“The obstruction stuff the president’s engaged in now is causing people to give this a second look,” Rep. David Cicilline, a committee Democrat from Rhode Island, said about impeachment.

“Whatever you think about the findings in the report itself, the blanket defiance of lawfully issued subpoenas and refusal to cooperate with constitutionally required oversight is — in and of itself — basis for impeachment,” Cicilline said in an interview.

“The more that the president denies us, the ordinary lawful demands for witnesses and documents, the more unified we are,” Raskin told reporters, calling Trump “the most impeachable president in the history of the United States.”

“The House Intelligence Committee is investigating whether lawyers tied to President Trump and his family helped obstruct the panel’s inquiry into Russian election interference by shaping false testimony,” the New York Times reports.

“The line of inquiry stems from claims made by the president’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who told Congress earlier this year that the lawyers in question helped edit false testimony that he provided to Congress in 2017 about a Trump Tower project in Moscow. Mr. Cohen said they also dangled a potential pardon to try to ensure his loyalty.”

I had just had our fourth baby. I was at my 6 week checkup when I asked for a referral to have my tubes tied. I was 28 and had 4 kids. The doctor told me no. I was too young. “What if you want kids later on?”

Um. I’m done. “But what if you divorce and want a baby with your new partner?”

Ummmm. I’m 28 with 4 kids- I’M DONE. “Sorry, I just can’t in good conscious let you make such an irrational decision when you are so young.” I remember going home and telling my husband, “that was the strangest appointment I’ve ever been too. He told me I wasn’t able to decide when I was finished having babies?!” I shook it off, not realising the IMPACT that would have on me a mere 20 months later.

Imagine, being in the mentality that you are finished having children, you just attempted to have your tubes tied to be denied, then to find out your pregnant.

Choice 👏🏼 fucking 👏🏼 matters 👏🏼.
Women’s 👏🏼 rights 👏🏼 matter 👏🏼

Do you see the irony here? You can’t have your tubes tied. You can’t have an abortion. You can’t you can’t you can’t you can’t....my choice to have a baby matters. My choice to an abortion matters. My choice to have my tubes tied matters. My choice to give up my baby for adoption matters. My choice to use my body as a sacred vessel for surrogacy matters. My choice is also YOUR choice. When one is removed they all are removed.
So, for all the women who are told they are under 30 and unable to have a tubal ligation, then find themselves pregnant and unable to have a legal abortion- I see you.

To all the women who enjoy sex and get pregnant and are unable to have a legal abortion- I see you too.

To the 16 year old girl who had sex ONE TIME without a condom and got pregnant and doesn’t have access to a legal abortion- I see you too babe.

Choice. Humans rights. Birth rights.
Consent. Respect. It all matters.

“It was completely amazing,” Nichols said, recalling when the ballot initiative passed in November. “We had all worked so hard, and we had all believed that the people in the state of Florida believed in second chances.”

Saudi Arabia rang alarm bells this week with claims that two of its oil tankers were “sabotaged” and sustained “significant damage”—but now questions are being asked after satellite images showed the vessels have no major visible damage. Details of the alleged attacks on two Saudi, one Norwegian, and one Emirati oil tankers on Sunday are still hazy. One U.S. official told the AP that the U.S. military believes Iran or Iranian allies used explosives to blow holes in the ships. But the scale of the alleged sabotage is far from clear. Video showed one targeted Saudi tanker still afloat without any apparent damage, and satellite images provided to the AP showed no visible major damage from above. The suspicion that Iran was behind the alleged attacks has already stoked tensions in the Middle East and beyond. Asked at the White House about the incident Monday, President Donald Trump said: “It’s going to be a bad problem for Iran if something happens.”

Bloomberg: “For anyone who owns a unit in the tower, the past two years have been brutal. Most condo sales have led to a loss after adjusting for inflation, property records show. Several sold at more than a 20% loss. By contrast, across Manhattan, just 0.23% of homes over the past two years sold at a loss.”

“The commercial portion of the building has been struggling for months to find tenants for more than 42,000 square feet of vacant office space, despite advertising rents well below the area’s average, listings and data from real estate brokers show.

The big picture: Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have been warning of an unspecified "escalating threat" from Iran in recent weeks, after receiving intelligence from Israel about a possible Iranian plot to attack U.S. interests in the region. Trump told reporters today that he’d been “hearing little stories about Iran,” adding: “If they do anything, they will suffer greatly.”

Saudi Arabia on Monday announced that two Saudi tankers were damaged by an "act of sabotage" over the weekend in the Gulf, without identifying any suspects. Iran’s foreign ministry distanced itself, calling the incident “worrisome” and “regretful."

Later on Monday, AP and other media outlets cited an anonymous U.S. official as saying an "initial assessment is that Iranian or Iranian-backed proxies" were responsible.