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Nicholas Goldberg: I oppose the gubernatorial recall. Does that make me a hypocrite?
When I wrote recently that California's recall election process was terribly flawed and in need of serious reform, the angry messages came flowing in, calling me a hypocrite. The writers didn't believe for a second that I objected to the recall on principle -- they assumed that as a loyal Democrat, I was just shilling for Gov. Gavin Newsom. "You're in his pocket," said one dismissive tweet. Would I still be vehemently opposed to the recall if, instead of being used against a Democratic governor, it was targeting a Trump-supporting right-wing governor -- someone who, say, was unleashing the fossil fuel industry, hoping to do away with the minimum wage and fighting mask and vaccine mandates? Would I still feel the recall was a troubling, badly structured, overused, undemocratic tool that should be reformed or abolished?
Pelosi: House moving forward with impeachment, Trump 'imminent threat' to 'our Democracy'
Here's what you need to know as you start your day ... Pelosi: Trump'imminent threat' to'our Democracy,' lawmakers moving forward with impeachment The House will be moving forward with a resolution to impeach President Trump, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, referring to the president in a letter to colleagues as an "imminent threat" to both the U.S. Constitution and democracy. In the letter Sunday, Pelosi said the House will act with "great solemnity" with less than two weeks remaining before Trump is set to leave office. "In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both," she said. Pelosi said the House will try to force Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to oust Trump by invoking the 25th Amendment. On Monday, House leaders will work to swiftly pass legislation to do that.
Dana Perino on impeachment: Trump is like 'Pac-Man,' getting 'bigger and stronger'
Democrats say they'll keep investigating Trump; reaction and analysis on'The Five.' The hosts of "The Five" dismissed Sunday's claim by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., that Democrats "proved" their case against the president in the Senate impeachment trial and he would not have done anything differently. "Look, there's nothing that I can see that we could have done differently, because as the senators have already admitted, we've proved our case," Schiff said on CBS News' "Face The Nation." "[Schiff] has to say that, but I'm sure he regrets it," co-host Jesse Watters said. "I mean, if they had done it properly and not started it out in a secret basement with no lawyers present, maybe they would have gone differently. Maybe they would have build a stronger case. Maybe they would have gone to a judge to compel witness testimony and maybe delivered. "They could have argued in a more convincing fashion, but they wanted to do a rush job to fit a political calendar," Watters added. "They didn't really care about making a really strong constitutional case so they can continue to investigate the president." Co-host Dana Perino called Trump's eventual acquittal a "loss" for Democrats and said it only emboldens the president. "Acquittal is a loss," Perino said. "And then whoever wins in a fight like this gets to write the history." "President Trump is like... 'Pac-Man,'" Perino said, comparing him to the popular video game character from the 1980s. "You go along, ding, ding, ding, and then you eat the fruit and you get bigger and stronger and you get another man, like, that's President Trump." Co-host Greg Gutfeld predicted that Democrats will keep the proceedings "running," with congressional investigations becoming "as mundane as living next to an airport "You know, we used to think planes were interesting," he said.
Ivanka Trump speaks on the future of work at CES 2020 in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS – In a controversy-stirring appearance on the keynote stage of the country's largest technology trade show, Ivanka Trump unrolled her vision of what companies and the government must do to prepare the workforce for the future. "To do the same job today in many industries outside of what's considered sort of a traditional quote-unquote technology industry, there is a technical application and a technical literacy that's required," she said Tuesday at CES 2020 on the Las Vegas Strip. "So it's not only about training for the jobs of the future – people need to be thinking about investing in their current workforce so they can enable those people to do their same job using different equipment to help them." President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser joined Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, in the Venetian's Palazzo Ballroom for a discussion called "The Path to the Future of Work." Trump, who came to Washington in 2017 as an adviser to her father, referred to her father as "the president" and focused on the work of the White House.
POLITICO Playbook: Robert Mueller's long tail
Additional documents from former special counsel Robert Mueller's report provide a layer of texture to the Russiagate scandal. YOU THOUGHT THE MUELLER REPORT WAS OVER, didn't you? Well, yesterday, BuzzFeed's Jason Leopold -- a level 19 FOIA ninja -- and his colleagues got their hands on detailed summaries of the interviews three Trump aides gave to the FBI, known as "302 reports," along with other documents. And while they don't appreciably change our understanding of the Russiagate scandal, they do add a layer of texture to what we already knew. And even after his firing, he was still in touch with top campaign officials up to Election Day, though campaign'CEO' Steve Bannon warned in an email to Jared Kushner: "We need to avoid this guy like the plague."
Watergate Was the World's First Hashtag
Contrary to what Silicon Valley would like you to believe, the rise of social computing--using computers to connect people and enable them to interact, collaborate, and communicate--not only happened long before the personal computer era even got underway, but it happened far from California. The PLATO computer system, launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was designed to be a platform for online learning, but by the early 1970s it had evolved into something much more, thanks to a growing, enthusiastic user community, many of whom were high school and college students. Within one 12-month stretch between 1973–74, PLATO's users created online message forums, chat rooms, graphical multiplayer games, instant messaging, email, and even early forms of emoji. Why have these early innovations--which disrupt the generally accepted computer history timeline--been largely forgotten? The fact is, they were not forgotten.