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Assessing the Donald Trump team’s six-point US impeachment defense
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The complex US network pushing for Ukraine dirt — with Rudy Giuliani at its center
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Office of Management and Budget—Withholding of Ukraine security assistance
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How the US helped create El Salvador’s bloody gang war
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Trump backs away from further military conflict with Iran
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Mitch McConnell has less power to shape the impeachment trial than Democrats think
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US President Donald Trump signs $1.37 trillion spending deal, averting federal shutdown
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How the Republican party went from Lincoln to Trump
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Should some of these Republicans start to recuse themselves from the impeachment of Donald Trump?
Just a question. Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and the rest of them saying they already have a vote against removal of Donald before a court appearance. Sorry if this is the wrong sub tilde for...
Just a question. Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and the rest of them saying they already have a vote against removal of Donald before a court appearance.
Sorry if this is the wrong sub tilde for this. It just pisses me off.
"'I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here': Graham predicts Trump impeachment will 'die quickly'" in Senate https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/14/politics/lindsey-graham-trump-impeachment-trial/index.html
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The real purpose of US President Donald Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism is to quash the defense—and even the discussion—of Palestinian rights
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Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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"Project DREAD": White House veterans helped the United Arab Emirates build a secret surveillance unit
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Nancy Pelosi says US House of Representatives will draft impeachment charges against Donald Trump
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said her country would provide four more planes to NATO after holding positive talks with US President
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How McKinsey helped the Trump administration carry out its immigration policies
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Donald Trump's "invisible wall": A small, dedicated crew of hardliners has put up bureaucratic barriers that are far harder to overcome than any hunk of concrete on the US-Mexico border
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Hong Kong protests: Trump signs Human Rights and Democracy Act into law
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Secret documents show NHS for sale in Trump Brexit trade talks: Corbyn
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Trump knew of the whistleblower complaint earlier than we thought. That's devastating.
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Bad romance - What happened to the National Enquirer after it went all in for Trump?
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Shahid Buttar on defeating Pelosi and impeaching Trump
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I'd like to talk about the world these days, care to join in?
Hey, friends. I'd like to take a few minutes of your time to talk and converse. Please, feel free to join in. I'm not trying to make any points or whatnot, but I need to get this out of my head....
Hey, friends. I'd like to take a few minutes of your time to talk and converse. Please, feel free to join in. I'm not trying to make any points or whatnot, but I need to get this out of my head.
It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to see that there is a lot going on these days. I know that there's always a lot going on, but it just seems to be on my mind a lot more than it used to. I'm unsure if it's because things out there actually are heating up, if the current news cycle is finally paying some attention, if I'm just more interested/aware as I get older, or if it's some combination of these. Regardless, it just seems like there's so much to think about.
To begin, there's the domestic stuff. We have an inevitable recession coming our way sooner than later (recessions being a feature of our application of Capitalism, after all), and, of course, the mess in the other Washington. I'm doing my best to keep up with the impeachment, while not letting it really "get to me". As I get older, I find that I care more and more about the wellbeing of my country, and the utter shame that is this current administration makes me genuinely concerned for the health of our nation and the people in it. I cannot help but think to myself that I am watching the arguably most significant political crisis since Watergate unfolding before me - live, in real-time. It's wild, as you know that you live through history in the making, but you never really think that you're going to live through something of this caliber.
While I'm hopeful that our own brush with populism will turn out OK (our 3 branch government is remarkably robust), I still worry about us and the other countries that are dealing with it now too. We have Bolsonaro and Duerte, Brexit and Trump. We have the mess in Bolivia, and frankly I still don't exactly have my head wrapped fully around what the hell is actually going on there. We have the trickery of Putin and his loyal cronies. Even populism aside, we have the unrest and violence in Lebanon, Syria, Chile and Iran. And of course, let's not forget our friends in Hong Kong.
I look at the HK situation and feel extra helpless. I was 7 when Tiananmen Square happened, and I kinda remember it. I certainly remember tank man on the news, but that was about it. I see what's going on in Hong Kong and I cannot get past the feeling that they're literally fighting a losing battle for their lives. I can't imagine how they'll survive this without getting steamrolled, unless a foreign power steps in. You know that'll alter the course of the 21st century. I mean, hell. Even if things turn out rosy, this is still probably one of the most significant events of this century. And here I am, watching it in real-time again.
This isn't even touching on the literal concentration camps that China is running for the Uighur Muslims. Shit, even my own country is running camps for children right now. How TF does this even happen? By the time half of us even find out, these camps have already been up and running for a good while. What can you even do?
Then there is a the ever-looming specter that haunts us and feels inescapable: global warming. I don't think I need to elaborate on this one, just a quick peek at the fires and floods, droughts and melting glaciers says it all. Again, we're along for this ride in an enormous mechanism that individually we are wholly powerless against. I sincerely hope that we do manage to engineer our way out of the worst of climate change, but I am honestly not hopeful that we will limit our emissions enough to keep us under the 4° warming that we're seemingly on the trajectory for. I sure won't be alive in 2100, but my youngest nibblings just might - or at least their kids will be. What kind of world are we leaving for them?
How will these things affect and feed off each other? Will we look at the period between WWII and the early 21st century as one of unusual peace and prosperity?
This stuff keeps me up at night, and sometimes it feels like doing your best is just a vain exercise in futility. I know it's not, in that everyone doing their best would make huge changes, and that no matter what happens, I can go to my grave in good conscience knowing that I did what I could. Still, some days it all feels like too much, you know?
Anyway, thank you for listening to me, and letting me talk. There's a few people in my life that share the same concerns, but it's hard to find anyone to talk to about the breadth of all this shit that there is to worry about.
So, anonymous strangers on the internet, how are you feeling about the world situation these days?
21 votes -
Why do Trump’s supporters stand by him, no matter what?
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Congressional Impeachment Hearings Day 3 Live Feed
11 votes -
The schedule for this week's public impeachment hearings
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Trump administration hosting new Greenland talks with Denmark, focused on presence and investments
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Donald Trump ally Roger Stone found guilty of lying to US Congress, witness tampering
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Impeachment inquiry live on YouTube
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The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations
10 votes -
The Trump campaign has held at least 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with the President. There is no evidence anyone has ever won.
16 votes -
Trump is using his Ukraine playbook against the senate
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US envoy testifies that release of Ukraine aid was contingent on public declaration to investigate Bidens, 2016 election
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You can't rehabilitate George W. Bush
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US President Donald Trump’s legal immunity has a countdown clock
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'Meltdown': Trump-Pelosi feud intensifies after Dem walkout
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US President Donald Trump wrote Turkish President Erdoğan a letter warning him not to be "a tough guy" or "a fool" as his forces launched their attack on northern Syria
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Trump ambushed parents of teenage crash victim, family spokesman says
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We Found a “Staggering” 281 Lobbyists Who’ve Worked in the Trump Administration
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Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
17 votes -
One of forty-three allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump
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Turkey begins military offensive in Syria, days after Trump announced pullback of US troops
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President Trump's lawyers said the President and his administration won't cooperate in an ongoing impeachment inquiry
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Exclusive: Official who heard call says Trump got 'rolled' by Turkey and 'has no spine'
9 votes