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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Nov 19, 2019 Kurt Volker has some cleanup to do on his initial testimony Many impeachment watchers have been eagerly anticipating the Wednesday testimony of Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland, because he had a direct line to Donald Trump, and his testimony is at odds with that of several other witnesses (he's already amended his testimony once).  But Tuesday...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Republicans claim to be happy with their morning of smearing witnesses and dodging facts In the morning hearing before the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, both vice presidential adviser Jennifer Williams and NSC official Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman expressed their concerns about the July 25 call that Trump made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Both of them were the...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Congressman asks Vindman why he told his dad not to worry. 'Because this is America' Republicans spent the morning and early afternoon trying to obscure the basic facts of what Lt. Col Alexander Vindman and Jennifer Williams were testifying to in the impeachment hearing. Rep. Sean Maloney took his time to clear away the dust he said Republicans had kicked up, saying “Let’s...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Trump said he was quoting Nancy Pelosi on impeachment. He was actually quoting Fox News Donald Trump quoted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying something outrageous—or something that would be outrageous if Pelosi had actually said it. But it turns out that Trump was quoting a Fox News reporter who was definitely mischaracterizing what Pelosi said. What Pelosi actually...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 The latest in the impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump: Vindman and Williams testify #4 Welcome back to another day of impeachment hearings. Tuesday morning brings us the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert, and Jennifer Williams, a Mike Pence aide pre-emptively attacked by Donald Trump as a “Never Trumper.” Both Vindman...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Nov 19, 2019 GOP Hits Army Officer Critical of Trump With Dual-Loyalty Smear REUTERSAs an Army officer who worked on Ukraine policy on the White House told the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry that President Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate domestic adversaries was “inappropriate,” congressional Republicans suggested that he was...     Daily Beast        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Indictment Against Jail Guards Reveals News Details From Jeffrey Epstein’s Final Hours Stephanie Keith/GettyThe two federal jail guards assigned to watch over sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the day he killed himself in his cell failed to check on him for more than eight hours and allegedly told a supervisor, “We messed up.”That’s according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday...     Daily Beast        more   
• Dec 12, 2018 Scouted: This Is The Best Looking Weighted Blanket Out There Most weighted blankets look like duvet inserts, which means you have to buy a duvet cover. But they tend to contract the same issues as duvets do, in that you get awkward bunching or lose a corner somewhere in the fabric abyss. And they can get really, really hot. The Bearaby Napper is unique in...     Daily Beast        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Cuomo Blasts Syracuse U Leadership After White-Supremacist Manifesto Allegedly AirDropped to Students Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty ImagesNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday blasted leadership at Syracuse University for its handling of ongoing hate speech and racist harassment on campus, which escalated overnight when a white-supremacist manifesto was allegedly AirDropped to some students’...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Nov 19, 2019 Elizabeth Warren Has a New Plan to Address White Nationalist Violence On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren released a plan for combatting white nationalist-inspired violence with a simple basic premise: Make the government take the problem seriously—maybe for the first time. Warren’s plan envisions a federal bureaucracy that makes stopping white nationalist...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 The Trump Administration Keeps Promoting Stephen Miller’s Immigration Hardliner Allies A Trump official who pushed for one of the administration’s cruelest immigration policies has been promoted to acting deputy director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, just a week after the White House’s most notorious restrictionist, senior adviser Stephen Miller, was at...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 When Students Can’t Get Emergency Contraception From Vending Machines, Sometimes There’s No Plan B In the spring of 2017, Emma Donnelly, a junior at the University of Southern Maine, read an article that inspired her to take action. Students at the University of California, Davis, had organized to get a vending machine on their campus that sold emergency contraceptives for half of what they...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Nov 18, 2019 Congress Is Now Investigating Whether Trump Lied to Mueller House impeachment investigators are looking into whether President Donald Trump lied last year in written answers to special counsel Robert Mueller, a top congressional lawyer said in federal court Monday. “Did the President lie?” House general counsel Douglas Letter said to the US...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Nov 13, 2019 There Were Giants in the United States Senate. That Was Then. Robert A. Taft was known in his day as "Mr Republican." In a twisted way, Rob Portman may yet wind up becoming the modern-day Mr. Republican, as the term is now synonymous with a political party that is the very manifestation of hypocrisy and amnesia.     Plunderbund        more   
• Nov 11, 2019 Anti-Vax Views Have Gone Viral at the Ohio Statehouse Antivax activists are making inroads at the Ohio Statehouse, recruiting at least 35 sitting lawmakers to endorse their positions through intense lobbying and outreach. A deep dive into the latest viral phenomenon to infect state politics.     Plunderbund        more   
• Oct 28, 2019 National Charter School Leader Makes An Offer We Can’t Refuse Too often charter schools are just a way to convert public assets into profit at the expense of kids. As campaign season fires up, Denis Smith offers advice to presidential candidates: here are the key questions to ask when you visit a charter school.     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Nov 19, 2019 Do These Items Marie Kondo Is Selling in Her Online Store Spark Joy? “I can think of no greater happiness in life than being surrounded only by the things I love.” Same, Marie Kondo.     Slate        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Céline Dion’s New Album Finds Her Reborn as a Swearing, Drag-Loving Queer Icon Courage is the crowning achievement of the Celinaissance.     Slate        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 It’s Time for Gordon Sondland to Get His Story Straight Trump's EU ambassador prepares to defend his disputed testimony.     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Nov 19, 2019 The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question Katrina vanden Heuvel Do we have the courage to make health care a right, not a privilege? The post The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Trump Is an Aggressive Arms Dealer. So Were His Predecessors. William D. Hartung America has been dealing arms to the Middle East since Nixon, fueling a lucrative and disastrous kind of foreign policy. The post Trump Is an Aggressive Arms Dealer. So Were His Predecessors. appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Trump Wants to Treat Undocumented Migrants Like Enemy Combatants Sasha Abramsky But US soldiers who commit war crimes? They’re “deserving individuals” who deserve “second chances.” The post Trump Wants to Treat Undocumented Migrants Like Enemy Combatants appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Letters From the December 2/9, 2019, Issue Our Readers, Eric Alterman The truth about lies… Fixing a supreme injustice… The post Letters From the December 2/9, 2019, Issue appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Nov 19, 2019 Poll: Biden holds 11-point lead over Warren in Arizona Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) leads Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by 11 points in a new poll for the Arizona Democratic primary, while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) follows close behind.In the ...     The Hill        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Woman who threw drink at Gaetz sentenced to 15 days in jail The woman who threw a drink at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was sentenced to 15 days in jail on Monday after Gaetz asked the federal court to put her behind bars.     The Hill        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Poll: Biden and Warren are neck and neck in California Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are neck and neck in California's delegate-rich primary, according to a new ...     The Hill        more   
• Nov 19, 2019 Whistleblower lawyer lashes out at Jordan: 'I AM TIRED OF YOU LYING IN A HOUSE COMMITTEE ROOM' An attorney representing a whistleblower in the intelligence community who filed an inspector general complaint at the center of the impeachment proceedings lashed out at Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Tuesday, accusing the...     The Hill        more   
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