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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Jun 25, 2019 Euphemisms cannot disguise the concentration camps America operates, then or now The elderly gentleman had a stack of file folders full of clippings he had obviously brought with him, and he thumbed through these on the table where he had taken a seat, waiting for my talk. His clippings caught my eye, as did the man himself. The talk I was giving (this was in July 2005) was...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Trump and Mulvaney are destroying consumer protections and inviting another global economic meltdown The Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, brainchild of Elizabeth Warren and the most solid success of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform. It was clear when Trump put then-Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in charge...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 House Oversight recommends contempt charge against Barr and Ross over citizenship question on census In a morning press release, Democratic Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Elijah Cummings announced that the committee has filed a bipartisan report recommending that both Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross be held in contempt of Congress. The...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 New York Times editor cops to 'overly cautious' coverage of rape allegations against Trump More than a dozen women have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, and the latest allegation comes from a well-known writer and describes rape. The New York Times did not consider this newsworthy, and the paper’s executive editor now admits that was a mistake. “We were overly...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Trump picked Christopher Wray to clean up the FBI, now it's Wray who could get the broom The man Donald Trump hand-picked to clean the deep state out of the FBI has lost Trump’s confidence. FBI Director Christopher Wray appears to be one tweet away from finding his name next to James Comey, Peter Strzok and the “lovely Lisa Page”—all because he’s not toeing the Trump line...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Jun 25, 2019 ‘The Investigation,’ The All-Star Mueller Report Play, Fails To Make Trump Tweet (So Far) Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyI can’t ever recall seeing a show where I was so anxious for it to end so I could check Twitter.The Investigation is a crisp, seventy-minute re-enactment of the Mueller Report by Robert Schenkkan, a Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning...     Daily Beast        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Meghan McCain Doesn’t Want Detention Centers Compared to ‘Torture Facilities’—Because of Her Father The View’s Meghan McCain objected to what she described as “hyperbole” when it came to describing overcrowded and filthy border detention centers as torture facilities and concentration camps, directly invoking her late father’s experience in a POW camp during the Vietnam War.During...     Daily Beast        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter Used Campaign Funds to Pursue ‘Intimate’ Extramarital Affairs: Feds REUTERSRep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) used campaign funds to pay for “intimate” encounters with several women, including one skiing rendezvous with a lobbyist in Lake Tahoe, the Justice Department alleged in new court filings. Hunter, 42, and his wife were indicted last August with conspiracy,...     Daily Beast        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Feds Want to Uphold Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Shady Plea Deal Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman/GettyLast month, victims of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein argued his controversial plea agreement should be tossed aside and that he should face federal charges for allegedly molesting dozens of underage girls in Palm Beach, Florida.But the government is now...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Jun 25, 2019 Elizabeth Warren Just Released a Plan to Protect American Elections Elizabeth Warren rolled out an aggressive, $20 billion election security proposal Tuesday. The plan, in keeping with previous such proposals issued by her 2020 presidential campaign, both envisions an expanded role for the federal government while offering a level of detail that has helped the...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 The Media Shrugs Its Shoulders at Trump’s Rape Allegation Faced with yet another credible allegation of sexual assault, President Donald Trump on Monday employed a familiar strategy. “Number one, she’s not my type,” Trump told The Hill, the second time he has denied writer E. Jean Carroll’s stunning claims that the president more...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Want to Get Hired By the CFPB? Tell Them You Know How to Destroy It. Just weeks after President Trump appointed him the temporary head of the country’s consumer financial watchdog in November 2017, Mick Mulvaney announced a major personnel change. When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established, its framers took a variety of steps to avoid...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 HIV Is Spreading in West Virginia. The Solution Is in Short Supply. HIV cases are surging in Huntington, West Virginia, a city already ravaged by the opioid epidemic. Experts worry that the virus could proliferate farther still—particularly since Charleston, the state capital an hour away, shut down its syringe exchange last year. The move restricted access not...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Jun 20, 2019 Ohio Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Gets $50K From Utilities Industry, Sides With FirstEnergy In Court Case A 4-3 majority on the Ohio Supreme Court this week sided with consumers in striking down hundreds of millions in additional charges that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio had allowed FirstEnergy to assess Ohio families for the past two years. Justice Sharon Kennedy, who is seeking...     Plunderbund        more   
• Jun 17, 2019 Pride Story: Local Author’s Second Book Becomes Bestseller On Pride Weekend COLUMBUS — The second volume of poetry from Columbus-based bestselling author Astone Jackson debuted at No. 1 for new releases in Amazon LGBTQ+ poetry over Pride Weekend in Columbus. “This book really continues my journey, exploring love, heartbreak, and everything in between,” said...     Plunderbund        more   
• Jun 7, 2019 Smile. Be Happy: Lessons for America From Peru and Beyond On May Day, as our well-equipped coach navigated Peru’s sprawling capital, a teeming city of 13 million inhabitants, the 29 Americans on board were soaking up everything they could learn about this huge metropolis, one of the principal cities in South America. The fact that the first day of May...     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Jun 25, 2019 A Muslim and a Sikh Talk Racial and Religious Harassment Aymann Ismail and Simran Jeet Singh on what they say and do in response to hate and bigotry.     Slate        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 GOP Congressman Says if Children Don’t Like Their Desert Detention Camps They Should Just Leave and Go Wherever Problem, meet solution!     Slate        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Nobody Actually Knows What Forgiving Everyone’s Student Debt Would Cost Only the government has the data, and it’s keeping mum.     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Jun 25, 2019 2020 Democrats Must Address Our Addiction to Military Spending Katrina vanden Heuvel They should take a stand at the debates against the Pentagon’s bloated budget. The post 2020 Democrats Must Address Our Addiction to Military Spending appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Tiffany Cabán Is Running a Nationally Significant Race John Nichols The criminal-justice reformer is running for Queens District Attorney in today’s election with backing from The New York Times, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders. The post Tiffany Cabán Is Running a Nationally Significant Race appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 History Lessons Hooked Hands Threading the truth. The post History Lessons appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 The Gentrification of Queerness Darnell L. Moore Christopher Street was once a haven for queer people of color. Its transformation into an outpost of white, upper-middle class respectability tells a larger story of exclusion. The post The Gentrification of Queerness appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Jun 25, 2019 Tim Ryan defends shift to supporting abortion rights 2020 presidential hopeful Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) is defending the shift in his views on abortion, saying in a Tuesday interview that progressive voters will appreciate that he "evaluated new information."Ryan was p...     The Hill        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Stephanie Grisham to take over as White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, the top spokesperson for Melania Trump, has been selected as the new White House press secretary, the first lady announced Tuesday."She has been with us since 2015 - @potus & I can think of n...     The Hill        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 Customs and Border Protection chief to step down: NYT Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commissioner John Sanders will step down as the federal government's primary border enforcement official, The New York Times ...     The Hill        more   
• Jun 25, 2019 The Hill's 12:30 Report: New revelations from Trump's exclusive sit-down with The Hill To view past editions of The Hill's 12:30 Report, click here: ...     The Hill        more   
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