That @washingtonpost obtained a copy of #JohnBolton book and everything you ever heard about @realDonaldTrump@POTUS#Trump ? Well, it's worse. 1. Trump thought Finland was part of Russia. 2. Trump had no idea the UK has nukes.
Bolton2/ 3. "#Trump asked Chinese Pres #XiJinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi last year that ^'ed agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral prospects" 4. The #Ukraine quid pro quo was real
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Bolton3/ 5. Turkish Pres #RecepTayyipErdogan handed #Trump a memo claiming innocence for a Turkish firm under investig by the U.S. atty for the So District of NY for violating Iranian sanctions. Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things 6. Trump was fixated...
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...on a bogus claim that #Ukraine tried to hurt him & into conspiracy theories pushed by Rudolph W. #Giuliani 7. All top @WhiteHouse officials considered resigning in disgust or frustration & some of #Trump’s most loyal advisers hold a dim view of him in private
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Bolton5/ 8. “He second-guessed people’s motives, saw conspiracies behind rocks, & remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the @WhiteHouse let alone the huge fedl govt,” & looks to “personal instinct” & opportunities for “reality TV showmanship.”
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Bolton6/ 9. @NATO summit #Trump decided to tell allies that the US was going to withdraw from NATO if they didn’t increase defense spending ASAP. “We will walk out, and not defend those who have not [paid],” Trump said. 10. In an angry rant about Japan he invoked Pearl Harbor.
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Folks @Reuters made clear, graphic evidence of the collapse of US Congress : in both houses it's seen its productivity plummet by more than half in the 21st Century. At the rate they're going, soon, no laws of significance will pass. MORE reuters.com/graphics/USA-C…
Since the Reagan Era Congressional legislation has fallen by 2/3rds -- not to mention its failure to pass a full, on-time budget.
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In this Century, Congress has proven most capable of legislating -- doing its job -- when #Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Conversely, its performance and productivity plummeted when under #Republican control. Just the facts, Ma'am.
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With so much political news this week -- today's top one being #PakistanElection2024 results! -- I fear I gave short shrift to some key elements of #climate science.
Starting with: New studies suggest that the heating of the #AtlanticOcean is so severe...
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we may being heading into a collapse of AMOC -- the key ocean circulation system.
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Ocean heating now in all of the 7 Seas is so severe that coral reefs are sickening (bleaching) & dying. And this has so accelerated in recent months that @NOAA added 3 new alert levels for reefs.
"Monday, Monday.
Can't trust that day.
Monday, Monday.
Seems like it just turns out that way."
DC appeals court ruled against #Trump claims of immunity from fedl prosecution for crimes committed while he was #POTUS w/a Monday deadline for him to ask #SCOTUS to put his case on its docket.
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I have so many questions that I fantasize #SCOTUS Justices asking, such as: 1. Is this immunity inviolable? (#Trump lawyers say only impeachment can remove immunity.) 2. Trump is the only federal official to ever have been impeached 2Xs – is that enough to lift his --
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-- alleged immunity? (Trump lawyers say he’s immune unless BOTH HOUSES impeached him, following a Senate trial.) 3. How would this “immunity” have applied to Richard Nixon and Watergate activities? To Bill Clinton and the famous blue dress? To George Bush?
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If you've been watching #CliveOwen in "Monsieur Spade" you may have realized it's about a whole lot more than your average murder whodunit. And you may be confused. Except for flashbacks, the story is set in 1961, in a French village. But a lot of it is about #Algeria .
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To understand what's going on, and learn about the French/Algerian war, and France's Nazi collaboration legacy, here you go -- can't really follow the Sam Spade saga without:
There are characters in "Monsieur Spade" who are in the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a far-right French 1960s dissident group inside the Army, battling Algeria's FLN -- Front for National Liberation.
Refs to "the Mehdi" are probably Mehdi Ben Barka. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Ben…
Biden @NIH today :
"You can have the exact same drug made by the exact same company in the United States, and you buy it in America for one price. You go to Toronto, Paris, Berlin, or any other major capital in the world, you’ll find they’re paying 2 to 3 times less..."
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"...than the American is paying at an American drugstore. Folks, it’s wrong. The results? Seniors are skipping doses, cutting pills in half, foregoing prescriptions entirely because they simply can’t afford their prescription drugs."
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#Medicare list for price negotiations & rebates.
"And we’re not only working to slow price hikes, we’re also working to bring drug prices, period -- just bring them down."
In August #BidenAdministration targeted 10 drugs, saving Medicare $160 billion over next 10 yrs.
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Last night #JoeBiden gave a speech in Denver: a few quotes:
-This month in local elections, "The American people voted to protect the fundamental freedoms, like the right to choose. They voted to protect democracy. They voted against the extremism of our opponents."
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-"Democrats up & down the ticket ran on our record. They're proud of that Biden-Harris agenda...each of the people who won this off-year election cited the record they ran on. And it's a winning election."
-"the only reason there's a ban on #abortion --"
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-"...& the circumstances in many places is because of #DonaldTrump ."
-New #Democrat election victories are, "just because the #Republican friends found out the power of women in America. Well, Donald Trump is about to find out about the power of women in 2024."
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