Monday, July 30, 2018

U.S. states make last-minute legal bid to halt 3-D online guns


Russia Says It Will Know of U.S. Military Plans Before They Happen. Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed his country has insider knowledge on the military plans of the U.S. and its Western allies.


Mercury LLC (“Company A” in Manafort’s #indictment) signed 8 new #FARA clients in 2018, including the chair of Oleg Deripaska’s En+ (parent co of #Rusal) & China’s #ZTE Technologies👉🏼successfully pushed for #sanctions relief for ZTE (TBD for Rusal)


Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins are less likely to vote against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh due to less pressure from constituents than the health care debate. Change that.


The personnel chief of the FEMA — who resigned just weeks ago — is under investigation after being accused of creating an atmosphere of widespread sexual harassment in which women were hired as possible sexual partners for male employees, WaPo reports.


Opinion: A shutdown before the midterms? Democrats should be so lucky.


Unredacted Interior documents show Zinke's monuments review was a sham


Mueller says Manafort earned $60M from Ukraine consulting.


Obama and Biden spotted grabbing lunch together at DC bakery


Legal expert: Trump is "one witness away from a potential catastrophe"


NEW: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces "Religious Liberty Task Force." Sessions says the task force will "help the Department fully implement our religious liberty guidance," including "making sure our employees know their duties to accommodate people of faith."

wtaf

Make sure you aren’t one of the over 100,000 people that the government unregistered this year check your voter registration here. I did it and it took me 30 seconds


This letter makes it clear that Republicans intend to block the Senate – and the American people – from accessing the bulk of Judge Kavanaugh’s White House records. The question becomes: What are they hiding?


Buried lede. The leave facebook campaign worked. It happened in the last quarter. This hurt them so bad they had to lie about it.


Ohio farmer says farmers being treated just like Stormy Daniels: "Screwed" by Trump then paid off


Betsy DeVos's Education Department is set to curb college loan forgiveness, cutting an estimated $13,000,000,000 in relief for defrauded students


NEW: More job losses from Trump's tariffs Brinly-Hardy, a lawn equipment manufacturer in southern Indiana, has laid off 75 workers b/c of steel & China tariffs.


Britain’s greatest war leader came to America to warn us about a despot in Moscow. He was widely attacked for doing so. Sound familiar?


Charles Koch, network send GOP a message: We're happy to back Democrats who share our policy goals


Giuliani is calling into Fox News right now to clarify his collusion comments from this morning: "My client didn't do it, and even if he did it, it's not a crime."


Paul Manafort Trial Begins Tomorrow! Tuesday: 7:30 AM, July 31 Trasportation info


Rudy Giuliani questions Trump's ability to govern ...too much stuff for Trump to handle. Perfect.


EXCLUSIVE: House GOP planning to ask Comey to testify


Ecuador has just publicly stated that it is in the interest of all that Assange's asylum be terminated. Eat a dick my treasonous friend


White House uses foreign aid agency to give jobs to Trump loyalists


In 2012, Judge Brett Kavanaugh sided with Trump Entertainment Resorts’ successful effort to thwart a unionization drive at one of its casinos


"Eye-popping" payouts for CEOs follow Trump’s tax cuts


Workplace Sexual Harassment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

With a national dialogue underway about sexual harassment in the workplace, John Oliver sits down with Anita Hill to discuss the recent response to a not-so-recent problem.


Brian Benczkowski Worked for a Russian BankNow Hes Trumps Man at Justice


Wanna Beat Trumps Supreme Court Nominee? Focus on Marijuana


Betsy DeVos Message to Students: You Have the Right to Be Ripped Off


Listen to Donald Trump discuss a $150,000 hush money payment with Michael Cohen like they're buying a loaf of bread


Chris Christie on ABC: “’Collusion’ is not a crime. And so the fact of the matter is that we’re a long way away yet from having anything to talk about here.”


It was supposed to be an off-the-record meeting. Until Trump tweeted about it.


Bannon to Kochs: ‘Shut up and get with the program’


In the only abortion case heard by Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Kavanaugh issued a decision that would have forced a young immigrant woman to continue carrying a pregnancy against her will.


The spectacular dunes system picked by Trump for his golf resort in Aberdeenshire has been "partially destroyed" as a result of the course's construction, documents released under FOIA have revealed


Paul Ryan dines on lobster, woos donors on the Cape


Back in the U.S.S.R. Day 14


bedtime #KremlinAnnex


These are the Ukraine photos Manafort doesn't want the jury to see


Trump's tweets on Sunday represented his most specific attempt yet to discredit any findings of the Mueller investigation,


"...video found where Trump says he has RUSSIAN BUSINESS PARTNERS. Could mess up his golf swing. Trump literally says “One of the great families in Russia is our partner.” He’s talking about Putin’s oligarch who set up Trump Tower meeting"


I would very much appreciate your sharing this Politico piece I've done with Dr Bandy Lee about what to expect from Trump going forward and how to deal with it.


"It’s time we start thinking about post-Trump America"


Sulzberger recalled telling Trump that newspapers had begun posting armed guards outside their offices because of a rise in threats against journalists. The president, he said, expressed surprise that they did not already have armed guards


Trump and his son face legal risk if they're found to be lying about the Russia meeting


Vladimir Putin says he has invited Pres. Trump to Moscow and that he would be willing to visit the U.S. if "relevant conditions" were met, according to Russian media.


As Maria Butina sits in Jail maybe looking to cut a deal,To all evangelical Preachers, GOP politicians, And NRA leaders that have been hanging out with her the past few years, If Your married I can’t help but to think about this guy in the bottom right picture.


Russia and the far right’s cozy affair


In Da News. Some paper called USA Today


Just in: Statement from NYT Publisher A.G. Sulzberger, who says he told Trump his “language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.”


GOP Sen. James Lankford says Russia is still attempting to interfere in U.S. elections. "Regardless of who the candidate is...we as Americans, universally should push back against a foreign power trying to interfere in our system"


Trump's 2020 campaign denies reports that it is producing flags in China


BREAKING: Ebola virus possible for Denver Health patient in isolation


Scott Pruitt’s replacement has been in the job for less than a month. He’s already facing ethics scrutiny. This could be a record


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