Saturday, February 9, 2019

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Democrats Clash With Trump Cabinet Officials Declining To Testify

Now We Know The Secret Of Kellyanne Conway's Success In The Trump White House

Laura Ingraham rips Trump’s decision to postpone State of the Union

IMPEACH!!! BUT FIRST INSURE CONVICTION BY THE SENATE

Iowa Bans Most Abortions As Governor Signs 'Heartbeat' Bill

Sarah Sanders on Stone arrest: 'Nothing to do with the White House'

WILL DONALD TRUMP JR., JARED KUSHNER BE INDICTED? ODDS RISE FOLLOWING ROGER STONE ARREST

Biden Could Beat Trump. But He’s Defeating Himself Instead.  The coming primary isn’t likely to end well for a man who took a six-figure check from a right-leaning group and then praised a Republican just before Election Day last year.

Trump asks why Clinton, Comey not punished for lying (Whataboutism on display)

US banker with ties to Putin’s inner circle sought access to Trump transition: Sources.  Robert Foresman sought to meet with Trump’s team after the 2016 election.

Trump concedes to temporarily end shutdown -- without wall funding

These Are The Most Disgusting Trump Supporters You'll Ever See

Did Trump ‘Lose’ the Shutdown? Or Are Liberal Pundits Preaching Delusional Idiocy? – Part 1

‘Rejection Killings’ Need to Be Tracked: Two more women died this week after saying no

Kavanaugh Is the Face of American Male Rage: Men are being held accountable — and it has them mad as hell

The Gillette Effect: What a Single Ad Reveals About American Men.  Conservatives decrying a “war on men” are more dangerous than you think

Kids Don’t Damage Women’s Careers — Men Do: Stop blaming motherhood for a problem created by fathers

Innovation Isn’t About Ideas: It’s about solving problems and doing hard things first

Do Different Strains of Marijuana Cause Different Highs?  Cannabis researchers say popular notions of indica and sativa are “nonsense”

Not a Man 2020: There’s no shame in wanting a woman to be president

Trump just pathetically tried to deny his shutdown defeat by offering up sad excuses

Nancy Pelosi just threw the perfect shade at Trump over arrest of Roger Stone

Bernie Sanders set to announce 2020 presidential run

Bernie Sanders, 77, 'set to announce he will run for president in 2020' three years after fighting Democratic primary race against Hillary Clinton

The former Director of National Intelligence just explained how Stone arrest implicates Trump in Russia probe

Nancy Pelosi just ruthlessly mocked Trump after forcing him to reopen government in humiliating defeat

Roger Stone says he would consider cooperating with Mueller

Congress should subpoena translator from Trump-Putin Meeting

All signs point the same way: Vladimir Putin has compromising information on Donald Trump

Obstruction Is Collusion: Here’s how prosecutors think about the latest Russiagate revelations.

Why would William Barr take this job? The answer should alarm Trump

6 key takeaways from Bill Barr’s testimony about the Mueller probe so far: Trump’s AG nominee offered some reassurances — but dodged on other questions.

Take William Barr’s Serious Opening Statement Seriously: The attorney general nominee signals that his loyalties lie with Mueller and the Justice Department, and not just Trump.

2nd Judge Blocks Trump Birth Control Policy Across The Country

Trump and his associates had more than 100 contacts with the Russians before the election

Barr still refuses to pledge to release Mueller probe

Judge abruptly cancels ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s sentencing in Virginia case

Mueller team signals to Stone associate another indictment may be in the works

The Trump Cult

William Barr: Concerns Over Trump’s Privacy Could Shield Robert Mueller Conclusions.  The likely attorney general said prosecutors need “to be sensitive to the privacy and reputational interests of uncharged third parties.”

Trump Amplifies Misleading Allegations Of Voter Fraud In Texas: Texas officials said 95,000 non-citizens may be on voter rolls, but that number is suspect.

"It Can't Be Warren and It Can't Be Sanders": Wall Street Executives Make 2020 Preferences Known
"Wall Street likes Biden, Booker, Harris, Gillibrand, and Beto. Guess who they hate? Sanders and Warren. All the rest is commentary."

After Standing Ovation at Sundance, Ocasio-Cortez Says 'All Hands on Deck' Against 'Systemic Injustices' That Led to Trump: "We need to realize that our democracy does belong to us, and when we don't participate in it, when we don't invest in it, when we don't put our own energy into it, what we are doing is we are giving it away to somebody else."

Bible classes in public schools? Why Christian lawmakers are pushing a wave of new bills

GOP official shames Sen. Sinema for taking Senate floor 'improperly' attired in dress and boots

Republican National Committee to make 'unprecedented' move of pledging 2020 support to Donald Trump

Mick Mulvaney says Trump is willing to shut down the government again in three weeks

Republican senators all disclaim shutdown as a really bad idea that totally wasn't their fault

Nancy Pelosi comes straight at Trump on Russia connections

'It's your fault'—Republican slams Mitch McConnell to his face, for the government shutdown

Nancy Pelosi does in three weeks what Republicans failed to do in three years

Greg Sargent Details How Pelosi Had to Overcome Charges of Bothsiderism to Make Trump Cave.

Trump thought throwing Flynn to the wolves would end the Russia investigation, because Jared said so

Trump's Approach to Governing? A Utah man nails it accurately!

Watch Malcolm Nance Chuckle as Sarah Kendzior Lays the Wood to Trump. Priceless!

CNN: "The numbers show Trump lost the shutdown and Pelosi won" and the Numbers Are FANTASTIC

Trump undercuts negotiations, sets stage for shutdown, part 2

Why they fear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Stacey Abrams to give Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union

Welcome to Act III of the Trump Tragedy

Blaming Masculinity Will Only Make The Male Crisis Worse: While the American Psychological Association calls attention to male needs and crises, which I celebrate as a researcher and practitioner in the field, it then falls into an ideological swamp.

How 'traditional masculinity' hurts the men who believe in it most 

Grown Men Are the Solution, Not the Problem

Wall Street Democrats want you to hate Bernie Sanders

Jimi Hendrix "Pali Gap" - Horses wild & free

Trump's lies on his business dealings in Russia were a profound betrayal of the voters

Rudy Giuliani Is Possibly a Legal Genius, But Probably Just an Idiot

The media’s ‘Gotcha!’ hysteria is shameful

The huge problem with Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe that no one talks about | Will Bunch

Yes Minister - A Question Of Loyalty

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy Kindle Edition

Sorry, but Trump is not tough on Russia

Don’t expect Trump to go quietly

A look back on two dismal years of the Trump administration

Trump and the obliteration of America

Russian DNC Hackers Launch Fresh Wave of Cyberattacks on U.S.: Despite our best efforts at deterrence, the hits have kept coming even as the 2020 election approaches.

Progressive Dems: ‘Not Another Dollar’ More in DHS Funding.  Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar just threw a wrench in the border wall debate.

NOTES ON NATIONALISM

US leaving arms control treaty with Russia

Five takeaways on Trump decision to suspend nuclear treaty with Russia

Pompeo announces suspension of nuclear arms treaty with Russia

Miriam Adelson was awarded Medal of Freedom after donating $500k to Trump aides’ legal expenses: The Adelsons were the biggest donors to Trump's campaign other than Trump.

Elizabeth Warren Apologizes to Cherokee Nation for DNA Test

Trump blames former Speaker Paul Ryan for not getting border wall funding

AN OPEN LETTER TO HOWARD SCHULTZ

AOC Thinks Concentrated Wealth Is Incompatible With Democracy. So Did Our Founders.

House Republicans block passage of anti-shutdown resolution despite removal of language blaming Trump: Meanwhile, House Democrats pass bill to increase federal employees’ pay for 2019

Contradicted by his own national security team, Trump tries gaslighting

The Atlantic: Michael Bloomberg’s Secret Plans to Take Down Trump

H.R.26 - No Work, No Pay Act To prohibit the pay of Members of Congress during periods in which a Government shutdown is in effect, and for other purposes.

H.Res.13 - Impeaching Donald Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors

Russia Is Attacking the U.S. System From Within: A new filing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller shows how Russia uses the federal courts to go after its adversaries.

Putin is secretly sending Russian troops to Venezuela.

The U.S. Formally Withdraws From Unesco, the U.N. Agency That Aims to Build Peace Through Cultural Understanding

Russian troll accounts purged by Twitter pushed Qanon and other conspiracy theories: The accounts’ tweets featured the hashtag #MAGA, usually in support of President Trump, almost 38,000 times — the most of any hashtag.

Trump Lifts Rusal, En+ Sanctions as Glencore Shuffles Stake

Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump’s Rambling ‘New York Times’ Interview in Mini-Monologue: “You just babbled for two minutes. The only line you drew is through the kids menu that is your brain,” Late Show host says in web exclusive

Trump Is Entering the Terrible Twos—the Tantrums Are Going to Get Worse: His presidency reminds us that this country has relied for too long on a “gentleman’s agreement” to maintain a civil society. We must demand a thorough reconstruction of our politics.

Letters From the February 11-18, 2019, Issue: Military-industrial complexity… Worth 1,000 words… Parsing the new NAFTA… Greenspan’s historical amnesia…

How to Protect Yourself When Abortion Is Illegal: A Q&A With Robin Marty.  In her new book Handbook for a Post-Roe America, Robin Marty provides a blueprint for accessing reproductive-health care and fighting for your rights in a country where abortion has become a crime.

Let’s Tally the Damage of the Past Six Months: We should not lose sight of the real human cost of the manufactured border crisis.

How Pramila Jayapal’s Inside-Outside Strategy Is Changing the Future of Progressive Politics
The congresswoman is a lifelong organizer—and now she’s one of the key players in Congress.

An Equal Say: Where does truth fit into democracy?

Transcript: President Trump on "Face the Nation," February 3, 2019

JIM HIGHTOWER: Progressive populism: A different kind of political beauty

Letters to the Editor: Trump’s Gut May Betray Him

Shutdown Ripples through the Community

Dispatches: TRUMP OUTLINED HIS VISION IN HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS. TWO YEARS LATER, HOW’S IT GOING?

How Will Trump’s Presidency End?  Seven Ways It May

Don’t judge Women’s March by headcounts alone

Exactly How Bad Is Trump At Making Deals? Even Worse Than You Think.  The shutdown stalemate highlights how the president’s strategies contradict best practices, negotiation experts explain.

Bill Barr remains a big mystery: Protect Bob Mueller or shield Donald Trump's crimes?  Incoming attorney general says he's friends with Bob Mueller, but won't promise we'll ever see the report

Robert B. Reich: On democracy and dictatorship

Trump’s flailing indicates a man in serious trouble

We Cannot Afford More Media Malpractice

Can Pelosi Dance with Ocasio-Cortez?

Washington's Perfect Storms, Inside and Out

Trump’s Crumbling Wall -- of GOP Political Support: Why the government shutdown will end soon, as Republicans run for the exits.

Here Is the Progressive Agenda

Blue Waves in the Golden State

Songs of Resistance

Trump is a slapstick genius for the comically disastrous way he runs this country

Best and Worst

Inside Roger Stone's Swinging Marriage Where He Frequented Sex Clubs with His 'Insatiable' Wife

Beware the Moderate Democrat: Why the centrist extremists are an incredibly dangerous political animal

'He's doing the enemy's job for them': Current and former officials compare Trump to a toddler and say his attacks on the intel community create a goldmine for foreign governments

Justice Ginsburg Has No Remaining Signs Of Cancer, Will Return To Supreme Court

Pet Shop Boys lampoon Donald Trump and Michael Gove on new song: Synth-pop duo’s Give Stupidity a Chance refers to Gove’s assertion that ‘people in this country have had enough of experts’

Bernie Sanders Uses Rebuttal To Fact-Check Trump’s State Of The Union Speech: “I hate to say this, but not everything Donald Trump said tonight was true or accurate,” the senator said.

Trump to Democrats: Let’s Compromise — and Do It My Way!

President Trump Said His State of the Union Was the Most Watched in History. It Wasn't

Accuser of Virginia's lieutenant governor details alleged sexual assault

Trump administration fires all members HIV/AIDS advisory council

Trump Ally Tries To Remove Parkland Fathers From Gun Violence Hearing

Decades of Dirty Tricks Finally Catch Up to Roger Stone: Trump’s longtime adviser said after appearing in federal court, “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”

Uh-Oh: Roger Stone's arrest brings the Mueller investigation one step closer to Trump himself.

Roger Stone indictment isn't good news for those seeking Trump impeachment

The Peculiar Logic of the Trump-Russia Scandal Deniers

Mueller’s Real Target in the Roger Stone Indictment: It was probably not Stone himself, but rather his electronic devices.

AOC What's Stopping Me?  What's stopping me from being a really bad guy? Can I pay people off? Is there any restriction on PAC funding?

Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to testify at House hearing Friday

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says National Enquirer publisher tried to extort him

In 'Team Of Vipers,' It's Mr. Sims Who Goes To Washington

‘Team of Vipers’ Author Cliff Sims Tells Colbert Why Trump Will Never Fire Kellyanne Conway

Former White House Staffer Cliff Sims on Trump’s Emotional Life and the Fine Points of Leaking

Trump's Treasury Department Just Lifted Sanctions on Three Businesses Linked to a Russian Oligarch

Democratic Party: POLITICAL PARTY, UNITED STATES

Paygo Pelosi and the austerity brigade

Kavanaugh’s dissent in abortion case makes a fool out of Susan Collins

Howard Schultz faces hometown protests as he eyes 2020 bid

Milbank: Trump "Trying To Create A Crisis" With The Border

Dana Milbank: Government wastes resources trying to turn Trump lies into truth

Trump and His Associates Had More Than 100 Contacts With Russian Nationals and Wikileaks

Something's Got to Give

Bernie Sanders Is Ready to Rumble: The senator from Vermont thinks he can prevail against the crowded Democratic field and then beat Trump for president in 2020.

I Sat on the Other Side of Stephen Miller’s First Wall: It was third grade. And things got messy.

GOP Warns That Releasing Trump’s Taxes Could Lead to More Transparency

Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America: When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.

Dystopian democracy—and how the brave fight back: A book excerpt and interview with Yascha Mounk, author of “The People vs Democracy”

Bureaucracy vs. Democracy: Diagnosing the bureaucratic causes of public failure, economic repression, and voter alienation.

A Show Trial, and The Death of Putin

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers devastating dissection of US financial system and political corruption in congress speech: 'It’s already super legal as we have seen for me to be a pretty bad guy. So it’s even easier for the president to be one'

The Trump resist, delay, deflect plan

Killing the INF Treaty was a Gift to Russia: The decision to withdraw from the INF was not based on a military necessity, but a political one.

Stacey Abrams Made This Famous Speech 26 Years Before the State of the Union Response | NowThis

Religious Diversity In Congress Inches Upward

Johnson Amendment Undestroyed

12 Months In: Rachel Laser Became President And CEO Of Americans United One Year Ago. Here Are Her Thoughts About Where Americans United Is Headed.

Banishing Blasphemy

Symposium: Cross purposes — Why a Christian symbol can’t memorialize all war dead

The Good Wall: Why We Need Church-State Separation More Than Ever

Falwell Says Nothing Could Lead Him To Drop Support For Trump

New York Religious Schools Refuse To Accept Government Oversight

New Mexico Town’s Plan To Honor Artist Roils Local Religious Right

Americans United Joins Effort Expressing Concern Over Attorney General Nominee Barr

Battling The Blitz: The Religious Right’s Latest Initiative Seeks To Silence The Voices Of Millions Of Americans – So Speak Up!

New Mexico Court Approves Private School Textbook Aid

Wisconsin Governor Calls For Voucher Aid Transparency

Minnesota Nurse’s Flu Shot Objection Not Religious, Court Rules

Indian Women Enter Temple For The First Time

One Year Anniversary

Mr. Trump’s Unsafe Neighborhood: 33 Ways Trump’s Cruel Policies Are Bad for America’s Kids

Public Citizen News January/February 2019

Latest Public Citizen Press Releases

Nonpartisan Coalition Begins Push for Political Reform and Sweeping Pro-Democracy Changes: The Declaration for American Democracy, a Coalition of 125 National Groups, Calls for Passage of the For the People Act to Rebuild America’s Democracy

Sweeping D.C. Anti-Corruption Reform Legislation to Become Law: Statement of Aquene Freechild, Campaign Co-Director of Public Citizen’s Democracy Is For People Campaign

New Bipartisan Momentum to Require a Special Counsel’s Report to Be Made Public: Statement of Lisa Gilbert, Vice President of Legislative Affairs, Public Citizen

House Judiciary Committee Considers the For The People Act, Taking Us One Step Closer to Restoring Democracy: Statement of Craig Holman, Government Affairs Lobbyist, Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division

Rao Must Pledge to Recuse Herself in Cases Involving Regulations She Reviewed at OIRA: Statement of Amit Narang, Regulatory Policy Advocate, Public Citizen's Congress Watch Division

Public Citizen Supports House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Advancement of the For The People Act: Statements of Public Citizen Experts

Disclosure Legislation Would Hold Companies Accountable for Secret Political Spending: Companies Should Be Compelled to Meet Investor Demand for Disclosure

Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Public Citizen v. Trump: The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today denied the government’s motion to dismiss Public Citizen v. Trump, a case challenging the Trump administration’s executive order directing federal agencies to repeal two federal regulations for every new rule they issue.

‘Self-Funded’ Trump Now Propped Up by Super PAC Megadonors

Who Are The Super-Rich People Backing the Trump Agenda?

Oh my: Acting AG Whitaker concedes he’s seen the pardon paperwork

House Judiciary Committee gasps and laughs after Trump’s Acting AG brazenly disrespects Democrats

Vanity Fair: Everyone inside the White House hates Trump

Family fire strikes again: Seattle 4-year-old finds gun, shoots pregnant mother

Democratic Rep. blows AG Whitaker's hair back with rapid fire questioning

Federal prosecutors to review whether the National Enquirer violated agreement in Trump-related case

In less than 5 minutes, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez exposes exactly how and why the government is corrupt

Jeff Bezos Has Maybe Outdone The Great Carol Burnett

FOX News Primetime Shows are Bleeding Audience, Advertisers, and Revenue Due to Excessive Assholery

Speaker Pelosi wore a symbol of her authority on her lapel.

The MAGA Agenda? Naked Eliminationism!

The Cult of Trump

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