Pelosi says she'll send articles of impeachment to Senate when she's damn good and ready

Pelosi says she'll send articles of impeachment to Senate 'soon'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said she would probably be sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate soon despite winning no concessions from Republicans on allowing witnesses to testify during a trial on the House's charges against President Trump.

We sure dodged a bullet with Hillary's emails, eh? - Middle Age Riot

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• U.S. officials confident Iran shot down passenger jet
• Trump says Iran was 'looking to blow up our embassy'
• CNN's Clarissa Ward Reports From Iran Missile Blast Site: What Were They Aiming For? 'There's Simply Nothing Here'
• Defense secretary insists U.S. isn't withdrawing from Iraq after PM calls for timetable
• Lara Trump: Trump's Iran strategy is 'peace through strength' or could be 'hell to pay'
• FBI, DHS issue bulletin warning of potential Iranian cyberattacks
• Appeals court lifts block on $3.6 billion for Trump border wall plan
• Public health emergency declared in Puerto Rico after deadly earthquake and aftershocks

The White House reminds you to never believe any branch of military or law enforcement intelligence.
Unless it's about something that allows a reality show performer to assassinate people. - John Fugelsang

Iran Invites Canadian Investigators
Iran's civil aviation authority says it has invited Canadian investigators from the Transportation Safety Board to join a growing team probing the plane crash outside Tehran that killed 138 people believed bound for Canada.

My kids at 6:30 this morning discussing the Iran attacks with great insights that included “it’s really bad that Trump has alienated all of our allies isn’t it?” - Mimi Rocah tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Mike Lee, on Fox News, Doubles Down on Fiery Iran Presser: Officials Wouldn't Answer Questions on 'Imminent' Threat
• Rand Paul Fires Back at Lindsey Graham's 'Gutter' Attack: Using Patriotism as a Cudgel
• Rep. Doug Collins Tells Lou Dobbs That Democrats are 'In Love With Terrorists'
• Brian Kilmeade: 'Doesn't Make Sense' for Trump to Blame Iran Strike on Obama... 'You've Got to Bring People Together'
• Trump Wants to Keep Secret Service Travel Bill Out of Public View
• Secret Service have "open and active criminal investigation" into new Mar-a-Lago incident: report

McConnell & Republican Senators don’t want a fair Trial. They know if they allow Witnesses & Documents, Donald Trump will be the first President in American History to be Convicted & Removed from Office. - Rob Reiner

jesus h, why do we even have a 25th amendment if we're not going to use it. - Jeff Tiedrich

I 💗 NEW YORK
The New York City Bar Association has taken the extraordinary step of asking Congress to investigate Attorney General Bill Barr for being too politically biased to faithfully execute his duties as America’s top law enforcement official.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. - Oscar Wilde

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Rock The Voter News

• Senate Democrats break with Pelosi over impeachment trial
• Joe Biden: We can, and we must, restore the soul of our nation
• New Hampshire Poll: Tight race
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is cancer-free

Innocent people are going to die thanks to a guilty man. - Roland Scahill

Saving Australia
Thousands of activists are set to march across nine cities in Australia on Friday, singling out Prime Minister Scott Morrison for climate inaction amid a worsening fire crisis that has ravaged large swathes of the country.

I’m sorry, Australia.You don’t deserve this. 

Your PM maybe, but not you. - TheTweetOfGod

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Business/Tech News

• Trump Moves to Exempt Big Projects From Environmental Review
• A billionaire is giving away $9 million to his Twitter followers in an experiment to see if the money makes them happier
• Facebook says it will let users see fewer political ads — but still refuses to fact-check them
• Newsom: California should sell its own generic prescription drugs

Artist Formerly Known As Prince
There’s a great deal of curiosity and intrigue about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s announcement today they are “stepping back” from their senior roles in the royal families, especially from Americans with one big question: wait, you can do that?

“You want Brexit? I’ll give you a f--king Brexit.” — Meghan Thee Markle - Saeed Jones tweet

Harry and Meghan Willing To Replace Trump and Melania Effective Immediately. - Andy Borowitz

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Odd News

• Mysterious seismic hum was birth of a new underwater volcano
• Biologists identify pathways that extend lifespan by 500%
• Hawaii family grows 12-pound pomelo fruit
• New Mexico to host world’s largest meeting on chili peppers
• Coyotes attack 5-year-old boy, grown man in Chicago
• Authorities seize banned cosmetics disguised as baby

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A woman tests her life span by closing in on crashing waves in Iceland.

Peace.

Trump: Iran Is ‘Standing Down,’ but I’m Gonna ‘Punish’ It Some More

Trump: Iran Is ‘Standing Down,’ but I’m Gonna ‘Punish’ It Some More
President Donald Trump said Americans should be “extremely grateful” that Iran “appears to be standing down” a day after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a missile attack ...

"Slurring," "Adderall" and #TrumpSpeech are trending. Sounds like it went really well. - Joan Walsh

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Poll: Fewer Than 1 in 4 Americans Can Identify Iran on a Map, Some Think it's in America
• 54 Percent of Americans Disapprove of Trump's Recent Actions Against Iran
• Ukrainian Airplane Crashes Just After Takeoff from Iran's Tehran Airport, Killing as Many as 170 People
• Bin Laden Killer Rob O'Neill Casually Floats Nuking Iran Via Twitter
• Seb Gorka: US Should 'Welcome' Iran Attack, Shows Threat Out in the Open, Trump 'Will Unleash Holy Hell'
• ‘A Shocking Lack of Understanding’: Fox News Foreign Correspondent Absolutely Destroys SecDef Esper After Iran Presser
• Stabbings, shootings, assaults weigh on US Jewish youth

Okay fine, here's how you can blame Obama, magats: We're on the brink of WWIII because Obama made fun of a thin-skinned reality TV host faux billionaire in front of everyone at a fancy dinner. - Randi Mayem Singer

Iran Keeping Black Boxes From Downed Ukrainian Jet
Iranian investigators have found one of the plane's two so-called black boxes, but the head of the country's civil aviation authority has refused to hand it over to Boeing, the local Mehr news ...

Does anyone think we’d be having this conversation if Iran had bought one of trump’s garbage hotels - Jake Maccoby

Republican Shenanigans

• 58 times. He sniffed 58 times during his address. Here are all of them.
• McConnell: 'No haggling' over impeachment trial plan
• Ivanka Trump's keynote speech at CES 2020 branded an "insult to women" by women in tech
• California investor charged with obstructing probe of Trump inaugural donation
• California congressman convicted in corruption case to resign next week
• Official quits amid charges he paid women to give up babies
• Texas governor picks new fight over homeless after attack
• Sebastian Gorka calls climate activist Greta Thunberg "thunder thighs" 
• Judge denies release of Jeffrey Epstein’s grand jury records

Suspending Trump's Twitter account and cancelling Fox News would fix 90% of what's wrong with our country overnight. - Patrick S. Tomlinson

HOW TO WIN PRIMARIES 101: Eliminate the Competition!
Republicans decided Tuesday to place only President Donald Trump's name on Wisconsin's presidential primary ballot this spring, making it a challenge for any long-shot GOP candidates to run against him in the state...The GOP has canceled primaries in a number of states, including South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas, to help the president.

His Tan Makeup Team Hates Him Too

Now that Jared Kushner has brought peace to the Middle East, what will he do next? - Poetic Justice tweet

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“I’m the last thing standing between you and the apocalypse.”- Hillary Clinton 10/11/2016

I did this meme 3 years ago

Rock The Voter News

• Republicans claim victory, but Democrats praise Pelosi's impeachment strategy
• 'Tweets, threats and tantrums': Biden tears into Trump's handling of Iran crisis

Reminder that as this crisis escalates, we have no Director of National Intelligence, no Dep Dir, no Homeland Security Secretary, no Dep Sec, no head of CBP or ICE, no State Dept Under Sec of Arms Control, no Asst Sec for Europe, and no Navy Sec. - Garrett M. Graff

Bernie Said No To Super Pacs And Yes to Dark Money
Bernie Sanders says he doesn’t want a super PAC. Instead, he has Our Revolution, a nonprofit political organization he founded that functions much the same as one.
Like a super PAC, which is shorthand for super political action committee, Our Revolution can raise unlimited sums from wealthy patrons that dwarf the limits faced by candidates and conventional PACs. Unlike a super PAC, however, the group doesn’t have to disclose its donors — a stream of revenue commonly referred to as “dark money.”

Okay, GOP, if you want to follow the rules of the Clinton Impeachment trial, hire an overzealous independent prosecutor to investigate Trump's real estate deals and sexual liaisons and bring it all before a grand jury.
By the time he's done, Clinton will look like a choir boy. - Leslie tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Election Boom: Here’s How Much Ad Money CNN, Fox News And MSNBC Are Expected to Make in 2020
• Trump to drop $10 million on Super Bowl ad
• CNN Settles Lawsuit With Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann
• California has sued tech billionaire Vinod Khosla over beach access, reviving a decade-long legal battle

Republicans start unnecessary war without a plan for success, explode deficit, eventually destroy economy and exacerbate economic injustice with larcenous deregulation. Rinse. Repeat. - Bradley Whitford

Costa Rica Is Pissed At Trump & Should Be!
Costa Rican authorities held a Tuesday evening press conference as a response to the Level 2 travel advisory from the U.S. State Department.
The advisory warns visitors to Costa Rica should “exercise increased caution” due to crime, a label the Central American government “categorically rejected.”

Attention: Will the owners of a blue planet with plate tectonics please attend to your vehicle. It is overheating. - TheTweetOfGod

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Odd News

• A 103-year-old World War II veteran finally gets his combat medals, 75 years late
• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo cuts seat belt, helps trapped motorist out of car
• Flying taxi makes U.S. debut at North Carolina demonstration
• US Army warns about fake text messages about military draft
• Firefighters cut through metal tea kettle to free toddler's head

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The Elephant Rock in Heimaey, Iceland. I imagine it's a white elephant rock in winter.

Peace.

McConnell has the votes to block Democrats' witness demands in Trump impeachment trial

McConnell has the votes to block Democrats' witness demands in Trump impeachment trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has the votes to quash Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer’s (N.Y.) demands to require additional witnesses testify at the start of President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Two key moderate senators, Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), on Monday evening backed McConnell’s position...

A trial has witnesses, a coverup doesn't.

 Just asked Mitt Romney if he has any concerns with McConnell coordinating with the WH on trial, and Romney said: “I’m sure the leader will provide impartial justice.” - Manu Raju, CNN

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Iran threatens to hit US bases with medium- and long-range missiles 
• US forces on high alert for possible Iranian drone attacks
• Putin Visits Damascus For Talks With Syrian President Assad
• Rand Paul blasts Suleimani killing as a threat to national security: ‘There will be an escalation’
• Kevin McCarthy claims Trump killed Iranian general because Adam Schiff ‘spent the last year on impeachment’
• Trump Administration Blocks Iran’s Top Diplomat From Addressing the U.N. Security Council
• At least 50 killed in stampede at Iranian general's funeral, Tehran weighs response to U.S. attack
• Germany Withdraws Some Troops From Iraq 
• Strongest earthquake yet hits Puerto Rico in weeklong string of tremors

Trump Unifies Wrong Nation - Andy Borowitz

How Does One Mistakenly Send A Letter to Iraq?
The Pentagon on Monday disputed that U.S. troops are preparing to withdraw from Iraq — after a leaked letter from a U.S. general suggested plans are underway to prepare troops to leave following the Iraqi Parliament's Sunday vote calling for their removal.

I realize that letters go out with typos sometimes and people make mistakes, but how do you mistakenly send a message to a foreign government that says we're pulling 5,200 troops out of your country? That is not believable. - Tommy Vietor

If Trump wants to destroy Iran he should just become their president. - irishrygirl

Republican Shenanigans

• McConnell prepares to move forward on impeachment trial rules without Democrats
• Trump claims Mark Zuckerberg congratulated him for being 'No. 1 on Facebook'
• John Bolton involved with shadowy data firm Cambridge Analytica
• Congressman defends posting fake Obama photo
• Virginia Beach declares itself 'Second Amendment Constitutional City' 7 months after mass shooting
• Palm Beach Atlantic University names first lady Melania Trump its 2020 Woman of Distinction
• Trump coming to Van Drew’s district for rally on Jan. 28
• Trump Is The Most Unpopular President Since Ford To Run For Reelection
• Nikki Haley Absurdly Claims The Only People in the World Mourning Soleimani's Death Are 'Democrat Leadership'

Nikki Haley is just Sarah Palin with a higher GPA. - The Hoarse Whisperer

Is This A Foot Shooting In Progress?
Former Rep. Chris Collins closed out his political career in late December by repaying himself $146,393.71 in leftover campaign funds – without reimbursing his donors for the $15,400 they gave to his campaign committee early last year when he said he was innocent of insider trading charges...Campaign finance experts said Collins' move is legal, but some question its wisdom – especially given that Collins is scheduled to face a federal judge in New York next week who will sentence him after his guilty plea to charges stemming from that insider trading case.

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Rock The Voter News

• Democratic leaders urge Trump to declassify formal congressional notification of Iran strike
• Joe Biden Beats Democratic Primary Contenders in Head-to-Head with Donald Trump: Poll
• Bloomberg Backer Judge Judy Throws Shade at Joe Biden: 'Very Nice Man" BUT…'Wasn't Great' for 40 Years
• Hillary Clinton to attend Sundance for premiere of 'Hillary'

Pompeo continually and laughably lies to blame Obama for the consequences of Trump’s decisions and the press never follows up or pushes back. - Ben Rhodes

Michael Flynn Shoots Self in Foot
Federal prosecutors reversed course Tuesday and recommended President Donald Trump’s onetime national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, serve up to six months in prison for lying to the FBI.
The federal prosecutors, who had initially recommended Flynn be spared jail time, said in a newly filed sentencing memo that they have re-evaluated, citing “his apparent failure to accept responsibility, [and] his failure to complete his cooperation."

Hillary Clinton could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and do nothing, and they would say she put an $80 million bounty on Donald Trump’s head. - Andrea Junker

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Business/Tech News

• Boeing settles with American Airlines to compensate for 737 Max losses
• Arrest warrant issued in Japan for Carlos Ghosn's wife
• Elon Musk celebrates new Shanghai car factory by dancing at opening
• First big drug busts of 2020 nab nearly one metric ton of cocaine off Costa Rican shores

Told my aunt Didi I was concerned about The Straits of Hormuz and she said to ‘hold my gay head high and ignore the bullies.’  :\  - Scott Linnen

Twitter Refuses to Bite the Hand That Feeds Them
Twitter has opted to leave Trump's tweets alone, finding that they are allowed under its rules. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to The Hill it has determined that none of Trump's most controversial tweets this week violated Twitter policies

If your son or daughter was captured by Iranian commanders and they could only call Donald Trump or Nancy Pelosi, who would you want them to call? - Jordan Rachel

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Odd News

• A Florida woman is selling a chicken tender shaped like a manatee
• A Bronze Age burial mound dating back 3,000-4,000 years was "damaged within a few minutes" by off-road vehicles
• 2 men accused of gluing winning numbers onto lotto ticket
• NASA's top observatories teamed up to capture an imploding star in captivating 3D
• Mysterious repeating fast radio burst traced to nearby galaxy

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The Butterfly Nebula. Thank you Hubble for taking us to another place in the universe.

Peace.