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riversedge's JournalEthics panel rebukes Gaetz for tweet targeting Cohen
Source: the hill
By Cristina Marcos - 08/21/20 01:13 PM EDT
The House Ethics Committee is formally admonishing Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for a tweet that attempted to intimidate President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen ahead of his testimony to Congress last year.
In a report released on Friday, the Ethics Committee delivered a rare formal rebuke against Gaetz for his tweet, which it said "did not reflect creditably upon the House of Representatives" and "did not meet the standards by which Members of the House should govern themselves."
But the panel concluded that Gaetz, a close Trump ally, did not violate witness tampering and obstruction of Congress laws.
It cited similar findings from a grievance committee of the Florida bar finding Gaetz's tweet to be "unprofessional" and "reckless," as well as an apology from Gaetz himself.
In February 2019, a day before Cohen testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee about his experiences working with Trump, Gaetz had sent a tweet accusing Cohen of having extramarital affairs.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/513109-ethics-panel-rebukes-goetz-for-tweet-threatening-cohen
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https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1296148705377222656?s=20
WI virus stats: 718 cases per day, 7% lower than the previous week; 7 people are dying per day...
Tracking coronavirus in Wisconsin
https://projects.jsonline.com/topics/coronavirus/tracking/covid-19-cases-testing-and-deaths-in-wisconsin.html?_ga=2.127005965.1271012859.1597981045-1102180971.1597095588
USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services confirmed 740 new cases of COVID-19 and 7 new deaths on August 20. That brings the state’s total number of cases to 68,233 and the total number of deaths to 1,067.
Over the past week, the state has added an average of 718 cases per day, 7% lower than the previous week. Meanwhile, 7 people are dying per day from the virus, which is 22% higher than the previous week. The test positivity rate of 8.0% over the past week is higher than the week before.
The only thing #Trumps #MAGA fans have to whine about is that Biden used a teleprompter....
Really, I logged onto twitter and there is page after page of MAGA folks howling about the fact that Biden used a teleprompter for his acceptance speech last night
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https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/1296643051721568256?s=20
https://twitter.com/RKJ65/status/1296772029295755265?s=20
And there are some pushing back:
https://twitter.com/suevee85/status/1296765862360293377?s=20
https://twitter.com/TM0s41/status/1296765078180638722?s=20
https://twitter.com/thegrudge182/status/1296763475746848769?s=20
State Elections Commission votes to keep Kanye West off Wisconsin ballot in November
Happy day for WI and for the country!
State Elections Commission votes to keep Kanye West off Wisconsin ballot in November
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/08/20/kanye-west-not-allowed-wisconsins-november-election-ballot/5621327002/
The state Elections Commission voted Thursday to keep rapper Kanye West off Wisconsin's presidential ballot in November — rebuffing supporters of President Donald Trump who have been pushing West's spoiler campaign.
On a 5-1 vote, the bipartisan commission ruled that West's team failed to file its nomination by the deadline of 5 p.m. Aug. 4. The panel is made up of three Republicans and three Democrats.
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West is running on the Birthday Party ticket with vice presidential candidate Michelle Tidball.
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All three Democrats and two Republicans voted to keep West off the Wisconsin ballot.
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'Like Armageddon': Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
Source: LATimes
Employees at California postal facilities provide a glimpse of the chaos amid both the pandemic and widespread cuts imposed by the USPS.(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union- Tribune)
Aug. 20, 2020 11:07 AM
Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before.
At a mail processing facility in Santa Clarita in July, workers discovered that their automated sorting machines had been disabled and padlocked.
And inside a massive mail-sorting facility in South Los Angeles, workers fell so far behind processing packages that by early August, gnats and rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, and baby chicks were dead inside their boxes.
Accounts of conditions from employees at California mail facilities provide a glimpse of what some say are the consequences of widespread cutbacks in staffing and equipment recently imposed by the postal service.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-20/usps-cutbacks-post-office-chaos?fbclid=IwAR1pPGFsU1pA4nrHsGN1WcbnwuSJRs0DMuEh2LzQ1CpBPUAQMEKwZLIK7zY
https://twitter.com/Fly_Sistah/status/1296556831305850881?s=20
This is damning. The directives to sabotage USPS were coming directly from the Trump administration.
and here we see Mnuchin AGAIN!!
This is damning. The directives to sabotage USPS were coming directly from the Trump administration.
https://twitter.com/HawaiiDelilah/status/1296579618099490816?s=20
https://twitter.com/bgraham2583/status/1296581691201462274?s=20
Trump directed Homeland Security to give $400 million to firm tied to Bannon's We Build the Wall sch
Source: raw story
Trump directed Homeland Security to give $400 million to firm tied to Bannon’s We Build the Wall scheme: report
Published 1 min ago on August 20, 2020
President Donald Trump was caught in a precarious position when one of his top former aides and former campaign CEO was indicted for fraud after running a fake effort to build the wall on the southern American border.
Over a year ago, the Pentagon inspector general began looking into a suspicious $400 million contract given from the Department of Homeland Security to the construction company linked to Bannon’s group. The funds came at Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Trump’s urging
“On Dec. 2, the Pentagon announced a contract worth up to $400 million to Fisher Sand and Gravel for the construction of 31 miles of new border barriers along the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona,” said the Washington Post.
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CEO Tommy Fisher launched an aggressive effort to try and score a contract, making several appearances on Fox News and paying at least $100,000 in lobbying. Fisher also personally lobbied the president, gave hefty donations to Cramer’s Senate campaign, and attacked the Army Corps of Engineers for excluding their firm. Fisher was then Cramer’s guest to Trump’s State of the Union Address in 2019. ..........................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-directed-homeland-security-to-give-400-million-to-firm-tied-to-bannons-we-build-the-wall-scheme-report/
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) needs to do some explaining.
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1296513049516482564?s=20
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1296533543246598144?s=20
Senator Bill Cassidy tests positive for COVID-19
Source: wwltv.com
Cassidy was notified Wednesday night that he had been exposed to someone with the coronavirus and was tested Thursday. The test came back positive.
Published: 1:32 PM CDT August 20, 2020 Updated: 1:32 PM CDT August 20, 2020
NEW ORLEANS — U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) has tested positive for the coronavirus and has begun a 14-day quarantine, his office said Thursday.
Cassidy was notified Wednesday night that he had been exposed to someone with the coronavirus and was tested Thursday. The test came back positive.
The office said Cassidy contacted his physician and is adhering to CDC recommendations by quarantining and notifying those he has come into contact with recently.............
“I am strictly following the direction of our medical experts and strongly encourage others to do the same,” said Dr. Cassidy.
Read more: https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/senator-bill-cassidy-tests-positive-for-covid-19/289-d517fd0a-7ce1-4d46-acd5-b25681d9a5c8
I really do not wish this horrible disease anyone but I wonder if constantly ware a mask.
https://twitter.com/Norberta36/status/1296520156487864320?s=20
New leak: Top USPS official orders local post offices not to reconnect mail sorting machines
Source: raw story
Published 1 min ago on August 20, 2020
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is being investigated for attempting to intentionally slow down the U.S. mail to discourage voting by mail and disrupt any ballots being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
While DeJoy announced that he would roll back all of his actions, he not only hasn’t done it, leaked emails obtained by VICE News revealed that local post offices were told not to plug back in mail sorting machines that were taken offline.
“Please message out to your respective Maintenance Managers tonight. They are not to reconnect/reinstall machines that have previously been disconnected without approval from HQ Maintenance, no matter what direction they are getting from their plant manager,” Director of Maintenance Operations Kevin Couch put in an email. “Please have them flow that request through you then on to me for a direction.”......................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/new-leak-top-usps-official-orders-local-post-offices-not-to-reconnect-mail-sorting-machines/
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1296487038586421248?s=20
This buck was found dead yesterday--trapped by #Trumps Wall-in the hottest month of the yr
gawd. to die of thirst all because of Trump hate. damn
Mule deer, bighorn & endangered pronghorn have crossed the "border" at Organ Pipe unimpeded for millennia. But this year, for the first time, a metal mass cuts the landscape in two.
This buck was found dead yesterday--trapped by the wall--in the hottest month of the year.
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