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Brendan
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Mitch McConnell, who leads the Senate Defense spending panel and was at this meeting, now writes in the Washington Post:
"Ukraine aid we passed months ago is now collecting dust at the Pentagon. When Senate appropriators have sought an explanation from the department’s policy shop, led by Undersecretary Elbridge Colby, they’ve been stonewalled. Our colleagues on armed services have also expressed growing frustration with the Defense Department’s inability to communicate."
Mark Satter@marksatter
New: In a meeting lawmakers yesterday evening, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he didn't know why $400 million in previously appropriated funds for Ukraine hadn't been released yet. "I guess I'll look into it," said Hegseth, according to Betty McCollum, top Democrat on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. "That's not an answer to the Congress," said McCollum.
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So Justice Kagan is reported in Molly Hemingway's new book on Justice Alito as having urged liberal members of the Court to slow-walk their dissents in the Dobbs case for months after Justice Alito had finished his majority decision, presumably with the "hope" that the composition of the Court would change and the 5-4 outcome striking down Roe would turn into a 4-4 deadlock that left the lower court's decision in place - affirming Roe.
NOW, it is clear that it was Justice Kagan -- and not Justices Jackson and Sotomayor -- who has held up her dissent in the Louisiana redistricting case, as she has written the only dissent -- with the whispered-about motivation being to push the decision back far enough into the calendar back such that some states don't have time to engage in redistricting before the Nov. elections -- redistricting that might eliminate minority-majority districts and cost Democrats seats.
If both these two anecdotal accounts about Kagan gain traction, it will forever stain her legacy on SCOTUS.
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@ActwithAlison Mention an elderly wealthy relative in whose will you feature prominently.
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@Rishibets People should already be tipping hotel maids and cocktail servers anyway.
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Also go back and find the Uber driver that took you from the airport to tip him more too. and the flight crew, fellow passengers, your boss that let you take off of work, oh and hey why not your kindergarten teacher for teaching you that 3 cherries in a row is a pattern
Las Vegas Locally 🌴@LasVegasLocally
If you hit a $10 million slot jackpot in Vegas you should tip the people who provided good service and made the trip fun — cocktail servers, hotel staff, slot attendants, floor staff, dealers if you played tables. Anything between $30,000 and $300K, spread around, is fine.
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@AlyssaMaria - Oh no! This is so sad. Johnny, you might have cancer.
- Really? (fighting tears)
- No, just messing with you because you're a Penguins fan.
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I work 12 hours today.
My first patient in my first hour was a penguins fans. I need to go home.
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@mysteriouskat Blue.
The guilt over having offed 49.9% of the world's population would be too much.
Also, my life isn't that great.
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@RhonnMarney @GillianHTurner @RonnieRustbelt @FoxNews @JessicaTarlov Isn't it, though?
If her harshest critics are morons...
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I’m going to turn off @FoxNews any time @GillianHTurner or @JessicaTarlov are on. They’re both so terrible.
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Porter acted offended when she was interrupted, then she interrupted Steyer. 🙄
#CaliforniaGovernorDebate
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@jasonc_nc Why are you pushing whole milk when there's nonfat and low-fat, and whatever skim is?
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Hi. Restaurant and coffee shop owner here.
Almond milk runs 2.2x the cost of whole milk.
Oat milk is 2.4x, macadamia is 4x and soy is ~2x.
We charge more because it costs us more, not because all of us are engaged in a rightwing plot against people who prefer alternatives.
Daniel Aldana Cohen@aldatweets
It’s just incredibly rightwing and wrong. And while we’re at it, oat milk tastes good. But compared to soy, its such a scam.
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@ActwithAlison An imaginary realm created to keep the peasants in line.
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how would you define hell?
(sorry, not giving any hints)
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Did you know between 1957 and 1976, there was a regular bus service between London and Calcutta, India.The 32,000km, 50 day, 2-way bus route is the longest in the world.
The bus had sleeping bunks and even a kitchen! For just £145, you get to travel with food & accomodation. The bus would stop at attractions and for shopping in Vienna, Istanbul & Iran
The bus ride took passengers from England to Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India.
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@mharlowwrites When the Starbucks barista calls Moby a dick.
(And people wonder why I'm not a published author.)
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Writers! What’s one scene in your book you think about constantly?
Not the most important one…
Just the one that lives in your head rent-free.
Mine is a courtroom scene that hurts in the best way.
#writingcommunity #writer #writing #romance #romanticsuspense #romancebooks
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FT: The acting US ambassador to Ukraine will depart Kyiv in the coming weeks…Julie Davis, who has served as temporary chargé d’affaires at the US embassy in Kyiv since May last year, has grown frustrated with her role amid differences with President Trump over his dwindling support for Ukraine, said three people familiar with her decision.
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Did they expect her to arrive in a house coat and slippers?
Page Six@PageSix
Carol Burnett dresses up to celebrate 93rd birthday at Montecito hotspot trib.al/DSYCLXd
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What should my daughter get me for Mother’s Day? (Aka what should I buy myself for Mother’s Day?)
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@kurtbardella @PartyLinesPod How many would say "stolen" if "unfair" is an option?
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How many Republicans believe the 2020 election was “stolen” …
@PartyLinesPod #PartyLines
Erin Maguire@Erinmaguire
This stat is absolutely insane. 46% of Dems polled believe "the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July 2024 was orchestrated by his supporters to increase sympathy for him." Almost half of the Democratic party has fully checked out of reality.
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@sircalebhammer Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, China Syndrome, nuclear waste.
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Wait. Fuck. I don’t want to fuel the gender wars, but how is anyone possibly against nuclear power in the year of 2026??
Tom Chivers@TomChivers
This seems really bad and I don't know what to do about it: not so much the differences in political attitudes, that's fine, but there's a strong gender divide in belief on straightforward factual questions like "is nuclear energy low-carbon?" yougov.com/en-gb/articles…
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