Political Calendar: Week of August 11, 2019
August 11, 2019
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Cartoon of The Week
August 11, 2019
Trump used words like ‘invasion’ and ‘killer’ to discuss immigrants at rallies 500 times: USA TODAY analysis: A USA TODAY analysis of the 64 rallies Trump has held just since 2017 found that, when discussing immigration, the president has said “invasion” at least 19 times. He has used the word “animal” 34 times and the … Read more
Former FBI agents fired as result of ‘deep state’ conspiracy theory sue for wrongful termination
August 10, 2019
The Trump administration and its propaganda arm in the conservative media entertainment complex created a bizarre “deep state” conspiracy theory in which federal employees working for the FBI and intelligence agencies were “biased” against Donald Trump, which is the only reason why the FBI opened its counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, and then later engaged … Read more
Trump shake up of the intelligence community puts US national security at risk
August 10, 2019
Update to Trump attempts to undermine the intelligence community with his loyalists. The Washington Post reports,Trump announces shakeup at top of U.S. intelligence: President Trump said in a tweet Thursday that he will name Joseph Maguire, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as the acting director of national intelligence, following his aborted effort to … Read more
Arizona Republicans do not think being a White Supremacist is a Job Disqualifier.
August 10, 2019
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Recent excellent reporting from Blog for Arizona, Az Central, and the Arizona Mirror have revealed what should have been obvious for some time now: Being a White Supremacist or holding white nationalist views is not a disqualifying line on a Republican candidate or offices holders resume. There have been three recent cases in Arizona that … Read more
Developments in obtaining an unredacted Mueller Report and underlying documentary evidence
August 9, 2019
The nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is litigating Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cases against the Trump Department of “Injustice” for an unredacted version of the Mueller Report and the underlying supporting documentary evidence. These cases are separate from the congressional lawsuit seeking the unredacted version of the Mueller Report and the underlying supporting … Read more
Follow the money: banks are complying with congressional subpoenas for Trump’s financial records
August 9, 2019
Donald Trump and his new “fixer,” Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr, have engaged in a policy of “total obstruction” of Congress — an impeachable offense under Article III of the Nixon impeachment — in obstructing Congress at every turn to prevent the disclosure of the financial records of the Trump crime family to Congress fo … Read more
ICE raids in Mississippi left children separated from their parents without any plan
August 9, 2019
ABOVE: Friends, coworkers and family watch as U.S. immigration officials raid several Mississippi food processing plants, including this Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. The early morning raids were part of a large-scale operation targeting owners as well as undocumented employees. (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis, AP) As Rachel Maddow says, “Watch what … Read more
