The Treasury secretary has agreed to recuse himself from matters that could benefit his wife’s film business.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Confusion Over Judge’s Ruling As Unvaccinated Children Return To School In Rockland County
Unvaccinated children, many of whom had been staying at home since December because of an ongoing measles outbreak, returned to schools in Rockland County Monday, three days after a judge temporarily overturned the county’s state of emergency. [ more › ]
New York Has The Most Cases To Date Of A Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungal Infection
During this past glorious spring weekend, The New York Times published some light reading about Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungal infection that’s spreading around the world. [ more › ]
Why it’s so hard to convince anti-vaxxers to vaccinate their kids

Despite medical evidence in favour of vaccinations, the Ontario Medical Association says more and more parents doubt the science because of misinformation online. Now they’re beginning a campaign to correct common myths about vaccines.
Facebook are ‘morally bankrupt liars’ says New Zealand’s privacy commissioner

John Edwards calls out social media giant after Christchurch attack for refusing to accept responsibility for harm
New Zealand’s privacy commissioner has lashed out at social media giant Facebook in the wake of the Christchurch attacks, calling the company “morally bankrupt pathological liars”.
The commissioner used his personal Twitter page to lambast the social network, which has also drawn the ire of prime minister Jacinda Ardern for hosting a livestream of the attacks that left 50 dead, which was then copied and shared all over the internet.
Benjamin Netanyahu is racist, says Democratic hopeful Beto O’Rourke

Remarks come two days before elections in which Netanyahu hopes to win fifth term as PM
Israelis prepare to go to the polls: what you need to know
Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic White House hopeful, has weighed in on Israel’s election, describing the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as a racist and obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
“The US-Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships that we have on the planet,” O’Rourke said on a campaign stop at the University of Iowa. “And that relationship, if it is to be successful, must transcend partisanship in the United States, and it must be able to transcend a prime minister who is racist.”
Trailblazing women of Kabul, Afghanistan – a photo essay

The Women by Women project commissions local female photographers to tell the stories of trendsetting women and girls, in countries where the charity ActionAid works. The series starts with these stories of radical women in Kabul, including a street artist, a kickboxer and a politician
In 2018, less than a quarter of photographs published in major media outlets were taken by female photojournalists. Women by Women aims to demonstrate the importance of showing diverse perspectives in photography; female as well as male; local as well as international, and how different the world can look as a result.
Putting this brief in the hands of local female photographers, the series starts in Kabul, Afghanistan, with the stories of a kickboxer, politician, street artist, yoga teacher, fashion designer and drugs counsellor. They are all breaking down gender barriers and shattering stereotypes in different ways, in one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women.
Trump tweeted Nielsen’s exit before she could release resignation letter – live

Few tears are shed for former homeland security secretary but she was reportedly ‘undercut at every turn’ by the president
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Donald Trump has been pressing for the Department of Homeland Security to reinstate the controversial child separation policy, CNN reports.
The policy was reversed after intense controversy. But Trump has been insisting bringing it back was necessary to deal with growing numbers of migrants arriving at the border, according to CNN. Kirstjen Nielsen had been resisting, one of the splits with Trump that led him to push her out.
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Lawmakers in New York are introducing legislation today that would allow state officials to release Donald Trump’s taxes.
Senator Brad Hoylman is sponsoring the bill, which would let the commissioner of the Department of Taxation and Finance turn over state income tax returns requested by a congressional committee for a legitimate legislative purpose.
I am introducing new legislation to allow New York State officials to release state tax returns in cooperation with Congressional investigations.
If Washington fails to give the American people the transparency they deserve, New York will take the lead.https://t.co/Q7lshMBWv8
Hundreds of activists and pets march in Cuba against animal abuse

Protests were authorized by the communist government, pointing to an expanding tolerance for Cubans to express their views
Hundreds of Cubans have marched through Havana calling for an end to animal cruelty, in what organizers believe was the first independent march authorized by the one-party state.
Related: Cuba’s churches reject gay marriage before vote on new constitution
Monday Open Thread | Sean Hannity Appears To Be In Legal Trouble As He Gets Caught In Russia Investigation
As it turns out, the indictment and impending prosecution of Roger Stone doesn’t just mean trouble for Stone himself, or even just for Donald Trump, who it has been said is likely to be the “senior Trump campaign official” named in the charging documents.
Inside the indictment, one passage spells out that Stone’s contact inside WikiLeaks, the primary conduit for releasing the illegally-hacked DNC emails, told him via email on August 2, 2016 to publicly begin focusing on the health of Hillary Clinton as a method of harming her competing campaign for the presidency.
“Would not hurt to start suggesting HRC old, memory bad, has stroke, neither he nor she well. I expect that much of next dump focus.”
Stone, however, had no major outlet through which to release information, and aside from that, could not appear to be getting information from outside sources.
At the time of that instruction, not even the Trump campaign had begun talking about Clinton’s health. Not even WikiLeaks had publicly begun their trickle of information about Hillary’s health yet. But somehow it shortly became a major talking point.
So how did that message start making the rounds? Fox News’ number one anchor, Sean Hannity, started talking about it just days later. And unless you believe that Hannity randomly guessed that her health would become a talking point — and we just don’t give Sean that much credit, honestly — it means that he got the information from somewhere. He certainly didn’t have anyone “inside” the Clinton campaign, or we’d have known it by now. Hell, we’d have known it by the day after the election, because he would have bragged about it.
So it’s likelier than not that WikiLeaks — who started the talk about it to begin with — gave information to Stone, who then passed it on to Sean Hannity, a man who has not just proven to be a mouthpiece for Donald Trump, but who Trump regularly consults with via telephone.
And although it’s a big “if,” the fact remains that this would make Sean Hannity a conspirator with Roger Stone to publish and disseminate illegally harvested private information from WikiLeaks, a group that was designated as a hostile foreign entity by our intelligence agencies before any of this ever happened.
And now that we’re at the end of the article, it’s time to remind you who Michael Cohen’s third client was at his legal practice, and how hard that client — Sean Hannity — worked to keep his name off the record in court.
If Hannity got word from Stone and knew it was from WikiLeaks, two things are true: It’s in the Mueller report, and Hannity is going to prison.
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