Tag: #CNN

Rob’s Weekly News Wrap-up, 01/11- 01/18

American History, LGBTQ, Photography and Art, Politics

My week closed with a day of doctor’s appointments and chores.

I’ve started a memoir so I’m thinking about limiting myself to
posting twice a week.

Or maybe three times.

Today is the day of the 2019 Women’s March.

Scanned handout from the 2017 Women’s March

I hope a trumped-up right-wing non-controversy doesn’t suppress turnout.

I’ll have photos and videos by this evening.

The week was a frenzy of news, most of it bad for Trump and the GOP.

Trump is losing support from his base and the new freshman democrats in
the House have made a laughing-stock of Mitch McConnell.

#WheresMitch

The week closed with the revelation that Trump may have ordered Michael Cohen to lie to Congress; or maybe not.

We are in the longest most damaging government shut-down in US history and most Americans are too savvy to buy GOP attempts blame Democrats.

2019-01-14 most americans blame president donald trump, gop for shutdown polls morning joe msnbc - youtube
Most Americans blame the Trump GOP for Shutdown

The President is holding us hostage and demanding a ransom of five billion dollars from the House. He is also creating a crisis to distract us from the fact that he is under investigation for conspiring to defraud the American People.

To quote Stephen Colbert:

“That looks bad, but only if we start accepting evidence as proof.”

This list is not complete, there is simply too much news this week

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Rob’s Weekly News Wrap Up: 12/28-01/04

LGBTQ, Photography and Art, Political Action, Politics

This week saw the culmination of two years of #Resistance as Democrats took control of the House of Representatives after a Historic #BlueWave in November.

On January 3, Nancy Pelosi became the Speaker of the House for the Second Time.

This time Nancy Pelosi leads of majority of younger, more aggressive democrats.

This wrap up doesn’t cover everything.

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And finally, Rep. Rashida Tlaib said the words that became top hashtag on Twitter on January 4: #ImpeachTheMF

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Let’s stay united and keep the #BlueWave rolling!

animated gif of a slow moving blue wave
Blue Wave

 

An Uncle Sam Poster made from a template in the public domain
Uncle Sam Wants You to Join the Elves

Rob’s Saturday News Wrap Up, December 15, 2018

American History, LGBTQ, The Resistance

Here are a few of the reports I watched this week.

My focus is the United States and the hysterics of our Red Queen of a president but I do include reports from France and the U.K.

I use multiple news outlets to verify facts.

Professional fact based journalism is not a liberal conspiracy.

The facts of a story don’t change when reported by credible journalists.

A good reporter tells you when she has moved from fact to analyses and opinion.

The GOP wants to brand hostility to Putin’s vision of America as a blatantly corrupt totalitarian state as a leftist plot.

My Father raised me to believe that targeting a group of people for persecution and extermination is the ultimate act of human evil.

The penultimate act of human evil is watching people suffer and die in silence.

I will not sit silently and watch Latin immigrants become the TrumpGOP’s ‘Jews’.

I will not have this stain on my country.

In Trump’s America, we who stand for democracy and human rights are the conservatives.

Eleanor Roosevelt holds up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt holds up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This list of videos is not comprehensive, please feel free to add fact based links  to news items of your own in the comments section.

Special counsel to reveal new details on Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort-CBS

Ex-FBI chief James Comey speaks after House hearing-CBS

Mueller filings pose growing peril for Trump | Meet The Press | NBC News

House Republicans Release James Comey Closed-Door Hearing Transcript | NBC Nightly News

Adam Schiff says Trump faces “real prospect of jail time” after leaving office – Face the Nation

French President Emmanuel Macron On Paris Riots: ‘I Take My Share Of Responsibility’ | NBC News

Carl Bernstein: This could make the world tremble-CNN

Jamal Khashoggi’s last words: ‘I can’t breathe’

Theresa May delays UK Brexit vote – CNN

Michael Cohen Speaks Out Against Trump -ABC

FBI Foils Two Unrelated Terror Plots – NBC

Trump Threatens Shutdown in Meeting with Top Democrats: PBS

How a 7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Died While in U.S. Detention: PBS

‘If you Google the word idiot, a picture of Donald Trump comes up’ – BBC News

Robert Mueller slams Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI: CNN

Maria Butina Admits Being An Agent Of Russia, Will Help US Prosecutors | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Laurence Tribe: President Donald Trump Can Be Indicted For Federal Crimes | The Last Word | MSNBC

Opinion | Republicans are choosing party over country

 

Photo of the cover of the December 2017 National Enquirer at the local Safeway.

Rob Goldstein 2018

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Reich: Here’s How You Can Stop Trump’s Lie Machine

LGBTQ, Political Action, Politics

A call to action from Robert Reich:

Please retweet liberally