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Status of Puerto Rico infrastructure - it's been 58 days and the island is still 50% without power, that is over a million Americans.

Friday 11/10
  • Senate panel approves judicial nominee with almost no experience (source).

Sunday 11/12
  • Not really news, but may be of interest, a look at NSA's cybersecurity woes (source).

Monday 11/13
  • Sessions considering a separate special counsel to investigate Clinton (source).
  • Alex Azar nominated for HHS secretary to replace Tom Price (source).
  • FCC looking to eliminate media ownership rules (source)

Tuesday 11/14
  • Sessions questioned by House investigation, continues to change his story (source).

Wednesday 11/15 - I'm probably missing stuff from Tuesday and Wednesday, but work was busy.
  • Director of the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau resigns, DJT will get to name successor (source).

Thursday 11/16
  • House passes tax cut bill, bills future in Senate is uncertain (source).
  • Senate version of bill would raise taxes on the poor (source).
  • Updated comparison of House and Senate versions (source).
  • Congress passes DoD authorization bill (source).
  • Keystone pipeline leaks in South Dakota, Nebraska to decide on pipeline route next week (source).
  • State and local governments preparing for budget shortfalls if tax cut bill passes (source).
  • White House asking Congress for more disaster aid (source).
  • Jared Kushner fails to provide documentation regarding Russia meetings requested by investigators (source).
  • Ryan Zinke fails to provide travel documentation to investigators (source).
  • FEC to require election ads on social media to carry disclaimers saying who paid for them (source).
  • FCC to end program subsidizing broadband for low income households (source).
  • Pentagon to start research on missiles that would violate arms treaty with Russia in response to supposed Russian violations (source).

Friday 11/17
  • DHS official resigns after making anti-black and anti-muslim statements (source).
  • Report on Ivanka Trump's involvement with a shady development deal in Panama, yes, money laundering and Russians are involved (source).
  • Report on Russian investment in Trump properties (source).


Other
  • Russian White Paper - an admittedly somewhat biased summation of all things DJT-Russia connected including background info arranged into a single timeline/narrative, useful as it does put all the links to related mainstream media documentation in one place and sort them into their proper chronological order.

  • NYT report documenting civilian casualties of U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq suggesting they are way higher than DoD is admitting.


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