Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Some links to interesting news items

Trump forges ahead with plans to meet North Korean leader, defying his security advisers


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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-forges-ahead-with-plans-to-meet-north-korean-leader-defying-his-security-advisers-0eb375239421/


Trump seeks to overhaul World Bank with David Malpass as new chief


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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/06/trump-world-bank-david-malpass-1152895


Why millions of people are getting hit with a surprise tax bill this year


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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/6/18214039/irs-tax-refund-withholding-trump


Flickr has started deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history


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https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/6/18214046/flickr-free-storage-ends-digital-photo-archive-history


Trump wants Congress to give him more power to impose tariffs


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https://www.vox.com/2019/2/6/18213639/state-of-the-union-reciprocal-trade-act-trump-tariffs


El Paso to Trump: Stop Telling Lies About Us


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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/el-paso-to-trump-stop-telling-lies-about-us/


The House Had Its First Gun Hearing in Years. The Parents of Parkland Victims Refused to Let the GOP Lie.


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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/parkland-guns-hearing-house-congress/


GOP Operative Who Dated Butina Indicted For Wire Fraud, Money Laundering


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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/paul-erickson-indicted-wire-fraud-money-laundering


Leak reveals that hundreds of bounty hunters have had access to super-fine-grained mobile location data for years


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https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/a-gps-markets.html


Can All Lawyers Just Admit The Wall Will Never Be Built Because Of The Fifth Amendment?


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https://abovethelaw.com/2019/01/can-all-lawyers-just-admit-the-wall-will-never-be-built-because-of-the-fifth-amendment/

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