. And definitely not Oracle.
https://twitter.com/SydelCurryLee/status/1189768900453396480?s=09
U.S. officials have told the Washington Post the spy who betrayed al-Baghdadi likely will receive all or part of the $25 million bounty for al-Baghdadi’s head. The spy "wanted to take revenge on ISIS and al-Baghdadi himself" General Mazloum Abdi told NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/islamic-state-spy-who-betrayed-baghdadi-was-motivated-revenge-n1074206
"The whistleblower is fake news nonsense." It wasn't. The Director of National Intelligence and deputy immediately announced their resignations after the Ukraine phonecall. This wasn't some random chance event. Soon after Coats announced his resignation, Coats actually interrupted a meeting to tell his deputy to resign.. Several officials have now resigned before their testimonies.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/politics/sue-gordon-resignation-coats-interrupts-meeting/index.html
"The whistleblower isn't credible." Trump's own Director of National Intelligence to replace Coats contradicts those claims. The whistleblower complaint was deemed "credible and urgent" by the Intelligence Community Inspector General (A Trump nominee). The complaint has been corroborated by multiple sources who will soon testify to the public.
"Trump didn't ask Ukraine to investigate Biden." He did - he even reaffirmed it and asked China to do the same on national TV. Mulvaney admitted to quid pro quo, even though you don't even need that for it to be a federal crime. He evidently asked several other countries similar things. It's a clear cut felony that Trump's own FEC chair has reiterated multiple times.
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/766801353/trump-publicly-calls-for-china-and-ukraine-to-investigate-bidens
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mulvaney-says-holdup-of-ukraine-aid-was-related-to-trumps-demand-for-2016-election-probe-11571338443
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30121%20edition:prelim
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/18/stymied-by-polarized-agency-fec-chair-ellen-weintraub-finds-her-voice-trump-critic/
"Trump was investigating corruption!" This seems to be the biggest talking point. NONE OF THESE PEOPLE MADE FORMAL REQUESTS FOR THE HOUSE OR SENATE OR DOJ OR FBI TO INVESTIGATE JOE BIDEN OR HUNTER BIDEN. TRUMP ALONE DEMANDED UKRAINE GOVERNMENT FABRICATE ATTACKS AGAINST THE BIDEN IN EXCHANGE FOR AID. The Trump admin sought to cut millions in programs designated to investigating corruption. Out of all the subjects in the world, Trump chose his leading 2020 Presidential rival to pursue an investigation? No political motivation - just happened to be him, right? Taylor testified saying that "everything hinged" on Zelensky not only investigating Biden's son, but publicly announcing it. That's just about the strangest, totally-non-political request during a "corruption investigation" I've ever heard. Oh, least I mention that the item being bargained with was $400 million in taxpayer, congressionally-approved funds to assist Ukraine in necessary defenses against our enemy, Russia. The funds were withheld for months as a bargaining chip. AND NOT ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN MADE A FORMAL REQUEST FOR THE LEGISLATIVE OR JUDICIAL BRANCH TO INVESTIGATE THE BIDENS. THE LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE BRANCHES ARE THE BRANCHES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO INVESTED SUPPOSED CORRUPTION, NOT FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Republicans had years to investigate the Bidens' role in Ukraine and they never did, they applauded VP Biden's engagment with the Ukraine government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/10/23/trump-administration-sought-billions-dollars-cuts-programs-aimed-fighting-corruption-ukraine-abroad/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/us/politics/ukraine-aid-freeze-impeachment.html
...No wonder the Trump admin hid it from public as long as possible. And for what, exactly? Conflicts of interest of Biden's son. Good thing Trump's children don't have any of those, right? He also sought to use his personal lawyer, of all people, to do such a thing. Reminder that Trump has the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, and Intelligence Community to pursue an investigation. Even if there were a legal means to investigate corruption in Ukraine, this was by far the most illegal way to do it. Even DOJ and Barr have tried to distance themselves.
"Maybe the whistleblower is corrupt. There are no first-hand witnesses, no corroborating testimony." There are multiple now. Among them are revered 50-year public servants, and Purple Heart Iraq War veterans. Another (a career Republican official) is currently testifying. Still, Trump and the GOP continue to attempt to unmask the federally protected whistleblower for character assassination purposes, and Trump continues witness intimidation, promising "Big Consequences!" for the whistleblower, and accusing them of treason and suggesting execution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/william-taylor-testimony.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/extremely-disturbing-top-dems-alarmed-over-vindman-s-testimony-trump-n1073371
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1512
"The transcript is a transcript! Read it!" As damning as the initial document released was, it literally says in preface that it is not a transcript. It is a memo, that could be missing 18 minutes of information. The testimony two days ago confirmed there are many missing, crucial elements that have been selectively omitted. We now know the transcript was moved to a server reserved for national security documents.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
https://www.newsweek.com/senator-king-suggests-least-20-minutes-are-missing-trump-ukraine-call-transcript-1462622
"Well, can't defend that shit (the crimes) any longer." The GOP has decided 'the process' is a sham! "An impeachment vote needs to happen." Democrats need to spin around three times and clap or it isn't legitimate!" To epitomize this desperate train of thought, Republicans led by Gaetz stormed a secure deposition and jeopardized national security, holding up a testimony for 5 hours while eating pizza. To further prove how much of a stunt this was, many of the same Congressmen already had access to the testimony and information, and were limited by rules Republicans set previously.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-storm-closed-door-impeachment-hearing-as-escalating-ukraine-scandal-threatens-trump/2019/10/23/29877c06-f5a5-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html
A federal judge (appointed by Bush) recently ruled that there is no constitutional or legal basis for holding a vote to conduct an impeachment inquiry. Pelosi basically said "Y'know what? We'll do it anyway" And now we're in the public part of the Impeachment Process, and Pelosi has set all the rules for the inquiry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/us/politics/house-impeachment-subpoenas.html
Republicans have remarked that defending Trump is "like a horror movie." The goalposts have sailed off the edge of the planet within the flat-Earth reality Republicans possess.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/it-feels-like-a-horror-movie-republicans-feel-anxious-and-adrift-defending-trump/2019/10/28/b4510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html
A federal judge in Washington expressed disbelief that the White House could control what its former officials might talk about, when they're subpoenaed by the House of Representatives or otherwise. "We don't live in a world where your status as a former executive branch official somehow shields you or prevents you from giving information," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Thursday in court to a Justice Department attorney who was defending the White House. The lawsuit is over whether former White House counsel Don McGahn must appear for testimony in the House. Democrats issued the subpoena in April, though he ignored their demands and didn't show up. "I see almost every day people who are former executive branch officials giving information to the media. People are out there talking, people are saying things," Jackson said, taking a legally complicated separation-of-powers topic and injecting the real world into it.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/politics/hearing-mcgahn-white-house/index.html
Not counting this year, KAT has played in 98.5% of all possible regular season games while Embiid has only played in 38.5%
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/townska01.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/e/embiijo01.html
Strasburg, Scherzer, Corbin, Sanchez, Doolittle, and Hudson pitched 127⅔ of the Nationals’ 153 innings (83.4%) this postseason.
https://twitter.com/ericstephen/status/1189759030601732096
U.S. farm bankruptcies surge 24% on strain from Trump trade war
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-31/u-s-farm-bankruptcies-surge-24-on-strain-from-trump-trade-war
Lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee urged a federal judge on Thursday to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before Congress about Trump’s possible obstruction of justice, arguing that his refusal to comply is harming House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/468376-democrats-ask-judge-to-force-mcgahn-to-comply-with-subpoena
Be careful what you wish for, Republicans: Now impeachment starts for real — Republicans demanded a more public impeachment process. Well, here it comes — and they're not gonna like it
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/31/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-republicans-now-impeachment-starts-for-real/
Senate Democrats block defense spending bill over Trump wall | “The Republican leader has been accusing Democrats of threatening to block military funding. Now, that is an absurd statement if there ever was one. We’re simply trying to stop Republicans from stealing money from our military and putting it into the wall,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said ahead of the vote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/468368-senate-democrats-block-defense-spending-bill
Diligent work by a team of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from wildfires that are ravaging parts of California. The library deployed the goat squadron during the spring in order to munch their way through around 13 acres of scrubland around the library that could’ve provided tinder-like fuel to a wildfire. This preventive action created a fire break between the library and the Easy fire, which has menaced thousands of homes in the Simi Valley near Los Angeles. More than 1,000 firefighters are tackling the blaze, which caused flames to approach the presidential library from a nearby hillside. Treasures saved include a piece of the Berlin Wall and Air Force One.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/31/goats-save-ronald-reagan-library-wildfire
Democrats launch redistricting blitz with offensive to dominate Virginia
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/31/democrats-virginia-redistricting-063175
As Twitter changes its policies, remember, Beto O'Rourke picked this fight BEFORE it was popular. Other candidates are now falsely claiming credit. But Beto has receipts aplenty. In fact, when Beto went out on this limb, other candidates looked the other way.
https://twitter.com/Paychecko/status/1189887167235014658
Trump to nominate North Korea special envoy Steve Biegun to be Deputy Secretary of State.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1190019458313658369
Today we hit more than 100.5 hours of testimony behind closed doors with 13 witnesses as part of the impeachment inquiry before House Intel, Oversight and Foreign Affairs Cmtes
https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1190019308413435907
Federal political committees have spent more than $20 million at businesses owned by Donald Trump since the 2008 cycle, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of Federal Election Commission filings. | Roughly 99 percent of that money has come since the start of the 2016 cycle, when Trump announced his bid for president and began spending campaign money at his own properties. Over that time, Trump campaign-affiliated committees have funneled about $16.8 million to Trump-owned businesses, the bulk of the spending at his properties.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/10/trump-properties-poli-spending-passes-20m/
In Virginia Election, Suburban Republicans Sound a Lot Like Democrats | The off-year state legislative elections next Tuesday will test whether Republicans can appeal to anti-Trump voters by running on issues that Democrats usually espouse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/virginia-elections-republicans.html
Core of Biden's pitch lately: "There is no time for on the job training this time. For real. ... It takes more than a plan. We’re not electing a planner. It takes someone with a proven ability to bring people together from both sides of the aisle to get things done."
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1190017778243244032
"I don't think Donald Trump understands America," Biden says. "It's not the example of our power but the power of our example that sets America apart."
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1190017180986949648
Katie Hill condemns ‘misogynistic culture’ and ‘gutter politics’ in her exit from Congress | Hill said Thursday that she had decided to leave Congress because she no longer wanted to distract from the impeachment inquiry or be used as a “bargaining chip” in the “dirtiest gutter politics that I’ve ever seen.” She added that she had received thousands of threatening emails, calls and texts that left her fearing for her life. | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said during a Thursday news conference that the decision to resign was Hill’s alone. She said the distribution of the intimate photos represents “cyber exploitation” and a “profound violation” of Hill’s rights. But she also issued a warning: “I do say to my own children, grandchildren, you know, some of these — I don’t know what you would call them — appearances on social media can come back to haunt you.” | But she also blamed her departure on the combined forces of revenge, cyber exploitation, sexual shaming and misogyny. She said she was being held to a double standard that forced her out, while men accused of sexual assault — including President Trump — have been allowed to maintain power.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/31/katie-hill-condemns-misogynistic-culture-gutter-politics-her-exit-congress/
'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50226367
Trump's CIA Afghan Militias Are ‘Death Squads,’ committing summary executions, village-wide roundups, and other atrocities and war crimes such as killing medical staff at hospitals, according to a new Human Rights Watch report
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cias-afghan-militias-are-death-squads-new-human-rights-watch-investigation-finds
A federal judge on Thursday threw out conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi's lawsuit against former special counsel Robert Mueller after he accused Mueller of coercing him into testifying about his alleged role coordinating the release of stolen Democratic emails.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/468407-judge-throws-out-conspiracy-theorists-lawsuit-against-mueller
Live pigs are used as crash test dummies and killed in 'cruel' 30mph simulations in China, the same country that eats dogs for dinner, sparking fury from animal rights groups
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7634193/Live-pigs-used-crash-test-dummies-killed-China.html
NBA suspensions from 76ers/Timberwolves scuffle, per sources: Joel Embiid, 2 games; Karl-Anthony Towns, 2 games. No fine for Ben Simmons.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1190026784382828544
Trump renews sanctions waivers to allow Russia, China and Europe to continue nuclear work in Iran | US companies are still not allowed | Everybody except America
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-iran-nuclear-work-russia-china-europe-sanction-a9180121.html
20 Republican Senators against Cuccinelli for DHS sec. Thats a huge number for a defection, and for a currently acting sub-agency director, too.
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2019/10/31/chad-wolf-acting-dhs-secretary-063363
Always appeal. Especially when it's about documents related to Sebastian Gorka. #FOIA
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1190031941862612993
Three weeks after Trump again ordered a withdrawal of all US forces from NE Syria, the US now plans to have basically the same number of troops it had in that area before the chaotic US withdrawal unfolded:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/world/middleeast/us-troops-syria-trump.html
The Department of Justice has quietly changed hiring procedures to permanently place immigration judges repeatedly accused of bias to a powerful appellate board, adding to growing worries about the politicization of the immigration court system. Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests describe how an already opaque hiring procedure was tweaked for the six newest hires to the 21-member Board of Immigration Appeals. All six board members, added in August, were immigration judges with some of the highest asylum denial rates. Some also had the highest number of decisions in 2017 that the same appellate body sent back to them for reconsideration. All six members were immediately appointed to the board without a yearslong probationary period.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/doj-changed-hiring-promote-restrictive-immigration-judges
Mongolia arrests 800 Chinese citizens in cybercrime probe
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mongolia-crime-china/mongolia-arrests-800-chinese-citizens-in-cybercrime-probe-idUSKBN1XA0NW
Boris Johnson accused of burying intelligence report on Russian influence over Brexit
http://businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-accused-of-burying-report-russian-influence-on-brexit-2019-10
Veterans saw a spike in urinary, prostate, liver and blood cancers during nearly two decades of war, and some military families now question whether their exposure to toxic environments is to blame, according to a McClatchy investigation. McClatchy found that the rate of cancer treatments for veterans at Department of Veterans Affairs health care centers increased 61 percent for urinary cancers - which include bladder, kidney and ureter cancers - from fiscal year 2000 to 2018. The rate of blood cancer treatments - lymphoma, myeloma and leukemia - rose 18 percent in the same period. Liver and pancreatic cancer treatment rates increased 96 percent and prostate cancer treatment rates increased 23 percent. McClatchy analyzed all billing data for veteran visits involving a cancer diagnosis at VA medical facilities from fiscal year 2000 to 2018. The data was obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. A more in-depth methodology of the review can be found here.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article236413328.html
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article233063112.html
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article236421513.html
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