Former US Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker coughs up text threads showing clear link between investigations and delivery of US aid…--as Trump digs himself in deeper, Volker’s texts show he and other officials were trying to placate Trump and Giuliani in effort to keep arms flowing
--read the text messages here
--Ukraine’s new top prosecutor now says he will “audit” previous investigations, but China declines to play Trump’s game
--Adam Schiff’s “unforced errors” are exposed, as WashPost fact checkers say he lied about knowledge of whistleblower claims
--Mitt Romney is lone Republican criticizing Trump
--Trump’s claims about Crowdstrike and server hidden in Ukraine are debunked by Scott Shane in NY Times, using unproven claims from Russiagate
--Inspector General Atkinson is testifying today in closed session of House Intel
--whistleblower files complaint at IRS, related to handling of Trump tax returns
--Norman Solomon tweaks MoveOn for defending the new mystery whistleblower, but not his predecessors
--John Kiriakou is interviewed by Jeff Schectman in new podcast
--CNN rejects 2 ads from Trump campaign as “demonstrably false”
--as violent protests continue in Hong Kong, CNN reports that Trump assured Xi that US won’t criticize the crackdown
--deadly riots continue in Bagdhad
--Brazil’s imprisoned former president, Lula, says he’ll stay there until exonerated
--Supreme Court takes up pretextual abortion restrictions in Louisiana law
--new report calls attacks on science a crisis
--Microsoft reports that Iranian hackers are targeting the Trump campaign
--former Coast Guard officer takes guilty plea, says addiction led him to make threats that prosecutor called “domestic terrorism”
--British film maker Chris Morris releases “The Day Shall Come”, which satirizes so-called domestic terrorism cases
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