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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Why Bernie Sanders Matters






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Why Bernie Sanders Matters
Bernie Sanders talks to supporters during a rally at the University of Washington, in Seattle. (photo: Joshua Trujillo/Seattlepi.com)
Seth Ackerman, Jacobin
Ackerman writes: "The rationale for Bernie Sanders's brand of politics has always been that it's better to aim at shifting the basic parameters of American politics - however difficult that may be - than accepting those parameters and trying to maneuver within them."
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Mike Pompeo. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
Mike Pompeo. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)

Three House Committees Subpoena Pompeo Over Trump-Ukraine Call
Erin Banco and Sam Brodey, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "Three congressional committees have subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents related to efforts by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to dig up dirt on 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden."
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Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill near the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)
Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill near the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)

House Again Approves Resolution to Overturn Trump's Border Emergency Declaration
Clare Foran, CNN
Foran writes: "The House of Representatives on Friday again approved a resolution to overturn President Donald Trump's national emergency border declaration. The vote was 236-174."
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Pro-choice activists rally in support of Planned Parenthood. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Pro-choice activists rally in support of Planned Parenthood. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Cities Push Back on Abortion Restrictions
Trevor Bach, U.S. News
Bach writes: "On Sept. 10, the City Council in Austin, Texas, met to approve the city's next budget, greenlighting funding for 30 new police officers, sidewalk improvements and wildfire mitigation."
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Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, says she thought she was entering her own apartment when she fatally shot her neighbor. She told a jury on Friday that she tried to offer CPR, but prosecutors questioned why she did not do more to help. (photo: Tom Fox)
Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, says she thought she was entering her own apartment when she fatally shot her neighbor. She told a jury on Friday that she tried to offer CPR, but prosecutors questioned why she did not do more to help. (photo: Tom Fox)

'I Shot an Innocent Man,' Says Former Dallas Officer on Trial for Murder of Neighbor
Reis Thebault, The Washington Post
Thebault writes: "On the fifth day of her murder trial, Amber Guyger told a packed courtroom that Botham Jean was already dying by the time she realized she made a mistake." 

EXCERPT:
During opening statements Monday in Guyger’s murder trial, prosecutors offered a reason: She was distracted by the sexually explicit conversation she had been having with her partner on the police force, Martin Rivera.

They had been in an intimate relationship for the past year, prosecutors say, and spent hours swapping messages about being “super horny” and wanting to meet later that night. After a 16-minute phone call with Rivera, Guyger was so consumed that she didn’t process the “repeatedly obvious signs” that something wasn’t right, Assistant Dallas County District Attorney Jason Hermus told jurors.
“All of these things that she’s aware of, she just doesn’t let them get here,” he said, gesturing toward his head. “And that failure cost Bo his life.”

Photographs of the 43 students who vanished, carried by relatives and other students during a protest in April in Mexico City. (photo: Sashenka Gutierrez/Shutterstock)
Photographs of the 43 students who vanished, carried by relatives and other students during a protest in April in Mexico City. (photo: Sashenka Gutierrez/Shutterstock)

Mexico Digs Remains of 43 Students Five Years After Disappearance
Daina Beth Solomon, Reuters
Solomon writes: "Beside a one-lane highway in southwestern Mexico, surrounded by green fields and wildflowers, investigators combed a dump on Friday for any trace of 43 student teachers whose disappearance has haunted the country for five years."

excerpt:
In a grim reminder of the prevalence of unmarked graves in the violent southwestern state of Guerrero, authorities have found 184 bodies so far, Encinas said, but none belonged to the missing students.

A worker removes oil at a beach. (photo: Jae C. Hong/AP)
A worker removes oil at a beach. (photo: Jae C. Hong/AP)

Source of Vast Oil Spill Covering Brazil's Northeast Coast Unknown
Deutsche Welle, EcoWatch
Excerpt: "Brazil's main environmental agency said on Thursday the source of a sprawling oil spill along the northeast coast remains unknown, but that the crude oil was not produced in the country."

excerpts:
razil's main environmental agency said on Thursday the source of a sprawling oil spill along the northeast coast remains unknown, but that the crude oil was not produced in the country.
The spill stretches over 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) of Brazil's northeast coast, affecting 46 cities and around one hundred of the country's nicest beaches since being first detected on Sept. 2.
Brazilian television has shown slicks at sea and oil puddles along shores, as well as turtles covered in black tar. Other marine life has also been found dead.

The institute said that the assessment of the quality of fish caught in affected areas for human consumption is the responsibility of Brazil's health surveillance agency.
President Jair Bolsonaro has been widely criticized for rolling back environmental regulations and monitoring since taking office in January.
Massive forest fires this summer have destroyed large swaths of the Amazon, drawing international condemnation of Brazil's management of the environment.









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