https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1189273763264782338
Hakeem Jeffries ✔ @RepJeffries

Do Nothing Dems?

The House has passed more than 250 bills to lower healthcare costs, increase pay for everyday Americans and address the gun violence epidemic #ForThePeople.

Talk to your boy Mitch.

Or keep your reckless mouth shut.

FACTS.

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

Nervous Nancy Pelosi is doing everything possible to destroy the Republican Party. Our Polls show that it is going to be just the opposite. The Do Nothing Dems will lose many seats in 2020. They have a Death Wish, led by a corrupt politician, Adam Schiff!

4:12 PM - Oct 29, 2019

https://twitter.com/KenBurns/status/1189256778820792323
Ken Burns ✔ @KenBurns

I remember the Vindman boys fondly. Theirs is the story of America at its best.

UNUMKenBurns @UNUMKenBurns

As @pbump of @washingtonpost unearthed today, Army Lt. Col. Vindman, who is testifying before Congress today, was featured as a young boy in the @KenBurns Academy Award-nominated doc "The Statue of Liberty" in 1985.

Watch the full clip on UNUM here: https://to.pbs.org/2Ns6HJQ

3:04 PM - Oct 29, 2019

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/29/nsc-official-testimony-ukraine-perry-061244

By BEN LEFEBVRE and NATASHA BERTRAND

10/29/2019 04:47 PM EDT

Testimony from a senior White House official on Tuesday appeared to contradict Energy Secretary Rick Perry's ardent denials that he ever heard former Vice President Joe Biden or his son Hunter discussed in relation to U.S. requests that Ukraine investigate corruption.

In his opening statement, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official overseeing Ukraine policy, told House impeachment investigators that he objected to EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland's comments in a July 10 White House briefing — attended by Perry — requesting that Ukrainian officials investigate the 2016 U.S. election, the Bidens and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma that had employed Hunter Biden.

“I stated to Amb. Sondland that his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate Biden and his son had nothing to do with national security, and that such investigations were not something the [National Security Council] was going to get involved in or push,” Vindman's statement said.

Vindman said in his remarks that after he raised his objections, Fiona Hill, who was a Trump adviser on Russia at the time, entered the room and told Sondland his statements were inappropriate.

According to NBC News, Hill told House investigators that she entered the room as Perry was leaving. That account was confirmed to POLITICO.

That timeline would put Perry in the meeting when Vindman raised his objections about Sondland's request that Ukrainian officials investigate the Bidens — which Perry has repeatedly denied.

"Not once, as God is my witness, not once was a Biden name — not the former vice president, not his son — ever mentioned," Perry told the CBN News on Oct. 7. He repeated those denials in a Fox News radio interview last week.

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https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1189201202858352641
Jay Rosen ✔ @jayrosen_nyu

“The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with sh*t.” — Steve Bannon to author Michael Lewis in 2018.

This method has become basic to our politics. The cycle goes like this... 1/3

11:23 AM - Oct 29, 2019

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1189201204074692608
Jay Rosen ✔ @jayrosen_nyu

· 1h
Replying to @jayrosen_nyu
~ Trump floods the zone with sh*t. (Recently, "whimpering and crying.&quot
~ Journalists feel they have to fact check it.
~ His supporters complain: The Media is talking sh*t again about him again.
~ Journalists feel they have to even things up. (Thus, CNN hires Sean Duffy.) 2/3


Jay Rosen ✔ @jayrosen_nyu

~ Trump critics instantly react: what is this sh*t?
~ Media people: wow, left and right are so angry.
~ Civiltarian pops up: "I wish both sides would..."
~ Trump leaves another turd, cycle repeats.
~ Marginal gain in polarization at each round.
~ Pundits: we are so divided. END


11:23 AM - Oct 29, 2019

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Houses-on-Fire-in-New-Jersey-After-Plane-Crash-564040161.html?cid=ed_npd_bn_tw_bn

A Cessna 414 crashed into a home around 11 a.m., according to the FAA; The number of people aboard and their conditions are unknown

Published 47 minutes ago | Updated 1 minute ago

At least two houses are on fire in Colonia, New Jersey, after a plane crash, according to the Colonia Fire Department.

A Cessna 414 crashed into a home on Berkley Avenue at 11 a.m., according to the FAA. The FAA is enroute to the scene to begin the investigation.

A Cessna 414 is a twin-engine plane that can carry up to seven people.

The number of people aboard and their conditions are unknown.

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https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1189206957837692933
Kamala Harris ✔ @KamalaHarris

You are attacking a decorated Army colonel.

Alexander Vindman served in the Iraq War. You serve yourself.

He received a Purple Heart. You're receiving subpoenas.

Unlike you, he has a sense of duty to this country. He is a patriot. You are a disgrace.

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

Supposedly, according to the Corrupt Media, the Ukraine call “concerned” today’s Never Trumper witness. Was he on the same call that I was? Can’t be possible! Please ask him to read the Transcript of the call. Witch Hunt!

11:46 AM - Oct 29, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/29/fundamentally-un-american-attacks-alexander-vindman/

By Philip Bump

Oct. 29, 2019 at 9:56 a.m. EDT

A documentary crew working for Ken Burns was exploring New York in the early 1980s, working on a feature about the Statue of Liberty as part of Burns’s “America” series. Sitting on a bench near Brighton Beach, they found an elderly woman sitting with two twin boys, then about 10 years old.

They'd come from Russia, from Kyiv, the twins told the camera, their explanations overlapping. “Our mother died, so we went to Italy,” one added, “and then we came here."

In the final, produced version of the film, titled, “The Statue of Liberty,” the twins kick off a section of interviews with other immigrants to the U.S.: a woman from Austria, a couple from Italy, a man from Cuba who worked at Yankee Stadium. The throughline is obvious, even without historian David McCullough’s introduction to the segment.

“To me the Statue of Liberty is like the light that's left on back home,” he said. Being at the statue, he said, made “you feel something I think much more than just being an American. You feel the importance of being human. And you feel a kind of fraternal bondage with everybody who has come here."

That’s when the film transitions to the twins, identified as having come from the Soviet Union — at that point, of course, the fiercest international rival to the United States.

Above that identifier is the twins' family name: The Vindmans.



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https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1189179898960715776
Nancy Pelosi ✔ @SpeakerPelosi

Everybody has read your words on the call. The Ukrainian President asks for military aid to fend off the Russian attack, you say “I want you to do us a favor though,” and then you spend the rest of the call asking for bogus investigations to smear your political opponents.

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

How many more Never Trumpers will be allowed to testify about a perfectly appropriate phone call when all anyone has to do is READ THE TRANSCRIPT! I knew people were listening in on the call (why would I say something inappropriate?), which was fine with me, but why so many?

9:59 AM - Oct 29, 2019

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1189173602500911105
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

A great new book just out, “The Plot Against the President. The True Story Of How Congressman Devin Nunez Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal In U.S. History.” Shows very bad and corrupt people on the other side. Check it out!

9:34 AM - Oct 29, 2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/business/murray-energy-bankruptcy/index.html


Asshole

By David Goldman and Matt Egan, CNN Business

Updated 8:25 AM ET, Tue October 29, 2019

New York (CNN Business)The slow death of the American coal industry has forced Murray Energy, the largest private coal miner in the United States, to file for bankruptcy protection Tuesday.

Murray Energy's bankruptcy has been telegraphed for years. It recently failed to make payments to lenders, and the company entered into a forbearance agreement that bought it time to negotiate a restructuring. But that grace period came and went, and Murray Energy was unable to pay its bills. S&P Global Ratings downgraded the company's credit rating to "default" earlier this month.

The coal company formed a restructuring agreement with some of its lenders, representing about 60% of Murray's $1.7 billion in liabilities. The company announced Tuesday it has received $350 million in credit to keep its business operational through bankruptcy.
Robert Murray, the self-proclaimed king of the coal industry, has been replaced as CEO. Murray Energy announced Tuesday that former Chief Financial Officer Robert Moore will take over as the company's new chief executive. Robert Murray will remain as the company's chairman.

"Although a bankruptcy filing is not an easy decision, it became necessary to access liquidity and best position Murray Energy and its affiliates for the future of our employees and customers and our long term success," said Robert Murray in a statement.

The bankruptcy underscores the enormous pressure facing coal miners. A string of coal companies have already filed for bankruptcy, but Murray Energy is among the most powerful and well-connected firms in the industry. Murray Energy and its subsidiaries have 7,000 employees and operate 17 active mines in Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Utah, and West Virginia.

President Donald Trump's election in 2016 had raised hopes in the coal industry for a revival. The president moved swiftly to slash environmental regulations and even installed a former coal lobbyist to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency. But the deregulatory push has been overwhelmed by market forces. Coal just can't compete with cheap natural gas and the plunging cost of solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy.

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