-Impeachment hearings really should be broader

-Ominously-named Chad Wolf set to become yet another acting DHS Secretary

-Border Patrol official boasts of agency response to racist Facebook page: social media training

-Pentagon Inspector General publishes report on US military activity across Africa. Surprise: it’s classified

-Fed Chair tells Congress it should worry about people on too many opioids to work (???)

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-State Department claims Bolivian security forces merely “pointed out the obvious” forcing Evo Morales to resign. Obviously a coup.

-SCOTUS hears oral arguments in DACA case

-Stephen Miller emails leaked to SPLC show White House aide liking white nationalist websites, the confederate flag, Infowars etc.

-Biggest bank merger since Great Recession approved by Justice Department

-Trump admin looks to kill environmental rules through bogus research release proposal undermining medical privacy

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-Sanders campaign releases proposal to dissolve post-9/11 agency

-Senate advances yet more Trump judicial nominees, including a Stephen Miller aide appointed to an appellate circuit position

-DOJ announces arrest in Saudi Twitter espionage scheme

-CFTC granting exemptions from “bad actor” stock market bans

-Bill Gates reveals the insecurity that drove him to accumulate and hoard obscene amounts of money, expresses willingness to vote for Trump

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-Dems now fully in control of Virginia, where labor needs help

-Public impeachment hearings coming next week

-Supreme Court hears case on groundwater pollution; White House, lobbyists press for more leniency

-Administration refuses to publicly state whether mass surveillance program has ever been helpful

-SEC release shows enforcement down since Obama era, as agency proposes rules designed to preserve corporate secrecy,

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-Lobbyist-friendly Interior official denies undermining scientific integrity, casts doubt on what researchers say about Arctic drilling

-FTC announces settlement with AT&T for throttling unlimited data

-Criminal antitrust cases at 40-year low

-Getting name recognition through stupid scandals--Tom Steyer staffer resigns after accessing data from Kamala Harris campaign

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-SCOTUS hears case on charges thrown out due to traffic stop assumptions about the driver being whoever registered the car. Civil libertarians warn of reversal’s impact on poor people and communities of color

-EPA rolling back rules on coal ash waste disposal. New safety regulations had been established after 2015 contamination disaster in Tennessee

-Trump loses Second Circuit appeal of accounting firm subpoena; White House officials reportedly ignore impeachment inquiries

-Today marks the formal start of the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, a departure process that won’t end until after the next Presidential election

-Here comes the bad part: Nats go to the White House

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-We celebrate the Nats World Series win and our successful pre-Game 6 exorcism by converting Sam Sacks to Catholicism

-Recession scapegoat preview minus racist incitement: Trump reacts to first House impeachment vote by claiming it hurt the stock market

-Two House Dems vote with GOP on impeachment--Rural Minnesota’s Colin Peterson and South Jersey Dipshit Jeff Van Drew

-Twenty House Republicans and 24 Dems back compromise bill granting path to citizenship for undocumented farm workers

-Ok millennial--FTC warns younger people among cohort most preyed upon by online scammers

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-FBI Director Wray tells Congress he never heard about the “black identity extremist” surveillance program called Iron Fist

-Fed cuts interest rates again with corporate bond market teetering

-Cuccinelli claims responsibility for revoking status from sick immigrant kids, responding to questions about Stephen Miller’s role

-Justice Department secures five-year-sentence for prison guard who conspired with inmate to carry out hit. Meanwhile, in not entirely unrelated news, more evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.

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-Pentagon announces F-35 production increase, despite problems with the Lockheed Martin fighter jet

-Boeing CEO won’t criticize self-regulation at Senate hearing about 737 crashes

-GAO finds increase in anti-Semitic, Islamophobic hate crimes on college campuses

-Small Victory: Trump administration withdraws Park Service rule designed to clamp down on protests in Washington

-Plus, an amateur exorcism to ward off Barbara Bush’s Ghost from the Washington Nationals

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The latest Chip Chat has been removed from behind the paywall. Journalist Chip Gibbons talks about his new report on the FBI's persistent attacks on speech and organizing.