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riversedge's Journal"The power to declassify is also the power to selectively declassify [and mislead the public]."
There is no way we can trust Barr after we have witnessed what he did with the #MuellerReport. No way!!
“The power to declassify is also the power to selectively declassify [and mislead the public].”
— Jeremy Bash, former Obama CIA official
https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/1132026204679266305
La Résistance Anynnomous/anomous
? @NoHolidayforGOP
8h8 hours ago
Replying to @AriMelber @retrosher
As #TrumpsLawyerAndLackeyBillBar did with #MuellerReport that he mislead Congress and the American people.
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tosheaKavaNOPE
? @toshea66
14h14 hours ago
Replying to @AriMelber @hlandeia
Sort of like the Barr memo 
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stockdriver11
? @stockdriver11
18h18 hours ago
Replying to @AriMelber
David Dennison doesn't do cover-ups!~
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Rane Eir Sessions
? @RaneSessions
18h18 hours ago
Replying to @AriMelber
Definitely. Partial information rearranged.
The #Trumps are a step away from bottling air and selling it as "vintage stupidity."
Donald Trump Jr. on Pelosi praying for his father-“I don’t think the party of infanticide is praying for anyone.” At least most Democrats understand the difference between a fetus and an infant. The Trumps are a step away from bottling air and selling it as "vintage stupidity."
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1132254161301647376
No, China is not paying for Trump's bailout for US farmers as Trump claims
No, China is not paying for Trump's bailout for US farmers
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/tariffs-bailout-china/index.html
Updated 4:53 PM ET, Thu May 23, 2019
Maine lobster industry drowning in US-China trade war
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22 : President Donald J. Trump walks out to speak after abruptly ending a meeting with Democratic leaders on infrastructure, saying there wont be a deal unless they stop investigations, in the Rose Garden at the White House on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 in Washington, DC. I dont do coverups. You people know that probably better than anybody, Trump told reporters. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Trump orders intelligence agencies to assist Barr
Nancy Pelosi 5-22-19
Fact-checking a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi
Trump lists people he believes committed treason
Pelosi: Trump's family and staff should stage 'an intervention'
(CNN)Just as Mexico was supposed to pay for the wall, but isn't, now China is supposed to pay for President Donald Trump's plan to bail out US farmers.
Neither statement is true, of course, as has been pointed out repeatedly.
Trump does not talk about Mexico paying for the wall much anymore. He's too busy saying the wall is getting built, when it's actually just renovation of existing fence.
Fact-checking (yet again) Donald Trump on China tariffs
Fact-checking (yet again) Donald Trump on China tariffs
But he is just getting started on the claim that China is paying to prop up American farmers hurt by the trade war. Having already approved a $12 billion bailout in 2018, the President on Thursday announced another, larger, $16 billion bailout as talks with China have stalled.
It was Chinese retaliation against US farmers -- a countermeasure to the trade war Trump kicked off with US tariffs on Chinese goods -- that led to farmers needing bailouts in the first place. That hasn't stopped the President from crowing that China would foot the bill for damage to US farmers.
Back on May 14, he tweeted: "Our great Patriot Farmers will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of what is happening now. Hopefully China will do us the honor of continuing to buy our great farm product, the best, but if not your Country will be making up the difference based on a very high China buy... This money will come from the massive Tariffs being paid to the United States for allowing China, and others, to do business with us. The Farmers have been 'forgotten' for many years. Their time is now!"
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue repeated that claim Thursday on Fox Business News, arguing that Trump would not let China outlast him in trade talks and, of farmer aid, "China's gonna pay for these."
Here's what we know about who really pays the farmers.
Where does the bailout money for farmers actually come from?..................................
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1131975652834365440
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1128261066654408709
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1128261067422019584
https://twitter.com/RiskyLiberal/status/1128697464788275200
Trump has been raging rambling about Mueller, his ego hurting over and over last 10 minutes..msnbc
Rising sea levels could swamp major cities and displace almost 200 million people, scientists say
One meter is about 39 inches!!!
Rising sea levels could swamp major cities and displace almost 200 million people, scientists say
With a “business as usual” approach to carbon emissions, the world's oceans could plausibly rise two meters by the end of the century.
May 22, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT
By Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky and David Freeman
The risk posed by rising seas may be even more dire than we thought.
A provocative new study suggests that as Earth’s climate continues to warm and the planet’s ice sheets continue to melt, seas could inundate coastal cities around the world, submerging vast swaths of land and displacing almost 200 million people by the end of the century.
If we continue to take a “business as usual” approach to carbon emissions, sea level rise could plausibly exceed two meters (about seven and a half feet) by 2100, the study showed. A rise of that magnitude — which is more than twice as high as the upper limit predicted in a 2013 U.N. climate assessment — would have “profound consequences for humanity,” the scientists behind the new research concluded.
New York, New Orleans, Miami, Shanghai, Mumbai and some island nations could become permanently flooded, according to that scenario, disrupting economies and displacing up to 187 million people. Almost 1.8 million square kilometers (about 700,000 square miles) of land, including some used for farming, could be permanently flooded.
“It really is pretty grim,” study co-author Jonathan Bamber, a professor of physical geography at the University of Bristol in England, told CNN. “Two meters is not a good scenario.”
That “grim” scenario is just one of several possibilities. But “the oceans are rising fast and will rise faster than we thought a few years ago,” said study co-author Robert Kopp, director of the Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. “And there is significant risk of much faster sea level rise if we don’t cut our emissions.”................
There are more residents living in high-risk flood zones in New York City than in any other U.S. city.Ron Antonelli / Bloomberg via Getty Images file
After Trump stormed out, Kellyanne tried to take over the meeting. She asked Pelosi if she had anyth
It really was a silly thing for Kellyanne to say.
After Trump stormed out, Kellyanne tried to take over the meeting. She asked Pelosi if she had anything to say abt Trump’s performance. Pelosi sd “I’ll respond to the president, not staff.” Kellyanne said “Wow, that’s really pro-woman of you.”
https://twitter.com/Kokomothegreat/status/1131336576397660161
CHURCHLADY320 @CHURCHLADY320
12h12 hours ago
Replying to @Kokomothegreat
It's not a chardonnay bonding moment, Kellyanne. It's Constitutional protocol. Sorry you're too dumb to know the difference.
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Shannon Heuston
? @Heustonmah
12h12 hours ago
Replying to @Kokomothegreat
So basically she asked Pelosi to make some criticism she could then use to slam Democrats, then when she declined played the feminist card which she has no claim on.
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G. Gabriel G.
? @Manchi_
13h13 hours ago
Replying to @Kokomothegreat
“I will talk to the ring master, not the circus BEASTS”! HAHAHAHA
Nancy Pelosi: Trump 'Had A Temper Tantrum For Us All To See' In The Rose Garden
POLITICS 05/22/2019 09:52 pm ET
Nancy Pelosi: Trump ‘Had A Temper Tantrum For Us All To See’ In The Rose Garden
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pelosi-trump-temper-tantrum_n_5ce5ea1de4b0db9c2992aeb7
The House speaker sent a letter to her congressional colleagues Wednesday night to comment on the president’s Rose Garden meltdown.
By Rebecca Shapiro
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) sent a letter to her Congressional colleagues Wednesday night saying President Donald Trump “had a temper tantrum” earlier in the day after he walked out of infrastructure talks with party leaders and held an impromptu press conference in the White House Rose Garden.
“Sadly, the only job the president seems to be concerned with is his own,” Pelosi wrote. “He threatened to stop working with Democrats on all legislation unless we end oversight of his administration and he had a temper tantrum for us all to see.”
During the press conference, Trump stood before a sign reading “no collusion, no obstruction” as he told reporters he was “the most transparent president in history” and called on Democrats to “get these phony investigations over with.”
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Judge rejects Trump's request to halt congressional subpoenas for his banking records
I hope Trump is have indigestion.
Judge rejects Trump’s request to halt congressional subpoenas for his banking records
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-rejects-trumps-request-to-halt-congressional-subpoenas-for-his-banking-records/ar-AABKxui?ocid=mailsignout
Renae Merle, Michael Kranish, Felicia Sonmez
1 hr ago
NEW YORK —A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a request by President Trump to block congressional subpoenas for his banking records, dealing the latest blow to the president in his bid to battle Democratic investigations into his personal finances.
The decision in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York could clear the way for Deutsche Bank and Capital One to hand over the president’s financial records to Democrats in the House. Trump’s attorneys could appeal the decision.
Attorneys for Trump, his family and the Trump Organization filed for a preliminary injunction earlier this month as part of a lawsuit seeking to block the two institutions from handing over documents to the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees.
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“There will be no way to unring the bell once the Banks give Congress the requested information,” William S. Consovoy, Patrick Strawbridge and Marc Mukasey wrote. “The Committees will have reviewed confidential documents that this Court may later determine were illegally subpoenaed.”
But U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos said Wednesday that Trump’s lawsuit was unlikely to succeed. .........................
Trump Stages Rose Garden Meltdown After Blowing Up A Meeting with Pelosi and Schumer ...Updated
Source: DailyKos
Wednesday May 22, 2019 · 11:05 AM CDT
WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly blew up a scheduled meeting with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday, lashing out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing him of a cover-up and declaring that he could not work with them until they stopped investigating him.
He then marched out into the Rose Garden, where reporters had been gathered, and delivered a statement bristling with anger as he demanded that Democrats “get these phony investigations over with.” He said they could not legislate and investigate at the same time. “We’re going to go down one track at a time,” he said.
...“Speaker Pelosi said something terrible today and accused me of a cover-up,”
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UPDATE: Clear evidence that this was a staged spectacle:
Look at the podium. They already had a sign printed up with “NO Collusion, NO Obstruction”. The numbers are about the cost of the investigations: Mueller investigation by the numbers: $35+ million spent; 2,800+ subpoenas; 675 days; 500+ witnesses; 18 Angry Democrats.
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Read more: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/22/1859604/-Trump-is-melting-down-in-the-Rose-Garden-today?utm_campaign=trending
poor widdle Trump--crying again. what a victim!!
“I don’t do cover ups” will be remembered in history as Nixon’s “I’m not a crook”- in both cases it’s the crimes AND the cover ups.
https://twitter.com/B52Malmet/status/1131231275577221120
https://twitter.com/CUPCAKEWILLIAM6/status/1131231245831168000
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Trump's Hostile Takeover of 'Very Liberal' Ninth Circuit Is Almost Accomplished
Damn. we are in trouble.
Trump’s Hostile Takeover of ‘Very Liberal’ Ninth Circuit Is Almost Accomplished
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-hostile-takeover-of-very-liberal-ninth-circuit-is-almost-accomplished
The president who thinks judges play for a political team wants as many as possible on his team, along with the Senate Republicans racing to give them lifetime appointments.
Eleanor Clift
05.21.19 8:35 PM ET
Young, mostly male, and overwhelmingly white judges appointed by President Trump are on the cusp of remaking the once reliably liberal Ninth Circuit of the Court of Appeals, the nation’s highest court below the Supreme Court.
The “very, very liberal circuit,” as then Attorney General Jeff Sessions once put it, covers the American West, including California as well as Alaska and Hawaii. Trump himself has called it “totally out of control,” a “big thorn in our side,” a “complete and total disaster,” and a “disgrace.” At one point, he said, “It would be great if the 9th Circuit was indeed an ‘independent judiciary’”—his scary scare quotes.
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Now the Senate has been racing to give lifetime seats on its bench to Trump judges whose pro-business jurisprudence and regressive social views are out of step with much of the country, including Democrats and younger Americans.
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