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riversedge's JournalThe Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress, taking the US government up on a promise it
Source: CNN
The Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress, taking the US government up on a promise it made nearly 200 years ago
Updated 2:40 AM ET, Sun August 25, 2019
(CNN)The Cherokee Nation announced Thursday that it intends to appoint a delegate to the US House of Representatives, asserting for the first time a right promised to the tribe in a nearly 200-year-old treaty with the federal government.
It was a historic step for the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation and its nearly 370,000 members, coming about a week after Chuck Hoskin Jr. was sworn in as principal chief of the tribe. The Cherokee Nation says it's the largest tribal nation in the US and one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes.......................................
As a result of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota, the Cherokee were ultimately made to leave their homes in the Southeast for present-day Oklahoma in exchange for money and other compensation. Nearly 4,000 members of the tribe died of disease, starvation and exhaustion on the journey now known as the Trail of Tears............................
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What power would a delegate have?
The treaty doesn't specify whether or not the Cherokee Nation's delegate would be a voting member of the legislature. But Hoskin said the position might look something like the non-voting members that represent Washington, D.C., and five US territories.
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There are currently six non-voting members in the House. Washington D.C. and four permanently inhabited US territories -- American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands -- are represented by a delegate, who serves a two-year term. Puerto Rico is served by a resident commissioner, who is elected every four years.
Those representatives can't vote on the House floor, but they can vote in committees that they are on, introduce legislation and engage in debate. Hoskin said he hoped the Cherokee Nation's delegate would help advance the interests of the tribe and, more broadly, all Native Americans.......................................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/cherokee-nation-congressional-delegate-treaty/index.html
I say Welcome to Congress. Way past due.
The flags of Oklahoma, the United States and the Cherokee Nation fly behind a sculpture of Lady Liberty at the Cherokee Capitol Square in Tahlequah.
Deb Haaland redefines Congress: 'She'll help us see what Native Americans mean'
Poll Finds Voters Associate the Word Rapist With Trump Via Slate
Interesting.
BTW--I would have said Bigot or Racist.
Poll Finds Voters Associate the Word Rapist With Trump | Via Slate
https://twitter.com/SafetyPinDaily/status/1165447463882416128?s=20
You’ll Never Guess What Word Voters Most Often Associate With Trump and Women
OK, fine, it’s rapist.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/poll-trump-women-words-rapist.html
By Christina Cauterucci
Aug 23, 20195:57 PM
What’s the first word that comes to mind when you think of President Donald Trump and women? Pollsters from PerryUndem and Supermajority, a new women’s activism nonprofit, asked 1,912 likely 2020 voters to try this free-association exercise. And wouldn’t you know it—a plurality of respondents said rapist.
I’m no communications professional, but to me, these results seem to identify a serious messaging problem the president may have around issues of gender. You can’t really do worse than rapist when it comes to the public perception of your approach to women. Sure, 2.1 percent of respondents came up with abuser—but that’s more of an amorphous description of a person’s conduct than a specific, identifiable crime. (Is it emotional abuse? A groping thing?) And yeah, 2.9 percent said predator—but that’s a general state of being, not a real accusation. And OK, 5.1 percent went with misogynist—but what politician who’s called for the punishment of abortion-seeking women hasn’t been hit with that label? It’s small potatoes. When 6.3 percent of people in a demographically weighted survey blurt out rapist when they hear your name with the word women, though? Yeesh! No place to go from there but up!
Since the survey question was open-ended and elicited 627 unique answers, PerryUndem and Supermajority opted to illustrate the responses in a word cloud rather than a graph. The resulting graphic is pretty hilarious.
The word cloud with prominent words like rapist, predator, disrespectful, etc.
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Trump considering slashing Medicare and social security -- after $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich
Trump considering slashing Medicare and social security — after $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/24/trump-considering-slashing-medicare-and-social-security-after-1-5-trillion-tax-cut-for-the-rich_partner/
The budget deficit is set to surpass $1 trillion in 2020 thanks in large part to Trump's tax cuts and trade war
August 24, 2019 12:29PM (UTC)
This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.
After exploding the federal budget deficit with over a trillion dollars in tax cuts for the rich and massive corporations, President Donald Trump is reportedly considering using his possible second term in the White House to slash Medicare and Social Security — the final part of a two-step plan progressives have been warning about since before the GOP tax bill passed Congress in 2017.
The New York Times reported this week that, with the budget deficit set to surpass $1 trillion in 2020 thanks in large part to Trump's tax cuts and trade war, Republicans and right-wing groups are pressuring the president to take a sledgehammer to Social Security and Medicare, widely popular programs Trump vowed not to touch during his 2016 campaign.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told the Times that his party has discussed cutting Medicare and Social Security with Trump and said the president has expressed openness to the idea.
"We've brought it up with President Trump, who has talked about it being a second-term project," said Barrasso.................................
WATCH: Climate activists chant 'failure of leadership' at Tom Perez after DNC votes against climate
WATCH: Climate activists chant ‘failure of leadership’ at Tom Perez after DNC votes against climate debate
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/watch-climate-activists-chant-failure-of-leadership-at-tom-perez-after-dnc-votes-against-climate-debate/
Published 1 hour ago on August 24, 2019
By Bob Brigham
Activists walked out of the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in San Francisco after the organization voted against allowing a climate change debate during the 2020 primary.
DNC Chair Tom Perez imposed strict rules on the debates, which prevented a climate change debate from occurring. Climate activists had forced a vote, hoping to overrule the party boss.
“The Democratic Party needs the energy, motivation, and organizing capacity of young people to defeat Trump in 2020. But Tom Perez keeps shooting the party in the foot by rejecting that energy and turning it away,” the Sunrise Movement said in a statement.
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Trump had a plan to 'blow up' the G7 and give the 'middle finger' to our allies: report
Source: raw story
Published 11 hours ago on August 24, 2019
President Donald Trump’s plan was to bully our G7 allies on a range of issues by touting the strong U.S. economy. As The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent wrote Friday morning, “Trump will proclaim his ‘America First’ agenda a smashing success, and throw that in the faces of our European allies.”
That plan will have to be changed now that his trade war with China just exploded.
China imposed tariffs of $75 billion of U.S. goods on Friday. Trump launched a tweetstorm causing the DOW to drop more than 600 points (at several times during the day more than 700 points.)
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The president apparently found wiping out the value of millions of Americans’ 401(k)s amusing:.................................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-had-a-plan-to-blow-up-the-g7-and-give-the-middle-finger-to-our-allies-report/
Letterman once confronted Donald Trump over making his ties in China.--video...........
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Donald Trump is on track to kill the World Trade Organization's highest court
Trump causes a problem and knows there will be no Court to try to solve it. damn
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-trade-war-g7-biarritz/
Trump storm blows into Macron’s G7 seaside summit
US officials rail against French president over agenda as trade tensions rise.
Updated 8/24/19, 5:25 PM CET
..................................The global outlook is also souring quickly because of worsening ties between South Korea and Japan, two powerhouses of high-end manufacturing, which has raised fears that global supply chains will be increasingly disrupted in sectors such as chemicals and semiconductors.
"Trade wars among G7 members will lead to weakening the already eroding trust among us" — Donald Tusk, European Council president
If that weren't enough, the World Trade Organization's appellate body — the highest international court that is meant to stop trade returning to an unsupervised law of the jungle — is close to collapse, largely thanks to Trump's refusal to allow the appointment of judges.
"Time is going to be short because there are so many problems," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a video message on Saturday ahead of the summit...........................................
World trade returns to the law of the jungle
The coming years are likely to focus more on diplomacy and power rather than legal rights.
Updated 12/31/18, 8:10 AM CET
Global trade is reverting to the most established doctrine of them all: Might is right.
https://www.politico.eu/article/wto-gatt-trade-tariffs-dispute-back-to-gatt-law-of-the-jungle-returns-to-tradeland/
U.S. President Donald Trump is on track to kill the World Trade Organization's highest court next year, which means the world is now poised to take a giant leap backwards to the years before 1995 in terms of resolving trade disputes.
Before the mid-1990s, trade was governed by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which allowed something closer to the law of the jungle to prevail. Big countries and trade blocs had a far greater ability to steamroller their will over smaller nations. Conflicts were resolved by diplomatic muscle rather than the strict letter of trade law.
Officials in Geneva, Brussels and Washington said the U.S. administration, led by Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, had made a calculation that GATT rules are in America's strategic interest.
“Lighthizer wants to go back to the days of the GATT, that’s obvious,” said one EU official.
"One former member of the Appellate Body said that the U.S. was asphyxiating the Appellate Body. My own view is: It's more of an assisted suicide" — Alan Wolff
America's tactic to return to GATT is to block the appointment of judges at the Appellate Body, the WTO's top court, that works on everything ranging from the dumping of ultra-cheap Chinese steel, to the eternal subsidy battle between Boeing and Airbus. By December 2019, or earlier, the court will not be able to function because there simply won't be enough judges......................................
Fed Appeals Court Rules Kim Davis Can Be Sued Over Gay Marriage License Refusals
Source: TPM
August 24, 2019 11:58 am
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the Kentucky county clerk who gained notoriety for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015 can be sued, Reuters reported.
The 3-0 decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a previous ruling by U.S. District Judge David Bunning in Kentucky that Kim Davis can be sued in her individual capacity for the denial of licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015. The decision will toss the lawsuits from two couples pursuing a lawsuit against Davis back into his court.
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Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/appeals-court-kim-davis-can-be-sued
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, with son Nathan Davis, a deputy clerk, reads a statement to the press outside the Rowan County Courthouse on Sept. 14, 2015 in Morehead, Ky. Davis did not interfere with marriage licenses issued after she returned to work. (Pablo Alcala/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS)
G7: "under no condition" will the EU agree to Trump's suggestion to invite Russia back into G7...
I think Donald is having a sad.
too bad
Stephanie Kennedy
@WordswithSteph
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G7 News: Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, announces that “under no condition” will the EU agree to Trump’s suggestion to invite Russia back into the G7. In fact, Ukraine may be invited as a guest to next year’s summit. #G7Biarritz #G7Summit
https://twitter.com/WordswithSteph/status/1165246051437240321?s=20
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Republican Who Compares Gay People to Rapists and Warns They May 'Harm' Kids Running to Unseat Democ
'VERY FINE PEOPLE'
Republican Who Compares Gay People to Rapists and Warns They May ‘Harm’ Kids Running to Unseat Democratic Senator
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/08/republican-who-compares-gay-people-to-rapists-and-warns-they-may-harm-kids-running-to-unseat-democratic-senator/
Published on August 23, 2019 at 12:05 PM ET
By David Badash
Trump-Loving Extremist Gets Backing From Trump Team
A former Republican U.S. Congressman who has a long record of anti-LGBTQ comments and positions is running to unseat a Democratic U.S. Senator. Jason Lewis, who has claimed same-sex parents may harm children announced he is running against Minnesota Democratic Senator Tina Smith.
Lewis, a conservative talk radio host for 25 years has lost two of his three congressional campaigns, but served for one term in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2016 he won his House seat, only to be defeated in 2018 by Angie Craig, a lesbian and the Democrat who was his opponent in the 2016 race.
Politico calls Lewis Trump’s “Minnesota mini-me,” based on his love of President Donald Trump, and reports “two of Trump’s top political lieutenants” are guiding him.
But Lewis’ viability will be a test of just how much Minnesota voters will support a bigoted and extremist candidate who literally supports the right of people to own slaves.
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