Sunday, September 1, 2019

There is more that we can and must do to address the gun violence epidemic that has gripped our nation. The week of September 9th, @HouseJudiciary will mark up and pass three additional gun safety bills to help keep our communities safe.


We @WCKitchen are 80 miles from #HurricaneDorian eye & feeling this!! Imagine what the people of Abaco+Grand Bahamas will experience! Bahamas @opmthebahamas Goverment will need major help! @ClintonGlobal @RedCross @TeamRubicon ...Florida should also get ready for major winds!


Rosenstein’s authorization letter is one page long


DUDE! There has been a mass shooting. A cat 5 hurricane is threatening the country. What are you doing?


WATCH: The Abaco Islands amid reports of "catastrophic damage" from Hurricane Dorian


JUST IN: Trump says Texas mass shooting “hasn’t changed anything” on gun reform talks


Took the words out of my fucking mouth. "Thoughts and prayers have done nothing to stop the epidemic of gun violence. Yes, this is fucked up; and if we don't call it out for what it is, we will continue to have this bloodshed in America." - Beto O'Rourke


Michael German, a former federal agent who spent years infiltrating white supremacist groups, said the work of the groups constituted “organized criminal activity,” and he asked, in so many words, “Where is the FBI?”


Company that runs immigration detention centers is top donor for three Texas congressmen


NEW: A company owned by the wife of Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has received $910,000 from the President's flagship political action committee, which is barred from coordinating with the campaign.


North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper declares a state of emergency as Hurricane Dorian approaches. Follow live updates


Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, running in an election that could be the fight of his political life, said he hopes to annex all Jewish West Bank settlements


Since my Republican opponents stole ballots in the largest case of election fraud in recent American history, they've shown no remorse, no sympathy, no accountability. Instead, they're now trying to blame Democrats for the fraud.


The Trump administration's trade war with China has entered a new phase, as new 15% tariffs on about $110 billion of Chinese imports take effect


Conservative Chief Justice of Supreme Court Warren Burger in 1991: The 2nd Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have seen in my lifetime"


Somehow you know the Barr family connection to Epstein is not simply a strange coincidence.


No amount of charity can negate the damage the Kochs have done to Americans’ trust in expert opinion, and to the environment


I’ve been saying from the outset that this looks like Bribery to me. And Bribery, like Treason, is explicitly defined as a “high Crime and Misdemeanor” and thus as an impeachable offense.


Perspective: Globally, many evangelicals lean left: What that means for America’s future


Trump signs order seeking to allow churches to engage in more political activity


Trump was supposed to be in Poland this weekend. He said he canceled the trip to monitor Hurricane Dorian. He just choppered from Camp David to his golf course in VA.


Netanyahu repeats pledge to annex Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank


I'm EMBARRASSED: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @NRA - Gov Abbott of Texas

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Warning, disturbing footage of latest Texas gun massacre.


The Federalist Society Says It’s Not an Advocacy Organization. We Found Documents Showing Otherwise.


Keep up the drum beat: Why did Justice Kennedy retire so abruptly? What role did his son at Deutsche Bank play? Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees plus his $200,000 credit card debt plus his $1.2 million mortgage, and purchased themselves a SCOTUS seat?


“Chambers learned that the two former New York Police Department officers who had raped her while on duty would serve no jail time.”


When will Texans hold @GovAbbott accountable for his allegiance to @NRA lobbyists? Save your thoughts and prayers, sir. ACT.


A hurricane headed for the east coast, mass shootings in west Texas, an escalating trade war with China, but don’t worry because the president is hard at work on his golf course.


#Dorian is closing on the the Northwestern Bahamas bringing life-threatening storm surge, heavy rains, & hurricane-force winds. Still a very strong Cat. 4 hurricane with slow movement to the


Sep 1 @ 12:00 am - Updated potential threats across South Florida associated with #Dorian through early next week. Keep up with this evolving forecast.


Texas police say the rampage began when they tried to pull over the suspect’s vehicle and he fired at them through the rear window, wounding one trooper.


Very early in the morning, on this day 80 years ago, Hitler’s attack against Poland started. Stalin had given Hitler green light for the attack, but UK and France declared war in response. WW2 started.


And, in addition to Hong Kong and Moscow, big demonstrations today against Johnson in the UK.


This beautiful 17 month old baby girl, Anderson Davis, was shot in the face with an AR-15 today in Odessa, Texas. For what? FOR WHAT?! 5 were people killed, 21 injured in another mass shooting, in ANOTHER WHITE MALE DOMESTIC TERRORIST ATTACK LOOK AT HER! SHE IS A BABY

Last report is she is alive and was being flown to hospital.

The grotesque cowardice of the Republican Party in the face of these constant mass murders—their refusal to take up even the most basic gun control measures despite overwhelming public support for them—is just despicable. Fuck Mitch McConnell and all the rest of them.


I’m devastated that this keeps happening. I'm furious that Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump are refusing to do ANYTHING to keep us safe. Just last week, I was in El Paso meeting with survivors from the Walmart shooting. I'm heartbroken that Texas has to go through this again


Texas set to ease gun restrictions one day after Odessa shooting


Opinion: Why Elizabeth Warren is the one to watch


Aging nuclear plants need to be watched more closely, not less. But the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering scaling back its inspections and making it easier for reactors to earn high marks.


Here’s what we know about the West Texas shooting toll: -More than 20 people shot -At least five people dead -Three officers injured -The gunman is dead