Someone said 200 years ago that we get the government and leadership we deserve. Which pretty much sums up why we didn't get Hillary or Beto. We have become a pathetic nation.
Sigh....Stephen Curry “Unlikely” to Return From Hand Injury This Season
https://www.si.com/nba/2019/11/08/stephen-curry-injury-unlikey-to-return-broken-hand-warriors
Roger Stone is being tried for the Wikileaks dumps of DNC/HRC/John Podesta emails. The centerpiece of Putin's interference and the smoking gun attaching Trump to conspiracy. Why isn't it getting attention? Because Randy Credico (the Stone/Assange liaison) worked for Bernie.
https://twitter.com/lleikus/status/1192784676219445254?s=21
In excerpt of a @CBSSunday interview to air tonight on @CBSEveningNews, former UN Amb @NikkiHaley ridicules notion of impeaching Pres Trump. "On what? You're going to impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn’t happen and – and giving money and it wasn’t withheld?"
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1192919782359814144
Fiona Hill told House investigators that her time in the Trump admin was marked by death threats, "hateful calls" and "conspiracy theories," a harassment campaign she said was revived after it was learned she would cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/former-trump-adviser-who-testified-ukraine-pressure-campaign-said-she-n1078726?cid=eml_nbn_20191108
Mitch McConnell Is About to Steamroll Democrats with Another 30 Conservative Judges By the End of the Year
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/zmj9bw/mitch-mcconnell-is-about-to-steamroll-democrats-with-another-30-conservative-judges-before-the-end-of-the-year
PBS Going Gavel-to-Gavel With Trump Impeachment Hearings
https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/pbs-going-gavel-to-gavel-with-trump-impeachment-hearings
Trump says he has not agreed to roll back tariffs on China, after week of trade optimism
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/08/trump-says-he-has-not-agreed-to-roll-back-tariffs-on-china-after-week-of-trade-optimism.html
KFF/Cook poll: The idea of "no longer detaining people for crossing the U.S. border illegally" is wildly unpopular with swing voters in former Blue Wall states — 71% say bad idea, 27% say good idea.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1192860772331933697
Kentucky GOP to Gov. Bevin: Show proof of voter fraud or 'let it go' and concede
https://theweek.com/speedreads/877236/kentucky-gop-gov-bevin-show-proof-voter-fraud-let-concede
Trump thinking about attending Russia's May Day parade
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-says-thinking-about-attending-russias-may-day-parade-idUSKBN1XI1UG
Sorry, Republicans. The whistleblower’s identity no longer matters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/08/sorry-republicans-whistleblowers-identity-no-longer-matters/
U.S. border agents wrote fake court dates on paperwork to send migrants back to Mexico
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-07/u-s-border-agents-wrote-fake-court-dates-on-paperwork-to-send-migrants-back-to-mexico
Anyone find it interesting that the Trump administration went to great lengths to manufacture a scandal against the Biden family. Meanwhile, Trump’s FBI quietly let Jane Sanders bank fraud investigation end w/ no charges. Bringing a case would have ended Bernie’s 2020 campaign.
https://twitter.com/worldout_42/status/1192889282647580672?s=21
New Lawsuit Says GOP Rep. Jim Jordan Was Aware of Ohio State Team Doctor’s Sexual Misconduct
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/ohio-state-wrestling-lawsuit-referee-jim-jordan-aware-doctor-sexual-misconduct-strauss.html
Whistleblower Advocates Demand Obstruction Probe, Suggest Don Jr. Should Be ‘Immediately Arrested’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/whistleblower-advocates-demand-obstruction-probe-suggest-don-jr-should-be-immediately-arrested/
Lawyer for Ukraine whistleblower sends White House cease and desist letter to stop Trump's attacks
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/ukraine-whistleblower-trump-cease-and-desist/index.html
Furious Kentuckians Blame Mitch McConnell After FEC Complaint Knocks Potential Challenger Off the Airwaves
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/furious-kentuckians-blame-mitch-mcconnell-after-fec-complaint-knocks-potential-challenger-off-the-airwaves/
Scientists Urge People to Eat Less Meat Amid Declaration of Climate Emergency
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/vegan-vegetarian-meat-climate-emergency-scientists-environment-a9185956.html
Scientists plan to flood black market with fake rhino horn to reduce poaching
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/08/scientists-plan-to-flood-black-market-with-fake-rhino-horn-to-reduce-poaching
House committees subpoena Mick Mulvaney
https://www.axios.com/mick-mulvaney-subpoena-trump-impeachment-1cff4400-3cce-4529-a65d-fb75ecd4a883.html
EPA chief of staff under investigation in document destruction
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/07/epa-ryan-jackson-documents-investigation-067566
Trump has visited golf clubs on 237 days of his presidency—that's 23 percent of the days he's been in office
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-visited-golf-clubs-237-days-his-presidencythats-23-percent-days-hes-been-office-1470392
Two versions of Texas collide over gun measures and mass shootings | Now, Republicans who control the state are under pressure to implement gun-control measures that they’ve long spurned, ones conservatives in other states embraced following mass shootings. Continuing to ignore those calls could mean losing political power as rapid growth and accelerated diversity are defining a New Texas. Acceding to them, however, means angering what’s left of Old Texas, and the powerful gun supporters it has long accommodated. | The state’s changing culture has pinched Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, whose political identity has been tightly intertwined with guns and who finds himself navigating from the Texas he has long known to the Texas his state is becoming. | Over the past 25 years, gun rights in Texas have steadily expanded: Carrying a concealed gun became legal in 1994, and a measure allowing gun owners to openly carry their weapons was approved during Abbott’s first year in office in 2015. The state legislature, which meets every other year, has also expanded the places where weapons can be carried. Reiter and others sitting with him worried that those rights could be lost. “It’s time to put a border wall up around Texas and keep all these Californians out. That’s what’s happening,” said Mark Raulerson, 55, who also lives south of Fort Worth. “They’re still coming in here, and they’re all Democrats.” | In the weeks that followed came a commission and more roundtable discussions. Before Abbott could suggest any legislative remedies, there was another shooting — the one in Midland and Odessa. Abbott suggested in a tweet that “expedited executions for mass murderers would be a nice addition” to the package he was creating. In private meetings, he signaled curiosity about “red flag” laws that take weapons away from those who might hurt themselves or others. “I have been to too many of these events,” Abbott said at a news conference after that shooting. “I am tired of the dying of the people of the state of Texas. Too many Texans are in mourning, too many Texans have lost their lives.” Abbott added: “Words alone are inadequate. Words must be met with action.” Soon after, he released recommendations that stopped far short of embracing the ideas he and others had floated, the sort that would anger the NRA. “Solving the problems that have led to these horrific events will take more than governmental action,” Abbott wrote. “It will require parents, families, churches, law enforcement, community groups, schools, and others working together to fortify the social fabric of our society.” There are no plans for a special legislative session, as Democrats have demanded. The soonest lawmakers could begin to consider Abbott’s ideas is January 2021, after the next election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/two-versions-of-texas-collide-over-gun-measures-and-mass-shootings/2019/11/07/c475aa6e-d992-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html
Trump is aggravated with Barr for urging him to release the rough transcript of the Ukraine call while Barr was bothered that Trump lumped him in with Giuliani like interchangeable parts of his personal defense team.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/us/politics/trump-william-barr.html
Senior Judge Paul L. Friedman criticizes Trump for attacking judicial independence | In an unusually critical speech that lamented the public’s flagging confidence in the independence of the judicial branch, a federal judge slammed President Trump for “feeding right into this destructive narrative” with repeated attacks and personal insults toward judges he dislikes. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman of the District of Columbia said Trump’s rhetoric “violates all recognized democratic norms” during a speech at the annual Judge Thomas A. Flannery Lecture in Washington on Wednesday. “We are in unchartered territory,” said Friedman, 75, an appointee of President Bill Clinton. “We are witnessing a chief executive who criticizes virtually every judicial decision that doesn’t go his way and denigrates judges who rule against him, sometimes in very personal terms. He seems to view the courts and the justice system as obstacles to be attacked and undermined, not as a coequal branch to be respected even when he disagrees with its decisions.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/08/judge-says-trump-violates-democratic-norms-judiciary-speech/
89 year-old Italian Holocaust survivor has been given a police escort after far-right threats. Death threats against Liliana Segre have increased since her proposal for an anti-racism commission was passed by the government last week.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/07/italian-holocaust-survivor-given-police-escort-after-far-right-threats
A deadly virus is spreading in marine mammals. Scientists say climate change is to blame.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/deadly-virus-spreading-marine-mammals-scientists-say-climate-change-blame-n1078331
Elizabeth Warren helps out 'confused' billionaires with new tax calculator. New tool shows how much Bill Gates and friends would pay under Warren’s plan, and guess what: they’ll still be really rich!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/08/elizabeth-warren-billionaires-tax-calculator
Ex-U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) filed his FEC papers to succeed Elijah Cummings in MD07. There are 42 current House members who served with Mfume
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00726372/1362080/
Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been released from prison where he was serving a 12-year corruption sentence, after a supreme court ruling that delighted his supporters and infuriated followers of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. | Lula presided over an extraordinary period of economic growth and reduction of inequality as president from 2003 to 2010. | His "crimes" were only very tenuously connected to him (IIRC a condo that had no documentary evidence of being in any way actually owned by Lula or his family). The case was blatantly railroaded through to keep him from running in the election. |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/08/lula-brazil-released-prison-supreme-court-ruling
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