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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Of Course Trump Got Ukraine Policy Advice From Russia and Hungary




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Charles Pierce | Of Course Trump Got Ukraine Policy Advice From Russia and Hungary
Vladimir Putin with Hungary's Viktor Orban. (photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Putin and Orban can see an incompetent autocrat coming from miles away."
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Bill Taylor. (photo: AP)
Bill Taylor. (photo: AP)


Bill Taylor's Testimony Paints a 'Damning' Picture of Trump's Ukraine Quid Pro Quo
Cameron Joseph and Greg Walters, Vice
Excerpt: "Bill Taylor is known as a 'straight shooter' - and he just fired a shot in President Trump's direction."
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A Honduran woman has sued the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency over sexual assault she says occurred over a period of seven years. (photo: Bryan Cox/AP)
A Honduran woman has sued the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency over sexual assault she says occurred over a period of seven years. (photo: Bryan Cox/AP)

Honduran Woman Accuses Immigration Agent of Sexual Assault Over Seven Years
Guardian UK
Excerpt: "A Honduran woman living in Connecticut has accused a US immigration agent of sexually assaulting her over a period of seven years under the threat of deportation, according to a federal lawsuit."
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'Emoluments Welcome' projected on to the Trump International Hotel. (photo: Twitter)
'Emoluments Welcome' projected on to the Trump International Hotel. (photo: Twitter)

How to Understand Trump's Perverted Version of History
Zachary B. Wolf, CNN
Wolf writes: "President Donald Trump's taste for history is moving in new and awkwardly divergent directions as he faces the twin challenges of an impeachment inquiry and a 2020 re-election campaign."

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But while he wants to be compared to Washington, he's also frustrated with the Founding Fathers about emoluments. Before the Cabinet meeting he went after the Constitution's "phony" emoluments clause, suggesting even the Founding Fathers were against him. 
Emolument is Constitution-speak for a salary or benefit derived from public office. 
Trump is right that the Founding Fathers were against the idea of any President trading on the office of the United States presidency. But he's also, it turns out, right that they didn't really close the loop and spell out how to make sure it didn't happen -- which is how he's been able to remain in possession of his real estate holdings, and to keep his business dealings private, while in office. 
The Miami Herald reported Congressional Democrats plan to file plan to file a legal brief that alleges Trump's short-lived plan to hold a G7 summit with leaders of other developed democracies at his golf course in Doral, Florida, violates the emoluments clause. Democrats were already suing him for violating the foreign Emoluments Clause, arguing he must get the consent of Congress before accepting money from foreigners. 
Trump was shocked at the blowback against his attempt to hold the summit for world leaders at his golf course. And that's partially, according to his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, because while Trump is the US President, he still sees himself as being in the hospitality business.

A new report from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago shows what the effects of technology on workers will really be. (photo: Visual China Group/Getty Images)
A new report from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago shows what the effects of technology on workers will really be. (photo: Visual China Group/Getty Images) 

Robots Aren't Taking Warehouse Employees' Jobs, They're Making Their Work Harder
Shirin Ghaffary, Vox
Ghaffary writes: "While it's unclear how many jobs automation will eventually replace and when it might happen, a new study looks at some
thing more measurable: how new technologies are changing workers' day-to-day jobs right now."
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Trinidad Paul at her home in Village Philadelphie, an informal settlement north of Port-au-Prince, on Nov. 11, 2018. (photo: Marie Arago/Type Investigations)
Trinidad Paul at her home in Village Philadelphie, an informal settlement north of Port-au-Prince, on Nov. 11, 2018. (photo: Marie Arago/Type Investigations)

Seeking to Deport Haitians, the Trump Administration Is Counting Deaths in Displacement Camps as "Progress"
Isabel Macdonald, The Intercept and Type Investigations
Macdonald writes: "The International Organization for Migration does not know how many individuals it tallies as 'spontaneous returns' actually died in the camps."
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A skull of a washed ashore fish lies amid destroyed soybeans on a field at a farm near Omaha, Nebraska that was flooded this past spring. (photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)
A skull of a washed ashore fish lies amid destroyed soybeans on a field at a farm near Omaha, Nebraska that was flooded this past spring. (photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

Humanity Has Already Destroyed Half the Animal and Plant Life on Earth
CBC Radio
Excerpt: "The increasing rate of species threatened with extinction that's alarming biologists is just one feature of the massive transformation humans have wrought on our planet. Another shocking reality is that Earth is far poorer not just in the diversity of life, but also in the raw amount of life."
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