NYT: At various points in their careers, both Mark Kelly and Pete Hegseth have been really high.

1991: < USSR implodes >

🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧: "Yikes. Loose nukes now. Some in 🇺🇦. Hey, 🇺🇦, will you give those up?"

🇺🇦: "If we do that, 🇷🇺 will invade."

🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧: "If we get 🇷🇺 on board & sign a deal to protect you?"

🇺🇦, 12/5/94: "OK." <signs Budapest Memorandum

🇷🇺, 2014 & 2023: < invades 🇺🇦 >

🇺🇸, 2025: "Just kidding"

1991: < USSR implodes >

US & UK: "Yikes. Loose nukes now. Some in 🇺🇦. Hey, 🇺🇦, will you give those up?"

Ukraine: "If we do that, 🇷🇺 will invade us."

US & UK: "If we get 🇷🇺 on board & sign a deal to protect you?"

Ukraine, 12/5/94: "OK." <signs Budapest Memorandum

Russia, 2014 & 2023: < invades 🇺🇦 >

Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia

Remember: in the 12/05/94 signing of the Budapest Memorandum, the U.S. (& other countries [incl Russia]) promised to respect Ukraine's borders & territorial integrity *& to help protect them* in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes.

#SlavaUkraini

#WeOweThem

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Donald Trump has been a Russian asset since his first trip to Moscow in 1987.
Freeze Trump out immediately.
Trump is the enemy.

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So Maduro is a terrorist, but Putin isn't?

Netanyahu isn't?

Kim Jong Un or Erdogan?

Funny how Republicans and the media are avoiding such an obvious question.

Yeah. Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, and Alaska should start putting people over politics.

"fair"

Nope. It's not. It's not the oath they took.

photograph, featuring three people - (left-to-right) Attorney General of the United States Pamela Jo Bondi, common citizen Lindsey Halligan, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

Just ONCE*, couldn't my team have been up agst *these* dimwits? But NO-O-O; we had to face lawyers who *did* know what they were doing. This would've been a dream.

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* out of ~1500 cases

How many criminal cases were indicted in EDVA over Lindsey Halligan's name (even if an AUSA signed it) since her appointment expired? Are they all subject to dismissal (even if presented and signed by an AUSA)?

Good day for the EDVA defense bar.

imprint of red "DISMISSED" stamp

It's a field day for defense counsel in countless EDVA cases.

Seriously.

But "extremely qualified?"

Even Trump's supporters know this is silly.

Karoline's not even trying.

For perspective, 61.6% of the US population is white.

(Biden kinda nailed it, eh?)

"History repeats itself. That's one of the things that's wrong with history." -Clarence Darrow

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

"I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." -Clarence Darrow

Or otherwise

good statement

Absolutely. On pain of criminal prosecution.

Unions can help in this regard. So could a good govt.

No, Congress didn't "give itself" that. It established it for federal employees across the boards.

Bear in mind that the attainment of 5 yrs merely *vests* the pension. The *amount* of the annuity payment is still a function of the number of yrs the indiv worked (and their top salary).

I'm a fan, Mrs. B, but this is silly. 1st, for a pension or annuity to vest - in a commensurately reduced amt - after 5 yrs is pretty std for govt employees (universal for fed employees). 2nd, the answer to the erosion of that norm in the private sector isn't to take it away from public servants.

Of course, the answer to that isn't to take pensions/annuities away from govt employees (that's a race to the bottom), but to once again make them the norm in the private sector.

It's a monstrous problem.

...a largely poor, largely white, largely rural district in the South and a black rep from a largely urban district. But that those enmities serve, and have served for *decades*, the interests of fat cat MFers in the Hamptons, in Silicon Valley, and in Palm Beach.

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