| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trump's own opinions on Ken Starr: 'I think Ken Starr is a lunatic,' and 'He's a freak' If you haven’t heard, former head investigator of President Bill Clinton, Ken Starr, will now be a part of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team. He was the guy that turned a Republican-driven investigation of Clinton’s real estate holdings into a... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/17/2020 | 48 |
| Day after Ukraine launches probe of ambassador's alleged surveillance, Pompeo's shamed into acting If it's dire and urgent and directly related to duty and oath of office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is predictably missing in action. Take the hearing House Democrats planned earlier this week on the Soleimani assassination—Pompeo no-showed. Or how... |
Kerry Eleveld | 01/17/2020 | 101 |
| Some California community colleges to begin offering free legal help to undocumented students To states searching for ways to aid undocumented students, here’s a blueprint: eight community colleges in southern California are set to participate in a pilot offering free legal help to undocumented students, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/17/2020 | 5 |
| Oceanic 2014-2016 heatwave killed an estimated 1 million sea birds: 'unprecedented and astounding' On Wednesday, researchers published their findings in PLOS ONE of ecological fallout connected to an ocean heat wave experienced in the North Pacific between 2014-2016. Specifically, researchers looked at the mass die offs of the common murres sea... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/17/2020 | 14 |
| McConnell readies nuclear option for shielding Senate trial from public view Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking extraordinary steps to keep what's sure to be a sticky impeachment trial for GOP senators out of the public eye. He's already roped off certain areas to pen up reporters so they can't wander the halls and ask... |
Kerry Eleveld | 01/17/2020 | 170 |
| ICE to expand private detention facility despite abuses exposed in now public report A previously confidential report obtained by NPR continued to find horrific abuses at California’s Adelanto Detention Center—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility operated by private prison profiteer GEO Group—including keeping detainees in... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/17/2020 | 5 |
| The 'blossoming' of damning evidence is no accident—Pelosi's strategy worked As reporters grilled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week about whether she felt pressured to send over the articles of impeachment to the Senate, she laughed it off. “Absolutely total cooperation,” Pelosi offered, after 24 hours in which several... |
Kerry Eleveld | 01/16/2020 | 375 |
| Progressive groups that support Warren and Sanders sign unity pledge If you hadn’t heard, it’s an “either or” situation: Either Bernie Sanders is a complete misogynistic asshole, or Elizabeth Warren is a lying son of a … It may be something in between, or it may be one or the other. But one thing is clear. Sens.... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/16/2020 | 396 |
| The Most Centrist Take: Don't impeach Trump, but do pass a law clarifying that extortion is bad now Allow me to present the most "centrist" possible take on the impeachment of Donald Trump. The most studiously amoral, the one that treats bothsides-ism not merely as political dalliance, but as gymnastic artistry. The mewling that will dominate all... |
Hunter | 01/16/2020 | 154 |
| Bernie Sanders wins endorsement from major teachers union On Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders received an important endorsement ahead of the Democratic caucus in Nevada from the Clark County Education Association (CCEA) District’ teachers union. BuzzFeed News reports that the Clark County School District is the... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/16/2020 | 20 |
| Elizabeth Warren's campaign announces endorsements from more than 100 Latinx leaders Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has announced the endorsement of more than 100 Latinx leaders, including elected officials, undocumented immigrant activists, and local organizers. “I am grateful for the support of this list of Latina,... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/16/2020 | 25 |
| Senate GOP caucus meltdown! Five-alarm fire engulfs the White House Republican senators caught amid a battery of fires engulfing the White House are frantically searching for a way out. Between the Government Accountability Office report determining the Trump administration broke the law by withholding security... |
Kerry Eleveld | 01/16/2020 | 376 |
| JPMorgan conference attendees descend upon San Francisco, immediately whine about homeless people The Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, is one of the shining examples of what growing income inequality looks like. The median price for a home in San Francisco is around $1.38 million and the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment is just... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/16/2020 | 47 |
| Fathers torn from children for months sue Trump admin over family separation policy Two fathers who were forcibly separated from their children under the barbaric “zero tolerance” policy have sued the Trump administration, saying that both children suffered abuse following the state-sanctioned kidnapping. “Plaintiffs suffered, and... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/16/2020 | 13 |
| Intelligence leaders ask Congress to cancel national security hearings to avoid angering Trump This is unbelievable—and yet not. United States intelligence officials are "quietly" asking the House and Senate to cancel public hearings on this year's World Wide Threats Assessment, the report outlining the major risks to United States security as... |
Hunter | 01/16/2020 | 238 |
| House Democrats demand ICE release transgender detainees: 'not one more life should be lost' Dozens of House Democrats are calling for the release of all transgender detainees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, citing a number of horrific deaths and the agency’s ongoing failure to meet congressional standards ensuring the safety... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/16/2020 | 4 |
| Trump team finally releases billions in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico—with major strings attached Donald Trump and his team have continued to withhold disaster relief funds from Puerto Rico for the hurricanes that hit the island in 2017, and a series of recent earthquakes that have further damaged homes and infrastructure. Trump has continued to... |
Hunter | 01/16/2020 | 66 |
| National groups sue Trump admin over cruel policy deporting some asylum-seekers to Guatemala A coalition of national civil, immigration, and human rights organizations have sued the Trump administration over a cruel and inhumane policy deporting asylum-seekers from Honduras and El Salvador to Guatemala under a so-called safe-third-country... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/16/2020 | 4 |
| Democrats file ethics complaint over Republican 'trackers' roaming House halls The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has filed a congressional ethics complaint against their counterpart, the National Republican Campaign Committee. Ethics complaints against ... |
Hunter | 01/15/2020 | 53 |
| What is this about and why is this not national news? www.washingtonpost.com/… TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is giving Kansas legislators extraordinary private briefings about undisclosed security issues. Kansas House members boarded National Guard buses Tuesday for a briefing at... |
Vetwife | 01/15/2020 | 57 |
| Trump's impeachment defense team is announced, and Giuliani didn't make the cut Donald Trump is just dying to have his impeachment trial be a D.C. mash up of COPS and Jersey Shore, but apparently some sanity crept into the script he's been preparing and his gaffe-a-minute personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani didn't make the cut. Instead,... |
Kerry Eleveld | 01/15/2020 | 123 |
| Vermont legislators propose bill to become first state to give universal free meals in public school Every few days there is a story about someone, a child, an adult, or an organization figuring out a way to pay off some child’s or set of children’s lunch “debt.” The stories are feel good only in as much as they show how caring and thoughtful and... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/15/2020 | 44 |
| Empty prison camp for migrant kids could reopen later this year, report says Trump administration officials continue to threaten float the possibility that the prison camp for migrant children in Florida could be reopened later in the year if the number of migrant children arriving at the southern border increases, the Miami... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/15/2020 | 6 |
| State Department suddenly cancels briefing on embassy security, no explanation given Without offering any explanation, State Department officials abruptly canceled two classified briefings Wednesday in the House and Senate that are required by law to occur on a monthly basis. The briefings with national security-focused committees in... |
Kerry Eleveld | 01/15/2020 | 164 |
| Tennessee's Republican governor says he will sign law allowing discrimination against LGBTQ parents Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee released a statement on Tuesday saying he will be signing a new measure into law that allows faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to exclude LGBTQ families, and whoever else they want to discriminate against based on... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/15/2020 | 70 |
| 'You can do anything in the Ukraine with money': The unprecedented threat to a U.S. ambassador In late April last year, then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch fielded a phone call in Kyiv from a State Department colleague back in the states. Carol Perez, Director General of the Foreign Service, urged her to catch the "next plane home"... |
Kerry Eleveld | 01/15/2020 | 139 |
| 25 interfaith organizations release letter calling for Stephen Miller's resignation from White House Campaign Action A coalition of interfaith groups this week released a joint letter calling for the resignation of White House aide Stephen Miller, call him a “white supremacist” and writing that “We believe that all people deserve to be treated with... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/15/2020 | 44 |
| White House responds to House impeachment with more lies and gibberish White House "press secretary" Stephanie Grisham, who may or may not be a crisis actor hired on for three hours a week or Andy Kaufman doing a bit from beyond the grave, is out with the official Trump White House response to impeachment. It's not worth... |
Hunter | 01/15/2020 | 52 |
| Federal judge temporarily stops Trump executive order giving states power to block refugees Campaign Action U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte on Wednesday temporarily stopped impeached president Donald Trump’s executive order allowing states to block refugees from being resettled in their communities, saying in the ruling that “Giving states... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/15/2020 | 48 |
| House Democrats open investigation into inhumane Trump policy forcing asylum-seekers to Mexico House Democrats announced on Tuesday that they have opened an investigation into inhumane and illegal Trump administration policy that has forced as many as 60,000 asylum-seekers to wait out their cases in Mexico, saying that they believe it “is a... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/15/2020 | 5 |