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Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Kermit Fire & Rescue Headquarters Station on Friday in Kermit, West Virginia. | Craig
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/11/warren-west-virginia-2020-1317611
Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country
The liberal firebrand draws nods and even a few cheers on a trip through rural West Virginia.
By ALEX THOMPSON
05/11/2019 04:46 PM EDT
KERMIT, W. Va. — It was a startling spectacle in the heart of Trump country: At least a dozen supporters of the president — some wearing MAGA stickers — nodding their heads, at times even clapping, for liberal firebrand Elizabeth Warren.
The sighting alone of a Democratic presidential candidate in this town of fewer than 400 people — in a county where more than four in five voters cast their ballot for Trump in 2016 — was unusual. Warren’s team was apprehensive about how she’d be received.
About 150 people gathered at the Kermit Fire & Rescue Headquarters Station to hear the Massachusetts senator and former Harvard professor talk about what she wants to do to fight the opioid epidemic. Trump-supporting college students in baggy t-shirts, housewives in pearls, and the fire chief dressed in uniform joined liberal retirees wearing rainbow “Persist” shirts and teachers with six-figure student loan debt.
Kermit is one of the epicenters of the opioid addiction epidemic. The toll is visible. The community center is shuttered. Fire trucks are decades old. When Warren asked people at the beginning of the event to raise their hands if they knew somebody who’s been “caught in the grips of addiction,” most hands went up.
“That’s why I’m here today,” she said.
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But Warren didn’t come to rural West Virginia primarily in search of votes. The tiny state likely won’t decide the nomination, and is all but certain to back Trump in the general election.
Instead, Warren was here to try to send a message that she’s serious about tackling the problems of remote communities like this one.
The “opioid war” is a medical problem rather than a behavioral or law enforcement one, Warren argued. Her plan is modeled on the government’s response in 1990 to the HIV/AIDS crisis, as she explained in a Medium post earlier this week................................
Here's How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Paid Leave Policy Compares to Ivanka Trump-Backed Proposals
https://twitter.com/jilevin/status/1127186560405901314
Here's How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Paid Leave Policy Compares to Ivanka Trump-Backed Proposals
https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-paid-leave-ivanka-trump-1422846?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution
By Jessica Kwong On 5/11/19 at 7:10 AM EDT
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday unveiled a strong paid family leave policy, advocates on the issue agreed. The assessment of the progressive freshman's policy stood in contrast to what one advocate called the "much more problematic” proposals backed by White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump, who has made paid family leave one of her signature issues.
In a series of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez shared that an “‘unusual’ (but shouldn’t be)” part of her office policy is that new parents working for her get three months of paid leave.
“Paid parental leave applies to ALL new parents, period. Moms, dads, parents; biological or adopted,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “If you’ve got a new child, you get 12 weeks to spend adjusting your family to this huge transition.”
The 29-year-old reiterated the importance of giving fathers full parental leave as well and that “I strongly encourage them to take the full time.”
“I’ve heard the ‘normal' paternity leave is 2 weeks. That is NOT okay!” she tweeted. “As my partner says: ‘What do employers expect those new moms to do? Walk it off?’”
Meanwhile, Trump on Tuesday tweeted a TIME story about paid family leave being stalled in Congress and why that was about to change, in which she was quoted.
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https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1126840339644522496
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Verified account @AOC
24h24 hours ago
A few notes on our approach:
1. Expecting a child has nothing to do with our hiring decisions, & we do everything we can to accommodate. That’s supposed to be law, but there are small ways (incl self-selection) where it can play a role. We work to be a pro-family workplace.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Verified account @AOC
23h23 hours ago
2. Paid parental leave applies to ALL new parents, period. Moms, dads, parents; biological or adopted. If you’ve got a new child, you get 12 weeks to spend adjusting your family to this huge transition.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
?Verified account @AOC
23h23 hours ago
3. Our 12 weeks parental leave is up to the parent on how they want to use that time. They don’t have to take all 12 weeks at once - for example, they can take 5 weeks off and work 2 days a week to transition in; bank 3 weeks for later in the year, etc. /4
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Verified account @AOC
23h23 hours ago
4. I want to reiterate how important it is to give dads full parental leave. I strongly encourage them to take the full time.
I’ve heard the “normal” paternity leave is 2 weeks. That is NOT okay! As my partner says: “What do employers expect those new moms to do? Walk it off?”
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Verified account @AOC
23h23 hours ago
5. Equal pay at work is about SO much more than the salary you offer.
If you give dads less paid parental leave than moms, you’re contributing to the pay gap.
If you see pregnancy or family as a workplace obstacle, you’re contributing to the pay gap.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
?Verified account @AOC
23h23 hours ago
6. We make an effort to make our office family-friendly. We talk about what play mats + cribs we need along w/ our legislative agenda. My personal office can be used for pumping/feeding.
Staff can bring their babies to work if they like & we are working to prepare to have them.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
?Verified account @AOC
23h23 hours ago
7. Additionally, paying a living min wage to our most junior staffers means they’re talented + capable (no 2nd job) to take over big-time situations, meaning senior staffers are confident enough in them to take parental leave and not feel like everything will fall apart.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Verified account @AOC
23h23 hours ago
8. This is convo is bigger than parental leave - it’s a larger conversation about how modern work has grown so hostile to family life. It doesn’t have to be that way!
Work + family can go together, but we have to break down the barriers that force people to choose between them.
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I’m told High Street on the A/C, the far exit (haven’t confirmed myself!)
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Don McGahn Rebuffed White House Request to Say Trump Didn't Obstruct Justice
Source: wsj
After release of the Mueller report, the president sought to have the former White House counsel say that he didn’t believe the president’s push to dismiss the special counsel constituted a crime
Updated May 10, 2019 6:55 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON—Within a day of the release of the Mueller report last month, President Trump sought to have former White House counsel Don McGahn declare he didn’t consider the president’s 2017 directive that he seek Robert Mueller’s dismissal to be obstruction of justice, but Mr. McGahn rebuffed the request, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Trump has publicly denied asking Mr. McGahn to fire the Russia probe special counsel since the release of the report. Mr. Mueller’s report detailed that directive, and a subsequent...
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White House Asked McGahn to Declare Trump Never Obstructed Justice
President Trump believed that Donald F. McGahn II, his former White House counsel, showed disloyalty by telling investigators about Mr. Trump’s attempts to maintain control over the Russia investigation.CreditAndrew Harnik/Associated Press
By Michael S. Schmidt
May 10, 2019
WASHINGTON — White House officials asked at least twice in the past month for the key witness against President Trump in the Mueller report, Donald F. McGahn II, to say publicly that he never believed the president obstructed justice, according to two people briefed on the requests.
Mr. McGahn, who was the president’s first White House counsel, declined, one of the people said. His reluctance angered Mr. Trump, who believed that Mr. McGahn showed disloyalty by telling investigators for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, about Mr. Trump’s attempts to maintain control over the Russia investigation.
The White House made one of the requests to Mr. McGahn’s lawyer, William A. Burck, before the Mueller report was released publicly but after the Justice Department gave a copy to Mr. Trump’s lawyers to read. Reading the report, the president’s lawyers saw that Mr. Mueller had left out that Mr. McGahn had told investigators that he believed Mr. Trump never obstructed justice. Mr. Burck had told them months earlier that his client had shared that belief with investigators.
Mr. McGahn initially entertained the White House request. But after the report was released, detailing the range of actions Mr. Trump took to try to impede the inquiry, Mr. McGahn declined to put out a statement. The report also included comments Mr. Trump to aides about how he believed Mr. McGahn leaked to the media to make himself look good.
See Which Witnesses the Mueller Report Relied on Most
A partially redacted report of the special counsel’s findings released on April 18 cited interviews with 43 individuals at least 10 times.
The episode shows the lengths the White House has gone to around the release of the Mueller report to push back on the notion that Mr. Trump obstructed justice. House Democrats have used the report to launch investigations into whether Mr. Trump abused his position to insulate himself from the investigations...............................................................
3 production companies say they won't film in Georgia after abortion law signed
Source: CNN
Updated 9:22 AM ET, Fri May 10, 2019
(CNN)Hollywood has been outspoken against a controversial Georgia abortion law, and now the heads of three production companies are saying they will not film in the state.
Christine Vachon, chief executive officer of Killer Films; David Simon, creator of "The Wire" and "The Deuce" who heads Blown Deadline Productions; and Mark Duplass of Duplass Brothers Productions have come out in opposition to a newly signed law that would ban abortions in the state if a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Georgia has been the location for the filming of multiple television shows and blockbuster films, including one of Marvel's biggest hits, "Black Panther."
Such films and the production of wildly popular TV series including "The Walking Dead" and "Stranger Things" have resulted in an estimated $2.7 billion pouring into the Southern state from direct spending via 455 productions, the governor's office announced last year.
On Thursday, Vachon, whose company has been behind such films as "Carol" and "Vox Lux," made her stand known on Twitter.................................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/10/entertainment/georgia-movies-heartbeat-law/index.html
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https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1126911451808051200
Georgia's governor signs a controversial abortion bill into law
Stephen Miller's New Policy Would Make Thousands of US Citizen Children Homeless - Over One Parent's
separating families and instilling fear--that is the Trump Whitehouse!
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE by David Badash May 10, 201911:37 AM
Stephen Miller’s New Policy Would Make Thousands of US Citizen Children Homeless – Over One Parent’s Immigration Status
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/05/stephen-millers-policy-would-make-thousands-of-us-citizen-children-homeless-over-parents-immigration-status/
"HUD expects that fear of the family being separated would lead to prompt evacuation by most mixed households."
White House Senior Advisor to the President and prominent white nationalist Stephen Miller is pushing a new federal rule that would evict an estimated 55,000 legal U.S. residents or U.S. citizens who are children, over the immigration status of just one of their parents.
The children are living in federally-subsidized public housing. Miller wants Secretary Ben Carson's Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to evict families who have even just one undocumented immigrant living with them.
The Washington Post reports "the agency’s analysis of the rule’s regulatory impact concluded that half of current residents living in households potentially facing eviction and homelessness are children who are legally qualified for aid."
Supporting the eviction of children, Secretary Carson said it would "make certain our scarce public resources help those who are legally entitled to it."
Miller's new rule, the Post adds, "would require every household member be of 'eligible immigration status.'" ..............................................
Here's video of Rudy Giuliani praising Putin for being a dictator and attacking Obama: "Putin decide
Here’s video of Rudy Giuliani praising Putin for being a dictator and attacking Obama: “Putin decides what he wants to do, and he does it in half a day. That's what you call a leader. President Obama—gotta think about it, talk to more people." #TraitorRudy
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Trump wants to be KING--but he is just the Court Jester...........
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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/10/trump-declares-himself-americas-all-time-favorite-president.html
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Posted on Fri, May 10th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Trump Declares Himself America’s All Time Favorite President
While ranting about the trade war that he is losing with China, Trump declared himself to be America’s all-time favorite president.
Trump thinks that he is America’s all-time favorite president.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126833126179840000
Trump thinks that he is America’s all-time favorite president, even though he has never had an approval rating above 50% in any credible poll, and support for impeaching him has grown 5% in less than a month.
300,000 soybean farmers in the US. China is primary buyer but with Trump tariffs they are
losing LOTS of money. Reporter also showed the flooded Mississippi River behind him. Says barges held up all spring and
can not get LAST years soybeans down river this spring.
Dire situation for them. msnbc just now.
The Dow Is Falling Because Trump Says There Is No Rush to Make a Trade Deal With China
Source: marketwatch.com
May 10, 2019 at 9:09 a.m. ET By Ben Levisohn
8:44 a.m. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is heading lower hits morning after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that he’s in no rush to complete a trade deal with China.
Dow futures have declined 128 points, or 0.5%, while S&P 500 futures have fallen 0.7%, and Nasdaq Composite futures have dropped 0.7%.
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