Impeachment or the 25th Amendment?

Pelosi tells colleagues Trump is 'villainous' — and he wants to be impeached
The House speaker's message to Democrats came as vocal support for impeachment rose among lawmakers in the caucus.

I pray for the President of the United States. I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. - Nancy Pelosi

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Senator: Trump may use Iran threat to sell bombs to Saudi Arabia
• US officials: Plan may send up to 10,000 troops to Mideast
• Fox contributor Jason Chaffetz says we need to have "unlimited resources in the Middle East to keep the peace"
• 'American Taliban' Lindh released from U.S. prison
• Trump furiously hurls insults at Rex Tillerson after he reveals Putin ran circles around him
• Kushner’s lack of historical knowledge makes him vulnerable, says Tillerson
• Texas moves to arm more teachers to prevent school shootings
• 6th migrant child dies after being detained by border authorities

It's heartbreaking that a sixth child has died in detention. It's outrageous that we're only learning about it eight months after the fact. - Hillary Clinton

Good. Someone Should Hold Police Responsible.
USA TODAY is leading a national effort to obtain and publish disciplinary and misconduct records for thousands of police officers.

I've read the intelligence. I attended yesterday’s briefing. The latest crisis with Iran didn't come out of thin air—it is a direct result of this president's actions. - Elizabeth Warren

Republican Shenanigans

• In 20 Tweets, GOP Rep. Justin Amash Lays Out Case For Impeachment
• Lindsey Graham Decries Two Year Investigation Into Trump as 'Political Rectal Exam'
• White House denies Trump storming out of meeting was a stunt
• Kellyanne Conway snapped in Pelosi's face at doomed infrastructure meeting: 'That's really pro-woman of you'
• Ben Carson guts homeless shelter gender protections 24 hours after telling Congress he wouldn’t
• Trump Jr. on demands to testify again: 'It is all nonsense'
• Republicans hand lifetime federal bench appointment to lawyer who says gay judges can’t decide cases objectively

Any agreement to silence Pelosi could face constitutional hurdles, since one of Pelosi’s principal duties as Speaker is to speak. - Andy Borowitz

Another Indictment!
The investigations into President Donald Trump and campaign chair Paul Manafort have yielded another indictment for serious financial crimes, according to the DOJ.

We can take George Conway’s criticism of the Trump administration seriously once George starts criticizing Kellyanne Conway’s insane public statements on behalf of the Trump administration. - Roland Scahill

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Pelosi ransacked the Oval Office for the nuclear codes until she finally located them in a desk drawer under a pile of empty Quarter Pounder containers from McDonald’s. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Adam Schiff calls on Rod Rosenstein to testify
• Warren, Ocasio-Cortez press Mnuchin for answers on Sears bankruptcy
• Elizabeth Warren worked other jobs while teaching. Get over it
• Kamala Harris Skewers Trump For Holding US Infrastructure Hostage
• Pete Buttigieg fires back at right-wing Christians like Mike Pence for calling his marriage ‘sinful’
• Election fraud? Florida won’t pledge to look for voters registered in multiple states

It’s 2019 and yet some in the media still a woman earning money as a bigger scandal than a man stealing it. - The Hoarse Whisperer tweet

Mnuchin Axes Harriet Tubman $20 Bill
The U.S. Treasury will not introduce a redesigned $20 bill picturing escaped slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman next year as planned, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.

Robert Costa: "Do you think [Trump] should have served in Vietnam?" 

Pete Buttigieg: "Well, I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam."

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Business/Tech News

• US aviation regulator says Boeing hasn't submitted 737 MAX fix
• CEO of obscure Florida bank that loaned Trump millions in 2018 got a Federal Reserve post
• TurboTax uses a 'military discount' to trick troops into paying to file their taxes
• Banned Ozone-Destroying Gases Are Coming From China, Scientists Say
• Trump to Prep $15 Billion Aid For Farmers Hit By China Trade War

“I can’t f-cking believe he hasn’t been impeached yet.” — Nixon in Hell

The Fart Of The Deal
China, the world’s biggest soybean importer, almost tripled purchases from Russia amid a trade dispute with the U.S., the biggest producer.
Russia sold about 850,000 metric tons of soybeans to China from the start of the 12-month season in July through mid-May, according to Russia’s agriculture agency Rosselkhoznadzor. That’s more than during any season before and compares with about 340,000 tons sold during all of the previous period, Chinese customs data show.

FUN FACT: Richard Nixon's approval ratin' was at 48% the day the Watergate hearings started.  After 8 months of hearings, it was 24%.   

FUNNER FACT: Donald Trump's approval ratin' is currently 38%. - Tea Pain tweet

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Odd News

• Huge Amount of Water Ice Is Spotted on Mars
• NASA Invites Public to Submit Names to Fly Aboard Next Mars Rover
• Canadian woman breaks Guinness record for planking
• Dog surprises runners at 100-meter race in China
• Connecticut police department says a fugitive has agreed to surrender if 15,000 people like his wanted poster on Facebook

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This is Fisheating Creek, Florida. It is a beautiful and mysterious Cypress swamp filled with fish, birds, and gators. The last time I was there was in 1967. I stepped on a Cypress knee wading through the water and limped for weeks. Good times!

Peace.

To Impeach or not to Impeach...

Panicked Trump flips out on the White House lawn after Pelosi accuses him of a ‘cover up’
On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters that President Donald Trump had clearly engaged in a cover-up, though she did not go so far as to demand impeachment.
Later in the day, the president rushed to the Rose Garden to denounce her claims. “I don’t do cover-ups,” he told reporters.



Speaker Pelosi says "we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up"

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Pentagon officials are scrambling to stop Trump from pardoning war criminals: report
• Biden responds to North Korea insults: No surprise they want Trump in White House
• Palestinians say U.S.-led Mideast peace conference doomed without plan
• Thousands of immigrants forced into solitary confinement by ICE for being physically disabled or gay.

Trump Sends National Guard To His Accountant's Office. - Andy Borowitz

I Wonder How McGahn's Law Firm's Clients Feel About Him Ignoring A Subpoena
Former White House Counsel Don McGahn made it official: He will be a no-show at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, defying a subpoena and threats of enforcement from House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). In a letter to Nadler, McGahn's lawyer cites Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel's "detailed and persuasive" memo on why McGahn should say no, and the stated wishes of McGahn's "former client," President Trump.

If I am ever subpoenaed, I will say, “The President says I can ignore this.” - Andy Borowitz

Can’t wait for Trump to threaten to hold his breath until the investigations are over. - Roland Scahill tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• 'Enough with the closed door BS': Ex-Tea Party Congressman demands Mueller testify
• Sean Spicer melts down on Fox News as Dems edge closer to impeachment: ‘You can’t cover up nothing’
• Mike Pompeo: Pete Buttigieg calling Mike Pence a homophobe Is ‘slanderous’
• GOP senator: House Democrats need to 'urinate or get off the pot' on impeachment
• Howard Stern still can't believe the guy who lusted for his daughter over the radio is president
• Trump's golf trips reportedly cost $102 million, just $12.7 million less than all of Obama's presidential travel
• Trump administration absurdly prioritizes Bible classes as public schools grapple with budget cuts, rape and shootings
• Ben Carson fires back at Rep. Katie Porter — and insists she’s the one who is confused about REOs
• Fox host begs viewers to go easy on Ben Carson: ‘He’s just getting used to the housing authority’
• Fox panel descends into chaos after host insists a ‘coverup’ isn’t a crime
• ‘Seek legal advice personally’: Rep. Rashida Tlaib tells Steve Mnuchin that he will go down before Trump
• One of Trump’s broken promises has cost US taxpayers 255 times the presidential salary he volunteered not to take

Trump Is Mad About Being Accused of a Cover Up As He Obstructs Multiple Investigations - R. Saddler tweet

My God. 
Jim Benvie, a spokesman for the so-called “border vigilante” organization the United Constitutional Patriots, has been accused of running a scam charity that was purportedly raising money for a cancer-stricken child.

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Impeachment just isn't going to cut it anymore.
America needs to see Donald Trump dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House in handcuffs and thrown into a police van while Nancy Pelosi holds the door open. - Middle Age Riot tweet

Rock The Voter News

• ‘Very very very strange’: Pelosi draws laughs while describing Trump storming out of infrastructure talks
• Rex Tillerson just met in secret with the House Foreign Affairs Committee to talk about his time with Trump
• Laurence Tribe predicts all 9 Supreme Court justices will back Democrats subpoenaing Trump: ‘The jig is up’
• DOJ agrees to hand over more Mueller documents to House Dems
• Judge orders DOJ to turn over Michael Cohen search warrant — by tomorrow
• Poll: Warren, Sanders tied for second behind Biden among Florida voters
• Feds accuse Michael Avenatti of stealing from Stormy Daniels in latest indictment

I Can Hear Trump Screaming All The Way Here In Costa Rica
A federal judge in New York City on Wednesday said Deutsche Bank and Capitol One can turn over financial documents related to President Donald Trump and his businesses in response to subpoenas from House Democrats.

Trump’s re-election campaign is just going to be a series of endless court losses. - Eric Boehlert

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Business/Tech News

• Oil drops more than 2% on U.S. inventories build, demand worries
• Mortgage: Applications for refinancing jump as rates slide
• Blaming Brexit, British Steel collapses putting about 25000 jobs at risk
• Juncker lashes out at 'stupid nationalists' on eve of European elections
• Ford's two-legged robot walk packages to your door

Trump walked out into the Rose Garden and saw Nancy Pelosi’s shadow, and now Infrastructure Week will last six more months. - Jeffrey Wright

The 292-sq-ft Lillevilla  Cabin, about $19,000

Affordable Housing Hits Amazon. Free Shipping To Boot. Wow.
Housing firms have found a new home: Amazon.
These homes  are apparently selling out there. Indeed, multiple news outlets like real estate sites Curbed and The Real Deal reported that a 172-sq-ft $7,250 prefab cabin, which the manufacturer claims can be built in eight hours, on Amazon sold out. (The house offers free shipping.) Then many again reported that the home was back in stock.

“I pray for the president of the United States.” - Nancy Pelosi 

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Odd News

• One billion year old fungi found is Earth's oldest'
• Stop it!' Japanese women turn to app to stop groping on trains
• Belgian monks resurrect 220-year-old beer after finding recipe
•  Crews remove large TV from storm drain in Houston
• Hand-drawn vehicle inspection sticker doesn't fool police

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Spanish Wells, Bahamas. This is the eastern most island of the Bahamian chain. It was settled in the late 1700s by disgruntled South Carolinians. I was lucky enough to visit there.

Peace.

Trump can run his mouth but he can't hide!

Nadler accuses Trump of witness intimidation, threatens legal action over McGahn testimony
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) accused President Trump of witness intimidation on Tuesday and threatened legal action to enforce his panel’s subpoena for public testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn.
“He took to Twitter to call Mr. McGahn a liar. His lawyers went on cable television to do the same,” Nadler said at a brief committee hearing that was supposed to feature McGahn’s testimony.

Imagine that President Email Lady had ordered her former White House counsel, now a private citizen, to ignore a subpoena. Hannity's head would have exploded in a technicolor spray of viscera. the furor from the wingnut outrage-industrial complex would have given us noise cancer. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• U.S. Placed Immigrant Children With Traffickers, Report Says
• Pentagon chief: Threat from Iran 'on hold'
• US intercepts Russian bombers, fighter jets off the coast of Alaska
• Michael Cohen hoped to pull off his own ‘billion dollar’ real estate deal after giving Trump Tower Moscow penthouse to Putin
• Texas House passes bill allowing handgun owners to carry weapons in church

Between golf and these endless Nazi party rallies, I honestly don't know when he finds time to tweet. - Stonekettle tweet

Interesting. I Wonder If Putin Is Paying Venezuela Under The Table.
Only two ships carrying 766,000 barrels of crude oil from Venezuela arrived in the United States last week in the wake of debilitating oil sanctions lodged against the state-run oil company, PDVSA, according to investment bank Caracas Capital Markets, which tracks Venezuelan oil shipments.
Russian companies, meanwhile, sent nine ships carrying more 3 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products, according to a review of the U.S. Bill of Ladings database by Caracas Capital.

Republican Chuck Grassley, with a net worth of $3.3 million, has applied for Trump’s Farmer bailout. Grassley pushed for this bailout. He's already accepted over $400,000 in farming subsidies.

These people are the worst. - Denzican Stark

Republican Shenanigans

• Mitch McConnell Calls to Cut Social Security, Medicare
• Donald Trump Jr. wants to run for mayor of New York City
• Trump Appeal Now Goes To Court Headed By Merrick Garland
• ‘Could be a rally in Nuremberg’: Video of Trump accusing FBI and Democrats of treason goes viral
• Betsy DeVos is the eighth Trump official to use personal email for official White House business
• Cohen: Trump’s attorney urged false testimony
• Kris Kobach demanded a government jet and ‘walk-in privileges’ with Trump before becoming Immigration Czar
• Andrew McCabe says he — not Robert Mueller — removed former FBI agent Peter Strzok from Russia probe
• Trump-loving Proud Boys announce they're suing a civil rights organization for 'slander'
• Meghan McCain demands to be taken seriously by 'The View' co-hosts: "I’ve said all I have to say"
• 'Arthur's' Gay Wedding Episode Banned by Alabama Public Television

The fun part about being a conservative is all the time you get to spend obsessing about cartoons having sex. - LOLGOP

House "Freedom" Caucus? LOL
The conservative House Freedom Caucus took an official position condemning Rep. Justin Amash’s (R-Mich.) call for impeaching President Trump on Monday evening, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told reporters.

Mitch McConnell handing the Merrick Garland SCOTUS seat to Trump was the shadiest gift in the history of stolen merchandise. - John Fugelsang

14,000 in Georgia, 9,000 in Ohio, 6,000 in Alabama, 19,400 in Missouri. These are the number of children in foster care where on average it takes 2 years for a child to get placed. Tell me again how children are so precious. - irishygirl tweet

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Today the Senate will approve, on a party line vote, a judge for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals who has opposed both women’s reproductive rights and contraception. The Senate matters very much.- Brian Schatz

Rock The Voter News

• Revolting against speaker’s inaction, Pelosi’s own leadership team demands Trump impeachment proceedings
• Judiciary Democrat vows to push impeachment proceedings if Don McGahn does not testify on Tuesday
• O'Rourke: Time to play rough with Republicans
• Warren and AOC knock 'Game of Thrones' finale in new video

Members of the Trump admin. who have used personal email to conduct official business: 

1) Ivanka Trump 

2) Jared Kushner 

3) Steve Bannon 

4) Stephen Miller 

5) Reince Priebus 

6) Gary Cohn 

7) Betsy DeVos

Their hypocrisy has no limits. - Robert Reich

Hillary Warned Us About The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy in 1998
On January 27, 1998, Hillary Clinton appeared on NBC's The Today Show, in an interview with Matt Lauer.

Matt Lauer: You have said, I understand, to some close friends, that this is the last great battle, and that one side or the other is going down here.

Hillary Clinton: Well, I don't know if I've been that dramatic. That would sound like a good line from a movie. But I do believe that this is a battle. I mean, look at the very people who are involved in this—they have popped up in other settings. This is—the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.

Clinton elaborated by decrying the tactics "and the kind of intense political agenda at work here". Bob Woodward recounts in his book The Agenda (1994) that the then-first lady claimed that when her husband was making his decision to run for the presidency in 1991, he reported receiving "a direct threat from someone in the Bush White House, warning that if he ran, the Republicans would go after him. 'We will do everything we can to destroy you personally,' she recalled that the Bush White House man had said.

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Business/Tech News

• Nike and other shoe companies blast Trump’s tariffs: ‘Bring this trade war to an end’
• Jamie Oliver restaurant chain collapse costs 1,000 jobs
• Dressbarn is going out of business, to shut all 650 stores
• Boeing shares rise after report that a bird strike may have caused 737 Max crash

I know everyone is upset about the Starbucks cup and the water bottle in Game of Thrones, but they’re taking away women’s rights in Alabama.  - Chelsea Handler

Morgan Stanley Slaps Tesla
Tesla’s (TSLA) stock has dropped about 38% this year amid lower-than-expected vehicle deliveries, cash burn concerns and a crash reportedly related to the company’s autopilot feature.
But this could just be the start of the stock’s declines, according to one analyst.
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas cut his bear case outlook scenario on Tesla’s stock from $97 to $10 in a note published Tuesday. This worst-case scenario would represent an about 95% decline from Monday’s closing price of $205.36 per share.



Wedding Experts Say Engagement Ring Should Cost At Least Three Diamond Miners’ Lives - The Onion

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Odd News

• Parents are poisoning their children with bleach to 'cure' autism. These moms are trying to stop it.
• A Giant Hole in the Martian Atmosphere Is Venting All Its Water into Space 
• Veteran Miraculously Survives After Being Impaled by Stolen Tripod That Was Thrown Off an Overpass
• Megan 'Monster' Hawkins of Netflix's Jailbirds Arrested After Being Recognized From Show
• Rare book returned to Irish library almost 82 years overdue
• Michigan shoppers hold candlelight vigil for closed Kroger store

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My Stars, a liquid cat.

Peace.