U.S. abortion rights activists vow to challenge landmark Alabama ban

U.S. abortion rights activists vow to challenge landmark Alabama ban
U.S. abortion-rights activists vowed on Wednesday to challenge an Alabama bill that would ban abortions, even in cases of rape and incest, the latest attempt by conservatives to reverse a 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a woman's right to it.

Women are showing great restraint in not burning everything to the f*cking ground today and I don't know how they do it. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Putin smiles as Washington ties itself in knots over Russia
• US ambassador: 'Israel is on the side of God' 
• Saudi Arabia says oil facility attacks target world supplies
• 8-year-old boy accidentally shoots mother at baseball game

Abortion isn't just legal in Israel, it's free. So all the anti-abortion #maga  ppl praising Alabama & trying to kill #RoeVWade will probably start demanding we end all US aid to Israel, am I right? - John Fugelsang

Trump Carries On The Bush Tradition Of Messing Up The Middle East
The U.S. military put its forces in Iraq on high alert and the State Department ordered all non-emergency employees Wednesday to leave the country immediately amid escalating tensions with Iran. It comes as some U.S. allies have expressed skepticism about the Trump administration’s claims that Iran poses a growing threat. 

Not only are we getting more ignorant as a nation, we are getting prouder about it. - Kenneth Bailey tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump boasts that his looks and brain are better than Biden's
• Don Jr. agrees to appear before Senate panel after GOP flare-up
• Barr throws curveball into Senate GOP 'spying' probe
• Trump, Kudlow 'had it out' after contradiction on who is hurt by tariffs: report
• GOP lawmaker on China trade war: 'It's not great for farmers'
• Peter Schweizer calls for Hunter Biden to testify before Congress
• Disinvited GOP lawmaker turns up at Dem hearing
• ‘Bathroom bill’ author wins GOP nomination in North Carolina redo race
• Pat Robertson delivers damning threat against Equality Act: "The land will vomit you out"
• For just $45, you can pray for the president with this coin that's sold by a guy who says God told him you need the coin

Evangelicals will protect the sanctity of life, regardless of how many women or doctors they have to execute. - Tea Pain tweet

So Many Conspiracies Theories Out There
Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump – using tactics notoriously associated with J.Edgar Hoover – when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017, meeting at which he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau’s chief counsel at the time.

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Rock The Voter News

• House Democrats probe Justice Department's handling of police shootings
• White House counsel rejects Democratic efforts to investigate Trump
• Kamala Harris escalates gun control agenda
• Biden: Republicans will want to work with Dems after Trump leaves office
• Wyden demands more information about Treasury withholding Trump returns

Kinda weird that all the pro-life movement does is kill women. - Kashana tweet

Surprise! Surprise!
In the president's first year in office, formal complaints that staffers were violating an 80-year-old law prohibiting them from political activity jumped.

Alabama rapists thank the state GOP for finally giving every one of them the option to pick the mother of their next child.   - John Fugelsang

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Taliban Denounces Alabama Senate as Too Extreme - Andy Borowitz

Business/Tech News

• Poll: Voters still see Trump as a successful businessman
• Steve Bannon: 'No chance' Trump is going to back down in the China trade war
• FCC proposes blocking robocalls by default
• Ford recalls Fusion cars to fix glitch that can cause them to roll away

PR Firm Advises U.S. To Cut Ties With Alabama - The Onion

Boeing Knew And Did Nothing
Just months before a second deadly crash of a Boeing 737 Max airplane, American Airlines pilots angrily confronted a Boeing official about a computerized anti-stall system that preliminary reports have now implicated in both deadly wrecks, audio obtained by CBS News reveals.

Maybe if we start calling it Unborn Baby Earth instead of Mother Earth republicans will be more concerned with its well-being. - OhNoSheTwint

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Odd News

• Mick Jagger Back on His Feet (and More) After Heart Surgery 
• Scientists discover why grocery store tomatoes don't taste like anything
• Beaches In Japan Are Littered With The Melted Remains Of Hiroshima
• $1 million lottery prize is the third for Massachusetts couple
• Veterinarian patches tortoise's shell with screen door repair kit

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Here are some octopus eggs. I had no idea they looked like that.

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CIA, FBI, Director of National Intelligence working with Attorney General Barr to review Russia probe origins

CIA, FBI, Director of National Intelligence working with Attorney General Barr to review Russia probe origins
Attorney General William Barr is working closely with the CIA to review the origins of the Russia investigation and surveillance issues surrounding Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter, broadening an effort that the President has long demanded to involve all major national security agencies.

Curious to see what turns out to be a bigger sh-tshow. The series finale of Game of Thrones or the series finale of the United States. - OhNoSheTwint

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• American Nazis protested a Holocaust remembrance event 
• Florida governor says Russia hacked two counties in 2016
• Pompeo tells Russia: we're committed to improving ties
• Barr Taps CT US Attorney To ‘Investigate The Investigators’ On Russia Probe 
• Trump and Barr refuse to defend ban on female genital mutilation

Fighting with China to borrow from China to try to not bankrupt the farmers who market to China to own the libs. - Bruce Bacon

Trump Is Putting 120,000 Troops In Harm's Way
The top U.S. defense official has presented an updated military plan to President Donald Trump’s administration that envisions sending up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, the New York Times reported on Monday.

I like when the people who said Obama lacked experience defend Jared Kushner setting policy. - John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• Burr Tells GOP Don Jr Left Senate Intel No Choice But To Subpoena After His No-Shows
• Trump: 'Very unfair' for Intelligence panel to subpoena son
• Trump calls Wray spy comments to Congress 'ridiculous'
• Lawsuit accusing DHS of blocking migrants' right to counsel can proceed in D.C., judge rules
• ‘Traitor’ Lindsey Graham targeted by massive #LindseyGrahamResign movement after GOP senator defends Trump family again
• Jerry Falwell Jr. buried in ridicule after paranoid rant about ‘Southern Baptist Deep State’ out to get him
• Alabama congressman: "People who lead good lives" don't have preexisting conditions

Trump's budget takes money away from Pell Grants to give to NASA, so now we can both land on the moon and have citizens so uneducated they think it's fake. - Nick Jack Pappas

Trump&Co Find New Ways To Be Cruel To Immigrants
On Friday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development officially published its proposed rule to evict undocumented immigrants from public housing. Tens of thousands of children with US citizenship or legal status could be displaced.
“The cruelty of Secretary Carson’s proposal is breathtaking,” Diane Yentel, President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition said in a statement. “The harm it would inflict on children, families and communities is severe.”

The only thing stupider than this trade war is the actual war that John Bolton wants. - Brian Schatz

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Rock The Voter News

• Alyssa Milano urges sex strike in protest against Georgia abortion law
• Sanders Aligns With Ocasio-Cortez on Climate as Biden Surges
• Beto O’Rourke bombs on The View as he gets grilled over his botched 2020 campaign rollout
• Elizabeth Warren rejects Fox News town hall invite, slams network
• Former US President Jimmy Carter has surgery for broken hip

Immigrants and refugees are not a problem that we need to handle, they are an asset to our nation and an essential part of the fabric of this country — our policies must reflect that. - Pete Buttigieg 

Al Gore Warned Us
“We don’t know a planet like this...” Startling news from the well-respected Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii: Carbon Dioxide levels have reached the highest they’ve been in human history. 

Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists—it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class. - Elizabeth Warren

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Business/Tech News

• Trump says he will use revenue from tariffs to fund aid for farmers hurt by tariffs 
• WhatsApp Security Flaw: How to Update Your App to Stay Safe
• California jury hits Bayer with $2 billion award in Roundup cancer trial
• Trump Tower Is Now One of NYC's Least-Desirable Luxury Buildings

How to get a Netflix special the hard way: do stand up for a decade 

The easy way: be a serial killer. - Conan O'Brien

My My My. Mitch McConnell Lucked Out With Russia!
Russian aluminum giant Rusal spent most of last year under US sanctions. Now it's pumping $200 million into a new project in Kentucky.
Rusal, the largest producer of aluminum outside China, will help fund and supply a low-carbon aluminum rolling mill under construction in the eastern part of the state, parent company En+ Group said Sunday.

I own the Red Hen restaurant that asked Sarah Sanders to leave. Business is still good. Better than good, actually. And besides the boost to our area charities, our town’s hospitality and sales revenue have gone up, too. - Edward Fitzgerald

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Odd News

• Ohio school closed after enriched uranium discovered inside
• Earth's moon is shrinking and quaking, study says
• NASA reveals four-story 3D-printed pod that could shelter colonists on Mars
• Canine brucellosis: What you need to know about the dog disease that can spread to humans
• Police: New Mexico driver fled and said, ‘I don’t think so’

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A pinyon pine tree clings to the rocks on Windy Ridge, in the Grand Canyon. “Life, uh, finds a way.”- Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park.

Peace.

Trade Spat Wipes Out $1 Trillion From Global Stock-Market Values

Trade Spat Wipes Out $1 Trillion From Global Stock-Market Values 
The flare-up in trade tensions sent global equities to the steepest losses of the year, wiping more than $1 trillion from stock values around the world Monday. The MSCI All-Country World Index fell 2% as of 12:55 p.m. in New York, headed for the worst day since early December.

Don't worry, this trade war with China will only affect you if you frequently buy... (checks list) products. - Stephen Colbert

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Military attorneys installed tracking malware in emails sent to REPORTERS and defense lawyers
• European diplomats snub Mike Pompeo — and turn his attempted ‘photo op’ into a failure: report
• As Trump escalates pressure, experts fear Iran will strike back
• Anti-gay preacher Steven Anderson banned from Ireland
• Sweden Reopens Inquiry Into Julian Assange Over Rape Allegations
• Border detention cells in Texas are so overcrowded that the US is using aircraft to move migrants

You know we're going through a rough patch when "Jeff Bezos Announces Plans for Space Colonization" is the least jaw-dropping headline you've read all week. - Bette Midler

Police Take Sledgehammer To 1st Amendment
San Francisco police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist on Friday, taking a sledgehammer to the gate of his house and seizing his computers, phones and other devices.

I Wonder What Kompromat Putin Has On Pence
Vice President Mike Pence played a key role in the events that eventually led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller — and increasingly paranoid right-wingers are starting to notice.









Republican Shenanigans

• GOP lawmakers no longer trying to restrain Trump: ‘No one is standing up to him — and they fear him now’
• Trump can't stop ranting about Robert Mueller and Joe Biden during Mother's Day celebration
• Sen. Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to ignore Senate subpoena
• Clarence Thomas takes an unusual shot at Stephen Breyer in Supreme Court feud over death row case
• Tom Cotton: US farmers are facing ‘pretty minimal’ sacrifices in trade war because they aren’t being killed
• Steve King denies racist meeting: ‘Nobody is doing any neo-Nazi plots with homosexuals and Jews at the table’

When "George Conway" directly calls out his dingbat, sociopath, congenital-liar wife, I'll start to take him seriously. Until then, however, the two of them must be seen as running a "good cop, bad cop" routine on the country, and nothing more dignified than that. - D. Lowther tweet

Roe v Wade Will Be On The SCOTUS Chopping Block
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Monday issued what appeared to be a dire warning about his right-wing colleagues overturning more precedents in ways that will send shock waves through the American political landscape.

Pence says Buttigieg's homosexuality is an attack on his faith. When following your faith requires that you demand others stop being who they are, it has crossed from religion to bigotry. Unless Buttigieg is physically attacking you, Mike, it's just your imagination. - John Leguizamo 

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Is everyone enjoying their tax increase? Because that's what you get from this trade war. - Rick Wilson tweet

Rock The Voter News

• Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country
• Biden jolts Dem fight for big donors
• 1000 toys displayed outside Michigan church to illustrate impact of Trump's family separation policy
• Bill Nye tees off on climate change skeptics: 'The planet is on f---ing fire!'

The CIA Spy Who Was Outed By The Bush Administration Is Running For Office 
Former CIA operative and author Valerie Plame officially announced her candidacy Thursday for an open U.S. congressional seat in northern New Mexico, joining several other Democrats in an increasingly crowded race.

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So, who in the White House went short on stocks last week before Trump started this latest round in the U.S.-China trade war?The SEC had better find out. - Richard W. Painter

Business/Tech News

• China hits back at Trump with tariffs on $60bn of US goods
• Kudlow: ‘Both sides will suffer’ in U.S.-China trade war
• Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War
• Supreme Court rules against Apple in dispute over app prices
• Trump nominates man whose firm tripled price of insulin to regulate drug companies

The only person who knows less about this trade war we're in than me is the president of the United States. - LOLGOP

Uh Oh. I Think The FBI Director Is Getting A Pink Slip
President Trump tweeted a lengthy quote Sunday night from a conservative commentator criticizing FBI Director Christopher Wray.
"'Just another abuse of power in a long series of abuses of power by the Democrats that began during the Obama Administration, continued through the Mueller FBI operation, & now the baton has been passed to Jerry Nadler to continue to abuse power to harass President Trump and the Democrat National Committee,'" Trump tweeted, quoting Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

“I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.” - Doris Day who passed away today

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Odd News

• It MAY snow in the Northeast this week. In MAY
• Pilot arrested at Kentucky airport for alleged 2015 triple homicide
• US author loses book deal for tweet-shaming
• IHOP's Mother's Day pancakes in the womb tweet sparks firestorm 
• NYC waiter returns $424K check to customer despite no tip

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Pasta art. I like her hat.

Peace.