Salon Newsletter 10/30/2019

[Salon Daily Brief]( [How can GOP senators serve as impeachment jurors when they're implicated in Trump's misdeeds?]( Nancy Pelosi has announced that the House will finally hold a formal vote dictating the rules for the impeachment [Top Democrats warn that Joe Biden risks “humiliating” third- or fourth-place finish in Iowa]( Former Vice President Joe Biden is at risk of a “humiliating” loss in Iowa as a result of his [U.K. election set for December: Jeremy Corbyn, Labour vow "ambitious and radical campaign"]( With the threat of a no-deal Brexit finally off the table, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party on Tuesday officially backed [What would Jesus boo? As Christians, we should be troublemakers too]( I don’t really know, if Jesus walked among today, his bucket list would include “Boo the president of the [Fox News smears Iraq War hero Alexander Vindman as possible spy for testifying about Trump call]( President Donald Trump’s defenders launched a smear campaign against a top National Security Council official who testified to Congress [DOJ court filing reveals FBI’s reason for withholding information on Kavanaugh background check]( During the confirmation process for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [Court TV is back in session and preparing for Weinstein]( You know the saying about hindsight, yes? It was the first thing Jonathan Katz, the President and CEO of [Press Watch: New evidence that Trump's extortion attempts damaged national security]( Sometimes in the rush of reporting the latest news, political journalists don’t get around to writing the all-important explanatory [So we're supposed to treat Donald Trump with respect, after all this? Oh, hell no]( The last 36 hours have illustrated two horrible truths about this era. First, there are way too many Americans [Psychiatrist Lance Dodes on the "panicked" state of the "most dangerous person on the planet"]( Donald Trump’s mental health is a national and global emergency. He has shown himself to be a malignant narcissist and [Vindman says partial transcript of Trump’s Ukraine call "omitted crucial words and phrases": report]( A partial transcript of President Donald Trump’s infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “omitted crucial words and [As 16 wildfires blaze in California, scientists say "climate change impacts are no longer subtle"]( As it responded to the wildfires sweeping through California, Natural gas company Pacific Gas and Electric said that two --------------------------------------------------------------- [Update Settings]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Reddit]( [YouTube]( Copyright © 2019 Salon.com, LLC. All rights reserved. New York, NY 10018 [Update your preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list](