"Russia to Advance Deep Into Ukraine if Chasiv Yar Falls, Governor Warns
The strategic importance of Chasiv Yar lies in its commanding vantage point atop a hill, which puts a larger area at risk of Russian artillery bombardment."
@NotImpressed Yes, a fairly small list, as it is incredibly difficult to build up the required support to enter the race. The #Democrats and #Republicans have happily colluded to try to keep any other contestants out of the race. But my best wishes to ALL those candidates, even those who espouse policies I may not support. #uspol
Only 11 #Republicans supported the move to “table” a measure by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), while 196 Republicans embraced keeping Johnson in the speaker’s job. #Democrats also overwhelmingly voted to save the GOP speaker, 163 in support of keeping him & 32 against doing so. The overall vote was 359 - 43, w/ 7 Democratic lawmakers voting present.
"In the minds of the average Republican voter, when a Democrat is in the White House, our border is a wide open highway where the most savage brown-skinned hordes from across the world are not just given open passage, but also gifted advance access to the American welfare state and apparently the right to vote."
"None of this is true, of course, but it is what the right believes and it is a major motivator behind their efforts to get out the vote.
It’s morally bankrupt and politically tone-deaf to reinforce this broken framing of events. …
If the right is going to make the same attacks no matter what you say and do, while still activating their voters and polluting the minds of the wider voting public, Democrats should give the country something different."
Independent Ukraine has chosen to celebrate VE-Day with the rest of Europe in order to differentiate herself from the current fascist scourge threatening her existence."
The #Biden admin paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to #Israel, including controversial 2k-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern #Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. ofcls said Tues.
When asked about the delays earlier Tues, #StateDepartment spox Matthew Miller declined to offer a rationale but said that US support for Israel’s right to defend itself against #Hamas remains intact.
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In Washington, #US military support for #Israel receives overwhelming support from #Republicans & #Democrats in #Congress…
…powerful pro-Israel interest groups including the American Israel Public Affairs Cmte… is spending tens of millions …this #election cycle to unseat #Democrats it views as insufficiently pro- #Israel.
#Republicans assailed news of a delay in #weapons approvals as a “reprehensible” betrayal. “The #UnitedStates must stand with Israel. Period,” said Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC).
Glenn Kirschner:
Stormy Daniels testifies at Trump's criminal trial about details of intimate encounter with Trump
“What did...Trump's defense attorneys highlight by... arguing that Stormy Daniels' testimony was so bad, so harmful… ? they were highlighting the motive in the case, ...that Donald Trump really had a reason to make hush money payments... so it wouldn't hurt his chances of being elected in the 2016 presidential election.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpSe5oA4dw
File this under the heading economics is not even a dismal science, because mainstream economics isn’t even science. Economics could actually be a rigorous discipline, if orthodoxy can be kicked out.
“ In contrast to its attitude to private debt, which it ignores, mainstream economics obsesses about government debt. But this volte-face doesn't besmirch its record of being 100% wrong.”