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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalJudge denies request to unseal criminal charges against Julian Assange
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1090719140845969409In a ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said that free-press advocates seeking to unseal the charges have no proof Assange has actually been charged.
The Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press sought to unseal the charges after a federal prosecutor inadvertently typed a reference to “the fact that Assange has been charged” in an unrelated case.
The government has acknowledged it made an error but has not publicly confirmed that charges against Assange have been filed.
Judge denies request to unseal criminal charges against Julian Assange
Source: Talking Points Memo
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request to unseal criminal charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that were mistakenly revealed in another case.
In a ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said that free-press advocates seeking to unseal the charges have no proof Assange has actually been charged.
The Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press sought to unseal the charges after a federal prosecutor inadvertently typed a reference to “the fact that Assange has been charged” in an unrelated case.
The government has acknowledged it made an error but has not publicly confirmed that charges against Assange have been filed.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-denies-request-unseal-criminal-charges-julian-assange
White suburbia is the source of Trump's Texas troubles
I live in a suburb of Houston. We voted for Clinton in 2016 but lost all of the local races. In 2016, the county went for Beto and won the county wide state races where we had a candidate. The big cities have been blue for a while and now the suburbs are turning blue. This is not good for trump https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/white-suburbia-the-source-of-trumps-texas-troubles
“It’s the suburbs,” Robin Armstrong, who represents Texas on the Republican National Committee, acknowledged in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “That’s basically the woman’s vote. We need to make sure that we’re engaging females and letting them know that we’re addressing their values and concerns.”
In 2018, Hispanic turnout in Texas rose by about 73 percent from 2014, according to a post-election review issued by Latino Victory Fund. But, as revealed by figures compiled by the Texas secretary of state, voter turnout overall increase a bit more, by about 77 percent. That would suggest the growing strength of Democrats in the state is not due to the rising Hispanic population.
Texas could be in play in 2020
Senior intel officials say it's impossible to convince Trump he's wrong about anything:
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1090701267440226304Luckovich-The Coffee Maker is on the Fritz
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1090401474499223552
Tulsi Gabbard campaign in disarray
This is a very interesting article https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/29/tulsi-gabbard-2020-election-1134055
Two-and-a-half weeks after she told CNN she had decided to run for the White House—an announcement that even her own staff didn't know was coming, after weeks of debating the timing of the rollout—the 37-year-old congresswoman has struggled to contain the chaos.
Campaign manager Rania Batrice and Gabbard’s consulting firm Revolution Messaging are set to depart after this weekend’s official kickoff in Hawaii, two sources familiar with the situation told POLITICO. Gabbard is leaning on her sister, Vrindavan, to fill the void.
Meanwhile, the congresswoman is under fire back home after picking a fight with Sen. Mazie Hirono, and a prominent Democratic state lawmaker is already challenging Gabbard in next year’s congressional primary. That means she faces the possibility of losing the presidential race and her House seat as well.
Is revolution messaging the firm that sanders uses? Has this firm selected sanders over Gabbard?
Texas Republicans are worried that trump could lose Texas in 2020
https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/1090219583821230082?s=20Texas Republicans are worried about trump losing Texas in 2020
https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/1090219583821230082?s=20(Jewish Group) Harris County Repubican Party Remembrance day face book post
The Harris County Republican Party lost all county wide races in both 2016 and 2018 including county judge. This face book post by the Harris County GOP is pissing off everyone
https://twitter.com/anthonywnelson/status/1089901743729766401
Sri Preston Kulkarni ran for Texas CD 22 which includes a part of Harris County. Here is what Sri posted last night on face book
I wear a bracelet every day on my wrist with a JFK quote, "History, after all, is the memory of a nation." I was going to write a post for Holocaust Remembrance Day about how important it is for us to teach and learn history (2/3 of millennials don't know what Auschwitz was), especially in light of the rise of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists in our own country (and sometimes the praise of them by our elected officials).
But then, I saw the below posted by the Harris County GOP. I thought it was bad enough when the Fort Bend County GOP sent out a message to Hindus during our campaign saying, "Would you rather worship a donkey or an elephant? (At least that one meant well, even if it showed a tone deafness to anyone, especially youth, who have been stereotyped or ridiculed for being different). Of course, it was inexcusable that the Tarrant County GOP held a vote recently on whether to remove their Vice Chair simply for being Muslim.
Today the Harris County GOP has gone beyond the pale. For anyone who doesn't know, the Nazis and their predecessors, the Fascists in Italy, were fighting the "leftists." If there was any doubt that we need to do a better job teaching the history of what nationalism, fascism, and Nazi ideology really were (are), this post illustrates that better than I ever could. Good God.
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