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It took less than a day for the surprise phone call from Trump to Sondland about "the investigations" to be corroborated. [AP]
Trump went crying to the US Supreme Court about his tax returns. You'd think there was a body buried in there the way he's fighting their release. [Reuters]
It's thoughts and prayers time again, this time in Santa Clarita north of Los Angeles. There's some hope that maybe something will be done this time due to the ongoing implosion of the National Rifle Association. Of course the House of Representatives is busy and the Senate is overrun with Republicans. Maybe next time we'll care. [Santa Clarita Valley Signal]
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We'll be putting on our "pizzazz" when we watch the Impeachment hearing tomorrow with star witness former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. A live blog thread will be open at 9AM EST. We'll also be live blogging the November Democratic Debate next Wednesday, the 20th.
It took less than a day for the surprise phone call from Trump to Sondland about "the investigations" to be corroborated. [AP]
Trump went crying to the US Supreme Court about his tax returns. You'd think there was a body buried in there the way he's fighting their release. [Reuters]
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The Trumps are trying to stave off a firesale of the rights to their DC hotel by claiming that buyers can get all that sweet foreign government money that the Trumps supposedly weren't taking. Why didn't they just raise the possibility that new management could probably swing a José Andrés restaurant? [CNN]
Lindsay Graham blocked a resolution acknowledging the genocide that gave us the word genocide. [The Hill]
Lindsay Graham blocked a resolution acknowledging the genocide that gave us the word genocide. [The Hill]
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The International Criminal Court has expanded its jurisdiction to investigate Myanmar for mass persecution and crimes against humanity in its treatment of the Rohingya. Myanamar does not recognize the ICC but Bangladesh does and they have (unhappily) taken in the Rohingya refugees. [The Guardian]
Bolivia is still a hot mess but there may be a way out that doesn't involve revolution or repression. Both sides claim to want to calm the situation. The side that benefited from the coup is offering new elections with the caveat that the winner of the last election is not allowed to run. The UN is sending an envoy. [Reuters]
Bolivia is still a hot mess but there may be a way out that doesn't involve revolution or repression. Both sides claim to want to calm the situation. The side that benefited from the coup is offering new elections with the caveat that the winner of the last election is not allowed to run. The UN is sending an envoy. [Reuters]
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