O’Rourke’s loss to Ted Cruz sets up totally unconventional candidacy, but Beto has exceptional political skills, some of Obama’s traits….
Breaking: Senate votes 59-41 to reject Trump's emergency declaration to fund border wall
--in his launch video, O’Rourke frames his run on the twin crises of climate change and political division, says it’s our last chance to fix them
--Florida Mayor Wayne Messam announces longshot bid based on canceling student debt
--Senate votes again to end US role in Yemen war, and GOP maneuvers to kill it
--NY subway ad poster for RBG’s book is defaced with anti-Semitic slur
--in Breitbart interview, Individual 1 uses Trump code to threaten right wing violence
--Trump grandstands as if he made the decision to ground 737 Max jets, as pilots hammer Boeing for not training them on nose-dive software
--in blatant discrimination that panders to Trump’s twitter followers, cruel ban on transgender service members is formally announced
--in private hearing, former temp AG Whitaker concedes that Trump did talk to him about interfering in Cohen prosecution
--nonbinding House resolution demanding public release of Mueller report passes 420-0 vote
--libel suit from Trump groping victim prods federal appeals court to rule that a sitting president can be sued in state court
--Trump administration’s challenge to California sanctuary laws faces tough questions from SF appeals court panel
--DHS boss Nielsen got a tough grilling on asylum law from new Dem Rep. Nannette Barrigan
--yesterday, Facebook outage forced it to use Twitter to explain service interruptions on FB, Instagram and WhatsApp
--Facebook’s data sharing deals are under federal investigation
--if you’ve seen the Oscar-winning film “Green Book”, listen to my podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon about the wholesale re-write of Don Shirley’s life story
--Brexit chaos continues, as second referendum is ruled out, and a delay seems to be the only viable option
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