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Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation - emptywheel The biggest reason Joe DiGenova is a wildly inappropriate person to lead an attempt to criminalize the Russian investigation is his past efforts to get paid by Russian-backed Ukrainians to do the same...

Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation

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After Trump returned to WH, Ukraine held out hope of winning him over. But Trump revealed his affection for Putin again and again, halted American aid to Kyiv, insulted Ukrainian leaders, pressured Ukraine to cede territory. Now, Kyiv appears to have given up on US - The Atlantic

Holy shit. The grandpa I never met lasted just months after diagnosis, what I would’ve done to have met him. Science is amazing.

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

This is a former Fidesz party member

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

a flag that is a brown bar top and bottom, then a red bar in the middle and a yellow squiggle

just in time for pride month, happy to announce I designed the Hot Dog flag

A lot of people are going to miss or not realize how important this story is. The fact that Iran says they laid mines in the Straits makes going back to normal a process, not a decision.

CBS’s excuse for why it killed the investigation into CECOT was that it wasn’t original and news-distinctive enough.

Doing my part this Easter

UCLA WINS ITS FIRST NCAA NATIONAL TITLE IN PROGRAM HISTORY WITH A DOMINANT 79-51 WIN OVER SOUTH CAROLINA!

#MarchMadness

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn.

Lot of recalled products down there.

The lesson is not anything to do with records keeping compliance or whatever, the lesson is that the actual story the news media wanted to run was "[NEGATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON]" and they tested out a bunch of stuff to fit into that hole before they settled on EMAILS

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

Fun fact, most catholics get yelled at by the pope exactly zero times in their whole lives but Censures Georg here has managed it like five times in six years

some extremely basic follow-up questions the press are failing to ask:
- what actions did the admin take to prepare other countries to take on these responsibilities?
- what discussions have the admin held with these countries to secure the strait?
- who is responsible for coordinating efforts?

speak loudly and ask if you can borrow somebody else’s stick

hungary is certainly a model for the american right in the sense that it is a prime example of people who would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven

russian troops invaded Bucha on February 27, 2022. The city remained under occupation for 4 weeks. In those 4 weeks, over 500 innocent people were executed by the invaders.

4 years ago, Ukraine’s defenders liberated Bucha.
Remember those who didn’t live to see the day🕯️

Ukraine’s top drone commander wants to bleed Russia’s army dry Robert Brovdi leads Ukraine's drone forces in targeting Russian infantry, with December marking the first month Ukrainian drone kills exceeded Russian recruitment.

Robert “Madyar” Brovdi’s drone unit has an ecosystem of 15 interlocking functions, from jamming to surveillance, mine-laying and explosive production. It is a concept NATO generals have yet to grasp, says the Ukrainian commander

This is so brazenly corrupt.

Insane

we joke around a lot on here but if we commit airborne troops some of them are going to die and that's fucking awful

my guess is that twitter engineers stumble into a simple hotfix that threatens to destroy the entire MAGA grifter economy requiring the boss to swoop in and save them maybe once a month on average

I guess we declare and then ignore energy ceasefires just like the Russians do

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

maybe im doing it wrong but i feel like the various crises of 2026 have revealed the limitations of this platform for me. twitter was always invaluable to me in chaotic times bc you had a lot of subj matter expert weirdos coming out of the woodwork. just dont feel like there's a much of that here rn

Ukraine's MFA spokesperson Tykhy says Iran threatening Kyiv while supplying Russia with drones for years and citing UN Article 51 is like a serial killer justifying murder by quoting the penal code.

A grim parallel between US escalating a trade war w/ China & realising that China has serious leverage in the form of rare earths & US launching a war vs Iran & realising Iran has serious leverage in the form of being able to blow up the world economy. Failure of statecraft.