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Public executions are something that terrible regimes in Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea practice. While I support the death penalty in general and in this case in particular, I do not believe our soldiers should be live streamed conducting an execution publicly. It is not who we are as a military or a nation. https://t.co/NCdwbNka79
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
The Texas Tribune reported this morning that Ken Paxton took 1000 trips out of state as AG but only 138 could be verified as relating to state business. Almost all of the trips were with security supplied by DPS at a cost of millions to taxpayers. He took trips to his 15 out of state properties and to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan.
Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of Defense would publicly execute Nidal Hasan and live stream the execution. There is no doubt that Nidal Hasan is a murderer who took the lives of 13 people and injured dozens. He should face justice for that. But a public execution? Here in the United States? It’s the kind of thing Iran and the Taliban do. Is this who we want to be associated with? Pete Hegseth’s campaign of “maximum lethality” and his comments about “killing people” and now his desire to publicly execute a prisoner indicate to me that his expiration date in this job has long passed. He should be removed immediately. And this administration needs to reevaluate its priorities. How about they trade glorifying violence for solving some problems and delivering for the American people? We need to be reminded of the nation we can be at our best. As President Ronald Reagan said “compassion, vision, and a fundamental sense of decency are the hallmarks of our national character.” That is not what we’ve seen from this President and his administration. We need to find that again.
The cost of doing business with the Trump Admin 2.0 really adds up…
$70,000: the cost of the fireworks at Don Jr.’s wedding, courtesy of a Russian oligarch.
$100,000: the amount that Kimberly Guilfoyle asked a man seeking federal favors to wire to her AmEx.
$35,000 a month: the payments that Republika Srpska makes to the lobbying firm where the White House chief of staff’s daughter is a partner.
$4,000,000+: the total that Republika Srpska has paid Trump allies, including the two men running his $415 million super PAC.
At this point, the Kremlin should really consider asking the Trump Admin if they have a loyalty program.
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President Zelenskyy’s comment on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that the war in Ukraine is at a "strategic stalemate" and that there are now "no prospects for a negotiated settlement":
"You cannot negotiate future economic projects with Russians on the one hand and, on the other, claim that we are in some kind of diplomatic stalemate. We are not in a diplomatic stalemate.
Shut down Russia’s entire economy. Shut Russia's mouth. Stop feeding them through your sales. Impose sanctions on their weapons.
Open Starlink for Ukraine. You opened it when responding to Iran, after all. Everything worked there. Israel completely controlled the skies over Iran. So when you need it to work, it works.
It costs them nothing to help Ukraine. And I said quite frankly: help us protect our skies and gain dominance there.
Then Putin will sit down at the negotiating table. Why? Because he will lose everything. In two or three months, he will lose everything.
And instead, we are waiting for the Chinese to develop an equivalent and hand it over to Russians.
This is not a stalemate - this is called a lack of will."
For me, this is the worst video from Oct 7.
How the first little girl seemingly disappears in a cloud of her own tissue; how the second little girl cowers. What was she thinking in those final moments.
It’s why I don’t forget the savagery.
Have to hand it to Raskin. This is a very smart ploy. This forces the GOP to either admit this is authoritarian style propaganda, or admit they are unbecoming of the federal government.
Mamdani’s October 7 statement is repulsive, morally twisted, and clearly calculated to cause pain to the Jewish community on a day of collective mourning.
What a vile, vile individual.
49 words in tribute to the Jews murdered on October 7. 141 words on how Israel is responsible for everything and the only answer is to hand more power, money, and authority to those who wish to destroy Israel.
Putting terrorists and aggressors on the same moral plane as their victims and targets is repugnant. At best it whitewashes horrible crimes, at worst it feeds the culture of murder and martyrdom that Hamas espouses.