Let's not forget who worked with Suleimani's IRGC
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by dp
3y ago
Let's not forget who worked with Suleimani's IRGC The IRGC air force shot down the Ukrainian airliner. The IRGC air force is THE entity that Ivanka and the Trump Org knowingly aided in money laundering and other illicit acts. It's all fact-checked and acknowledged by the Trump Org. https://t.co/i5fLaIxhiO — Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) January 11, 2020 Before signing a deal with a foreign partner, American companies, including major hotel chains, conduct risk assessments and background checks that take a close look at the country, the prospective partner, and the people involved. Countl ..read more
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You can't win if you don't show up to play by @BloggersRUs
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by Unknown
3y ago
You can't win if you don't show up to play by Tom Sullivan Troublesome Gap is not just a place uphill from our farmhouse. It's the hole in Democrats' grassroots training. Candidates and campaign staff? There are multi-day seminars for them. At the precinct-level? State parties each year run new recruits through basic training: precinct organizing, canvassing, pulling lists from the voter file. Fine. But now you've volunteered to run the county committee. My county is 660 sq. mi., 193,000 registered voters, with 2-1/2 weeks of early voting at 20 sites, 80 precincts on Election Day this fall ..read more
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Who wants to be the next Andy McCabe?
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by dp
3y ago
Who wants to be the next Andy McCabe? Via TPM, here's one you won't believe: The U.S. government is investigating whether Russia is targeting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the run-up to the 2020 elections, Bloomberg reports.The probe reportedly focuses on whether Russia’s continuing U.S. disinformation efforts are aimed at damaging Biden’s candidacy. That investigation at least partly focuses on whether the allegations against Biden regarding his work on the Ukraine crisis as vice president were spawned by Russian intelligence. Many of those allegations have been spurred b ..read more
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Will Trump bring the House freakshow into the Senate?
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by dp
3y ago
Will Trump bring the House freakshow into the Senate? It's not hard to understand why Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence were able to persuade President Trump to dramatically escalate tensions with Iran by assassinating Gen. Qassem Soleimani. All you had to do was read Trump's Twitter feed over his long holiday break at Mar-a-Lago to see that he was nearly hysterical over the impeachment, stressed beyond his limits and clearly vulnerable to any suggestion that would give him a sense of control over his destiny. There’s nothing like military action to make a leade ..read more
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Fine. We'll do it ourselves. by @BloggersRUs
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by Unknown
3y ago
Fine. We'll do it ourselves. by Tom Sullivan Why don't Democrats create their own group health plan? my spouse has asked for years. Party members constitute over 30 percent of registered voters, after all — close to 50 million people. California Gov. Gavin Newsome today will propose something similar for 12 percent of the nation's population and the world's fifth largest economy: SACRAMENTO — California would become the first state to sell its own brand of generic prescription drugs in an effort to drive down rising healthcare costs under a proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to unveil in ..read more
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Nixon's the one
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by dp
3y ago
Nixon's the one Wow. According to Mother Jones, Trump's former national security adviser K.T. McFarland cited Nixon to justify Michael Flynn's back-channel shenanigans with Russia: To justify potentially illegal secret contacts between the Trump team and Russia [to the FBI], McFarland, who herself worked on Nixon’s National Security Council, cited perhaps the most notorious example in US history of a White House candidate undermining the diplomacy of a siting president. (McFarland’s comparison is also flawed because Nixon’s interference, and the Reagan team’s alleged actions, occurred pr ..read more
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One of Trump's war criminals wants the Distinguished Service Cross
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by dp
3y ago
One of Trump's war criminals wants the Distinguished Service Cross Will Trump intervene in this one? Army Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn, who had been accused of murder and was awaiting trial and was pardoned in advance by President Trump, had his request to reinstate his Special Forces tab denied by the commander of the U.S. Army Special operations Command.  But the Army has now asked for an administrative board review. They are also considering to expunging a letter of reprimand and they may even give him the Distinguished Service Cross, which is one step below the Medal of Honor ..read more
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Dear Leader dispatch
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by dp
3y ago
Dear Leader dispatch U.S. Cancer Death Rate Lowest In Recorded History! A lot of good news coming out of this Administration. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2020 The report said that cancer deaths have been trending downward for more than 30 years. But sure, Trump's curing cancer.  With his bare hands. He also wrote this: STOCK MARKET AT ALL-TIME HIGH! HOW ARE YOUR 401K’S DOING? 70%, 80%, 90% up? Only 50% up! What are you doing wrong? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2020 The stock market is not up 50% since 2017, much less 90%.  There are going ..read more
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Journalistic Tropes in wartime
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by dp
3y ago
Journalistic Tropes in wartime This piece in the Columbia Journalism Review calls out writers and commenters for their use of the term "blood on his hands" when referring to General Suleimani, which I noticed was being used almost as much as "off-ramp" in the last few days. He notes that Sulaimani, like any military officer from any country, would have "blood on his hands" and explains that this particular charge stems from the fact that during the Iraq insurgency, which was largely a religious, sectarian conflict, he was responsible for flooding the country with a weapon, the IED, which ..read more
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On people ... and light by Dennis Hartley @denofcinema5
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by dp
3y ago
On people ... and light: a guest post by Dennis Hartley Note: Kermet Apio is a Seattle-based comedian with whom I had the pleasure of working with in my stand-up days. Not unlike foreign correspondents, road comics get a firsthand take as to what’s happening “on the ground” anywhere their job takes them. Kermet shared some thoughts regarding the current situation between the U.S. and Iran in a Facebook post today. With his permission, I am re-publishing it here. -Dennis Hartley By Kermet Apio I have been incredibly lucky to have performed in the Middle East twice in the last few years ..read more
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