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January 29, 2020
Google searches for "corona beer virus" and "beer virus" jump amid coronavirus outbreak
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1222605266513989633
CBS News ✔@CBSNews
Google searches for "corona beer virus" and "beer virus" jump amid coronavirus outbreak https://cbsn.ws/2Gxc2g1
2:39 PM - Jan 29, 2020
CBS News ✔@CBSNews
Google searches for "corona beer virus" and "beer virus" jump amid coronavirus outbreak https://cbsn.ws/2Gxc2g1
2:39 PM - Jan 29, 2020
January 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/SharkNewsWires/status/1222575641352134658
https://twitter.com/SocialRosy/status/1222582143949266944
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1222583222841688064
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1222583222841688064
Apt building fire in LA - pulling people off roof via helicopter
https://abc7.com/live-fire-erupts-on-sixth-floor-of-high-rise-building-in-west-la/5888497/
Firefighters extinguish massive fire at high-rise apartment building in West Los Angeles: WATCH LIVE
By ABC7.com staff
Updated a minute ago
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A dramatic fire erupted on the sixth floor of a high-rise apartment building on the Westside of Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive response from firefighters on ladder trucks and in helicopters.
The fire broke out shortly after 8:30 a.m. in the 11700 block of West Wilshire Boulevard in the Sawtelle neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
At least eight people were treated at the scene, including a 3-month old child, LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas told reporters at the scene. One of those patients was in critical condition, and six suffered smoke in inhalation.
One man was see climbing horizontally across the facade of the 25-story building after crawling out of window what was emitting an inferno of flames. He was later rescued by a firefighter who approached him from atop a ladder truck.
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Firefighters extinguish massive fire at high-rise apartment building in West Los Angeles: WATCH LIVE
By ABC7.com staff
Updated a minute ago
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A dramatic fire erupted on the sixth floor of a high-rise apartment building on the Westside of Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive response from firefighters on ladder trucks and in helicopters.
The fire broke out shortly after 8:30 a.m. in the 11700 block of West Wilshire Boulevard in the Sawtelle neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
At least eight people were treated at the scene, including a 3-month old child, LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas told reporters at the scene. One of those patients was in critical condition, and six suffered smoke in inhalation.
One man was see climbing horizontally across the facade of the 25-story building after crawling out of window what was emitting an inferno of flames. He was later rescued by a firefighter who approached him from atop a ladder truck.
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https://twitter.com/SharkNewsWires/status/1222575641352134658
https://twitter.com/SocialRosy/status/1222582143949266944
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1222583222841688064
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1222583222841688064
January 29, 2020
The WH is desperately trying to make the book go away, and it can't!
Rick Wilson: anyone who thinks Bolton deliberately filled his book with classified is a damn fool
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1222583804407271425
Rick Wilson ✔ @TheRickWilson
Anyone who thinks John Bolton deliberately filled his book with classified as a damn fool, but this White House is staffed of course by damn fools
1:14 PM - Jan 29, 2020
Rick Wilson ✔ @TheRickWilson
Anyone who thinks John Bolton deliberately filled his book with classified as a damn fool, but this White House is staffed of course by damn fools
Maggie Haberman ✔@maggieNYT
Letter to Bolton lawyer
1:14 PM - Jan 29, 2020
The WH is desperately trying to make the book go away, and it can't!
January 29, 2020
Directed at Nunes or one of the other GOP asscarrots in the House?
On edit: it must've been Gosar's stupid tweet:
https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1214276066086395906
Posting deep fakes on congressional social media accounts could violate House rules
https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1222562326144000000Directed at Nunes or one of the other GOP asscarrots in the House?
On edit: it must've been Gosar's stupid tweet:
https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1214276066086395906
January 29, 2020
And he's still smarter than a majority of Americans!
Watch Out, America: John Oliver Is Officially a U.S. Citizen Now
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/watch-america-john-oliver-is-officially-a-us-citizen-now-1273984
by Marisa Guthrie January 29, 2020, 6:00am PST
HBO's incendiary 'Last Week Tonight' host (and recently sworn-in American) returns with plenty to say about Trump's 2020 campaign, Harry and Meghan, his awkward run-in with an AT&T exec ("We sized each other up" ), and the secrets behind his Emmy-winning brand of "aggressively-researched comedy."
On Friday Dec. 13, 2019, at the age of 42, John Oliver became a U.S. citizen. He can vote. He can serve on a jury. He can get arrested without fear of being deported.
Since 2006, when he first came to the U.S. to work as "senior British correspondent" on The Daily Show, Oliver has lived with a pulsating anxiety that his life could be upended at any moment. "There isn't any part of me that didn't think I'm a little bit vulnerable. I do talk shit," he says, as the very visible host of HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight. "Under another country's politics, that would be cause for deportation, or at least [the government] engaging in some form of fuckery. Like something out of Goodfellas: They open a door, plastic sheeting, Jared Kushner in a swivel chair stroking a hairless cat."
When he appeared at the federal building in lower Manhattan with his lawyer and his wife, Kate Norley (a former combat medic), for the naturalization ceremony, he was so nervous he blanked on his phone number. Eventually, Oliver, along with 159 other people from 49 countries, raised his right hand and took the oath. He was given a tiny American flag as Lee Greenwood's "Proud to Be an American" played and a photo of Donald Trump glowered from a wall. "The feeling you get at the end of that process is overwhelming relief," he says. "And that it's nothing to do with the current president."
</snip>
by Marisa Guthrie January 29, 2020, 6:00am PST
HBO's incendiary 'Last Week Tonight' host (and recently sworn-in American) returns with plenty to say about Trump's 2020 campaign, Harry and Meghan, his awkward run-in with an AT&T exec ("We sized each other up" ), and the secrets behind his Emmy-winning brand of "aggressively-researched comedy."
On Friday Dec. 13, 2019, at the age of 42, John Oliver became a U.S. citizen. He can vote. He can serve on a jury. He can get arrested without fear of being deported.
Since 2006, when he first came to the U.S. to work as "senior British correspondent" on The Daily Show, Oliver has lived with a pulsating anxiety that his life could be upended at any moment. "There isn't any part of me that didn't think I'm a little bit vulnerable. I do talk shit," he says, as the very visible host of HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight. "Under another country's politics, that would be cause for deportation, or at least [the government] engaging in some form of fuckery. Like something out of Goodfellas: They open a door, plastic sheeting, Jared Kushner in a swivel chair stroking a hairless cat."
When he appeared at the federal building in lower Manhattan with his lawyer and his wife, Kate Norley (a former combat medic), for the naturalization ceremony, he was so nervous he blanked on his phone number. Eventually, Oliver, along with 159 other people from 49 countries, raised his right hand and took the oath. He was given a tiny American flag as Lee Greenwood's "Proud to Be an American" played and a photo of Donald Trump glowered from a wall. "The feeling you get at the end of that process is overwhelming relief," he says. "And that it's nothing to do with the current president."
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And he's still smarter than a majority of Americans!
January 29, 2020
So, British Airways, Lufthansa, SwissAir and Austrian Airlines are halting flights to and from all of China (not just Wuhan). Did this happen with SARS or any other flu in recent memory?
Addl info:
Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines now canceling all flights in and out of mainland China
https://twitter.com/lufthansaNews/status/1222541322525061122
Lufthansa News ✔ @lufthansaNews
Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines will suspend their flights to/from (mainland) China until February 9th. For operational reasons, acceptance of bookings for flights to (mainland) China will be suspended until end of Feb. Flights to/from Hong Kong will continue as planned.
10:25 AM - Jan 29, 2020
Lufthansa News ✔ @lufthansaNews
Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines will suspend their flights to/from (mainland) China until February 9th. For operational reasons, acceptance of bookings for flights to (mainland) China will be suspended until end of Feb. Flights to/from Hong Kong will continue as planned.
10:25 AM - Jan 29, 2020
So, British Airways, Lufthansa, SwissAir and Austrian Airlines are halting flights to and from all of China (not just Wuhan). Did this happen with SARS or any other flu in recent memory?
Addl info:
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1222549809787285507
Flightradar24 ✔@flightradar24
Lufthansa group airlines (Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian) will operate a final flight to bring home passengers booked today and return crew home from China.
Austrian flight to Shanghai in the air now:
10:59 AM - Jan 29, 2020
Flightradar24 ✔@flightradar24
Lufthansa group airlines (Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian) will operate a final flight to bring home passengers booked today and return crew home from China.
Austrian flight to Shanghai in the air now:
https://www.flightradar24.com/AUA75/23b01bd0
Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24
View flight OS75 from Vienna to Shanghai on Flightradar24
Lufthansa News ✔ @lufthansaNews
Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines will suspend their flights to/from (mainland) China until February 9th. For operational reasons, acceptance of bookings for flights to (mainland) China will be suspended until end of Feb. Flights to/from Hong Kong will continue as planned.
10:59 AM - Jan 29, 2020
January 29, 2020
Oddly enough, that's the only picture taken in the last 10 years that doesn't include Lev. Maybe waiting for them at Union Station?
On edit: Lev's at the Capitol!
Lev says he wants to tell everyone Trump knew!
Lev & Bondy on Capitol Hill now. Lev says he wants to tell GOP that Trump knew everything
https://twitter.com/josephabondy/status/1222516170571558913
Joseph A. Bondy @josephabondy
Were headed to Washington DC, to watch the historic Senate trial & show our support for a fair proceeding, with witnesses & evidence. Lev Parnas will be joining us, as we walk to the Capitol. #StephanieSchuman @LeafLegal #JosephBondy @josephabondy #LetLevSpeak #CallTheWitnesses
8:45 AM - Jan 29, 2020
Joseph A. Bondy @josephabondy
Were headed to Washington DC, to watch the historic Senate trial & show our support for a fair proceeding, with witnesses & evidence. Lev Parnas will be joining us, as we walk to the Capitol. #StephanieSchuman @LeafLegal #JosephBondy @josephabondy #LetLevSpeak #CallTheWitnesses
8:45 AM - Jan 29, 2020
Oddly enough, that's the only picture taken in the last 10 years that doesn't include Lev. Maybe waiting for them at Union Station?
On edit: Lev's at the Capitol!
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1222548599206301696
Adam Parkhomenko ✔ @AdamParkhomenko
Breaking: Lev Parnas making his way to the United States Senate
Embedded video
10:54 AM - Jan 29, 2020
Adam Parkhomenko ✔ @AdamParkhomenko
Breaking: Lev Parnas making his way to the United States Senate
Embedded video
10:54 AM - Jan 29, 2020
Lev says he wants to tell everyone Trump knew!
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1222551218033168384
Yamiche Alcindor ✔ @Yamiche
Lev Parnas and his attorney Joseph Bondy have arrived on Capitol Hill. Parnas says he wants a chance to tells senators that President Trump knew about everything.
Embedded video
11:04 AM - Jan 29, 2020
Yamiche Alcindor ✔ @Yamiche
Lev Parnas and his attorney Joseph Bondy have arrived on Capitol Hill. Parnas says he wants a chance to tells senators that President Trump knew about everything.
Embedded video
11:04 AM - Jan 29, 2020
January 29, 2020
Only gas powering their lights now. And here I thought Trump was fond of the incandescent bulb?
Greg Sargent: Hannity's ugly meltdown at Romney: Wanting the truth is 'Trump hatred'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/29/hannitys-ugly-meltdown-romney-wanting-truth-is-trump-hatred/
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
Jan. 29, 2020 at 10:02 a.m. EST
It was inevitable that the Cult of Trump would ultimately settle here. Any Republican who dares to acknowledge the relevance of facts outside the disinformation bubble that President Trump and his propagandists have constructed in his defense -- facts they are unable to control -- can only be driven by Trump hatred.
Fox Newss Sean Hannity staged a spectacular meltdown at Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Tuesday night, over Romneys desire to hear testimony from John Bolton, the former national security adviser whose forthcoming book relates that Trump didnt want to release nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine until its president carried out Trumps political bidding.
Hannitys performance illustrates how preposterously weak Trumps defenses have become, and how heavily they depend on insulating Trumps extraordinary corruption, and the lies justifying it, from contrary facts and legitimate outside scrutiny.
Notably, this comes after Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona became a Trump-movement hero for staging her own ugly outburst at a reporter who politely asked whether she wanted to hear new witnesses and evidence at Trumps impeachment trial.
</snip>
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
Jan. 29, 2020 at 10:02 a.m. EST
It was inevitable that the Cult of Trump would ultimately settle here. Any Republican who dares to acknowledge the relevance of facts outside the disinformation bubble that President Trump and his propagandists have constructed in his defense -- facts they are unable to control -- can only be driven by Trump hatred.
Fox Newss Sean Hannity staged a spectacular meltdown at Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Tuesday night, over Romneys desire to hear testimony from John Bolton, the former national security adviser whose forthcoming book relates that Trump didnt want to release nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine until its president carried out Trumps political bidding.
Hannitys performance illustrates how preposterously weak Trumps defenses have become, and how heavily they depend on insulating Trumps extraordinary corruption, and the lies justifying it, from contrary facts and legitimate outside scrutiny.
Notably, this comes after Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona became a Trump-movement hero for staging her own ugly outburst at a reporter who politely asked whether she wanted to hear new witnesses and evidence at Trumps impeachment trial.
</snip>
Only gas powering their lights now. And here I thought Trump was fond of the incandescent bulb?
January 29, 2020
What a fucking idiot he is...
Joe Manchin thinks Hunter Biden is a relevant witness
https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/1222515507343036416
Morning Joe ✔ @Morning_Joe
.@WillieGeist asks @Sen_JoeManchin if Hunter Biden is a 'relevant witness.' Sen. Manchin responds: "I think so; I really do."
Embedded video
8:43 AM - Jan 29, 2020
Morning Joe ✔ @Morning_Joe
.@WillieGeist asks @Sen_JoeManchin if Hunter Biden is a 'relevant witness.' Sen. Manchin responds: "I think so; I really do."
Embedded video
8:43 AM - Jan 29, 2020
What a fucking idiot he is...
January 29, 2020
Isn't this illegal?
Trump allies target African American voters with new tactic: Cash giveaways
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/trump-black-voters-cash-giveaways-108072
At the first event, organizers lavished praise on the president as they handed out thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.
Darrell Scott
Urban Revitalization Coalitions CEO Darrell Scott at the White House in 2018. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
By BEN SCHRECKINGER
01/29/2020 05:08 AM EST
Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.
The first giveaway took place last month in Cleveland, where recipients whose winning tickets were drawn from a bin landed cash gifts in increments of several hundred dollars, stuffed into envelopes. A second giveaway scheduled for this month in Virginia has been postponed, and more are said to be in the works.
The tour comes as Trumps campaign has been investing its own money to make inroads with black voters and erode Democrats overwhelming advantage with them. But the cash giveaways are organized under the auspices of an outside charity, the Urban Revitalization Coalition, permitting donors to remain anonymous and make tax-deductible contributions.
The organizers say the events are run by the book and intended to promote economic development in inner cities. But the group behind the cash giveaways is registered as a 501(c)3 charitable organization. One leading legal expert on nonprofit law said the arrangement raises questions about the groups tax-exempt status, because it does not appear to be vetting the recipients of its money for legitimate charitable need.
</snip>
At the first event, organizers lavished praise on the president as they handed out thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.
Darrell Scott
Urban Revitalization Coalitions CEO Darrell Scott at the White House in 2018. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
By BEN SCHRECKINGER
01/29/2020 05:08 AM EST
Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.
The first giveaway took place last month in Cleveland, where recipients whose winning tickets were drawn from a bin landed cash gifts in increments of several hundred dollars, stuffed into envelopes. A second giveaway scheduled for this month in Virginia has been postponed, and more are said to be in the works.
The tour comes as Trumps campaign has been investing its own money to make inroads with black voters and erode Democrats overwhelming advantage with them. But the cash giveaways are organized under the auspices of an outside charity, the Urban Revitalization Coalition, permitting donors to remain anonymous and make tax-deductible contributions.
The organizers say the events are run by the book and intended to promote economic development in inner cities. But the group behind the cash giveaways is registered as a 501(c)3 charitable organization. One leading legal expert on nonprofit law said the arrangement raises questions about the groups tax-exempt status, because it does not appear to be vetting the recipients of its money for legitimate charitable need.
</snip>
Isn't this illegal?
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