Oh and Steny Hoyer says:
What the Democrats are doing in 12 tweets:
For example (Politico):
Judge upholds Dem subpoena for Trump financial records
The judge, Amit Mehta, ruled that Congress can investigate the president without beginning formal impeachment proceedings.
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling delivers a striking blow to the president’s efforts to resist Democratic investigations, and is certain to give Democrats further legal basis to investigate Trump, his finances, and his presidential campaign.
And why does it take so long for impeachment? Partly establishing the basis, and partly this (Upshot from April, applies to all social media):
The Democratic Electorate on Twitter Is Not the Actual Democratic Electorate
Democrats who do not post political content
to social media sites are more likely to …
Even these results might understate the leftward lean of the most politically active, Democratic Twitter users, who often engage with political journalists and can have a powerful effect in shaping the conventional wisdom. In an informal poll of Democrats on one of our Twitter accounts on Monday, about 80 percent said they were liberal, and a similar percentage said they had a college degree. Only 20 percent said political correctness was a problem, and only 2 percent said they were black.
In non-impeachment process news (but it’s impeachment predicate news) :
NY Daily News:
Trump administration doles out $2M more to meatpacker owned by shady Brazilian brothers, bringing total to $64.4M
Just one day after the Daily News reported the Trump administration had doled out millions of dollars intended to benefit American farmers to JBS USA — owned by Joesley and Wesley Batista who both admitted to bribing hundreds of South American officials — the government upped the company’s take to $64.4 million, new purchase records reveal.
Paul Waldman/WaPo:
The evidence of Trump’s corruption just keeps growing
President Trump’s lies come in a hundred varieties, from the trivial to the juvenile to the slanderous to the gruesome. But every once in a while he says something that sounds a lot like the kind of lie we’re used to hearing from other, more conventional politicians when they get caught doing something wrong and try to deny it.
That’s what one has to conclude from the way he is reacting to the latest revelation about his weirdly suspicious relationship with Deutsche Bank. In case you haven’t followed this story, after a series of bankruptcies and the widening understanding in the finance world that you’d be crazy to loan money to him given his long track record as a liar and a con artist, by the late 1990s Trump found himself unable to get financing for projects from any U.S. bank.
Deutsche Bank, then desperate to increase its business in the United States and with some flexible ideas about both risk and ethics, became the only bank that would lend to him.
And then:
WaPo:
Anti-vaxxers target communities battling measles
In a suburban shopping center an hour north of New York City, hundreds of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered in a sex-partitioned ballroom to hear leaders of the national anti-vaccine movement.
Sustained applause greeted Del Bigtree, a former television-producer-turned-activist who often wears a yellow star , similar to those required of Jews in Nazi Germany, to show solidarity with parents ordered to keep unvaccinated children at home.
Bigtree described the purported dangers of childhood vaccines in phrases that also conjured the Nazis.
“They have turned our children into the largest human experiment in history — all of history,” he said.
The turnout last week in this suburb hard hit by measles helps explain why New York has become ground zero in one of this country’s largest and longest-lasting measles outbreaks in nearly 30 years. Even in a religious community grappling with more than 700 cases in Rockland County and New York City since last fall — among them, children on oxygen in intensive-care units — anxious and confused parents said they came because they are afraid of vaccines and seeking guidance about
Quinnipiac:
"The nation's economy is pretty darn good and President Donald Trump's approval numbers are pretty darn awful," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. "So what to make of the good news, bad news mashup and how to correct it?
"For the moment, the disparity leaves the president on shaky re-election ground."
Aka we are winning.
Very interesting findings. Not good numbers for Bernie.
Not good numbers for Trump.
WaPo:
What Do Native Americans Want From a President?
Tribes have had the same hopes and dreams for generations. Will the 2020 presidential candidates hear them?
The ways Native America penetrates non-Native America’s consciousness these days can be exceedingly superficial. Frequently, it’s through the cartoon refraction of Trump’s tweets. In January, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was about to join the Democratic presidential race, Trump tweeted: “If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!” The Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, of course, was when Lakota and Cheyenne warriors wiped out Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s cavalry; Wounded Knee was where, in 1890, U.S. troops massacred hundreds of Lakota men, women and children.
Even an attempt by Trump to honor Native Americans went awry: In 2017, he assembled Navajo code talkers, who helped the United States win World War II, beneath a White House portrait of Andrew Jackson, who presided over the forced relocation of the Choctaw and other tribes, known as the Trail of Tears. Then Trump riffed to the code talkers about his nickname for Warren, which seemed to perplex the veterans.
Susan J Demas/Michigan advance:
Damn, it feels good to have a feminist governor in charge
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vowed to veto the latest anti-choice gambit. She’s only been in office less than five months and she’s hamstrung by a GOP-dominated Legislature with leaders who urge people to just ignore her executive directive on equal pay. (Aw, isn’t the governor adorable for thinking she has the power to set policy?)
But consider where we’re at.
We’re now living through a wave of extreme anti-abortion legislation sweeping the country, from an outright ban in Alabama to a six-week limit in Ohio where an 11-year-old rape victim now has to carry her pregnancy to term, which is not only morally repugnant, but medically dangerous.
It’s all designed to force the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, which I believe will happen.
Amanda Terkel/HuffPost:
Abortion Shaping Up To Be The Health Care Fight Of 2020
Democrats think Republicans may have overreached with Alabama’s anti-abortion law, alienating voters ahead of the next election.
“Republicans are reminding America that they are in the minority on most of these important issues. Sometimes all of us have unpopular positions, that they’ve taken it to such an extreme that it puts an exclamation point on just how far removed they are from the majority of the American people,” Buttigieg told HuffPost.
Just 31 percent of Americans approve of the new Alabama anti-abortion law, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. A quarter of Americans who say abortion should be illegal in most or all cases disapprove of the law, as do about a third of Republicans, self-described evangelical Christians and self-described conservatives.
