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February 21, 2022

National Sec. Adviser Jake Sullivan tells NBC this am that Russia is planning an "extremely violent"

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan tells NBC this am that Russia is planning an “extremely violent” invasion of Ukraine. US has “intelligence to suggest that there will be an even greater form of brutality” against Ukrainians, “to repress them, to crush them, to harm them.”

More Sullivan, this time on ABC: “All signs look like President Putin and the Russians are proceeding with a plan to execute a major military invasion of Ukraine. We have seen just in the last 24 hours further moves of Russian units to the border…getting in position to attack.”


https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1495742641216053251
February 20, 2022

'Woman in Michigan' Governs the No. 1 Economy

Under Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the state has improved the most in its history since the pandemic began two years ago.

“That woman from Michigan” is the T-shirt worn by the 49th governor of the 10th-largest U.S. state after President Donald Trump berated her for ordering some indoor business services closed in 2020. Michiganders were among the most afflicted by Covid-19 as the coronavirus put more people out of work since the Great Depression.

Trump insisted governors were on their own in pursuit of respirators and ventilators, and singled out Gretchen Whitmer, the Lansing native elected in 2018 on a campaign to improve health care and infrastructure, for not being “appreciative” of his efforts when he told Vice President Mike Pence: “Don't call the woman in Michigan.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-16/michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-leads-the-no-1-u-s-economy


*Paywall
February 19, 2022

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February 19, 2022

Trump properties in talks to host lucrative Saudi golf events

Source: WaPo

Former president Donald Trump’s company is angling to host events at his golf courses for the controversial Saudi golf league, according to three people familiar with the matter, potentially handing Trump a lucrative business partnership with an oppressive regime he defended as president.

At least two of Trump’s courses in Bedminster, N.J., and Doral, Fla., could be named as sites for the nascent tour, according to the people familiar with the talks, who like others requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Officials from LIV Golf Investments, the apparatus funded by the Saudis to host the tour, have held conversations with the Trump Organization, these people said.

One of the people familiar with the matter said Trump had spoken to Greg Norman, the head of LIV Golf Investments, about having his properties involved in the tour.

A spokeswoman for LIV Golf Investments declined to comment. Eric Trump, the former president’s son, and a Trump Organization spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment. The Saudi embassy in Washington also did not respond to comment requests.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/19/trump-saudi-arabia-golf/

February 19, 2022

One adult ticket, please.




February 19, 2022

Tucker: Is it just us or does that sound like an invitation to a booty call (about AOC... creeper):

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1494843019979231236
Remember when the right wing had a meltdown when I suggested they exhibit obsessive impulses around young women?

Well now Tucker Carlson is wishing for… this on national TV.

You’re a creep bro. If you’re this easy w/ sexual harassment on air, how are you treating your staff?

Any man that talks like this will treat any woman like this.

Doesn’t matter if you’re Republican, Democrat, or neither, this is clearly not a safe person to leave alone w/ women.

Once again, the existence of a wife or daughters doesn’t make a man good. And this one is...


https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1494850385231687682
What a fuckin' creepy weirdo.
February 19, 2022

Temp in the teens, wind chill below zero, wind advisory in effect (with some really hefty gusts)...

and I just saw someone jogging in shorts and a t-shirt!


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