NY Times tech columnist Kara Swisher, Sen. Kamala Harris join our calls for Twitter to enforce its own rules, and suspend Trump….--Swisher says “Trump is too dangerous for Twitter”
--pro-Trump Washington Examiner calls Harris “wannabe dictator”
--Mark Zuckerberg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren trade jabs about her call to break up big tech companies
--at MintPress, reporter Jimmysllama exposes how Spanish surveillance firm spied on Assange 24/7 at embassy, and CIA had direct feeds
--Colombia’s spy chief resigns over false evidence used by President Duque at UN last week, claiming Venezuela has been harboring Colombian rebels
--from China, split-screen coverage shows 70th anniversary parade in Beijing as protests continue in Hong Kong escalate to police shooting of protester
--Haitians are in the streets demanding resignation of US-installed president, Jovenel Moise, as cholera survivors sue UN in US Supreme Court; we exposed the UN role in the cholera epidemic in this 2016 podcast
--in rare conviction of a police officer, former Dallas cop Amber Guyger is convicted of murdering her neighbor
--California Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing college athletes to control their name and image for endorsements and other income
--new report shows that DEA increased quotas for opioid production as death toll mounted
--federal appeals court dings FCC for its process, but upholds GOP move to end Net Neutrality
--as NY Times floods print and online editions with Verizon ads for 5G wireless, WashPost covers challenge that 5G will interfere with critical weather satellites
--routine corruption under Trump: Interior secretary pushes for expansion of Shasta Dam—illegal under California law—to please former lobbying clients
From the Impeachment File
--Aaron Maté, who was a chief skeptic of Russiagate, warns Dems that Ukrainegate is shaping up as a bad bet for Democrats
--John Kiriakou, former CIA officer and whistleblower, has big questions about the new CIA whistleblower
--in a tedious “end of the republic” essay, Ross Douthat of NY Times pulls the scab off Biden misbehavior in Ukraine
--Wall Street Journal reports that Pompeo was listening to Trump’s call to Zelensky in July
--The Ukraine investigation reveals that Giuliani, Barr and Pompeo are all involved in Trump-led investigations of the Mueller investigation
--Pompeo is attempting to block current and former State Dept. people from talking to impeachment committees
--Barr has been to England, Italy and Spain as part of his inquest
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