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Insurrections Have Consequences, and Elections Do Too!

by WaterGirl| April 7, 20241:50 pm| 107 Comments

This post is in: Jan 6: Insurrection, Open Threads, Political Fundraising, Politics, Targeted Political Fundraising 2023-24

Insurrections have consequences – and they are catching up with certain prominent Arizona Republican ELECTION DENIERS. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.

We all know that Arizona is a critical swing state in 2024. But things are not going well for its clownish Republican party. Here’s one more example.

Arizona State Attorney General Mayes has been quietly working behind the scenes to assemble ironclad cases against Arizona’s slate of fake electors and their enablers, including two Arizona Republican Congressmen. She may soon be ready to make her move. My favorite part of the article below is one of the headlines.

Fake elector says Mayes ‘weaponizing our justice system’

So sad!

(azcentral) Attorney General Kris Mayes again said her investigation of the Republican electors who falsely claimed Donald Trump won Arizona in 2020 would wrap up “very soon” as new details came to light about the broadening reach of the probe.

“As I’ve said all along, we are engaged in a very serious, very professional investigation into what happened with the fake electors,” Mayes told reporters on Thursday following a news conference on a different topic. “I’m not ready to stand before you here today and announce anything, but we will have something for you on that front very soon.”

Odious Congressman Andy Bigg and Paul Gosar are also in the AG’s crosshairs for their role in the state’s fake elector scheme. AG Mayes subpoenaed both Congressmen to testify before the grand jury, although that doesn’t necessarily mean she will bring charges against them. Yet.

I hope Paul Gosar is as distressed about that as he looks in this photo. That probably makes me a bad person. :: shrug ::

Both congressmen were closely tied to the plan to create slates of alternate electors — so-called fake electors — to keep Trump in the White House over the will of voters.

Gosar was outlining his argument for challenging Arizona’s election result when rioters overtook the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Biggs, in text messages to Trump aide Mark Meadows three days after the election, said in “states where there’s been shenanigans” he should submit alternate electors for Trump and have Republican-led legislatures formally support him.

Paul Gosar, you may recall, is in a competition with RFK Jr. to see how many family members will disavow their candidacy.

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Attorney General Mayes is not stopping there. She is hauling insurrectionists before the Grand Jury even if they signaled an intent to do nothing other than plead the fifth. I applaud her decision to make them sit there squirming as they take the fifth over and over and over. Plus, to this non-lawyer, it seems that would make an impression on the jury, and I’m all for that.

(Politico):

In recent weeks, Mayes’ office has sent out a wave of grand jury subpoenas. She also has required Arizona Republicans who falsely claimed to be the state’s presidential electors to assert their Fifth Amendment rights in front of the grand jury — an unusual step that has generated criticism from some former prosecutors.

This is proof of concept that some state and local races can have national consequences.

Kris Mayes won her race by only 400 votes against Republican Abe Hamedeh (who has kept himself busy in defeat by gardening and filing frivolous lawsuits to overturn the election). Further, Arizona was Biden’s narrowest win in 2020 – a margin of only 10,457 votes earned him the state’s 11 electoral votes. These margins are miniscule in a state with 7.4 million people and over four million registered voters.

Yeah, you read that right. Mayes won by only 400 votes in a state with 4 million registered voters.

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This Is Not Your Father’s Oldsmobile

by WaterGirl| April 7, 202412:02 pm| 74 Comments

This post is in: Biden Administration in Action, Open Threads, Politics

The Biden-Harris campaign ~~is not your father’s Oldsmobile~~ is not like any presidential campaign I’ve ever seen before, and I am totally here for it. Loved the Rogues’ Gallery, and this followed right below it.

Take a minute and listen to these short clips from the Biden-Harris Comms Director. Holy shit, he is good.

Biden-Harris Comms Director Michael Tyler: I’m not sure what scripture Trump is reading, I’ve read Matthew 5, nowhere does it say, blessed are the bullies and the hateful. It said blessed are the poor, meek, and hungry. Those are the values that Joe Biden leads with every single… pic.twitter.com/45DJOACrU7

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 7, 2024

Biden-Harris Comms Director Michael Tyler: Trump is openly telling you that he’s hostile and doesn’t care about certain communities, certain cities. You’d have a very stark choice with Joe Biden who wakes up every single day thinking about how he’s going to bring people together pic.twitter.com/2ROutKyCI1

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 7, 2024

Open thread!

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Biden-Harris Campaign Creates Rogues’ Gallery of Trump-Humping Billionaires

by Betty Cracker| April 7, 202410:21 am| 130 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity

Revision note: Guys, the Thread embeds I used in the original version of this post made the mobile version go haywire, so I had to pull the post and replace the embeds with images. That made all the comments go away. I’m so sorry about that! ETA: Annnd, it looks like the comments are back. Emily Latila voice: never mind!

Donald Trump’s campaign reported a record $50.5M haul from a fundraising event held in Florida yesterday: (CNN)

The Trump total from the “Inaugural Leadership Dinner” at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson sets a record for a single fundraising event.

“It’s clearer than ever that we have the message, the operation, and the money to propel President Trump to victory on November 5,” Trump campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a statement.

Wiles and LaCivita are pros, so a step up from the caddy-and-cabana-boy crew that ran Trump’s 2016 operation. Personally, I think it’s a mistake for campaigns to announce gaudy fundraising hauls, which the Biden-Harris campaign does too sometimes.

I get why they do it — it’s a sign of strength. But the money sloshing around in our politics is nothing to be proud of, and I suspect I’m not the only voter who finds the entire thing grotesque.

It’s especially gross if you’re Don Poorleone rattling the begging bowl at fellow corrupt fat cats. In that case, bragging about the haul gives opponents an opening for, well, what the Biden-Harris campaign account on Threads did last night:
Biden-Harris Campaign Creates Rogues' Gallery of Trump-Humping Billionaires

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More billionaire scumbags below the fold!

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life…

by Anne Laurie| April 7, 20248:45 am| 89 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Something Good Open Thread

I am gritting my teeth, determined to stay positive, no matter the challenge. The Spousal Unit is currently sulking because — against all earlier predictions — looks like it’s gonna be a lovely sunny Monday in Burlington, Vermont, for the total eclipse. (He didn’t get the round tuit on reserving a hotel room.) Here north of Boston, we’re only supposed to get 93% of totality, which seems like plenty enough to me, but I’m not the astronomy buff in this household…

A new declaration in Mexico gives 19 cats roaming the presidential palace food and care fur-ever https://t.co/rC4s8rv7Pw

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 7, 2024

… Nineteen feral cats have free rein of Mexico’s National Palace, long roaming the lush gardens and historic colonial halls of the most iconic buildings in the country.

“They have access to every part of the palace, so they walk in on meetings, interviews and wander onto camera,” said Jesús Arias, the palace veterinarian, as a handful of feline friends brush against his ankles.

Now, the palace cats have made hiss-tory after the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared them to be “living fixed assets,” the first animals in Mexico to receive the title.

“The cats are now a symbol of the National Palace. Just as we understand this world, I wouldn’t understand the National Palace without the presence of these cats,” said Adriana Castillo Román, general director of the National Palace and Cultural Heritage Conservancy. “We have to make sure the cats are taken care of.”…

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Staff say they remember the feral cats living among the cacti and dense brush of the gardens as far back as 50 years ago.

But it’s unclear when they first appeared or how they even got into the building. While 19 live in the building full time, many more come and go, and staff suspect they slip under a small crack in the palace gate by night…

Palace staff worked with vets from the National Autonomous University of Mexico to vaccinate, sterilize and chip the cats, and build them little cat homes and feeding stations around the garden. They also hired Arias to take care of them on a permanent basis and give them a good life.

Neither Bowie, Coco or Ollin commented when asked how they feel about being “living fixed assets.” Coco swished his tail, while Ollin stretched out below a palace pillar and fell asleep.

“Meow,” responded Nube, a gray cat named after the Spanish word for “cloud” who enjoys greeting visitors at the door of the palace.

Somebody in Oregon won the $1.3 billion Powerball drawing. Seems like this would be a good week to buy a ticket, since the prize will be much smaller but there’ll also be far less competition?

The world's oldest man says the secret to his longevity is luck, plus regular fish and chips https://t.co/CY73950PBK

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 6, 2024

… Englishman John Alfred Tinniswood, 111, has been confirmed as the new holder of the title by Guinness World Records. It follows the death of the Venezuelan record-holder, Juan Vicente Pérez, this month at the age of 114. Gisaburo Sonobe from Japan, who was next longest-lived, died March 31 at 112…

Born in Liverpool on Aug. 26, 1912, a few months after the sinking of the Titanic, Tinniswood lived through two world wars, serving in the British Army Pay Corps in World War II.

The retired accountant and great-grandfather said moderation was key to a healthy life. He never smokes, rarely drinks and follows no special diet, apart from a fish and chip supper once a week.

“If you drink too much or you eat too much or you walk too much — if you do too much of anything — you’re going to suffer eventually,” Tinniswood told Guinness World Records.

But ultimately, he said, “it’s pure luck. You either live long or you live short, and you can’t do much about it.”…

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Spontaneous Spring Flowers… & A Question

by Anne Laurie| April 7, 20245:47 am| 45 Comments

This post is in: Garden Chats

From commentor / aspiring native gardener JAM:

A passion flower vine came up in my sunny pollinator bed last summer. I think it is passiflora incarnata which is an aggressive spreading native vine beloved by butterflies. I really want to keep it, but I don’t want it to spread out of control.

I found a website that suggest burying an 18-24 inch barrier around the roots to prevent rhizomes from spreading. Other gardeners say to just pull up the rhizomes, it’s no big deal. So I would welcome any advice from BJers who have grown this plant.

For more context, this is in a long South facing bed along a fence, bracketed at each end with hibiscus moscheutos, and a lot of rather weedy self seeding annuals and perennials in between. I can go on the neighbor’s side to weed if needed, it is all lawn. The annuals are not native, and I would like to replace them with natives eventually. (Except for the old-fashioned petunias. They came with the house and they get to stay.)

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I don’t have many flowers blooming in my garden right now, so I thought I’d send you some nice weeds. I’m just starting out gardening with native plants, so I’ve been trying to identify the weeds that are native. I live in the Cross Timbers eco-region in Oklahoma, a belt of Blackjack / post oak forests which forms a boundary between the eastern woods and tallgrass prairies and the western shortgrass prairies.

Above: Spring beauty (claytonia virginica) blankets Eastern woodlands and lawns in the spring. Unfortunately, my lawn has been sprayed, so my spring beauties grow in clumps–but look at my neighbor’s back yard. The spring beauty bee feeds her underground brood the pollen of this flower only. They are also called fairy spuds because the corms are edible and supposedly tasty.

Bluets (Houstonia caerulea) growing in my other neighbor’s backyard. Weirdly, his back yard is full of bluets, but no spring beauties at all. They are too small to see in a lawn-wide view.

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Saturday Night Open Thread

by John Cole| April 6, 20249:06 pm| 181 Comments

This post is in: John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House"

Republicans keep outweirding each other:

Tim Sheehy, a charismatic former Navy SEAL who is the Republican candidate in a U.S. Senate race in Montana that could determine control of the chamber, has cited a gunshot wound he received in combat that he said left a bullet in his right arm as evidence of his toughness.

“I got thick skin — though it’s not thick enough. I have a bullet stuck in this arm still from Afghanistan,” Sheehy said in a video of a December campaign event posted on social media, pointing to his right forearm.

It was one of several inconsistent accounts Sheehy has shared about being shot while deployed. And in October 2015, more than a year after he left active duty, he told a different story.

After a family visit to Montana’s Glacier National Park, he told a National Park Service ranger that he accidentally shot himself in the right arm that day when his Colt .45 revolver fell and discharged while he was loading his vehicle in the park, according to a record of the episode filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana.

I have no idea what really happened, and he has told so many lies about it I never will be fully confident in any version. Only two things are certain- there is a bullet in his arm, and he is a liar. As he is a Republican, you already knew the latter.

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Had a fun day today. Breyana and I went up to costco, did a little shopping. I got the biggest jar of pickles I have ever seen, and I will eat every last one of them. It was fun spending some time with the kid. She’s very good company.

I have become completely sucked into Black Sails on Starz, so I am going to wrap this up. Be good to each other.

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War for Ukraine Day 773: This Morning’s Butcher’s Bill from Kharkiv

by Adam L Silverman| April 6, 20246:44 pm| 10 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Military, Open Threads, Russia, Silverman on Security, War, War in Ukraine

(Image by NEIVANMADE)

As was the case when I started typing the update last night, right now – 6:00 PM EDT – only the eastern half of Ukraine is under air raid alert. Unfortunately, that didn’t last and all of Ukraine was under air raid alert last night/this morning.

Kharkiv is already being targeted again!

Explosion reported in Kharkiv! https://t.co/Z7U6tayonq

— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) April 6, 2024

Odesa too!

The view across the street from Пʼяна Вишня in central Odesa. 😂

Blasts at 0:01 and 0:25. Two Iskanders less than 30 seconds apart. https://t.co/eoVBfKQXzM

— Mac William Bishop (@MacWBishop) April 6, 2024

Here’s the butcher’s bill from Russia’s overnight attack on Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia:

Tonight Russia launched 32 drones and six missiles of various types over Ukraine: three S-300, two Kh-101/Kh-555 and one Kalibr. Air defense forces destroyed two Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, Kalibr and 28 drones. pic.twitter.com/orAI401Aj4

— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) April 6, 2024

The S-300s and four of the drones got through.

Yet another massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine last night.

◾️In Kharkiv, 6 people dead and 10 injured. Drones hit a residential area – at least 9 apartments buildings, three dorms, administrative building, vehicles, etc. are damaged.

◾️In Zaporizhzhia, 4 people dead… pic.twitter.com/NYEC9H7s1x

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 6, 2024

Yet another massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine last night.

◾️In Kharkiv, 6 people dead and 10 injured. Drones hit a residential area – at least 9 apartments buildings, three dorms, administrative building, vehicles, etc. are damaged.

◾️In Zaporizhzhia, 4 people dead and 23 wounded. At least five Russian missiles were targeted at Zaporizhzhia.

◾️In total, Ukrainian defense shot down 28 Russian drones and 3 cruise missiles. Air defense worked in several regions of Ukraine.

These horrible numbers are becoming a mundane reality. We need air defense systems to stop these murders of innocent people.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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I thank everyone who preserves normal living – address by the President of Ukraine

6 April 2024 – 20:47

Dear Ukrainians!

Important words of gratitude for today and this week. Gratitude to everyone in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Donetsk region, and all border communities. To those who work after Russian strikes, who help people, who clear debris, who restore normal living. To all our rescuers from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, medical workers, police officers, energy workers, repair teams, municipal crews, and volunteers. I thank everyone who preserves normal living.

Last night and this afternoon – new Russian strikes on Kharkiv. Cruel, vile strikes. Almost everything they have was used: surface-to-air missiles, Shahed drones, and aerial bombs. Another missile strike on Odesa. Just a vile strike yesterday on Zaporizhzhia. Among the victims were journalists who were on the scene, documenting the aftermath of the first strike. And then there was a repeated strike.

Currently, correspondent Olha Zvonariova from the Ukrinform agency is still in intensive care. TSN correspondent Kira Oves was also injured. I wish them and all affected a speedy recovery.

We will strike back at Russia for every attack, for every act of terror against our people and state. Ukraine’s defense and security forces are working on this.

Now I want to personally single out those of our people who have particularly distinguished themselves these days, helping save lives after Russian strikes.

Zaporizhzhia – these are rescuers Borys Serdiuk, Dmytro Borodatyi, Oleksandr Kulenko, and our police officers Andrii Hrachov and Mykhailo Malakhov. They were among the first to arrive and provide assistance even despite the repeated strikes. Emergency workers from Zaporizhzhia, Olena Kostriukova, Yaroslav Bardakov, and Olena Starykovska. Thank you!

Kharkiv – our rescuers Vitalii Shkola, Volodymyr Tyshkov, Maksym Ashymkhin, and Maksym Vasyleha, emergency medical workers Marharyta Artemenko and Oleksandr Bairachnyi, our police officers Ruslan Osmanov and Roman Shapovalov. I thank all of you and your colleagues!

Every week there is a reason to commend the workers in Kherson region. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, particularly firefighters, our rescuers Artem Kovalchuk and Dmytro Pryshko, Oleksii Fedko. Police sergeants Serhii Drozd and Bohdan Kot. I thank all the doctors, all the hospital nurses, and all the volunteers who support healthcare in Kherson region. And especially deserving of gratitude this week are Yurii Shashkin, Viktoriia Hanzha, Oksana Horban. Thank you!

Our state’s resilience is made up of the expertise and dedication of people like you throughout the country, many of those who do everything within their power to ensure that life prevails despite all the circumstances of war.

We’ll go above and beyond to ensure that the world continues to support Ukraine and truly sees how heroic our people are, how Ukrainians defend their state, their cities, and villages, how they rebuild their lives despite everything, and how they defeat the occupier. That’s exactly what Russia deserves – Russia deserves to lose for what it is doing, for its terror.

I thank every our soldier who fights for Ukraine. I thank everyone who works to ensure that Ukraine can endure and prevail. I thank everyone who cares for their neighbor and all of Ukraine.

Glory to Ukraine!

Thank you!

He also sat for an interview with the Unified News Telethon.

Ukraine is expecting a positive decision from the U.S. Congress regarding the adoption of a comprehensive aid package. This was stated by Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with the Unified News telethon.

The President emphasized that assistance from the United States is crucial for our country.

“We understand when the Russians could start counteroffensive actions. So, here is your answer, when it is critical to receive the necessary weaponry being in low supply. Without this money, we cannot obtain such volumes. And I still believe that we will be able to achieve a positive vote from the U.S. Congress,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukraine regularly informs the American side about the situation on the front line and the defense forces’ urgent needs. Macro-financial assistance from the United States will strengthen the economy of the state and our Armed Forces.

Here’s the video with English subtitles:

The reason:

This is what Ukraine is fighting for.

Warrior Dad meets his baby daughter for the first time.

📹: yulychka__/TikTok pic.twitter.com/h0z5ww4Y53

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 5, 2024

"That's our job, you know? Someone is fighting on the frontline, and we have our own front."

Workers of Ukrainian thermal power plants speak about Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.

📹: DW https://t.co/0WjniJANXI pic.twitter.com/xVP45kwGpz

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 6, 2024

The price:

The filmmaker will need around EUR 9.300 to get this film going. Roman is such a fantastic kid and one of the reasons why I‘m helping 🇺🇦 How he manages his life with his dad is so unbelievably encouraging. Please friends and #NAFO fellas BOOST 🙏🏻 2/2

https://t.co/DpCEle5jOa

— La.K.Leu🎗 (@La_K_Leu) April 5, 2024

Unfortunately, it does still not look like a supplemental aid package is going to be brought up in the House. The Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Congressman McCaul, states that this is because the GOP is now en thrall to Russian propoganda.

When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP https://t.co/KGAFIUwIoW

— Loren Jenkins (@lbjenkins) April 6, 2024

The Washington Post has the details:

During the first impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump in 2019, former Trump national security aide Fiona Hill made an extraordinary plea. Seated in front of congressional Republicans, she implored them not to spread Russian propaganda.

“In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,” she told them. She was referring to comments they had made during her earlier deposition breathing life into a baseless, Trump-backed suggestion that Ukraine, rather than Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

“These fictions are harmful even if they’re deployed for purely domestic political purposes,” she added.

Republicans on the committee blanched at the suggestion that they had served as conduits for Russian misinformation, but Hill refused to back down.

Five years later, Republicans are starting to grapple more publicly with the idea that this kind of thing is happening in their ranks.

The most striking example came this week. In an interview with Puck News’s Julia Ioffe, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) — none other than the GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — flat-out said that Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”

McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame.

“There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some of it — and it’s almost identical [to what they’re saying on Russian state television] — on our airwaves,” McCaul said.

He also cited “these people that read various conspiracy-theory outlets that are just not accurate, and they actually model Russian propaganda.”

Asked which Republicans specifically he was talking about, McCaul said it was “obvious,” before staff intervened and asked that the conversation go off the record.

These comments are the most significant to date, but they’re not the only ones.

A GOP impasse over additional funding for Ukraine’s defense against Russia — combined recently with Tucker Carlson’s deeply weird promotion of Russia and Trump’s comments about not defending NATO allies from Moscow — has apparently occasioned some self-reflection among Republicans about their colleagues and allies:

Here’s some more evidence of the negative effects that are occurring:

"If we have shells, we will have everything. The situation is bad, not enough shells. They were scarce before, and now…"

Ukrainian Defender Oleksandr shares about the situation on the frontlines.

📹: DW pic.twitter.com/bjbTy6rs7y

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 6, 2024

Lithuania:

We are grateful for your steadfast support!
🇺🇦🤝🇱🇹 https://t.co/AoOdAJOIH8

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) April 6, 2024

Holland:

The Netherlands will provide 24 F-16 aircraft to Ukraine – Dutch defense minister Kajsa Ollongren.

"Ukraine is fighting but it's a war for freedom, democracy, rule of law and against illegal aggression. And that's why we're ready to support Ukraine and that's why we're doing… pic.twitter.com/Q3Qp8mblyW

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 6, 2024

Trerny, Kreminna front:

Azov and 95st Brigade of Ukraine repelling Russian attack on Kreminna front, Trerny area. 11 Russian AFVs were lost during this attempted attack.

Also, the tank crew of the @azov_media managed to capture one of the Russian tanks. Which is a very rare case in the current period… https://t.co/ItYFTEczfj pic.twitter.com/BSGSPPJlDb

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) April 6, 2024

Azov and 95st Brigade of Ukraine repelling Russian attack on Kreminna front, Trerny area. 11 Russian AFVs were lost during this attempted attack.

Also, the tank crew of the @azov_media
managed to capture one of the Russian tanks. Which is a very rare case in the current period of war.
It’s even more interesting that Azov managed to capture the tank with “Monster EW system”, which attracted a lot of media attention recently.

(Tank is being evacuated by Azov starting from 1:52 on the video)

https://t.me/azov_media/5634

/3. Captured components of the Russian “Monster EW”. The system was damaged by FPV drone strikes, which were published earlier. https://t.co/yugzl2BKFD pic.twitter.com/CcK8da2J0o

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) April 6, 2024

Here’s the full text of the second tweet:

/2. “The Monster EW system” footages that appeared a day ago.

This system consists of many EW systems/drone jammers that operate at different frequencies. Unlike the already classic version when the EW system is powered directly from the equipment on which it is installed, in this case an additional external generator can be seen on the tank. This means that the electronic warfare system can operate after the tank itself is disabled and abandoned, as long as the generator continues working.

https://t.me/serhii_flash/2693

Russian IFV hits a mine after which artillery targets infantry which left the vehicle. Terny area, Kreminna front, by the 45th Brigade. https://t.co/QeAcYDQhMl pic.twitter.com/Zwymp3Hezh

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) April 6, 2024

The Bakhmut front:

Russian losses during recent attempted attack on the Bakhmut front shown in the Achilles video.

14 total losses identified on the video:
1x BTR-MDM – destroyed;
6xBMP-2 – destroyed;
1xBMP-2 – damaged;
5xBMD-2 – destroyed;
1xBMD-2 – damaged. https://t.co/iCjq0hh0MX https://t.co/yXPFfL8T1Z pic.twitter.com/b0Q5SD0UBb

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) April 6, 2024

Here’s the full text of the quoted tweet:

Footages of the repelling of the recent Russian attack on the Bakhmut front, by the Achilles unit of the 92nd Brigade of Ukraine.
The video shows 14 Russian IFV losses as a result of this attack. Fighters of the Achilles say that their unit destroyed 10 AFVs during the day of the attack, which is their record by now.
Russian column consisted mainly of BMPs and BMDs.
Desertcrosses also took part in the attack. The destruction of one of those along with Russian infantry on board can be seen on video (0:58)
https://t.me/fedorenkoys/285

Orsk, Russia:

On April 5th, a dam breach occurred on the Ural River near Orsk, Russia, after water was released from the reservoir. Satellite images from Planet Labs show severe flooding of residential areas. If Russia cared more about its people and not war, such incidents could be prevented pic.twitter.com/puLzd9b1mZ

— Tatarigami_UA (@Tatarigami_UA) April 6, 2024

That’s enough for tonight.

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Here’s some adjacent material from United24 Media, Maria Avdeeva, and the Ukrainian MOD:

For Ukrainians, storks are symbols of birth, family, and love for their homeland.

So when a viral video of a stork mourning its burned nest went viral, Ukrainians decided they had to help. pic.twitter.com/mxyuGTPf8s

— UNITED24 Media (@United24media) April 6, 2024

These storks are coming to Izmail for three decades, symbolizing the city’s resilience. Just like border guard, who redirected Russian warship. His iconic image now covers Shahed drone’s impact on the Danube Shipping Company’s building. pic.twitter.com/gUlv1PzdkF

— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) April 6, 2024

-Will you drive the enemy out of Ukrainian land?
-For sure, fluffy!

📷: Burevii Brigade pic.twitter.com/0dYNhBfaQK

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) April 6, 2024

Open thread!

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Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

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Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

No Justins, No Peace

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The revolution will be supervised.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

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Republicans don’t trust women.

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White supremacy is terrorism.

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I thank everyone who preserves normal living – address by the President of Ukraine