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@Gerashchenko_en
Putin’s target audience in the interview with Carlson was his domestic Russian audience and not the American audience, as you have pointed out. Carlson, like almost everyone else, never got that, so of course he was perplexed.
Consider Putin’s extensive remarks about Poland and
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@JakeSherman
There are at least 5 Rs who will do whatever it takes to keep Jordan from becoming Speaker.
A majority vote in the conference means nothing. It is the House rule that allows any member of either party to nominate a Speaker on the floor that starts to take precedence.
All it
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Here’s a video clip of David Frum talking about Tucker Carlson and the Russification of the GOP. Frum has got this exactly right, of course.
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@GenMhayden
@Acyn
@SpiroAgnewGhost
Gen Michael Hayden is a former Director the CIA under George W Bush and Barack Obama; former Director of the NSA (under Bill Clinton and George W Bush), and a former 4 star general.
Today on Twitter he called Trump a “perfect asshole.”
Think about that.
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@juliegraceb
The Hannity letter shows that pressure is being put on anti-Jordan holdouts to get a speaker because the times are fraught.
This is completely hypocritical, of course, but could carry weight. It means that Jordan’s opponents can’t just come up with any name. They need to come up
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@Gerashchenko_en
Even if Prigozhin takes over the Kremlin it won't necessarily mean that he will have control of the suitcase and the nuclear codes. Putin might have evacuated all that apparatus and personnel with him to Valdai.
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@SenBlumenthal
You and others in Congress should demand the 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c) report, listing and giving the reasons for the declination decisions. Every FBI investigation must have such a report for the case file to be closed. Where is it, who made the decisions, and why?
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@RickPetree
Liz Cheney mentioned Stone and Flynn specifically yesterday. Riggelman, who has seen the bulk of the evidence, told Katy Tur yesterday: “I don’t think the American public has seen anything yet.” He specifically mentioned the operational planning for J6, OK and PB.
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Russian state TV mouthpieces--big couch potato imperialist supporters of Putin’s “special operations” against Ukraine--are demoralized and in a state of panic.
When Solovyov ends by quoting Josef Stalin: “The ones who panic should be shot,” you know they realize this is serious.
Watch this roundup of clips, featuring panicked Kremlin propagandists on several state TV programs, discussing impressive gains by Ukraine's Armed Forces in reclaiming control over Ukrainian territory. More in my article ⤵️
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@Angry_Staffer
Let’s not assume that ABCNews has gotten the whole story.
We know now, finally, that Meadows was given immunity and flipped.
Meadows’s testimony under oath to Jack Smith is damaging, but what else has Meadows told Smith that we don’t yet know about?
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God these people are stupid. They certainly must think WE are stupid. But they will find out just how wrong they are about that on 6 Nov 2018.
FCC chairman: Net neutrality supporters have already been "proven wrong" because they can still tweet
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@igorsushko
An act of desperation by 🇷🇺, which will go to any lengths (short of nukes) to avoid defeat in 🇺🇦. But it is just digging the hole deeper for itself. The Hague is not going to be pleased.
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MeidasTouch podcast interview w/ Jamie Raskin, who gives a preview of the 1/6 committee hearings and what they have found. (Interestingly, he expresses confidence in Garland.) The Raskin interview is at 28-56 mins. Fascinating and important.
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@SollenbergerRC
MeidasTouch has the excerpt from Hutchinson's book Enough:
"Jim Jordan calls minutes later. I feel a pang of hope. "One sec, I'll go get him."
I go to the dining room. "Is Mark [Meadows] in there?" I ask the valet.
He nods.
I look through the peephole and see the back of his
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@Gerashchenko_en
From the Russian Telegram channel VChK-OGPU just now: “The plane of the presidential special flight squad "Russia" TU-214PU took off from Vnukovo in the direction of St. Petersburg. "PU" in the name of the aircraft means that it has a control center - the same "red button".”
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@Gerashchenko_en
To try to blame this on Gromov, Peskov, and Naryshkin is nonsense. This interview was pure, unadulterated Putin, all the way.
If Putin was disappointed and irritated by Carlson, it was because Carlson, rather surprisingly, asked some mildly challenging questions--something that
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@gtconway3d
Conway actually goes a bit further and argues that the courts must decide on their own, given the wording of Sec 3 Amdt 14 and the very nature of election law. (Election litigation is not like civil litigation in that respect etc.)
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@Gerashchenko_en
Simonyan: " ... and the nuclear ultimatum is becoming more non-alternative".
When they talk like that, you know they realize they are losing.
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@jimstewartson
So now you know who's side Flynn is on, in case you were in the dark or in denial about it.
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@anno1540
Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office [🇺🇦], said Putin made a key mistake by liquidating the head of the "Wagner" PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin. This can lead to the liquidation of the president of the Russian Federation. … "Russian elites understand that
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@levparnas
@TristanSnell
Because Bill Barr and Weiss buried it.
Subpoena both of them immediately.
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@rgoodlaw
The two leading Republican editorials against the Smith indictment(s) to date--by the Wall Street Journal and National Review--grossly misunderstand or willfully misrepresent Jack Smith’s indictment(s) of Trump.
I wonder why.
Do the WSJ and NR feel this is the only thing they
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@HunterJCullen
If Garland takes on any one of them--that is, one of the big guys--it will show that he is willing to go up against any and/or all of them--including Trump, depending on where the evidence leads him.
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@UKikaski
Ramzan Kadyrov has been essential to Putin's effort to keep Chechnya within the Russian Federation (if only on paper) and to keep Russia's involvement in fighting Chechen insurgents and separatists to a minimum. If Putin decides he has to dump Kadyrov, he's going to be hard to
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@Olivia_Beavers
Yep. Only takes 10 R no-shows or 10 who show up and vote "present."
221-10 = 211 < 212 D members.
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@wjhenn
Wow. A real shit storm is brewing.
My prediction: ABC News will stand by its story.
This was a tactical error on his part There will be investigations that will confirm most, if not all, of the story.
This will not turn out well for the Admin.
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@nexta_tv
"It is not NATO that is aggressively expanding eastward, it is the East that is joining NATO"
Exactly.
In the Helsinki Accords of 1975--that is, long before Gorbachev--Russia signed an accord with 34 other countries (including those in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe) that
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@OurShallowState
We need to think through why Trump confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi at a campaign rally on Friday in NH. This was pretty clearly not just a matter of momentarily slipping and calling someone the wrong name. This is called “misnaming,” and can happen to any of us. But it is
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@yasminalombaert
European nations are calling Putin’s ill-conceived bluff by supplying large, technologically advanced arms shipments to UKR that it can use against Russia itself.
Biden is reportedly on the verge of making the same decision. (At first using only short-range missiles, but that
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@judgeluttig
Trump’s argument: SCOTUS can’t rule now that Trump can’t run for office, b/c he could run and win, and Congress would then decide at that time whether he could hold office.
As Luttig points out, this implies that SCOTUS could never rule on any Section 3 case or controversy.
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@Gerashchenko_en
Lavrov’s remarks have been widely misunderstood, perhaps because the commenters haven’t watched the press conference video. I did. (See the link below.)
1/ The question about whether Russia recognizes Ukrainian sovereignty begins at 38 mins.
His answer is pure Lavrovian
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@Barrabarra5
@alanfeuer
You cannot legally plan an event whose purpose is to make government officials fear for their lives.
A mob boss couldn't get away with it.
This is intimidation, pure and simple, and is enough evidence in itself to establish an intent to obstruct justice.
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@joni_askola
Reminder: Stalin told Khrushchev that the Soviet Union would have lost to Hitler except for US industrial power and Lend Lease.
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@JayinKyiv
Pootie is big mad about the destruction of the Novocherkassk landing ship, which Zelensky has joked has joined Russia's underwater Black Sea fleet.
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@maria_drutska
“He will speak about the relationship between GUR and Prigozhin after the war.”
Very interesting. GUR is UKR’s military intelligence unit. Sounds like it might know a lot about Prigozhin that we don’t yet know.
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@CWNewser
@MSNBC
If Kevin Roberts keeps making public appearances, he's going to be one of the left's biggest assets in this campaign. It's great that he thinks the religious Right is on the way to resounding electoral successes--because he's totally wrong about that. Gotta love it when the enemy
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@NewYorkabroad
@MSNBC
Actually, the message was from one of his aides, telling her Mark knows about the deposition and “knows she's loyal.”
This intermediation is of no help to Meadows. The aide will be subpoenaed and confirm that Meadows wanted the message to get to Hutchinson. Nothing more needed.
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@wartranslated
Milbloggers like Igor Girkin and many others have been saying for a long time that the Russian defensive line is weak and that a military disaster is looming for Russia. This post would seem to confirm that.
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@vicktop55
Lavrov: "The Ukrainian army of the US and NATO will be defeated, the territories of the former Ukraine will be returned to Russia."
There, he said it, plain and simple: Rebuilding the Soviet empire. That's all it was ever about, of course.
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@elonmusk
@Teslarati
Before Musk was just putting the deal on hold, pending further info. (He should have asked for this info before making his flaky take it or leave it offer.) This is an unconditional demand. If Twitter doesn’t capitulate, the deal is dead. (Key: TSLA stock continues to plummet.)
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@igorsushko
Very interesting. Osechkin isn’t sure that this is true (or at least that he will get the drive), but he seems to find the background narrative plausible, and so do I.
To summarize the narrative:
To understand Prigozhin’s mutiny on June 23 of this year, it is necessary to
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@NoLieWithBTC
“Promised to appoint a Project 2025 leader to his administration.”
Surprising, since he has been trying hard to distance himself from Project 2025. Maybe a partial backtracking concession today to his base, who thought he might be wimping out on them.
And a balm to wounded egos
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@NoLieWithBTC
If Repugs wanted to guarantee an electoral loss for themselves in NH in 2024, they couldn't come up with something better than this.
Fortunately for us, the base of the Republican party is in total denial about how the overwhelming majority of voters feel about the abortion
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Judge Napolitano: Trump will soon be indicted for three crimes: Removing and concealing national defense information (NDI), giving NDI to those not legally entitled to possess it, and obstruction of justice by failing to return NDI.
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@MuellerSheWrote
The feds have Tarrio’s cell phone and cracked the code. Tarrio was a bodyguard for Stone. Stone may not be involved in this particular indictment, but that doesn’t mean that the feds won’t be able to nail him.
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@burgessev
I'll probably get ratioed for saying so, but it appears that Manchin is actually right about this.
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@Tetiana_UK_
The speech was in 2022, but it's still relevant to today's politics over Ukraine.
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There are two passages in the Oath Keepers indictments whose significance has gone unnoticed by the commentators. These passages suggest that someone in the inner circle of the Oath Keepers has already flipped and become a DoJ informant. 1/20
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@elonmusk
@Teslarati
How dare people who are actually experts in statistics and data analysis question the awesome genius of Elon Musk? (CNBC article)
(Massive errors might be exactly what Musk is looking for to take the $1B hit and walk out of the deal.)
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@gtconway3d
He's really losing it now--not that he ever had much to lose to begin with.
And he's always been a big loser. When he calls everybody who doesn't like him a loser, he's just projecting.
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@Gerashchenko_en
Absolutely.
"So it seems that chaos can be reigning at the moment among those close to Putin, and decisions are made in haste and panic. We might soon see top officials trying to shift the blame towards each other and, mainly, towards Putin."
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@yasminalombaert
Lavrov claims that US armaments have already been used against targets in the RF. Le Monde thinks so too, based on Blinken’s remarks that UKR has a right to fight Russia as it sees fit. (That was my analysis of Blinken’s remarks the other day as well.)
In any case, even if it
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@CheriJacobus
@DBChirpy
@CNN
@MSNBC
Henan province is in lockdown. The "opening" up of Wuhan-Hubei is nominal. The virus is all over China. There is no second wave, b/c the first one was never contained.
#chinaislying
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@maggieNYT
How Viktor Orbanish and of him. (Putin doesn't have to say this sort of thing because he already has complete control of his press.)
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@Olivia_Beavers
This just shows how determined the opposition is. It’s almost proof-positive that the anti-Jordan faction is not caving in to hard-right, Jordan Or Bust pressure tactics. Jordan's opponents are digging in.
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@Tendar
This war would soon be over if the West allowed UKR to unleash the West’s hugely superior technology against Russia.
Bryansk is about 80 miles into the Russian Federation from the RF-Ukraine border. Last year about this time, UKR used Patriots to take down Russian aircraft that
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@mkraju
Surprise, surprise. It has been evident for some time that this is the only way the crisis can be resolved.
There is only one way the Speaker crisis can end: with x Rs (5 or more) + y Ds (212 votes) to get to 217.
Here’s why:
1/ It is absolutely clear by now that both the
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"His inner circle went along with a plan they knew was unrealistic. … Soon they may have to decide whether to go along with new orders that will make them internationally wanted war criminals for the rest of their lives. This is a very dangerous moment."
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@SamRamani2
Kremlin-controlled Russian media is sounding triumphant and openly threatening to recreate the Soviet-Russian empire at a time when there is no justification for the triumphalism either economically or militarily. Shoigu just made up some fantastically unbelievable numbers about
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@nexta_tv
Some think that Putin plans to take Russia back to the totalitarian days of the U.S.S.R., including isolating Russia to make it economically self-sufficient (called autarky). Big problem, as the analysts have pointed out: this will take time. Meanwhile, Putin is losing a war.
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@AdamParkhomenko
It is amazing how many blows the latest Biden campaign ad delivers in just 1 minute.
Kudos to Biden's video ad team.
They're brilliant.
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@nexta_tv
Russian trolls are scouting this idea, but it is not absurd. A number of ultranationalists, including Igor Girkin, have said that circles that are antiwar and unsympathetic to the so-called “SMO” are the most powerful bloc in the Kremlin now.
BTW: The reference to the “GKChP
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@JakeSherman
With Jordan removed as speaker-designate (Jeffries said this was always an obstacle), the way is clear for Rs + Ds to elect a coalition speaker. McHenry is only one out of a number of possibilities.
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@MarkHertling
🇺🇦 military has said Russia did it. It may have adverse effects for both 🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺. If so, it means that 🇷🇺 calculated the downside was greater for 🇺🇦. Interesting to see what the the evaluation and analysis by 🇺🇦 and 🇺🇸turns out to be.
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@BidenHQ
The abortion issue is going to destroy the GOP in November.
The NY felonytrial conviction is going to do a lot of damage as well, but it is the abortion issue more than anything else that is going to put two of the biggest electoral states--TX and FL--in play for Ds.
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@tribelaw
Interesting to note that 1512 plausibly covers not only the deletion of evidence, but also the creation of false evidence.
Still, it is highly unlikely that SCOTUS will cabin the "otherwise" clause in 1512(c)(2) to 1512(c)(1). That would offend stare decisis, b/c multiple
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@gtconway3d
@judgeluttig
“OR HIS DESIGNEE” (emphasis mine) is important. Trump wants to make sure the fix is in so that if he is convicted of federal crimes, a GOP POTUS will pardon him.
This is going to be a HUGE issue in 2024, and Ds should make it one in the midterms.
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@gtconway3d
Plotting to delay is plotting to interfere is plotting to obstruct justice.
18 U.S.C. § 1505. This statute makes it a crime to "corruptly" or by threats or force "influence, obstruct, or impede any pending proceeding before any department or agency of the United States, or
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@atrupar
Kaitlin Collins is good at this. She asked the right question. Johnson's reply was that this is not a matter of politics. Earth to Johnson: You are a politician, and that's the only reason you have a say in this at all.
Note also that some very conservative Senate Rs have seen
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@JuliaDavisNews
@gtconway3d
That’s the ticket: bring back Beria!
(Note: Russia has been a very very sick country for a very long time.)
Even the spoxes on Russian controlled TV are having panic attacks about the impact of the sanctions.
October 1917! August 1991!
BWAHAHA! You gotta love this.
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@Bosa6868
@JakeSherman
You are greatly overestimating the Jordan Or Bust vote, even in conservative districts.
Take Mike Rogers (R-AL), the chair of the House Armed Services Committee. Very conservative and openly anti-Jordan.
@JakeSherman
reports that Rs on his committee and also on House
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@rgoodlaw
@ByEllaLee
Trump is likely going to jail very soon.
He violated a clear warning almost immediately.
Trump is owned by his pathologies and can’t control himself. It is almost certain that he will violate the gag order. Such violations involve pretrial detention (jail).
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@igorsushko
Yep. It was an inside job that was facilitated for ISIS by rogue elements--probably ultranationalist--within the FSB. Heads are going to roll very soon.
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@brianstelter
The WSJ Editorial Board was torched by WSJ subscribers for this absurd, obtuse editorial. Good. (Too bad WSJ is paywalled; the comments make for a great read.)
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@JRubinBlogger
@lawindsor
It’s beyond crazy--as in: very likely unlawful--to prepare a false slate of electors in advance of the outcome; and then make plans to use them in conjunction with carefully aid plans to overturn the election in case Trump lost.
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@wartranslated
This is getting close to a civil war and Prigozhin is calling for a coup.
Russians must know that Putin cannot be held blameless if the war on UKR was motivated by these considerations.
(Putin is the godfather to Medvedchuk’s daughter Darya.)
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@John_Hudson
@ClaireParkerDC
This shows the leverage that the U.S. has over Israel. It needs to be used much more vigorously and strategically if a regional outbreak of hostilities is to be avoided.
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@yasminalombaert
Clearest statement yet of what has happened and how it happened.
And this: "Even the Russians sent us messages yesterday morning. They sympathize with us. Russia is happy that America is getting embroiled in Palestine. It alleviates the pressure on the Russians in Ukraine. One
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Crucial: "McCarthy can likely detail whether Trump saw the riot as a means to obstruct the electoral count -- an official proceeding."
Let's be clear: Kevin McCarthy's refusal to testify to the 1/6 committee may be helping cover up possible Trump crimes.
McCarthy can likely detail whether Trump saw the riot as a means to obstruct the electoral count -- an official proceeding.
New piece:
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@JakeSherman
@bresreports
@PunchbowlNews
The Senate R conference is being forced to do what Trump tells them to do, which is invariably what is good for Trump, not for the party, or for the country. Most voters will see that, of course, once the bill is out. So the quandary really is: do we alienate the GOP base, or do
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@nexta_tv
To judge from the frequency and intensity (and effectiveness) of UKR’s attacks inside Russia in the last few days, it seems that Zelenskyy no longer believes that the war should not be taken to Russian territory.
“Budanov's position on the issue differs from that of Ukrainian
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@Gerashchenko_en
Russians already see that bad stuff is going down, and will see this as part of it and also a response to it. This will not be popular, and will only heighten the growing anxiety.
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@amanpour
@FawazGerges
Israel wants us to take Hamas’ atrocities on Oct 7 as definitive: it totally discredits the Palestinian cause. This is not the way the Arab street or virtually any other country in the world sees the matter. U.S. policy is a disaster--for us. The next explosion will be worse.
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@JakeSherman
A validation vote tests how firm a nominee’s support is if his candidacy is taken to the floor.
The validation vote (152-55) shows that Jordan will never be able to get to 217 on the floor, no matter how much he, his supporters, and Trump try to beat up on the holdouts.
It’s
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@kylegriffin1
Polling seems to show that the briefings are actually hurting him.
Watch some of them and it's easy to see why.
Trump himself is on full display, and what an ugly sight it is.
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@hugolowell
@jmartNYT
@alexburnsNYT
Cheney has had the tapes since Jan 2021, but waited to give them to Maddow.
Meanwhile, journalists got McCarthy on the phone, who denied 12 hrs ago that he said any such thing.
Then Maddow played the tapes.
It’s called sandbagging, folks. And man, is Liz Cheney good at it.
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@khodorkovsky_en
The most interesting thing here is the allegation of selling nuclear secrets, because this would be about much more than just corruption.
Unlikely that this is about Russian technology or deployment. We can assume that US intel and military know all about that.
The most
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is aiming to quickly wrap up the grand jury’s work after the midterm elections and could begin issuing indictments as early as December.
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@anniekarni
Almost ignored in the social media firestorm: Johnson decided to move a Ukraine bill in March. I noticed this at the time, when, although he continued to criticize Biden over the border, Johnson stopped making passage of Ukraine aid contingent on passage of the House R border
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@randymot4
This would be a game changer: "An attack from this direction can come in behind the big Russian minefields."
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