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President Trump's central claim about his economic policies officially crashed into reality today. Throughout the 2016 campaign and since, the president and his party have vowed to kick-start tepid Obama-era economic growth. from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/trumps-economic-policies-failed-to-deliver-promised-3percent-growth-in-2018.html https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/editorial/2017/12/21/104911357-GettyImages-896283674.530x298.jpg?v=1551301698

The complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeks to bar the administration from using emergency powers to divert money from other programs to a wall on the U.S. from https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/695821740/16-states-sue-over-trumps-national-emergency-declaration https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2019/02/18/ap_19027026027805-1895c0097ae959fba8658f826819ff7be9342490-s1200.jpg

Analysis: The self-described deal-maker president gave up the ransom and the hostage for... a conference committee. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised a wall. He got a procedural death trap. from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/there-s-no-art-trump-s-deal-re-open-government-n963006 https://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2019_04/2730091/190125-donald-trump-ew-503p_e7fb53329874bd7f14ff4958b03309a5.fit-760w.jpg

The Senate prepared Wednesday to pass a short-term spending bill that would keep the government open through the New Year but deny President Trump the money he wanted for his border wall — a stark retreat for Republicans in their final days in control of Congress. from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-signals-it-might-accept-a-short-term-spending-bill-to-avert-shutdown/2018/12/19/63148a02-0395-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/_1yi4eoXFzA3E992nb7-QLVBHZE=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6BCYKFQDBEI6TFMMBJQBEJX7NM.jpg

The Federal Commission on School Safety, formed in the wake of the massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, is recommending that Obama-era policies aimed at limiting racial disparities in school discipline be rescinded as a part of a comprehensive school safety report, the White House said on from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-eyes-rolling-back-obama-era-school-discipline-policies-n949276 https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_51/2484606/180702-betsy-devos-whit-house-cabinet-njs-1553_99a325ef5315e3e2165f805dd41ce40a.fit-760w.jpg

The incident raises questions about the Border Patrol's emergency procedures and the Trump administration's policy of delaying immigrants at legal ports of entry. WASHINGTON — A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in the custody of U.S. from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/seven-year-old-girl-who-died-border-did-not-receive-n948071 https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_50/2683791/181214-border-mexic-migrants-baja-california-cs-1252p_361966e8cd2c8b763567067b0a5cd564.fit-760w.jpg

On the same day former Trump attorney Michael Cohen was sentenced in Manhattan to three years in federal prison violating campaign finance laws by paying off women who alleged affairs with Donald Trump, the U.S. from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prosecutors-media-company-admitted-it-paid-off-playboy-model-to-protect-trump-before-election/ http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In a House Judiciary Committee hearing today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was asked to explain why a Google image search for “idiot” turned up pictures of Donald Trump — and whether that was a case of intentional bias. The question came from Rep. from https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/11/18136114/trump-idiot-image-search-result-sundar-pichai-google-congress-testimony https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62662932/1080992848.jpg.1544546789.jpg

The United Nations climate change conference underway here in Poland could play a critical role in the fight to stem greenhouse gas emissions and keep temperatures from rising to unsafe levels. The Trump Administration showed up to pitch fossil fuels. from http://time.com/5475293/trump-fossil-fuels-cop-24-katowice/ http://time.com/images/newsletter-time.png

Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence. from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ivanka-trump-used-a-personal-email-account-to-send-hundreds-of-emails-about-government-business-last-year/2018/11/19/6515d1e0-e7a1-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/3JW6TXjwvhnkFILM5-KQp6z9oXU=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/MLPT4UHMDQI6RFWUBUR7FKVNBE.jpg

President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an executive order that would end the right to citizenship for the children of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil. from https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/politics/donald-trump-ending-birthright-citizenship/index.html https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181018212148-trump-gianforte-assault-reporter-exlarge-169.jpg

President Donald Trump’s private schedule reflects that he has an increasing amount of “Executive Time” during which he tweets and watches television, rather than scheduled work time. from https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-spending-less-time-doing-his-job-more-time-tweeting-and-watching-1192540 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Donald Trump has 55 million followers on Twitter. But his tweets reach less than half of that, according to an analysis by SparkToro. More than 60% of the US president’s Twitter following, or about 33 million accounts, have been deemed fake by the marketing software firm. from https://qz.com/1422395/how-many-of-donald-trumps-twitter-followers-are-fake/ https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/RTX2V9CB-e1539353976672.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=410&h=231

It's the alert that – if it's real – you won't want to get again. For the first time ever on Wednesday, Americans nationwide will receive an alert on their cell phones from President Trump. The test, scheduled for 2:18 p.m. from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/presidential-alert-test-fema-national-crises/ http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In a remarkable new interview with Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt, Donald Trump reminds us of what a fundamentally low situation the United States has landed in. from https://www.vox.com/2018/8/23/17772990/trump-fox-and-friends-transcript https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/F9qBq1DYT9Mb-GpmvTJoIiXf4b4=/0x0:3000x2350/1200x800/filters:focal(1600x741:2080x1221)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/60994543/956921152.jpg.0.jpg

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday came out with new rules scaling back Obama-era constraints on coal-fired power plants, striking at one of the former administration's legacy programs to rein in climate-changing fossil-fuel emissions. from https://apnews.com/13ae7fdfa76f4c3ab19f66c681456d32 https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:e056600f4d72449fbe21fb5fbf7f9ad2/800.jpeg

The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts. Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s lawyer, said FBI Deputy Director David L. from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-agent-peter-strzok-fired-over-anti-trump-texts/2018/08/13/be98f84c-8e8b-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The many unearthed interactions between Trump-world and Russia, documented http://buff.ly/2uoJNcB via Buffer

" By  Rosalind S. Helderman  and  Tom Hamburger   July 18   A U.S.-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing to eight the number of known participants at the session that has emerged as a key focus of the investigation of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russians. " http://buff.ly/2tcrNAz via Buffer

" (CNN) Here's Donald Trump at 10:17 pm eastern Monday night  -- following the news that the  Senate health care bill had failed : "Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!" " http://buff.ly/2tCET9H via Buffer