The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 36 - Politics

The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 36
Trump's wall is officially a flop: Even Fox News now calls his big campaign promise a mistake
Trump Is Not Well: Accepting the reality about the president’s disordered personality is important—even essential.
The US Air Force is reviewing how it picks hotels after a crew refueling in Scotland drove 54 miles to stay at Trump's luxury resort
Trump labelled 'p**** a** b****' by Chrissy Teigen after he refers to her as John Legend's 'filthy mouthed wife'
Anthony Scaramucci Says Trump Was ‘Intimidated’ By ‘Good-Looking’ Trudeau: “I mean, the poor guy has the self-esteem of a small pigeon.”
A JPMorgan bot analysed 14,000 Trump tweets and found they have a 'significant' impact on markets
US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are in a 'cold war' for their father's favor, and suspect each other of planting damaging stories in the media, according to a major new report
We're starting to see the scale of Trump's personal corruption — and it's massive | Mandatory stops at Trump resorts are the tip of the iceberg. This president has been "wetting his beak" all along
The US had to extract a top spy from Russia after Trump revealed classified information to the Russians in an Oval Office meeting
Legal analyst: Pence's decision looks and feels corrupt
Trump Has Figured Out How to Corrupt the Entire Government
Ohio will purge more than 200,000 voters — from a list riddled with errors
Trump’s Canceled Trip to Copenhagen Costs Danish Police $600,000
CNN host suggests people could believe Trump if he said "two plus two is five" after #sharpiegate scandal
Angry Schwarzenegger condemns Trump for wrecking clean-air standards
U.S. Spy Extracted After Trump ‘Discussed Highly Classified Intelligence’ with Russian Officials: Report
Trump, Pence Open Door to Firing LGBTQ People Over 'Religion' — After advising the Supreme Court to allow bias, the Trump administration guts anti-discrimination protections.
Trump administration extracted US spy from inside Russia government in 2017, report says
Is It Time to Start Testing Presidential Candidates for Cognitive Decline?
Trump is already colluding with a foreign government to get reelected
Air Force says crews have stayed at or near Trump's Scottish resort 659 times since 2015, concedes that looks bad
Trump Raids Funds Meant to Deter Russia to Pay for His Wall
Leaked document reveals state spying FBI targets groups opposing Trump’s concentration camps as “Extremists”
NOAA's top scientist will investigate why agency backed Trump's Alabama Dorian claims.

The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 36

Posted: 09 Sep 2019 09:00 AM PDT

Welcome to the 'What happened in your state last week' thread, where you can post any local political news stories that you find important in the comments. This is a weekly thread posted every Monday, in order to facilitate more discussion on local issues on /r/politics. Since this is intended to be a thread about local politics, top-level comments that are exclusively about national issues will not be allowed. When commenting, please include the state you're living in, and don't forget to link sources. Also, please actually describe what happened. "I live in X, you know what happened" isn't helpful to users and will be removed.

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Trump's wall is officially a flop: Even Fox News now calls his big campaign promise a mistake

Posted: 09 Sep 2019 04:29 AM PDT