October 2019 – Page 12

Free Chat Friday, Week 41

10/11/2019 Rachel Kennedy 36

Happy Friday, News Viewers. . . .What a week! (she said, again…..) It’s nearly over, and I just found out it’s been National Newspaper Week all week. While we have a President who’s tried his MORE

‘I don’t know those gentlemen!’ and musings from Trump’s bigly rally

10/10/2019 Ms. G 29

Just like the original ‘coffee boy ‘George Papadopoulos, Trump doesn’t know coffee boys, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, either; although he’s taken pictures with the thugs ‘gentlemen’ and his son has dined with them. But MORE

NM Rep. Xochitl Torres Small announced support for impeachment inquiry

10/10/2019 Community 7

Representative Xochitl Torres Small in an op-ed announced her support for formal impeachment inquiry Until today, U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-NM, belonged to a small group of Democrats in the House of Representatives who did MORE

Lindsey Graham dishes on Trump in hoax calls with Russians

10/10/2019 Rachel Kennedy 19

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has in the last year become something of a congressional point man for President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Turkey, leading discussions on everything from Ankara’s purchase of a Russian missile system over the MORE

Not so clean water or air in Pence’s home state

10/10/2019 Community 10

Two environmental groups say they’ll sue northwest Indiana steel company ArcelorMittal if the government doesn’t make it pay for environmental violations. In August, the company’s Burns Harbor facility discharged excess cyanide and ammonia into the MORE

Stonewalling Congress may be no more effective for Trump than it was for Nixon

10/10/2019 Community 14

One of Richard Nixon’s lasting gifts to the language was to popularize the American use of “stonewall” as a verb. Discussing whether to allow White House aides to testify before the Senate Watergate committee, Nixon MORE

Economy

Houston Rockets Nike merchandise disappears from China stores

10/10/2019 Rachel Kennedy 15

Houston Rockets sneakers and other merchandise were pulled from several Nike (NKE.N) stores in major Chinese cities amid the furor surrounding a tweet from the team’s general manager in support of anti-government protests in Hong MORE

Giuliani’s goons arrested for violating campaign finance rules

10/10/2019 Ms. G 76

Two Soviet-born donors to a pro- Trump fundraising committee who helped Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to investigate Democrat Joe Biden were arrested late Wednesday on criminal charges of violating campaign finance rules and are expected to MORE

Turkish assault on Syria continues

10/10/2019 Ms. G 12

Turkish ground forces seized at least one village from Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as they pressed ahead with their assault Thursday, launching airstrikes and unleashing artillery shelling on towns and villages the length of MORE

Liveblog - Impeachment Updates: 10-10-19

10/10/2019 Ms. G 17

Even Foxbots understand that Trump needs to go: “51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office, another 4 percent want him impeached but not removed, and 40 percent oppose impeachment altogether.” “Overall, by an MORE

Majority Now Want Donald Trump Impeached and Removed From Office: Poll

10/10/2019 CrazyEyes 16

An inreasing number of Americans are in favor of seeing President Donald Trump both impeached and removed from office, with five polls in recent days showing a majority of people supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry. MORE

Seth Meyers: “Trump will be so shocked if he reads the Constitution.”

10/09/2019 Ms. G 15

Seth takes a closer look at the White House threatening to obstruct the impeachment inquiry and refusing to cooperate with subpoenas.

Trump: ‘Why should we help the Kurds? They didn’t help us in Normandy.’

10/09/2019 Ms. G 70

Speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt room, Trump defended his decision to pull US troops out of Syria enabling Turkey to slaughter the Kurds. Quoting some wing nut article that Trump ‘read’ in Towhnhall, he MORE

Trump pressed Rex Tillerson to help Giuliani’s client facing DoJ charges

10/09/2019 Ms. G 13

Not only has Trump allegedly used the power of the presidency to pressure a foreign country to dig up dirt on a few of his political opponents, Bloomberg reports that Trump also pressured Secretary of MORE

Facebook Ads are Cool with Misinformation from Political Pocketbooks

10/09/2019 Community 14

Facebook will not remove a Trump ad from its pages, given its new politician “Fake News” green-light policy: Facebook’s updated advertising rules could allow politicians to post ads that contain falsehoods without violating any of MORE

Sometimes, we in the Jewish community have the tendency to see antisemitism where it does not exist

10/09/2019 Community 5

Source: Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Rees-Mogg pointed to the investor’s record as a financial contributor to anti-Brexit movements – which was seized upon as an echo of antisemitic tropes of the Jewish MORE

Joe Biden calls for Trump’s impeachment

10/09/2019 Ms. G 16

For the first time, former VP Joe Biden has called for impeaching Trump. “With his words and his actions, President Trump has indicted himself. By obstructing justice, refusing to reply with a congressional inquiry, he’s MORE

Trump asks SCOTUS to end DACA; lies about Obama

10/09/2019 Ms. G 14

In a series of tweets, Trump asked the Supreme Court to strike down DACA even before the court has heard arguments on “the legality of Trump’s termination of the Obama-era program.” Trump believes that if MORE

The Guardian: 20 fossil fuel companies behind a third of carbon emissions

10/09/2019 Community 8

New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers The Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves MORE

Turkey’s military begins offensive in northeastern Syria

10/09/2019 Ms. G 41

Turkish troops have begun an offensive in northern Syria, which could bring them into direct conflict with Kurdish-led forces allied to the United States. The move was announced by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey MORE

For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year

10/09/2019 CrazyEyes 21

A new book-length study on the tax burden of the ultrarich begins with a startling finding: In 2018, for the first time in history, America’s richest billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than the MORE

Chris Cuomo Shares A Republican Quote That Could Haunt GOP Lawmakers

10/09/2019 Rachel Kennedy 16

CNN’s Chris Cuomo reached into the Republican Party’s past to find a quote that could haunt GOP lawmakers today as the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump gets underway in Congress. In 1950, Sen. Margaret MORE

House Democrats may get to see Mueller’s grand jury material

10/09/2019 Community 5

During a two-hour hearing, Beryl Howell, chief judge for the U.S. District Court, challenged the Justice Department to explain its “extraordinary position” of trying to block lawmakers from seeing the special counsel’s grand jury materials, MORE

Shooting outside of synagogue in Germany; two dead, one arrested.

10/09/2019 Ms. G 5

Two people have been killed, and one suspect arrested, in a shooting incident near a synagogue in the eastern German town of Halle, according to local police. CNN: One person was arrested, police said, but other MORE

Bernie Sanders’ Daughter-In-Law Dies of Cancer

10/09/2019 PMSwithESP 7

Raine Riggs, 46, daughter-in-law of Bernie Sanders died Saturday, two days after a diagnosis of neuroendocrine cancer. She was married to Levi Sanders and was a neuropsychologist. According to her obituary, she had fallen ill MORE