ut Google to start selling auto insurance in the U.S., analyst says By www.reuters.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:49:19 -0500 Google Inc may be moving into the U.S. auto insurance market with a shopping site for people to compare and buy policies, an analyst said on Thursday, as it continues to shift its attention to the automotive industry. Full Article vcMedia
ut UPDATE 1-U.S. FDA grants emergency use authorization to Quidel for first antigen test for COVID-19 By feeds.reuters.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 12:19:28 -0400 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday approved emergency use authorization (EUA) to Quidel Corp for the first COVID-19 antigen test. Full Article companyNews
ut Amid lockdown dispute, Musk says he will move Tesla out of California By feeds.reuters.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:46:58 -0400 Tesla Inc's chief executive Elon Musk tweeted https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633 on Saturday that Tesla will move its headquarters and future programs to Texas or Nevada from California immediately. Full Article companyNews
ut U.S. to allow states to distribute Gilead's remdesivir to fight COVID-19 By feeds.reuters.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:18:03 -0400 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Saturday it would allow state health departments to distribute Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir drug to fight COVID-19, and the United States would receive about 40% of the drug maker's global donation. Full Article companyNews
ut Sheltering in place... in outer space By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:02:08 GMT On April 17, NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir returned to Earth after a 205-day mission aboard the International Space Station. While she was in outer space, though, the world was engulfed by a pandemic. Full Article
ut Astronaut Jessica Meir's return to Earth has been far from ordinary By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT As the whole world was affected by the pandemic, "only three of us who were in space at the time weren't," Meir said. "That was really difficult to comprehend." Full Article
ut SpaceX, Blue Origin land contracts to build NASA's astronaut moon lander By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:13:00 GMT The two companies, plus the space firm Dynetics, will share $967 million from the space agency. Full Article
ut Where did the coronavirus come from? Past outbreaks provide hints By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 18:25:03 GMT Although finding the source wouldn't necessarily help scientists develop vaccines or other direct treatments, it could provide crucial pieces of information on how it emerged and evolved. Full Article
ut 6 articles you must read about personal productivity By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 02:26:10 +0000 Once again remote working has raised the importance of personal productivity development for the successful professionals of tomorrow. However, effective time management has always been […] The post 6 articles you must read about personal productivity appeared first on e-Learning Feeds. Full Article LMS
ut Up Your Gaming Resolution With the Best 4K Gaming Monitors By www.ign.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 05:00:48 +0000 Looking for the next level gaming? We've picked out the best 4K gaming monitors that will give you the sharpest picture you've ever experienced. Full Article
ut Officials searching for 2 Utah teens who went missing while tubing By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 06:32:00 GMT Priscilla Bienkowski, 18, and Sophia Hernandez, 17, have been missing since Wednesday when they were tubing on Utah Lake. Full Article
ut Brutal murder of woman found in burned out car still a mystery 28 years later By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:18:24 GMT Natasha Atchley, 19, was found dead in the trunk of her burned out Chevy Camaro hatchback on May 3, 1992, in Shephard, Texas, about a mile down a rural dirt road from a party she attended the night before. The Texas Ranger Unsolved Crimes Investigation Team is investigating. Full Article
ut Southern California birthday party blamed for virus cluster By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 03:35:21 GMT One attendee joked that, because she was coughing, she probably had the virus, a city of Pasadena spokeswoman said. Full Article
ut Shopping for last minute Mother's Day gifts? By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:22:00 GMT If you put off Mother's Day gift shopping, you've still got plenty of gifting options that should arrive on time. Full Article
ut Tesla sues California county over plant shutdown By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:22:27 GMT Alameda County ordered the facility closed to prevent the spread of coronavirus and said it was working with Elon Musk's electric car company to resolve the issue. Full Article
ut Pink: Battling COVID-19 with my son was terrifying. But my experience isn't unique. By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 12:39:00 GMT I know you would do anything to protect your own child, so let’s make sure every mama has the same opportunity and resources to protect theirs. Full Article
ut Defense lawyers rail about unfair prosecutions. Flynn's case shows why. By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 20:09:51 GMT Analysis: It's rare to get a behind-the-scenes look at how federal investigators do their jobs. Full Article
ut US spars with China over pro-WHO language in UN Security Council ceasefire resolution By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:32:00 GMT A Chinese push to include support for the World Health Organization in a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a global ceasefire is putting the entire text in limbo – after strong U.S. opposition to the Beijing effort. Full Article 1388fe2e-387e-594c-8cfe-bce0c059aef3 fox-news/world/united-nations fox-news/world/world-health-organization fox-news/world/world-regions/china fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fnc fnc/politics article Fox News Ben Evansky Adam Shaw
ut Top House Republican issues 'call to arms' about Dems trying to 'steal' Calif. election; Trump joins effort By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:28:53 GMT EXCLUSIVE: The leader of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) sent a memo to all House Republicans Saturday with an "urgent call to arms" that Democrats are trying to "steal" Tuesday's special election for California's 25th Congressional District Seat, Fox News has learned. Full Article d486fc96-24b1-5c02-960a-446ea0e61c7f fox-news/politics/2020-house-races fox-news/politics/house-of-representatives/democrats fox-news/politics/house-of-representatives/republicans fox-news/us/us-regions/west/california fox-news/person/donald-trump fox-news/politics/executive/white-house fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fnc fnc/politics article Fox News Marisa Schultz
ut South Dakota Gov. Noem clashes with Sioux tribes over coronavirus checkpoints By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 06:11:45 GMT South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has warned two tribal leaders she will take “necessary” legal action if the tribes don’t remove coronavirus checkpoints on their reservations. Full Article 467ba0be-d237-50b9-93f6-8aa2ab0f323d fox-news/person/kristi-noem fox-news/us/us-regions/midwest/south-dakota fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/politics/state-and-local/governors fox-news/politics/state-and-local fox-news/us/personal-freedoms fnc fnc/politics article Fox News Brie Stimson
ut South Dakota Gov. Noem clashes with Sioux tribes over coronavirus checkpoints By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 06:11:45 GMT South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has warned two tribal leaders she will take “necessary” legal action if the tribes don’t remove coronavirus checkpoints on their reservations. Full Article 467ba0be-d237-50b9-93f6-8aa2ab0f323d fox-news/person/kristi-noem fox-news/us/us-regions/midwest/south-dakota fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/politics/state-and-local/governors fox-news/politics/state-and-local fox-news/us/personal-freedoms fnc fnc/politics article Fox News Brie Stimson
ut Cavs' Kevin Love opens up about returning to training facility for the first time since coronavirus: report By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:09:47 GMT Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love was one of the few players to enter a training facility Friday as the NBA slowly begins its path back to normalcy but the five-time All-Star described his first day back on the court in almost two months as any but normal. Full Article 53b9b527-b49e-56b1-94b4-df048336b902 fox-news/sports/nba/cleveland-cavaliers fox-news/sports/nba fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fnc fnc/sports article Fox News Paulina Dedaj
ut California Democrat reacts to Tesla lawsuit, pullout plan over coronavirus rules: ‘F--- Elon Musk’ By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:35:17 GMT A California Democrat seemed less than upset Saturday night at the news that entrepreneur Elon Musk planned to pull much of his company Tesla – along with an unspecified number of jobs -- out of the state over coronavirus shutdown rules that have stalled the automaker's operations. Full Article 2ede860a-ff97-568d-ab27-452ebab73d33 fox-news/auto/make/tesla fox-news/person/elon-musk fox-news/us/us-regions/west/california fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/politics/state-and-local fox-news/auto fox-news/us/economy/jobs fox-news/us/economy fox-news/newsedge/business fnc fnc/tech article Fox News Dom Calicchio
ut Little Richard Put Wild Sex Into the Top 40 for Good By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 20:36:08 -0400 The self-described king and queen of rock-and-roll died today at 87. Full Article obits obituary little richard music a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom! a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop vulture homepage lede remembrances
ut Lockdown Mutiny Brews in California After Guv Blames Nail Salon for Spreading COVID-19 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 19:00:07 GMT Sergio Flores/AFP via GettyOn Thursday, the Professional Beauty Federation of California published a press release to the “Hot Topics” section of their website. It was titled: “Time to Sue Governor Newsom.” The release came in response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement that the following morning, California would officially enter “Phase Two” of the “Safer at Home” order. Select businesses, from florists to clothing retailers to toy stores, would be able to resume operations in a limited capacity. But absent from the list of acceptable businesses: beauty salons. Newsom placed businesses like nail salons and barbershops in “Phase Three”—a stage he believes to be “months, not weeks” away. “This whole thing spread in the state of California—the first community spread—was in a nail salon,” Newsom said in a press conference last week, without providing details about the date or location of the case. “Many of the practices that you would otherwise expect of a modification were already in play in many of these salons, with people that had procedure masks on, were using gloves, and were advancing higher levels of sanitation.”Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article U.S. News
ut Sheriff’s Deputy Charged After Leading Armed Mob to Home of Black Teen: DA By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 01:05:48 GMT Port City DailyA white sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina is facing criminal charges after allegedly leading an armed mob to the home of a black teenager and trying to force their way inside as part of a botched vigilante mission.New Hanover & Pender County District Attorney Ben David on Friday announced the charges against Jordan Kita, a New Hanover Sheriff’s Office detention officer accused of wearing his uniform while leading the group of people—one of whom was allegedly packing an AR-15—to confront a high school student at his home. Kita has since been fired from the sheriff's office. The teenager, Dameon Shepard, was playing video games late one evening when the group of men arrived at his door, demanding to know the whereabouts of a 15-year-old girl named Lekayda Kempisty who had been reported missing. Three in the group were said to be armed, carrying a shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle, and a handgun. Kita wore his New Hanover County Sheriff’s deputy uniform and gun, though he had not come to Shepard’s house on official business. Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article U.S. News
ut The Washington Post Just Published an Explosive Report About Jared Kushner and Russia By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Fri, 26 May 2017 23:30:24 +0000 Shoes continue to drop in the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russia. Yesterday, speculation that the FBI was looking into the Trump family was confirmed by reports that Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior advisor, is under scrutiny. More details are emerging about the investigation. Enter the Washington Post: Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports. Ambassador Sergei Kislyak reported to his superiors in Moscow that Kushner, then President-elect Trump’s son-in-law and confidant, made the proposal during a meeting on Dec. 1 or 2 at Trump Tower, according to intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by U.S. officials. Kislyak said Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications. The meeting also was attended by Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser. This story hasn't been confirmed by other publications, so take it with the weight of a single report based on anonymous sources, but having said that: Yikes. Go read the whole thing. Full Article Politics
ut Reuters: Jared Kushner Had Undisclosed Contact With Russian Envoy, Say Sources By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Sat, 27 May 2017 01:10:38 +0000 By Ned Parker and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, seven current and former U.S. officials told Reuters. Those contacts included two phone calls between April and November last year, two of the sources said. By early this year, Kushner had become a focus of the FBI investigation into whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, said two other sources - one current and one former law enforcement official. Kushner initially had come to the attention of FBI investigators last year as they began scrutinizing former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s connections with Russian officials, the two sources said. While the FBI is investigating Kushner’s contacts with Russia, he is not currently a target of that investigation, the current law enforcement official said. The new information about the two calls as well as other details uncovered by Reuters shed light on when and why Kushner first attracted FBI attention and show that his contacts with Russian envoy Sergei Kislyak were more extensive than the White House has acknowledged. NBC News reported on Thursday that Kushner was under scrutiny by the FBI, in the first sign that the investigation, which began last July, has reached the president’s inner circle. The FBI declined to comment, while the Russian embassy said it was policy not to comment on individual diplomatic contacts. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Multiple attempts to obtain comment from Kushner or his representatives were unsuccessful. In March, the White House said that Kushner and Flynn had met Kislyak at Trump Tower in December to establish “a line of communication.” Kislyak also attended a Trump campaign speech in Washington in April 2016 that Kushner attended. The White House did not acknowledge any other contacts between Kushner and Russian officials. BACK CHANNEL Before the election, Kislyak’s undisclosed discussions with Kushner and Flynn focused on fighting terrorism and improving U.S.-Russian economic relations, six of the sources said. Former President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia after it seized Crimea and started supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014. After the Nov. 8 election, Kushner and Flynn also discussed with Kislyak the idea of creating a back channel between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could have bypassed diplomats and intelligence agencies, two of the sources said. Reuters was unable to determine how those discussions were conducted or exactly when they took place. Reuters was first to report last week that a proposal for a back channel was discussed between Flynn and Kislyak as Trump prepared to take office. The Washington Post was first to report on Friday that Kushner participated in that conversation. Separately, there were at least 18 undisclosed calls and emails between Trump associates and Kremlin-linked people in the seven months before the Nov. 8 presidential election, including six calls with Kislyak, sources told Reuters earlier this month. . Two people familiar with those 18 contacts said Flynn and Kushner were among the Trump associates who spoke to the ambassador by telephone. Reuters previously reported only Flynn’s involvement in those discussions. Six of the sources said there were multiple contacts between Kushner and Kislyak but declined to give details beyond the two phone calls between April and November and the post-election conversation about setting up a back channel. It is also not clear whether Kushner engaged with Kislyak on his own or with other Trump aides. HOW KUSHNER CAME UNDER SCRUTINY FBI scrutiny of Kushner began when intelligence reports of Flynn’s contacts with Russians included mentions of U.S. citizens, whose names were redacted because of U.S. privacy laws. This prompted investigators to ask U.S. intelligence agencies to reveal the names of the Americans, the current U.S. law enforcement official said. Kushner’s was one of the names that was revealed, the official said, prompting a closer look at the president’s son-in-law’s dealings with Kislyak and other Russians. FBI investigators are examining whether Russians suggested to Kushner or other Trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow Russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to Trump, said the current U.S. law enforcement official. The head of Russian state-owned Vnesheconombank, Sergei Nikolaevich Gorkov, a trained intelligence officer whom Putin appointed, met Kushner at Trump Tower in December. The bank is under U.S. sanctions and was implicated in a 2015 espionage case in which one of its New York executives pleaded guilty to spying and was jailed. The bank said in a statement in March that it had met with Kushner along with other representatives of U.S. banks and business as part of preparing a new corporate strategy. Officials familiar with intelligence on contacts between the Russians and Trump advisers said that so far they have not seen evidence of any wrongdoing or collusion between the Trump camp and the Kremlin. Moreover, they said, nothing found so far indicates that Trump authorized, or was even aware of, the contacts. There may not have been anything improper about the contacts, the current law enforcement official stressed. Kushner offered in March to be interviewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is also investigating Russia’s attempts to interfere in last year’s election. The contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials during the presidential campaign coincided with what U.S. intelligence agencies concluded was a Kremlin effort through computer hacking, fake news and propaganda to boost Trump’s chances of winning the White House and damage his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. (Reporting by Ned Parker and Jonathan Landay; Additional reporting by John Walcott, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart in Washington; Editing by Kevin Krolicki and Ross Colvin) Full Article Politics
ut Imagine Being Pulled Off Death Row and Then Being Put Back on It By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:00:09 +0000 In 1994, Marcus Robinson, who is black, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1991 killing of Erik Tornblom, a white teenager, in Cumberland County, North Carolina. He spent nearly 20 years on death row, but in 2012 his sentence was changed to life without a chance of parole. He was one of four death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by a judge who found that racial discrimination had played a role in their trials. The reason their cases were reviewed at all was because of a 2009 North Carolina law known as the Racial Justice Act, which allowed judges to reduce death sentences to life in prison without parole when defendants were able to prove racial bias in their charge, jury selection, or sentence. "The Racial Justice Act ensures that when North Carolina hands down our state's harshest punishment to our most heinous criminals," former Gov. Bev Perdue said when she signed the bill into law, "the decision is based on the facts and the law, not racial prejudice." At 21, Robinson was the youngest person sentenced to death in North Carolina. When he was three, he was hospitalized with severe seizures after being physically abused by his father and was diagnosed with permanent brain dysfunction. However, those weren't the only troubling aspects of his case. Racial discrimination in jury selection has been prohibited since it was banned by the Supreme Court in its 1986 Supreme Court decision Batson v. Kentucky, but Robinson's trial was infected with it. The prosecutor in the case, John Dickson, disproportionately refused eligible black potential jurors. For example, he struck one black potential juror because the man had been once charged with public drunkenness. However, he accepted two "nonblack" people with DWI convictions. Of the eligible members of the pool, he struck half the black people and only 14 percent of the nonblack members. In the end, Robinson was tried by a 12-person jury that included only three people of color—one Native American individual and two black people. Racial discrimination in jury selection was not uncommon in the North Carolina criminal justice system. A comprehensive Michigan State University study looked at more than 7,400 potential jurors in 173 cases from 1990 to 2010. Researchers found that statewide prosecutors struck 52.6 percent of eligible potential black jurors and only 25.7 percent of all other potential jurors. This bias was reflected on death row. Of the 147 people on North Carolina's death row, 35 inmates were sentenced by all-white juries; 38 by juries with just one black member. Under the Racial Justice Act, death row inmates had one year from when the bill became law to file a motion. Nearly all the state's 145 death row inmates filed claims, but only Robison and three others—Quintel Augustine, Tilmon Golphin, and Christina Walters—obtained hearings. In 2012, Robinson's was the first. At the Superior Court of Cumberland County, Judge Gregory Weeks ruled that race had played a significant role in the trial and Robinson was resentenced to life without parole. North Carolina appealed the decision to the state's Supreme Court. An immediate outcry followed the decision. The North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys issued a statement saying, "Capital cases reflect the most brutal and heinous offenders in our society. Whether the death penalty is an appropriate sentence for murderers should be addressed by our lawmakers in the General Assembly, not masked as claims (of) racism in our courts." The ruling attracted lots of publicity from across the country and North Carolina lawmakers were outraged. "There are definitely signs in the legislative record that there were some [lawmakers] that really wanted to see executions move forward," Cassandra Stubbs, the director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project who also represents Robinson, says. Legislative staffers circulated talking points for lawmakers with arguments that the RJA turns "district attorneys into racists and convicted murderers into victims," describing the law as "an end-run around the death penalty and an indefinite moratorium on capital punishment." The day Judge Weeks resentenced Robinson, the Senate president pro tempore for the state Legislature, Phillip Berger, expressed concern that Robinson could be eligible for parole. He suggested Robinson—who had just turned 18 when he committed the crime and would not have been considered a juvenile—would be ineligible for life in prison without a chance of parole, citing a US Supreme Court ruling that prohibited juveniles from receiving life sentences without parole. "We cannot allow cold-blooded killers to be released into our community, and I expect the state to appeal this decision," he said. "Regardless of the outcome, we continue to believe the Racial Justice Act is an ill-conceived law that has very little to do with race and absolutely nothing to do with justice." The state Legislature took on the challenge and voted to repeal the Racial Justice Act in 2013. This made it impossible for those on death row to even attempt to have their sentences reviewed for racial bias, but it left the fates of the four who had been moved to life imprisonment unclear. "The state's district attorneys are nearly unanimous in their bipartisan conclusion that the Racial Justice Act created a judicial loophole to avoid the death penalty and not a path to justice," Gov. Pat McCrory said in a statement at the time. Even though the law was still in effect when the four inmates' sentences were reduced, they weren't safe from death row just yet. Robinson's sentenced had been legally reduced, but the legal battle was just beginning. In 2015, after nearly two years from the initial hearing, the North Carolina Supreme Court ordered the Superior Court to reconsider the reduced sentences for Robinson, Augustine, Golphin, and Walters, saying the judge failed to give the state enough time to prepare for the "complex" proceedings. This past January, Superior Court Judge Erwin Spainhour ruled that because the RJA had been repealed, the four defendants could no longer use the law to reduce their sentences. "North Carolina vowed to undertake an unprecedented look at the role of racial bias in capital sentencing," says Stubbs. But now, "the state Legislature explicitly turned from its commitment and repealed the law." Robinson is back on death row at Central Prison in the state's capital of Raleigh. In the petition to the state Supreme Court, Robinson's lawyers point out that the Double Jeopardy Clause—the law that prevents someone from being tried twice for the same crime—bars North Carolina from trying to reimpose the death penalty because the 2012 RJA hearing acquitted him of capital punishment. "He's never been resentenced to death," Stubbs says. "They have no basis to hold him on death row." Full Article Politics Crime and Justice Race and Ethnicity
ut Hillary Clinton Is Out of Fucks By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Wed, 31 May 2017 20:24:46 +0000 Hillary Clinton appeared at Recode Wednesday in conversation with founders Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, and to steal a headline from myself, she is out of fucks. It was fascinating to watch. She didn't hold back. You can watch the full thing below or continue on for some highlights. <br /> Here are some good bits, courtesy of the recode live blog: On emails!!! "The over riding issue that affected the election that I had any control over — because I had no control over the Russians. Too bad about that — was the use of my emails. The way that it was used was very damaging. The New York times covered it like Pearl harbor. On Goldman Sachs speeches "I have to say, Walt I never thought someone would throw out my entire career...because I made a couple of speeches…Men got paid for the speeches they made...I got paid for the speeches I made…I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that's not why I lost” On the vast right-wing conspiracy "What is hard for people to accept, although now after the election there's greater understanding, is that there are forces in our country...who have been fighting rear guard actions for as long as I've been alive…We were on a real roll as a country despite assassinations, despite setbacks, expanding rights to people who never had them in any country was frankly thrilling. I believe then as I believe now that we're never done with this work. Part of the challenge is to maintain the focus and energy to move forward but you have to understand the other side is never tired either." On fake news "Fake news...lies that's a good word too...The other side was using content that was just flat out false and delivering it in a very personalized way. Above the radar screen and below." On the DNC "I inherit nothing from the Democratic party. It was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. I had to inject money into the [DNC] for it to keep going." On the RNC "They raised...best estimates are close to $100 million...to build this data foundation. They beta tested it. They ran [hundreds of thousands of surveys]. Trump becomes the nominee and is [given] this tried and true...platform." On Russia collusion "I think it's fair to ask how did that actually influence the campaign and how did they know what messages to deliver. Who told them? Who were they coordinating with or colluding with?…The Russians in my opinion could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided by Americans." "Within one hour of the Access Hollywood tapes being leaked, the Russians or say Wikileaks—same thing—dumped the John Podesta emails. They were run of the mill emails. "Stuff that were so common. Within one hour they dumped them and then began to weaponize them. They had their allies like Infowars say the most outlandish, absurd lies you could imagine. They had to be ready for that." On Putin "It's important that Americans...understand that Putin wants to bring us down. He was an old KGB agent." On Obama "Barack Obama saved the economy and he doesn't get the credit he deserves, I have to say that [because people don't know that.]" Clinton re: democrats not investing in creating content. This post is being updated. Full Article Politics
ut Democrats Are Setting Their Sights on "Putin's Favorite Congressman" By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:00:08 +0000 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) won his first election to the House of Representatives in 1988 with 64 percent of the vote. He's been reelected 13 times since then. And even though he walloped his most recent challenger by nearly 17 percentage points, some Democrats now think that this could be the final term for the Southern California conservative Politico has dubbed "Putin's favorite congressman." Protesters, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, assemble outside Rohrabacher's office every Tuesday at 1 p.m. "He has been our congressman for a long time," laments Diana Carey, vice chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County. "But because the district was predominantly Republican, my view is he's been on cruise control." Thanks to changing demographics in Orange County and newly fired-up liberal voters, Carey doesn't think Rohrabacher's seat is safe anymore. Recently, Rohrabacher has been swept up in the scandal over the possible collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. Like Trump, Rohrabacher, who claims to once have lost a drunken arm-wrestling match with Vladimir Putin in the 1990s, believes the Russian government is being unfairly demonized. (During the 1980s, Rohrabacher was a staunch anti-communist who hung out with the anti-Soviet mujahedeen in Afghanistan.) He has shrugged off allegations of Moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election by pointing out that the United States is guilty of similar actions. In May, the New York Times reported that in 2012 the FBI warned Rohrabacher that Russian spies were trying to recruit him. Two days earlier, the Washington Post reported on a recording from June 2016 in which House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump." (McCarthy assured Rohrabacher the remarks were meant as a joke.) In a 2016 conversation with Republican House members, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump." Washington Post But of all the issues where Rohrabacher and Trump align, Russia may be the least pressing concern for the constituents who are rallying against him. So far, Rohrabacher has voted in line with Trump's positions more than 93 percent of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight, including voting in favor of the GOP health care bill that would effectively end Obamacare. Rohrabacher pushed hard for the bill, warning his GOP colleagues that letting Trump's first major legislative effort die would stunt the president's momentum. "If this goes down," he said in March, "we're going to be neutering our President Trump. You don't cut the balls off your bull and expect that's he's going to go out and get the job done." Health care is a hot-button issue in the 48th District, Carey says. "I've had conversations with people who are absolutely beside themselves, scared that they're going to lose coverage." While Rohrabacher won his last race in a near-landslide, his district went for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. She won by a slim margin, but it was enough for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to flag the district as a top target to flip in 2018. If the Democrats hope to best Rohrabacher in the midterms, they have a lot of work to do, says Justin Wallin, an Orange County-based pollster who runs an opinion research firm. "I don't think Dana has carved out a position as a fire-breathing supporter for any political personality except for Ronald Reagan," says Wallin, referring to Rohrabacher's early days working in the Reagan White House. "He tends to align quite naturally with that district in his perspectives, his persona, and his political views. His district views him as being independent, and when Dana takes a position on something that seems to be outside the mainstream, that can actually buttress his favorable regard." Two Democrats have announced bids to run against Rohrabacher. One is first-time candidate Harley Rouda, a businessman and attorney who gave $9,200 to Republican congressional candidates and nothing to Democrats between 1993 and 2007. The other is Boyd Roberts, a Laguna Beach real estate broker who has vowed to work to impeach Trump and who finished last among five candidates running for a school board seat in Hemet, California, in 2012. Both are attacking Rohrabacher over his sympathetic stance toward Russia. "The district will vote [Rohrabacher] out because i think there is something with the Russia thing. I think I can raise money off it," Roberts told the Los Angeles Times. In an online ad, Rouda calls Rohrabacher "one of the most entrenched members of Washington's establishment" and vows to get "tough on Russia" if he is elected. "They're both kind of waving the flag of the Russia thing, and I just don't think that's gonna get them over the line," says Wallin. Carey declined to comment on either candidate, though she says a third challenger will be announcing a bid this summer. Meanwhile, the DCCC hasn't thrown its backing behind anyone yet. "Barring something dramatic happening, I'd say he is far more safe than a number of other districts in the area," says Wallin. Yet Carey thinks that so long as the Democrats continue organizing with the same intensity they've shown so far, they can turn the district blue. "We have a lot of folks who said they never paid attention before, a lot of no-party-preference people who are really concerned about democracy," she says. When asked whether people in the district continue to be engaged, she responds, "So far I think the energy is staying. I tell people, 'This is not a sprint, it's a marathon.' But I think as long as Trump keeps tweeting, we'll keep having interest!" Full Article Politics Congress Donald Trump
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