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Democrats Introduce Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) are teaming up on legislation to reform the nation’s marijuana laws and help victims of the War on Drugs, which disproportionately hurts communities of color.
The bill, titled the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, would decriminalize cannabis and require expungement of prior marijuana-based convictions on the federal level. Such proposals have been floated in the past and are supported by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
Kamala Harris, Jerry Nadler Introduce Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana
Trump Directly Involved in Illegal Pornstar Payoff
Donald Trump and his press secretary were directly involved in discussions that led to an illegal hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign, according to the FBI.
A court filing unsealed on Thursday said Trump and Hope Hicks spoke repeatedly with Michael Cohen, Trump’s longterm legal fixer, in October 2016 as Daniels – also known as Stephanie Clifford – threatened to sell her story of an affair with Trump.
“I believe that at least some of these communications concerned the need to prevent Clifford from going public,” an FBI agent wrote, in an application for a search warrant.
Cohen later admitted to making payments totalling $280,000 through a shell company to buy the silence of Daniels and the former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who also alleged she had an affair with Trump.
The new disclosures raise the possibility that Hicks lied to the FBI. Hicks told an agent in an interview that “she did not learn about the allegations made by Clifford until early November 2016”, the new filings said. Hicks, who is now a senior executive at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation, has denied wrongdoing.
The filings were released at the federal court in Manhattan, where Cohen pleaded guilty last year to campaign finance and personal financial crimes. Cohen began a three-year sentence in federal prison in May this year.
Trump directly involved in talks that led to Stormy Daniels payment, FBI says
Charlottesville Nazi sentenced to life for car attack/murder
Nearly two years after James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the avowed neo-Nazi and convicted murderer was sentenced to life in prison Friday for 29 federal hate crimes.
Fields, 22, whose vehicular attack killed one woman and injured 35 other people, pleaded guilty to the 29 counts in April in a deal with prosecutors, who agreed to drop an additional charge that carries a possible death sentence. In a separate case stemming from the deadly incident, Fields was convicted of first-degree murder and other crimes in December by a Virginia jury that voted for a life term plus 419 years in state prison.
James A. Fields Jr., avowed neo-Nazi in Charlottesville car attack, sentenced to life in prison
(I like how it's posted in the Public Safety department)
NY Post Deletes Trump Rape Allegation Story
An allegation that President Trump raped a journalist in the 1990s was too much for a Trump-loving editor at the New York Post, it was reported Monday.
Col Allan — a former Post editor-in-chief and top Rupert Murdoch lieutenant who has returned to the paper in an effort to make it even more friendly to the president — ordered stories about E. Jean Carroll’s rape claim scrubbed from the Post’s website, CNN said.
The Post published a staff-written story about the alleged attack on its website after Carroll’s allegation emerged on Friday in New York magazine.
People who clicked on search engine links pointing to the Post’s story landed at an error page with the message: “DID YOU GET LOST?”
Trump Admits Russia Helped Get Him Elected
"I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected." -- Donald J Trump, May 30, 2019
It is illegal for foreign nationals or governments to help people get elected.
Trump Deploys Troops to Iran
Trump approves sending more forces to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran
Trump's projection tells us more about him than it does about those he's accusing:
"In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran." - Donald Trump, 1:48 PM - Nov 29, 2011
"Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." - Donald Trump, 3:39 PM - Oct 9, 2012
"I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!" - Donald Trump, 2:23 PM - 16 Sep 2013
Trump's Tariffs are the Largest Tax Increase in Decades
A CNBC analysis of data from the Treasury Department ranks the combined $72 billion in revenue from all the president’s tariffs as one of the biggest tax increases since 1993. In fact, the tariff revenue ranks as the largest increase as a percent of GDP since 1993 when compared with the first year of all the revenue measures enacted since then, according to the data.
Trump’s tariffs are equivalent to one of the largest tax increases in decades
And about that massive welfare program he's setting up for farmer bailouts? $62 MILLION went to Brazilian criminals:
Remember when tax hikes, welfare, bailouts and criminals were bad?
Iran to resume its nuclear program
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Wednesday that his country was taking steps to halt its compliance with elements of a landmark nuclear accord, in a move that appeared certain to aggravate tensions with the United States.
In a televised speech, Rouhani said that Iran would hold on to stockpiles of excess uranium and heavy water used in its nuclear reactors. He set a 60-day deadline for new terms to the nuclear accord, after which Tehran would resume higher uranium enrichment.
In November, the United States reimposed sanctions that have strangled Iran’s oil and banking sectors as well as its foreign trade. The sanctions came after the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the pact that Iran negotiated with world powers in 2015 and that curbed its nuclear program in exchange for widespread sanctions relief.
Iran had been complying fully with the terms of the deal even after the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew last year, according to the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran announces it will stop complying with parts of landmark nuclear deal
Great job Trump!
Bernie's Fox "News" Town Hall
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) went where the Democratic Party is unwilling to tread on Monday, participating in a lengthy town hall interview on Fox News. The questions posed by Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum aimed at poking holes in Sanders’s political rhetoric, but, by the time the event had ended, it was Fox News’s bubble that had been pierced.
Rest assured: The damage was quickly repaired as the network’s programming continued over the course of the evening.
Bernie Sanders pierces the Fox News bubble — but for only a flickering moment (opinion)
Personally, I think this was a great move by Sanders. I've been leaning towards Warren but this might've put him at the top in my book. I like Warren's policy positions better, still, but that's not all that makes a good candidate or president.
Remember when executive overreach was a thing?
Well the good news is that most congresscritters do, and Trump's fake-ass emergency was rejected.
41 Republican Senators and 182 Republican House Representatives, on the other hand, just proved how completely full of crap they are.
