CRYSTAL BALL: 10 rating changes today, across multiple race categories. All moves are in Democrats' direction as the environment remains poor for Republicans, especially in the Midwest.
@kkondik with details on the changes:
https://t.co/8NaMMX4jir
EU envoys agreed to drop two oligarchs (Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman) from its Russian sanctions list and to roll over the remaining 3,000 individuals and entities for three years - Reuters.
What a shame, even considering that its done in exchange for a 3-year renewal.
He’s right about one thing, though: this war does need to end. Ukraine is currently ending it — one refinery at a time. Russia could end it tomorrow by going home. The refineries would stop burning and the “25,000” would stop dying. That’s the whole deal.
We can't stop Russia's information war with fact checking. It relies on the speed and structure of social media platforms. That's why it's up to social media companies to stop it - or governments to force them to 👇
https://t.co/qFT5QeyPoD
I'm struck by how the MAGA echo chamber has suddenly embraced international law, declaring with certainty that the new agreement on Greenland obligates signatories to abide by it "forever."
I wonder what signatories of NAFTA, JCPOA, USMCA, the Paris Climate Agreement, etc. would say about the US credibly committing to treaties for years, let alone forever?
Large-scale drone attack underway in Moscow. Multiple impacts recorded across several sites in the Oblast. The scale of damage is not yet determined. The attack has continued for approximately four hours.
So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.