The changes in the demographic makeup of America's suburbs are so profound that some urbanists are calling for a new sociology of suburbia, writes @Richard_Florida. https://t.co/pDC5Pm3euQ
The 16-year old lynched by Iraqi protesters in Baghdad yesterday was apparently not a sniper. He had fired a pistol in the air to keep the crowd away from his home. They stabbed him 17 times, slit his throat & hung him by his ankles from a traffic light https://t.co/c0mB54xF7O
Welcome to The Hill’s annual Top Lobbyists list [....] Not all of those honored on this list are formally registered as lobbyists. [....] But the people below are all at the top of their game — [....] these are the players who stand out for delivering results for their clients in the halls of Congress and the administration.
The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide in Turkey more than 100 years ago, over earlier objections from President Donald Trump.
How Freedom Caucus leaders got behind Trump and never looked back (or forward).
For what it’s worth, Justin Amash breaks the House GOP conference down into three categories:
-The ones who truly believe Trump is innocent
-The ones who quietly know Trump is guilty
-The ones who don’t know, don’t care, and follow the loudest GOP voiceshttps://t.co/GSNhcV6JzU
A must read on the meaning of the Senate reconstituting itself as an impeachment jury by the fine political scientist Jeffrey Tulis: “The Oath taken in an impeachment trial is different. It is a juror’s oath and a judge’s oath—not a legislator’s oath.” https://t.co/VclVRHlyfK
A federal court in California on Wednesday issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from diverting money allocated by Congress for military construction projects to be used in funding a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The decision’s reasoning was strikingly similar to a Tuesday ruling from a federal court in Texas [....]
Merriam-Webster says that "they" is its 2019 Word of the Year, noting that the tiny word has undergone a radical transformation in usage in recent years — and has found itself at the heart of wide-ranging cultural conversations in the process.https://t.co/qvNynOfWe9
I’ll need to consider the full ramifications of this. But I’m very hesitant and scared of the notion of Donald Trump legally defining the meaning of Judaism. https://t.co/yIrj0r1pjx
