He's the President*. He can fire an ambassador at any time for any reason. Why does he need his wet-brained lawyer and his two goons to "take her out?" Unless there is another interpretation of that demand..."Take her out", "She's going to go through some things", the texts revealing the republican running for a Connecticut seat and Parnas show he has surveillance on her and was probably going to pay to have her assassinated. The fact she was urged to come back to America on the next flight because there was a physical security threat to her pretty much proves those texts weren't a joke, for all intents and purposes the president was plotting to have one of his own ambassadors assassinated to get her out of the way of his scheme. And once he’s acquitted for all this he now has a green light to plot and likely assassinate any political dissenters he deems a threat.
Why didnt he just summarily dismiss her? Why didn't he just order AG Barr to investigate Hunter Biden. Why all this clandestine planning? Answer: he knew it was wrong and he knew it was illegal.
China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted about it online and threatening journalists
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-information-crackdown-on-wuhan-coronavirus-2020-1
Adam Schiff Closing Argument. This was a moving speech. But it was given to a criminal organization with no interest in what is right, and every word of it was ignored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpF26eMV3U
Plastic 'pouring' into Antarctica - with hundreds of pieces in every litre of water
https://news.sky.com/story/plastic-pouring-into-antarctica-with-hundreds-of-pieces-in-every-litre-of-water-11915953
Adam Schiff Pulled a Ton of Witnesses into Trump’s Impeachment Trial. They’re Just on Video.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgz9m/adam-schiff-pulled-a-ton-of-witnesses-into-trumps-impeachment-trial-theyre-just-on-video
This Daily Show report shows just how deluded Trump's base can be about the impeachment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZFoco_1gQ
Trump supporter: "Read the transcript."
Jordan Klepper: "Read the transcript?"
Trump supporter: "Yeah."
Jordan Klepper: "Did you read the transcript?"
Trump Supporter: "I don't have to [laughs]. Everyone else has. I can read it if I need to, but..."
Jordan Klepper: "But it's important that everybody reads the transcript?"
Trump Supporter: "It is very important. Pay attention and think for yourself."
Jordan Klepper: "Yes. But to be clear, you have not read the transcript?"
Trump Supporter: "I haven't, no."
Jordan Klepper: "But it is just important?"
Trump Supporter: "Yeah. Don't be a sheep. Think for yourself."
Jordan Klepper: "But again, just to be very clear, you have not read it?"
Trump Supporter: "I have not read it."
Jordan Klepper: "You just trusted someone else who has?"
Trump Supporter: "Correct."
Jordan Klepper: "What were you saying about 'don't be a sheep, think for...'?"
Trump Supporter: "Think for yourself. Do your own research."
The heroin needles, the pile of excrement between parked cars, the yellow soup oozing out of a large plastic bag by the curb and the stained, faux Persian carpet dumped on the corner. It’s a scene of detritus that might bring to mind any variety of developing-world squalor. But this is San Francisco, the capital of the nation’s technology industry, where a single span of Hyde Street hosts an open-air narcotics market by day and at night is occupied by the unsheltered and drug-addled slumped on the sidewalk. There are many other streets like it, but by one measure it’s the dirtiest block in the city. Just a 15-minute walk away are the offices of Twitter and Uber, two companies that along with other nameplate technology giants have helped push the median price of a home in San Francisco well beyond $1 million. This dichotomy of street crime and world-changing technology, of luxury condominiums and grinding, persistent homelessness, and the dehumanizing effects for those forced to live on the streets provoke outrage among the city’s residents. For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/san-francisco-dirtiest-street-london-breed.html
Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn spent hours attacking Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key National Security Council aide who testified before Congress on the Ukraine scandal, on Twitter, including questioning the Purple Heart recipient's patriotism
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/politics/marsha-blackburn-tweet-vindman-whistleblower/index.html
Antoniо Brown has turned himself into Broward County Jаil alongside his lawyers tonight to deal with his arrеst warrant. The wait is over, as ТMZ reported.
https://twitter.com/cameronwolfe/status/1220555294272577536?s=21
Only 54% of Sanders supporters will support any Democratic Nominee in the general election. This is compared to 90%, 87% and 86% for Warren, Biden, and Buttigieg supporters respectively.
https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1220556627650269185?s=19
‘We’re the most privileged humans on earth’: Millionaires and billionaires demand to pay higher taxes - More than 120 UK billionaires and millionaires have demanded to be allowed to pay higher taxes.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/millionaire-tax-inequality-open-letter-simon-pegg-climate-a9298791.html
Adam Schiff is making the case — both of the President’s impeachable offenses and the consequence if we fail to uphold the rule of law: “We will write the history of our decline with our own hand.”
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1220074187739553792
Bernie touting the endorsement of a pro confederate flag, south africa white genocide conspiracy theorist is pretty on brand though.
https://mobile.twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1220512145881825280
China Shutters All 70,000 Movie Theaters in Response to Coronavirus Outbreak
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chinas-cinemas-officially-close-response-coronavirus-outbreak-1272566
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak
China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola in Wuhan - and US scientists warned in 2017 that a virus could 'escape' the facility located in the same city that's at the coronavirus outbreak's center
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7922379/Chinas-lab-studying-SARS-Ebola-Wuhan-outbreaks-center.html
Such a true progressive that he’s touting a transphobic ass’s endorsement
https://www.twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1220445820505546755
Coronavirus patients transported in plastic boxes and tubes as doctors collapse in hospital
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-patients-transported-in-plastic-boxes-and-tubes-to-stop-infections-spread/news-story/2fd906d1c4aed3fc6b3110efa57584d9
Over 200 Dogs Who Had Their Vocal Cords Cut Rescued From Cruel Breeders in Spain
https://www.unilad.co.uk/animals/over-200-dogs-who-had-their-vocal-cords-cut-rescued-from-cruel-breeders/
Australia bushfires send CO2 levels soaring The fires in Australia are a major factor in one of the biggest rises in atmospheric CO2 in 60 years, experts have said. Meanwhile, a team is trying to recover the bodies of three US firefighters killed in a plane crash.
https://www.dw.com/en/australia-bushfires-send-co2-levels-soaring/a-52133656
Shanghai Disney is closing due to concerns over the Wuhan virus.
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-hnk-intl-01-24-20/h_1eddc64040cb983f0bf96e083ba4a50c
China building 1,000-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus patients in Wuhan
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-building-1000-bed-hospital-over-the-weekend-to-treat-coronavirus
90% of UK-Africa summit’s energy deals were in fossil fuels
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/24/90-pe-cent-uk-africa-energy-deals-fossil-fuels
China shuts transport, temples, part of Great Wall as virus toll hits 26
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-shuts-transport-temples-part-of-great-wall-as-virus-toll-hits-26-idUSKBN1ZM087
China's coronavirus count artificially made low by classifying as "pneumonia" and covering up with immediate cremations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as-families-tell-of-pneumonia-like-deaths-in-wuhan-some-wonder-if-china-virus-count-is-too-low/2020/01/22/0f50b1e6-3d07-11ea-971f-4ce4f94494b4_story.html
Peruvian indigenous group wins suit to block oil exploration in Amazonian region
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-indigenous/peruvian-indigenous-group-wins-suit-to-block-oil-exploration-in-amazonian-region-idUSKBN1ZL2V7
Coronavirus: All 14 suspected cases of the virus in the UK have come back negative
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-hnk-intl-01-24-20/h_a070d93d7a780d690e711ac1015c96c7
Neo-Nazi Rinaldo Nazzaro running US militant group The Base from Russia
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51236915
Ohio police officers fired over 2018 arrest of Stormy Daniels
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/479714-ohio-police-officers-fired-over-2018-arrest-of-stormy-daniels
Far too little far too late: Rule Change Would Ban Judges' Federalist Society Membership
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/24/rule_change_would_ban_judges_federalist_society_membership_142230.html
34 US service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after Iranian missile strike
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/34-injuries-iran-missile-strike/index.html
34 troops diagnosed with brain injuries days after Trump dismissed them as 'headaches'
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/24/troops-brain-injuries-iran-trump-103625
The Racist ICE Detention Center Captain Was Just Fired. We Found 132 More Posts by Him on a Neo-Nazi Site.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b47a/the-racist-ice-detention-center-captain-was-just-fired-we-found-132-more-posts-by-him-on-a-neo-nazi-site
Our goal is to inflict pain. It is not good enough to win; it has to be a painful and devastating defeat. We're sending a message here. It is like when the king would take his opponent's head and spike it on a pole for everyone to see.
-Grover Norquist - 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist
Ants run secret farms on English oak trees, photographer discovers - Brown ants herd and milk giant pale aphids, building barns for them from beetle exoskeleton
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/24/ants-run-secret-farms-on-english-oak-trees-photographer-discovers
Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51233444
Two confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in France
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-first-confirmed-case-coronavirus-21354610.amp
Two Chinese tourists suspected of having Coronavirus in Northern Finland
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/two_suspected_coronavirus_cases_in_northern_finland/11173752
Nepal Confirms First Case Of Deadly Coronavirus
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nepal-confirms-first-case-of-deadly-coronavirus-2169378
Antoniо Brown was granted bail after a lengthy back-and-forth hearing. His bond with be 100K and he will be required to get GPS monitoring, release his passport and guns, go through drug and alcohol testing and a mental health evaluation.
https://twitter.com/cameronwolfe/status/1220711867674439681?s=21
New Orleans Saints fight to hide emails centered around Catholic abuse crisis
https://apnews.com/8a88d4d188c04751d9731a49081d5d3c
Mara announces Eli’s No. 10 will be retired.
https://twitter.com/Patricia_Traina/status/1220740537671737344
“I've been around Tom a number of times and seen how competitive he is. We joke around [about] it a little bit, but it's not real funny to him." - Eli Manning on winning two Super Bowls vs. Brady's Patriots
https://twitter.com/cbssportshq/status/1220748816091111424
Grim findings at senator's hog farm add context to push for 'ag gag' law preventing undercover investigations
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2020/01/24/undercover-animal-activists-expose-what-ag-gag-law-would-cover-up/4464599002/
New coronavirus strain has officially surpassed 1,000 confirmed cases around the world | The table below shows confirmed cases of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China and other countries. To see a distribution map and a timeline, scroll down. There are currently 1,125 confirmed cases worldwide, including 41 fatalities.
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1220841855795040258
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/01/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
Dr. Jason Johnson: Let's be clear : By promoting Joe Rogan Sanders is dog whistling that his campaign is a safe space for aggrieved white bigots because he'll keep those radical blacks and their 'identity politics' in check. He's been dancing around the message for years.
https://twitter.com/DrJasonJohnson/status/1220794159684050944
Have had Pompeo’s people call my boss to try and embarrass me and kill my stories while he was CIA Director, have heard others about him throwing things in anger etc. Shocking he’d do this to @NPRKelly and think it was a good idea or it would teach her a lesson. It’s a pattern.
https://twitter.com/JennaMC_Laugh/status/1220846140402425861
After @NPRKelly questioned him about Ukraine, the Secretary of State took her to his private living room without a recorder where he shouted at her “do you think Americans care about Ukraine?” using “repeated expletives” and made her point to Ukraine on a map
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/798579754/transcript-nprs-full-interview-with-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo
.@NPRKelly says after an interview with Sec. Pompeo, she was asked to go to another room, where Pompeo shouted at her, asked if she thinks Americans care about Ukraine, used "the F-word," and asked her to point to Ukraine on a map. (Timecode: 9:39)
https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1220852777762639877
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799244678/pompeo-wont-say-whether-he-owes-yovanovitch-an-apology-i-ve-done-what-s-right?cid=ed_npd_bn_tw_bn
Trump can be heard on tape ordering the ouster of former U.S. Amb. to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch over a year before she was fired, according to audio reviewed by ABC News. Those present included Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. The people Trump ordered to "take her out" and "get rid of her" and "fire her" WERE NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO DO SO, THEY WEREN'T EVEN US OFFICIALS.....
https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1220854420990320640
Prosecutors Have Evidence Bezos’ Girlfriend Gave Texts to Brother Who Leaked to National Enquirer
https://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecutors-have-evidence-bezos-girlfriend-gave-texts-to-brother-who-leaked-to-national-enquirer-11579908912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Karlen
It gets worse. Not only did Pompeo ask a national security reporter where Ukraine was on a map. He asked that question of someone with a master’s in **European Studies** from **Cambridge.**
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1220854652410978304
The Bureau of Prisons is planning to move the warden who was in charge of MCC when Jeffrey Epstein killed himself to a leadership position at another federal lockup, putting him back in the field despite an ongoing investigation (w/ @mikesisak)
https://apnews.com/5d1ce15d80f793321991dbc3ee76c656
Schiff: Russia Achieved ‘Propaganda Coup’ in Trump Era That Soviet Union Never Could During Cold War
https://lawandcrime.com/impeachment/schiff-russia-achieved-propaganda-coup-in-trump-era-that-soviet-union-never-could-during-cold-war/
Ukraine is the buffer between Russia and most of NATO. Ukraine has been trying to join NATO. Of COURSE we care about Ukraine.
It's easy to pile on Antonio Brown, but lets all hope that this is the wake-up call that can get his life and mental health back on track.
@MarshaBlackburn Dear Sen Blackburn. I was LTC Vindman’s boss in Moscow betw 2012-14. LTC Hickman was not. Shall I visit you to privately discuss his loyalty & reliability w/ you. Pls take these unfounded, corrosive accusations out of the public domain. They’re wrong & hurtful!
https://twitter.com/PeterZwack/status/1220878005649707009
Those arguing against holding the President accountable and to just leave it up to the election is a bit like catching someone who cheated on an exam, and been caught again cheating on a coming exam, and just saying let them take the exam and let’s see how it goes.
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1220794962381549568
The Trump admin. ended federal protection for many of the nation's streams, arroyos, and wetlands, a sweeping environmental rollback that could leave the waterways more vulnerable to pollution from development, industry, and farms.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1220884000153227266
It’s not being "stuck" @BernieSanders. It's called your responsibilities and duties as a Senator
https://www.twitter.com/SehzadeSoroush/status/1220840641694814208
Republicans Argue A Catch-22: There’s Too Much Evidence To Call Witnesses And Calling Witnesses Would Result In Lengthy Court Battles.....But There Is Not Enough Evidence To Impeach
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/trump-impeachment-trial-republicans-evidence-witnesses
Big news that Parnas told Trump at an April 2018 dinner that Ukraine was totally dependent on US military aid. Poroshenko was then in office and had shelved the Manafort investigation, pleasing Trump. That’s what enabled Ukraine to get Javelins.
https://twitter.com/mikercarpenter/status/1220914812227440640
So it’s unlikely Trump thought of freezing aid back then. But Poroshenko was upset that Biden had publicly discussed (in January) his resistance to firing Shokin. And Poroshenko’s team was mad at Yovanovitch for insisting on anti-corruption reforms.
https://twitter.com/mikercarpenter/status/1220914814509170688
This is precisely the timeframe when Lutsenko realized that he could dislodge Yovanovitch with the help of Parnas/Fruman/Giuliani and thus began to spread dirt about her. And this is also when Trump realized just how easy it was to manipulate Ukraine through his agents.
https://twitter.com/mikercarpenter/status/1220914815650033665
The 2018 timeframe is very important. This scheme dates back farther than has been previously acknowledged. @SethAbramson has been proven right - this went back well into the Poroshenko administration.
https://twitter.com/HalloweenBlogs/status/1220916451495702529
Absolutely this started earlier. They had everything in place and then Zelensky won and that threw a wrench into their plans. They went to plan B. Get rid of Yuvonavitch then shake down Zelensky
https://twitter.com/debpeach11/status/1220922046986801153
Klobuchar on recording linking Trump to Yovanovitch ouster: "For me, the most chilling part of this whole trial so far has been hearing the words of the president when he said to another leader, 'Things are going to happen to her.'"
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1221057484309385223
The first critical election of 2020 is happening now in Fort Bend, TX. Victory for Eliz Markowitz means we can win the state house and build the team to defeat Trump in Texas. Join us to knock on doors this last weekend before Election Day.
https://act.betoorourke.com/signup/fort-bend-weekend-action-3/?source=woa-redirect
I care about global freedom, global peace, and general international order. As they've shown, so do Ukrainians - so more accurately I'd say we both care about the same thing.
Bernie Sanders is facing a backlash fromDemocrats after his campaign trumpeted an endorsement from Joe Rogan, a popular podcast and YouTube talk show host with a history of making racist, homophobic and transphobic comments, and sharing his platform with racists, antisemites, criminals, terrorists, mysognists, incels, etc
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-endorsement/index.html
Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David: @BernieSanders ’ campaign must reconsider their decision to accept and promote the endorsement of someone who has consistently attacked and dehumanized marginalized people, including transgender people. My full statement:
https://twitter.com/AlphonsoDavid/status/1220836681416433665
With Wuhan virus genetic code in hand, scientists begin work on a vaccine | When a newly organized vaccine research group at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) met for the first time this week, its members had expected to be able to ease into their work. But their mandate is to conduct human trials for emerging health threats - and their first assignment came at shocking speed. | Chinese scientists were able to quickly identify the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus and officials posted it publicly within a few days, allowing scientific research teams to get to work right away.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-vaccines/with-wuhan-virus-genetic-code-in-hand-scientists-begin-work-on-a-vaccine-idUSKBN1ZN2J8
China reports 1,287 confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia, including 237 in critical conditions
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/25/c_138732423.htm
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