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All about Trump’s appeal of his $454 million judgment. Apparently, Trump needs to sell properties in order to pos a bond, but if he wins, he’d be unable to get his properties back. He’d lose those properties either way. Trump made a grossly inadequate counter-proposal. Court said “No,” but Trump IS able to borrow money from New York lenders.

Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth has been trying to get a bill passed to protect IVF treatment. She thought, accurately as it turns out, that once abortion was made illegal that IVF would be next. She was right. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has blocked the attempt to protect IVF, even though many of her Republican colleagues have realized that the issue is absolutely killing them.

Ukraine’s “home-grown” howitzer, the Bohdana 155mm.
Russia uses a 500kg (1102lb) guided bomb to hit a church and a local cafe.
Belgium and the Czech Republic get together to by 155mm ammunition for Ukraine.
Britain is trying to mobilize for the long term while not getting everyone panicked.
For Germany to give Ukraine Taurus cruise missiles might require German “boots on the ground.”
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) assesses that Ukraine needs to move to more sustainable war-fighting. Russia has suffered vast losses, but the West still has a long way to go to defeat it. US F-16s will help, but will not be a silver bullet. “If Washington wants improved outcomes, the dithering on properly helping, arming and training leaders in Kyiv should be unshackled from crossing Russia’s imaginary ‘red lines’.” The Biden Administration has been “too risk-averse” and Ukraine is paying the price.

Russian forces continue to advance west of Avdiivka, occupying the towns of Stepove and Sieverne.

Detailed look at Avdiivka.
Videos of losses both by Ukraine and Russia.

As Senator McConnell has decided to retire this November, here’s a rundown on why liberals consider him the worst legislator ever.

We're a short way away from shutdowns of government agencies. What's holding up agreements? Hard-line, right-wing Republicans have attached "riders" that simply can't get through the Democratic-controlled Senate, but that they consider to be righteous causes.

Russia is massively deporting Ukrainians who do not support Russia.

Two Russian SU-34 fighter-bombers shot down!

President Zelenskyy addressed the International Platform for the Release of Civilians Illegally Detained today.

Zelenskyy meets with Saudi Crown Prince Salman.
Germany delivers more supplies.
France’s Macron muses about sending European troops to Ukraine. Germany considers that a lousy idea. Russia is even less enthusiastic, promising that it will be all-out war with NATO if that happens. Our blogger thinks Macron is correct and that Europe should send troops to Ukraine.
Danish Prime Minister says that Europe needs to upscale their war industries.
Every NATO unclassified strategic assessment predicts that Russia will attack NATO anyway, regardless of what happens in Ukraine.
Israel calls Ukraine an “ally” and wants to provide an early warning system against Russian missiles.
Fortifications built after Avdiivka are not considered up to standards.
North Korea is supplying artillery shells to Russia. “Somehow neither Iran nor NK are afraid that this will provoke a war with NATO”

Woo-hoo! The Baltic Sea is now a NATO Lake! Russia has a little, tiny part of the Baltic shore!
Ukrainians are now fortifying a line behind Avdiivka as that city has been lost. Senate Minority Leader McConnell is exploring making up with Donald Trump. Both Supreme Court Justices Sotomayer and Thomas are in lass-than-great health an the next presidential term could see the court tip farther to the right or back towards the center.
10-year anniversary of resistance to the Russian occupation of Crimea.
Women Ukrainian Parliamentarians urge Speaker Johnson to pass the Ukraine aid bill.
Russia expert Fiona Hill says Putin feels emboldened by the stand that the US House has taken.
Lots of Ukrainian drones flying into Russia to take out targets.
France being electorally targeted by Russia with Marine Le Pen.
How Russia is dodging sanctions.
New fundraisers for Ukraine.

Hmm (strokes chin), hard to say whether Representative Jordan and Comer were just being stupid or were knowingly dishonest.

Did Representatives Jordan and Comer know for certain that the information that came from Alexander Smirnov was highly suspect? Ha ha ha! Of course they did!

New Special Counsel Jack Smith filing in the Mar-a-Lago papers (MAL) case and it draws a very sharp distinction between ALL other cases involving documents that have been retained by former office-holders and Donald Trump. His case has no equivalent in American history.

One of the major problems with bills like the "Life at Conception Act" is that it uses religious language that's not reconcilable with secular medical procedures like IVF, but many House Republicans are on the record as having supported that very bill.

A major problem with repealing Roe v Wade in 2022 was that the anti-choice movement hadn’t really given it a lot of thought and had left MANY questions unanswered. With IVF treatments, the same group really isn’t very clear on the details of IVF, even though 125 Representatives signed off on the Life At Conception Act.

Donald Trump appears to be suffering cognitive dysfunction, calling his wife “Mercedes” instead of “Melania.” There IS a Mercedes that Trump has worked with, she’s Mrs. Schlapp. Josh Marshall of TPM thinks it might be a sign of “the kind of rage dementia that often eludes detection because the energy of the aggression gets read as focus & exec function rather than cognitive deterioration.”

Further evidence of cognitive decline on Trump’s part.

Ukraine is doing poorly around Kupiansk as Russian artillery outnumbers Ukraine’s by seven to one.
Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Zelenskyy presents estimate of 31k Ukrainian soldiers killed in the past two years. US put the figure at 70k.
Hundreds of tons of Ukrainian grain being destroyed while transiting across Poland.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will last about another month without supplies from the US. Europe is trying, but can’t do the job alone.

Republicans know they’re on a destructive course of action that can only end poorly. They just can’t help themselves. At absolutely no point was “Russia, Russia, Russia is a hoax!” ever convincing to anybody other than the hard-core Trumper base.

Lara Trump (second son Eric's wife) declares that in the US "we get ahead and succeed by merit, and merit alone.” Huh. Really? What exactly has she done to "merit" getting the RNC gig? I mean, besides by being Trump's daughter-in-law?

Trump ran in South Carolina as an incumbent and got roughly 60% to Haley’s 40%. Not particularly good considering Biden’s opponents both got in the single digits in the February 10^th Democratic primary.

Keeping exports flowing has been a major success of the war.
The two-year anniversary of an operation that was supposed to take three days. Ukraine estimates that Russians have lost over 400k men on the battlefield. That’s about the number of US Civil War casualties that US News & World Report estimates were lost by both the Union and the Confederacy sides from all causes. And that war stretched on for five years! Also: “almost 7,000 tanks and 10,000 artillery systems. We sank the cruiser Moskva and shot down two “no-analogue” A-50 planes. We liberated our cities.”
Putin gives out medals that are dated from February 2014, so according to him, the war is ten years old.
Zelenskyy remarks on two years of war. He also speaks from a G7 meeting.
Canada’s security package is proportionately, about half the size of what the US could hae delivered, but it can be delivered!
Putin tired to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, “but he has achieved the exact opposite: Ukraine is now closer to Nato than ever before.”
Britain, Poland and Lithuania also contribute.
Looking back on two years.

Ukrainian serviceman singlehandedly held off 10 enemies

More on the A-50 that was taken down.
London, Prague, Paris, Munich and NYC hold pro-Ukrainian rallies.

Nazis pondering just who the bad guys are. Is the Republican movement of the past decade turning totalitarian? Is that what’s behind the idea that sex for recreation is bad?

This is pretty pathetic. The House just barely managed to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on their second try, with a majority of just one vote. Only 13 senators care enough about his getting to trial to sign a letter demanding such a trial.

The more-or-less complete collapse of the Hunter Biden story and any possible guilt on the part of Joe Biden has been a tremendous shock to mainstream media news organizations. “The real story is that the ludicrous Republican impeachment investigation has now been exposed as a Russian intelligence op.” Mainstream media reporters “seem unable to change gears.”

Another Russian A-50 shot down! They’re the equivalent of our AWACs planes and are extremely valuable to the Russian military.
Zelenskyy tells how he briefed the US Senate on Ukraine’s military situation. Senator Schumer says that Republican senators are fully onboard with helping Ukraine. Representatives from the House? Not so much. Biden says “the Speaker gave the House a two-week vacation.” Unfortunately, the average person has no idea that the blame is so concentrated. Our blogger proposes constant, explicit repetition until they are aware! As I’ve said elsewhere, democracy can’t work unless citizens are fully informed.
Britain and Denmark step up to assist.
Russia launches drones and missiles against Odesa.
Details on the downing of the A-50. Forbes gets an “attaboy” from our blogger for how they described the politics of the situation.
Also, the Wall St. Journal: “It’s in the U.S., however, that Putin’s wager appears to be paying off, at least for now, as Moscow has successfully inserted itself into America’s culture wars.” They add that Taiwan is feeling very nervous about how reliable the US is.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on how urgent the situation is..
Mariupol shortly before Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Woo hoo! Wayne LaPierre busted for frivolously frittering away millions of dollars of NRA money on “private flights, vacations and other lavish perks.”

The younger George Bush had his “Kennedy moment” on 9-11. He failed that moment, just as surely as Trump failed the moment in 2020 when the nation realized that a deadly pandemic was here. When people say that Covid was a “plandemic,” they’re just covering up the fact that Trump utterly bungled the national response. A better man would have come out of the crisis with people feeling a renewed respect for his abilities.

Human-caused climate change can very easily cause quick and disastrous results. The ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland are melting. We could see serious sea level rise from that.

The fact that the drive for Biden’s impeachment was based on Russian disinformation seems to have sent many reporters into shock. An entire year of reporting was based on a lie and the earnest belief that “Russia, Russia, Russia” was a hoax has stunned many reporters into making excuses.

The “shell hunger” on Ukrainian front lines is getting very serious! Ukraine now has hundreds of 155mm howitzers, but nowhere near enough shells for them and 1,200 miles of front line to defend.
Mid-March, shell hunger will be critical, late-March, it’ll be catastrophic. Air defense is also hurting.
Note: “[Speaker] Johnson voted repeatedly against aid for Ukraine before he became House speaker last year.” Blogger discusses complications.
Two years on and alliance is still al together. Russia getting aid from Iran and North Korea.
Iran might provide Russia with ballistic missiles.
NATO nations pitching in what they can. F-116s due to arrive this summer.
Two air-defense systems taken out.
A town that I believe is in the vicinity of Belgorod, Russia (North of Ukraine’s Eastern edge) and how it really could use a missile strike.
Russian reporter gets Starlink terminal.
Russia seriously discusses annexing Moldava.

House Democrats are preparing Ukraine aid petition that will force the Ukraine aid bill onto the House floor.

Just saw some wild, hysterical claims on Twitter/X that said Biden was ignoring the Supreme Court on giving relief on Student Loan Debt. I immediately suspected such claims were wrong, checked and sure enough, Biden is remaining within the letter of the Court's guidance.

Okay, so Republicans used information from Russian source as the foundational basis for their case against President Biden. Question: How much did they know?

The Fox News liberal blows the Alexander Smirnov case to bits. She has no patience with the defenders of Representatives James Comer and Jim Jordan who built their whole case around Smirnov.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer tries desperately to pretend that the anti-Biden case, built pretty much entirely on the word of a Russian asset, hasn't collapsed completely.

Good! The jury in the Sandy Hook case has decided to take $1.5 billion from Alex Jones. The explicit goal is to drive him out of business.

Reason #6,483 why I have very little use for mainstream media when it comes to politics. How can democracy function effectively if we're getting prettified, sanitized pictures of people in authority? If the "new Speaker of the House: Mike Johnson, an insurrectionist anti-gay right-wing extremist Trump proxy" but he isn't described accurately by the media, what $%#@ing good is the media! 

On Twitter/X, I got very used to seeing "Biden Crime Family" and "Most corrupt president ever." Oops! Seems pretty much all of the evidence for these assertions were taken directly from a Russian agent!

Many connections between Hunter Biden case and Russian subversion ops.
It’s the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Crimea by Russia. They call it the Day of Remembrance of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred.
Sweden sends weapons to Ukraine
Russians were heavily involved in manufacturing story about Hunter Biden. The informant Alexander Smirnov “has reported numerous contacts with Russian Official 1.” Smirnov is “actively peddling new lies.” The blogger Marcy “emptywheel” Wheeler has more details. Our blogger goes into the role of Rudy Giuliani in this. The firing of General Zakuzhny appears to have been provoked by thousands of Russian-planted social media posts.
Theory of subversion explained. Russians have been using subversion against the West for quite some time. Mike Flynn played a role in this. Elon Musk appears to be connected as well.

Joe Biden’s unpopular? You wouldn’t know that from his small-dollar donations! In fact, his money advantage over Donald Trump is enormous as Trump is spending more than he’s taking in.

New Pew poll says support for Ukraine is very widely felt. Amazing how a very small minority can hold up aiding them!
Do we simply send money over there? Of course not, the great majority of the money gets spent here. When we say we’ve allocated a million dollars to Ukraine, that means we bought $900k of weapons from US sources and the rest will go into Ukrainian salaries and into aiding civilians.

Liz Cheney talks about “Putin wing of the Republican Party,” which unfortunately, has been growing since February 2022. The good news is that the American public hasn’t really moved at all. Even 69% of Republican citizens still support Ukraine.

Should Democrats replace Biden with someone younger? Nah. Terrible idea.

Navalny’s murder appears to have encouraged Germany to supply TAURUS missiles to Ukraine.
Affirmative! A Russian defeat in Ukraine may be bad, but a Russian victory would be vastly worse!
Woo hoo! Six Russian jets downed in three days!
Zelenskyy says: “Today, the Conference on Ukraine’s Economic Growth and Recovery has started in Japan. This is our intergovernmental work at the level of governments.” and that Ukraine is having lots of trouble with Poland.
Canada sends more than 800 drones to Ukraine. They express solidarity in other ways as well.
If the House ever passes Ukraine aid, the Biden Administration plans to send ATACMS missiles.

The Russian pilot who switched sides and flew his helicopter to Ukraine last year has been found riddled with bullets in Spain.

Russians launching probing attacks, knowing that Ukrainians are running short on ammunition.
Pictures: “Ukrainian cities before and after ‘liberation.’”

Aww! Trump got the very bottom slot on all 45 Presidents! Bummer for his fans.

But Donald Trump isn’t alone! Melania Trump also gets last place! Or she would if First Ladies were ranked.

As scientists have stressed over and over, human-caused climate change is far more complicated than the planet just getting warmer. The movie “The Day after Tomorrow” takes an overly dramatic view of what would happen if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation were to be shut down, but there’s a lot of truth to it.

Summary of news about war in Ukraine.

Whuuh?!?! These guys suggested former Lieutenant-General Mike Flynn for the Rhode Island Hall of Fame. Not at all surprisingly, upon hearing the idea, nine members resigned. Y’see, if the organizers had just waited until Flynn has passed away and then maybe 10 or 15 years beyond that, then perhaps members could have said that everything he did prior to 2016 was fine. But no, as long as he’s still alive, it’s WAY to early to grant any honors!

What I find interesting about this piece is that Senator Manchin expressed an interest in Senator Romney being his running mate for a presidential run. The very next day, Manchin said “I will not be seeking a third-party run. I will not be involved in a presidential run.” My suspicion is that Romney called up Manchin and gave him an earful about how the 2024 campaign is a binary choice, we can choose democracy or fascism, Biden or Trump. Being in a third party means you're being a spoiler who will increase Trump's chances.

An extremely large part of the crisis in Gaza is the unhealthy water. Rainwater is mixing with sewage water and contaminated water has too much salt in it. This is due to the continuous bombing and shelling of water facilities. “Although each person needs about 3 liters a day of drinking water, and needs four times that for hygiene and other purposes, entire families are getting only 3 liters a day...”

A larger-than-expected crowd gathers to lay flowers for Alexei Navalny
Can Biden do anything meaningful while the House is on break? No. The House is gaveled in and right out again once a day, so it’s technically never on break. No recess appointments, etc.
Ukraine, France & Germany reaffirm their alliance and reach a series of understandings.
Spain and Germany send ammunition and equipment.
Ukrainian forces in Avdiivka ordered to fall back in order to prevent being encircled.
Russians using guided bombs in Avdiivka. Positions that have been held for nine years are falling.
Ukraine requesting any and all assistance from everyone who can help.
Navalny’s wife Yulia speaks at Munich Security Conference.
Biden mourns Navalny’s death. Back in June 2021, Biden warned of “Devastating” consequences fo Russia if Navalny died in prison.
Tucker Carlson says that every leader kills opponents to maintain power, so the death of Navalny is no big deal.

In reaction to his being fined $364 million, Trump declares "I helped New York City during its worst of times…” Huh. Really? Is that a reference to his allegedly helping out at Ground Zero on 9-11? Because if he had been anywhere in the vicinity, he was a known person and there were hundreds of cameras there, so we’d know of at least a few dozen photos of him being there.

I like this piece on the whole "Dark Brandon" thing because it shows that the way to deal with bad speech is better speech.

"Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison" 
Very sad to hear this. Putin must be happy, having gotten rid of a political rival.

Representative Greene spread some really wild pieces of disinformation about vaccines. Unfortunately about 1k children died who were not vaccinated due to that disinformation.

Due to lack of artillery ammunition, Avdiivka is getting increasingly encircled.
The House is taking a two-week break that ends on February 28^th. How many of the 12 spending bills (Due March 1 & 8) are done? Not really clear that ANY of them are done!
Ukraine bombarded with 26 cruise and ballistic missiles. A North Korea KN-23 missile hits a forest and burns a 40-meter radius of trees.
Mourning a medic from Germany.
Ukraine is hurting badly at Avdiivka from their lack of artillery ammunition. Troops pull back so they won’t get encircled. Russia continuously replenishing troops.
Russian city (Biysk) North of Western edge of Mongolia consisting of military and scientific facilities suffers large explosion.
Republican Intelligence Committee Chair works to try and renew FISA by pointing out that FISA enabled agents to learn of Russian anti-satellite platform.
The bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus is trying to cobble together a solution. Unfortunately, it scales back aid to Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel. Can they get their bill to the floor of the House? Ehh, we’ll see. Representative Greene threatens to get Speaker Johnson tossed out if the bill passes.

Upon being compared to an appeasing isolationist from the 1930s, Representative Greene doesn’t really convince us that she’s not acting to appease Vladimir Putin.

Greene apparently doesn’t like people highlighting these obvious and historically accurate comparisons…

True The Vote: "The 2020 election was RIGGED!"

Courts: "Okay, show us your evidence."

TTV: "Oh...ah...er...um...well, you see..."

Inna Yermolovych meets her husband near the front for Valentine’s Day.
Woo hoo! Ukraine adds another submarine to Russia’s fleet! It used to be a large landing ship. It was impacted by five MAGURA V5 drones.
Zelenskyy announces that an international drone coalition has grown from three members to seven.
Also, international partners have started up a de-mining coalition. Still other coalitions.

Lifting Ukraine has a deep dive on a Ukrainian female bodybuilder who is also rescuing stray animals in Ukraine.

Ukrainian troops in Avdiivka pushed back due to lack of supplies.
Huh! Interesting. “Putin says he’d rather have Biden as President than Trump. ‘He’s more experienced, he’s predictable, he’s an old-school politician.’”

Amusingly, Elon Musk himself recently opined that “Amazing that some people still think the news is real (laughing emoji).” Meanwhile, a person on Twitter/X who has1.5 million followers, featured a video that “in his tweet, of the five large [Russian] surface vessels shown, four of them have already been sunk."

And oh yeah, House Republicans managed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And yes, this clearly counted as “political theater” or “performative.”

But it’s also fundamentally an abuse of power.

Very interesting! The ability of Republicans to govern (just about every bill that has reached the President’s desk has been carried by Democratic votes) is very much an issue!

Also

Suozzi bashed Republicans for killing the border deal in the home stretch of the race, which also suggests it's good politics for Dems to be associated with wanting to make a deal

I 100% endorse the blogger's ideas for peace between Russia and Ukraine. Also, the "domino effect" that was needlessly feared during the Vietnam War is a very real problem in this case.

Good! Dutch government halts exports of F-35 parts to Israel due to excessive Palestinian casualties. F-35s are very “hungry” for constant maintenance.

Very interesting, a professor speaks of Putin’s genocidal mythology. Putin advocates the false notion of “artificial nations” that justifies liquidating them. “If there are people who say that Ukraine is real, they must be destroyed.”

All of Putin’s utterances about the period finds interesting, beginning in the ninth century AD, are wrong.

Speaker Johnson immediately announced the $95 billion bipartisan Senate-passed foreign aid bill DOA. House Minority Leader Jeffries is determined to get the bill through, but it would be tough. Only way is though a discharge petition, which is a long shot.
Zelenskyy thanks the Senate and encourages the House.
Another heart-warming “Why we Fight” video.
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) puts out an assessment. Beginning of 2023, Russia had about 360k men. A year later, they have 470k men. They’re better-organized these days. Russian unis are rotated out of the line when they’ve taken 30% casualties. With no major attacks taking place, they launch smaller attacks that wear down Ukrainian infantry. Victory depends on Ukraine’s international partners.
The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service has also weighed in. 

3. The Russian military industry has significantly increased its production in response to the prolonged war against Ukraine

5. The militarisation of Russian society is ongoing at all levels

“LTG (ret) Kellogg has lost his damn mind!” Kellogg is an adviser to Trump and advocates big changes in NATO.
More on Hunter Biden and Republicans investigating him. “Expect to see selectively edited leaks to overly credulous reporters over the next few days.”
Russian disinformation on the internet.
Russians making progress in Avdiivka.

Senate Minority Leader McConnell acts as the grown-up in the room by getting the Senate to pass aid for Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel without anything for the border. He recommends that Speaker Johnson do the same. Johnson doesn’t appear to want to.

"Michigan’s right-to-work repeal takes effect"
"Right-to-work" was always a scam. It just means that the union delivers benefits for everyone, but no one has to pay to support the union. But the free benefits aren't as good as paid benefits would be because the union can't afford as much for its members. Bravo for Michigan!

Speaker Johnson is getting pressured by pro-Ukrainian left-wingers as well as by pro-Russian, pro-Trump right-wingers.

Ukraine has taken 30k vintage Maxim water-cooled machine guns out of storage and has turned them into anti-aircraft guns for use against Russian drones.
A school in Moscow is opened up to study a “global war with the collective West,” sorta like, y’know, a World War perhaps!
After Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1991, it relied upon the West to keep Russia from invading it. Clinton admits that.
Changes to the General Staff.
Estonia is building bunkers along its border with Russia. Other Baltic nations have their own approaches.
NATO Secretary General strongly disagrees with Trump’s characterization of NATO as a protection racket.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suggests that Ukraine act as a “buffer zone” between Russia and the West. Historical note: both the invasions of 1812 and 1941 came via Poland and Belarus. The British invaded Crimea in 1854, but that never got very far. So Ukraine has never served as an invasion route.
Some detail on Russia obtaining SpaceX-Starlink internet terminals. Evidence is that they were obtained in UAE and activated there. Terminals are then used close to front line so as to be difficult to distinguish from Ukrainian terminals.
Russians have constructed a 30km stretch of 2100 rail cars as a defensive line in Donetsk.
Russian foreign policy analyst examines Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson. Interesting to see how Putin regards his place in Russian history. Poland and the Baltic states are very much on his agenda.

Senator “Coach” Tuberville shares his deep thoughts on peace between Ukraine and Russia.
National Security Memorandum 20 was just put out. Hopefully, it will put a bit of pressure on Israel to ease up on Palestinians. We’ll see.
Shahed drones attack Kharkiv. A gas station was hit and spread a fire that burned 14 houses and rendered 50 people homeless. Several people, including a newborn, burned alive.
New directions for the army under the new Commander in Chief, General Syrsky.
Russians apparently using the SpaceX’s Starlink satellites for internet. Elon Musk should lose his security clearance over this!
Ukrainian soldier starved nearly to death in Russian POW camp.
Russia getting its money’s worth by promoting Republicans.

Russian Telegram channels reported that the interview with Carlson and Carlson himself was not to Putin's liking, and the interview itself was considered a failure.

More on the Carlson-Putin interview.
Huh. I wasn’t aware that Putin was two hours late to the interview.

Why did Vladimir Putin agree to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson? Because 

Real journalists ask hard questions of powerful people. They push back when misleading or false information is proffered. Putin wanted none of that.

Two responses from Missouri legislators to a woman being raped and therefore impregnated: 1. No, she can’t get an abortion, but 2. hey, we’ll castrate or apply the death penalty to the rapist! Erm, okay. As if that will make bearing an unwanted child okay.

The NY Times did a whole set of stories on the finding of Special Counsel Robert Hur. They made a series of deliberate choices that appear to reflect a serious partisan bias. There were other choices available.

"Who Really Won the 2020 Election? Measuring the Effect of Mail-in Ballot Fraud in the Trump-Biden Race for the White House"
So there are two problems here. First, that people are allegedly sending in mail-in ballots in states where they are no longer permanent residents. This is really only a problem if they are voting both via those ballots and voting in their new states. In order to demonstrate that was a problem, you'd have to show that was happening. Second, points 2 through 4 all depend on a voter not having access to the household mail, upon a relative getting and filling out and signing their ballot and voting for a different candidate than the voter wanted. I'm sure that happened in a couple of cases, but the fact that handwriting is required on a mail-in ballot means the fraudulent voter has a fairly complicated job that has to involve at least one other conspirator. All of which makes it sound really unlikely that mail-in ballot fraud was at all significant.

Is it true that President Biden “inherited record job growth?” The American Rescue Plan “created problems for this economy?” No, Republicans have no credible complaints to make about the economy, so they apparently feel they have to lie about it. In Trump’s fourth year, we lost a quarter of a million jobs!

Ukraine’s need for artillery ammunition is getting increasingly serious. US aid is still frozen (Thanks, House Republicans!) and European aid is not enough. Europe able to get more aid to Ukraine “early next month.”
Finland, Lithuania and Norway re stepping up,
Ukrainians returned from Russian captivity receive children's paintings with words of support.
A fond look back at the former equivalent to our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Zaluzhny.
Russian snipers starts massive fire in Kharkiv. Odesa and Kherson also hit.
Status on Ukrainians training to fly F-16s.
"A Russian Il-76 transport aircraft crashed in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast" did not contain any Ukrainian prisoners.

Representative AOC talks about how the US is finally taking the climate seriously. It’s always worth going into the fact that a quarter-million jobs have already been created with clean energy investments. She argues that immigration is a big economic plus for the US and that if we shut down he border, we’ll, among other things, leave our elderly without caregivers.