Republicans round on Trump over tweets-- BBC News

Senior members of the president's own party criticise remarks he made against MSNBC journalists.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40452779

Week In The News: Global Cyber Attacks, Health Care, Travel Ban (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

A big week on so many fronts, and we’re talking – again – about tweets. Tweets from the president. In the Senate, US healthcare on the line and Republicans can’t pass a bill, yet. At the Supreme Court, a partial travel ban is ok’d, and the Trump administration jumps to impose it. A massive cyber-attack hits all over the world. And Donald Trump tweets a vulgar, ugly attack on two TV hosts. Tweets “psycho,” “crazy.” “low IQ,” “bleeding.” Our president. This hour, On Point: Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines. -- Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/06/30/week-in-the-news-global-cyber-attacks-health-care-travel-ban

Friday News Roundup – Domestic (Joshua Johnson, 1A) 2017-06-30

The Supreme Court stirred up headlines this week with the announcements it will hear arguments over the travel ban, political gerrymandering and a controversial cake shop. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Washington, GOP lawmakers continue to quibble over proposed health care legislation and President Trump makes a personal attack on members of the media.

Interview: 

http://the1a.org/shows/2017-06-30/friday-news-roundup-domestic

Friday News Roundup – International (Joshua Johnson, 1A) 2017-06-30

A curious warning from the White House to Syria about further use of chemical weapons was just one of the big global news stories this week. In Latin America, Brazil and Venezuela face crises of government. China’s Xi Jinping pays a first visit to Hong Kong as president. And a top aide to the Pope is charged with sexual assault.
Interview:
http://the1a.org/shows/2017-06-30/friday-news-roundup-international

Disability Rights Activist Arrested for Protesting Trumpcare: We Won't Be Silent While You Kill Us

https://democracynow.org - With the deeply unpopular healthcare plan having failed to come to a vote before the Senate recessed for the holidays, demonstrators across the country flooded the offices of Republicans in what they’re calling a "last stand" to prevent a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. We speak with disability rights attorney Stephanie Woodward, who was shown in a viral video being pulled out of her wheelchair and arrested for protesting outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/HQnuJJyuwZM

Naomi Klein: The Worst Is Yet to Come with Trump, So We Must Be Ready for Shock Politics

https://democracynow.org - Watch the Part 2 of our conversation with best-selling author and Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein about her book, "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need."
Interview:

https://youtu.be/w44lApffH30

"Inaction Means Death": California Sees Groundswell of Support for Single-Payer Healthcare

https://democracynow.org - As Republicans continue their push for their healthcare plan, polls show support for a nationwide single-payer healthcare system is growing. At least one poll shows a full third of Americans are now in favor of a national single-payer system, while 60 percent believe the federal government should be responsible for healthcare. In one state, the California Senate passed a single-payer bill, but the House speaker killed it in the Assembly. We get an update from Michael Lighty, with National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/o2BZQNnU3ec

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 30, 2017

Interview:

https://youtu.be/ZWval-3-lvs

Stephen: 'This Is What's Wrong With The American President'

Stephen's monologue begins with a look at the President's shocking and vicious Twitter cyberbullying of Mika Brzezinski.
https://youtu.be/L7YrTk-Y0a0

Putin thinks the US is trying to overthrow him -- Vox

That's what a new DIA report says.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/29/15892472/putin-russia-dia-report-regime-change

Merkel Rips Trump, Calls Brexit a Joke, and Drops the Mic as World’s Only Respectable Leader -- Vanity Fair

Angela Merkel has had it with you people.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/angela-merkel-trump-brexit

States Refuse To Cooperate With Trump Voter Fraud Probe

California, Virginia and Kentucky on Thursday said they would refuse to comply with a request from President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission to provide personal information about registered voters...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-trump-voter-fraud-probe_us_5955683be4b0da2c7322389c

Trump's Voter Fraud Probe Requests Voters' Personal Information -- HuffPost

A committee that President Donald Trump convened to investigate voter fraud has begun asking election officials in certain states for registered voters' names and personal information. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-voter-fraud-panel-personal-information_us_59555bbee4b0da2c732230c2

America’s Flagship ‘Clean Coal’ Experiment Abandoned After 11 Years And $7.5 Billion -- HuffPost

The coal industry suffered a major blow on Wednesday when the utility giant Southern Company abandoned work on its troubled Mississippi "clean coal" facility amid skyrocketing costs. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kemper-clean-coal_us_59554276e4b0da2c73221799

Anderson Cooper Uses Trump’s Own Words To Show How ‘Weak’ The President Is -- HuffPost

“‘The president of the United States is the most powerful person in the world. The president is the spokesman for democracy and liberty. Isn’t it time we brought back the pomp and circumstance and the sense of awe for that office that we all held?’” Cooper quoted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anderson-cooper-trump-weakness_us_5955aed7e4b05c37bb7d3770

Partisan gerrymandering benefited Republicans in 2016 election – report -- the Guardian

Associated Press scrutinizes 435 US House and 4,700 state races Supreme court will consider gerrymandering in Wisconsin case Donald Trump claimed the 2016 US election was rigged against him, alleging without evidence massive voter fraud. Democrats have said Russian interference stacked the odds against Hillary Clinton. Related: Supreme court to decide whether state gerrymandering violates constitution Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/25/partisan-gerrymandering-republicans-2016-report

Scarborough, Brzezinski say White House used National Enquirer as threat -- CNN Money

Is the White House using the National Enquirer to threaten and blackmail journalists? That's what MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are alleging.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/30/media/national-enquirer-donald-trump-joe-scarborough/index.html

Fact-checking the Senate GOP health care bill -- PolitiFact

PolitiFact has fact-checked some of the main talking points deployed this week; here is a brief recap...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jun/29/fact-checking-senate-gop-health-care-bill/

Van Jones: James O’Keefe’s CNN video took me out of context -- Salon

Van Jones says you shouldn't take James O'Keefe's "sting" video of him at face value...
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/29/van-jones-james-okeefes-cnn-video-took-me-out-of-context/

This NRA Recruitment Video Is So Divisive, Even Gun Owners Are Angry | HuffPost

“They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-nra-recruitment-video-is-so-divisive-even-gun-owners-are-angry_us_5954e6c2e4b0da2c73217669

Twitterverse Trolls Marco Rubio Over His 'Fool' Bible Verse Tweet -- HuffPost

It's Judgment Day for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and his Twitter account. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marco-rubio-fool-bible-twitter_us_5954ebe0e4b02734df30538e

Affordable Care Act Linked To Fewer Cardiac Arrests In Oregon -- HuffPost

Incidence of the often-fatal heart condition fell 17 percent among middle-aged adults in Multnomah County, a study finds.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cardiac-arrests-obamacare-affordable-care-act_us_59548411e4b0da2c73210b4e

Why Canadians Are Increasingly Seeking Medical Treatment Abroad -- HuffPost

No health care system is perfect.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/canadian-medical-tourism_us_5949b405e4b0db570d3778ff

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy Explains To His Colleagues How Babies Are Made -- HuffPost

Bill Cassidy uses the birds and the bees to show why all health plans should cover maternity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-cassidy-how-babies-are-made_us_595473ece4b0da2c73210a37

Trump’s road to ‘energy dominance’ excludes clean energy -- ThinkProgress.org

Environmental advocates call president’s speech a fitting end to “dirty energy week.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-announces-new-energy-actions-951a5fb20099

Trump’s voter fraud commission is ‘laying the groundwork for voter suppression’ -- ThinkProgress.org

Vice chair Kris Kobach plans to use Kansas’ disastrous voter purge as a national model.
https://thinkprogress.org/voter-fraud-letter-97dcfc51eb48

Paul Ryan thinks it’s ‘hysterical’ to point out that Trumpcare will kill people -- ThinkProgress.org

During an interview with a Wisconsin radio station on Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) accused Trumpcare opponents of using "over the top" and "hysterical" rhetoric when they point out the well-understood connection between people losing health insurance and people dying. "The rhetoric is just over the top," Ryan said. "I have seen a lot in my day and this rhetoric — it's hysterical, it's hyperbolic, it's really something." Ryan went on to...
https://thinkprogress.org/paul-ryan-trumpcare-hysteria-eef2abc4a8b7

Faith groups hold day-long vigil against ‘sinful’ GOP health care bill -- ThinkProgress.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Faith groups are holding a 23-hour vigil in front of the U.S. Capitol to protest the GOP health care bill, calling the proposal "sinful" and describing health care as a "God-given right." Roughly 150 people of faith gathered outside Congress on Wednesday afternoon to kick off the demonstration, with a diverse array of religious leaders voicing spiritual ...
https://thinkprogress.org/faith-vigil-gop-health-bill-b80448b43f5c

Bill Moyers: All of Donald Trump's Lies | Alternet

The New York Times printed every lie Donald Trump has told since taking office.
http://www.alternet.org/media/all-donald-trumps-lies

Exclusive: Seymour Hersh Dishes on New Exposé Upending the Official Story About Trump and Syrian Chemical Attacks | Alternet

The veteran investigative reporter is turning the narrative upside down with his latest investigation.
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/seymour-hersh-syria-bombshell

Trump's U.N. ambassador takes to Twitter to brag about cutting the U.N.'s peacekeeping budget

"Just 5 months into our time here, we've cut over half a billion $$$ from the UN peacekeeping budget & we’re only getting started.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1676477

Acting ICE director accidentally debunks two of Trump's biggest immigration lies

"...Research has shown virtually no support for the enduring assumption that increases in immigration are associated with increases in crime. ..."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1676169

Collusion alert: Michael Flynn may have worked with GOP operative to obtain hacked Clinton email

Hello! Is this why Trump has gotten increasingly unhinged about the Russian investigation?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1676534

What Republicans don't want you to talk about: The 208,500 who will die because of Trumpcare

There's a concerted pushback among conservative commentators and healthcare experts trying to fight the most immediate and gut-wrenching fact of Trumpcare. Like this guy, a well-respected conservative healthcare analyst:
  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1676396

Dallas officer charged with aggravated assault for killing of 21-year-old woman |

Genevive Dawes was shot and killed in January when police officer Christopher Hess fired into her moving vehicle...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/24/dallas-texas-police-shooting-genevive-dawes-lawsuit?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=232146&subid=22113254&CMP=GT_US_collection

Under pressure, Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cyber secrets

Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-tech-idUSKBN19E0XB

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is defunding an anti-Nazi program

The Department of Homeland Security has inexplicably cut funds to a program intended to wean people off neo-Nazism.

Life After Hate had been scheduled to receive $400,000 during the final days of President Barack Obama’s administration, according to a report by Politico. After President Donald Trump’s administration decided to review a $10 million grant for the “Countering Violent Extremism” program, the Trump team decided to drop funding for Life After Hate....
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/23/trumps-department-of-homeland-security-is-defunding-an-anti-nazi-program/

Citing religious refusal of adoption rule, California bans state travel to Texas

California state agencies, universities and commissions won't be allowed to send their employees to Texas after the California attorney general declared a Texas law discriminatory....
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/22/citing-religious-refusal-adoption-rule-california-bans-state-travel-te/amp/

Columbus Police Chief recommends 24-hour suspension for officer seen kicking suspect

Columbus Division of Police Chief Kim Jacobs has recommended a 24 hour suspension for Zachary Rosen, the officer caught on camera kicking a suspect on the ground. The chief’s recommendation now goes to the Columbus Director of Public Safety for a final determination. It will be up the Director of Public Safety to determine whether to uphold the recommended suspension or take some other action....
http://nbc4i.com/2017/06/21/columbus-police-chief-recommends-24-hour-suspension-for-officer-seen-kicking-suspect/

Century-old Parkinson's question answered

Scientists say they have found the first direct evidence that the immune system does attack the brain in Parkinson's disease. The discovery, in the journal Nature, suggests that drugs to calm the immune system could help manage the disease.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40353798

For Focus On The Family, The Focus Remains On Far-Right Politics

Vice President Mike Pence will be in Colorado Springs this Friday speaking at an event to mark the 40th anniversary of Focus on the Family (FOF), the fundamentalist Christian family ministry and Religious Right group founded by Dr. James C. Dobson, a child psychologist.

Dobson, a controversial figure known mainly for his enthusiastic endorsement of corporal punishment, left FOF in 2010 and turned things over to Jim Daly. Daly presents a kinder, gentler face than the frequently scowling, judgmental Dobson.

But have things changed at FOF? Not really. You need only to spend a few minutes on the group’s website to see that it’s business as usual for Focus....
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/for-focus-on-the-family-the-focus-remains-on-far-right-politics

More than half of Americans want stricter gun laws, Pew study finds

More than half of Americans want stricter gun laws, while still preserving the rights of most people in most places to carry most types of guns, a Pew Research Center survey has found. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/22/america-gun-laws-pew-study

Study: Anti-Abortion State Laws Deny Science

Are you surprised? A recent Guttmacher Institute report systematically documents anti-choice laws and the research that debunks their claims....
https://rewire.news/article/2017/06/21/study-anti-abortion-state-laws-deny-science/

Christians Are Harassing the Atheist Lawyer Who Won the Pensacola Cross Case

Earlier this week, a judge in Florida ruled that a giant government-sponsored Christian cross in Pensacola had to come down. It was clearly an establishment of religion, he said, adding, “the law is the law.”...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/06/21/christians-are-harassing-the-atheist-lawyer-who-won-the-pensacola-cross-case/

In 'symbolic rebuke' of Sessions, DOJ's LGBT employees to honor trans student Gavin Grimm

In what Buzzfeed calls a “symbolic rebuke” of Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s move to rescind Obama-era pro-trans guidance, Justice Department employees are planning to honor Gavin Grimm, the trans student fighting his high school’s anti-trans bathroom policy, at an LGBT Pride event next week. That joyous Pride party noise is coming from inside the house, Jeff:...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1673904

US interrogates detainees at Yemen black sites rife with torture

Hundreds of men swept up in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme — including the "grill," in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire, an Associated Press investigation has found. ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/22/us-interrogates-detainees-yemen-black-sites-rife-torture/

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 29, 2017

Interview:
https://youtu.be/8ZQHYFdFdA8

Al Franken Reminds Republicans What Health Care Means

Senator Al Franken enlightens Republicans on what gutting Medicaid would mean to Americans in his home state of Minnesota. This speech was delivered on June, 27th 2017.
Interview:

https://youtu.be/rNimSj3QfUQ

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 28, 2017

Interview:
https://youtu.be/nDrupl053J4

Senate Effort to Gut Medicaid for Millions Shockingly Unpopular -- Vanity Fair

Two new polls just made Mitch McConnell's job even harder.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/senate-health-care-bill-polls

Stephen Colbert Defends CNN: Trump Is the One ‘Guilty of Fake News’ -- The Daily Beast

CNN messed up this week and Stephen Colbert was not about to give them a pass. "This is CNN's worst mistake since their short-lived spin-off, 'Wolf Blitzer's Rockin' Situation Garage,'" the Late Show host joked Tuesday night. "Now CNN says that 'the retraction does not mean the facts of the story were necessarily wrong,' but they pulled the story because 'standard editorial processes were not followed,'" Colbert explained. "Yes, it's a fine story. They just forgot to call it 'breaking news' and ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colbert-defends-cnn-trump-is-the-one-guilty-of-fake-news

Climate scientists just debunked deniers' favorite argument | Dana Nuccitelli -- the guardian

And in the process, illustrated the difference between skepticism and denial Whenever they hold one of their frequent hearings to reject and deny established climate science, congressional Republicans invariably trot out contrarian scientist John Christy, who disputes the accuracy of climate models. In doing so, Christy uses a cherry-picked, error riddled chart, but there's a nugget of truth in his argument. Although the discrepancy isn't nearly as large as Christy's misleading chart suggests...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/28/climate-scientists-just-debunked-deniers-favorite-argument

Sean Spicer reveals how stupid he thinks you are in one tweet -- ThinkProgress.org

Stunning.
https://thinkprogress.org/sean-spicer-reveals-how-stupid-he-thinks-you-are-in-one-tweet-f15b8431e2f1

Fox News host argues Trumpcare critics are hysterical because ‘we’re all going to die’ sometime -- ThinkProgress.org

That's one way to look at it. We're all going to die. Many of us, however, hope to put that day off as long as possible. That insight appears to be lost on Fox News' Lisa Kennedy Montgomery. During a discussion about Senate Republicans' decision to temporarily pull the plug on Trumpcare on Tuesday evening, Kennedy criticized progressive "hysteria" about the bill, which would cost 22 million Americans their health care, since "we're all going to die" anyway. "You know...
https://thinkprogress.org/kennedy-fox-news-trumpcare-we-are-all-going-to-die-50d86cbd9bb5

Climate Change Causes Sea Level Rise To Accelerate 50 Percent In Past 20 Years

Sea level rise is real, and it’s getting worse.
http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-causes-sea-level-rise-accelerate-629463

111 terminally ill patients took their own lives in first 6 months of California right-to-die law

“The state’s data show that even during the early months of the law’s implementation, the law was working well and terminally ill Californians were able to take comfort in knowing that they had this option to peacefully end intolerable suffering,” said Matt Whitaker, who works for Compassion & Choices, an advocacy group that fought for the law’s passage. The organization released a report this month saying it knew of 504 people who had received prescriptions for lethal medications between June 2016 and June of this year..
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-end-of-life-act-20170627-htmlstory.html

Cardiac arrests dropped by 17 percent after Affordable Care Act expanded coverage in community study.

Cardiac arrests dropped by 17 percent after Affordable Care Act expanded coverage in community study.
https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/fewer-cardiac-arrests-after-affordable-care-act-expanded-coverage

'Morning Joe' Unloads on 'Raging Hypocrites' in White House for Anonymously Leaking and Whining Later | Alternet

Joe Scarborough all but calls Sarah Huckabee Sanders a liar...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/morning-joe-unloads-raging-hypocrites-white-house-anonymously-leaking-and-whining

Stephen Colbert Lays Into Mitch McConnell After the GOP Delays Its Health Care Vote | Alternet

"McConnell knows if they don't pass it now, there's a serious danger someone might read it." http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/stephen-colbert-lays-mitch-mcconnell-after-gop-delays-its-health-care-vote

Robert Reich: This Is the Message Democrats Have Been Searching For | Alternet

The party can't just defend the ACA. Now is the time to demand Medicare for all... http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/robert-reich-message-democrats-have-been-searching

Donald Trump reacts to a Washington Post story saying he's 'confused' by threatening Amazon

Upset by a morning Washington Post story which noted that Donald Trump was “confused” and “did not have a grasp of some basic elements of the Senate plan,” Trump struck back in the only way he knows … by threat...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1676044

Officers charged with conspiracy in the 2014 shooting death of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald

On October 20, 2014, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Van Dyke is white and McDonald was black. Once the video footage was finally released, it showed that McDonald was walking away from the police with a 4-inch knife in his hand—a fact that contradicted the Van Dyke’s story. Three of his fellow officers wrote up incident reports about the investigation corroborating his story. It turns out, they lied. And now there seems to be enough evidence to charge all three of them on conspiracy charges in McDonald’s death...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1676032