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Republican Rep. Matt Shea removed from caucus, report sent to FBI and U.S. Attorney | Spokane Valley Rep. Matt Shea has been suspended from the House Republican caucus and removed from his position on the House Environment Committee in the wake of a report detailing serious allegations against him. The independent report says Rep. Shea engaged in domestic terrorism and repeated calls to arms against the United States government. It calls him a growing threat of political violence. The report was released Thursday. A short time later, House Republican Leader J.T. Wilcox sent out a tweet, saying Shea should resign.
https://www.kxly.com/news/rep-matt-shea-removed-from-caucus-report-sent-to-fbi-and-us-attorney/1152912144
https://www.kxly.com/news/report-rep-matt-shea-presents-present-and-growing-threat-through-political-violence/1152896949

Pelosi invites Trump to deliver State of the Union on Feb. 4: In their great wisdom, our Founders crafted a Constitution based on a system of separation of powers: three co-equal branches acting as checks on each other. To ensure that balance of powers, the Constitution calls for the President to “from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union.” In the spirit of respecting our Constitution, I invite you to deliver your State of the Union address before a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 in the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
https://www.speaker.gov/sites/speaker.house.gov/files/12.20.19%20Letter%20to%20President%20Trump.pdf

Congress slaps robocallers with $10,000 penalty per call
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/congress-slaps-robocallers-with-10000-penalty-per-call/

Facebook faces another huge data leak affecting 267 million users | More than 267 million Facebook users’ IDs, phone numbers, and names were exposed to an online database that could potentially be used for spam and phishing campaigns. | Most of the Facebook users that were affected by this leak are located in the U.S., and the data included people’s Facebook IDs, phone numbers, and their full names.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/facebook-data-leak-267-million-users-affected/

Trump said he believes Ukraine interfered in 2016 election because 'Putin told me'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/politics/trump-ukraine-putin-white-house-officials/index.html

Christianity Today Calls for Trump’s Removal
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/us/christianity-today-trump.html

Check out this principled, courageous candidate who is running like a mother for the Texas state house. If Jennifer Skidonenko @SkidonenkoForTX wins this race we’ll be another seat closer to a Democratic majority.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1207812214855544842

Implying he read it in the first place, Implying he reads anything at all: 'I won’t be reading ET again!': Trump attacks Christian magazine for backing impeachment then misspells its name during wild early morning rant
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-twitter-christian-magazine-et-tweets-today-a9254881.html

Donald Trump unable to name one verse from "favourite book" The Bible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUngQUCsyE

Ethiopia undertook a major national reforestation programme this year, with the ambitious target of planting four billion trees in just three months. The highlight was a single day in July, on which people across the country turned out to help with planting 350 million tree seedlings.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50813726

Mick Mulvaney Expected To Leave White House After Senate Impeachment Trial
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mulvaney-exit-white-house-post-senate-impeachment-trial

American diplomat’s wife to be charged with causing death by dangerous driving in case of 19-year-old British man
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2019/12/20/american-diplomats-wife-to-be-charged-with-causing-death-by-dangerous-driving-in-case-of-19-year-old-british-man/
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/anne-sacoolas-charged-dangerous-driving-harry-dunn-a4318466.html

After More Than 100 Days, U.S. Diplomat’s Wife Charged for Killing British Teen Harry Dunn
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/more-than-100-days-later-u-s-diplomats-wife-charged-for-killing-british-teen-harry-dunn/

U.S. Diplomat’s Wife Anne Sacoolas refuses to return to face Harry Dunn charges
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/20/anne-sacoolas-charged-over-death-of-harry-dunn

The New York Times was able to track President Trump's movements with leaked location data, showing how easy it is to spy on people via their phones
https://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-tracked-trump-leaked-location-data-mobile-phone-spying-easy-2019-12

Republicans rolls back standards on energy saving light bulbs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-energy-lightbulbs/u-s-rolls-back-standards-on-energy-saving-light-bulbs-idUSKBN1YO270

When @BetoORourke ran for Senate in 2018, he won nine Texas House districts that are currently held by Republicans. We only need to win nine seats to flip the Texas House blue. 2020 is the year we get it done. #txlege
https://twitter.com/DLCC/status/1208069466560614400

Facebook says a pro-Trump media outlet used artificial intelligence to create fake people and push conspiracies. Facebook took down more than 600 accounts tied to The Epoch Times, a media outlet that has spent heavily on digital ads to push pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-says-pro-trump-media-outlet-used-artificial-intelligence-create-n1105951

People Have A Fundamental Right To Be Protected From Climate Change, A Landmark Court Ruling Says | The Dutch Supreme Court's decision could have huge repercussions for how other countries tackle rising emissions.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lesterfeder/urgenda-climate-crisis-netherlands-supreme-court

Senior Tory who grabbed female protester by throat breached ministerial code, inquiry finds. Boris Johnson had dropped an investigation – allowing Mark Field to leave the Commons quietly
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mark-field-tory-protest-climate-change-greenpeace-boris-johnson-a9255471.html

Republican Senators Refuse to Force Military to Screen for ‘White Nationalists’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/mitch-mcconnell-led-senate-refuses-to-force-military-to-screen-for-white-nationalists

Yang told me after the last debate that he would consider pardoning Trump
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1207832318984912896
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/nov-20-democratic-debate-live-updates-n1087226/ncrd1088231#liveBlogHeader

Yang is cancelled. Given Yang hired Bernie & Putin's political strategist Tad Devine, this should surprise nobody.

Trump administration demanded Democrats strip Ukraine aid language from spending package | The language would have required the White House to release Ukraine defense aid quickly. | Senior Trump administration officials in recent days threatened a presidential veto that could have led to a government shutdown if House Democrats refused to drop language requiring prompt release of future military aid for Ukraine, according to five administration and congressional officials. The language was ultimately left out of mammoth year-end spending legislation that passed the House and Senate this week ahead of a Saturday shutdown deadline. The White House said President Trump would sign the $1.4 trillion package before midnight. The Ukraine provision was one of several items the White House drew a hard line on during negotiations to finalize the spending legislation, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the developments. It would have required the White House to swiftly release $250 million in defense money for Ukraine that was part of the spending package.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/12/20/trump-administration-demanded-democrats-strip-ukraine-aid-language-spending-package/

Democratic Senators Have Been Privately Pushing A Major Museum To Change A Controversial Torture Exhibit | Democratic senators condemned the International Spy Museum in DC for "sanitizing" its CIA torture exhibit
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/senators-intelligence-committee-spy-museum-torture

Leaked audio: Trump adviser says Republicans 'traditionally' rely on voter suppression
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/leaked-audio-trump-adviser-says-republicans-traditionally-rely-on-voter-suppression-1.4739219
https://apnews.com/af2f0ede054d8baebbe1bb6ca47b4895

The simplest way to define Evangelicalism: Bebbington’s quadrilateral:
*Biblicism: The centrality of the Bible’s authority
*Crucicentrism: The centrality of the Cross
*Conversionim: The centrality of personal transformation
*Activism: The centrality of living the Gospel

Columbia University required Treasury's Monica Crowley to revise 32 instances of plagiarism in her PhD dissertation after a two-year investigation into her work. | Ms. Crowley, a former Fox News contributor and prominent conservative pundit, has served as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s top spokeswoman since July.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/politics/monica-crowley-treasury-plagiarism-investigation.html

Russian media mentions of Tulsi Gabbard are 200% more often positive than for any other US Democratic Candidate. Because of her stands against the "Democratic Establishment," she is seen as a useful tool for dividing the Democratic Base in the US election.
https://www.fpri.org/fie/russia-media-mentions/

Democratic Rep. Gabbard meets with Trump at Trump Tower - Nov.21 2016
https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/politics/gabbard-trump-transition/index.html

Why in God's name has she not been removed from committee assignments yet? The vote happened almost a day ago. Strip her of committee assignments right now. Pull DNC support now, send Emails to donors now.

Surveillance Court Orders Review of Actions by Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer | Amid fallout from a scathing inspector general report, the court that oversees national security surveillance is also getting a new presiding judge. | A secretive court that oversees national security surveillance has taken a step toward addressing dysfunction in the system detailed in a recent inspector general report, ordering the Justice Department to identify all cases that an F.B.I. lawyer heavily criticized in the report has worked on, according to an order made public on Friday. Separately, the court announced that its presiding judge, Rosemary M. Collyer, is stepping down nine weeks earlier than planned for health reasons. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. of the Supreme Court has selected Judge James E. Boasberg to succeed her in that role in the new year. He will be the first judge appointed by a Democrat to lead the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court since 1995. The developments underscored that the court has entered a period of turmoil and change after the report this month by the Justice Department inspector general that uncovered damning inaccuracies and omissions in applications to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/politics/surveillance-court-fisa.html

McConnell, McCarthy, Collins, Rick Scott have all been featured in Trump tweets with quotes attributed to them that there’s no record of them saying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/politics/trump-twitter-quotes.html

‘How? How? How?’: Victims’ Families Rage as Matt Bevin Defends Pardons
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-pardons.html