In other news:
- The EPA has been investigating a particular pesticide for along time now, and their scientists strongly recommended that this pesticide should be banned due to health issues. Pruitt, consummate science denialist, has overridden them. What's the point in having scientists if you aren't going to listen to what they have to say?
- Michael Flynn has offered to testify in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Wow, that sounds ominous, doesn't it? A statement he made in September that "when you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime" is biting him hard, now.
- Today the Senate voted to allow states to withhold federal funds from businesses that provide abortion (obviously targetted at Planned Parenthood). The vote was 50-50. You can guess how Pence voted with the casting vote, can't you? Mitch McConnell made a statement that this legislation was about States knowing what was best for themselves. That is such utter bullshit. This is simply about Republicans policing womens' bodies.
- The secret intelligence reports that Nunes was reading? Appears to have come from two White house officials. This guy is far too close to the White house to investigate it. Today, "Spicer asserted that Congressional investigations are the correct venue to determine whether Nunes' behavior, and the behavior of the two White House officials who assisted him, is a problem". That is to say, the White House things that Nunes will investigate himself. Later reports are naming a third collaborator inside the White House. Can I just say that the level of corruption in this government is astounding?
- The State Department continues to fall apart with nobody working at its helm.
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