Sunday, October 20, 2019

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Federal Appeals Court Rules Trump Can Be Sued for Unconstitutional Profiteering

White House threatens to shut down legislative process during impeachment inquiry: Move comes after Speaker Pelosi  accused president of ‘breach of his Constitutional responsibilities’ https://www.rollcall.com/news/whitehouse/white-house-threatens-to-shut-down-legislative-process-during-impeachment-inquiry?fbclid=IwAR2tqawscfhrZ4ZjFEmVaoHKodhLyA05lbYq1_lBxO4KErYfp9srhqzZcdo

Whistleblower complaint says White House officials acted to 'lock down' record of Trump-Ukraine call: The official concluded that the president was "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country."

TRUMP: MY CRIMES CAN’T BE INVESTIGATED WHILE I’M PRESIDENT.  The president’s latest attempt to keep his tax returns hidden is a novel one.

Rep. Devin Nunes left everyone baffled by claiming that Democrats wanted 'nude pictures' of Trump during a House Intelligence hearing

Trump may have committed tax fraud by fabricating a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million

The White House accidentally sent talking points about Trump's call with the Ukrainian president to Democrats and frantically tried to recall the email

Here is the full, unclassified whistleblower complaint detailing Donald Trump's illegal behavior

More than 200 House members now support impeachment inquiry

Bernie Sanders' office evacuated over suspicious package, police say: Democratic presidential candidate was not in office at time of evacuation

House Democrats subpoena Giuliani for Ukraine docs in impeachment probe

Naked Donald Trump statues are popping up across America

Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016

HISTORIAN WARNS TODAY'S AMERICA LOOKS 'EERILY SIMILAR' TO PERIOD BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR, COMPARES MOVEMENT CONSERVATIVES TO SLAVEHOLDER ELITE

Meet Reality

Mike Pompeo Joined Trump On Call With Ukrainian President: Report.  The secretary of state was subpoenaed last week for documents relating to the administration’s contact with the Ukrainian government.

Fox News Hosts Are Avoiding This One Word When Reporting On Trump: “Fox & Friends” hosts seem awfully hesitant to use this word, which they loved to wield against Hillary Clinton.

Giuliani hires attorney to represent him in Ukraine investigation

Pompeo says State Dept. official will not show up for scheduled hearings impeachment depositions this week

There’s another whistleblower complaint you haven’t heard of.  It’s about Trump’s taxes.

Armed Militias Are Taking Trump’s Civil War Tweets Seriously

Rantin' Randy's Rant 10-1-19 Wh Chaos

RUSSIAN TROLLS ARE SENDING YOU FACEBOOK FRIEND REQUESTS

The impeachment inquiry: "We could not ignore what the president did."  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff talk with Scott Pelley about the impeachment inquiry of President Trump

Rantin' Randy's Rant 10-3-19

Fox News Judge calls Trump's actions “impeachable” ON AIR

The Phony Liberalism of Bill Maher: Despite everything he does and says, media still call HBO host a 'liberal'

Reporter asks Finnish president what 'favors' Trump has asked for

Trump Envoys Pushed Ukraine to Commit to Investigations

Watergate’s John Dean: Trump Making Nixon ‘Look Like A Choir Boy’

Former Green Beret and conservative Republican Brian Thomsen launches PA-17 Congressional campaign

PA District 17 – Our Campaigns

Trump recycling old Ukraine script in smear against Joe Biden: Rachel Maddow looks at how Paul Manafort used a manufactured corruption smear to sideline an opponent of his Russia-backed Ukrainian client, and how that strategy is mirrored in the smear Donald trump is concocting against Joe Biden now.

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign sent dinner to Bernie Sanders staffers after his heart procedure.  "The team is very grateful (and started with the cookies first)."

Rick Perry To Resign As Energy Secretary: Reports. The former Texas governor is expected to leave Trump’s Cabinet by the end of the

Irony is dead: The Trump sons are doing everything possible to make corruption a major 2020 issue. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump really should sit this Hunter Biden thing out.

Is There Any Chance the GOP Is About to Turn on Trump?

Pramila Jayapal’s Vision of Power: Can the progressive congresswoman transform the left's unruly energy into legislative victories?

Edward Snowden’s Novel Makeover: How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

Painting Over the Dirty Truth: The rich fund museums to launder their reputations. Museums exploit identity politics to distract from the shady money funding them. In the art world, it’s all just business as usual.

The MAGA Plot: In a subtle new work of autofiction, Ben Lerner takes on Trumpism.

Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro Will Make You Feel Complicit: The problem with enjoying a seductive drama about Silvio Berlusconi.

The Shrinking Legacy of a Supreme Court Justice: Why veneration of Oliver Wendell Holmes is in decline

How the NRA Sold Out America: A new report details the limits of the gun lobby's patriotism when there's Russian moolah on the line.

The Dereliction of William Barr: It takes a special kind of attorney general to make Jeff Sessions seem scrupulous.

Can We Stop Pretending Prosecutors Are Impartial Now? Attorney General Bill Barr and ex-prosecutor Rudy Giuliani share the same job: defending the president.

The “Democratic” in DSA: The Democratic Socialists of America recommitted itself to using “elections, public offices and legislation” to build support for democratic socialist ideas.

Trolls Are Sowing Discord Between Sanders and Warren Supporters: Is someone yanking your chain?

At First-Ever Native American Presidential Forum, Candidates Answer to Centuries of Injustice: With Indian country’s electoral power growing, presidential hopefuls pledged to honor treaties and enact structural change.

Want To Fix the Debates? Shut Down the Trump-Style Theatrics. The sensationalist, ratings-first format needs to change—and candidates should boycott debates until it does.

The Debates Are Too Important To Be in the Hands of Corporate Media and the DNC: We need independently run debates that put substantive policy discussion first.

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s fact-challenged week over impeachment

Chelsea Clinton on Trump: 'His whole life has been a scam'

2020 Vision: More Americans are lining up behind impeachment — and the next step, conviction

The Scandal Has Spiraled Out of Trump’s Control: When the week began, the president faced questions about Ukraine. Now the inquiry has gone global.

Ukraine: Text messages show U.S. diplomats believed U.S. aid was linked to Trump's demand for Biden probe

Congressional Races Are Our Best Shot at Gun Control: Even in California, it’s too easy to turn a gun purchased legally into an assault weapon.

His Trusty Sharpie Pen

When Abortion After Rape Is Legal—but Nearly Impossible to Obtain: In Mexico, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and public officials are all trying to prevent rape survivors from accessing legal abortion.

In the Age of QANON: Have Americans become more conspiratorial?

Letters From the October 7, 2019, Issue: Sold out, again… Blame the media?…

Edward Snowden Speaks: The NSA whistleblower’s new memoir is essential reading.

Bolton’s Gone. Is the Trumpian World Order About to Begin?  Whether a Trump-dictated foreign policy is a good thing is anyone’s guess.

Margaret Atwood Shouldn’t Exonerate Aunt Lydia
The Testaments, Atwood’s sequel to Handmaid’s Tale, gives undue credit to Gilead’s misogynistic female enabler.

Exclusive: Edward Snowden’s First Adventures in Cyberspace.  An excerpt from the whistleblower’s new memoir.

A Man’s World: Reckoning with misogyny in the age of Me Too.

Trump publicly urges China to investigate Bidens amid impeachment inquiry: Despite Trump's accusations of corruption, there has been no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the former vice president or his son.

Collins: Trump's call for China to probe Biden 'completely inappropriate'

Fed up Chris Wallace DESTROYS Trump's defense in Ukraine scandal

Why Would We Trust Plutocrats to Save Us From Plutocracy?  They're still going to plunder your unions, paychecks, jobs, health, environment and overall well-being. The only difference is that they now want you to think they feel bad about it.

Will Durst: Football cliches and the Democratic Primary

Letters to the Editor: Medicare for All Needs a Revolution, etc.

How Is Your Newsfeed?

Dispatches: ONLY DEMS CAN STOP CORRUPTION OF THE OVAL OFFICE, etc.

Lyons: Advice for front-runner Biden: Focus on issues, not folk tales

Stop the Kidney Punches, Democrats

Democrats, Don’t be Afraid to Go Big in 2020: to win in the long run, the party must compete everywhere

Kavanaugh's confirmation was built on lies. The entire GOP traffics in lies. Why the press silence?

Why boosting Social Security is Elizabeth Warren’s potentially winning issue | Dick Polman

Trump Wants to Shrink the National Security Council: He “ordered a substantial reduction in the staff.”

Mitch McConnell is a Russian Asset

Addiction and guns, can’t we tackle both?

Joe Biden: Democratic MAGA

Corey Lewandowski's stonewall campaign finally crumbles: Are impeachment counts coming?
Trump's onetime campaign manager strutted and preened — and then got dismantled by the Democrats' lawyer

Robert Reich: Trump is a clear and present danger to America and the world.  The president of the United States is seriously, frighteningly, dangerously unstable

Can America Break Its Gun Addiction?  Other nations savaged by civil war or outside invasion may suffer greater casualties in a conflict, but we have made violence—and victims of violence—routine.

What George Carlin Taught Us About Media Propaganda by Omission: On Bernie Sanders, Medicare for All, and the Green New Deal.  It is instructive when you realize what news outlets are doing when they only give you the "partial score."

Pass the Bullhorn
Trump’s Search for a Big Win

Impeachment Inquiry: How Democratic Counsel Dismantled Lewandowski

Beau Biden's Generation Deserves a Chance, Dad

Big Business Lies Taught a Watchful Donald Trump

Progressives Sanders And Warren Lead Democrats In Fundraising, Biden Lags

Sean Spicer Still Defending the Indefensible

Opinions Correction: Trump Never Said Those Things You Heard Him Say

Editorial: Impeachment inquiry is a move in defense of U.S. Constitution

This isn’t just another spat.  Trump compromised our security for his gain.

For Trump, Ukraine is a story of personal resentment and political opportunism

The Trump–Ukraine Transcript Contains Evidence of a Quid Pro Quo

Trump Is Being Impeached Because He Will Not Stop Cheating

Everything has changed with impeachment. But nothing really has.  'I do not see structural changes,' said Rep. Val Demings after Pelosi's announcement.

What Happened in Ukraine?  Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump pressured the Ukranian government to act. But the similarities are only surface deep.

Trump acts like he’s above the law because Mitch McConnell lets him: The political system has an answer for a threat like Donald Trump, but none for a threat like Mitch McConnell.

Voting On Impeachment Is the Senate GOP’s Nightmare

Siberian shaman arrested after traveling nearly 2,000 miles to 'exorcise' Putin

Opinion - Why Republicans Play Dirty: They fear that if they stick to the rules, they will lose everything. Their behavior is a threat to democratic stability.

Joe Biden is still ahead.  But Elizabeth Warren is closing in.

Opinion - Mad About Kavanaugh and Gorsuch? The Best Way to Get Even Is to Pack the Court: Their lifetime appointments cry out for Democratic hardball.

Should Democrats Plan on Packing the Courts in 2021?

Democrats stump in Charleston where Kamala Harris calls Trump ‘a walking indictment’

Trump calls for Romney's impeachment

2nd whistleblower comes forward after speaking with IG: Attorney

Tucker Carlson says Trump's Ukraine call was inappropriate: 'There's no way to spin this'

Powell: 'The Republican party has got to get a grip on itself'

Rantin' Randy' Rant 10/6/19

Chuck Todd: A National Emergency Is Upon Us, Democracy Under Attack From Trump

Pelosi slams GOP minority leader in epic exchange over impeachment

CNN's Jake Tapper broke Trump's surrogate Rep. Jim Jordan in exchange about Ukraine

Donald Trump Jr. lectures Joe Biden about conflicts of interest; it doesn't go well

Fox News outs two Fox analysts as working 'off the books' with Trump, Giuliani to find Biden dirt

Putin reasserts his authority over Trump, reminding him where his true loyalties lie

Trump jumps the shark with early-morning insult-fest attacking Fox News 'sh-t head' Ed Henry

Republicans Ron Johnson, Cory Gardner, Thom Tillis allegedly got illegal NRA help in 2014, 2016

The video clip that's making liddle' Trumpy so cross and fussy

Hillary Tweets Epic Shade onto Giuliani and Trump and Their Ukraine Inanity with Just Six Words.

Republican Congressman Kinzinger Calls Trump Retweet "Beyond Repugnant"

House investigates 'near raw bribery' of Trump hotel rooms booked and left vacant

376 Steelworkers Just Got Tired of Winning

Another Whistleblower Report May Be Released Concerning Trump's IRS Audits

Rashida Tlaib: Dems looking to arrest White House officials who ignore subpoenas

Presidents don’t have limitless immunity, and other takeaways from Trump tax return ruling

Fox News terminates Trey Gowdy as he joins Trump’s legal team

M daily disgust of the Dotard Dictator. Christians to the lions, now you speak? PAT! Wednesday baby.

Trump on potential ISIS escapees: "They will be escaping to Europe"

Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Ukraine plot shows Trump now a 'domestic enemy of the Constitution'

Trump sold nuclear tech to Saudis in secret after Khashoggi killing

Law Professor's Advice to House Democrats: Arrest Rudy Giuliani.  "The House arresting someone would be explosive and clearly should not be undertaken lightly. But the very explosiveness of it would be a way for the House to signal the seriousness of White House obstructionism to the public."

Rantin' Randy's Rant 10/10/19

Presidential stonewalling is obstruction

Clarence Thomas’ strategy to weaken a #freepress

The House should vote on its impeachment inquiry

Add congressional republicans to Trump’s collection of co-conspirators

Divided America Agrees on This -- Govt. Corruption Is Rampant

Cut the federal bureaucratic sludge

The Democratic primaries and the white privilege of Iowa and N.H.

Impeachment probe goes beyond Ukraine to lying and obstruction of justice, House lawyer says

Trump’s War in Yemen Against Congressional Opposition is an Impeachable Offense

MSNBC's Jill Wine-Banks: How To Impeach Mike Pence And Donald Trump So Nancy Pelosi Becomes President

Fake President Shoots Media Members In Graphic Video Shown At Pro-Trump Event: Report.  The New York Times reports the video shows a fake Trump attacking versions of PBS and HuffPost, as well as a fake Sen. Bernie Sanders.

TRUMP MUST NOT ONLY LOSE; HE MUST BE HUMILIATED!

Something is very fishy about the Trump legal strategy

Let's talk about President Trump, truth, and fiction....

Let's talk about churchgoers, witches, and fear....

Let's talk about Ben Shapiro, getting destroyed, and something important....

Letters From the October 14, 2019, Issue: Unrecognized labor… Taking offense… Hope amid troubles…

We Don’t Have to Choose Between Warren and Sanders Yet: Their truce during the 2020 campaigns is widening the left lane—that’s good for everyone.

Making Sense of Trump’s Rise: Three new books try to explain how we got such a massive jerk in the White House.

Trump Says Ukraine Call Was ‘Perfectly Fine and Routine’

The Force of Looking: Kamel Daoud in the spotlight.

Letters From the October 21, 2019, Issue: Look again… Blame Merle!… The last dance?…

The Left Needs to Seize Impeachment From Centrist Elites: Impeachment should be about how an oligarch debauched democracy, not about a president clashing with the national security establishment.

How to Be a Radical Mayor: Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, explains why the presidency is like the plantation.

Trump’s Defense

Why Is Cory Booker Still Running For President?  Down in the polls, ignored by the media, Booker refuses to quit.

The Two Catholicisms: The church between tradition and modernity.

Definition of Trump from a Brit

Rantin' Randy's Rant 10-15-19

Donald Trump: xenophobe in public, international mobster in private: The founding fathers said betraying America to foreign powers was an impeachable offense. The president must go

Trolls Are Sowing Discord Between Sanders and Warren Supporters: Is someone yanking your chain?

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and the Working-Class Iowa Test: At the People’s Presidential Forum, bold left-wing policies dominated the debate, as both Sanders and Warren sought to expand their support ahead of Iowa’s critical caucuses.

Trump Supreme Court pick: Presidents can ignore laws they think are unconstitutional

What Did Donald Trump Learn from Roy Cohn? | Conversations with Jim Zirin

Director Matt Tyrnauer On His Documentary About Roy Cohn, "Where's My Roy Cohn?"

Citizen Cohn 1992 (Starring James Woods)

DONALD TRUMP HAS MADE ROUGHLY 250 FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT THE UKRAINE PROBE IN LESS THAN A MONTH: REPORT

Grieving Parents ‘Ambushed’ by Trump, Who Had Teen’s Killer Waiting at White House: The president had hoped to surprise the family of dead British teen Harry Dunn with a meeting with the woman who killed him. “And they weren’t ready for it,” he admitted.

Harry Dunn parents: Trump shocked us by revealing Sacoolas was in next room.  Charlotte Charles says president dropped ‘bombshell’ as grieving parents visited White House

Trump’s Ukraine call could get him impeached – but his Syria betrayal is worse: The US president’s transactional approach to the world around him poses a grave threat

Who can trust Trump’s America?  Donald Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds is a blow to America’s credibility.  It will take years to mend

We may never see Marianne Williamson on the debate stage again; and that’s a pity

A new report suggests Trump has committed financial crimes

Trump throws the Kurds under the bus. 2 mob guys go to Turkey. Wednesday, halftime of the shitshow.

Gen. James Mattis gets his revenge on Trump for calling him 'overrated'

Rantin' Randy's Rant 10-17-19 Wh admits Quid Pro Quo

Trump spirals into deranged conspiracy theory when asked about Giuliani: ‘I want to see the server’

Chelsea Clinton accidentally scorches Meghan McCain while dismissing congressional rumors on The View

‘God help us’: Paul Krugman explains how Trump and Barr are using ‘religious bigotry’ to distract from president’s ‘unsuitability for high office’

Biden finally unloads on Trump for smearing his son: ‘Release your tax returns or shut up’

EU ambassador Sondland described as ‘potential national security risk’ by ex-Trump official: report

Trump goes on insane conspiratorial rant accusing Obama of being behind the ‘corrupt’ 2016 election

Watch Chris Hayes and New Yorker's Jane Mayer explain the media's failure in promoting Peter Schweizer and his conspiracies

The Demolition of U.S. Diplomacy: Not Since Joe McCarthy Has the State Department Suffered Such a Devastating Blow

For three years, we remainers have held our breath. This is the moment our dreams may die: If Johnson’s Brexit deal is voted through, an idea we cherish, of cooperation across borders, will suffer a devastating blow

GOP congressman wants name off the 'I support Donald Trump list': Calls foreign policy 'despicable'

Trump, who is dumb, 'constantly' talks about making White House staffers take polygraph tests

Look at all these photos with those two alleged criminals Trump doesn't even know

The art of forsaking a deal—the real 'genius' of Donald Trump

AG William Barr’s corruption tour continues with secret Rupert Murdoch meeting

McConnell protects Trump over GOP conference, raising the question: How deep in the crime is Mitch?

Trump’s entire Ukraine ‘anti-corruption’ team was corrupt—and funded by unnamed Russian source

Giuliani pals were attempting to flee country when arrested for bribery, funneling foreign funds

Facebook exec who won't stop Trump ads that smear Biden worked for RNC, NRSC, and Giuliani campaign

The impeachment inquiry: Undermining Donald Trump’s Ukraine defence.  Mick Mulvaney and Gordon Sondland fill in the gaps on the quid pro quo

The Economist asks: Ash Carter.  Who can trust Trump’s America?  This week we speak to Ash Carter, a former US secretary of defence

The right is freaking out because Beto questioned anti-LGBTQ churches’ tax-exempt status: Donald Trump called him a "wacko," Ben Shapiro threatened to shoot him, and even Pete Buttigieg doesn't have his back.

George Will: No Republican who supports Trump should be re-elected

White House acknowledges Trump's withholding of Ukraine military aid came with strings attached

Robert Reich: Trump's 30 Biggest Broken Promises

Newsweek reveals Trump's medical record shows drug addiction
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