A sea of blue and yellow in support of Ukraine is filling the Capitol chamber #SOTU2022
Notably, no one will talk to Lauren Boebert. Just walking by without acknowledgement
If the GOP doesn't fill those seats in this time of war in Europe, this will send a dangerous message to Putin.
A roar of applause fills the chamber
Every other seat remains empty, seats are assigned.
The whole chamber clapping and standing for @POTUS wow!
Even MTG IS STANDING!
All of Congress seems very happy with Biden's job on Ukraine
We stand united! It took Putin to bring Congress together!
All Russian flights banned in US airspace
Our forces will not be in Europe to protect Ukraine, but to protect our NATO partners.
We will be giving $1B in support to Ukraine
60M barrels of the global reserves. 30M US barrels
When Biden says that the new infrastructure will be made by American companies and Americans and the @GOP do not stand? What happened to make America great again?
A couple more GOP stand when made in America is mentioned.
Why is Manchin sitting on the GOP side?
All of GOP stands for Biden's stand on getting back to normal after over 2 years of Covid
Entire chamber stands for funding the police. So stop lying @GOP!
What an absolutely amazing site to see to see 2 strong women behind the President for the 1st time in history
So much hugging and kissing of the President. Trump ran, 10 minutes later Biden still trying to leave, but people are swarming What a difference a man makes.
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As a mob ransacked the Capitol Roger Stone hurried to pack a suitcase inside the Willard hotel. He wrapped his tailored suits in trash bags, reversed his black face mask so its “Free Roger Stone” logo was hidden, then slipped out of town for a hastily arranged private flight
“I really want to get out of here,” Stone told an aide. Stone said he feared prosecution by the incoming attorney general, Merrick Garland. “He is not a friend,” Stone said. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Interesting that Stone allowed himself to be filmed during this period. Proves he thought everything was legal, when he was told it wasn't. He thought they would rule the world. They didn't
The WH on Wed announced new sanctions on Belarus and Russian defense firms, as well as export controls designed to target “Russia’s refining capacity over the long-term," washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022…
America’s sanctions are expected to be more complicated than those imposed by the E.U., targeting not just the individuals but also their family members and companies they own
DOJ announced the creation of “Task Force KleptoCapture” to coord prosecutors and other federal
investigators in the effort to prosecute sanctions against “corrupt Russian oligarchs.” The task force will be led by a prosecutor with the U.S.A. Office for the SDNY and include leadership from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, DHS and IRS, among other federal agencies.
Just last week, many European countries were still so somnolent about the threat Russia posed to Ukraine that Germany’s spy chief was caught unawares in Kyiv when the Kremlin invasion started. He had to be extracted in a special operation. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/…
But over just a handful of days, Europe has been shocked out of a post-Cold War era — and state of mind — in which it left many of the democratic world’s most burning security problems to the US
It has been dizzying for some of the continent’s Russia hawks, especially those in
Eastern Europe who campaigned for tougher measures against the Kremlin for years but were ignored by bigger countries including Germany, Italy and France.
People are banned from trying to “trick” or “mislead” other users, violating anyone’s “privacy or publicity rights,” or posting messages that “depict violence” or include messages related to “sexual fetishes,” “sugar babies” or “sexually suggestive”
phrases. People are also forbidden from posting anything “false,” “indecent,” “misleading,” “profane,” “obscene,” “filthy” or “otherwise objectionable.”
Russian forces will thus be arrayed along Poland’s entire 650-mile eastern border, as well as along the eastern borders of Slovakia and Hungary and the northern border of Romania.
(Moldova will likely be brought under Russian control, too, when Russian troops are able to form a land bridge from Crimea to Moldova’s breakaway province of Transnistria.)
The most immediate threat will be to the Baltic states.
Kaliningrad is the headquarters of the Russian Baltic Fleet. Since the Soviet Union broke up Russians have been able to access Kaliningrad only through Poland and Lithuania. Expect a Russian demand for a direct corridor that would put strips of the countries under Russian control