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The Trump administration is letting Americans die in Puerto Rico, nurses say
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- The union has sent 40 nurses to Puerto Rico, where the natural disaster of Hurricane Maria and neglect from the Trump administration has created a perfect storm of death, disease and decay across an island of 3.4 million American citizens.
- "He’s got pressure ulcers on his back and feet, and she can barely lift him," Maureen Upton, a 12-year nurse practitioner, told Newsweek.
- As well-off citizens leave the destruction behind, that leaves fewer people in the community to aid those who have nothing, creating a resource drain, Richards said.
Trump reportedly mocks Mike Pence's ultra-conservative views, once joking that he 'wants to hang' all gay people
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- Mayer cited a longtime Trump associate as saying the president liked to keep Pence in check. Mayer reported that Trump often mocked Pence's conservative views, like his desire to see Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that established women's constitutional right to have an abortion, overturned.
Trump joked Pence 'wants to hang' all gay people, New Yorker reports
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Trump's Numbers Are Really, Really Bad
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- Currently he's within a single percentage point of same-day Gerald Ford in approval, but at -18.3, his net approval is 9 percentage points worse than Ford's, and every other president was in positive territory at this point.
- While we can argue about whether he's flattened out in the mid-to-high 30s or if his popularity continued to gradually erode over the last several months, what is clear is just what an astonishing, and still not properly appreciated, achievement this is. Put aside questions about how well a start this bad predicts how he'll be seen in November 2018 or November 2020: To get this unpopular, this fast, and to do it in an era of relatively good times, is just breathtaking.
Ivanka Trump reportedly took over one of Chris Christie's transition team meetings and asked Michael Flynn what job he wanted
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Trump cabinet member left $2B off disclosure report
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Voter Registration Deadlines for Upcoming Statewide Elections (New Jersey, New York, Virginia, and more)!
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- In addition the listed federal and statewide elections above, there are a number of states holding special elections for state legislative seats, as well as regularly scheduled general elections for judicial and local elections.
- Basically, it's the Republicans trying to distance themselves from Trump by whispering to the city folks that they are a more of an anti-de Blasio party, then a pro-Trump party.
- The USPS doesn't really give a shit what you write down as long as you get the ZIP code right but you WILL have your signature invalidated upon challenge if you wrote anything but Red Hook in the "city/town" field. But only people who live in the Village of Red Hook would tell you they live in Red Hook, everyone else would tell you they live in Tivoli or Annandale or Barrytown.
Dossier Firm’s Lawyers Accuse Devin Nunes Of ‘Unprofessional Conduct’
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Trump: I Think Dems ‘Will Be Blamed’ For My Decision To Sabotage O’Care
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The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 42
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- One of the top GOP leaders who will be the Speaker of the House in Florida in 2022 proposed further restrictions on cities that enact Democratic policies, with sanctuary cities being the main issue. It's part of a movement to stop cities from going "rogue" which, as defined by Renner in this case, means electing some "Bernie Sanders" guy to be in charge of the city. He mentioned other instances of "abuse" too such as requiring solar panels on new houses, bans on plastic bags, and bans on "the sale of puppies" which are actually puppy mill bans.
- Gillespie has run a more "Trumpy" campaign than Northam has run a "Sandersy" campaign--that is, despite Gillespie's mainstream RNC background, he's running against the threat of Northam-sponsored sanctuary cities .
- To put this in context, however, this race is as "tight" as the current Alabama special election for a senator, which is described as "completely in the bag" for the R candidate, Moore. You have people who literally work in Washington, and 5 hours southwest you have rural voters hit so hard by the opiate crisis they will take any offer for change.
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