Day 490 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama. #fakenews #TrumpLies
Day 277 since the deadliest mass shooting on U.S soil in Las Vegas that killed 58, injured 546 and Congress has taken NO action to prevent future mass shootings. #NeverForget
Hundreds of demonstrators calling for "national common sense guns laws" marched along the northbound lanes of Chicago's Dan Ryan Expressway
People of all ages took part in the march. #GunControl #GunReformNow
#Parkland school shooting survivors speaking in Dallas for #MarchForOurLives Road to Change tour. “We are the 97% of Americans who favor tighter gun control.”
Wendi Winters was killed in the @capgaznews shooting after charging the shooter with a trash can & a recycling bin, yelling “get out of here!” according to a colleague who credits her with saving his life & possibly those of other survivors.
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One US service member killed, 2 other US service members wounded during an insider attack in southern Afghanistan per @NATO-led Resolute Support.
Trump again does not offer his condolences.
North Korea Foreign Ministry says talks with Pompeo 'regrettable,' accuses US of unilateral demands for denuclearization.
There is a striking disconnect between Trump’s comments about North Korea — no longer a nuclear threat, great chemistry with Kim, peace at hand — and the reality in Pyongyang during Pompeo’s visit.
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Pompeo said today that they have set a meeting to talk about getting back U.S. remains. Four times, Trump has falsely said remains have already been sent back.
Wait. Don't presidents usually root for the success of American businesses and not predict their demise?
Trump’s attack on WaPo & NYT this AM began by citing a story about Twitter shutting down fake accounts ... a story he read/saw reports on because it broke in the WaPo.
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Two years ago, the U.S. was ready to welcome 110,000 refugees. Last year, the ceiling for admitting people was 45,000. Now, ex-Trump officials tell The Daily Beast that this year's ceiling will be half that.
thedailybeast.com/trump-ready-to…
"[The children] did not have shoes or blankets in the detention center...people in cells had to sleep standing up. They did not have enough to eat either … the incarcerated children were insulted – called named such as 'animals' and 'donkeys.'" pbs.org/newshour/polit…
Daniela Marisol, a 16-year-old migrant from Honduras, has been held at a series of shelters since August. She can't fully participate in classes at shelters because she's partly deaf & hasn't received hearing aids, according to her lawyer. nytimes.com/2018/07/06/us/…
Leecia Welch, a lawyer representing migrant children in a lawsuit against the Trump admin, said children at Shiloh Treatment Center in TX had been so heavily dosed with psychiatric drugs that they fell asleep at classroom desks for hours at a time. nytimes.com/2018/07/06/us/…
A Court Order Reveals The Lack Of Planning That Went Into Trump's Child Separation Policy
buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/a… via @aflores
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is creating a denaturalization task force.
The goal, WNYC reports, is to find U.S. citizens they say should not have been naturalized, to revoke their citizenship & then eventually deport them. wnycstudios.org/story/uscis-st…
In a confidential memo to Mueller last year, lawyers for Trump called James Comey "Machiavellian," dishonest and "unbounded by law and regulation" as they sought to undermine his credibility, according to AP.
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Ex-Republican Senate majority leader Bill Frist: "The Senate I led put country over party. This one must do the same for Robert Mueller." #CountryOverParty
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For anyone who dares complain about “how long the Mueller investigation is taking,” I again offer this chart.
[@FiveThirtyEight]
Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović dances in front of Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev during today's match.
As Trump starts a trade war with China, Trump's businesses continue to benefit from partnerships involving the Chinese government.
Chinese gov't-backed firms are slated to work on two large developments that will include Trump-branded properties.
washingtonpost.com/politics/as-ta…
New retaliatory tariffs placed on U.S. lobster exports are set to destabilize Maine's leading industry.
"I can't say the Trump administration has been great for this business," one lobsterman told NBC News.
nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
"Tariffs such as these, they can only do harm," Jack Daniel's general manager tells me. Our story looking at how Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn and other red-state Republicans are facing pressure on Trump’s tariffs. apnews.com/9e5a5c74b8b84a…
Trump Administration Expected to Suspend ACA Program Related to Insurer Payments
(Risk adjustment was a permanent feature of the ACA because you can't have a functional regulated insurance market without it.)
wsj.com/articles/trump…
A spokesman for the EPA's Office of Inspector General says that ongoing or pending reviews of Scott Pruitt will continue, even though he has resigned. cnn.com/2018/07/05/pol…
The EPA is blocking the release of a report that shows most Americans inhale enough formaldehyde vapor to be at risk for cancer and other ailments politi.co/2u0cMUS
This stuff seems more common now nytimes.com/2018/07/07/us/…
Trump administration focuses on Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, with Mideast peace plan stalled — @agearan with an update on the Jared Kushner plan washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Magid Magid, a British-Somali activist and the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, says he's banning Trump from his city. bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
For a nuanced understanding of the significance of SCOTUS contender Amy Coney Barrett’s membership in the Catholic lay group People of Praise, read this piece by @jonward11 @YahooNews
yahoo.com/news/people-pr…
Neil Gorsuch was the deciding vote in 15 out of the 18 Supreme Court cases decided 5-4 this term, and he sided with the right in all but one.
We’d be looking at a very different court if Republicans didn’t win in 2014 and 2016. Elections matter.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Invites are going out from the White House to Senate Republicans for Monday’s event announcing Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Should be quite the show (9 p.m. ET)
Prime time event.
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