Day 741 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
Day 529 since the deadliest mass shooting on U.S soil in Las Vegas that killed 58, injuring 546.
Although a bump stock ban takes effect in 3 days, Congress must take action to prevent future mass shootings. #NeverForget #NeverAgain #EnoughIsEnough
New Zealand police say the death toll from Friday's mosque attacks has risen to 50.
- 50 people were also injured
- 36 remain in the hospital
- It's the worst mass shooting in NZ history
New Zealand PM says 'gun laws will change' after mosque shooting
This is what happens in countries where politicians aren't owned by the @NRA. nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…
Washington Post condemns Trump rhetoric after New Zealand shooting hill.cm/K8s9Dc7
As Dick’s Sporting Goods pulls guns from shelves, are firearms still sporting goods? wapo.st/2TKeKqT
FYI: The Trump admin has quietly resumed separating immigrant families at the border.
At one agency, the children were put into temporary foster care and shelters with little or no indication that they arrived at the border with their parents: propub.li/2QcsPvY
Reminder: The Trump administration is systematically locking up thousands of children at unheard of rates - now almost 15,000 are in U.S. custody.
The government classifies these children as "unaccompanied"
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Thousands more kids may have been separated from their parents at the border under the Trump administration than was previously thought, according to an internal government report.
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"One year ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stole my 7-year-old son from me, and confined me in an immigration jail in Texas.
"There is no word when we will be together again."
thedailybeast.com/one-year-ago-a…
[What North Korea is doing] is now offering a sort of ritualistic humiliation of Trump, who gushes over the letters he receives from Kim but blind to the fact that they’re becoming a global nuclear power capable of striking the United States.
Group seeking to overthrow Kim behind North Korea embassy raid in Spain: Washington Post
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Did foreign nationals illegally donate to the Trump campaign?
motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Trump may have committed as many as 8 criminal offenses concerning his presidential campaign.
"I think it’s been a pattern of behavior before he’s been inaugurated and while he’s been president...we need public hearings to show how lawless this president is." @TomSteyer on impeaching Trump. on.msnbc.com/2F6gph4
Day 30 since Trump declared a national emergency in response to a manufactured crisis to seize power and subvert the Constitution.
"I didn't need to do this"
Donald Trump's week of the veto | Analysis by CNN's Lauren Dezenski cnn.it/2FbBjuX
Dems launch game plan to override Trump's veto hill.cm/PdmpLhM
“Congress is starting to wake up to the fact that over time it has delegated out too much power.” @hillhulse nytimes.com/2019/03/16/us/…
What will the Trump administration's new Arctic defense policy look like? Expect to see a lot of China.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
"Building a border wall, deporting immigrants, a travel ban on Muslim countries—these are themes discussed on white-nationalist message boards for years, now being endorsed and talked about at the highest levels of government." - Former DHS analyst
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Federal judge says a policy change that denies a path to a green card for certain young illegal immigrants must come from Congress, not immigration authorities on.wsj.com/2TSwjF0
Fact-checking Trump's notion that White Nationalism is not a rising threat cnn.it/2TPW5tK
Trump again punts on white supremacy after New Zealand attacks | Analysis by CNN's Stephen Collinson cnn.it/2F5kgLe
Jeb Bush tells @davidaxelrod that Trump falls short in "symbolic" presidential duties.
“It’s important during national tragedies, it’s important in moments of crisis, it’s important in the day-to-day creation of culture that helps sustain us.”
Jeb Bush: "Our friends no longer believe they can trust" the US under Trump hill.cm/l5nNooU
Trump’s proposed budget cuts:
💸 $1.5T cut from Medicaid
💸 $845B cut from Medicare
💸 $25B cut from Social Security
💸 30% of the EPA’s budget cut
Trump attacks John McCain for "spreading the fake and totally discredited dossier" months after his death hill.cm/R9BFhCt
Michael Flynn is done cooperating with the Mueller probe, but info he provided is still part of ongoing investigations, the government says cnn.it/2F9y4nV
Analysis: Paul Manafort may be relying on Trump to issue a pardon.
If he is, he should refocus his energies. nbcnews.to/2TTMwK9
The person who has final say over whether the public sees Mueller’s findings--Attorney General William Barr--hasn’t pledged he’ll make Mueller’s report public.
vox.com/2019/3/14/1826…
Pence has found himself thrust unwittingly into the center of the 2020 presidential debate, becoming a square-jawed punching bag for Democrats and, at times, even some in his own party.
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Cindy Yang really wanted the autographed picture with Trump. But she needed to raise $50,000. She tapped high-dollar donations from a very unusual group: massage parlor workers. nytimes.com/2019/03/16/us/…
This is not the first time that someone has been said to have been selling Chinese nationals access to Trump. washingtonpost.com/politics/forme…
Trump has failed to release the Mar-a-Lago visitor logs. Which means we don’t know how many people have had the chance to informally lobby him while he’s visiting his business.
washingtonpost.com/politics/forme…
The Trump administration is opening millions of new acres to drilling — and that’s just the start
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Sen. Cory Booker campaigns in Lebanon, NH: "We had a president that got elected saying winning, winning, winning. Well, he's not backing up his statement."
Every president since Nixon has voluntarily given their tax returns. Trump hasn’t.
There’s a reason for that, he has a lot to hide.
In case you missed yesterday's thread:
Environmentalist group hangs sign from top of Trump Tower in Las Vegas, mocking Trump in protest of his climate denier stance.
#ClimateChangeStrike
The Anti-Defamation League found last year that white supremacist murders in the US "more than doubled in 2017," with far-right extremist groups and white supremacists "responsible for 59% of all extremist-related fatalities in the U.S. in 2017." cnn.com/2019/03/16/pol…