https://bigleaguepolitics.com/remember-that-gay-couple-married-by-rbg-they-just-got-charged-with-rape/
Remember That Gay Couple Married by RBG? They Just Got Charged With Rape
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/congressmans-envoy-rashida-tlaib-broke-michigan-election-law-by-lying-about-her-address/
Rashida Tlaib Broke Michigan Election Law By Lying About Her Address
Tlaib broke Michigan election law by failing to live in the State House district that she represented for years after the retirement of a Democrat she interned for. Tlaib lived in progressive suburban Dearborn, a lengthy drive from the suffering southwest Detroit district that she represented.
Tlaib’s own father confirmed that she “lied” about her residence when she chose to run for office.
Congressman Jon Bumstead of Michigan confirmed to Big League Politics through an intermediary that state representatives in Michigan are legally required to live in their districts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/prosecutors-charge-20-people-in-scheme-to-bring-chinese-women-to-us-to-give-birth-to-american-babies/2019/01/31/7a464e0a-2590-11e9-b5b4-1d18dfb7b084_story.html?utm_term=.ec278d9292aa
Prosecutors charge 20 people in scheme to bring Chinese women to U.S. to give birth to American babies.
From/For Anon LB
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Prosecutors charge 20 people in scheme to bring Chinese women to U.S. to give birth to American babies.
I've seen Latino Lesbians fight.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/427958-baltimore-states-attorney-files-rare-petition-to-vacate-marijuana
Baltimore state’s attorney files rare petition to vacate marijuana convictions
Baltimore’s top prosecutor filed a petition Thursday to vacate nearly 4,000 convictions for marijuana possession, saying the rare move is necessary to “right an extraordinary wrong.”
State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby employed a rarely used petition called “writ of error coram nobis,” according to the Associated Press. The petition allows a court to reopen a case when significant error is found that was not uncovered during the original judgement. If granted, the petition could overturn 3,778 convictions.
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/427959-harris-to-oppose-any-of-trumps-appeals-court-nominees
Kamala Harris to oppose any of Trump's appeals court nominees
Harris will oppose any of President Trump's picks for the powerful appeals courts after the administration moved forward with nominees for the Ninth Circuit.
"This Administration is packing the court that protected Dreamers from deportation and blocked the unconstitutional transgender military ban. We need nominees who will uphold equality and justice. Until a fair process is in place, I will oppose every nominee to an appellate court," Harris said in a tweet.
Her decision comes after Trump revived a months-long feud by nominating three judicial picks to fill three of California's seats on the Ninth Circuit.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/427956-lighthizer-soybean-deal-with-chinese-a-surprise
First Rice, now we're selling Soybeans to China?
United States Trade Representative, Rob Lighthizer who is leading high-level negotiations with China, acknowledged Thursday that President Trump’s announcement on Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans was a “surprise.”
Trump had told reporters in the Oval Office a short time before that China agreed to purchase 5 million tons of soybeans from the U.S., adding “that’s going to make our farmers very happy. That’s a lot of soybeans,” according to pool reports.
Speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Lighthizer said this “was a surprise announcement in the sense that I didn’t know about it until a very short time before.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1091127643720859649
Our great U.S. Border Patrol Agents made the biggest Fentanyl bust in our Country’s history. Thanks, as always, for a job well done!
In CST
https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1091130785841729537
As Special Representative for North Korea Biegun underscored today at @Stanford, we are pursuing—simultaneously and in parallel—progress on all of the commitments @POTUS and Chairman Kim made in Singapore, along with planning for a bright future for the people of #NorthKorea.
Pompeo says Korean progress all good!
Another blow to the Prison System.
https://www.westernjournal.com/sen-graham-demands-know-whether-fbi-tipped-off-cnn-stone-raid/
Sen. Graham Demands To Know Whether FBI Tipped Off CNN to Stone Raid
Graham unleashed!
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday denounced the “media circus” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and the tactics used to arrest Trump supporter Roger Stone at his Florida home.
Stone was arrested Friday as part of Mueller’s long-running probe into allegations that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia. Stone was indicted on charges of obstruction, making false statements and witness tampering related to comments he made and actions he took regarding the release of information by WikiLeaks in 2016, Fox News has reported.
Stone was arrested by multiple heavily armed agents.
A CNN film crew was there to record the event.
You know I'm just gonna tell you to "Lurk more", right?
https://www.rt.com/business/450243-iran-eu-transaction-channel/
EU countries move to evade US’ Iran sanctions by setting up payment channel for ‘humanitarian’ trade
Yeah, right
Germany, France and the UK (Really? Them? Surprising…not) have announced they have set up a mechanism allowing “legitimate trade” with Iran to continue in wake of US sanctions. The scheme, limited to “essential” goods for now, could be joined by more countries.
The new payment system is called INSTEX – short for ‘Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges’. As of now, it is aimed at facilitating trade between the companies of the three nations and Iran. “In the long term,” the mechanism will be “open” to enterprises from third countries, the joint statement said, adding that Berlin, London and Paris will “explore how to achieve this objective.”
The system will initially focus on “the sectors most essential to the Iranian population” – such as food, pharmaceutical and medical devices, the statement said. While the sale of such goods are technically exempt from US sanctions, many pharmaceutical and agricultural companies stopped trading with Iran under the threat of secondary sanctions.
https://www.rt.com/business/450236-trump-says-no-final-deal-%D1%81hina/
Trump says no final deal on tariffs will be made until he meets with China's President Xi
US President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that trade talks with Chinese representatives in Washington were going well but wrote no final deal will be signed until he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“China does not want an increase in tariffs and feels they will do much better if they make a deal,” tweeted Trump, adding that “they are correct.”
The US leader continued, however, that “No final deal will be made until my friend President Xi, and I, meet in the near future to discuss and agree on some of the long standing and more difficult points.”
https://www.rt.com/business/450219-us-coal-plants-closed/
More than half of US coal mines have closed since 2008
A.K.A. Why POTUS likes Coal
Declining coal demand in the US and rising demand for natural gas and renewables have hit coal production and the number of active coal mines in the United States has dropped by more than half since peak coal production in 2008.
US coal production has declined by more than a third since peaking in 2008, while the number of active coal mines plunged to 671 mines in 2017 from 1,435 mines in 2008, the EIA [Energy Information Administration] has estimated.
Lower coal demand since 2008 has resulted in closures of smaller and less efficient mines, with most mine closures in the Appalachian region.
In the time it took you to stall me for an answer to a question you could have looked up yourself, these fine researchers created a beautiful cross referenced map of organizations to correlate with PP centers.