State legislators seems to think they can override federal gun laws. They can’t. https://t.co/Yoa3343KKc
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By Orion Rummler @ Axios.com, 6 hrs. ago
[....] Why it matters: President Trump and other members of his administration, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have publicly stood by the Saudis after Khashoggi's death last year, despite the CIA's assessment that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ordered the murder [....]
Other reasons why: 1) Saudi Arabia not to be taken seriously at U.N. 2) Qnon et. al., no doubt sees deep state going global, cue up the black helicopter sitings.
This kid bashes his mom's head in with a bat, Republicans beg for compassion.
Trayvon Martin was walking down the street eating Skittles and minding his own business, Republicans assert that he deserved to be shot dead in the street.
Obscene hypocrisy.
(wapo commenter)
by Jonathan Greenberg, a freelance investigative journalist, author of “America 2034: Utopia Rising..”
By Eric Bradner & Dan Merica @ CNN.com, June 17
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday forcefully pushed back against criticism that he is naïve to think Democrats can work with Republicans in Congress after President Donald Trump leaves office [....]
"If you start off with the notion there's nothing you can do, well why don't you all go home then, man? Or let's start a real physical revolution if you're talking about it. Because we have to be able to change what we're doing within our system," Biden said Monday at the Poor People's Campaign Presidential Forum in Washington.
Biden's comment came in response to a question from MSNBC's Joy Reid, who asked how Biden would overcome the opposition to nearly all Democratic ideas during former President Barack Obama's tenure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky.
"Joy, I know you're one of the ones who thinks it's naïve to think we have to work together," Biden said. "The fact of the matter is, if we can't get a consensus, nothing happens except the abuse of power by the executive. Zero." [....]
Unfortunately, 538 is apparently not ready to put it in writing yet, this is all we get right now, still hashing it out?
By Nelson D. Schwartz & Sapna Maheshwari @ NYTimes.com, Business, June 16
Already battered by the e-commerce revolution, traditional retail stores are bracing for another blow — new tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports that the Trump administration is threatening to impose.
Retailers and analysts warn the impact will be disastrous for an industry already tormented by vacant storefronts and deserted malls. The reason: Unlike earlier tariffs that mostly targeted industrial and commercial products, the next round is aimed squarely at consumer goods like footwear, toys and apparel.
Even for healthy chains, like Walmart and Costco, the new duties threaten the business formula that helped speed their rapid rise over the last few decades: Import cheap products from Asia and sell them at rock-bottom prices. The National Retail Federation estimates that China supplies 42 percent of all apparel, 73 percent of household appliances and 88 percent of toys sold in the United States [....]
Watson is a Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and shadow Culture Secretary.