riversedge
riversedge's JournalIt seems that George Conway wants to get the hashtag #DerangedDonald trending.
Happy to oblige 
https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1121531606861340674
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1121438748246466560
https://twitter.com/UROCKlive1/status/1121535965489770496
https://twitter.com/bryanbehar/status/1121512680618020864 
'Bring Your Kids to Work Day' didn't go so well for Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Source: mashable
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders probably thought holding a mock press briefing on "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day 2019" would go smoothly but, hoo boy, was she wrong.
While Sanders was fine hosting a group of kids (mostly the children of the White House press corps), she hasn't hosted an actual press briefing for actual reporters in 45 days which is a new record.
........................................................
Sanders was prepared for what should have been some softball questions, but things didn't go quite as smoothly as she hoped.
This if, of course, not entirely true. The administration carried out the family separation policy for a while before backing off. Even now, despite denials from administration officials, there's reported talk of bringing it back in a revised form. ...................................................
Read more: https://mashable.com/article/sarah-sanders-press-briefing-bring-kids-to-work-day/
https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1121420121325604865
https://twitter.com/tamarakeithNPR/status/1121438090386640896
Bill Weld: Trump has 'lost the capacity to govern'
Source: the hill
By John Bowden - 04/25/19 04:50 PM EDT
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld (R) said Wednesday that President Trump has "lost the capacity to govern," a view he said was shared by White House staffers.
Weld pointed to instances of aides undermining the president and refusing to carry out his orders outlined in special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation.
“I think President Trump has lost the capacity to govern. The picture painted by volume two of the Mueller report is [of] someone who cannot be trusted, and all his own people know he can't be trusted," Weld said on CNN.
..................................................
“If he had the self-awareness that Richard Nixon had, sense of shame is too strong a word, but self-awareness is probably too soft a word, he would resign,” he told MSNBC. “We would be much better off with a President Mike Pence than a President Donald Trump."
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440726-weld-white-house-aides-know-trump-has-lost-the-capacity-to-govern
https://twitter.com/hardball/status/1105727453941633025
https://twitter.com/TheDemCoalition/status/1121131069300985856
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1121413558942625793
Republican lawmakers are freaking out after a historic fort added a single word for historical accu
Source: raw story
25 Apr 2019 at 09:54 ET
The Fort Snelling historic site in Minnesota has a new sign that say “Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote” – and it has caused a drastic response from Republican lawmakers in the state.
.................................
State Senator Scott Newman and other Republicans were outraged the Dakota word was included in a sign.
............................................
“I do not agree with what the [Minnesota Historical Society] is engaged in doing, and I believe it to be revisionist history,” Newman said.
The Historical Society denies that it is diminishing military history. The organization says it wants to expand the stories they are telling about the fort.
GOP lawmakers are now pushing a bill to cut the Historical Society’s budget by $4 million a year, which could result in the closure of some popular sites......................................
.............................................
Or as Minnesota Public Radio’s Bob Collins said: “The usual suspects have gotten their feelings hurt — again — because the Minnesota Historical Society has pointed out that Minnesota history didn’t begin with them.”...............................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/republican-lawmakers-freaking-historic-fort-added-single-word-historical-accuracy/
Leave it to a Republican to try to diminish the Dakota people who lived in the area first. The name of the Fort is not being changed. But the location is added to some Welcome signs.
State Sen. Scott Newman. (Screenshot)
.......
Controversy arises over new signs at Fort Snelling
https://kstp.com/news/controversy-arises-new-signs-fort-snelling/5328873/
April 24, 2019 05:42 PM
Fort Snelling played a key role in Minnesota history, and today it remains one of the state's most prominent historical landmarks.
But a controversy has arisen over signs the Minnesota Historical Society has placed at the fort, which is located in an area known as Bdote by the Dakota people.
The old signs simply read "Fort Snelling Historic Site," but newer signs now read "Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote," - a Dakota word meaning where two waters meet. In this case, the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
..................David Kelliher of the MHS said Fort Snelling has not been renamed. Rather, the MHS has simply expanded the stories they are telling about what has happened there over 200 years.
"Lots of history has happened there over many generations," Kelliher said. "We want to tell all of those stories, and by telling those stories we absolutely are not diminishing military history or the contributions of veterans."..........................
Federal judge refuses to let Republican legislators join lawsuit challenging Wisconsin abortion la
I love it when punchy Fitzgerald gets a NO!
Federal judge refuses to let Republican legislators join lawsuit challenging Wisconsin abortion laws
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/23/judge-refuses-let-gop-legislators-join-planned-parenthood-lawsuit/3552296002/
Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 1:57 p.m. CT April 23, 2019 | Updated 6:27 p.m. CT April 23, 2019
MADISON - A federal judge Tuesday refused to let Wisconsin lawmakers intervene in a lawsuit challenging some of Wisconsin's abortion laws.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in January sought to overturn laws that prevent nurses from performing abortions and limit the ability of women to obtain medications that induce abortions.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul is defending those laws, but Republican lawmakers have said they don’t trust him and asked U.S. District Judge William Conley to let them intervene in the case.
GOP lawmakers said they didn't believe Kaul would defend the laws as ardently as possible because he had been endorsed by an arm of Planned Parenthood; had joined other states in challenging federal regulations barring family planning clinics that receive government funding from referring patients to abortion clinics; and had withdrawn friend-of-the-court briefs filed by his Republican predecessor in two cases challenging abortion restrictions in other states.
Conley said those concerns from Republicans weren't enough to given them the right to join the case.
"Even viewed collectively, this litany fails to demonstrate (or even come close to demonstrating) either gross negligence or bad faith," Conley said, referring to the standards that he found must be met for the Republican lawmakers to establish they had a right to intervene in the case.
.........................
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau said legislative leaders were reviewing whether to appeal the decision that's keeping them out of the case. ...............................
Planned Parenthood's lawsuit contends advanced practice nurses — such as nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives — should be able to perform certain types of abortions. The lawsuit also asks to make it easier for women to obtain medication that causes abortions, including by allowing them to consult with doctors and nurses through video links.............................................
In Pakistan, an ambitious effort to plant 10 billion trees takes root
whow. the last question comment of this short video is--what is your country doing to combat climate change (paraphased)
Today, Khan is Pakistan's prime minister, and his new government is aiming to replicate that success nationwide, this time with a “10 Billion Tree Tsunami.” ... But experts said Pakistan will need more than a trillion new pines, cedars and eucalyptus trees to reverse decades of deforestation.Oct 14, 2018
In Pakistan, an ambitious effort to plant 10 billion trees takes root
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...pakistan...plant-10-billion-trees.../10/.../18f14474-c0...
https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1121137872143376385
Tony Evers will veto 'born alive' abortion bill advanced by GOP lawmakers
The punishment to docs to so so so severe.
Tony Evers will veto 'born alive' abortion bill advanced by GOP lawmakers
Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 5:00 a.m. CT April 23, 2019 | Updated 9:31 a.m. CT April 23, 2019
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/04/23/tony-evers-veto-born-alive-abortion-bill/3495471002/
Abortions in Texas plummeted about 15 percent during the first year after approval of tough restrictions that the U.S. Supreme Court has since struck down a decline that activists say shows how hard it had become to get an abortion in America's second-largest state. (Photo: Associated Press)
MADISON – Doctors who do not provide medical care to babies who are born alive after a failed abortion attempt could face life in prison under a Republican bill headed straight toward Gov. Tony Evers' veto pen.
The legislation came the same week North Carolina's Democratic governor vetoed a similar proposal and as Republican lawmakers nationwide are sending their liberal-leaning governors similar bills that could energize conservative voters — especially heading into 2020 in swing states like Wisconsin.
"We wanted to reaffirm the fact that babies that survive abortions have the right to anything any other living, breathing individual in the state does," Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, said. "And doctors have the responsibility to care for that child as they would for any other person who was living and breathing."
Some abortion-rights advocates and doctors say the legislation leaves a false impression that the extremely rare scenario is common, but anti-abortion advocates say one time is too many.
The bill, co-authored and sponsored by Republican leaders of both houses, requires health care providers present during a failed abortion attempt "to exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care provider would render to any other child born alive."
If a doctor or nurse fail to do so, and fail to admit the infant to a hospital, he or she could face felony charges and up to $10,000 in fines. Health care providers "intentionally causing the death of a child born alive" as a result of a failed abortion, could face life in prison.
Evers said he will not sign the bill because of existing protections and criminal penalties in state law. ....................................
@SenRonJohnson Named in lawsuit: @NRA busted giving #Trump 9,259 times the legal limit: Bombshell
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1121201161594388480
X=Posted:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142307600
✔
@RawStory
NRA busted giving Trump 9,259 times the legal limit: Bombshell campaign finance lawsuit
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/nra-busted-giving-trump-9259-times-legal-limit-bombshell-campaign-finance-lawsuit/ …
133
6:56 PM - Apr 24, 2019
Twitter Ads info and privacy
NRA busted giving Trump 9,259 times the legal limit: Bombshell campaign finance lawsuit
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) was sued in federal court on Tuesday for allegedly failing to enforce campaign finance laws against the National Rifle Association (NRA). Giffords, the nonprofit...
NRA busted giving Trump 9,259 times the legal limit: Bombshell campaign finance lawsuit
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/nra-busted-giving-trump-9259-times-legal-limit-bombshell-campaign-finance-lawsuit/
Bob Brigham
24 Apr 2019 at 19:54 ET
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) was sued in federal court on Tuesday for allegedly failing to enforce campaign finance laws against the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Giffords, the nonprofit organization founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) after she survived an assassination attempt, sued the FEC for allegedly allowing the NRA to violate campaign finance law — including to help Donald Trump.
Report Advertisement
The new lawsuit, reported by BuzzFeed court and justice reporter Zoe Tillman, mentions the word “Trump” thirty-five times.
“Plaintiff’s complaints demonstrate that the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by using a complex network of shell corporations to unlawfully coordinate expenditures with the campaigns of at least seven candidates for federal office, thereby making millions of dollars of illegal, unreported, and excessive in-kind contributions, including up to $25 million in illegal contributions to now President Donald J. Trump,” the lawsuit charged.
...................................................
The lawsuit claims a “shell company” was created to bypass campaign finance law.
“By coordinating their advertising strategy in this manner, the NRA-PVF and the NRA-ILA have made up to $35 million in contributions to candidate campaigns since the 2014 election, in excess of the contribution limits, in violation of the source restrictions, and without the disclosure required under federal law. This includes up to $25 million in coordinated, illegal contributions to the Trump campaign in 2016,” the lawsuit argued.
.............................................
And Trump wasn’t the only Republican listed in the lawsuit. The lawsuit also named Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Montana state auditor Matt Rosendale, who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 2018.
“Taken together, these facts demonstrate an elaborate scheme for the NRA to unlawfully coordinate with the candidates it supports for federal office, including Donald J. Trump, Thom Tillis, Cory Gardner, Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson, Matt Rosendale, and Josh Hawley, while evading detection of its violations of federal law concerning the coordination of advertising communications through common vendors,” the lawsuit argued.
WP OP-ED By Hillary Clinton April 24 Mueller report documents a serious crime against Americans
Hillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Here’s how to respond.
Hillary Clinton: The Mueller report documents a serious crime against America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-mueller-documented-a-serious-crime-against-all-americans-heres-how-to-respond/2019/04/24/1e8f7e16-66b7-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?utm_term=.a7bb35302eab
Former Democratic presidential candidate calls for Congress to be "deliberate, fair and fearless." (Danielle Kunitz, Kate Woodsome, Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post)
By Hillary Clinton
April 24 at 4:44 PM
Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president.
Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated. This is the definitive conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. It documents a serious crime against the American people.
The debate about how to respond to Russia’s “sweeping and systematic” attack — and how to hold President Trump accountable for obstructing the investigation and possibly breaking the law — has been reduced to a false choice: immediate impeachment or nothing. History suggests there’s a better way to think about the choices ahead.
Obviously, this is personal for me, and some may say I’m not the right messenger. But my perspective is not just that of a former candidate and target of the Russian plot. I am also a former senator and secretary of state who served during much of Vladimir Putin’s ascent, sat across the table from him and knows firsthand that he seeks to weaken our country.
ADVERTISING
I am also someone who, by a strange twist of fate, was a young staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate impeachment inquiry in 1974, as well as first lady during the impeachment process that began in 1998. And I was a senator for New York after 9/11, when Congress had to respond to an attack on our country. Each of these experiences offers important lessons for how we should proceed today.
First, like in any time our nation is threatened, we have to remember that this is bigger than politics. What our country needs now is clear-eyed patriotism, not reflexive partisanship. Whether they like it or not, Republicans in Congress share the constitutional responsibility to protect the country. Mueller’s report leaves many unanswered questions — in part because of Attorney General William P. Barr’s redactions and obfuscations. But it is a road map. It’s up to members of both parties to see where that road map leads — to the eventual filing of articles of impeachment, or not. Either way, the nation’s interests will be best served by putting party and political considerations aside and being deliberate, fair and fearless......................
https://twitter.com/rodeodance/status/1121222951561379840
Dean: Troubling when the POTUS is a NITWIT! Pres Trump Says He Would Fight Impeachment in the SCourt
Love that term NITWIT. --FITS TRUMP TO A T!!
Troubling when the POTUS is a NITWIT! President Trump Says He Would Fight Impeachment in the Supreme Court. That's Not How It Works - TIME
https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/1121162344921350144
Profile Information
Member since: Wed Aug 15, 2012, 03:24 PMNumber of posts: 70,216
