The #Republican bill was designed to divide #Democrats & embarrass #POTUS#Biden, & had no chance of passing the #Senate or becoming #law. But w/so many #Republicans off campus demonstrating their fealty to #Trump, they left open the possibility that the party’s own messaging bill gets defeated. Democratic leaders in the #House had advised their members to vote “no,” calling the measure “another partisan stunt by Extreme #MAGA Republicans who are determined to hurt President Biden politically.”
#Senate#Democrats opened an investigation on Thurs into #Trump’s meeting w/ #oil & #gas execs last month to determine whether Trump offered a “policies-for-money transaction” [ #bribe ] when he asked for $1B for his 2024 campaign so he could retake the White House & delete #POTUS#Biden’s #climate#regulations.
If we could be 100% sure, TFG'd need to be disqualified for medical reasons. A person with #dementia is incapacitated an cannot be #POTUS. His runningmate is becoming more and more important...
The disclosure marks the 1st known instance of a pause in #US#arms transfers since the #Oct7#Hamas-led attack into #Israel…. Since then, the #UnitedStates has sent tens of thousands of #bombs & #missiles to its #ally as huge swaths of #Gaza have been turned to rubble & the death toll among #Palestinians has ballooned to >34k, many of them women & children…. #POTUS#Biden described the bombing as “indiscriminate,” but has been reluctant to leverage weapons transfers to…change…Israel’s behavior.
Footage has been released regarding the attack in #Odesa, yesterday. It confirms that Russia used cluster ammunition against a civilian center in #Ukraine. One of many deliberate war crimes Russia has committed over the course of the illegal invasion of #Ukraine.
Putin's army using CLUSTER MUNITIONS ON CIVILIANS in 2024.
“Get over yourself,” [Hilary] #Clinton grumbled. “Those are the two choices [for #POTUS in 2024].”
She added, “It’s kind of like one is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart, and really cares about people, and one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies.…I don’t understand why this is even a hard choice."
"...with these recent unforced errors by the #DemocraticParty, whose current campaign message amounts to “Shut up...
“In the coming HOURS & DAYS, we will be looking for concrete, tangible steps that they’re taking” - WH spox John Kirby
The call between the 2 leaders came 3 days after 7 workers from the José Andrés-run #WCK were killed by an Israeli strike on a clearly marked convoy, igniting outrage in the #UnitedStates & abroad. #POTUS held the call w/ #Netanyahu specifically because of the deadly strikes, Kirby said, adding that #Biden was “shaken” by the attack.
It marked the 1st time #Biden has indicated a willingness to reassess his unwavering support of #Israel’s campaign in #Gaza, as pressure grows among prominent #Democrats to condition #weapons sales to Israel as the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 32k, acc/to the Gaza Health Ministry. #POTUS’ rhetoric has grown increasingly sharp regarding Israel’s handling of the crisis, but until now he had not directly warned Israel of #consequences if it does not change course.
#Biden added that the #UnitedStates expected to see #Israel not just “announcing” changes, but “executing” & “implementing” them. The WH summary of the Biden - #Netanyahu call added that #POTUS had told the Israeli prime minister that the #humanitarian situation in #Gaza was “unacceptable” & had called for an “immediate #ceasefire.”
...HOWEVER knowing the precisely address/root/whatever, I don't really really the details anymore, it was possible to access these "#FediDarkweb" handle without much ado.
...except he is not on the fediverse. He's on threads.net, which is a walled garden you can't interact with, and the content the president's PR flacks will post there is hardly unique. I mean, I could set up a script that reposts the whitehiuse.gov RSS feed to mastodon with a #potus tag. Would that mean the president is "on" mastodon?
Merrick Garland had made the claim that the Dept of Justice was not going to be political However he appointed a partisan right-wing political activist as special counsel who was appointed by Trump to investigate #POTUS classified documents while finding Biden did nothing wrong he went on to diagnose the president as being old and mental nevertheless not a single word from AG Garland condemning the prosecutor for inappropriate behavior.HE MUST BE FIRED and democrats needs to call this out now.