Republican Lawmakers Questioned Trump’s Withholding of Ukraine Aid, Documents Show - Newly released emails and other documents show that some of those now sitting as jurors in Trump’s impeachment trial were also unhappy about his move to freeze aid last year.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/22/new-details-ukraine-impeachment-trump-republican-lawmakers-opposed-withholding-ukraine-aid/
Republicans Eliminate Obama-Era Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/climate/trump-environment-water.html
Susan Collins will be gravely concerned, but then remark how there isn't enough evidence for impeachment all-the-while voting against subpoenaing new witnesses and documents. Meanwhile, Trump will brag on live TV an international economic forum with all of the world' top leaders about how Team Trump have all the evidence proving he's GUILTY under wraps.
William Barr wrote in June 2018 that abuse of power is an impeachable offense, contradicting what the Trump impeachment defense team is now arguing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/us/politics/barr-impeachment-abuse-of-power.html
We all knew what was going to happen in this “trial.” The Dems are doing a fantastic job. They knew they were going to be tabled. But getting senators to vote to protect Trump out-loud, while not satisfying, is incredibly important - signing their name to the betrayal of democracy.
A trial without evidence is not a trial. It's a cover up.
"The suppressing of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence."
- Andrew Hamilton, The Trial of John Peter Zenger 1735
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoliation_of_evidence
A Republican president ordered the Executive branch not to comply with any subpeonas from the House committees.
Then, the Republicans in the House criticized the lack of first-hand witnesses in the investigations.
Now, the Republicans in the Senate are voting against hearing from those same witnesses.
Republicans: "There was no due process!"
Also Republicans: "We don't want any due process!"
Republicans: I don't see any evidence they did something wrong!
Also Republicans: no I don't want to look at the evidence that they did something wrong!
Also Republicans: We have evidence that he's innocent but you can't see it!
The Senate Republicans voted AGAINST the following:
To subpoena White House documents and records.
To subpoena Department of State documents and records.
To subpoena Office of Management and Budget documents and records.
To subpoena Mulvaney.
To subpoena Department of Defense documents and records.
To subpoena Robert B. Blair
To subpoena Michael P. Duffey.
To subpoena John Robert Bolton.
To provide motions to subpoena witnesses or documents after the question period.
The admission of evidence and classified and confidential materials.
A motion granting the Chief Justice to rule on motions to subpoena witnesses and documents.
No matter how this ends, the thoroughness and attention to detail by Dems in face of historic obstruction is incredible
AG Racine Sues Presidential Inaugural Committee and Trump Entities for Abusing Nonprofit Funds to Enrich Trump Family
https://oag.dc.gov/release/ag-racine-sues-presidential-inaugural-committee
CBP Deported an Iranian Student With Valid Visa, Defying Court Order
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/cbp-deported-an-iranian-student-with-valid-visa-defying-court-order/
Never Thought Hip-Hop Would Take It This Far: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Drops B.I.G. Lyric During Impeachment Trial
https://www.theroot.com/never-thought-hip-hop-would-take-it-this-far-rep-hake-1841155784
YES! Rob Manfred also said on FOX Business that we’re going to see use of the so-called robot umpire system during spring training.
https://twitter.com/evandrellich/status/1220008994087096320?s=21
70 @MiamiHerald employees will be laid off as the newspaper closes its printing plant.
https://twitter.com/MiamiNewTimes/status/1219991859419848704
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-herald-layoffs-will-affect-70-workers-as-newspaper-closes-printing-plant-11453685
Mother Jones reports that Robert Hyde, the new player in the Trump-Ukraine scandal, has been a consultant for a mysterious Chinese donor who has given almost a quarter of a million dollars to Donald Trump and the GOP.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/01/new-figure-in-ukraine-scandal-worked-for-a-mysterious-chinese-trump-donor/
The Australian wildfires have claimed half the koala population of Kangaroo Island
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-australias-kangaroo-island-a-fight-to-stay-alive/2020/01/21/2475a3ee-3c01-11ea-adf6-42d4cf92556b_story.html
A 6-year-old boy in Massachusetts raised more than $265,000 to help animals impacted by the devastating fires in Australia. Owen Colley and his family are making around 3,000 clay koalas to send out to donors who've helped the cause.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1219937707654373376
A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday. Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews also videotaped himself advocating for killing people, poisoning water supplies and derailing trains, a prosecutor wrote in urging a judge in Maryland to keep Mathews and two other members of The Base detained in federal custody.
https://apnews.com/e5d17a8735678aa604a22f011c2685db
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, commissions a greenhouse nursery in Nigeria to supply farmers with the best quality tomato seedlings, making Nigeria self-sufficient in tomato production
https://www.africahappenings.com/africas-richest-man-aliko-dangote-has-finished-setting-up-a-greenhouse-nursery-in-nigeria-to-provide-farmers-with-the-best-quality-tomato-seedlings-making-the-country-self-sufficient-in-tom/
Wuhan virus: Rats and live wolf pups on the menu at China food market linked to virus outbreak
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/on-the-menu-at-china-virus-market-rats-and-live-wolf-pups
Coca-Cola refuse to ditch single-use plastic bottles. The giant produces plastic packaging equivalent to 200,000 bottles a minute. In 2019, it was found to be most polluting brand of plastic waste by Break Free from Plastic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51197463
World’s consumption of materials hits record 100bn tonnes a year - unsustainable use of resources is wrecking the planet but recycling is falling, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/22/worlds-consumption-of-materials-hits-record-100bn-tonnes-a-year
Finland is now being run by five parties — all led by women, all but one of them under 35
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/two-women-under-35-are-now-running-finland
Heavily Redacted Emails Show Trump's Officials laid groundwork to freeze Ukraine aid before July 25 call,
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/22/politics/new-omb-ukraine-documents-american-oversight/index.html
Russian Government Bank Deposited $500 Million into Deutsche Bank Subsidiary as it Lent to Trump
https://forensicnews.net/2020/01/13/russian-government-bank-deposited-500-million-into-deutsche-bank-subsidiary-as-it-lent-to-trump/
America is giving Saudi Arabia cover for the worst human rights abuses in decades
https://www.newsweek.com/america-saudi-arabia-cover-human-rights-abuses-watchdog-warns-1483034
Outbreak from new virus rises to 440 in China, with 9 dead
https://apnews.com/902c9f9f551d55b227b3d754f42aad50
Deadly Wuhan coronavirus outbreak reaches U.S.; infected man confirmed in Washington state
https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2020/01/deadly-wuhan-coronavirus-outbreak-reaches-us-infected-man-confirmed-in-washington-state.html
Cambridge Analytica CEO filmed boasting about entrapping politicians with bribes and sex workers
https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/cambridge-analytica-ceo-filmed-boasting-about-entrapping-politicians-with-bribes-and-sex-workers-1.714517
Ivan Passer, 86, Czech film director (Born to Win, Cutter's Way, Silver Bears) and screenwriter, pulmonary complications.[244]
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ivan-passer-dead-dies-cutters-way-1203462725/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082220/
Christopher Tolkien, 95, British academic and editor (The Silmarillion, The History of Middle-earth).[113] | Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English editor and academic. He was the son of author J. R. R. Tolkien and the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. Tolkien drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tolkien
MLB has no plans to strip Cheaters Astros of World Series titles, says commissioner Rob Manfred
https://abc13.com/sports/mlb-has-no-plans-to-strip-astros-red-sox-of-world-series-titles-says-commissioner-rob-manfred/5870300/
I’m 5 years removed from baseball but I’m still in the clubhouse quite a bit. Id be shocked if an overwhelming majority of players aren’t appreciative of Fiers did. To think he will be ostracized is crazy, it’s old school thinking or an opinion of someone who’s never played
https://twitter.com/ithrow88/status/1219734077168742401?s=21
Bernie lied about Hillary Clinton and assassinated her character for 3 years. He called her corrupt. His surrogate called her a whore. His followers (still) harass hers. When she won, he accused her of cheating & took a month to endorse. She’s allowed to have an opinion about it.
https://twitter.com/kaivanshroff/status/1219664317806600192?s=21
Hillary Clinton: "I thought everyone wanted my authentic, unvarnished views! But to be serious, the number one priority for our country and world is retiring Trump, and, as I always have, I will do whatever I can to support our nominee."
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1219773503735508992
2 GOP Wyoming Senators represent 577,737 people
2 Dem. California Senators represent 39,000,000 people
Adam Schiff is presenting the case to the American people brilliantly.
Republicans Senators didn’t vote against our motion to let the Chief Justice decide which witnesses are relevant because they don’t trust him to be fair & impartial. They voted against it because they do.
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1220042312501383168
Democrats' messaging around the witnesses has been stellar. They've framed it in such a way that almost everyone can understand - a trial has witnesses and evidence, and blocking witnesses and evidence is both absurd and corrupt.
Schiff: Lays out facts in exhaustive detail illustrating exactly why Trump should be impeached for corrupt malfeasance.
Republicans: "Democrats are just sore butthurt losers who were mad about Hillary and they don't have enough evidence, and also we're going to completely block literally all of the evidence. They rushed it through the House, and also we're going to rush it through the Senate while literally not even having a trial at all. Do we have enough cartoonishly hypocritical, contradictory sound bytes for the fucking morons watching Fox yet? MAGA"
I love it when Schiff gets fired up. He nails righteous indignation.
The Lawmaker Who Said A Group Of Boys Could "Have A Lot Of Fun With" A Reporter Is Now Facing Another Harassment Allegation
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/lucido-harassment-michigan-senate-donahue
Minnesota Supreme Court says Minneapolis' $15 minimum wage can stand
http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-supreme-court-says-minneapolis-15-minimum-wage-can-stand/567197132/
Eli should be given Medal of Honor for defeating Patriots twice
Trump literally just bragged about committing the crime that he is on trial for. Literally.
Antoniо Brown’s trainer Glen Holt was arrеsted for felоny burgulаry & battеry. The moving truck driver said he was battered by Holt & Antoniо Brown. Officеrs tried to contact Brown but were unsuccessful. It’s an ongoing investigаtion — in which Brown is a suspеct, рolice say.
https://twitter.com/cameronwolfe/status/1219776053348048898?s=21
The second article of impeachment was for obstruction of Congress: covering up witnesses and documents from the American people. This morning the President not only confessed to it, he bragged about it: "Honestly, we have all the material. They don't have the material."
https://twitter.com/RepValDemings/status/1220017702011535364?s=20
Republicans, Soon: "The Do Nothing Democrats didn't stop Trump from acting corruptly. When he took office, they didn't do anything to stop him. (Ignore the fact that they weren't the majority party.) Then, when more stuff came out, they didn't even impeach and remove him from office! (Ignore that the House impeached him and the Senate will likely acquit.) Obviously, the Democrats support the corrupt Trump unlike the fine upstanding Republicans who NEVER supported him EVER!"
Republicans are not even there: "Just counted 21 empty seats on the GOP side of the Senate, 2 on the Dem side, a couple hours into Schiff's presentation. Some are just stretching their legs, but most are not in the chamber. Some of them have been out of there for a while."
https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1220078694481395713
Ancient viruses never observed by humans discovered in Tibetan glacier
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/ancient-viruses-never-observed-humans-discovered-tibetan-glacier-n1120461
Adam Schiff’s brilliant presentation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/22/adam-schiffs-brilliant-presentation-is-knocking-down-excuses-acquit/
Schiff: "If abuse of power isn’t impeachable, then the president is king."
Republicans: The Republic is dead! Long live the King!
Republicans know exactly what is going on and they simply don't care. They've attached their entire party to Trump and his removal means their removal from any position of power for generations to come.
What the hell do we even pay these Senators to even sit in Washington for? So that a small minority of voters in empty states like Wyoming get to control a branch of government to shit on the majority that they hate? How do we keep a country together based on that proposition? A system predicated on allowing a racist mysognist violent backwards uneducated trash rural minority is destined to fall, and America has fallen.
Bin Laden won in 2001 with the Afghanistan and Iraq incasions, Patriot act, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo torture, and the foundation of ICE which has destroyed USA's reputation and divided the nation to the point of electing Trump. There are members of the US military who still don't realize that they lost before they were even born.
.@BetsyDeVosED illegally repealed a rule that protected students from predatory colleges, in a huge giveaway to the for-profit college industry. We joined forces with @AFTunion & @CFTunion to sue DeVos for putting students in harm's way.
https://twitter.com/studentlegalnet/status/1220052342306934785
Wherever one stands politically: Can we take a moment to appreciate the sheer physical endurance of lawmakers delivering speeches until the wee small hours, picking up where they left off the next day, and packing in sustenance in half-hour stretches?
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1220107590450982914
Trump breaks his own Twitter record with 132 tweets or retweets as of 4:45 p.m., the most of any single day of his presidency, as he defended himself and lashed out at the House managers.
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1220106474497638408
142 tweets on @realDonaldTrump and holding as of 6:35 pm... 124 retweets. 161 is the number to hit to tie 1/5/15's record...
https://twitter.com/FactbaseFeed/status/1220127980887953410
Republican TERRORIST Reince Priebus named CBS News political analyst
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1220096798938796032
For CBS to throw him a wad of cash to misinform their viewers and defend Donald on TV, shows how little has been learned from the errors of 2016. Shameful from all involved. I made this Reince Priebus video almost exactly 4 years ago. This is who he is...
https://twitter.com/TrumpinTheShark/status/1220097652462891008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRb5okQkt6g
SYMBOLS HAVE POWER The tickets to view Trump’s impeachment trial do not say they’re for his impeachment trial This is different from Democratic President Clinton’s trial in a GOP-held Senate And from tickets to most momentous occasions here
https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1220109120386273280
The village of Jibhi offers stunning views of the Himalayas—but tourists have to be willing to follow a bunch of rules. Sounds like my kind of place. Lucky @EricBellmanWSJ who got to go.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-music-no-parties-no-tv-a-tourist-paradise-gets-dull-to-keep-crowds-away-11579722127
A supervisor in the U.S. Border Patrol has been arrested for sexually assaulting a child 20x over the course of 5 yrs, all while in USBP mgmt. No comment from CBP on if it will investigate the supervisor's interactions with immigrant children.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/texas-border-patrol-supervisor-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-child-over-a-five-year-period
In '96 Sanders said "the Social Security system had been adjusted before, and adjustments will have to be made again." The Sanders campaign has assailed Biden for saying Social Security [needed] adjustments in a 2018 speech..."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/sanders-biden-battle-over-who-will-best-protect-social-security
Susan Rice joins Christina & Danielle for a festive glass of wine and a remarkably candid conversation about the private side of her very public life — from growing up in D.C. amidst race riots to fending off Putin’s advances as National Security Adviser.
https://www.aei.org/multimedia/the-femsplainers-podcast-season-5-episode-15-season-finale/
https://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/9/6/7/967fd09e2b079da9/Susan_Rice_V2.mp3?c_id=60750407&cs_id=60750407&expiration=1578009575&hwt=c9316b204dee8c5f9275c1c6eac24810
Toxic 'forever chemicals' found in drinking water across major cities, as Trump claims US has 'cleanest water on Earth'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/toxic-forever-chemicals-drinking-water-pfas-miami-new-york-philadelphia-new-orleans-a9297771.html
Voter Registration In Texas Reaches A Record 16 Million
https://www.kut.org/post/voter-registration-texas-reaches-record-16-million
An arrest warrant was just issued for Antoniᴏ Brown. There is no bond.
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