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1/ AiM propaganda has Americans at each other’s throats. And the media’s failure to account for it buries one important aspect of the Russia-China axis to go underreported:
Ukraine, a fellow democracy, has trillions in mineral riches.
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The look on Mike Johnson’s face. This is the first impeachment vote to fail on the House floor since Andrew Johnson in the 1860s!
Sad! Weak!
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@JakeSherman
The look on Johnson’s face!
Party switching time for vulnerable California and New York Republicans…
The look on Mike Johnson’s face. This is the first impeachment vote to fail on the House floor since Andrew Johnson in the 1860s!
Sad! Weak!
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The Ukraine/Taiwan/Israel standalone bill is at 58-41 in the Senate.
Call your Senators to thank them for supporting the bill, especially:
Collins (ME)
Kennedy (LA)
McConnell (KY)
Moran (KS)
Murkowski (AK)
Romney (UT)
Tillis (NC)
Young (IN)
Especially if you’re in Vermont,
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❤️ 🔥
@RepMarcyKaptur
quoting legendary Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko on the House Floor:
The time is near,
when on Ukraine’s plains,
a shackled folk
will burst its chains.
Blessed be your children in these lands
by touch of your toiled-hardened hands.
Then shall our day of
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1/ I focus on Crimea (Qırım) quite a bit. Catherine II annexed the peninsula in 1783, and created mythology around how it’s “naturally Russian.”
If the occupation of Qırım becomes untenable for Russia, the war is over. The Russian elites and population can’t accept losing it.
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🧵 Outstanding points made by
@RepMcCormick
in a hearing 2 weeks ago.
1. The war in Ukraine is obviously winnable.
2. Ukrainian victory is in the U.S.’s strategic security and economic interests.
3. The U.S. isn’t sending what Ukraine needs to win.
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🧵 85% of the KGB budget during the late Soviet Union was spent on disinformation operations. KGB agents’ annual review accounted for how many fake news stories they created and successfully propagated. The goal was to use freedom of speech to undermine enemies (i.e. the U.S.)
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I would also note this is all happening (Trump immunity claim denied, border bill failure, failure of the Israel bill in the House) while early voting for a highly competitive special election in NY-3 (George Santos’s old seat) is under way. Feb 13th is a week from today!
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Members who voted against H.Res. 149 - condemning abduction of Ukrainian children to Russian Federation. All Republicans.
Andy Biggs - AZ 5
Eric Burlison - MO 7
Warren Davidson - OH 8
Marjorie Taylor Greene - GA 14
Clay Higgins - LA 3
Thomas Massie - KY 4
Matt Rosendale - MT 2
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@ThiccNYAccent
@PicturesFoIder
Um, you do realize that the whole point of an NDA is that you can’t say which company.
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After doing a bit more digging, it seems
@RepSpartz
has serious mental health issues. Her former aides had to tape conversations with her to prove that they did what she wanted them to. They call her “manic.”
She has one of the highest turnover rates of staff in the House. 1/4
People’s Deputy
@InnaSovsun
speaks much better English than this Kremlin clown. And she’s an MP in Ukraine from Kharkiv!
@RepSpartz
: “We increasing blank check… we need to stop slush fund and blank check.”
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Everyone in the West should be aware of the “good Russians.” It’s a century-old phenomenon that has crippled our security.
Notice how Navalnaya uses possessives “I, our, my, my.” It’s always about her. She hardly talks about Ukrainians. With the “good Russians,” it’s always
Navalny's wife Yulia at the Munich security conference:
"If it's true, I want Putin, his entourage, Putin's friends and his government to know they will be held responsible for what they have done to our country, my family, and my husband. And that day will come very soon."
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‼️🤩 Congrats to
@ukrainerallydc
and
@razomforukraine
! Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), the
#2
ranking Senate Dem, just gave you a shout out in his speech!
Your activism makes a difference!
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🚨 Major news! CEO of pro-Trump, pro-MAGA propaganda outlet Newsmax, Christopher Ruddy, is urging Mike Johnson to put the Ukraine aid bill to the Floor for a vote.
“Biden is bad, but Putin and Iran are infinitely worse.”
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The House is voting now on H.Res. 149 - Condemning the Illegal Abduction of Children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation. Under Suspension of the Rules, it requires 2/3 majority to pass. It will pass - there are already 360+ votes.
There are 9 “no” votes 👀.
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@EWErickson
@LoveNIntegrity
I’ve lived in New England my whole life. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine. I’ve never even heard of this flag before the story broke. Why don’t you take your lies elsewhere? We’ll never vote for an insurrectionist. We beat traitors in 1865 and we’ll do it again!
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@SpeakerJohnson
Ok, Moscow Moses. You should have been prosecuted for taking Russian money.
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@RepMcCormick
McCormick agrees. But,
“What’s being supplied is ‘adequate.’ I don’t like that word, ‘adequate.’”
“The U.S. has a GDP of $25-27 trillion. Add Europe? $45 trillion. Russia’s GDP is $1.7 trillion.”
“This shouldn’t be a contest!”
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@RyanMarino
Exactly. If you give anything stronger, it will fail its driving license test coming up in 3 weeks.
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In the 1980s, the KGB used the Indian newspaper “the Patriot” to claim that the U.S. invented HIV. They then paid two East German virologists to publish a paper in an academic journal supposedly proving the allegation. It ended up on the nightly news with Dan Rather.
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Thanks to the work of
@MSnegovaya
, we now know that up to 90% of officials in the Soviet Union retained their posts in what became the russian federation. The FSB, successor of the KGB, largely remained in tact. And so did its disinformation operations.
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Part of the success of that campaign was because journalists aren’t trained in reading technical documents, and therefore couldn’t recognize junk science. The same is true for law, and other technical professions.
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Another tool in your toolkit when contacting Senators. Jobs!!
Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Iowa all receive huge investments. I think Ron Johnson is too far gone.
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@RepMcCormick
Then he shifts to Ukraine’s strategic importance. Ukraine has:
• 70% of Europe’s grain.
• Steel
• Cobalt
• Rare minerals
• Uranium
“No one is talking about the economic impact of giving this to our enemies.”
Celeste Wallander, Undersecretary of Defense, agrees.
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@RepMcCormick
“We’re slow-rolling our support… the idea that we can’t win this war is insane. We outnumber them dramatically.” 👏
“We also continue to hold up aid in Congress, which drives me crazy.”
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2/ Ukraine knows this. In the past month, I’ve seen a steady uptick in disinfo ops from both the Russian and Ukrainian sides. For example, Russia purported a radio in Kerch was hacked and played Ukrainian songs. (This is false).
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🧵 Ukraine supporters of Twitter! Update. Your calls, emails, and letters WORKED. I’m quite optimistic, but you cannot let up on the emails and phone calls, for reasons I’ll explain.
60 votes were needed to move forward. All 47 Democrats plus 2 out of 3 independents who caucus
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@Wilson__Valdez
Not only that! Look at their sign-off.
“We hope you took something away and enjoyed the peak behind the curtain!”
So tone deaf. It will be the death of democracy.
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@LavrovsFELLA
They are still operating in the U.S. today! They recently acquired a company called TexPower, that specializes in special EV batteries and tech that’s used in badly needed (for the russians) night vision goggles.
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“It’s a winnable war and strategically important for the future of the world.”
E.g., we “need to increase our food stores by 50% by 2050. And our natural resources, for us and our allies.”
Ukraine must win if we’re going to remain safe and prosperous!
👏
@RepMcCormick
.
11/11.
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@MSnegovaya
Prior to becoming dictator for life, Putin was head of the FSB. The security apparatus effectively controls the russian state, a state that’s a criminal enterprise masquerading as a nation-state.
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@MSnegovaya
Disinformation operations continued (and continue) unabated. The Obama birther conspiracy originated in russia, was adopted by Donald Trump, and forced Obama to release his birth certificate showing he was born in Hawai’i (and therefore eligible to be President).
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@RepMcCormick
“How do we expect them to succeed if we don’t give them surge capabilities?”
He says we needed surge ops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we’re the strongest military in the world.
“We can’t give them adequate. We need superiority.”
No one is talking about this!”
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@RepMcCormick
Third point: “we gave our word.” This is really underplayed IMO. Our word means everything. We can’t give our word and then let Ukraine flounder. Imagine what our enemies will think.
“We gave our word not once, but many times.”
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@RepMcCormick
I’d disagree Ukraine is a third world country, but this point stands:
“Ukraine, with a GDP of $200 billion, has taken out 50% of Russia’s armor and inflicted 350,000 casualties.” (And a lot of that armor is from Cold War era defense stock!)
“That’s success by my measures.”
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The House Putin Caucus has proposed 46 amendments to the Ukraine bill (H.R. 8035).
Some strike the text entirely. Some are Russian propaganda talking points about bio labs, Nazis, proxy wars, etc.
Some strike economic aid. One bans abortion. Others strike all but military aid.
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Last month, ODNI Haines released the Intelligence Community’s Assessment of foreign influence on the 2022 midterm elections. China and Iran have adopted russia’s playbook in election meddling. Russia’s goal was to undermine U.S. support for Ukraine.
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@MSnegovaya
In 2016, the russian goverment organized protests and counter protests outside mosques in Texas using Facebook, and in Florida. In 2014, russia claimed Ukrainians shot down MH-17 over occupied Donetsk. At Trump’s behest, russia hacked Clinton campaign emails. And legacy media
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3/ Russia also posted faked “hacked” videos of Crimean television channels with a countdown to Russia Day. The channels were never hacked.
Russia’s goal is to raise expectations in the peninsula (and Western observers) when the big attack never comes.
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@johnlk_80
True. But two articles did pass, and a Senate trial was held. In this case, there will be no Senate trial. Mayorkas was not impeached.
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@SpeakerJohnson
Ok Moscow Moses. Don’t forget to etch “thou shalt worship Donald Trump” into those stone tablets
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Discharge petition! What is it?
Normally, House bills have to go through their respective standing committees (House Ways and Means, for example, for taxes), then go through the Rules Committee (RC). The RC is a key committee where House leadership controls what goes to the
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Russia largely targeted the Democratic Party, because they (rightly) perceived President Biden as unifying allies to respond to support Ukraine. The also targeted Republicans perceived as anti-russia (like Liz Cheney). They even waited until the day after the midterms to withdraw
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@RepMcCormick
“Reagan, at the 40th anniversary of D-Day, said isolationism is a failed policy.” 💯
“NATO was specifically designed for an expansionist, Marxist government.”
“The time to stand is now.”
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@NonezD
*3 Ken Buck (CO-4), Mike Gallagher (WI-8), and Tom McClintock (CA-5) voted against it.
Blake Moore (UT-1) voted against it so it could be brought to the floor again.
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Countries living near russia are used to this. Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, and Estonia in particular. And they’re resilient. They have whole media shows dedicated to debunking russian intelligence, and their populations are very cautious of russian meddling.
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@BohuslavskaKate
@Justadutchguy
We have not forgotten you and are pressing our leaders to send more aid now. Stay safe!
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@RepMcCormick
asked whether the war is winnable to
@US_EUCOM
Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Cavoli, “which is the coolest title ever.”
Cavoli unequivocally answers “yes, with our Ukrainian colleagues.”
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💥 Ukraine reportedly struck the location of S-300 launchers north of Belgorod city!! The strike hasn’t shown up on FIRMS… yet.
The strikes occurred northeast and northwest of Shopino, Belgorod. S-300 launchers are used in cross-border attacks on civilians in Kharkiv.
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@soncharm
The ACA (“Obamacare”) requires insurers to cover preventive healthcare services at no cost to the patient.
Since Congress can’t continually update what’s considered “preventive” based on the ever-evolving science, it delegated the authority for designating which
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Despite Putin’s $1.6 billion propaganda campaign (you can see it on this platform), an astounding 74% of Americans view the war in Ukraine as important to US national interests. Nearly 60% say it’s important to them personally.
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💥
@RepLloydDoggett
(D, TX-37) releases a statement on support for Ukraine, after signing discharge petition for H.Res. 1016 yesterday.
-He calls for Biden administration to do more.
-Labels, [accurately, IMO] some House Republicans as the “Putin appeasement Congress.”
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@SpeakerJohnson
Is this a serious tweet, Moscow Moses? You killed the border deal at Trump’s behest.
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Moving away from hack-and-leak, operations, they focused on narratives that would divide U.S. society along idealogical lines using “traditional” family values (anti-LGBT, anti-secularism, anti-intellectualism, anti-abortion). They conducted extensive sociological surveys to make
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Rep. Marcy Kaptur making a speech now shaming the majority into bringing Ukraine aid to the Floor.
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Russia targeted:
• Left-leaning audiences with the message that supporting Ukraine would risk war with russia. (E.g. Tulsi Gabbard fans)
• Males over 40 interested in right-wing conservatism with the message that multiculturalism and “leftist ideals” drove the U.S. into
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McCormick would know. He spent 20 years in the military, reaching the rank of commander in the Navy. He also was a helicopter pilot in the MarinesC and served in Africa, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. He’s also an ER doc, which checks out 🤣
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@YesQuake
Yes! The Crimean Khanate (Taht-i Qırım ve Deşt-i Qıpçaq) was the last Turkic Khanate first established by the Golden Hoarde.
It functionally was independent, and under Ottoman protection from 1441-1783. Qırımlı were expected to send conscripts when the Ottomans needed them to.
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What
@yewleea
,
@Peregrinj11
and I try to do is frame the news in terms of russian propaganda, which legacy Western media is terrible at. On the next few episodes of
#UkraineWarBrief
, we’ll do just this. Starting with the oral arguments yesterday in the DC Circuit Court of
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A curated extract of schadenfreude, courtesy of House Republicans, is here.
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Russia and Trump continue to undermine US institutions by spreading the Big Lie — that elections are stolen. Kremlin actors targeted the Democratic Party in Arizona, where
@KariLake
carried water for the russians, spreading lies about her loss. She’s now facing legal consequences
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Not only does she appear manic,
@RepSpartz
is also corrupt—like the Soviets she claims to despise.
When she didn’t secure a contract for a Nevada-based arms manufacturer, she criticized Ukraine for “not being prepared.”
She needs to be removed from Congress immediately.
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Moscow promoted false narratives that the Bidens were involved in corrupt dealings in Ukraine. (Burisma). Today, the House had a farcical hearing on it, which I’ll cover later.
The Kremlin also pushed personas favoring Draconian immigration laws. (And now, we find Ukraine aid
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Looking ahead to 2024, russia is helping Trump push the lie that Biden is responsible for trying to put him in prison. The truth is Trump broke the law, and multiple courts have found he engaged in Insurrection.
The Intelligence Community expects russian attacks on our elections
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🚨 Elon Musk’s Trumpist turn might have a greater motive than we previously thought.
The magnanimous
@AnnMLipton
, business law professor at Tulane, found a little nugget nestled in an SEC filing with a federal court. It hasn’t been widely reported on.
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Manic seems like the correct word. She announced she was leaving Congress, but then changed her mind two days later.
Former staffers say she “struggles to make decisions.”
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Remember Tara Reade? She accused President Biden of sexual assault, and then fled to Moscow and gave a boring hours-long press conference with russian state media.
Russia was pushing her false allegations here in the run up and following the 2022 midterms.
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Sacramento, CA, last night.
One Finnish-American Ukraine supporter helped rally the Ukrainian diaspora and developed a close relationship with a Republican Congressman.
Shout out to
@lumi2sea
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@RockGun90
@kenklippenstein
The most effed up part of this is the patient clearly had a history of rheumatoid arthritis, and I—working for years near a university campus—maybe dispensed methotrexate for an ectopic twice in the 5 years I was there
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Soviet Rep. Spartz speaking now to gut the bill. She’ll fail.
She has a strong Ukrainian accent, can barely speak English. She should go to live in Russia.
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@P_Kallioniemi
@KhaterDiana
Putin told Angela Merkel that he’d use nuclear weapons if NATO granted a membership action plan (MAP) in 2008, and she believed him. Bush made her cry over it. He would later invade Georgia that year, and Ukraine in 2014.
This is why the U.S. tapped her phone.
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The more I listen to her shrill voice, the more I think she has a Russian accent.
Split screen: 1st video is right after the invasion; 2nd is today.
I’ll post the full videos in a coda. I actually think she is manic. She’s been here 25 years and her English is terrible.
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The “50 square meter fire” in Novoshaktinsk, Rostov, Russia, is actually a megafire, thanks to Ukrainian drone, per FIRMS.
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Ukraine is under the most massive attack (possibly) to date. H.Res. 1016 is critical. Time is not on Ukraine’s side. To give you an idea of the massive attack going on right now: here’s a popular Telegram channel (Odesa based- Russian speaking).
Mopeds are Shahed drones.
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@P_Kallioniemi
@KhaterDiana
Correct. He’s undermining Ukraine’s defense, and covering it up by throwing money at it (which, I guess is better than Orbán). Germany needs an election. Ukraine needs Tauruses ASAP.
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Omg. USA is back, baby! We are disgusted by authoritarianism. After wavering, the United States has come through. We’re seeing a huge shift in Congress and stand with our allies.
This cloture vote for the bipartisan security bill is even larger than in Feb.
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇮🇱 🇹🇼
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@IAPonomarenko
About damn time. I’m thinking this adds even more pressure on the House to support Ukraine.
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@gettylegion
@SpaghettiKozak
“Russians aren’t going to pull out a gun or a knife or something. It was only like that in the ‘90s.”
Oh, only the 90s? And not the 1690s.
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Please coordinate with Community for Ukraine.
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🎉 🎊 The Senate has officially passed the bill!
What’s next??
1. The bill is “enrolled.” The Senate President Pro Tempore (
@PattyMurray
) and the House Speaker (
@SpeakerJohnson
) or their designees, must sign the bill.
3. Because this is a spending bill, and spending bills
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@PekhotinetsPypy
Uhhh, you gave back in the 1920s and again in the 1990s. Then you invaded them like the cretins with advanced weapons you are. Crimea is Ukraine. Go back to Moscow.
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