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Senate Fails to Override Trump’s Veto on Saudi Arms Sales

Catie Edmondson at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 52 minutes ago

The failure underscored that legislators’ simmering anger over both Saudi Arabia’s murder of a dissident columnist and its bloody war in Yemen has its limits.

The effort w as insufficient to block the sale of arms.

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Hospitals Would Have to Reveal Discounted Prices They Give Insurers, Under Trump Rule

Reed Abelson and Abby Goodnough at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 52 minutes ago

The proposal is part of the administration’s push to bring more transparency to health care markets.

Exposing the cost does not cut the price.

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The ‘On Politics’ Guide to the Second Democratic Debates

Lisa Lerer at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 52 minutes ago

Democrats are gearing up for what’s expected to be a far more contentious face-off than the first debates.

What comes after Trump is always the question.

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Justice Dept. Moves to Block Asylum Claims Based on Family Ties

Zolan Kanno-Youngs at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 52 minutes ago

The attorney general’s decision overturned an immigration appeals board ruling in 2018 that a Mexican migrant whose father was targeted by a drug cartel was eligible for asylum.

Asylum is a right.

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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders

Katie Rogers at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago

The president repeated claims about his presence at ground zero during the signing ceremony for legislation to ensure health care funding for emergency workers who rushed to help.

Katie Rogers found no facts in Trump's claim. 

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Some Very Specific Things the President Could Do to Help Baltimore

Emily Badger at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago

And many things past administrations have done to hurt it.

True.   The administration is racist.

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Meditation For The Original Sin of Identification

Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 3 hours ago

Humans are bundles of identification. We identify with simple things: our emotions, feelings in our bodies, thoughts. We identify with patterns of those things, and call them personality and assume that we are our personality. We identify more grandly. Perhaps we are a Muslim and someone burns a Koran and we get upset. A person […]

This way to solipcism.

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How Trump and Sharpton Became the Ultimate New York Frenemies

James Barron and Jeffery C. Mays at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago

President Trump and the Rev. Al Sharpton have a history of using each other for their own purposes, whether as foes or friends.

Donald Trump has changed his politics and is surprised thumpat his coalition is different.
Donald Trump is a cult of personality.

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Republican Senators Are Cool to Trump’s Choice for Top Intelligence Post

Julian E. Barnes, Nicholas Fandos and Adam Goldman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago

Democrats and former officials also expressed concern that the pick, Representative John Ratcliffe, will politicize what is supposed to be a nonpartisan job.

Everything is political to Republicans.
Some things are more political than others.

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Baltimore to Trump: You Lost Your Authority to Criticize

Sheryl Gay Stolberg at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago

Baltimore residents know their city has deep, ugly problems. But they say President Trump’s race-baiting insults are not going to help Charm City.

Race is the charm.

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How a Medicare Buy-In or Public Option Could Threaten Obamacare

Reed Abelson at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago

Some Democrats are proposing a government alternative to private insurance. But allowing people to choose such a plan may destabilize the A.C.A., some experts say.

Private health insurance is not a good deal for the institutions that pay the price for it.

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Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Release Climate ‘Equity’ Plan

Lisa Friedman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago

The Democratic candidate for president and the powerful House freshman are building on the Green New Deal with a plan to prioritize low-income communities.

Social engineering is tricky enough.

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L.G.B.T.Q. Rights Cases Stall Under DeVos, Report Finds

Erica L. Green at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago

An analysis by the Center for American Progress found that the Trump administration was less likely to investigate claims of discrimination against L.G.B.T.Q. students.

No surprise to me.

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The Democratic Debate Lineups Could Lead to Fireworks. Here’s Why.

Reid J. Epstein at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago

For half of the candidates, it may be their last chance to make an impression on the national debate stage.

People will try.

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Greta Thunberg to Attend New York Climate Talks. She’ll Take a Sailboat.

Lisa Friedman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago

The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist will cross the Atlantic in an open-cockpit racing yacht to attend a United Nations summit meeting on global warming.

ok

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
sea surface temperatures; a snap shot.
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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/mobile/

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U.S. and China Resume Trade Talks Amid Dim Prospects for Deal

Ana Swanson and Keith Bradsher at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago

American officials are playing down the likelihood of an agreement as they restart negotiations with their Chinese counterparts in Shanghai this week.

China does not want U.S. IP law.

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Trump Widens War on Race Critics While Embracing Black Pastors

Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 11 hours ago

President Trump extended his attacks on critics of color with an early-morning Twitter blast calling Al Sharpton “a con man” and “a troublemaker.”

Trump is a racist who needs black support.

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Kamala Harris Sets Up Debate Showdown on Health Care With New Plan

Abby Goodnough and Astead W. Herndon at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago

Ms. Harris is forging her own path on the health care issue, putting forth a plan for providing Medicare for all Americans that stops short of the complete overhaul Bernie Sanders has proposed.

"Do not make the perfect the enemy of the good."
Health care is not an immediate issue. 
It could become one if the issue could be clarified.

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Seven 2020 Democrats Pledge to Focus First Bill on Fighting Corruption

Alexander Burns at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago

Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg are among the presidential candidates earning approval from the government-reform group End Citizens United.

It is a good place to start.

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Why Joe Biden’s Age Worries Some Democratic Allies and Voters

Katie Glueck and Jonathan Martin at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago

Mr. Biden’s halting performance at the June debate has stirred unease among some Democrats about his age, 76. They are looking for reassurance from his next debate on Wednesday.

The next president must be mentally sharp.


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