He was 14 when he was falsely arrested & prosecuted. 14. Years. Old. His trial lasted a single day. He spent 17 innocent years behind bars & the rest on state supervision. Impossible to heal. And no one will be held accountable. https://t.co/096c5hm9qc
BREAKING: Elena Gremina, writer of play One Hour Eighteen Minutes about the murder of Sergei Magnitsky, found dead in Moscow at the age of 61. This is 6 weeks after her husband Mikhail Ugarov director of same play died. ‘Heart attacks’ in both cases https://t.co/kyitAAJ85C
.@PatDavisNM the candidate who said, "fuck the NRA" in his campaign commercial, calmly embarrasses @TuckerCarlson,
“If a curse word on TV offends you more than pictures of dead children in Parkland or Newtown … then your priorities are all wrong”
#NoRA
162 days after disgraced former Rep. Blake Farenthold promised to "hand over a check this week" to reimburse taxpayers for his $84,000 sexual harassment settlement, he has announced that he has no intention of paying the money back.
https://t.co/ZngiAZEJNg
On CBS This Morning: @JimAxelrod with @CBSNews spoke with @nicolergalloway about her examinations of questionable billing arrangements at rural hospitals in Missouri, including Putnam County Memorial in Unionville.
“What’s worse — having a totally unqualified VA secretary, or no VA secretary? That seems to be the choice we’re being handed, here. It’s an insult to all of us." -Will Fischer, director of government relations for @votevets
https://t.co/SxrWgrFmov
Good morning. Blake Farenthold, who quit Congress in disgrace last month and still owes taxpayers $84,000, is now returning to Congress as a lobbyist. Really. https://t.co/l85wppnDgk
Much of the tens of billions of dollars spent on the government's information technology is wasted on maintaining costly and duplicative legacy systems that are often 10 to 20 years out of date, according to critics on both sides of the aisle https://t.co/ra4iXpOqRW
The White House cannot explain how the Trump Organization’s involvement in a project in Indonesia partially financed by the Chinese gov't adheres to the emoluments clause and Trump’s personal promise not to pursue new foreign business deals as president. https://t.co/oewgyXVOdH
This! The #careerdiplomats are the ones who do the real work - gee, if they're always going to put country over party, I suppose it's no wonder that the #Trump administration has no use for them! Sad! https://t.co/u5rv2OoA9v
A bit more context:
-60% of the State Dept's top-ranking career diplomats have left since Trump took office
-7 of the 9 senior leadership positions in the State Dept are vacant
-16 of the 22 asst secretary positions are empty
-50 ambassadorships are vacant
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