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Haven't seen crying like this since Bill Clinton was caught on camera after Ron Brown's funeral. Old-timers know what I'm talking about...
If you thought Minneapolis' Boy Blunder Mayor cried too hard at the George Floyd memorial yesterday, imagine how much he's bawling at home after this public humiliation.
BEST AND BRIGHTEST!
#FridayFlashback After a brief period of sanity post-9/11 in which America shut off the pipeline of Saudi flight students, GWBush opened the doors again & Saudi Arabia created special aviation scholarships to send pilot trainees here==>
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Some basic data on foreign students from Saudi Arabia in US in 2018-2019:
Admitted: 37,080
Percent in STEM/Engineering fields: 30.2
#pensacola
Admitted: 37,080
Percent in STEM/Engineering fields: 30.2
#pensacola
💥NEW: #Manafort lawyers argue for reduced sentence, attacking Mueller for "misinformation," "not being able to find Russian collusion," vilifying Manafort. Seems like a Hail Mary, angling for a pardon. IRONY: Manafort used vilification for years—as a sword. Now it's his shield.
This is rich: #Manafort says his life's work is "promoting democratic values" as a political consultant. He didn't even promote democratic values in US! He ran Reagan's Southern strategy. Abroad he worked mostly for dictators. Does he think Judge Ellis' clerks don't use Google??
#FridayFlashback #Manafort promoted propaganda smears for corrupt authoritarians—not "democratic values." THREAD on disinformation he planted to vilify political rivals of pro-Russia clients in Ukraine (against Tymoshenko) AND in US (against Clinton)
1. For your Extremist #FridayFlashback, I'd like to share a totally-forgotten incident from September 1999 involving a militia shootout in West Virginia--one of uncounted such episodes involving right-wing extremism over the past 25 years that got very little media attention.
2. A team of fed/state/law enforcement officers were looking for illicit marijuana grows in Lincoln County, West Virginia, when they ran into two brothers who were indeed growing pot out in the woods--but who were also anti-government extremists, part of the militia movement.
3. Investigating an illegal camp on gas company property, the officers ran into Bobby Wayne Hager riding an ATF. Hager tried to pull a gun on the officers but they restrained him--but not before he shouted a warning to his nearby brother. The brother, Everett Hager, opened fire
