Monday, November 18, 2019

Light News Dump

Pompeo isn't saying anything new (he's lying....) he's using the shiny "Israel!" distraction to trigger the antisemitic leftists and to divert attention from what's going on right now at the State Department.

Biden's anti-weed stance (decriminalize now, and study states that legalize) is the exact same position Bernie Sanders had when he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015.
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/20/8628901/bernie-sanders-redditt

It isn't just Ukraine. Trump's entire presidency is impeachable

Pay-to-play scheme for ambassador role in Trump administration uncovered by CBS News |     Emails show Doug Manchester donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. Trump told him, "I should probably be the ambassador to the Bahamas and you should be president."    RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel emailed him in 2019 asking, "Would you consider putting together $500,000 worth of contributions from your family to ensure we hit our ambitious fundraising goal?"    "As you know I am not supposed to do any, but my wife is sending a contribution for $100,000. Assuming I get voted out of the [Foreign Relations Committee] on Wednesday to the floor we need you to have the majority leader bring it to a majority vote … Once confirmed, I our [sic] family will respond!" | Quid: Got any money? Pro: In exchange for what? Quo: Senate Confirmation
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doug-manchester-possible-pay-to-play-scheme-for-ambassador-role-in-trump-administration-uncovered/

Trump ambassador nominee was reportedly asked to donate to the RNC as his Senate confirmation stalled
https://theweek.com/speedreads/879156/trump-ambassador-nominee-reportedly-asked-donate-rnc-senate-confirmation-stalled

The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a ruling that requires an accounting firm to turn Donald Trump’s tax returns over to Congress. The order signed by Chief Justice John Roberts gives the Democratic-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform until Thursday to respond. The document did not note any public votes or dissents. Earlier in the day, attorneys for House Democrats said in a letter they would not oppose a temporary delay in enforcing the subpoena to allow the court time to consider arguments on both sides. The committee said in the letter that it would provide its response on Friday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/18/supreme-court-temporarily-halts-court-order-requiring-accountants-to-turn-over-trumps-tax-returns-to-congress.html
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/111819zr_6537.pdf

Washington is having its coldest November in decades
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/11/18/what-happened-fall-washington-is-having-its-coldest-november-decades/

39 Senate Democrats have asked appropriators to boost funding for the EAC and give states "the highest possible" amount for election security grants (with the House-passed conditions)
https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/9/b/9b28f12d-93e3-4641-b56a-fb0e4cc6b01e/1859A2FE3667CCFB8ACC61B816A88A56.11.18.19-eac-appropriations-letter.pdf

Irked by China, India signals turnaround on Dalai Lama,invites 84-year-old Tibetan leader to deliver prestigious lecture instituted in memory of its second President
https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/irked-by-china-india-signals-turnaround-on-dalai-lama-777246.html

Chinese tells U.S. and Britain to stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs
https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-protests-london/chinese-tells-u-s-and-britain-to-stop-interfering-in-hong-kong-affairs-idUSL9N26V03F

Australia suspends human rights partnership with China over mass detention of Uyghur Muslim minority
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7696483/Australia-suspends-human-rights-partnership-China-mass-detention-Uyghur-Muslim-minority.html

EU says escalating violence in Hong Kong 'unacceptable'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-eu/eu-says-escalating-violence-in-hong-kong-unacceptable-idUSKBN1XS1EV

U.S. condemns unjustified use of force in Hong Kong: senior official
https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-protests-usa/u-s-condemns-unjustified-use-of-force-in-hong-kong-senior-official-idUSL1N27Y01H

Sondland Reminder: "hey we can't talk about this crime via text. Can you call me so we can talk about the crime over the phone? Also, there's totally no criming going on in case anyone is reading these ;)"
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/17/770405439/gordon-sondland-the-ambassador-whose-texts-put-him-at-the-center-of-ukraine-scan

House investigating whether Trump lied to Mueller
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/politics/house-investigating-trump-lying-to-mueller/

Impeachment investigators are exploring whether Trump lied in his written answers to Mueller during the Russia investigation, a lawyer for the House told a federal appeals court.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/us/politics/trump-mueller-impeachment.html

Trump says he will 'strongly consider' testifying in impeachment inquiry
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-hearing-pelosi-ukraine-zelensky-face-the-nation-cbs-a9207251.html

Trump Ditches Flavored Vape Ban to Protect People After Learning His Supporters Like to Vape. More Important To Win Votes Of DRUG ADDICTS WHO ARE DESTROYING THIS PLANET than to prevent people from killing themselves and destroying the planet.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/trump-reversal-flavored-e-cigarette-vape-ban.html

Black millennials who refuse to vote are falling for a political fraud
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-11-17/donald-trump-black-voters-election-politics

Thousands of Floridians have died. Heartless Republicans still won’t expand Medicaid | Editorial
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article237448604.html

YEP....Bernie Sanders is 78 & has a permanently damaged heart, & this video is North Korea propaganda. He can’t stand for a speech w/o leaning on a podium & has AOC accompanying him on stage so he can sit & zone out while she saunters around the stage, lecturing. What are you doing.
https://twitter.com/tristanshouts/status/1196296381217959938?s=21

Hong Kong Police Storming into University Campus at Polytechnic University
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1492855-20191118.htm

'Pinochet-Style Dictatorship': Bolivia's Coup Govt Threatens to Arrest Leftist Lawmakers & Journalists. "Bolivia is living through a violent, regressive, completely undemocratic power grab. All govts must sever relations with this illegal regime."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/18/pinochet-style-dictatorship-bolivias-coup-government-threatens-arrest-leftist

Two Senators are looking into a whistleblower’s allegations that at least one political appointee at the Treasury Department may have tried to interfere with an audit of Trump or Pence, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, a sign that lawmakers are moving to investigate the complaint lodged by a senior staffer at the Internal Revenue Service. Staff members for Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (Ore.), the chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, met with the IRS whistleblower earlier this month, those people said. Follow-up interviews are being scheduled to further explore the whistleblower’s allegations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/18/irs-whistleblower-case-advances-senate-staff-probe-whether-political-appointee-meddled-with-audit-trump-or-pence/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/irs-whistleblower-said-to-report-treasury-political-appointee-might-have-tried-to-interfere-in-audit-of-trump-or-pence/2019/10/03/0c768b34-e52e-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html

 A recent flurry of American airstrikes against Islamic State fighters in southern Libya has seriously disrupted the terrorist group’s efforts to reorganize and carry out attacks in one of its most important hubs outside the Middle East, military and counterterrorism officials say. In a span of 10 days in late September, four strikes killed 43 militants — or about one-third of the group’s estimated 150 fighters in Libya — including some important commanders and recruiters, according to officials at the headquarters of the Pentagon’s Africa Command. The strikes, which other officials said were carried out by Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drones based in neighboring Niger, came as the Islamic State had increased recruiting and attacks in recent months in the largely ungoverned spaces of southwest Libya. Several new camps of fighters had emerged in that area, prompting the first American strikes against ISIS in Libya this year. “The most critical, enduring weakness for both ISIS Libya and A.Q.I.M. is recruitment,” Rear Adm. Heidi Berg, the command’s director of intelligence, said in an interview, referring to the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is active in Libya.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/world/africa/drone-strikes-isis-libya.html

Khzir Khan endorses @JoeBiden:
"Biden has always put the country above himself. ... Trump, on the other hand, has consistently chosen self over country, seeking the aid of totalitarian governments to sway elections and undermine our rule of law to serve his self-interest."
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1196493529301868547

why Biden over other Dems? Khan: "I know his heart like I know my own. He understands loss and pain in a way that crosses barriers and connects all people. We need a tested patriot like Joe Biden to bring us together as Americans and regain our leadership on the world stage"
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1196493869376032768

Trump is going to award National Medals of Arts to Alison Krauss, Sharon Percy Rockefeller and Jon Voight, according to NEA release. I mention this because Trump has called for eliminating the NEA multiple times in the White House budget.
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/1196501588757622784

Another local CA Dem party is condemning the #CA25 candidacy of @cenkuygur. LA County Dem chair Mark J. González: "Uygur's comments are both heartless and disqualifying.” Local Dems were getting behind Assemblywoman Christy Smith before Uygur got in.
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1196498703223267328

The biggest mystery in @realdonaldtrump's financial disclosures: he owes more than ***$50 million*** to an LLC that exists mostly on paper. No employees, no office, no assets of its own. That mystery lender, Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC, just filed its annual report. This is it.
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1196497763124568064

This one-page doc from the Illinois Sec. of State is the only annual public proof that this LLC even exists. It shows -- as always -- that this huge creditor of @realdonaldtrump's is owned by Trump's own company. @trump Org has not explained why or how.
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1196498391351648262

I'd still love to know what the heck is going on here. If you'd like to read more, this @MotherJones story does a great job explaining what *might* be happening here. If we ever see @realdonaldtrump's tax returns, we might know for sure...
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1196498901198626817

Lance McCullers Jr in 2018 on pace of play “You can’t limit mound visits, especially from the catcher, when everyone is using adv tech to steal signs. You have to change them too often to try to keep things as “even” as possible. And I’m not talking about signs when a man is on second.”
https://twitter.com/lmccullers43/status/954451419406458880

Lamar Jackson is the only QB I’ve seen that could actually play running back. They have plays designed like a running back play where he’s following the guard or tackle. Lamar Jackson is not a good quarterback who can run, he’s a good quarterback who’s also a running back.
https://twitter.com/therealoj32/status/1196476227122421760

Since the Marcus Peters trade, the Ravens defense has the highest pressure percentage in the NFL and forced the 2nd lowest passer rating. In that time, they've played: Russell Wilson, Tom Brady, and Deshaun Watson.
https://twitter.com/minakimes/status/1196425208401453062

Texans run defense drops 10 spots after facing Ravens
https://twitter.com/bsmolka/status/1196401375753707522

The Cowboys have not defeated the Patriots since 1996. They been out scored 135 to 61.

Can’t believe this but Eagles are actually -2 1/2 point favorites against Seahawks next Sunday 😳 Eagles 5-5 Seahawks 8-2 coming off bye
https://twitter.com/JClarkNBCS/status/1196292856970956800?s=20

What once seemed impossible is now undeniable: The Redskins have lost Washington
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/what-once-seemed-impossible-is-now-undeniable-the-redskins-have-lost-washington/2019/11/17/c215e596-0975-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html

After tonight the (3-10) Knicks will be going on a brutal 10 game stretch which features the 76ers twice, Raptors, Nets, Nuggets, and Bucks

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