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Here’s your dose of “What the Fuck Is Going On” news (May 15th 2017 - May 16th 2017)
News broke that Trump shared highly classified information when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited the White House last week. The information had to do with ISIS and hadn't even been shared with U.S. allies. While the move isn’t illegal, it did raise a lot of problems and many politicians spoke out against the careless behavior. (source)
The White House went into damage control after the story broke of Trump sharing the information above. White House officials quickly held a press conference and stated that they story was false and called it fake news. However, Trump contradicted the official statement over Twitter when he openly admitted that he shared the information and said it was his right to do so. (source)
The administration is moving forward with their plans to greatly expand the global abortion gag rule. Earlier this year an executive order was signed that blocked foreign aid and federal funding to international organizations that provide abortion or provide information on it. The global gag rule causes dangerous changes in clinics around the world because they are forced to close or significantly reduce their access and care. Many of these clinics also provide aid for malaria, Ebola, HIV, Zika, etc. (source)
Fox News host (and Trump friend) Sean Hannity suggested that the White House should limit and take better control of the media. Hannity said that the White House should only let certain limited questions be submitted by the press and give them an X amount of time to review the questions and write out responses. "You, the American people, would be better served," he said. (source)
Former House Speaker and Trump adviser Newt Gingrich is also urging Trump to limit media access to the White House. He stated that he is "personally offended by the American news media," and that it's a corrupt institution whose only interest is to harass the administration and make them look bad. (source)
There is a possible "huge reboot," coming to the White House where several Cabinet members could be replaced. Some at risk include Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon, and press secretary Sean Spicer. (source)
Senate Republicans are considering extreme cuts to Medicaid that could drop millions from coverage. They are considering slashing $400 billion in programs that aid the poor, such as food stamps, welfare, and veteran benefits. (source)
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina's voter ID laws that specifically targeted Black voters. (source)
A bunch of members of Congress have been exposed to be buying and trading stocks in companies that have direct interest in their work. Investigations found that 28 House members and six senators each traded more than 100 stocks in the past two years. This is a massive abuse of power creates major conflicts of interest and while insider trading isn’t illegal for lawmakers, it’s still extremely unethical. (source)
A memo showed that Trump directly tried to stop the FBI from investigating his associates and Michael Flynn in connection with Russia. "I hope you can let this go," he told Comey, according to the memo. This memo was part of a paper trail that Comey created to document Trump's efforts to influence the investigation. (source) Just to be clear, if this is all true then it’s a serious crime and you may remember something similar from history.
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Here’s your dose of “What the Fuck Is Going On” news (April 12th 2017 - April 13th 2017)
The Pentagon announced that it dropped a GBU-43 bomb in Afghanistan. This is the first time the U.S. has used this bomb and is the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. military has dropped. To understand the size - U.S. aircraft commonly drop bombs that weigh between 250 to 2,000 pounds, this one is 22,000 pounds. They claim that the bomb was on Islamic State forces, however the bomb is not designed to penetrate bunkers or cave complexes. It's currently unknown how many civilians were killed. (source)
The U.S. military also misdirected airstrikes in Syria, killing at least 18 friendly fighters battling against Islamic State. U.S. Central Command said that the aircraft was given the wrong coordinates. (source)
There are also reports that the U.S. is planning a preventative strike against North Korea if it decides to carry out another nuclear weapons test. The Pentagon is disputing the reports however the U.S. has sent out the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group into the region. (source)
Trump appears to be distancing himself from Steve Bannon telling the New York Post that he "didn't know Steve" before the campaign and that he was not involved in the campaign until very late. Both which are lies, Trump did know Bannon and Bannon ran the bulk of his election campaign. There are rumors that Bannon might not be in the White House for much longer. (source)
Trump flip flopped on his opinion of NATO, which he said is "no longer obsolete." During his campaign he said the alliance was no longer relevant and now he claims that he has made it so it's no longer obsolete. (source)
The White House has officially lifted the federal hiring freeze. However, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney warned "this does not mean agencies will be free to hire willy-nilly." The freeze has been in place since 3 days after Trump took office. (source)
An internal memo from the Department of Homeland Security shows that the administration is planning to create a "nationwide deportation force." The agency has found 33,000 additional detention beds for undocumented immigrants and has began discussions with local police forces about empowering them with “enforcement authority.” The hiring process for border patrol agents will also be sped up to get an additional 5,000 to help with raids. (source/memo)
Trump is threatening to cut off payments that affect the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and its aid to low-income people. At risk is what allows co-pays and deductibles to be reduced and Trump is making these threats in order to swing people into supporting his rejected health care bill. Without the continuation of these required payments, insurers could pull out of the marketplace completely, and hurt over the 58 percent of those currently on Obamacare. (source)
The Trump administration is looking to quickly find jail space to house immigrants in it's crackdown on those who are undocumented. Jails that temporarily hold immigrants have had to follow a strict list of requirements which may not be the case soon. The plan is to get rid of some of these rules in hopes of more sheriffs and local officials to make their correctional facilities available. (source)
A bill was signed today by Trump that will allow states to block federal family planning funding for abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. The bill allows state governments to block federal funding from organizations that perform abortion. (source)
A conservation group, Center for Biological Diversity, and an Arizona congressman, Rep. Raul Grijalva, have filed the first federal lawsuit against Trump's border wall. The suit is calling for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to put together a report on the environmental impact the wall and patrolling operations will have along the border. Conservationists say the wall will be detrimental to the wildlife in the area, some that are on the endangered species list. (source)
Reports have showed that on the same day that Paul Manafort left Trump’s campaign he borrowed $13 million from Trump-connected businesses. The federal government is probing Manafort's dealings and his ties to Russia, but it's currently unknown if these loans are part of that inquiry. (source)
Portland is now joining Seattle in suing Trump over the executive order that allows the government to withhold federal grants from sanctuary cities. (source)
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Here’s your dose of “What the Fuck Is Going On” news (Weekend Edition: April 14th 2017 - April 16th 2017)
The White House announced they will no longer release the records of its visitors raising concerns over transparency in the Trump administration. The administration is saying that it's to protect national security however, the National Security Archive said that that's a blatant lie and said that Obama shared the logs of nearly 6 million visitors and never faced national security ramifications. Eventually the Presidential Records act will force the information to be available but not until 5 years after Trump leaves office. (source)
Thanks to Trump's travel bans and increased vetting for foreign travelers, the US tourism industry expects 4.3 million fewer visitors and lose $7.4 billion in revenue. Demand for flights to the United States has fallen in nearly every country. Next year, the fallout is expected to be even larger, with 6.3 million fewer tourists and $10.8 billion in losses. (source)
Betsy DeVos has picked a woman named Candice Jackson to head the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Back while Jackson was in college she tried and failed to enter a program to help minority students with school problems and spoke out against the "discrimination" she received for being white. She's also denounced feminism and race-based preferences and worked with and praised an economist's book who has denounced the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (source)
After a two-month review, the administration has decided their strategy for North Korea will be "maximum pressure and engagement." They are currently weighing a range of ideas from military options to overthrowing Kim Jong-Un, or even just accepting North Korea as a nuclear state. (source) This weekend, Pence went to visit South Korea amid North Korea tensions. (source)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was asked about the supposed pushback from Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on certain issues in the White House. Sessions said that the couple has not expressed any pushback against him or Bannon and what they've advocated. Sessions also praised Bannon and said he was an "admirer" of him. (source)
Trump's EPA chief is calling for an "exit" from the Paris Climate Change Agreement. "Paris is something that we need to really look at closely. It's something we need to exit in my opinion," said Pruitt. Trump has repeatedly promised to "cancel" the Paris Climate Change Agreement during his campaign. (source)
Afghan officials are saying that at least 94 ISIS fighters were this week from the GBU-43/B aka the "mother of all bombs," the U.S. dropped this past week. The US military previously estimated ISIS had 600 to 800 active fighters in the area but it was unclear if they expected to hit this many people. As of now, there are no reports of non-ISIS affiliated people killed in the strike. (source)
Trump is planning on visiting the United Kingdom later this year and London is reporting that he has insisted on a ride in the Queen's gold-plated carriage. It's not completely unusual however some, like Obama, have chose to use their own vehicles during the visit. (source)
Trump's lawyers argued in a federal court filing that Trump cannot be sued for inciting his supporters to hurt protesters because, as the president, he is immune from civil lawsuits. “Mr. Trump is immune from suit because he is President of the United States,” the lawyers wrote in the filing. The lawyers previously tried to get the suit thrown out on grounds of First Amendment rights but the judge rejected the request. (source)
Trump's reelection campaign has already raised $13.2 million, and the Republican National Committee says they've already raised $41.3 million. Nearly 80 percent of the cash raised by the three committees, Donald J. Trump for President, Trump Victory, and Trump Make America Great Again Committee, came from small donors. (source)
According to campaign finance filings, Trump has already spent $500,000 of those re-election funds on his own businesses. (source)
Reports show that arrests of undocumented immigrants with no criminal records more than doubled since Trump took office. In areas like New York, Boston, Atlanta, and Philadelphia the numbers are even higher showing the number has tripled or worse, for example Philadelphia officers have arrested six times as many immigrants without criminal records as they did the previous year. (source)
Trump is continuing to populate the White House and federal agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are helping to craft new policies for the industries in which they recently earned a paycheck. This is causing a spike in conflicts of interest arising across the executive branch. There are already some appointments that may have led to violations but it's becoming harder to evaluate because the administration is secretly issuing waivers to the rules. (source)
On the morning of Easter Sunday, Trump tweeted about those who protested against him yesterday. He did this in a series of tweets that were riddled with lies. For one, he started by saying "I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College!" a comment that is easily disproven and historically inaccurate. Then he said "Now Tax Returns are brought up again? Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!" Trump attempted to downplay the amount of protesters by calling them "small" and then put out the disproven claim that anti-Trump protesters are paid. (source)
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is ordering a study of the U.S. electric grid. This will examine whether policies that favor wind and solar energy are accelerating the retirement of coal and nuclear plants. The review will last 60 days. (source)
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The U.S.-led coalition previously said that officials were unsure whether it had conducted air attacks targeting the affected site.
The U.S. military acknowledged for the first time Saturday that it launched an airstrike against the Islamic State last week in the densely packed Iraqi city of Mosul where residents say more than 100 people were killed.
“An initial review of strike data … indicates that, at the request of the Iraqi security forces, the Coalition struck ISIS fighters and equipment, March 17, in west Mosul at the location corresponding to allegations of civilian casualties,” the task force leading the coalition said in a statement.
Previously, the U.S.-led coalition had said that officials were unsure whether the United States had conducted air attacks targeting the affected site in Mosul al-Jadida where local officials say they have so far pulled at least 60 bodies from one destroyed building.
The U.S. military is conducting an initial investigation into the incident.
If confirmed, the incident would mark the greatest loss of civilian life since the United States began strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria in 2014. The allegations add to questions about the conduct of the campaign to recapture Mosul, where reports of civilian deaths are rising as government-aligned forces advance through a fiercely contested urban area.
Airwars, a U.K.-based monitoring organization, has raised the alarm about what it says is a surge in recent weeks of reported deaths caused by U.S.-led airstrikes. The conduct of the air campaign is under especially close scrutiny in the early days of the Trump administration, which has promised to wage a more aggressive campaign against the Islamic State.
President Trump has already asked military leaders to consider whether requirements on U.S. military operations against the group should be loosened.
The U.S.-led coalition said its goal was “zero civilian casualties.”
“But the coalition will not abandon our commitment to our Iraqi partners because of ISIS’s inhuman tactics terrorizing civilians, using human shields, and fighting from protected sites such as schools, hospitals, religious sites and civilian neighborhoods,” the statement read.
An Iraqi military commander suggested the large death toll in the March 17 incident may have been partially caused by the fact that a missile struck a car bomb, unleashing a giant explosion. Rescue workers and residents described a hellish scene, where scores of civilians were killed in nearby buildings.
Islamic State fighters, seeking to defend areas of Mosul that remain under their control, have forced residents to remain in areas where fighting is taking place, even moving them into neighborhoods that are the scenes of fierce battles. The militants have also launched attacks from rooftops of residents’ homes.
I know anarchists aren’t big on the whole intelligence thing but what the fuck do you mean ‘Islamic State’? Just the big ol homogenous blob of Islam in the Middle East? Or do you mean ISIS, which Israel funded to try and destabilize groups like the PLFC? Cause either way you’re clearly saying shit in bad faith but I want to know if it’s ignorance or malice.
Judging something "based on the time" is supposed to be for archer season 1 and knowing that isis wasnt a known threat yet and not, ya know, racism
Stunning photo of ISIS terrorist five seconds before blowing himself up