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riversedge's JournalZinke told police a Post reporter caused a fracas at his house. Here's what really happened.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1091490402434236416
Zinke told police a Post reporter caused a fracas at his house. Here’s what really happened.
A newly released police report by U.S. Park Police, a division of Interior, fingers a mysterious reporter driving a Mercedes Benz SUV.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
By Darryl Fears ,
Lisa Rein and
Juliet Eilperin
February 1 at 5:37 PM
Before his rocky tenure as Secretary of the Interior came to a close in December, Ryan Zinke was a man on edge.
He was worried about liberal protesters, who had started badgering Trump officials and other conservatives in public places around Washington. He was suspicious of his anti-Trump neighbors. And he was furious with relentless news coverage of the proliferating inquiries into his management and behavior.
All of which helps to explain the strange night of Nov. 5, when Zinke called U.S. Park Police about a minor disagreement over parking outside his Capitol Hill home. The U.S. Park Police, a division of the Interior Department, is in charge of Zinke’s security.
“You would have sent the cavalry” if a call came in from the secretary, said Park Police spokesman Eduardo Delgado.
Zinke made the call while he and some friends were drinking beer and watching the Tennessee Titans play the Dallas Cowboys. In an interview this week, Zinke said he was grilling when he heard a commotion on the street. One of his guests stepped out, spoke to some neighbors and then alerted Zinke: “We have a possible reporter outside.’”
Given the media scrutiny he’d been under in the weeks before his resignation, Zinke said, “It seemed a little too coincidental for me to have an incident like that and have it not be a reporter.”
“The questions asked were not neighbor questions,” he said...................................
On Ryan Zinke's very last day--he signed a letter ensuring that the grazing rights of Dwight and Ste
Just a reminder of Trump's "best" appointee's!!
On Ryan Zinke's very last day as Secretary of the Interior, he signed a letter ensuring that the grazing rights of Dwight and Steven Hammond — the ranchers who were at the center of the 2016 #oregonstandoff — are restored.
https://twitter.com/Leah_Sottile/status/1090323350893690881
Here's a thread from awhile back, in which I chronicled all of the fires the Hammonds were involved with over the years.
Leah Sottile
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Rep. Walden made a plea to Pres. Trump on the floor of the House the other day to pardon Dwight and Steven Hammond, the ranchers whose arson conviction was at the center of the #oregonstandoff in 2016.…
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WildLands Defense
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Jan 29
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@karinapdx Grazing privileges! Welfare ranchers want people to call them “rights”. They are not.
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John Tarski
? @donjohnduck
Jan 29
Great term: ‘Welfare Ranchers’. Describes it like it is
https://twitter.com/botabota23/status/1090425824497479680
The Deported Americans More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico.
Here is another group of kids that are caught in the middle of our bigoted immigration mess.
January 31, 2019
The Deported Americans
More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?
https://story.californiasunday.com/deported-americans
By Brooke Jarvis
Photographs by Livia Corona Benjamin
Disponible En Español
The school day at Escuela Secundaria Técnica Número 26 starts early. As the first rays of sunshine make their way over the foothills of Popocatépetl volcano in central Mexico, the narrow streets fill with students in ones and twos and little laughing groups.
Ashley Mantilla’s day starts earlier than most. On a Monday last June, long before the sun rose, the 15-year-old left the small cinder-block house she shares with her sister, brother, and parents. She walked past the lime tree under which the family entertains guests, past the outhouse and the thin horse tied up next to her grandparents’ home, to the road that winds by a deep ravine, and into the center of her small town, perched high in the ridges below the volcano. There, she waited for a minibus that would drive her half an hour to Número 26. It’s not a cheap trip to make every day, and her parents are willing to pay for it not because they have extra money but because they think it’s a better option than the local school. There are real teachers there instead of video lessons, and specialty classes include coding in addition to agriculture, food preservation, and beekeeping.
By 7:30, the school’s courtyard was packed with teenagers. They lined up in straight rows and placed their hands across their chests as the Mexican national anthem played on a loudspeaker. Ashley had PE that day, so she had her dark hair pulled back and was wearing her gym uniform: track pants and a polo shirt embroidered with the words Niños Héroes, or heroic children, a group of historical figures that the school honors as a kind of mascot. The heroes were six military cadets, the youngest of them 13, who died defending a castle in Mexico City from American invaders in 1847.
It was, in other words, a long way from the school days Ashley used to experience, back when she was an American student growing up in an American town and studying in an American public school. In those days, her father, Felix, worked as a cook in a restaurant and did maintenance on swimming pools. Her older sister, Lesly, earned a much-treasured certificate of academic excellence with President Barack Obama’s signature on it. They studied the history of South Carolina, their home state; they ate turkey on Thanksgiving and built snowmen in the winter. Sometimes classmates bullied Ashley, telling her to go back to Mexico, but their taunts mostly confused her. “I don’t know Mexico,” she would say. “I’m from here.” She knew, of course, that her parents were from Mexico and that they sometimes talked about a plan to go back, but she didn’t like to think about that. “My mom always said, ‘Come here, I’m going to teach you Spanish.’ And I said, ‘No, I’m not going to need it.’ ”
In 2011, South Carolina’s then-governor, Nikki Haley, signed what was known as a “show me your papers” law, modeled on Arizona’s infamous SB 1070, which allowed police to turn routine traffic stops into immigration checkpoints. The state also made it harder for undocumented immigrants to get jobs or driver’s licenses. The new laws were part of an effort to make immigrants’ lives more difficult, pushing them toward what some politicians at the time were calling self-deportation.
Ashley’s parents began to feel anxious. Basic parts of their daily lives — driving, working, shopping — suddenly seemed risky. They thought of what had happened a few years before, when a South Carolina poultry plant was raided and many of its workers deported without their children. “What happens if they separate us?” wondered Berenice, Ashley’s mother. “We were thinking of the good of the family.” They decided it was time to move their three children — Lesly, 12; Ashley, 9; and Angel, 5, all American-born citizens — from the only home that they knew. In the jargon of immigration, the family was planning to “return migrate.” But the kids could hardly return to a place where they had never been. They were just … leaving.......................
Kellyanne Conway has tweeted and RTed 8 tweets about Ralph Northam... I do wish she would show as mu
Anyone who is on twitter can see that the RW is having a heyday. I am just very sad at the moment.
Kellyanne Conway has tweeted and RTed 8 tweets about Ralph Northam... I do wish she would show as much concern for his racism as her boss’s racism...
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Democratic senator to bring mother and child separated at the border to State of the Union
Source: CNN
Updated 3:06 PM ET, Fri February 1, 2019
Democrats select Stacey Abrams to deliever SOTU response 00:51
Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon announced Friday that he will bring a mother and daughter who were separated at the US-Mexico border last year as guests for President Donald Trump's State of the Union address next week.
The decision is intended to "highlight the human suffering caused by President Trump's child separation policy," a news release from the senator's office stated.
The mother-daughter pair -- Albertina Contreras Teletor and Yakelin Garcia Contreras, who will be 12 years old on Tuesday, the day of the address -- were separated from one another at the southern border for a period of roughly two months and were reunited in July 2018, according to a statement from the senator's office.
Inviting guests to the State of the Union offers congressional lawmakers a chance to send a pointed message during the speech that takes place annually in the House chamber before a joint session of Congress.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/state-of-the-union-mother-child-family-separation/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2019-02-01T23%3A03%3A01
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1091472021190524929
Also--if you missed this:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/politics/undocumented-worker-trump-state-of-the-union/index.html
Undocumented worker fired from Trump's Bedminster club invited to State of the Union
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Washington (CNN)An undocumented worker fired from President Donald Trump's New Jersey golf club will be in attendance at Trump's State of the Union address next week after being invited by a Democratic congresswoman.
Victorina Morales, a Guatemalan native, worked for years at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey before describing herself as an undocumented worker to The New York Times in December. She was ultimately terminated from her job and currently faces deportation.
Morales was invited to Trump's State of the Union address by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-New Jersey, which the congresswoman's office and Morales' attorney confirmed separately to CNN. ...
Trump's Former Pastor: He Never Actually Entered the Church Doors. Not One Time
NOT. ONE. TIME. 
Trump's Former Pastor: He Never Actually Entered the Church Doors. Not One Time
https://www.theroot.com/trumps-former-pastor-he-never-actually-entered-the-chu-1832233472
Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
Yesterday 12:36pmFiled to: Donald Trump
President Donald Trump and American evangelical Christian preacher Andrew Brunson (L) participate in a prayer in the Oval Office a day after Brunson was released from a Turkish jail, at the White House on October 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Brunson was detained for two years in Turkey on espionage and terrorism-related charges that the pastor said were false.
Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump is not a liar. A liar is someone who occasionally tells mistruths. President Trump is a broken fire hose of lies. He’s a broken slot machine of lies. He’s a lie conveyor belt.
On Monday, the president lied again, this time in tweet-form, claiming that America was “starting to make a turn back” to a time when Bible study was big in public schools.
The Washington Post’s Mark Chancy noted, there was no such time in American history.
But besides that, Trump, who has routinely portrayed himself as a man of God, had to deal with a competing tweet from an actual man of God.
According to HuffPost, Pastor David Lewicki took to Twitter Tuesday to state that not only was he pastor of New York City’s Marble Collegiate Church for about five years where Trump was on the member rolls, he’d never seen Trump at the church. Not at Bible study, not a service. Never.
“The pastor then followed up with a pointed quote attributed to Irish political figure Edmund Burke: ‘Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing,’” HuffPost reports..........................................
https://twitter.com/dlewicki/status/1090228039345147904
Trump claims he reads the papers more than he watches TV in the morning......
I call BS.
TRUMP: “I get up early in the morning and I turn on television. And I do. But I don’t turn it on very much because I really read the papers much more than I watch the television, O.K.?”
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Trump just said 2 things that could hurt his case for a natl emergency:
I hope trump continues to blabber on and on.
Christina Wilkie
?Verified account @christinawilkie
3h3 hours ago
Trump just said 2 things that could hurt his case for a natl emergency:
1. That an emergency "would help the process."
2. That he's "building a lot of wall, but I can do it a lot faster the other way."
Both imply the "emergency" is that Congress won't give him what he wants
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1091406300154597376
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1091403239591956485
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1091445654818308098
Michigan set to join other Dem states in lawsuit to support Obamacare
Source: Detroit news
Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit News Published 10:00 a.m. ET Feb. 1, 2019
The state of Michigan will join more than a dozen states with Democratic attorneys general to oppose a Texas federal court ruling that found the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional.
Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday that Michigan would join a group of intervening states supporting the program known as Obamacare, noting that Michigan has a “strong interest” in the success of the lawsuit.
“The Affordable Care Act provides important protections — including protecting people with pre-existing conditions — care for hundreds of thousands of residents in Michigan,” Nessel said.
If the decision from the Texas federal district court is upheld, families across Michigan will struggle to get the care they need, Whitmer said in a statement.......................................
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in December ruled in favor of Republican states challenging the law, finding that when Congress repealed the tax penalty for not buying insurance in 2017 it invalidated the Affordable Care Act................................
Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/01/michigan-join-other-states-lawsuit-support-obamacare/2742111002/
Midwest Polar Vortex in Pictures: Niagara Falls, Lake Michigan and Chicago River Frozen
Several good pics at link.
It finally hit above ZERO here in mid WI an hour ago---One above now.
Midwest Polar Vortex in Pictures: Niagara Falls, Lake Michigan and Chicago River Frozen
https://www.newsweek.com/polar-vortex-weather-chicago-niagara-falls-lake-michigan-1312678?slide=4
By David Sim and Eve Watling On 1/31/19 at 6:28 AM
Images that illustrate the extreme weather, from frozen eyebrows in Chicago to snow-caked pedestrians in New York.
The freak cold snap looks likely to continue. CNN said that over 200 million people will see temperatures at or below freezing over the next few days. The U.S. Postal Service wrote on Twitter that they have suspended delivery across parts of the Midwest “to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees.”
The cold snap has claimed a number of lives, including a University of Iowa student found outside a campus building on Wednesday. The same day, a 70-year-old man was found dead on a street in Detroit. Other weather-related deaths have been reported as far afield as Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Residents of Chicago will be facing lows of minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday, although sharp winds will make it seem colder. Much of the Chicago river has already frozen over, and over 4,000 flights were canceled on Wednesday and Thursday................................
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