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Tell the Senate: NO Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State

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Please subscribe to and support VoteVets.org  Later this week, the U.S. Senate will begin confirmation hearings for CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as our nation’s next Secretary of State. Make absolutely no mistake about it: the appointment of John Bolton to serve as National Security Advisor and Mike Pompeo’s nomination to serve as Secretary of State represent the neoconservative foreign policy Donald Trump said he was against. These appointments show there’s not one shred of daylight between Dick Cheney and Donald Trump. Mike Pompeo’s positions on the Iran Deal and diplomacy with North Korea are a threat to our national security. The Secretary of State is supposed to be America’s top diplomat — his confirmation will put us on a path to war. Tell the Senate to reject Mike Pompeo’s nomination: Stop the March to War: Tell the U.S. Senate that Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State is a threat to our national security, and that you expect th...

Illinois Biometric Privacy Law Gets Moment in Spotlight at Facebook Hearing

Illinois Biometric Privacy Law Gets Moment in Spotlight at Facebook Hearing Business interests are aiming to roll back portions of an Illinois law meant to protect biometric identifiers such as...  Read More

Mark Zuckerberg Brings In-House Legal, Lobbying Entourage to Capitol Hill

Mark Zuckerberg Brings In-House Legal, Lobbying Entourage to Capitol Hill As he testifies before nearly half the U.S. Senate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has his company’s in-house legal and...  Read More

Joe Kennedy III | Mental Health Crisis Isn't About Guns. It's About Trump and GOP Gutting Medicaid

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11 April 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News HELP OUT FOLKS, IT WON’T KILL YOU. - All of this fundraising is for roughly 700 donations. We get 30,000 readers a day. Standing up against that now. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Joe Kennedy III | Mental Health Crisis Isn't About Guns. It's About Trump and GOP Gutting Medicaid  Joe Kennedy III, USA Today Kennedy III writes: "If Republican leaders are talking about mental health, it's generally for one reason - to avoid talking about guns." READ MORE Robert Mueller. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Trump Sought to Fire Mueller in December Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times Excerpt: "In early December, President Trump, furious over news reports about a new round of subpoenas from the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, told advisers in no uncertain terms that Mr. Mueller's invest...

MASSterList: On principle | Step right up! | ‘Stunned, shocked, amazed’

Subscribe   Archives   Twitter   Facebook   Instagram This email may be cut off by your email provider. To see today's full MASSterList, click "View entire message" at the bottom, or view the online version  here. By Jay Fitzgerald and Keith Regan 04/11/2018 On principle | Step right up! | ‘Stunned, shocked, amazed’ Happening Today   House budget unveiling, Hawkins swearing in, Student loan bill of rights    -- Sen.  Eric Lesser , Rep.  Natalie Higgins , organizers from Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts and ‘millennial legislators’ hold a press conference on the bill that establishes a  student loan bill of rights , Nurses Hall, 10:30 a.m.   -- State Auditor  Suzanne Bump  chairs a meeting of the Municipal Finance Oversight Board, with requests from the city of Lynn and the town of Webster on the agenda. State Auditor’s Office, Room 230, 11 a.m. -- Senate Democrats ga...