2020 election

With the Dem nomination contest officially starting with Iowa next week, I'll re-link to my take on the candidates. It's changed quite a bit since I last linked it. I am however still wholeheartedly #TeamWarren and encourage you to vote/caucus for her.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gUdQCqdidVUNAJ8lf865Rb1ULs5oeOgALF31Ao4G37w/edit?usp=sharing

Also relevant Also perhaps relevant, don't take too much stock in the polls, at this stage those should still have a mental +/- 10 points attached to them.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-iowa-caucuses-are-in-4-days-almost-anything-could-still-happen/

Cabbage News Network Week #157

Earlier and I missed it

• ICE lowering standards for its detention centers (source).

Monday 1/27

• Tech workers moving to Canada thanks to U.S. immigration policy (source).
  
• Pompeo is unhinged asshole in NPR interview (source, non-NPR source).
  
• Administration bans NPR from covering Pompeo's trip to Ukraine (source).
  
• Recording released of DJT ordering hit on U.S. ambassador to Ukraine (source).
  
• Bolton to confirm details of DJT's Ukraine extortion scheme in his upcoming book, Dems increase calls to GOP to let Bolton testify in impeachment trial (source).

Tuesday 1/28

• GOP providing impeachment defense: the president is allowed to do anything (source).
  
• White House proposes a middle east peace plan where Palestinians agree to cease existing, Palestinians unsurprisingly reject that plan (source).
  
• Supreme Court approves green card refusals for immigrants likely to use government benefits (i.e. become a "public charge") (source).

Wednesday 1/29

• White House trying to stop Bolton from publishing his book (source).
  
• DJT signs NAFTA 2.0 (source).
  
• DHS expands "remain in Mexico" policy to apply to Brazilians (source).
  
• U.S. travelers from China being quarantined over virus fears (source).

Thursday 1/30

• DJT announces plan allowing states to limit Medicaid (source).
  
• Economy missed DJT's growth target in 2019, but is still growing (source).
  
• U.S. farm bankruptcies up 20% for 2019 (source).

Friday 1/31

• Impeachment trial likely to end next week with GOP acquitting DJT, there aren't going to be any witnesses (source).
  
• Administration proposes removing protections for migratory birds (source).
  
• Administration is considering opening more Federal lands to development (source).
  
• DJT executive order creates an anti-human trafficking office (source).
  
• Turns out Border Patrol did order Iranians to be detained after all (source).

In news elsewhere

• Brexit finally happens and U.K. officially leaves the EU (source).

Maps of the week

• Proposed Palestinian State
  
• Iowa Caucuses

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • NAFTA 2.0 https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5430
    
  • 5 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 2 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • 7 minor bills
    
  • 373 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House - busy with impeachment
  
  • 118 total pending bills