@honeyadoreyou Read the letters and they're all so special. THANK YOU! Your art is lovely... @JimmyJohns__ i'm glad to help you be less self conscious @jakequacker lol no worries about my daughter and the tiktok @spookylindsay re the P.S. -- agreed!!
McConnell on the Senate floor right now extolling the achievements of outgoing President Trump in a speech that sounds as though it is a eulogy...and winding up to something...
2/ Praises the vaccine....foreign policy achievements in Middle East.... VA MISSION Act.... lotta throat clearing going on here....
3/ "6 weeks ago...Americans voted in this year's general election... yesterday electors met in all 50 states....So as of this morning our country has officially a president-elect and a vice-president-elect..
From @jmhansler: The Trump administration on Monday identified and sanctioned two senior Iranian intelligence officials who the US government says were involved in the abduction and "probable death" of former FBI agent Robert Levinson. 1/
2/ Mohammad Baseri and Ahmad Khazai, officers from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, had "direct involvement in the abduction, detention and probable death" of Levinson, per sr officials.
The action comes nearly 14 years after Levinson disappeared in Iran.
3/ From Robert Levinson's family:
“Robert Levinson will never come home to his family alive because of the cruel, cynical and inhumane actions of the Iranian authorities. Because of these men and others like them, our wonderful husband, father and grandfather died alone,...
After an election that respected election officials from both parties say went very well with no evidence of widespread fraud...
... in an election where Republicans generally did very well except for the top of the ticket with a historically unpopular president...
2/ ... the president, distraught, lies and spreads deranged conspiracy theories about the election and software, and attacks GOP officials for abiding by the law...
while raising hundreds of millions for his “legal defense” — though 75% of the money need not be spent that way..
3/ .... and court after court, official after official, many GOPers or appointed by GOPers, rule against these efforts to overturn the election because there is no real evidence of problems...
...while the lawyers for this effort behave, shall we say, erratically...
@reason@gtconway3d 3/ @EWErickson says of the Texas suit: "The level of debasement these people have been willing to engage in makes them seem more the ball-gagged gimp from Pulp Fiction, humiliating themselves for their master. They should be ashamed and embarrassed."
President-elect @JoeBiden will nominate former Obama WH chief of staff Denis McDonough to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs, a source familiar with the decision tells me.
Politico reported this first.
2/ After our interview, the president-elect told me that he was very focused on appointing someone who could tackle the difficult job of VA Secretary. We need to get that right, he said.
3/ After CNN broke the story of the VA scandal in 2014, then-WH chief of staff McDonough came on @TheLeadCNN to answer some tough questions about then-Secretary Shinkseki and the scandal at large.