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13 October 19
The Senate Is Likelier to Remove Trump After Impeachment Than You Think
David Priess, The Washington Post
Priess writes: "As the House of Representatives builds momentum to impeach President Trump, conventional wisdom holds that the constitutionally required two-thirds vote in the Senate to remove him would be impossible. This conventional wisdom is wrong."
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David Priess, The Washington Post
Priess writes: "As the House of Representatives builds momentum to impeach President Trump, conventional wisdom holds that the constitutionally required two-thirds vote in the Senate to remove him would be impossible. This conventional wisdom is wrong."
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Trump's Envoy to Testify That 'No Quid Pro Quo' Came From Trump
Aaron C. Davis and John Hudson, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony."
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Aaron C. Davis and John Hudson, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony."
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'If I had never dialed the police department, she'd still be alive.' (photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Texas Police Officer Fatally Shoots Black Woman Inside Her Own Home During Welfare Check
Pilar Melendez, The Daily Beast
Melendez writes: "A white Texas police officer fatally shot a black woman inside her own home early Saturday morning after a neighbor who'd noticed her door was open requested a welfare check, authorities said."
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Pilar Melendez, The Daily Beast
Melendez writes: "A white Texas police officer fatally shot a black woman inside her own home early Saturday morning after a neighbor who'd noticed her door was open requested a welfare check, authorities said."
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Defense Secretary James Mattis waits outside of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., April 23, 2018. (photo: DoD)
Mattis: Trump's Troop Pullout Will Lead to 'Disarray' in Syria and Isis Resurgence
Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly writes: "The former defense secretary James Mattis has said Donald Trump's abrupt withdrawal of US troops from the Syria-Turkey border has led to 'disarray' in the war-torn territory, increasing the chances of a resurgence of Islamic State militants currently guarded by Kurdish forces."
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Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly writes: "The former defense secretary James Mattis has said Donald Trump's abrupt withdrawal of US troops from the Syria-Turkey border has led to 'disarray' in the war-torn territory, increasing the chances of a resurgence of Islamic State militants currently guarded by Kurdish forces."
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Striking United Auto Workers union members. (photo: ABC News)
Trump's Assault on Labor
Paul Prescod, Jacobin
Prescod writes: "Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration's first term has failed working people."
Paul Prescod, Jacobin
Prescod writes: "Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration's first term has failed working people."
EXCERPT:
Federal Deregulation
Trump has wasted no time in rolling back many of the rather mild labor regulations that are in place to give workers some level of protection. He supported the repeal of Obama’s Fair Play and Safe Workplace Executive Order that protected workers from wage theft. Before Trump, workers had to earn over $23,000 a year before the requirement of overtime pay kicked in. Now that requirement has been moved to $35,000, eliminating that opportunity for the growing number of low-wage workers in the American economy. For these same low-wage workers, Trump ran on supporting a $10/hr minimum wage and has yet to take any action on it.
Worker health and safety has perhaps suffered the most under Trump’s regime. Among the many things workers give up when they go to their job each day is a guarantee of physical and mental safety. 5,147 workers died on the job in 2017 alone. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is being severely attacked and undermined, as their number of workplace safety inspectors has fallen to the lowest ever in the agency’s existence.
To further add to the damage, Trump removed a rule requiring corporations to keep records of worker injuries from year-to-year. In order to save the industry some $11 million a year, the Trump administration canceled a requirement for training for construction and shipyard workers to avoid exposure to beryllium, a known carcinogen.
Maquiladora in Tijuana. (photo: Anthony Albright/Flickr)
Maquiladoras and the Exploitation of Migrants on the Border
Nina Ebner and Mateo Crossa, NACLA
Excerpt: "So if we turn to two moments in the U.S.-Mexico border's history of economic development, we can clearly visualize the long-term relationship between the border's economic competitiveness-rooted in the employment of vulnerable migrants in industrial jobs-and the concurrent criminalization of these very same migrants."
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Nina Ebner and Mateo Crossa, NACLA
Excerpt: "So if we turn to two moments in the U.S.-Mexico border's history of economic development, we can clearly visualize the long-term relationship between the border's economic competitiveness-rooted in the employment of vulnerable migrants in industrial jobs-and the concurrent criminalization of these very same migrants."
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The environmental group Extinction Rebellion staged a 'die-in' at the Charging Bull statue in Manhattan on Oct. 7, 2019. (photo: Hilary Swift/The Intercept)
Can Extinction Rebellion Build a US Climate Movement Big Enough to Save the Earth?
Alleen Brown, The Intercept
Brown writes: "A crowd of about 200 black-clad members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion gathered Monday morning at the southern end of New York City's financial district."
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Alleen Brown, The Intercept
Brown writes: "A crowd of about 200 black-clad members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion gathered Monday morning at the southern end of New York City's financial district."
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