Six years! Six years and these idiots have learned nothing! JUST ANNOUNCED: Russian President Putin sits down exclusively with @NBCNews’ @KeirSimmons from Moscow — his first U.S. TV interview in nearly three years — just days before he's set to meet with U.S. President Biden. pic.twitter.com/Li3OkZh7a1 — NBC News PR (@NBCNewsPR) June 11, 2021 The …
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Thoughts Regarding President Biden’s Upcoming Summit with Vladimir Putin
Next week, shortly after the G7 meetings end, President Biden will meet with Vladimir Putin in Switzerland. This past week, I think it was AL, inquired whether I had some thoughts on this. I don’t want to second guess Biden’s team. I’m not in the room and they all have, overall, more experience than I …
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Counter-Political Action Plus Civic Action Post & Comment Thread
In my post, Subsole requested a post, really a weekly post, but this one will be weakly as it is post workout, so that people can list in comments the local and state organizations they are part of or know of that are doing counter-political and/or civic action to oppose the Republican attempts to revise …
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Ignoring the Ecosystem Because You’re Telling People They Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
I wanted to briefly highlight and then comment on something from AL’s post this AM. Specifically: trying to think of a single international example of a party out of power successfully rigging elections — pear mesa credit union devops (@Theophite) June 7, 2021 I have no idea who this person is, nor do I have …
D-Day + 77 (Years)
77 years ago today, the Allied Expeditionary Forces of Britain, Canada, Free France, and the United States undertook the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The US landed its forces on beaches code named Utah and Omaha, the Canadians on Juno, the Free French on Sword, and the British on both Gold and Sword. For a more …
Apparently the Blog Took a Siesta!
I have no idea where all the other front pagers have been since Tony Jay’s guest post. I know where I’ve been. I had a teleconference on a project I’m involved in, then I went and ran an errand for the Mominator, then I came home and worked out, then I walked the dogs in …
Israel Update: Is the Coalition Agreement Real?
There’s about an hour to go before Yair Lapid’s mandate to form a government expires. He has to have everything agreed to and signed by midnight local time in Israel. So is the coalition agreement real? The good news is that the Ra’am Party, which is the Islamist Arab-Israeli party, has agreed and signed off …
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