Pro-Trump GOP state rep announces Amash primary challenge in Michigan

A Michigan state lawmaker on Monday announced he will mount a primary challenge to Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) after the congressman tweeted that he believed President Trump had committed impeachable offenses, according to the Detroit Free Press.

State Rep. Jim Lower (R) said he would challenge Amash in the Republican Primary for his western Michigan seat rather than seeking a third term in the state legislature.

Lower said he had been planning to run before Amash’s remarks but fast-tracked his announcement after the tweets this weekend despite originally planning to make it closer to July 4.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/444517-pro-trump-gop-state-rep-announces-amash-primary-challenge-in-michigan

FCC chairman gives green light to T-Mobile-Sprint merger

Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said that he believes the $26 billion T-Mobile-Sprint merger is in the public interest and plans to set up a vote on the deal among the agency's five commissioners.

Pai said in a statement Monday morning that the two companies had pledged to build out a 5G wireless network that would cover 99 percent of Americans within six years.

He said that the combined company has also committed to selling off Boost Mobile, Sprint's prepaid wireless brand.

“In light of the significant commitments made by T-Mobile and Sprint as well as the facts in the record to date, I believe that this transaction is in the public interest and intend to recommend to my colleagues that the FCC approve it," Pai said. "This is a unique opportunity to speed up the deployment of 5G throughout the United States and bring much faster mobile broadband to rural Americans. We should seize this opportunity.”

The deal will gain the FCC's approval if the other two Republicans on the commission back Pai's proposal. One of them, Commissioner Brendan Carr, announced his support Monday.

Staffers for Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, the other Republican, did not immediately respond when asked for comment.

If the merger does secure FCC approval, it will still need to get the Department of Justice's blessing, and media reports over the last several months indicate that the antitrust division has some concerns about combining two of the only four national phone carriers.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/444520-fcc-green-lights-t-mobile-sprint-merger

>>6542193

Go for it

Make America’s Cities Great Again, By Making Homelessness Illegal

Bottom line, it’s high time American cities made homelessness illegal. It’s not impossible. In fact, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani famously did it in New York City twenty years ago. Streets do not exist in civilized societies for the purpose of people sleeping there, Rudy said in 1999, according to The New York Times. Bedrooms are for sleeping. To America’s Mayor, the right to sleep on our streets ''doesn't exist anywhere. The founding fathers never put that in the Constitution.''Indeed, they did not.

Enforce the laws against loitering that likely already exist. Outlaw panhandling. Then, create a series of facilities where the homeless have to work and stay off drugs and alcohol in exchange for food, shelter, and clothing, and have police tell them it’s either go there or straight to jail. “You choose.” And for the love of everything holy, America needs to rebuild, reopen, and refill its mental asylums. Instead of allowing them to roam our streets, mentally ill people should be in an institution getting treatment, whether they want to or not. Maybe that sounds uncompassionate, but is it any more “compassionate” when a mentally ill person doubles the victimhood by committing a crime against someone else, then gets sent to prison where treatment is inadequate or nonexistent?

It’s beyond time we start making our cities great again, and that starts by outlawing homelessness.

https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2019/05/20/make-americas-cities-great-again-by-making-homelessness-illegal-n2546570

Whether you agree or not with the above, this debate needs to happen.

We The Taxpayers no longer have the right to safe and clean sidewalks, parks, public transportation, etc.

Enforce the laws.

Oil giants BP and Shell pledge $1M each to Republican-backed carbon tax

Oil and gas giants BP and Shell are donating $1 million each over two years to a Republican-backed group urging Congress to pass a federal carbon tax to fight climate change.

The two companies are providing money to Americans for Carbon Dividends, the advocacy arm of the Climate Leadership Council, a group led by former Republican Secretaries of State James Baker III and George Shultz that is promoting a carbon tax plan that would return all of the revenue to taxpayers.

BP and Shell’s action reflect oil and gas companies' intentions to move beyond just rhetorical support for carbon pricing proposals, but a willingness to also dedicate money to lobby for them.

“The additional members who contributed show we are continuing to increase our momentum in support of the plan,” former Rep. Ryan Costello, R-Pa., the executive director of Americans for Carbon Dividends, told the Washington Examiner. “The polling clearly reflects Republican voters want the Republican Party to lean in with a proactive bipartisan solution to reduce carbon emissions.”

BP and Shell join industry competitors ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil, which previously donated to Americans for Carbon Dividends. Exxon pledged $1 million over two years, while ConocoPhillips committed $2 million over two years.

Shell and BP are joining a coalition of nearly 100 companies for two days of lobbying on Capitol Hill this week geared toward generating support for a carbon tax.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/oil-giants-bp-and-shell-pledge-1-million-each-to-republican-backed-carbon-tax

>>6542320

Exactly anon.

Brennan is going down for TREASON.

Who in their right mind would willingly meet with a TRAITOR?

Get the word out to help normies connect the dots.

Supreme Court sides with Wyoming hunter as Gorsuch joins liberals

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Wyoming hunter charged with off-season hunting, ruling 5-4 that a 150-year-old treaty between a Native American tribe and the western state was still active and protected the man's rights.

Clayvin Herrera was charged in 2014 with off-season hunting, but he argued that an 1868 treaty between Wyoming and the Crow Tribe protected his ability to hunt at that time.

Wyoming had argued that the treaty was invalidated when it achieved statehood and lower courts agreed, leading to Herrera's conviction on the hunting charge.

The court sided with Herrera and found that the treaty with the tribe did not expire when Wyoming became a state in 1890.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the majority opinion.

Neil Gorsuch, one of two justices nominated to the court by President Trump, formed the majority by splitting with conservatives and joining the court's other four liberals — Sotomayor and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elana Kagan.

Justices Samuel Alito, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh opposed the ruling.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/444538-supreme-court-sides-with-wyoming-hunter-as-gorsuch-joins-liberals