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Working to Help transform our Conversation About Our World.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1881125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-26221274444826498432024-03-18T22:46:00.000-07:002024-03-18T23:10:14.826-07:00Notations On Our World (Special Edition) : After Five Months of War<div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/E_5ck5Obf2A?si=3CzTrX8FbCecTSMx" width="480"></iframe>
<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fA3TBDOPU8A" title="The World with Yalda Hakim: The UN warns a famine in Gaza is now imminent" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-5167974151403855922024-03-17T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T00:00:00.138-07:00#OutsiderVIbes (Special Sunday Edition): The Right Stuff<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/IvnA8FvaAnI?si=3alUWpTfLcJXGMpI" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-27950499911146342572024-03-10T13:40:00.000-07:002024-03-10T13:40:57.365-07:00On Our "Virtual Route 66" This Week: On Our World This Week <span style="font-family: Combo;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/GT2WmC0YS9Q?si=UStgzJLgekngfTLg" width="480"></iframe></span><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;">The US Election season has begun in earnest with the conclusion of Super Tuesday here in the United States (Including our home state of California) and the withdrawal of Nikki Haley as a candidate. Our team decided to headline this edition of "Virtual Route 66" with this snapshot Seth Meyers prepared looking back on Donald Trump and the Republicans over the year. This is as the Gaza War continues with new initiatives to help the people with basic needs as Israel continues its' genocidal campaign; Northern Gaza continues to be caught off even though Aid Trucks are stuck on the board as hunger is being used as a weapon by Israel for a potential Naqba, the War in Ukraine continues, North Korea continues to make belligerent noises, China had its' National People's Congress.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;">Our team pulled together thoughts courtesy of Defense One, Heather Cox Richardson, The Institute For Policy Studies, Crooked Media, and Al Jazeera English:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Parsing Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address</a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Combo;">President Biden credited progressive economics with a strong post-COVID recovery. But on Gaza and immigration, he failed to draw much distinction with his conservative opponents.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-4631733602788152920row-content m_-4631733602788152920stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-4631733602788152920column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">What Lies Behind the Biden Administration’s Changing ‘Ceasefire’ Language</a></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Combo;">The US president is showing no sign of altering his actual policy of unconditional support for Israel as it carries out a genocide in Gaza.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">What We Spend on the EPA Compared to Pentagon Contractors</a></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Combo;">Instead of spending enough on the agency that could protect us from these events we instead pour money into corporate military contractors.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Biden quoted back to the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court, sitting in front of him in the chamber, their words when in June 2022 they overturned the 1973<em> Roe v. Wade</em> decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion.</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The justices wrote: “Women are not without electoral or political power.” </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Biden responded: “You’re about to realize just how much you were right about that.” “Clearly, those bragging about overturning <em>Roe v. Wade</em> have no clue about the power of women. But they found out. When reproductive freedom was on the ballot, we won in 2022 and 2023. And we’ll win again in 2024.” Biden promised to restore <em>Roe v. Wade</em> if Americans elect a Congress that supports the right to choose.</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) gave the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union address. Sitting in a kitchen rather than in a setting that reflected her position in one of the nation’s highest elected offices, Britt conspicuously wore a necklace with a cross and spoke in a breathy, childlike voice as she wavered between smiles and the suggestion she was on the verge of tears. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“What the hell am I watching right now?” an unnamed Trump advisor asked Nikki McCann Ramirez and Asawin Suebsaeng of <em>Rolling Stone</em>.</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Britt’s performance was the logical outcome of right-wing demonization of women’s rights advocates since the 1960s. That popular demonization began soon after women calling for “liberation” from the strict gender roles of the post–World War II years protested the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The protesters tossed items related to women’s roles as homemakers and sex symbols—bras, girdles, pots and pans, and <em>Playboy</em> magazines—into a trash can. That act so horrified traditionalists that a journalist likened the women to young men burning their draft cards, starting the myth that the protesting women had burned their bras. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Two years later, with his popularity dropping before the 1972 election, President Richard Nixon wooed Catholic Democrats by abandoning his support for abortion rights. The following March, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, declaring that “[e]quality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex,” and sent it off to the states for ratification. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Advocates of traditional gender roles used abortion as a proxy to attack women’s rights in general. Railing against the Equal Rights Amendment in her first statement on abortion in 1972, activist Phyllis Schlafly did not mention fetuses, but instead attacked “women’s lib”—the women’s liberation movement—which she claimed was “a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother, and on the family as the basic unit of society.” </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Supreme Court decided <em>Roe v. Wade</em> in 1973, including women in the ranks of marginalized Americans whose civil rights were protected by the federal government. Since the 1950s, opponents of such federal protection for Black and Brown Americans had tied such federal action to communism because it meant the government used tax dollars for the benefit of specific groups. In their minds, this amounted to a redistribution of wealth from hardworking taxpayers to undeserving special interests. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The cultural backlash to the idea of women’s equality strengthened. In 1974 the television show <em>Little House on the Prairie</em>, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, began its nine-year run. It portrayed western women as wives and mothers cared for by menfolk, complementing the image of the cowboy individualist championed by the antigovernment right wing. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As historian Peggy O’Donnell noted in <em>Jezebel</em> in 2019, prairie dresses, with their image of “traditional” femininity and motherhood, the female version of cowboy clothing, became fashionable, even as the era’s popular televangelists railed against feminists. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Constantly evoking the image of the western cowboy, Ronald Reagan won the White House. Four years later, sociologist Kristin Luker discovered that "pro-life" activists believed that selfish “pro-choice” women were denigrating the roles of wife and mother and were demanding rights they didn’t need or deserve.</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Increasingly, Republicans portrayed women who demanded equality as a special interest made up of feminist scolds who wanted federal support they did not deserve. In 1984, when Democratic presidential candidate Walter “Fritz” Mondale tapped the very well qualified Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate, opponents circulated fake campaign buttons backing “Fritz and Tits,” and even 60 percent of Democrats thought Ferraro was there only because Mondale was under pressure from women's groups who wanted special legislation. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Powerful women either fell out of public view or were pilloried for intruding on a man’s world as those opposing women’s equality portrayed women either as wives and mothers, who looked to their husbands for financial security and safety, or as sex objects available for men’s pleasure. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By 1988, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh had begun to demonize women’s rights advocates as “feminazis” for whom “the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur.” After the 1993 siege of the headquarters of a religious cult near Waco, Texas, that left 76 people dead and inspired the rise of right-wing militias to resist the federal government, Limbaugh emphasized that the attorney general who ordered the operation was the first female attorney general: Janet Reno.</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Such rhetoric turned out Republican voters, especially the white evangelical base, and after it launched in 1996, the Fox News Channel (FNC) reinforced the idea that individualist men should be running society. Most FNC personalities were older men; the network’s female personalities were young, beautiful, and deferential. (FNC chair and chief executive officer Roger Ailes resigned in 2016 after accounts emerged of alleged sexual harassment.) </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By 2016 the competing ideologies concerning the role of women in American society were encapsulated by the contest between Donald Trump and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton was highly educated and extremely well qualified. She advocated protecting the rights of women and minorities and warned that Trump would pack the Supreme Court with extremists who would undermine abortion rights. She provided detailed policy papers. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump, in turn, bragged of sexual assault and called for Clinton to be arrested: “Lock her up!” became the call and response at his rallies. Ending access to abortion had become the rallying cry for the evangelicals who supported Trump, and he promised to end those rights, even flirting with the idea of criminal punishments for women seeking abortions. Far from being disqualifying, Trump’s denigration of women embodied the sort of traditional gender roles fundamentalists embraced.</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Once in office, Trump nominated and the Republican-dominated Senate confirmed three radical Supreme Court justices who in June 2022 overturned <em>Roe v. Wade</em>, taking away the recognition of a constitutional right Americans had enjoyed for almost 50 years. </span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When Britt delivered the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union from a kitchen, wearing a cross and using a submissive speaking style, she represented the outcome of the longstanding opposition to women’s equal rights in the United States.</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Democrats’ position last night was a sharp contrast. Biden stood in front of the nation’s first female vice president as he denounced the Republican assault on women’s rights. He warned the country: “America cannot go back.”</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Perfect timing for today’s celebration of International Women’s Day.</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">—</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Notes:</span></p><p style="color: #363737; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/c39c766e-a9ab-45ea-8e1e-66149d61a1ea?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1710188184050000&usg=AOvVaw3llbclpBa9nfUnMYujJ3pv" href="https://substack.com/redirect/c39c766e-a9ab-45ea-8e1e-66149d61a1ea?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #363737;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.whitehouse.gov/<wbr></wbr>state-of-the-union-2024/</span></a></p></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><div align="center">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Sweden
formally joined the Russia-focused NATO alliance Thursday,</span></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> nearly
two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor
Ukraine, which spurred Sweden and neighboring Finland to apply for
membership in the collective defense alliance.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">President
Joe Biden </span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1WLXBmOTNTcDRCNCZvcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc04aac2a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqU3PwSbvA$" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: #0068a5; text-decoration-line: none;">welcomed</span></i></b></a><b><i> the United
States’ latest ally </i></b>a few hours later at his State of the
Union address, of which more below. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Before
the Ukraine invasion, Russian leader Vladimir Putin alleged NATO’s
growing membership was partly what triggered his initial Ukraine invasion</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> ten
years ago when masked Russian troops without any insignia attacked
Ukrainian cities and illegally annexed its Crimean peninsula and portions
of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. But when Finland joined NATO
last year, Russia’s border with NATO countries doubled. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Now
with Sweden’s accession to the alliance, “The Baltic Sea becomes a NATO
lake,”</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> said Latvian Foreign Minister Krišjānis
Kariņš, according to the UK’s <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZnQuY29tL2NvbnRlbnQvYzYzNzU0MDYtZGYwMC00ZTFkLTgwMWYtOTQzNWI2YThkMjUzP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B3956f794__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqVH1JDW3Q$" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #0068a5; text-decoration-line: none;">Financial Times</span></i></a>, reporting Thursday.
The very tabloid-y British paper <i>The Daily Mail</i> illustrated
this Baltic dynamic more clearly in a series of maps published late last
month, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFpbHltYWlsLmNvLnVrL25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZS0xMzEzMDgxOS9QdXRpbnMtTm9yZGljLW5pZ2h0bWFyZS1zdHJhdGVnaWNhbGx5LUJhbHRpYy1TZWEtTkFUTy1sYWtlLVN3ZWRlbi1hbGxpYW5jZS5odG1sP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B0388be68__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqVVIbLOJQ$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“After
over 200 years of non-alignment,</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> Sweden now
enjoys the protection granted under Article 5, the ultimate guarantee of
Allies’ freedom and security,” NATO Secretary-General <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmF0by5pbnQvY3BzL2VuL25hdG9ocS9uZXdzXzIyMzQ0Ni5odG0_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Be20747bc__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqWOvd3xAg$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Jens Stoltenberg</span></a> said
following the news Thursday from Brussels. “Sweden brings with it capable
armed forces and a first-class defense industry,” he said, and added,
“Sweden’s accession makes NATO stronger, Sweden safer, and the whole
alliance more secure.” </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“Our
shared democratic values—and our willingness to stand up for them—</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">is
what makes NATO the greatest military alliance in the history of the
world,” said U.S. President Joe Biden in a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9zdGF0ZW1lbnRzLXJlbGVhc2VzLzIwMjQvMDMvMDcvc3RhdGVtZW50LWZyb20tcHJlc2lkZW50LWpvZS1iaWRlbi13ZWxjb21pbmctc3dlZGVuLXRvLW5hdG8vP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba159a4e8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqUlmHSUpw$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">statement</span></a> Thursday.
“It is what draws nations to our cause. It is what underpins our unity.
And together with our newest Ally Sweden—NATO will continue to stand for
freedom and democracy for generations to come,” he said.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“Sweden's
decision is another reminder that Putin's war is not the result of NATO
enlargement,</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> it is the
cause of NATO enlargement,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in his
own <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZS5nb3YvTmV3cy9SZWxlYXNlcy9SZWxlYXNlL0FydGljbGUvMzY5OTcyMS9zdGF0ZW1lbnQtZnJvbS1zZWNyZXRhcnktb2YtZGVmZW5zZS1sbG95ZC1qLWF1c3Rpbi1paWktb24tc3dlZGVucy1hY2Nlc3Npb24tdG8vP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B680e6cfe__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqXDwZFOHg$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">statement</span></a> Thursday.
“Together, we will continue the Alliance’s urgent, vital work to defend
every inch of NATO territory, strengthen Euro-Atlantic security, and
build a safer world,” Austin said. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“Thank
you all allies for welcoming us as the 32nd member” of NATO,</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> said
Swedish Prime Minister <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9Td2VkaXNoUE0vc3RhdHVzLzE3NjU3NzYwNjU3MDY3MzM5ODk_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6c101c89__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqUt2RAOkw$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Ulf Kristersson</span></a>,
writing Thursday on social media. “We will strive for unity, solidarity
and burden-sharing, and will fully adhere to the Washington Treaty
values: freedom, democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law,” he
said.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">A
few hours later, </span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Kristersson took a
seat in the U.S. Capitol, a guest of honor for Thursday evening’s State
of the Union <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vcG9saWN5LzIwMjQvMDMvYmlkZW4tZnJlZWRvbS1hbmQtZGVtb2NyYWN5LWFyZS11bmRlci1hdHRhY2stYm90aC1ob21lLWFuZC1vdmVyc2Vhcy8zOTQ3OTIvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba1fb1167__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqX95XlkLQ$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">address</span></a> before
a joint session of Congress. “With Sweden as a NATO Ally, our already
close bilateral bonds will grow even stronger,” Kristersson <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9Td2VkaXNoUE0vc3RhdHVzLzE3NjYwNTUyMjYxMTU1MjI5Mjk_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B60be39d5__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqXUUa-t0A$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a> afterward
in a note of thanks. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Biden
opened his fourth SOTU with a dire warning about the future of Europe</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> and
a plea to Congress to pass a supplemental aid package for Ukraine.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“If
anybody thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you he will not,”</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> Biden
said. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., who has <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9ob21lbmV3cy9ob3VzZS80NDYzNzkxLXNwZWFrZXItam9obnNvbi11a3JhaW5lLWFpZC1yZWJ1ZmYvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bbb2fb6d8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqURoaCbrA$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">blocked</span></a> efforts
to approve such aid, nodded along behind Biden.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Panning
out:</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> Biden spoke amid a slip in the polls for
his popularity and the popularity of foreign policies he champions, <i>Defense
One</i>’s Patrick Tucker reports. “Public support for Ukraine is
morphing, with nearly two-thirds now supporting a negotiated end to the
conflict that Russia launched, even at the expense of Ukraine losing
territory.” Continue reading, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vcG9saWN5LzIwMjQvMDMvYmlkZW4tZnJlZWRvbS1hbmQtZGVtb2NyYWN5LWFyZS11bmRlci1hdHRhY2stYm90aC1ob21lLWFuZC1vdmVyc2Vhcy8zOTQ3OTIvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ca1fb1167__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqVnrYPL0Q$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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developments</span></b><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The
U.S. military has been tasked with leading an emergency mission to
establish a temporary pier in Gaza,</span></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> President
Biden announced Thursday. The idea is “to enable the delivery of
significant quantities of assistance by sea” in a multi-national effort
closely coordinated with the Israeli government, the White House said in
a joint <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9zdGF0ZW1lbnRzLXJlbGVhc2VzLzIwMjQvMDMvMDgvam9pbnQtc3RhdGVtZW50LWZyb20tdGhlLWV1cm9wZWFuLWNvbW1pc3Npb24tdGhlLXJlcHVibGljLW9mLWN5cHJ1cy10aGUtdW5pdGVkLWFyYWItZW1pcmF0ZXMtdGhlLXVuaXRlZC1raW5nZG9tLWFuZC10aGUtdW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy1lbmRvcnNpbmctdGhlLWFjdGl2YXRpb24tb2YtYS1tYXJpdGltZS1jb3JyaWRvci10by1kZWxpdmVyLWh1bS8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bbc1b0fcd__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqUdQ1g3iw$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">statement</span></a> Friday
with the leaders of Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, the Republic
of Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“The
delivery of humanitarian assistance directly to Gaza by sea will be
complex,</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> and our nations will continue to assess and
adjust our efforts to ensure we deliver aid as effectively as possible,”
the leaders said in their statement. They referred to this new corridor
as a necessary facet “of a sustained effort to increase the flow of
humanitarian aid and commercial commodities into Gaza through all
possible routes.”</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“We’re
not waiting on the Israelis,” </span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">because the U.S.
wants to accelerate the provision of food, water, medicine, and temporary
shelters, White House officials <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9wcmVzcy1icmllZmluZ3MvMjAyNC8wMy8wNy9iYWNrZ3JvdW5kLXByZXNzLWNhbGwtb24taHVtYW5pdGFyaWFuLWFpZC1mb3ItZ2F6YS1haGVhZC1vZi10aGUtc3RhdGUtb2YtdGhlLXVuaW9uLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B69749653__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqVvYmfY7A$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a> Thursday.
“We expect the first delivery to transit this crossing over the coming
week, starting with a pilot and then ramping up,” they said in a call
with reporters. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The
first shipments are expected to come from Cyprus and will be “enabled by
the U.S. military</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> and a
coalition of partners and allies,” officials said. “The forces that will
be required to complete this mission are either already in the region or
will begin to move there soon,” they added. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The
U.S. military also delivered another 38,000 meals to Palestinians
besieged in Gaza on Thursday.</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> That episode
marked the third time in a week that U.S. and Jordanian C-130s have
teamed up to deliver humanitarian aid to Northern Gaza; the others
occurred on Saturday and Tuesday. The Defense Department released imagery
of the latest drop, which you can see <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY5OTU4NC91c2NlbnRjb20tY29uZHVjdHMtY29tYmluZWQtaHVtYW5pdGFyaWFuLWFpcmRyb3BzLWludG8tZ2F6YS8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6d258934__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqUjtBRAmQ$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Pentagon
chief Lloyd Austin rang his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b><i>Thursday.</i></b> (The
two spoke at least 16 times in October; eight times in November; four
times in December; twice in January; and three times last month.) In
their Thursday chat, they discussed “the critical need to surge aid
through all possible entry points and ensure the safe distribution of aid
once delivered to Gaza,” according to the Pentagon’s <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZS5nb3YvTmV3cy9SZWxlYXNlcy9SZWxlYXNlL0FydGljbGUvMzcwMDQ0MC9yZWFkb3V0LW9mLXNlY3JldGFyeS1vZi1kZWZlbnNlLWxsb3lkLWotYXVzdGluLWlpaXMtY2FsbC13aXRoLWlzcmFlbGktbWluaXN0ZXIvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B9d1d710a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqVexq51dg$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">readout</span></a>. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Elsewhere
in the region, U.S. forces shot down three Houthi aerial drones</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> headed
for the Gulf of Aden on Thursday. They also destroyed four mobile
anti-ship cruise missiles and another aerial drone before launch in the
afternoon hours Thursday, officials from the Tampa-based Central
Command <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzcwMDQ4MC9tYXJjaC03LXJlZC1zZWEtdXBkYXRlLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B7f1276e9__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqUJYo86ug$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a>. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">V-22
cleared for flight, with a new maintenance plan—and one outstanding
mystery. </span></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Maintenance changes have been made to address the
failure and all three services will have their own return-to-flight
plans, according to a statement from Naval Air Systems Command. Officials
say they know what part broke in the fatal late-November crash that led
to a two-month grounding, but they don’t yet know why. <i>Defense
One</i>’s Audrey Decker <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vdGhyZWF0cy8yMDI0LzAzL3VzLWNsZWFycy1vc3ByZXlzLWZseS1uZXctbWFpbnRlbmFuY2UtcGxhbi1hbmQtb25lLWVuZHVyaW5nLW15c3RlcnkvMzk0Nzk0Lz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B099ab36d__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqUnTvQd3g$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">reports</span></a>.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Budget
cuts are eating into Air Force modernization but not readiness,</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> leaders
said ahead of the Monday rollout of the Pentagon’s 2025 budget proposal.
Decker has a bit more, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vcG9saWN5LzIwMjQvMDMvYWlyLWZvcmNlLXdhcm5zLWN1dHMtcGxhbm5lZC1idXlzLXVwY29taW5nLWJ1ZGdldC8zOTQ3ODgvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Be4cd7b89__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqXNIbnAwA$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Army
experiment shrinks targeting time shrinks from minutes to seconds.</span></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> Efforts
to streamline procedures and speed up data flows have produced a “two
orders of magnitude” increase in the speed at which data is passed to
weapons crews since the first Project Convergence, said Alex Miller, a
senior science and technical advisor to Army Chief of Staff Randy
George. <i>Defense One</i>’s Sam Skove reports from Camp Pendleton,
California, the Marine Corps base that hosted the latest iteration of the
Army’s marquee tech-tryout, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vdGhyZWF0cy8yMDI0LzAzL3RhcmdldGluZy10aW1lLXNocmlua3MtbWludXRlcy1zZWNvbmRzLWFybXktZXhwZXJpbWVudC8zOTQ3NTgvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B55df2b66__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqUuGN5pMg$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Other </span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vdGVjaG5vbG9neS8yMDI0LzAzL2FybXktbGF1bmNoLWRlZXAtc2Vuc2luZy1jcm9zcy1mdW5jdGlvbmFsLXRlYW0tYW5kLWVxdWlwLXVuaXRzLWV4cGVyaW1lbnRhbC10ZWNoLzM5NDc4Ni8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B9219942a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqUiC8tLwg$" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: #0068a5; text-decoration-line: none;">newish Army efforts</span></i></b></a><b><i> include: </i></b></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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ways of identifying and targeting enemy formations at long range,</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Exploitation System system, which will load spy gear into highflying jets
more often used for corporate travel.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">And
lastly this week, the Pentagon threw cold water on anyone hoping for
evidence of alien technology. </span></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">That finding topped
the department’s newly unclassified report to congress rolling up the
historical record from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution
Office. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Background: </span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“AARO
reviewed all official U.S government investigatory efforts since 1945,
researched classified and unclassified archives, conducted dozens of
interviews, and partnered with Intelligence Community and DOD officials
responsible for controlled and special access program oversight,
respectively” for this latest report on unidentified aerial
phenomena. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">To
be clear, the goal of the analysis “is to use a rigorous analytic and
scientific approach</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> to investigate
past U.S. government-sponsored UAP investigation efforts and the claims
made by interviewees that the U.S. government and various contractors
have recovered and are hiding off-world technology and biological
material,” Pentagon spokesman Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a
statement Friday. “AARO is committed to reaching conclusions based on
verifiable evidence,” and their analysts “will follow the evidence where
it leads, wherever it leads,” he said.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Topline
finding:</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> “AARO found no evidence that any USG
investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has
confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial
technology. All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded
that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of
misidentification.”</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">But
don’t put away your tinfoil hats just yet,</span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> because
the Pentagon says it still plans to release a second volume featuring
“interviews with current and former U.S. government personnel who
contacted AARO” with their experiences. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">For
what it’s worth, </span></i></b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">by the last known
count, just under 20% of Americans believe in alien abductions,<b><i> </i></b>which
is “a bit less than that claim to have seen a UFO,” the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34615560.55004/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaHVmZnBvc3QuY29tL2VudHJ5L25ldy1zdXJ2ZXktc2hvd3MtbmVhcmx5LWhhbGYtb2YtYW1lcmljYW5zLWJlbGlldmUtaW5fYl81OTgyNGMxMWU0YjAzZDA2MjRiMGFiZTQ_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd8210e86__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!hkCGqn5ipSzEOK0rdR4XJIRWQi3dKmioWmwg341gUeyQb5Ku6e5Fl8vEZlSBD0LqOJcGUdZ7br-HwLwcLqX_sQgyqQ$" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Huffington Post</span></a> reported
in 2017. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">President Biden</a> jabbing all of the Republicans who voted against the American Infrastructure Law then later took credit for it at home</span></strong></em></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3817021186654980310mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3817021186654980310mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; 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cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3817021186654980310mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3817021186654980310mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>President Biden’s State of the Union address</strong> last night was surprisingly strong and spirited, but featured a few notable missteps. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">After showing up late to his own event because he couldn’t stop chatting with every single person he passed (relatable) President Joseph Robinette Biden (kind of shockingly) came out swinging in his State of the Union address. He was energetic, shouty Joe again, ad-libbing and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Db2563eeed6%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw2ZvOUjAN-8XByiIsK7pjhO" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b2563eeed6&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">heckling back at his hecklers</a> (unhinged members of the House GOP) and cracking a bunch of jokes. The bar for his performance last night was relatively low, but he certainly exceeded expectations. Even <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D60c67a655d%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw3QfU_RFZLqqA5KjT1_0LEg" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=60c67a655d&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Republican strategist Sarah Longwell said he was “on his game.”</a> She continued: “He somehow managed to have it be incredibly political, he managed to be going right at Republicans, but was also joking with them, smiling with them,” which Longwell said created a nice “balance” to the speech. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Biden, it seems, blasted a bunch of Red Bulls and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd9c3ac0d1f%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw1phKj_jhLe3WwFyIZX5q7f" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d9c3ac0d1f&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">went on the offensive</a>, highlighting his administration’s policy achievements and dragging disgraced former president Donald Trump—whom he repeatedly referred to only as “my predecessor”—for his disastrous pandemic response, his chummy relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy he signed into law in 2017, among many other things. During the portion of the speech about abortion and the disastrous healthcare landscape the Dobbs decisions has wrought, he yelled at the Supreme Court while they were sitting right in front of him, which was pretty cool. Biden framed reproductive rights as not a women’s issue but a freedom issue, which was smart! He also made great points about his role in economic recovery, and the importance of organized labor, giving a personal shoutout to United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain, who was in attendance.<br /> </span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A few days ago, GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (who spent most of the speech <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D41a8f8cced%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw01zKMbNKM3KCa7OoMtCyuc" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=41a8f8cced&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">looking like the prissiest little elf in the treehouse</a>) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3De4cb14a554%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw0jk5nCvIU-2zy2Nrqjx-b2" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=e4cb14a554&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">had a meeting with his Republican caucus about “decorum”</a> so as to avert a repeat performance of last year’s MAGA heckling spree. It, uh, didn’t really work. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) came to the address wearing head-to-toe MAGA gear, including the notorious red hat (no hats allowed in the chamber!), and regularly heckled the president throughout his speech. When Biden began discussing immigration, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Da43ee6f062%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw0oZHayWUJtgsY-3y-OVjg0" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=a43ee6f062&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Greene began yelling “Laken Riley!”</a>—a reference to the 22-year-old woman killed while jogging at the University of Georgia last month. An undocumented immigrant has been charged with her murder. Biden then ad-libbed a response, calling Riley “an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal,” (yikes) and redirected back to criticizing Republicans for stymying the bipartisan border security bill. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D0acd2acd80%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw1IiPVNsh6MOWrcfLqxZJZv" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=0acd2acd80&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) wrote on X:</a> “There was a lot of good in President Biden’s speech tonight, but his rhetoric about immigrants was incendiary and wrong.”</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_3817021186654980310mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NY8T77sl1NPMAsZk6QudTMf9kKMQQE32XtdHHlTLv8j-4K95651S8cWUGh23i694mXw0PZ7-A_jR9zGpgCY_uLLwDMEtDypvTtpvb4_Eb0A_LU2zryzVQ5nPKA7malRASfgt1zBNjGTG_khEA-f6WVaMi-WARILB-k=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6/images/3d8a1b01-f2a9-4767-a621-3742f72d5dad.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3817021186654980310mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3817021186654980310mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>In a speech with many pleasantly-surprising highs</strong>, the other notable low came when the president, about two-thirds of the way through the hour, finally addressed the elephant in the room: Israel and Gaza. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Once the president got to the Israel-Gaza portion of his speech, he appeared less fluid and more prone to stumbling. After reaffirming his support for Israel and recounting the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack, Biden’s diction was also less direct than in other portions of the address, using more passive voice, like when he said: “There’s also a fundamental responsibility, though, to protect innocent civilians in Gaza.” Then there was the non-specific: “Thirty-thousand Palestinians have been killed, most of whom are not Hamas”—which felt a bit like saying: “Mistakes were made.” <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I asked President Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor and co-host of <em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D450faee53e%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw3MLoXurOp8BHYMAeUFKssu" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=450faee53e&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Pod Save the World</a></em> Ben Rhodes for his thoughts on the Israel-Gaza portion of Biden’s speech. Here’s what he had to say: <br /><br /><em>“In an otherwise successful SOTU, the section on Gaza felt like a disappointment. First, it was striking that Biden led with Ukraine and put Gaza near the end—it was an indication that the White House has come to realize this issue is a political liability. Second, the language felt discordant from the reality on the ground. We heard Biden talk about Israel’s ‘added burden’ to avoid killing innocent Palestinians because Hamas is among civilians, and that ‘Israel must allow more aid into Gaza.’ But the reality is that the Israeli government has dropped hundreds of (U.S.-supplied) two-thousand-pound bombs on densely-populated areas and restricted the flow of aid to the point that there is a risk of catastrophic famine. <br /><br />“It has been clear for months that the Israeli government is not listening to these requests from Biden, yet there has been no substantive leverage pursued, for instance through conditioning assistance or supporting a cease-fire at the United Nations. The announcement of a new pier to deliver aid to Gaza in a few weeks was an outgrowth of that reality: the U.S. is still pursuing a policy of unconditional support for the Israeli government’s military operation while trying to mitigate the substantive and political consequences of a policy that isn’t working.” </em></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /><strong>Despite a few lingering disappointments</strong>, most reactions to the president’s State of the Union<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D306fb80bff%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw0rhcg3ucbxAbsHZXWJk2Od" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=306fb80bff&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank"> fell along party lines</a>, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D9335c84439%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw30sCKElWMUPjhzHnQBF48n" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=9335c84439&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">pundits across the political spectrum seemed to agree that Biden did well</a>, or certainly better-than-expected. Our own Tommy Vietor told the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D3d8d57169c%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1710188184083000&usg=AOvVaw2A2gRyz5l1nJRZtQtk0Ibs" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=3d8d57169c&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank"><em>What A Day</em> podcast</a>: “What I was expecting him to try to do was do a heavy run-down of all the things he’s accomplished, and then lay out a second term agenda. What he ended up doing was something I didn’t expect, which was go right after Republicans right from the top.” He continued: “I think one of Biden’s problems lately is that…he’s lost some support from Democrats. And I think it will probably help him that those Democrats saw him fighting tonight. They want to see him look like a fighter.”</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></p>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="635" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RSt4pro1lm8" title="Are US and EU plans to send supplies to Gaza credible? | Inside Story" width="635"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-35237594325870555932024-03-03T11:37:00.000-08:002024-03-03T11:37:19.142-08:00On Our Weekly "Virtual Route 66" This Week: On The Week That Was <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbQ0g5X-V6OUAT_CH5kJNmwWkLmsGTaDfmEd0JbjvR3mP6bC_F6FrX7S5bNTHI7loteDMSG42FbWJ0t-fn082yXTZ1YTXI13bjtgkkbcQ_eRdmwvc84I72Nz9om60fTzGEVdy8aF3q5fz-ThbRdHz0gm0JXuTWiXCmzOXBRZuGTvdlY-vjUcb4jYB48Q/s2550/Global_Elections_2024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbQ0g5X-V6OUAT_CH5kJNmwWkLmsGTaDfmEd0JbjvR3mP6bC_F6FrX7S5bNTHI7loteDMSG42FbWJ0t-fn082yXTZ1YTXI13bjtgkkbcQ_eRdmwvc84I72Nz9om60fTzGEVdy8aF3q5fz-ThbRdHz0gm0JXuTWiXCmzOXBRZuGTvdlY-vjUcb4jYB48Q/w301-h640/Global_Elections_2024.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">Elections have begun and many countries have already held elections including Iran, Indonesia, and Pakistans with others forthcoming throughout the ensuing weeks and months.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">Our team has pulled together thoughts courtesy of the Coop Scoop, The Bulwark, Crooked Media, the Real News Network, Financial Times, The Economist, and USA Facts as the US State of the Union Looms, the War in Ukraine rages on and on and the war in Gaza continues \with no apparent end in sight--although as we went to press there was a pending cease-fire and delegations were due in Cairo: </span></p><p><br /></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="height: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Compact", -apple-system, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/9e433338-91d4-42f8-9a4e-af3182d4e098?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085054000&usg=AOvVaw2ykpGmq4houQ4ZUcbN4z-r" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9e433338-91d4-42f8-9a4e-af3182d4e098?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" style="color: #404040; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">MARC A. 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Republicans have created an absolute shitstorm</strong> in Congress and are falling apart internally. Somehow, people still vote for them!<br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The old Mesozoic Era dinosaur himself, Senate Minority Leader <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D85274f5bfe%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw225t1d1YKnQNH8jpfMpdT4" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=85274f5bfe&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Mitch McConnell announced on Wednesday that he plans to step down from GOP leadership</a> in November, which will end his tenure as the longest-serving Senate leader in American history. AND one of the worst, we might add! The 82-year-old McConnell has faced health issues in the past year, including <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dba7a544737%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw3NLnL-bI_OZnyjwqWoINnw" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=ba7a544737&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">two incidents when he froze bizarrely while answering questions from reporters</a>. He also fell and suffered a concussion at a fundraiser last year. Classic gerontocracy problems!<br /> </span></p></li></ul><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">There’s no denying that McConnell has been incredibly influential…in normalizing some of the worst policies and most underhanded legislative lever-pulling the Senate had ever seen. He’s the man who <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dbba9f8ee47%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw2oc_TnxbLdEURlLCSWCiWd" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=bba9f8ee47&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">ensured the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority</a>, which overturned <em>Roe vs. Wade</em> before launching a further parade of horrible right-wing decisions. He helped pack the lower courts with Trump nominees, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D8e09b910ec%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw3boOXlY-uPMuj5f6JNqr23" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=8e09b910ec&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">who will be there for a generation</a>. He gleefully stifled former <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd5f5fdb291%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw2GTHTkteyezVJp_XPIcCeG" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d5f5fdb291&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">President Barack Obama’s agenda</a>. Of course, he’s had plenty of time to do so much damage.He began his congressional career in 1984 at age 40 during the Reagan administration. (All things being equal, Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate at age 29 in 1972.) McConnell suggested he plans to finish out his term, which will end in 2026. Always one to worship at the altar of “civility”, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D78b87aa3b5%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw2FcTDsg51imrlzptN3bEZs" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=78b87aa3b5&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">President Biden said on Wednesday he was sorry to hear McConnell step down</a>, adding, “I’ve trusted him, and we have a great relationship. We fight like hell. But he has never, never, never misrepresented anything.” Come ON, man! This is the guy who cynically <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D8b31fefe32%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw144eOlpuxpS2qLPZPBmqNm" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=8b31fefe32&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">denied Merrick Garland a Supreme Court confirmation</a>, who <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D85b5402aaa%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw3bo5QJbzy26OJ7Wzs9mOcp" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=85b5402aaa&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">said in 2010</a> that his top legislative priority was making Obama a one-term president. You don’t have to be nice to him!<br /> </span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">McConnell has a frosty relationship with disgraced former president Donald Trump, who has been known to make <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D2bb2b0408c%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw2nP-maG4_x4DA9jFJVqjH4" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=2bb2b0408c&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">racist remarks against McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao</a>. Chao served as Trump’s Secretary of Transportation. McConnell did the bare minimum of refusing to back Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, but that should not be mistaken for a greater moral compass. McConnell <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D3fc1ce0ddc%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw0e5dUqhin721nmmQosfAf1" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=3fc1ce0ddc&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">called Trump “responsible”</a> for the Jan. 6 insurrection, before voting to acquit Trump in the Senate impeachment trial. McConnell was staunchly in favor of most if not all of Trump’s horrendous policies. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dddbd6838e2%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw2Nj3xkSO6C6Ijy6rrFFrw0" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=ddbd6838e2&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">It’s also extremely likely McConnell will endorse Trump</a> before November.</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NY8T77sl1NPMAsZk6QudTMf9kKMQQE32XtdHHlTLv8j-4K95651S8cWUGh23i694mXw0PZ7-A_jR9zGpgCY_uLLwDMEtDypvTtpvb4_Eb0A_LU2zryzVQ5nPKA7malRASfgt1zBNjGTG_khEA-f6WVaMi-WARILB-k=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6/images/3d8a1b01-f2a9-4767-a621-3742f72d5dad.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>McConnell’s departure announcement</strong> comes just as the White House and Congressional Democrats are trying to cajole Republicans to do their jobs and avert a government shutdown.<br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Senate Majority Leader <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd124321d75%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw1M-XTNcCQrzucPByw3sO-a" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d124321d75&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Chuck Schumer told his colleagues on Wednesday that he and other negotiators in Congress are “very close” to reaching a deal</a> that would side-step a government shutdown at the end of the week, and added that the group “continue[s] to make very good progress on an agreement.” Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that far-right nonstarter policy riders have been the biggest obstacle to reaching a deal. Senate GOP Whip John Thune said on Wednesday that the funding deadlines could be pushed back by one and two weeks, respectively, but he and many others aren’t in favor of kicking the can down the road. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Mitch McConnell’s departure and the poison pills in the GOP’s government funding legislation are both representative of a Republican Party moving ever-further to the right. Freedom Caucus psycho and guy <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dba6f902026%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw1BEOtlKCHY2vLgM3s3lKOO" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=ba6f902026&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">who is currently under an Ethics Committee investigation</a> Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tweeted that he and his far-right buddies have <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Db00d85f050%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw1VCadfIZvQqCSH7PwUmB9U" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b00d85f050&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">“now 86’d McCarthy, McDaniel, and McConnell,”</a> referring to ousted GOP Speaker Kevin McCarthy and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who recently announced she will step down <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D631c998904%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw3aAjo5_OGsISe7QssZ3buK" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=631c998904&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">after months of pressure from Trump and his allies</a>.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /><strong>Mitch McConnell</strong> may fancy himself as the standard bearer of a more “respectable” bygone era of Republican politics, but in many ways, his personal brand of obstructionism, his career-long opposition to helping any Americans besides the wealthy, and his role in remaking the judiciary paved the way for the ascendant far-right wave that now defines the GOP. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Mitch!</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NbS2WT8tjKf6a6D7iCSk1DczIj2FYCE96EZ4xnQx-2r7haZuCO6BN-OZv04sD7dVt__ft4ffra5qxpeln3YslvK7xVFUTOXffxYaxuHiATfxhQgBZbXn4mx5Ku8okDoQ8qzTiWRkj_kix6pgN2rSuzKGRIw71kQ4SE=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6/images/37204dfc-b425-992d-8a53-d4456f79877c.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Alabama’s Supreme Court shocked pro-choice supporters across the country after they essentially redefined ‘personhood’ by ruling the destruction of embryos as a crime. On the latest episode of Hysteria, hosts Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss the significant impacts and horrendous effects we expect to see as a result. To learn more about the consequences of this decision, head to the Hysteria feed, available wherever you get your podcasts.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dbbeadd015d%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw11n6RZaRpULXJ6h7vE0YXa" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=bbeadd015d&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NbFmThpGAGuT7ddefi8D7qFm072KB8ZX_Iid3CwAE3pwSj9ifXr4sMjnJeL27nkXCzuD4sgZzGcPhV4sXP-2RjXqB2WhrOfAkTYGRub6yzB9rsGCLNwUW-NwRnbr_-DaA-EvjbkLQqFkdlEOJgXod9v89X36PcIvQk=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6/images/0d40d4cb-5eb8-b590-1239-6aa75b84b338.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dcfc2088328%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw2BBMhpGwrzqtIaLIz3og1G" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=cfc2088328&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_Nbw4kECzqavz5gNbpTTRw9MZqob2uNYMVjQf92aZzDCR7oDP05h8mtKuo8YkLH9bCWExclJ7fK1GN0MIQ9Uy_f4HnlomOD7K__HXzyZ4XNWe3a0qSQg1sO3yzLbZG2qBQ7WAMkgqrTBaJQcKNjClUQTCzW-o3LLzFI=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6/images/dd4785cb-e47d-4895-bf85-3957ee93e245.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">President Biden won Tuesday’s presidential primary contest in Michigan easily. But in second place, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3De5a67ef668%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw0bEYXc2uOoh1F4OwqtKwph" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=e5a67ef668&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">13 percent of Michigan Dem primary participants voted “Uncommitted”—a protest to send a message to Biden about their opposition to his handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict</a>. “Uncommitted” received over 100,000 votes, significantly more than Biden’s actual human challengers Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D74c5a51187%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244044000&usg=AOvVaw1edneOtxfDUI2nedBHdDTM" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=74c5a51187&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">On Tuesday night, Biden released a 326-word statement on X</a> thanking Michiganders for making “their voice heard” but made no mention of Israel or Gaza. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br />Meanwhile, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D3f7e4a55a1%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw1FNJBS67qk_JHWuLX6-zxD" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=3f7e4a55a1&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Senior United Nations aid official Ramesh Rajasingham</a> told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that “if nothing is done, we fear widespread famine in Gaza is almost inevitable.” The World Food Program also warned <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd3e68cde1b%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw3ogYFDeHSwALqBF6YoRZbq" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d3e68cde1b&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">that famine is imminent in northern Gaza</a>, and reported that child malnutrition in the enclave is currently the worst in the world. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D2b45969cce%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw0lJNINeWFdqGdtWm3_jjNZ" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=2b45969cce&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">A report by the U.N. children’s agency said on Monday that 1 in 6 children in Gaza are acutely malnourished</a>. Almost 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, and another 70,300 injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. At least 242 IDF soldiers have been killed since the ground invasion of Gaza began, according to the Israeli Military.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaJv_VMLmj_a0GNbgH1PSFsNo2GVoOx5n-JPOIsu_hdJKrVUe4LvPzBf-YQ4jyufQ4fnpoRIHNkkEOYi6-IFgYUuKn0DKyB4yioU7dntUHY6JH4FcS5IrILTuFYLqlE4enluxUNK-HfHR7R1uGzaZC7Lra1LebiqTU=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6/images/3d6b68a8-f92b-586f-ba9c-03683222794f.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_5587216294134129770mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3De089738b1e%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw0Fyt83-5GeW7CFVUd1_ZwY" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=e089738b1e&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">The Supreme Court announced it will take up disgraced former president Donald Trump’s claim of broad immunity</a> from prosecution, which keeps the federal criminal case against him in Washington D.C. on pause. The court scheduled oral arguments for the week of April 22. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dcd23d66d71%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw1ISbZ_VobG2GHnG-dNtQ7V" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=cd23d66d71&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">A judge in Illinois ordered Trump removed</a> from the state’s primary ballots due to his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, making the Prairie State the third to boot Trump, following Maine and Colorado. The Supreme Court is currently deciding whether any of this <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D582be3ae30%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw3musJPPJjHN6YNka0OPwt3" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=582be3ae30&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">will be allowed to stand</a>.</span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3De497a7b330%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw1QmVxV5Zb9twinNrbwJ611" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=e497a7b330&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">A New York appeals court denied Trump’s initial bid to pay a reduced $100 million bond on the $464 million judgment</a> in his civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James (D-NY). </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd8c87b1075%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw3R_j9bfVwrY8ycg6TmO5Dt" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d8c87b1075&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">As a shock to absolutely no one, two-thirds of Americans think frozen embryos shouldn’t be considered people</a>, according to a new Axios poll. That being said, one-third thinking they should is still too high!</span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Ddd9f0d6fc6%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw3tJIGdZmvC3NLccTt3P-YN" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=dd9f0d6fc6&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared deeply divided on whether or not to uphold a federal ban on bump stocks</a>, a device that allows semi-automatic rifles to fire continuously. The ban was initially approved under Trump in the wake of a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, where a single gunman killed 58 people using bump stock devices. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dfd8bd22260%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw0ncFDCwJGn312nNjsD_guW" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=fd8bd22260&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">An Indiana man named Andrew Nickels pleaded guilty on Tuesday to threatening to kill a Michigan elections clerk the week after the 2020 election</a>. He left a voicemail for the Rochester Hills, MI Clerk Tina Barton, saying she deserved a “throat to the knife” (lol these guys can’t even get their threats right) because she “frauded out America of a real election.” I wonder which former president helped give him that idea! </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D8ce7196202%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw1eJYUJhVAGorVodDEkRpOi" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=8ce7196202&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said President Biden’s legal justification for attacks on Houthi militants in Yemen is “laughable.”</a> Kaine acknowledged that “Houthi behavior is abhorrent,” but the senator expressed “grave skepticism” about the White House’s interpretation of presidential military powers </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D285c16ea5f%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw2c63pFPhPF3YIEvlL8Izm9" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=285c16ea5f&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">The Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday that would largely ban the display of pride flags in public school classrooms</a>, sending the legislation to the state Senate. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dfacaee88f7%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw2JQ4_dVdqOvT-89KnYLcLS" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=facaee88f7&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">A woman spouting full-fledged neo-Nazi and anti-semitic rhetoric named Lori Kauffman is running to represent Boston’s First Suffolk District on the Massachusetts Republican State Committee</a>. Kauffman, (who was raised Jewish!) said she wants to “exile all Jews,” ban same-sex marriage, make being trans “illegal.” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D2d3328b02d%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw2gS3HnqdmNuvUahl_yuFJ3" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=2d3328b02d&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">MassGOP released a statement condemning Kauffman and warning people not to vote for her</a>. They unanimously passed a resolution to condemn her in December. Here’s a hot tip: if Republicans don’t want Nazis in the party they should stop being so welcoming to Nazis!!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br />In truly hilarious news, the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D645bc26dc9%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1709579244045000&usg=AOvVaw3OdzYP4FCDim7Dvs94Ml9t" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=645bc26dc9&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">CEO of oil giant ExxonMobil Darren Woods blamed the <em>public</em> for “waiting too long” to address climate change</a>.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px auto 32px;"><figure style="margin: 0px auto; width: 550px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" width="1456"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/01c24441-3210-4b2b-970c-b1bd037cfbb3?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085055000&usg=AOvVaw1YLenN11op0Uic9N3iBt3h" href="https://substack.com/redirect/01c24441-3210-4b2b-970c-b1bd037cfbb3?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="border: none; color: #1155cc; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="392.85714285714283" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaYyDO1LGD0oEKVeKiIZZjNechvEQDKfFQTWRFAzqzBIlzhn2dWXZ6J903U0sGvC3zWqH4GvSfi563qpS2NLOQrWgUHIdZsWPagjMdQBJO4M__lZ2Qr_GVPBZz_fwTsDNp38Fh0D1qVcWWR5e8RZxqH-bAE1AAa9l_rPDpw7Gmh1XLLpWat5p8ol9wPpIOhpL7BOsMh2Z3eEqNQBhBYYWlPr_t-MJfXEgQCoy2dEPk26YzSbRdNqkMwfHKPSz8Nm5U3W2MOHkz0ArKtlZsEtXg647eNKdJrmMI194NZSxMfrsXEmgpGLbd9WUM4=s0-d-e1-ft#https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2912,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97e3a545-eba5-4f0b-b12a-d4eb8c36f011_2100x1500.jpeg" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="550" /></a></td><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><figcaption style="box-sizing: content-box; color: grey; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 82.5px; padding-right: 82.5px; text-align: center; width: 385px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">(Composite / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)</span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">FOR YEARS, DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN STAFF struggled to get him to make donor calls and take fundraising seriously.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But that was before Trump faced an incumbent president and a primary opponent who was outraising him. It was before he was hit with nearly <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/853ad3ae-4782-48da-b5d9-5dc55b5d2009?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085055000&usg=AOvVaw1skkiv9fFkcPN4XJrUfiGJ" href="https://substack.com/redirect/853ad3ae-4782-48da-b5d9-5dc55b5d2009?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">$540 million in civil fines</a> against him and his family business in two New York cases. And it was before his political committee shelled out about <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e37df461-ea64-4eb8-bf43-c15590ee2dd5?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085055000&usg=AOvVaw1LWLRI8s4tSLt3YQoZJcqc" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e37df461-ea64-4eb8-bf43-c15590ee2dd5?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">$50 million</a> in legal bills stemming from those civil cases (as well as the four criminal indictments he faces).</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Now Trump is wooing contributors more than ever, sources tell <em>The Bulwark</em>. They say Trump is making fundraising a priority by:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Hosting more traditional events and making donor calls.</strong> Trump has two fundraisers this week at Mar-a-Lago, had two there last week, and raised $6 million on the day New York Justice Arthur Engoron slapped the Trump Organization with a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/37ee7b4e-a9ed-41d1-bebb-7cd3ef37b081?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085055000&usg=AOvVaw3JHnoPcR7eF6nbnv-9zB8J" href="https://substack.com/redirect/37ee7b4e-a9ed-41d1-bebb-7cd3ef37b081?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">record fraud fine</a>. His campaign pulled in another $6 million from a South Carolina fundraiser days before he beat Nikki Haley in her home state’s presidential primary. Former Democratic Congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/9672ee31-faf1-4105-acaa-ba8aef8fcf46?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085055000&usg=AOvVaw0HpkDJ3n4UQWjHzZBwZCVf" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9672ee31-faf1-4105-acaa-ba8aef8fcf46?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">headlining a March 7 Mar-a-Lago fundraiser</a> as well for Trump.</span></p></li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Quietly raising money for the Republican National Committee’s “nominee fund,” </strong>which he can’t yet access because he’s not yet the presidential nominee, much to his annoyance. At the same time, he’s also pulling in millions more to the pro-Trump MAGA Inc. super PAC.</span></p></li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Beefing up his online and digital fundraising staff. </strong>They have an emphasis on raising more small-dollar donors online, who are still the financial lifeblood of his campaign. And 10 cents of every dollar raised online goes to his Save America committee, which finances nearly all his legal bills. Small-dollar donors have been decreasing for Trump, according to a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/c2e41640-32a2-4d7b-acce-ce2b6965a3ff?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085055000&usg=AOvVaw1cFBhMSHB_f9XWUODtSP7L" href="https://substack.com/redirect/c2e41640-32a2-4d7b-acce-ce2b6965a3ff?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CNBC report</a> that found some contributors have complained about overbilling.</span></p></li></ul><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="line-height: 26px;"><hr style="background: rgb(224, 224, 224); border: none; height: 1px; margin: 32px 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump’s legal issues have impacted his money picture in multiple ways: (1) They made some big donors nervous about giving to him, depriving him of money he otherwise would have had sooner. (2) They led some big donors to give to Haley instead, thereby prolonging her campaign. (3) They armed Trump critics with the argument that he wants the RNC to pay his legal bills. (4) The big financial judgments against him have made cash more scarce for Trump—which in turn make it harder to fill gaps by self-funding (which Trump has always been loath to do and hasn’t done this cycle).</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“He’s much more engaged than I’ve ever seen him at this, and that’s because he has to be,” said one Republican familiar with the campaign’s finances. “The numbers right now aren’t good, but we should raise a billion dollars or $900 million at this pace now. We’ll have enough.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Republican, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations with Trump, was with the former president at the February 16 Mar-a-Lago fundraiser after Justice Engoron’s fine and said Trump “was clearly peeved. He knew it was happening. The number was clearly a lot. But he was strangely in a good mood. You or I would be in therapy if something like that happened to us, but Trump compartmentalizes and the business stuff doesn’t matter as much. What matters is becoming president. He thinks he’s going to win. And he believes that if he wins, all this other stuff gets taken care of.”</span></p><div style="line-height: 26px;"><hr style="background: rgb(224, 224, 224); border: none; height: 1px; margin: 32px 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="line-height: 26px;"><div style="color: #404040; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; margin: 24px auto; max-width: 560px; padding: 32px; text-align: center;"><div style="display: flex; line-height: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 16px; max-width: 384px; width: fit-content;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“He believes that if he wins, all this other stuff gets taken care of.” What an amazing statement. Get the inside story of MAGA every week, from Marc Caputo at <em>The Bulwark</em>.</span></p></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"></p></div></div></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/79326a25-15aa-474c-85a9-c6d6dd84e209?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085056000&usg=AOvVaw2sDx0kroyHUgl8DutZGIak" href="https://substack.com/redirect/79326a25-15aa-474c-85a9-c6d6dd84e209?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">reported having enough cash and assets to pay off the fines</a>, and he briefly fumed to others that he viewed the rulings against him as a way to take all of his easier-to-get money.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“That’s how much cash I have. They’re trying to take my cash away,” Trump told one.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump’s need to focus on fundraising came into sharp focus last week when his campaign reported raising $8.8 million, spending $11.4 million and ending with $30.5 million in the bank in January, during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. By contrast, President Biden banked nearly $56 million, raised nearly $6.9 million more than Trump, and spent about $5.8 million less than Trump.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The disparities between the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee are stark as well. The DNC pulled in $5.8 million more than the RNC, spent $3.5 million more, and ended the month with $15.4 million more in the bank.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The DNC is also under Biden’s control; the RNC isn’t (yet) under Trump’s.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But Trump <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/241b2c97-e401-4bca-b1c7-b9b961017b5c?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085056000&usg=AOvVaw3nU8yaAj_W67185XKm3vT1" href="https://substack.com/redirect/241b2c97-e401-4bca-b1c7-b9b961017b5c?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">forced the pending resignation</a> of RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, who announced Monday she plans to step down on March 8 when the RNC’s voting members meet. They’re likely to install Trump’s picks: North Carolina’s Michael Whatley as chair and Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair. Trump wants co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita to take over the role of chief operations officer.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Last Thursday, Lara Trump told reporters that Republican voters would “absolutely” support financing Trump’s legal bills. She didn’t explicitly say that the RNC would pay for them, but NBC <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e6c02307-21d7-4a3e-92fb-2ae29602715e?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085056000&usg=AOvVaw20nSJumC8t4E4kDbQIMcSa" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e6c02307-21d7-4a3e-92fb-2ae29602715e?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> she said it, leading Haley’s campaign to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/1adebe85-e027-42d4-aead-6a56e1fcc8e3?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085056000&usg=AOvVaw3NUXCc42WRb1_czXWKJ09v" href="https://substack.com/redirect/1adebe85-e027-42d4-aead-6a56e1fcc8e3?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">accuse</a> her of it saying it as well.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In response, LaCivita told reporters on Saturday that the RNC would not pay for Trump’s lawyers.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“No,” he said when asked directly about it. Asked again to clarify, an exasperated LaCivita said, “fucking no.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">RNC member Henry Barbour of Mississippi, who supports Haley, said he wants to make sure LaCivita and the Trump campaign make good on their word, so this weekend he floated a draft resolution for the RNC to vote on on March 8 that says “the Republican National Committee will not pay the legal bills of any of our candidates for any federal or state office, but will focus our spending on efforts directly related to the 2024 election cycle.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“Part of the thinking is to get them on the record [over the legal bills]. It’s in the RNC’s interest,” Barbour told <em>The Bulwark</em>. He’s also sponsoring another resolution calling on the RNC to remain neutral during the primary “until a nominee is clearly determined by reaching 1,215 delegates.” The Trump campaign projects he’ll hit that threshold by mid-March.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Barbour acknowledges that neither resolution is likely to pass. To introduce the measures, Barbour needs to win the backing of two RNC members from 10 states or territories, and he doesn’t yet have that on the 168-member panel. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Still, Barbour said, “it’s important to have this discussion.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Another RNC member, John Wahl of Alabama, said Trump’s support is so strong on the committee that the resolutions probably wouldn’t pass if they won the support of 20 members for introduction. But, he said, “the few folks who aren’t with Trump are nervous” about Lara Trump’s comments concerning Trump’s legal bills and how her sole focus was on ensuring a Trump victory.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/79bfe8c7-199c-4aaf-a966-1f9737f6b73d?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085056000&usg=AOvVaw0Rtgp57RjxWHDMEQhsU2wl" href="https://substack.com/redirect/79bfe8c7-199c-4aaf-a966-1f9737f6b73d?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="background-color: #d10000; border-radius: 8px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; font-weight: 600; height: auto; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; outline: none; padding: 12px 20px; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Get 30 day free trial</span></a></p><div style="line-height: 26px;"><hr style="background: rgb(224, 224, 224); border: none; height: 1px; margin: 32px 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">So far, Trump has been able to finance his legal bills through his Save America committee, which has spent an average of almost $3.9 million every month since January 2023, according to Federal Election Commission reports. Last month, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/b536a090-d619-4c35-bb97-aae70dc310b5?j%3DeyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI&source=gmail&ust=1709262085056000&usg=AOvVaw2fsUSNjMw7DGh6woPt6UM0" href="https://substack.com/redirect/b536a090-d619-4c35-bb97-aae70dc310b5?j=eyJ1IjoiYm1nbCJ9.OQiySaq2GV_oRRp7DBCMexRyhbqEPBlVcHieJ5CZTTI" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Save America</a> spent $2.9 million on legal bills and reported incurring an additional $1.8 million in new debts for legal fees. To cover the costs, Save America has been raising money online from small donors and it has been receiving regular cash infusion refunds from the MAGA Inc. super PAC, which had been given $42 million by Save America last year. If that sounds confusing . . . it is.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“MAGA Inc. can only refund [for legal expenses] what Save America gave it, so it’s got around $12.75M remaining before that avenue gets closed off,” Rob Pyers, a campaign finance expert, told <em>The Bulwark</em>. “Trump has about two or three months of runway before the MAGA, Inc. refund-well goes dry and Save America needs to find another funding source to pay his lawyers.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Other than that, Pyers said, his main takeaways from the most recent finance reports “are that the DNC / Biden advantage is about what I’d expect for an incumbent/party in power [and] the RNC needs to start raising a ton of money quickly.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Which puts more pressure on Trump to put away his pride and dial for dollars.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“It used to be impossible to get him to do that. He loved the imagery of being self-funded but he really didn’t self-fund,” said one Republican involved in his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. “The bulk of his fundraising is small and medium-sized donors online. That’s partly because he’s not the toast of the financial elite. And he never will be.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump is more likely to make the calls if he knows it will yield a max-out donation for his campaign ($6,600) and even bigger checks for his super PAC, Save America, or the RNC nominee fund. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In contrast to his prior campaigns, Trump now has a staff that both stays in regular contact with big donors—including those who have yet to give to him, like billionaire Ken Griffin—and follows up after calls to make sure the checks are (figuratively) mailed and (literally) cashed.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“It’s no longer amateur hour at the Trump campaign,” said one confidant. “And that means the candidate needs to be a pro about fundraising.”</span></p><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; 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line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">February 28-29</span></strong></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Marc Cooper</span></strong></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">With the clock ticking loudly toward an existential election, and with the economic and judicial noose tightening around the neck of the accused criminal who will be the GOP nominee for president, his flock of enablers, allies and quislings are now scrambling to take up their repective positions…either by becoming full time militants in the Trump army or by vaguely distancing themselves from the Supreme Leader.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The punctuation mark on that assertion comes from what is now our rogue and unabashedly autocratic Supreme Court, the primary Quisling organization in American. On Wednesday when they moved to further delay the January 6 federal trial of Donald Trump they did what almost nobody predicted.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">So let’s talk straight about what the Supremes are doing: they are fucking around with us and doing everything they can, without saying it directly, to make sure Trump’s major criminal trial not happen before the election, or not happen at all, so he can be re-elected.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We can speculate what an authoritarian America might look like, but we are getting a rather chilling preview as both the Supreme Court and the House majority as well as several state governments are already in the grip of MAGA and are busy rolling back this century and much of the previous. Look no further than the absolutely lunatic regimes in Texas and Florida not to mention the religious zealots in robes in other states ruling that embryos are full human beings and that dreadlocks should be banned from high school students –even honor students.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The decision by the Supremes. –which they could have made 10 days ago—to hear Donald Trump’s plea for permanent immunity defies any printable reaction. It is a bald-faced move to delay his trial as long as possible. Every serious legal expert said there was NO reason whatsoever to hear the case as it is equal to a banana asking the court to be exempt from human consumption. A Republican-studded district appeals court unanimously denied Trump’s plea for a level of royal-level monarchy and there was no logical reason for the Supremes to take the case.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And, yet, they did. And the case will be heard of course by at least one justice, RV maven Clarence Thomas, whose wife was up to her neck in the subversive movement to deny a peaceful transition of power in 2020. Just like any other Banana Republic corrupt court. Worse, the Supremes have set the hearing for April 22. Though they could have set it for next week, but…why hurry? The court MIGHT makes its ruling within a few days or a week after the April hearing. More likely it will not come until the end of their term in late June. And given that all proceedings on the case are now on hold, and given there are a ton of pre trial motions that will have to be considered, it is now UNLIKELY that the crucial Jan6 trial will not happen before the election. It’s an affront to our collective intelligence and it holds in contempt the American electorate who have the right to know if they are being asked to vote for someone who will turn out to be a felon convicted of conspiring to overthrow the government and to illegally remain in power.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That’s to not even mention the real possibility that this totally political and theocratic court will rule that Trump indeed does have the legal armor and immunity of a 14<sup>th</sup> Century King and they grant him immunity, wiping out all and any future trials. Ten days ago I would have said that is impossible. Today I give it a 50/50 chance as the court sinks ever deeper into the muck of moral degeneracy and putrid rot. And that should scare the living piss out of all of us. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In the meantime, by sitting on this case and further dragging it out, the course is granting de facto immunity to Trump as he continues to elude the dock where he very much belongs.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And down in Florida, the inexperienced MAGA flunky, Ailleen Cannon, who Trump appointed to the federal bench right before he fled office, and who is now hearing the slam dunk guilty case of Trump and his purloined government documents, is doing everything except throwing her body across the train tracks to slow down, postpone and try to extinguish the case – a case if it goes to court would almost certainly bring convictions on obstruction of justice.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Folks, last week I wrote that I was giving up on any serious, cross ideological, multi racial anti-Trump coalition in the streets and suites emerging and that we were left with the only hope that Trump’s defeat had to be outsourced to the courts. I’m gonna have to retract that thought, at least the second hall about the courts. The ball is back in the court of the citizenry and the calendar to get off their asses and confront these fascists is running fast and short.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Now America’s own Count Van Papen, the dissolute conservative German aristocrat and pol who opened the mainstream doors for the Nazis, that walking and talking bag of human waste, Mitch McConnell, has also made his move today. Just as the German conservatives quickly got eaten by their junior Nazi allies, Mitch is the latest to get pushed out by the same thugs he enabled. It’s Mitch who helped Trump turn the federal judiciary into a bible thumping chapter of the Federalist Society, It’s Mitch who engineered the obstruction that led to an extremist majority on the Supreme Court. It’s Mitch that legitimized the filth that Trump put before the Senate. It was also Mitch who actually wavered during Trump’s second impeachment. He was on the verge of turning his thumbs down and leading a Senate majority to convict Trump and bar him from running again. Instead, he chickened out.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Then, he made the mistake of telling the truth when he announced his acquittal vote by uncategorically suggesting that Trump had broken the law and should be dealt with by the criminal justice system. He never did anything about that since. But it cost him his personal relationship with Trump to whom he has not spoken since 2020 and it sealed his political fate. His years of ass-licking Trump and of effectively leading the GOP Senate in its subversive course was rewarded by his own members making it known he’s now too much of a squish. Mitch is gonna try to get replaced by someone who is not a card-carrying MAGA nut case but odds are slim.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">No tears to be shed over Mitch winding up in the rubbish bin. But it’s not really much good news. It is just one more indicator that the slow-moving coup by MAGA to completely consume the former Republican Party is being completed…the same way the Nazis disposed of their “friends” among the conservatives. MAGA now controls SCOTUS and the House and the departure of Mitch means the removal of the biggest hurdle in fully taking over the Senate. Don’t rule out us five years now pining over the Good Old Days when Mitch was GOP senate leader! </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">These events coincide with Trump purging the RNC of its current leadership under the pliant quisling Ronna McDaniel (Romney’s niece who dropped the use of her name to not anger the Big Boss). She was 101% loyal to Trump but even that is no longer enough. She is being purged and replaced by his genius daughter-in-law of Der Leader, Lana Trump. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Half the Republican Senate and 2/3 of the Republican House have already endorsed Trump and the other lemmings will soon follow suit.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Trump takeover game has just about been played out. I’m only curious how the MSM will continue to treat Trump henceforth – continuing to rely on the fantasy that there is some Republican Party that is now not an appendage of declaredly anti-Democratic, xenophobic and racist MAGA organization. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">All this invokes more echoes from 1930’s Germany. After Hitler consolidated power and began jailing his opponents and turning against and purging his former allies, he changed the sworn oath taken by all his armed forces. They no longer pledged allegiance to Germany, the Reich or anything else other than to affirm their personal loyalty to the person of Donald Trump. Just as the Republican Party pledged no platform in 2020 other than unbridled support for Der Trump.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That’s the hard news for me today. Just two quick addendums. I will get around to commenting on the primaries later this week, but I will limit myself on the election to saying if you are an anti-Trump voter then you are out of your mind if you hesitate in voting for Biden. Morality and politics are two different things though they occasionally intersect. If you think you cleanse your soul and keep your hands clean by abstaining or not voting for Biden then you are dirtying that same soul beyond any repair by effectively voting for Trump. Strip away all the wishcasting and ought-to-bes and understand, please, that it is only Joe Biden or Donald Trump and their respective teams, advisors and supporters, who will be in power next year. If you are not supporting one, you are supporting the either. You get no brownie points for being a, pure thinking liberal, a bona fide anti war activist or a clean-handed socialist if you are living under a Trump dictatorship that you did not help to block.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I still cling to the hope that the totality of the American people are going to reject MAGA in November. I am also going to repeat you are kidding yourself into believing It Can’t Happen Here. It sure as hell can and having observed fascist takeovers in other countries, if it comes to pass, the speed with which it will be consolidated will make your head swim. ++</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJSckks5EO4YZfpeKht_k41kwpuLO80Nhh-4RMzCRPTEF239yocKDoNGrnFqSN0k13s_LM5exnbl4_dBomdUVaekzCgl87QBYuQ3OMSmKq_-As0TWLAWmNYso7k6aGwPOci-18OVTKVwGCRMfHGPUnikJI4L6BVDqu-1D6IRcGwk04fmMv9OhMN5ZUK_g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="1196" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJSckks5EO4YZfpeKht_k41kwpuLO80Nhh-4RMzCRPTEF239yocKDoNGrnFqSN0k13s_LM5exnbl4_dBomdUVaekzCgl87QBYuQ3OMSmKq_-As0TWLAWmNYso7k6aGwPOci-18OVTKVwGCRMfHGPUnikJI4L6BVDqu-1D6IRcGwk04fmMv9OhMN5ZUK_g=w400-h400" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLIt4bFu2V6q8oAc38AmxkRQG7Hxpc1Rs-xHq72VKgTw5I46QNarmVamfwgv5SIhgX04c1tzx6f1lb2zNdQ9UwVm47KtWH9faL5z_-eqlKwpELusfW2Fsq9ayfMLdMkyAsyDsuCfHtCiMGsy8xAj68_k0K8DHn1z7qNbI_m1mO7troXLs6crdxNnkcJkk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="1196" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLIt4bFu2V6q8oAc38AmxkRQG7Hxpc1Rs-xHq72VKgTw5I46QNarmVamfwgv5SIhgX04c1tzx6f1lb2zNdQ9UwVm47KtWH9faL5z_-eqlKwpELusfW2Fsq9ayfMLdMkyAsyDsuCfHtCiMGsy8xAj68_k0K8DHn1z7qNbI_m1mO7troXLs6crdxNnkcJkk=w640-h640" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><p></p><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><div class="m_7424813868716183195mj-column-per-50 m_7424813868716183195mj-column-has-width" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 50%; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 12px; vertical-align: top;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; width: 276px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://therealnews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8c539f24d4caee97756babeeb%26id%3D7b99db586d%26e%3D07dad7261b&source=gmail&ust=1709579247926000&usg=AOvVaw0Y-vsE9nMy9K0ZG5CNkiLd" href="https://therealnews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c539f24d4caee97756babeeb&id=7b99db586d&e=07dad7261b" style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-color: rgb(246, 191, 0);" target="_blank"><img alt="A view of destroyed Al Amin Muhammad Mosque hit by Israeli airstrike, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip on October 08, 2023. 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font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="">Seven maps that illustrate Vladimir Putin’s distortion of history</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br />We close out with the following:<br /><br /></span><p style="color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; line-height: 21.4667px;"><b><span style="font-family: Combo;">The <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Sin of Omission</span></span></b></span></p><p style="color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #274e13;">It isn't the thing you do, dear,<br />It's the thing you leave undone<br />That gives you a bit of a heartache<br />At setting of the sun.<br />The tender work forgotten,<br />The letter you did not write,<br />The flowers you did not send, dear,<br />Are your haunting ghosts at night.<br /><br />The stone you might have lifted<br />Out of a brother's way;<br />The bit of heartsome counsel<br />You were hurried too much to say;<br />The loving touch of the hand, dear,<br />The gentle, winning tone<br />Which you had no time nor thought for<br />With troubles enough of your own<br />Those little acts of kindness<br />So easily out of mind,<br />Those chances to be angels<br />Which we poor mortals find -<br />They come in night and silence,<br />Each sad, reproachful wraith,<br />When hope is faint and flagging,<br />And a chill has fallen on faith.<br /><br />For life is all too short, dear,<br />And sorrow is all too great,<br />To suffer our slow compassion<br />That tarries until too late:<br />And it isn't the thing you do, dear,<br />It's the thing you leave undone<br />Which gives you a bit of heartache<br />At the setting of the sun.<br /><br /><br /></span><br /></span><strong><span style="color: white;">Margaret Elizabeth Sangster</span></strong> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color: black; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><br /></p></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-61424449271240078812024-02-25T15:25:00.000-08:002024-02-25T15:25:28.754-08:00On Our Final "Virtual Route 66" For February 2024 <span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">It is the final week of February 2024 as we present a snapshot of the week that was with thoughts courtesy Basam Yousef, The Rest is Politics, Heather Cox Richardson, Defense One, New York Times, The Institute for Policy Studies, Institute for Economics and Peace, The Financial Times of London as the Ukraine War enters its third year, Donald Trump is on its' way to the Republican Nomination, and there were rays of hope about a potential ceasefire in Gaza.</span><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We look forward to the continued privilege to serve: </span><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" bgcolor="" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 5px; border-spacing: 0px; direction: ltr; min-width: 640px; overflow: hidden; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; 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He was accused of spending 46 million, almost double the imposed limit.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Pakistan coalition nominates Shehbaz Sharif as next PM.</strong> Pakistan's former Prime Minister <span style="direction: ltr;"><span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzU5JmQ9ZTloM3Iyeg%3D%3D.5t6Ge47OcE0QBgkUUWoTzfS4E26d4RoMaB45GkgXfxM&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw3Sdv2YEZfmrF3xzkEIJhqq" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzU5JmQ9ZTloM3Iyeg==.5t6Ge47OcE0QBgkUUWoTzfS4E26d4RoMaB45GkgXfxM" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Shehbaz Sharif</a></span></span> has been nominated to lead the country again, after several parties banded together to form a coalition. The coalition is under pressure from allies of imprisoned former PM Imran Khan, who won the most seats.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Prabowo set to become Indonesia’s new president as voters choose continuity.</strong> Defence Minister <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzYzJmQ9cDF0MGI1ZQ%3D%3D.1IaQ2V8VgsgdnW9ZZtD6NiOcULcl3TURWT_KfIWIzFw&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw1VWesg4UlDOtV2MaN6PYZ3" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzYzJmQ9cDF0MGI1ZQ==.1IaQ2V8VgsgdnW9ZZtD6NiOcULcl3TURWT_KfIWIzFw" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Prabowo Subianto</a></span> won a resounding victory with nearly 60% of the vote in the February 14 polls. He'll be joined by outgoing President Joko Widodo's son, Gibran Rakanuming Raka, who ran alongside Prabowo for vice-president.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Delay of Senegal’s presidential election is ruled illegal.</strong> Senegal’s Constitutional Council, the country’s highest court, cancelled the decree signed by President Macky Sall that <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzY3JmQ9ZTR3NmQ2aw%3D%3D.l2XPM5KcufbRPyiVVFCT_kTwHxEnpc5eF1mbBJsSXR4&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw3-q8VyFZxyHOX9gdpgLdXI" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzY3JmQ9ZTR3NmQ2aw==.l2XPM5KcufbRPyiVVFCT_kTwHxEnpc5eF1mbBJsSXR4" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">postponed the election</a></span>.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">China offers to back Hungary in security matters.</strong> After having long-standing trade and investment relations, China and Hungary will now collaborate on matters related to <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzcyJmQ9ZDZ4M3ozaQ%3D%3D.Z0JzCHcZOWfw0kFYJD39dhyg9aw5dU-zXYOhXlVf4Zw&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw0PVP-_8j8ojql3uPGro8E0" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzcyJmQ9ZDZ4M3ozaQ==.Z0JzCHcZOWfw0kFYJD39dhyg9aw5dU-zXYOhXlVf4Zw" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">terrorism and transnational crimes</a></span>. Such rapprochement represents a diplomatic win for China in the EU.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; direction: ltr; min-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td height="30" style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; min-height: 30px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" bgcolor="" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; direction: ltr; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#f1f1f1" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;"><span style="color: #1b75bc; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">CONFLICT</span></span></strong></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Central African Republic says 10,000 children are fighting with armed groups.</strong> About <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0Mzc3JmQ9bzhjOGo0bA%3D%3D.5KWZrG9DRF5hoYlRJy05BmoGmm0ld6Jb0wgdjZ_09JQ&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw0Gk954iniauh6DZ2xkWxV9" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0Mzc3JmQ9bzhjOGo0bA==.5KWZrG9DRF5hoYlRJy05BmoGmm0ld6Jb0wgdjZ_09JQ" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">10,000 children are still fighting alongside armed groups in CAR.</a></span> more than a decade after civil war broke out, the government said. The fighting is mainly between Christian militias and the Muslim government.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Widow, ex-PM and former police chief indicted in assassination of Haiti’s president. </strong>An investigation of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzgyJmQ9ZjB5NHU1eQ%3D%3D.uxa8O2NCAbTNnA_hc_LWAL69tLzVjMcPBB4rI4RvmGQ&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw2_0JTORqMBw-aY2y02sMyr" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzgyJmQ9ZjB5NHU1eQ==.uxa8O2NCAbTNnA_hc_LWAL69tLzVjMcPBB4rI4RvmGQ" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank" title="https://apnews.com/article/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-killed-b56a0f8fec0832028bdc51e8d59c6af2">2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse</a> has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-PM Claude Joseph and former police chief, Léon Charles, among others.</span></span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Egypt appears to be building a wall next to Rafah in Gaza.</strong> Egypt is levelling land and building a wall near its <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0Mzg3JmQ9ajFyNW85dg%3D%3D.k8xOkXl67FLCqYSg4tD-a4S4eGOB0JFanK3yjKFsVKQ&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw1YzvzyqWCPRsHuYo6FWuUf" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0Mzg3JmQ9ajFyNW85dg==.k8xOkXl67FLCqYSg4tD-a4S4eGOB0JFanK3yjKFsVKQ" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">border with Gaza</a></span> ahead of a planned Israeli offensive on Rafah, satellite images have shown. The aim would be to keep one million refugees out of Egypt.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Spending on defense increased to record $2.2 trillion in 2023.</strong> British Military Think Tank expects <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzkxJmQ9cjloN3kzcw%3D%3D.gy4HbVYWyLWNVR2RJ9AHf4YocTJftX8eRNLlm590IjY&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw3J6ajZmbrNmmZZ8nC0Pn3U" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0MzkxJmQ9cjloN3kzcw==.gy4HbVYWyLWNVR2RJ9AHf4YocTJftX8eRNLlm590IjY" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">expenditure to rise</a></span> even more in 2024 with Israel’s war on Gaza, Russia-Ukraine conflict and tensions in Indo-Pacific. It is also being incited by the growing demand for modern technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles and Global Position Systems.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Russia claims full control of coke plant in Ukraine's Avdiivka.</strong> The claiming of the vast <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0Mzk1JmQ9dzhpOWs3bA%3D%3D.RIdv8Xxm5EA4dlaBTmih4aKd0Drcw_QbZzItAmUpTSY&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw3zRPGfjkxNqD6-FElTO-ZE" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0Mzk1JmQ9dzhpOWs3bA==.RIdv8Xxm5EA4dlaBTmih4aKd0Drcw_QbZzItAmUpTSY" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Soviet-era coke plant</a></span> in the ruined Ukrainian town cements the biggest battlefield gain in nine months. It holds particular symbolism for Russia as it was briefly taken in 2014 by Moscow-backed separatists but was then recaptured by Ukrainian troops.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; direction: ltr; min-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td height="30" style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; min-height: 30px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" bgcolor="" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; direction: ltr; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; 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line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Britain in recession with worst GDP performance in years.</strong> Gross domestic product contracted by a further 0.3% in the three months to December as Britain joined Japan among the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0Mzk5JmQ9bDltM3k1bg%3D%3D.MLdUCDDd29eDA2_b7I3kQ3T2i0ccodW8IzSsiFcrJps&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw3ENOFtMqxMy8g8cPJg4D6q" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0Mzk5JmQ9bDltM3k1bg==.MLdUCDDd29eDA2_b7I3kQ3T2i0ccodW8IzSsiFcrJps" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Group of Seven advanced economies in a recession</a>, although it is likely to be short-lived by historical standards.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Cambodia spends $1.4 bln supporting poor, vulnerable people since 2019.</strong> The UN agency said the <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDAzJmQ9ZzBtN3o5YQ%3D%3D.9wy_1i7EWvw4_USWQIbfsGPPogG_AnMmqwlYZodkiJI&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw0qLtA2dyYcXehmrbh--eV5" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDAzJmQ9ZzBtN3o5YQ==.9wy_1i7EWvw4_USWQIbfsGPPogG_AnMmqwlYZodkiJI" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">poverty rate in Cambodia</a></span> had declined to 16.6% in 2022 from 36.7% in 2014, and that the number of poor people was halved from 5.6 million to 2.8 million.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">German tyre firm Continental to cut 7,150 jobs.</strong> The world’s third largest automotive supplier is the latest German manufacturer to announce <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDA3JmQ9aDlrM2Q3aA%3D%3D.shmYWbEuZwaA5uKu-ov4glCrXbJdsovCiJO4OWxW3GY&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw0uq4l8XQtWUxVewoCwglnm" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDA3JmQ9aDlrM2Q3aA==.shmYWbEuZwaA5uKu-ov4glCrXbJdsovCiJO4OWxW3GY" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">job cuts </a></span>amid weak growth and a shift in consumer demand to electric vehicles.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">‘Dangerous decade’ ahead as instability and military spending rise. </strong>The world has entered an <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDExJmQ9dzlwNGE0bg%3D%3D.T_O01WqVDj0WqCWkxWqrK3wf8yXv6rVIw9JXcgNaZvA&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw0u02AY6u8NncnzOB8Hp2BD" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDExJmQ9dzlwNGE0bg==.T_O01WqVDj0WqCWkxWqrK3wf8yXv6rVIw9JXcgNaZvA" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">era of increasing instability</a></span> as countries around the globe boost military spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attack on Israel and China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. </span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">US plans to build military bases for Somali army. </strong>The new bases are meant to bolster capacity to <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDE1JmQ9cjdlN3I4aw%3D%3D.oHukiKCEvT0F3dfOusTrdZRZtx8krcBpRzkpbn-oBUQ&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw16yPB81QzCuLyjEgHoQPDw" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDE1JmQ9cjdlN3I4aw==.oHukiKCEvT0F3dfOusTrdZRZtx8krcBpRzkpbn-oBUQ" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">fight terrorist insurgencies</a></span> and will be used to train members of the Somali infantry. The MoU, signed last week, comes at a time when the African Union is downsizing its peacekeeping mission in the country.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; direction: ltr; min-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td height="30" style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; min-height: 30px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" bgcolor="" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5968406085256589935mlContentTable" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; direction: ltr; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; 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Low operating costs make the African country a favourable site for the intensive data mining practice.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">African Union’s second phase of flagship development plan, Agenda 2063.</strong> The 10-year implementation roadmap is being called ‘a <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDI3JmQ9bDlhOWsxZw%3D%3D.33qmUowOHbPOQLKi4dWNaVPhv8X11XQ6aG_ed0uPZzI&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw1gb54eZkuzzSc0OtUevVgK" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDI3JmQ9bDlhOWsxZw==.33qmUowOHbPOQLKi4dWNaVPhv8X11XQ6aG_ed0uPZzI" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">decade of acceleration</a></span>’ and focuses on several high-impact projects such as the African Continental Free-trade Area, Africa Outer Space Agency, and Single African Air Transport Market.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">SpaceX launches ‘Odysseus’ moon lander for historic lunar mission.</strong> The vehicle is expected to try to make history by pulling off the <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDMwJmQ9ZThtMWkxYQ%3D%3D.mOAqAqL-l8d0_KDVSJHeucRWsH2e9XN-e3mhYrg3Mx4&source=gmail&ust=1708988434065000&usg=AOvVaw12wJXruwzKaMp-RCvz7fSs" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yNDE4OTQzNzI0OTE5NzI0ODMyJmM9YzhmNCZlPTAmYj0xMjg2MDc0NDMwJmQ9ZThtMWkxYQ==.mOAqAqL-l8d0_KDVSJHeucRWsH2e9XN-e3mhYrg3Mx4" style="color: #168dd9; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">first-ever commercial lunar landing</a></span>. 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Speaking at an African Union summit in Ethiopia, Lula accused Israel of committing a genocide that compares only to the Holocaust.<br /><br />“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.”<br /><br />Taking aim at Israel’s brutal assaults on civilians in Gaza, Lula added: “It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army, and women and children.”<br /><br />Israel predictably dismissed Lula’s remarks as antisemitic. 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margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">HEATHER COX RICHARDSON</span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: grey; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><time datetime="2024-02-22T04:40:13.026Z"><span style="font-family: Combo;">FEB 22</span></time></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr height="16"><td height="16" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr height="16"><td height="16" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The centerpiece of Republicans’ case for impeaching Democratic president Joe Biden is the allegation that he and his son Hunter each accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma when Biden Sr. was vice president. But in the last week, that accusation has revealed quite a different problem, one that implicates Republicans. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The accusation that the Bidens accepted bribes broke into public channels on May 3, 2023, when Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Representative James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray saying they had received “highly credible…whistleblower disclosures” that said the Department of Justice and the FBI appeared to have “valuable, verifiable information that you have failed to disclose to the American people.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Grassley and Comer claimed there was “growing concern about the DOJ and the FBI’s track record of allowing political bias to infect their decision-making process,” and so Congress would be conducting its own “independent and objective review of this matter.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Comer then issued a subpoena for the document containing the information, a so-called FD-1023, which is the form used by FBI agents to record “raw, unverified” information from confidential informants. In it, informant Alexander Smirnov made a number of allegations about the Bidens, including that they had accepted bribes. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In July, Grassley and Comer got the document and showed it to others in a secure facility. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) saw it there, took pictures of it, and posted them on social media. She claimed that “Joe Biden is a criminal and is compromised” and that he was backing Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion because Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky “has proof of more Biden crimes.” “IMPEACH BIDEN,” she wrote.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Grassley also released it, suggesting that the Justice Department and the FBI were trying to cover up a “criminal bribery scheme” implicating the Bidens. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) jumped in, saying: “Every day, the evidence keeps mounting and the evidence that is coming in is number one, of a widespread bribery scheme of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and the entire Biden family, to extract bribes from foreign nationals.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The idea that Biden had accepted bribes was central to the House impeachment effort that then–House speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-CA) announced in September 2023.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That story fell apart a week ago, on February 14, 2024, when a federal grand jury indicted Smirnov for lying and “creating a false and fictitious record.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And the story became even more troubling yesterday, when Trump-appointed Special Counsel David Weiss of the Justice Department filed a document establishing that the informant, Alexander Smirnov, has “extensive and extremely recent” ties with “Russian intelligence agencies.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The filing revealed other, more recent, false allegations Smirnov had made, and concluded that “Smirnov’s efforts to spread misinformation about a candidate of one of the two major parties in the United States continues…. What this shows is that the misinformation he is spreading is not confined to 2020. He is actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in November.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, told reporters today that “the impeachment investigation essentially ended yesterday, in substance if not in form, with the explosive revelation that Mr. Smirnov’s allegations about Ukrainian Burisma payments to Joe Biden were concocted along with Russian intelligence agents. And it appears like the whole thing was not only obviously false and fraudulent but a product of Russian disinformation and propaganda. And that’s been the motor force behind this investigation for more than a year.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Republican release of Smirnov’s allegations in July 2023 did not happen in a vacuum: they came right after the Republican-led House censured Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) for “misleading the American public and for conduct unbecoming of an elected Member of the House of Representatives,” including “spread[ing] false accusations that the [2016] Trump campaign colluded with Russia.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But the Mueller Report concluded that “[t]he Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion” and that “the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.” The Senate Intelligence Committee Report found that “the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence…the outcome of the 2016 presidential election” and that Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort worked directly with Konstantin Kilimnik, “a Russian intelligence officer.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That effort continued in 2020, with the U.S. intelligence community assessing in March 2021 that “Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the US.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That foreign countries try to influence elections is far less a surprise than that one of the two major U.S. political parties now appears to be, wittingly or not, working on their behalf.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That willingness to do anything to win—even working with a foreign dictator—seems a logical outgrowth of the process begun during the administration of President Richard Nixon, when his people deliberately appealed to voters’ emotions with a picture of traditional America under siege by antiwar student activists, people of color, and feminist women. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">To rally voters to their party in the 1970s midterms, Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew engaged in what they called “positive polarization.” Nixon’s speechwriter Pat Buchanan wrote a memo to Nixon warning: “We are in a contest over the soul of the country now and the decision will not be some middle compromise…. It will be their kind of society or ours.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The theme that the Republicans' opponents were dangerous socialists out to destroy the country became the centerpiece of Republican rhetoric. From President Ronald Reagan’s welfare queen, who was scamming the system and thus taxpayers, through talk radio host Rush Limbaugh’s “feminazis,” to Trump’s claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” the party has defined itself as “true America” standing against enemies.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And if you believe you are fighting for the right, it only makes sense to do whatever it takes to win.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Meanwhile, that belief has now overlapped with the evangelical base that supports what it considers traditional values so that, as Alexander Ward and Heidi Przybyla outlined in <em>Politico</em> yesterday, the party is now advancing plans to impose Christian nationalism on the country. Leaders of the Christian nationalist movement incorrectly believe that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, so they intend to rest the government and public life on what they consider to be Christian values. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In December, Trump promised: “Upon taking office, I will create a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias to be led by a fully reformed Department of Justice.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">What that might look like became clear this week when the Alabama Supreme Court decided in a wrongful death suit resulting from the accidental destruction of embryos that were part of an in vitro fertilization (IVF) process, in which doctors artificially fertilize eggs outside the womb and then transfer them into a person, that fertilized human eggs have the same status as children. Chief Justice Tom Parker declared in a concurring opinion that the people of Alabama have adopted the “theologically based view” that “life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">About 2% of U.S. births are a product of IVF. Today the largest healthcare system in Alabama has announced it is halting its IVF program out of fear of prosecution. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Reworking the nation to impose Christian nationalism requires minority rule, which aligns with the ideology of authoritarianism, enabling Trump and those who share his views to praise someone like Vladimir Putin. 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Congress Should Embrace the Vitality of Immigrants</span></a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We should embrace the vitality and diversity that immigration can bring, refuse to be divided by those who want to scare us, and enact some genuine immigration reform.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The USPS Network Consolidation Plan: What’s at Stake for Southern Oregon</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A postal facility in Medford is one of many across the country facing the transfer of processing functions to a regional hub hundreds of miles away.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">United We Dream and Allies Demand Permanent Ceasefire and Immigrant Protections</span></a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">For years, anti-immigrant politicians have told us that immigration is a bad thing. It’s time to dispel this notion and to accept that immigration is a beautiful thing.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5540121156014539409row-content m_-5540121156014539409stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-5540121156014539409column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="25%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5540121156014539409image_block" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Progressive Dreams for Public Transit</span></a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Car-centric infrastructure drives inequality. As voters and advocates, we have the power to shape transit’s future for the better.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5540121156014539409row-content m_-5540121156014539409stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-5540121156014539409column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="25%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5540121156014539409image_block" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Gaza: Grand Bargain or Wider War?</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The United States can go big on diplomacy or on military destruction. Which way will Biden lean?</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5540121156014539409row-content m_-5540121156014539409stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-5540121156014539409column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="25%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5540121156014539409image_block" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">245 Leading Organizations from 31 Countries Deliver Petition Calling on the Salvadoran Attorney General to Drop All Charges against 5 Prominent Salvadoran Water Defenders</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The water defenders' arrest signals both a crackdown on civil society under President Nayib Bukele and a signal that Bukele may seek to resume metal mining operations.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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margin: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590156/456918286/242530586?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253500000&usg=AOvVaw0IJib8OucV5uvF_1Nusi-O" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590156/456918286/242530586?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Tratados De Libre Comercio vs Reformas a La Constitución</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It's time to dismantle the rules that let corporations run rough-shod over countries that want to protect their own natural resources. </span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5540121156014539409row-content m_-5540121156014539409stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-5540121156014539409column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top: 3px solid rgb(58, 174, 224); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5540121156014539409row-content m_-5540121156014539409stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-5540121156014539409column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 15px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.2;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">IPS IN THE NEWS</span></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Phyllis Bennis tells <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590157/456918287/-1162041090?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253500000&usg=AOvVaw3iEvZuB1cZtmSWTX0hnPba" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590157/456918287/-1162041090?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Al Jazeera </em></strong></a>that the U.S. is flouting international law in Israel’s war on Gaza. And she joins the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590158/456918288/-1574035031?audio%3D415856%26nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253500000&usg=AOvVaw3e1pGSdhVNvdHgXP8hPXct" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590158/456918288/-1574035031?audio=415856&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">KPFA Sunday Show</em></strong></a> to discuss the Biden administration’s ineffective diplomacy toward Israel during the conflict.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Our private jets research continues to get high-profile coverage: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590159/456918289/-167163086?i%3D1000645510388%26nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253500000&usg=AOvVaw0vCPvrRnLEJww8KAqvHv97" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590159/456918289/-167163086?i=1000645510388&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1A/NPR</em></strong></a> cites the 2023 High Flyers report in their coverage of private jet travel habits of the ultra-wealthy. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590160/456918290/1166472449?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253500000&usg=AOvVaw2KUUb478EdnLdgGJ7e0XTf" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590160/456918290/1166472449?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Cut</em></strong></a> highlights IPS’s research on private jet travel as part of coverage of Taylor Swift's efforts to stop tracking of her private jet. And a widely republished article in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590161/456918291/1016265635?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253500000&usg=AOvVaw0WimYmCgVwBW4fB7lOTK5c" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590161/456918291/1016265635?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wealth of Geeks</em></strong></a> spotlights our research to expose the full cost of private jet travel to taxpayers and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590162/456918292/56944199?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253501000&usg=AOvVaw3bcBjMosvv3AT4KkAZT4Nm" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590162/456918292/56944199?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Prensa Latina</em></strong></a> highlights updated national and state-based fact sheets on poverty from IPS and the Poor People's Campaign in an article on efforts to mobilize the 85 million poor and low-income voters in the U.S. </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Basav Sen gives a wide-ranging interview on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590163/456918293/-1574035031?audio%3D415858%26nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253501000&usg=AOvVaw1ASVD7jJKgUwko9aQS39gZ" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590163/456918293/-1574035031?audio=415858&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">KPFA Talkies</em></strong></a> regarding climate catastrophe, hollow solutions to the crisis, and the hope that listeners should derive from the brilliant organizing work of impacted communities.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590164/456918294/-543831782?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253501000&usg=AOvVaw0uEkYU2q2OpMLPDsBv8jBn" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590164/456918294/-543831782?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Common Dreams</em></strong></a> quotes John Cavanagh on our new coalition demand to the Salvadoran government: "We call on the Salvadoran government to drop all charges against the five prominent water defenders and to protect, not undermine, the human rights of all Salvadorans." </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590165/456918295/676301360?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520%23&source=gmail&ust=1708987253501000&usg=AOvVaw1GLeaKqq62EgmGSiy0xtzM" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590165/456918295/676301360?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mid Michigan Now</em></strong></a> spotlights Hamtramck City Council's resolution calling on lawmakers to "move the money" away from the military and toward human needs, which cites a 2023 analysis from our National Priorities Project on how cutting $100 billion from the Pentagon could fund clean energy initiatives, child care, education, and health care.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590166/456918296/-974419248?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU%3D%26emci%3D4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3D51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1708987253501000&usg=AOvVaw2zeMid7T-8SMdZW_qfv_Js" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/79590166/456918296/-974419248?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjUxZDc0NDZjLTc2ZDItZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=ZNElZAZ21zwiRI4SKwDQPdP5u4NgaLRKiofjNqFseqU=&emci=4097eb01-62d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=51d7446c-76d2-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4044990147935121955ee_element" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse !important; border-spacing: 0px !important; min-width: 100%; table-layout: auto; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 25px 8px 0px;" valign="top"><div class="m_4044990147935121955ee_editable" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">It has been 2 years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Over that time, <b>Ukraine’s health care system has been attacked an average of nearly 2x per day.</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">At PHR, we’ve documented the ongoing attacks on hospitals and other health care infrastructure to support accountability and justice efforts. <b>Our dataset and interactive map depict a staggering civilian toll from Russia’s war of aggression:</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><b><br /></b></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><b>1,336 total attacks on health care</b></span></li><li style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><b>699 hospitals/clinics damaged or destroyed</b></span></li><li style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><b>198 health care workers killed.</b></span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><b></b></p><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://email.phr.org/c/AQjj3AwQj_8-GLrEyysgxL3mEK681gxrKNB0okcUpRS49X4iQsyJjNclrYYn9QzzYEeF&source=gmail&ust=1708987254064000&usg=AOvVaw0_aL8ySW3sL05SjKzpZCtb" href="https://email.phr.org/c/AQjj3AwQj_8-GLrEyysgxL3mEK681gxrKNB0okcUpRS49X4iQsyJjNclrYYn9QzzYEeF" style="color: #d6001c; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"></a></b></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4044990147935121955ee_element" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse !important; border-spacing: 0px !important; min-width: 100%; table-layout: auto; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse !important; border-spacing: 0px !important; display: inline-block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; min-width: auto; table-layout: auto; text-align: center; width: initial;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#d6001c" class="m_4044990147935121955button-td" style="background: rgb(214, 0, 28); border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 1px;"><p class="m_4044990147935121955ee_editable m_4044990147935121955button-a" style="color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px;"><span style="display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://email.phr.org/c/AQjj3AwQj_8-GLrEyysg28rmEDxbARJt-loOyCRIEBpi6BvH6UkNu82n__5RP7sHBVUK&source=gmail&ust=1708987254064000&usg=AOvVaw3ckbEa6lb3ZEzWcmTJJ8cI" href="https://email.phr.org/c/AQjj3AwQj_8-GLrEyysg28rmEDxbARJt-loOyCRIEBpi6BvH6UkNu82n__5RP7sHBVUK" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(214, 0, 28); color: white; display: block; font-weight: bold; height: 20px; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 12px 20px; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">LEARN MORE</span></a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4044990147935121955ee_element" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse !important; border-spacing: 0px !important; min-width: 100%; table-layout: auto; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 10px;" valign="top"><div class="m_4044990147935121955ee_editable" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Through these two years of brutality, our message continues to be clear: <b>attacks against health care must be investigated as a war crime. Detained health care workers must be released. Perpetrators must be held accountable.</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">We invite you to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://email.phr.org/c/AQjj3AwQj_8-GLrEyysg28rmEDxbARJt-loOyCRIEBpi6BvH6UkNu82n__5RP7sHBVUK&source=gmail&ust=1708987254064000&usg=AOvVaw3ckbEa6lb3ZEzWcmTJJ8cI" href="https://email.phr.org/c/AQjj3AwQj_8-GLrEyysg28rmEDxbARJt-loOyCRIEBpi6BvH6UkNu82n__5RP7sHBVUK" style="color: #db001d; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"><b>read our latest research</b></a> on how Russia has systematically targeted health care as a means of enforcing control over Ukraine’s civilian population – constituting clear violations of international law.</span></p><p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; 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text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump rallies for donations as Biden’s campaign racks up record cash pile</span></span></a></span></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Donald Trump stands on a stage, staring out at the audience. 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Trump in Nashville on Thursday. He has continued to cast mail-in voting as rife with fraud. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Taylor Baucom for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><h1 style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 37.5px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Donald Trump’s self-created hurdles</span></h1><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px auto; 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Maggie Haberman</a></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Senior Political Correspondent</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">For much of 2023, Donald Trump’s political campaign was defined by the criminal charges he faces in four jurisdictions. Republicans reacted, the former president went to arraignments and the coverage on television was often wall to wall.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The cycle of events created a sense of motion for a front-running Republican candidate seeking another term in office who was, in fact, speaking fairly infrequently in public compared with his previous campaigns. That impression cushioned him from, bluntly, himself — limiting the self-inflicted wounds he made by giving relatively few interviews and holding relatively few rallies.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But as Trump has moved closer to becoming the Republican nominee, such a cushion has become harder to maintain. There is barely a primary race for him to disappear behind. And as the race shifts to a new phase, he is creating hurdles his allies wish he would avoid.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Take his recent comments about mail-in voting and early voting.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“If you have mail-in voting, you automatically have fraud,” Trump said to the Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week. When Ingraham pointed out that mail-in voting exists in Florida, a state where Trump lives and which he won, he pressed again. “That’s right, that’s right. If you have it, you’re going to have fraud,” he said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It’s a message he delivered again in Nashville before an audience of Christian broadcasters on Thursday night. Mail-in voting is rife with fraud, he insisted.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“We no longer have Election Day, we have election periods, some of them last for 45 days,” Trump said ominously. “And what they do during those 45 days is very bad. A lot of bad things happen.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That’s completely in keeping with his repeated false claims that he lost the 2020 election because of widespread fraud, despite the fact that dozens of judges have ruled against his perspective and his claims were never substantiated.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But it runs counter to efforts by both Trump and his aides, around one year ago, to soften his attacks on mail voting. At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington in March 2023, Trump said it was time to “change our thinking” on early and mail-in voting, a reflection that the party needed to start banking those kinds of votes in order to win.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That’s a message that people like the all-but-certain outgoing chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, has been espousing for many months. So has Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, whom he has endorsed to be the next co-chair of the national party.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Appearing at this year’s CPAC, Lara Trump said this week that embracing early voting is an imperative for Republicans.</span></p><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#m_8066376605279556565_a11y-skip-universal-0" style="background-color: white; display: block; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Continue reading the main story</span></a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 10px; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); margin: 0px; padding-top: 15px;"></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><h3 class="m_8066376605279556565css-kf37zi" style="color: #666666; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">ADVERTISEMENT</span></h3><span style="text-align: center; width: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px auto;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/TqfynHCEHa69xHpHQT2N2w~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0SVaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MzMzNTEmbGk9Q04mbT1mOWQ1MDQ2MDIwY2ZkZWZmZjVkZWRjYzM2MWQ0YmU1MyZwPUNOXzIwMjQwMjIzJnRlPTEmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3MmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjNXA255dEIKZdRXJ9llvxcablIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~&source=gmail&ust=1708986229676000&usg=AOvVaw37TAqZRhU33aS49NzA0K_Q" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/TqfynHCEHa69xHpHQT2N2w~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0SVaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MzMzNTEmbGk9Q04mbT1mOWQ1MDQ2MDIwY2ZkZWZmZjVkZWRjYzM2MWQ0YmU1MyZwPUNOXzIwMjQwMjIzJnRlPTEmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3MmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjNXA255dEIKZdRXJ9llvxcablIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="Ad" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZvAwgR6ScZAl8riuGiyUrquKekPeS8V0lwQ56ydmc6CX2qmmcjEGlTUULjsL7VsSnwg_by4RMJK0Hijo9zEfvw4n0j250x6kbf1y7FoRRvYjvjJrxG1Osx_BaNWHMCf08rvYKxrUV7NzapZk4Cjdfg9Wiv1HO9xkt-S5jLei_Z=s0-d-e1-ft#https://liveintent.newyorktimesinfo.com/imp?s=33351&li=CN&m=f9d5046020cfdefff5dedcc361d4be53&p=CN_20240223" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 600px; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px;"></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 20px; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“The truth is, if we want to compete with the Democrats, we cannot wait until Election Day,” she said. “If we want to compete and win, we must embrace early voting. The days of waiting to vote until Election Day are over.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27.5px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">A more familiar Trump re-emerges</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Since being indicted, Trump has not appeared interested in adhering to that message. His attacks on mail-in voting have distressed top Republicans since mid-2020, when the coronavirus pandemic prompted changes in what various states allowed in terms of absentee ballots and mail voting.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">At the time, the House Republican leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy, said he had tried to warn Trump that he was damaging himself with his attacks.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“You know who is most afraid of Covid? Seniors. 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When he declared that he wanted to work on repealing the Affordable Care Act, it caught his advisers by surprise, especially given the law’s popularity and his own disastrous efforts to unwind the health law before. Democrats immediately highlighted the statement.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Then there is the issue of Trump moving toward becoming the de facto Republican nominee, and his political world expanding in the process.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">On Friday, an ally of Trump announced a new super PAC that is going to be supported by the former president’s friend — Ike Perlmutter, the billionaire and former chief executive of Marvel Entertainment. It will air ads in the general election. Trump has blessed the new group, even though it isn’t clear how it will function alongside the existing super PAC that has been backing him for months.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">So far, Trump’s campaign has been professionalized and disciplined, controlling what it can and generally doing its best to limit the things it cannot.</span></p><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#m_8066376605279556565_a11y-skip-universal-0" style="background-color: white; display: block; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Continue reading the main story</span></a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; 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border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 20px; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr><td height="14" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 0; margin: 0px;" width="100%"></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 20px; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Claude O’Donovan holds up a signed photo of Donald Trump as he sits next to his wife, Sunny." class="m_8066376605279556565css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="400" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NbgHCAoRfW5DBqEgnl10v3_6jbgVEj19ptxKLbpH2MruczQNIJd7QFaX7CbQEy91dxKvWUG7Q86ysL_zMzgnHsQbr_L3TDtN-nCcn4B714XiSDhQAmJaJfYAN9yk1Q5Xikht-Vur8-ko4yHFq-m7expIRq9AdqE2-8Wh95vIrgO0a_7-VCi_J_9zv3aZRh4S5y0R5uCnqlO=s0-d-e1-ft#https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/23/multimedia/23on-politics-newsletter-sc-cfgl/23on-politics-newsletter-sc-cfgl-jumbo.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_8066376605279556565css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="color: #666666; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Claude, left, and Sunny O’Donovan hosted a campaign stop in their South Carolina home for Nikki Haley during her bid for governor. The O’Donovans are planning to vote for Trump in tomorrow’s primary. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Dustin Chambers for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">How did Haley’s South Carolina become Trump Country? Ask the Tea Party.</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When Nikki Haley ran for governor of South Carolina in 2010, one of her early campaign stops was the Aiken, S.C., living room of Claude and Sunny O’Donovan.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Claude O’Donovan, 85, the co-founder of a local Tea Party group, had invited Haley and other candidates to make their cases to the conservative activists of Aiken County, a heavily Republican enclave.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“We fell in love with her,” he said. “She was a dynamite gal.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A digital picture frame in the O’Donovans’ home still displays a photograph of Haley at the meeting. But tomorrow, when Haley faces Donald J. Trump in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary, both of the O’Donovans plan to vote for Trump.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“I think he has the values of the Tea Party,” Sunny O’Donovan, 84, said. “It was for the people, and I see Trump as being for the people.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a class="m_8066376605279556565css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/4y6iuFlGnL4AVo3EEzQSSg~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TkaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2ludGhyb3AuZWR1L3dpbnRocm9wcG9sbC8yMDI0LWZlYnJ1YXJ5LXdpbnRocm9wcG9sbC1yZXN1bHRzLmFzcHg_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1708986229676000&usg=AOvVaw2FLBp5CJU-XaU4H8-kDBxV" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/4y6iuFlGnL4AVo3EEzQSSg~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TkaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2ludGhyb3AuZWR1L3dpbnRocm9wcG9sbC8yMDI0LWZlYnJ1YXJ5LXdpbnRocm9wcG9sbC1yZXN1bHRzLmFzcHg_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">Recent polls</a> show Trump leading Haley by 36 points in South Carolina. A decisive loss would move the Republican nomination further out of reach and provide a painful coda to her political career in her home state. A Trump win in South Carolina would also write the final chapter of one of the most important political stories of the last decade: the story of how Trump entered politics amid a transformative grass-roots movement and then absorbed that movement into his own.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, the Tea Party movement channeled outrage over bank bailouts and right-wing animosity toward the new president and his policies into a wave of midterm triumphs. The party went on to win Republican majorities in Congress and statehouses across the country and minted a new generation of political stars, including Haley.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Years later, initially skeptical Tea Partiers embraced Trump, who, as candidate and president, offered a supercharged version of the movement’s antipathy toward immigrants, fear of a changing country and anti-establishment fervor.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“The kind of folks that were Tea Party in 2010 are part of the MAGA movement in 2024,” said Scott Huffmon, a political science professor at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., and director of the Winthrop Poll. “We owe all this to the Tea Party.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Today, few of the original Tea Party organizations remain. But their former dominance, and dissolution into Trump’s camp, goes a long way toward explaining how South Carolina abandoned its once-favorite daughter for a former Democrat from New York.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Olivia Perez-Cubas, a spokeswoman for Haley’s campaign, defended the former governor’s movement credentials. “Just like when she ran for governor, Nikki is the outsider, conservative candidate,” she said in a statement.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But even some once-dedicated supporters have moved on.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“Yes, he’s the crazy uncle at Thanksgiving,” Jane Page Thompson, a co-founder of Claude O’Donovan’s Tea Party group, said of Trump. “But right now America <span style="font-style: italic;">needs</span> the crazy uncle at Thanksgiving — not the snowflake niece.” — <span style="font-style: italic;">Charles Homans</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The president has made a point of calling out Republicans for tanking the border restrictions they have demanded for years.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Michael D. Shear</span></p></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 25px;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_8066376605279556565css-60p5qj" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 291px; vertical-align: top; width: 291px;" valign="top" width="291"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/93ESChCDye9OwelFXGg-vA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMi91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1uYXRpb25hbC1jaHJpc3RpYW4tYnJvYWRjYXN0ZXJzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1708986229676000&usg=AOvVaw3AsQg08r965BxCss2brJGQ" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/93ESChCDye9OwelFXGg-vA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMi91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1uYXRpb25hbC1jaHJpc3RpYW4tYnJvYWRjYXN0ZXJzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="Donald Trump, wearing a dark suit and red tie, speaks from behind a lectern adorned with the logo of the National Religious Broadcasters association." class="m_8066376605279556565css-1e100kg CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYi-lI_ipQXUcYWmuftHevkn89v-7HwkdVd_4zUyl2f5xylkxbkmpMldAUeJ1s45bk9JxSoLtg7jKAaAVp7gymsLlMRAgWUIKxY7A6rYAxR3EkGJbcJ3-rVXTcdkwYmV3ebJ-mXQsiLdRO6jgLuZIaCzCS95CkKZh0bE29XvBoRjRNImvbjrVbR9wjZn8AErNskB7JCfa3e=s0-d-e1-ft#https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/22/multimedia/22pol-swiper-trump-nrb-02-kqcv/22pol-swiper-trump-nrb-02-kqcv-square640.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 291px;" width="291" /><p style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; text-align: right;">Taylor Baucom for The New York Times</p></span></a></td><td class="m_8066376605279556565css-3fudig" style="border-collapse: collapse; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 292px;" valign="top" width="292"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/93ESChCDye9OwelFXGg-vA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMi91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1uYXRpb25hbC1jaHJpc3RpYW4tYnJvYWRjYXN0ZXJzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1708986229676000&usg=AOvVaw3AsQg08r965BxCss2brJGQ" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/93ESChCDye9OwelFXGg-vA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMi91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1uYXRpb25hbC1jaHJpc3RpYW4tYnJvYWRjYXN0ZXJzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><h3 style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Trump Frames Election as Battle Against ‘Wicked’ System Bent on Attacking Christians</span></h3><p class="m_8066376605279556565css-mq3m0l" style="color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Speaking at a Christian media convention in Nashville, former President Donald J. Trump claimed that a “radical left, corrupt political class” was persecuting Christians.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Michael Gold</span></p></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 25px;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_8066376605279556565css-60p5qj" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 291px; vertical-align: top; width: 291px;" valign="top" width="291"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/ndwNXLn-KlMdVYXkW-6SnQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1zdXBlci1wYWMtcmlnaHQtZm9yLWFtZXJpY2EuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD01NiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jbl8yMDI0MDIyMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTU5NDYmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3MmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1OTAwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZdRXJ9llvxcablIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~&source=gmail&ust=1708986229676000&usg=AOvVaw28zMYGBjOWgtCAunuqjHuA" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/ndwNXLn-KlMdVYXkW-6SnQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1zdXBlci1wYWMtcmlnaHQtZm9yLWFtZXJpY2EuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD01NiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jbl8yMDI0MDIyMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTU5NDYmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3MmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1OTAwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZdRXJ9llvxcablIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" style="color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="Two displays showing American flags with "Trump" overlaid on them." class="m_8066376605279556565css-1e100kg CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYMsyGZzHpvxB57VVA0fl5Iw5RtEIkXUFpXaTMzBLEdGJRt-CTE85gIUKCUd9318Q9qtMRj83ScWRbjTY_xQy7yGvIXepY_c5g1boNJtHB-Kq3-HZxpAAQ3qhW3Fu-3P8rtqOz8-WXP9QB_QJN54teSmHU1_sJ5fCgDChHMnhXu9eM8FZTZ8DHVn5ZGajSaBV4=s0-d-e1-ft#https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/23/multimedia/23pol-swiper-trump-pac-pjvf/23pol-swiper-trump-pac-pjvf-square640.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 291px;" width="291" /><p style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; text-align: right;">Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times</p></span></a></td><td class="m_8066376605279556565css-3fudig" style="border-collapse: collapse; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 292px;" valign="top" width="292"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/ndwNXLn-KlMdVYXkW-6SnQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1zdXBlci1wYWMtcmlnaHQtZm9yLWFtZXJpY2EuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD01NiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jbl8yMDI0MDIyMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTU5NDYmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3MmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1OTAwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZdRXJ9llvxcablIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~&source=gmail&ust=1708986229676000&usg=AOvVaw28zMYGBjOWgtCAunuqjHuA" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/ndwNXLn-KlMdVYXkW-6SnQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1zdXBlci1wYWMtcmlnaHQtZm9yLWFtZXJpY2EuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD01NiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jbl8yMDI0MDIyMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTU5NDYmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3MmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1OTAwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZdRXJ9llvxcablIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" style="color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><h3 style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">A New Pro-Trump Super PAC Has Formed, With Ties to Mar-a-Lago</span></h3><p class="m_8066376605279556565css-mq3m0l" style="color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The group, Right for America, is being supported by Ike Perlmutter, the billionaire former Marvel mogul and a Mar-a-Lago member.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Maggie Haberman</span></p></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 25px;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_8066376605279556565css-60p5qj" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 291px; vertical-align: top; width: 291px;" valign="top" width="291"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/OttFgTOSYl_WjKtbM5kNfA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1jbGFzc2lmaWVkLWRvY3VtZW50cy1jYXNlLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1708986229677000&usg=AOvVaw2NpmXE65sw8-eUVKirjHoT" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/OttFgTOSYl_WjKtbM5kNfA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1jbGFzc2lmaWVkLWRvY3VtZW50cy1jYXNlLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="Former President Donald J. Trump in a blue suit and red tie, gesturing with his hands as he speaks in front of an ornate iron gate." class="m_8066376605279556565css-1e100kg CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZ747dNmXxZxlV-jkEGvef-QuJ7IlfHcu0cRKDcB2vGLek4pUtr5lxEjNzOkM6Mf5jlhePVW_5PLcRV9CniNW3ZrLA6_jpkFE2hVYT-79ofEx61Nn8tohpT96WEP1cTFfNTLF-b7SEwwHF-62lRgQd4tYVpiNkznBxGSEwoc_knRKO2LidGaSxBBK1UTCXySblf4Q=s0-d-e1-ft#https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/22/multimedia/22dc-trump-documents-01-hgzq/22dc-trump-documents-01-hgzq-square640.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 291px;" width="291" /><p style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; text-align: right;">Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press</p></span></a></td><td class="m_8066376605279556565css-3fudig" style="border-collapse: collapse; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 292px;" valign="top" width="292"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/OttFgTOSYl_WjKtbM5kNfA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1jbGFzc2lmaWVkLWRvY3VtZW50cy1jYXNlLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1708986229677000&usg=AOvVaw2NpmXE65sw8-eUVKirjHoT" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/OttFgTOSYl_WjKtbM5kNfA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1jbGFzc2lmaWVkLWRvY3VtZW50cy1jYXNlLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><h3 style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Trump Seeks to Dismiss Classified Documents Case</span></h3><p class="m_8066376605279556565css-mq3m0l" style="color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The former president’s lawyers cited an array of arguments, some of which tested the bounds of credulity or clashed with prior court rulings.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Alan Feuer</span></p></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 25px;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_8066376605279556565css-60p5qj" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 291px; vertical-align: top; width: 291px;" valign="top" width="291"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/EkBDZkiXveQz_tmz_vycpA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy9idXNpbmVzcy9tZWRpYS9yaWdodC13aW5nLW1lZGlhLWFsZXhhbmRlci1zbWlybm92Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1708986229677000&usg=AOvVaw1M8Xdv7GbPo91Iuf4iYz1Z" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/EkBDZkiXveQz_tmz_vycpA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy9idXNpbmVzcy9tZWRpYS9yaWdodC13aW5nLW1lZGlhLWFsZXhhbmRlci1zbWlybm92Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: black; 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Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via Associated Press</p></span></a></td><td class="m_8066376605279556565css-3fudig" style="border-collapse: collapse; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 292px;" valign="top" width="292"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/EkBDZkiXveQz_tmz_vycpA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy9idXNpbmVzcy9tZWRpYS9yaWdodC13aW5nLW1lZGlhLWFsZXhhbmRlci1zbWlybm92Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1708986229677000&usg=AOvVaw1M8Xdv7GbPo91Iuf4iYz1Z" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/EkBDZkiXveQz_tmz_vycpA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnu6xXP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yMy9idXNpbmVzcy9tZWRpYS9yaWdodC13aW5nLW1lZGlhLWFsZXhhbmRlci1zbWlybm92Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAyMjMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE1OTQ2Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTkwMDImdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmXUVyfZZb8XGm5SGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><h3 style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">A Biden Accuser Was Discredited. Right-Wing Media Is Undeterred.</span></h3><p class="m_8066376605279556565css-mq3m0l" style="color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Revelations that Alexander Smirnov, an F.B.I. informant, was a serial fabulist were downplayed on air and online by those who continued to insist the president should be impeached.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Michael M. 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</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-15174331394148373212024-02-17T18:52:00.000-08:002024-02-17T18:52:20.155-08:00On Our Weekly "Virtual Route 66" : On the Week That Was....<p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONTXsDFDQ-NsT6Li_-h0y1mnCi84V4oRwQ1T6T-_-3uBmuF1OEZsW_fgUKVvOE4z0orQE81OvX3QZdqtEJ7j-iovgha_lIKFf80r009ZyOo9JPHbHZ3qpqhWhr51A9m1-6J4UbcLtr2tAVyxEfnnRtrbgHvRanh1VmdZ9vl1RJIQiLi3srw4Paj0ZU-M/s691/Rise.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="691" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONTXsDFDQ-NsT6Li_-h0y1mnCi84V4oRwQ1T6T-_-3uBmuF1OEZsW_fgUKVvOE4z0orQE81OvX3QZdqtEJ7j-iovgha_lIKFf80r009ZyOo9JPHbHZ3qpqhWhr51A9m1-6J4UbcLtr2tAVyxEfnnRtrbgHvRanh1VmdZ9vl1RJIQiLi3srw4Paj0ZU-M/w640-h200/Rise.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><br />It has been quite a week in our World as the war in Ukraine raged on, The Israel-Gaza War continued, US Elections plowed on, Indonesia elected a new President, Pakistan had an election, and as in Russia, the leading opposition leader to Vladimir Putin died in prison.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">Our team pulled together a snapshot of the week that was during our weekly Virtual Route 66 with thoughts courtesy of Crooked Media, The Economist of London, The Financial Times, Crystal Ball, and Heather Cox Richardson:</span></p><p><br /></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="m_7452661485461553276templateHeader" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><u><strong>Editor's note:</strong></u> Crooked is closed on Monday for Presidents Day. See you right back in your inbox on Tuesday!</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYtGx5f8GmNLkO2bFuiaO7VgwzeO452beKi32zyQhZoSPRHx_hSSE3Oa4tGYaQ8sjIHl6UaIx6LZy3563QctR6VKJ3V4Fqt-x2E5d4DRC3pJYs5NQ9NR4HVToKmTjtzyWIUz809YDjKiU0F-gh2ofi--gRuisw58O0=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6/images/e726b283-4298-4cc4-1484-afca5e887194.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Vladimir Putin is again suspected</strong> of having orchestrated the elimination of one of his political enemies. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most high-profile domestic opponent, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3De1e51ffc45%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw2sWRkRPakAkSB2m6eUI4_H" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=e1e51ffc45&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Alexei Navalny, died on Friday at the penal colony where he was serving a 30-year sentence</a>, according to prison officials. Navalny was a former lawyer who became an anti-corruption crusader and the country’s most prominent opposition leader. The timing is notable as Putin prepares for an “election” (wink) that would keep him in power until at least 2030. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In a press conference on Friday, President Joe Biden expressed his outrage over Navalny’s death, and joined other Western leaders in holding the Kremlin responsible. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D452eefd1b2%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw3u9Pou-di3NY4ZnNGxnRTa" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=452eefd1b2&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Biden was unequivocal, saying</a>: “Russian authorities are going to tell their own story. Make no mistake, make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny's death, Putin is responsible.”<br /> </span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Navalny rose to prominence over a decade ago documenting the vast corruption at the highest levels of Putin’s Russia with <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dbf245a81c6%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw2NvAqyuZuTcnkmnETbKTWH" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=bf245a81c6&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">extraordinarily well-produced investigative videos</a>. His death leaves a giant hole in Russia’s opposition movement, and makes any dream of an alternative future to Putin even more remote. The Russian president has currently served as the country’s leader for over two decades, longer than anyone since Joseph Stalin. Navalny voluntarily returned to Russia from Germany in 2021, where he had been treated for what lab tests indicated was an attempt to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D69e5fd119c%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw0qMOY632h9wBgxqC4wtf_i" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=69e5fd119c&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">poison him with a nerve agent</a>. He said at the time that he was poisoned in August 2020 in Siberia, which the Kremlin has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd24e57b21a%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw10b1trgYkFKRUpKV3lCktm" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d24e57b21a&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">strenuously denied</a>.</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWn5xOwZIamOQePklCymRPs6SFBnoaJFTVVboNoNMy_FV7IjLXIi5UEeGybnB7K26gsozcSszvTYb3krPQuaYZSCpmfPFNYQgv9v9ClCje_8DUIAgw_KIcwnyqlpyDqm5Cqa_DpGDCO7Wt9W4dpnSO8TnAN3B2kKd2GSlkLn1su19LeWFK2aP2EdF9SpZ81uOclvppxg9ZgH6n5E5CmyoPFe5g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Navalny’s death has far-reaching implications</strong>. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Many Republicans condemned Putin and the Kremlin on Friday, but former United Nations Ambassador <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D5749db58a9%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw3BYlerL8vBvS2u8wsQJVL9" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=5749db58a9&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Nikki Haley went one logical step further and took aim at her presidential primary opponent</a>/former boss/the current GOP frontrunner: Donald Trump. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D0fba13165f%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw2FqSRlxZbMZX6rX4EWF5gA" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=0fba13165f&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Haley wrote on X (Twitter)</a>: “Putin did this. The same Putin who Donald Trump praises and defends. The same Trump who said: ‘In all fairness to Putin, you’re saying he killed people. I haven’t seen that.’” We’ll remember this if and when Haley inevitably endorses Trump when she is forced to suspend her campaign in a few weeks, but she brings up an important point. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump had an exceedingly warm relationship with the Russian autocrat <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D704a6524de%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw0srfgZH1xs4ywyCIlMcNUV" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=704a6524de&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">and often spoke admiringly of him</a>, which seemed to account for the former president’s silence on the death of Navalny. In another post on X, Haley wrote: “Putin murdered his political opponent and Trump hasn’t said a word after he said he would encourage Putin to invade our allies. He has, however, posted 20+ times on social media about his legal drama and fake polls.”</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /><strong>Hundreds of protesters gathered</strong> in cities across Europe on Friday to express outrage and grief over Navalny’s death, often congregating outside of Russian embassies. In Berlin, a crowd of some 600 people amassed, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3De2f3bb4f99%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw2vxqGcSUPK9BXVhcRSgq51" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=e2f3bb4f99&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">chanting—in Russian, German, and English—slogans like “Putin to the Hague.”</a> In Moscow, police looked on as Russians queued to lay flowers at a monument to victims of Soviet repression in the long shadow of what was once KGB headquarters.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgmpLAsJXxhlQJu5na4vrXe0ZiRnDh8FbQBhuiHL8rXl_fQicij_CkS1acSOCPffgbkGOA9p2ocdoTRFFC3ymQWE_eKIcHKESVRKG08aMbNlQLavLZ1bMTMLP34n6xkBYSBkMHn-lr6x59I-6gpMLNkCZSuUkWNMTVaGeMenvM5MW_ecM0qXZWAGuy5pA-IwvkShtvOMe39DKbWCdxUucyg42zD=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">So many things happened last week: Democrats won George Santos’s seat back, the House impeached the Homeland Security Secretary instead of addressing the border crisis, and Biden joined TikTok. Listen to this week’s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Da59fdf99cc%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw0Atpeb_F4UZV7za1NFWAub" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=a59fdf99cc&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Pod Save America</a> to get up to date on all of the above plus, Lovett gets Chris Christie thoughts on what it will take to finally defeat Trump. Check out the full pod or watch along on the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd5ab3ff21f%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw2slpupAFmTS15OFWSNvdmO" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d5ab3ff21f&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Pod Save America Youtube channel</a>.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D74703796ad%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw2jZJjHcH4M27o3bpA511PQ" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=74703796ad&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgiyRq4eqBsX_zZ3D5UW1JGw947Mm_P0ZbkKqE5lejj5woAji49fZdQyvH-xrzbq53d7oHGv3qphpTdhgfx845_-0jN8sPHaNWL1KI7eY8nNcA9RoF2JMjuErIkx8P0BOHR0hl-_hyphenhyphenk0ZBm_YYtdaWX5ThwQabL81rnarVGuCOW1RxhVBwwd_OMVlWJrl0IS9dqwAWaiByZ53-qpwzYX5Xm45ow=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Finally, some good news! New York Supreme Court <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Da61dafb271%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw3u-SQlO69AzsX7bLmg-Q_m" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=a61dafb271&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Justice Arthour Engoron ordered disgraced former president Donald Trump to pay $364 million in penalties</a> on Friday after a months-long civil trail. Trump and his Trump Organization associates were charged by Attorney General Letitia James (D-NY) of fraudulently valuing its properties in order to secure more favorable loans and insurance. Trump is also barred from doing business in New York state as an officer or director for three years. Two independently-appointed monitors will oversee the Trump Organization’s operations moving forward. Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr. are also barred from serving as officers in any such companies for two years, and were ordered to pay penalties of $4 million each. Judge Engoron noted the defendants’ <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dfdcd174554%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw3FhJamRP3bmcE2SIkw4oCu" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=fdcd174554&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">“complete lack of contrition”</a> in his decision, which he said, “borders on pathological.” Yep, that’s him alright! So to recap: barred from doing business in New York for three years, but totally fine to continue running for the country’s highest office. Excellent system. No notes!</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgFEUCyAKAGkt5eoHpkprI6yZh03YYA6NgK1K0u6Bacgy_RGigyzMygu53AEpjVondz6sXRh-Zkp65m7fapopNAM9sXbzYSW6TnLTHpoA1geUwEfOSYpaPJg07lpzoeOoChkK0k8-ye7OgCklyLIlbURDvwvJzY4WcDwbzFBpRYvrizIYYKNpeTsJUm7WTwJK_Q6rGWjuzXOvImApVEHbDOdvi-=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_7452661485461553276mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Speaking of Trump, two sources told the New York Times that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Db9b11667a0%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw3p5iGS3NNFO2ZS4dgbO4md" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b9b11667a0&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">he has told his advisers and allies that he likes the idea of a 16-week national abortion ban</a>, which he thinks will satisfy his bloodthirsty base. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">At a speech for the United Jewish Appeal Federation, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Ddbb16d09b1%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw0gr5n48NQEG-bFaPJsPHMc" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=dbb16d09b1&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) raised eyebrows when she justified Israel’s “right to defend itself” and its overwhelming military campaign in Gaza using the following analogy</a>: “If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I'm sorry my friends, there would be no Canada the next day…That is a natural reaction.” Uhh…what? That’s some Republican-ass logic if we’ve ever heard it. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Former Gov. Roy Barnes (D-GA) testified in the Fani Willis misconduct case that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D35c17d6c97%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw03fkl8tBaaM5rep4z0Py1b" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=35c17d6c97&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">he turned down the job of special prosecutor because he didn’t want to “live with bodyguards for the rest of my life,”</a> due to the constant threats from Trump Supporters. Smart man!</span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Df6fa05cb0a%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw1QTaiMcQ5IeJCzl22iPyvV" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=f6fa05cb0a&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Democratic leaders in the House are checking the temperature for potentially forcing a vote on the Senate-passed foreign aid bill</a>. But many progressive lawmakers have raised concerns over supporting more unconditional aid to Israel as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza remains dire. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D1ccf399dd3%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw0kb_8RLVAg5SeMzEeuA2uV" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=1ccf399dd3&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">The number of <em>Democrats</em> who disapprove of the U.S. government’s handling of the southern border hit the highest level of Joe Biden’s presidency</a> this week, according to a new Pew Research poll. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D719db93f54%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1708308385917000&usg=AOvVaw2s2UN4Rfv8M_ahtTPEysKc" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=719db93f54&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">A potential witness in the House Ethics Committee investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) claims that she was hired to attend and have sex with people in Gaetz’s circle</a>. She also claims she has the texts to prove it, according to the woman’s attorney, who spoke to <em>The Daily Beast</em>. The House investigation is seeking to find out whether this giant-headed man paid for sex with women and an underage girl.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6221173487137614143mobile-hide" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6221173487137614143mobile-hide" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://email.news-alerts.ft.com/c/eJxEkc1u4zoMRp9G3rGQRP0utAhQBMj69j4AJVKt0cbO2DIyeftBOy1mzbPgOV-jIa_r9ihtXYYsY-KipUXnJykm6piiDVZPcqX548LFtUBdIoOJzoPjXoGiRmDukrxB7Fz_wi-Pm5R52QctY3orLVdEyuRbJ4otU8tZdLA5xqyx12kuVlunrXHaaMT0JKZ9EqmmGMT3oJxe5L4Dfcg29qc-ntp6nT7K2xi3XeFJ2bOy5_v9_n1S9vztpOw5ZU3S0ECnFMFp34A8O-DcjQ4pMrWk8Myyv4_1pvB5bIcoG3Z5vcoyLqzwmROjYHDgTY5gtVQwsXWwDmNyhk1MpCxeH30oPC3rmPvcaMzrovD0XQK-2ig8_eS-bSsfbZRFfo9pK9f5XW7rsdH2oEU5_fqJf4lu8uuQfVy4-BxDz6ShJzTgUqpQpSOE7KU647j18IML_ycLv8zXf2uaNI2Nlp3a52sXLrVxMJga1BoMOC8aEnkBDsyx2soO3XTssv1_zFx0ClhbF2g-WXDaVKhoGnSygdhmk0X-BAAA__8JK7j3&source=gmail&ust=1708308348468000&usg=AOvVaw26BWXtwNgop2-zPq_tY9vK" href="https://email.news-alerts.ft.com/c/eJxEkc1u4zoMRp9G3rGQRP0utAhQBMj69j4AJVKt0cbO2DIyeftBOy1mzbPgOV-jIa_r9ihtXYYsY-KipUXnJykm6piiDVZPcqX548LFtUBdIoOJzoPjXoGiRmDukrxB7Fz_wi-Pm5R52QctY3orLVdEyuRbJ4otU8tZdLA5xqyx12kuVlunrXHaaMT0JKZ9EqmmGMT3oJxe5L4Dfcg29qc-ntp6nT7K2xi3XeFJ2bOy5_v9_n1S9vztpOw5ZU3S0ECnFMFp34A8O-DcjQ4pMrWk8Myyv4_1pvB5bIcoG3Z5vcoyLqzwmROjYHDgTY5gtVQwsXWwDmNyhk1MpCxeH30oPC3rmPvcaMzrovD0XQK-2ig8_eS-bSsfbZRFfo9pK9f5XW7rsdH2oEU5_fqJf4lu8uuQfVy4-BxDz6ShJzTgUqpQpSOE7KU647j18IML_ycLv8zXf2uaNI2Nlp3a52sXLrVxMJga1BoMOC8aEnkBDsyx2soO3XTssv1_zFx0ClhbF2g-WXDaVKhoGnSygdhmk0X-BAAA__8JK7j3" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="" class="m_6221173487137614143mobile-hide CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYdOgVRak3aUdJi03E5TCUMr1orXw6INhM6eUf3OjGVVtNe75QcBBTm_hMxcW0c21O4GoyLNxQNwA3Ns_3VWb6LWFDBH9x09UzAE22IudE03X-f9e_njoRBYPJTclDKrA8ROLAFpnywQh455-GWQA=s0-d-e1-ft#https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/94a7b06f-f811-42f6-9cb6-c156a888cbd7.jpg" style="display: block;" width="180" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></h3><h5 style="font-weight: normal; 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">India opposition alliance fractures as support for Narendra Modi soars</span></a></h4><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6221173487137614143responsive-table" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; width: 380px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><p style="color: #66605c; line-height: 23px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Coalition seeking to unseat powerful prime minister hit by infighting, defections and arrests</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FEBRUARY 14, 2024</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">by John Reed and Jyotsna Singh in New Delhi</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; 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deciphering action out west; the 2024 Democratic downside risk</span></td></tr><tr><td style="color: #222222; font-style: italic; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" width="600"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></h3><h3><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Table 1:<span> </span><em>Crystal Ball</em><span> </span>Senate rating change</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 600px; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" width="600"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-spacing: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><th style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Senator</span></th><th style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Old Rating</span></th><th style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">New Rating</span></th></tr><tr><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">MD Open (Cardin, D)</span></td><td style="background-color: #333399; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: white; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Safe Democratic</span></td><td style="background-color: #1b9acc; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: white; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Likely Democratic</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></h3><h3><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">The Hogan Factor</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 600px; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" width="600"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Last week, on what could have been a slow Friday in the political world, the nation’s attention turned to Maryland. On the final day of candidate filing, now-former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) entered his state’s open-seat Senate race. Though Maryland is one of the bluest states—it was Donald Trump’s third-worst state in 2020—Hogan, in office, routinely ranked among the most popular governors in the country, often sporting positive approval ratings with Democrats. Hogan’s move was a surprise, considering he resisted pressure to enter his state’s 2022 Senate race, and, as of last year, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.politico.com%252Fnews%252F2023%252F03%252F24%252Flarry-hogan-republican-campaigns-00088760%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D6da20495b180f5c9d1be88ceb7a547a2e9753c26b20568efb2536a5f756fe3f1&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw13fVchehSA593KIU0vqLLn" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2F2023%2F03%2F24%2Flarry-hogan-republican-campaigns-00088760&cf=3715&v=6da20495b180f5c9d1be88ceb7a547a2e9753c26b20568efb2536a5f756fe3f1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">did not seem interested</a><span> </span>in running for anything below the presidency. Though Hogan’s entry gives Republicans their best possible recruit in a rough state, Senate races are different than gubernatorial contests.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In response to Hogan’s announcement, we downgraded our rating for Maryland from Safe Democratic to Likely Democratic. Are Republicans favored now? No, not even close—Democrats are still strongly favored to hold this open seat. But are Hogan’s chances zero? We don’t think so. Simply put, despite the terrain of the state, Maryland is now more of a live contest in a way that it wasn’t at the start of the month.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Part of the reason that we moved this race after Hogan’s announcement is that we figured that initial polling would show the race as competitive, making it harder to ignore in the short term. This morning, the first post-Hogan announcement<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.dcnewsnow.com%252Fnews%252Flocal-news%252Fmaryland%252Fpoll-hogan-tops-ties-top-democrats-for-marylands-open-us-senate-seat%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3Ddc8c4a41c24aa65cbeb786686b2d6c5fb50dc2ec093e69ff1695417052fc78bf&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw1wfwPbQ0RnHEBKxHCfyCTr" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcnewsnow.com%2Fnews%2Flocal-news%2Fmaryland%2Fpoll-hogan-tops-ties-top-democrats-for-marylands-open-us-senate-seat%2F&cf=3715&v=dc8c4a41c24aa65cbeb786686b2d6c5fb50dc2ec093e69ff1695417052fc78bf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">poll</a><span> </span>came out, from Emerson College, DC News Now, and The Hill. Hogan is tied 42%-42% with Rep. David Trone (D, MD-6) and up 44%-37% on the lesser-known other major Democratic candidate, Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. Again, we fully expect the eventual Democratic nominee to take a clear lead in this race later on down the line—but this has gone from a total snoozer of a race to one that national Democrats at least have to monitor and perhaps even fund, depending on how it develops.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We also feel that Hogan-type candidates should be afforded an extra modicum of respect, even in states that clearly do not favor their party at the federal level. In 2022, for instance, had then-Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA) challenged Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), we probably would have shifted our rating for Louisiana from Safe Republican to the somewhat more competitive Likely Republican—even though, considering how the Deep South shaped up that year, Kennedy would have probably won outright in the first round of the state’s top-two voting system.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That said, we feel like we’ve seen this movie before. Over the last decade or so, several sitting (or former) governors have tried to run for the Senate in states that lean against their party in presidential contests. While they often overperform the presidential number, the national nature of Senate contests has proven tough to overcome.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In 2012, for instance, Republicans were excited to land former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle, who, like Hogan, found herself recently termed out of office. But in President Obama’s best, and native, state, Lingle lost by 25 points instead of Mitt Romney’s 43. In 2018, Democrats recruited former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who in his 2006 reelection to the governorship carried all 95 counties in his state. But in a federal race against then-Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R)—who was, arguably, not the strongest candidate Republicans could have fielded—Bredesen only carried the same three counties that Hillary Clinton won in 2016, although he outperformed her by 15 points. In 2020, then-Gov. Steve Bullock (D) challenged Sen. Steve Daines, who now serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, in Montana. Though polls pointed to a close race, Daines won 55%-45%, though his margin was 6 points worse than Trump’s.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The most recent Senate cycle, 2022, was a bit of an exception here: no sitting or former governors ran for the Senate as challengers or for open seats. Earlier in the cycle, it seemed that New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) would jump into his state’s contest that year, while national Republicans reportedly lobbied outgoing Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) to run for Senate. Both New Hampshire and Arizona backed Biden in 2020, although they are much more competitive than a state like Maryland.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The most recent “crossover” governor to win a Senate race was Joe Manchin (D-WV), right next door to Hogan’s Maryland, when he was elected in a 2010 special election (we are excluding Maine’s Democratic-caucusing independent Angus King here). West Virginia had become reliably Republican at the presidential level even at that time, but the state was still dominated at the local level by Democrats—the retiring Manchin is the last remaining prominent elected Democrat in that state. Governors who have come to the Senate more recently—such as Colorado’s John Hickenlooper (D) and Florida’s Rick Scott (R)—hail from states that routinely back their respective party’s national ticket.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">On the Democratic side, the May 14 primary will essentially be a two-way race between the aforementioned Trone and Alsobrooks. Before he won a House seat in 2018, Trone founded Total Wine & More—giving him an immense amount of personal wealth—while Alsobrooks has held elected office in the state’s second-largest county for over a dozen years, and she was an early supporter of now-Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD).</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Hogan may become something of a bogeyman in the Democratic primary and force voters to consider the idea of electability—which could possibly benefit Trone, who can self-fund in the general election. Still, we feel that whichever Democrat emerges from the primary would be acceptable to voters who may approve of Hogan personally but wouldn’t want a Republican-controlled Senate (probably a substantial bloc of the electorate). A key factor in a Hogan victory would be a subpar, or significantly weakened, Democratic nominee. We’ll watch how the primary develops but for now, it doesn’t seem like that’ll be something Republicans can count on.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Speaking of the primary, something we’ll also be watching on May 14 is how much of a protest vote materializes against Hogan. Aside from the former governor, there are a handful of lesser or perennial GOP contenders who will be on the ballot. While we’d be truly shocked if Hogan actually lost the nomination, his vocal criticism of Trump may give some partisans reason to pass him over. Hogan was easily<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Femersoncollegepolling.com%252Fmaryland-2024-poll-former-gov-larry-hogan-starts-strong-in-election-for-open-senate-seat%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D08ea5a4e533bf223127c129e83965cae576b74d48deef2c00f2fe7557d8564ba&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw3F8AR45x86wiOGlmnJLD1j" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Femersoncollegepolling.com%2Fmaryland-2024-poll-former-gov-larry-hogan-starts-strong-in-election-for-open-senate-seat%2F&cf=3715&v=08ea5a4e533bf223127c129e83965cae576b74d48deef2c00f2fe7557d8564ba" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">leading</a><span> </span>the GOP primary in the aforementioned Emerson poll, but with just 43% overall (Trone led Alsobrooks 32%-17% in the Democratic primary).</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In 2022, Maryland Republican primary voters showed that they weren’t concerned with electability, and gave Hogan something of a black eye on his way out the door. In a contested primary, they snubbed Hogan’s preferred candidate, former Hogan administration official Kelly Schulz, for Del. Dan Cox, a pro-Trump Republican. Cox, with strong support in areas of the state that lean GOP in general elections, won the nomination by 10 points and went on to lose to Moore by 2-to-1 in the general election. As an aside, Cox is running for Trone’s open Biden +10 6th District, although he is not guaranteed the nomination.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Honestly, we found it notable that Hogan is even running as a Republican. Occasionally over the last few cycles, Democratic-aligned candidates in red states have avoided party labels to run as independents—though this has not led to GOP defeats, the nominal independents have come closer than Democrats would have. Two years ago, for instance, Evan McMullin, a former Republican who ran as an anti-Trump third party presidential candidate in 2016, challenged GOP Sen. Mike Lee in Utah. With McMullin in the race, Democrats did not field their own candidate—Lee was ultimately reelected by 10 points, but the result marked the closest Utah Senate race in nearly five decades. Similarly, Eric Cunningham of Elections Daily<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Felections-daily.com%252F2019%252F12%252F16%252Fare-strategic-independents-the-future%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D878d81c3409ea0f4d5067d27bdb0c39711392204fa38868863949146ef3253b5&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw1MTRRVycMsy27820s5QNEV" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Felections-daily.com%2F2019%2F12%2F16%2Fare-strategic-independents-the-future%2F&cf=3715&v=878d81c3409ea0f4d5067d27bdb0c39711392204fa38868863949146ef3253b5" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">mused</a><span> </span>that ditching the partisan label may be a template for popular governors in states that would lean against their party federally. But, with his stances against Trump in mind, Maryland Republicans may not have been willing to defer to an independent Hogan as the Utah Democrats gave McMullin a pass.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Daines, in his capacity as the NRSC’s leader,<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fx.com%252FNRSC%252Fstatus%252F1756007614989717626%253Fs%253D20%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D0e112ea5799a23484bcde4cf9908a51f01843d07302b006f58ceda338e472bd0&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw3IxC0yWIrLB6avi7HoWHqf" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FNRSC%2Fstatus%2F1756007614989717626%3Fs%3D20&cf=3715&v=0e112ea5799a23484bcde4cf9908a51f01843d07302b006f58ceda338e472bd0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">released</a><span> </span>a statement praising Hogan, though he stopped short of offering an endorsement, while both Alsobrooks and Trone have fundraised off of Hogan’s entrance into the race.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Republicans have not won a Senate election in Maryland since 1980, one of their longest Senate dry spells in the country. The Democrats should win Maryland for president by (at a bare minimum) 25 points, requiring Hogan to generate a level of ticket-splitting that is very difficult to imagine in this day and age.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></h3><h3><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Western races shape up</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 600px; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" width="600"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Aside from Hogan, another consequential Senate announcement came on Friday from a Maryland native, but it came in Daines’s state (we’re being a little facetious here). After dragging his feet for some time, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R, MT-2) announced he’d run for a rematch against Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT). Rosendale is originally from Baltimore and spent much of his business career in Maryland, a fact that the Tester campaign used in 2018 to<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fslate.com%252Fnews-and-politics%252F2018%252F04%252Fleading-montana-gop-senate-candidate-matt-rosendales-thick-maryland-accent.html%26cf%3D3715%26v%3Dd4b2f2604dc0f861944ba7032152362159f754d52ff80185f685e13a11dd34aa&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw3G39ALPQ2rIvSYf1vsgS4d" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fnews-and-politics%2F2018%2F04%2Fleading-montana-gop-senate-candidate-matt-rosendales-thick-maryland-accent.html&cf=3715&v=d4b2f2604dc0f861944ba7032152362159f754d52ff80185f685e13a11dd34aa" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">question</a><span> </span>its opponent’s Big Sky credentials in what can be a parochial state. As with Hogan, Rosendale’s announcement came as at least something of a surprise—last quarter, he<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.ktvh.com%252Fnews%252Fmillions-of-dollars-raised-and-spent-in-montana-u-s-senate-race%26cf%3D3715%26v%3Da15802249c7d93909c90caf5dc92633a47c39c39848b6fb0553e245f045f0607&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw1L4MIL3wT9yRsLnQncZzjO" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvh.com%2Fnews%2Fmillions-of-dollars-raised-and-spent-in-montana-u-s-senate-race&cf=3715&v=a15802249c7d93909c90caf5dc92633a47c39c39848b6fb0553e245f045f0607" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">only raised</a><span> </span>a paltry $98,000, a total that did not suggest he was gearing up for a statewide run.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Still, Rosendale enters the race with slightly more cash on hand than his leading opponent, former Navy SEAL and first-time candidate Tim Sheehy. Sheehy has been the favorite of national Republicans, and on Friday, he received a coveted Trump endorsement. During the 15-round House Speaker vote last year, Rosendale, one of the anti-Kevin McCarthy holdouts, was<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fx.com%252FIsaacDovere%252Fstatus%252F1756043157756608580%253Fs%253D20%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D37f9c606ad8b1f63e635a75d2c58f98561bd88e8e55a53c228a2b280936573b2&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw0l0DHo_XbWg0Hfv3QWxeBs" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FIsaacDovere%2Fstatus%2F1756043157756608580%3Fs%3D20&cf=3715&v=37f9c606ad8b1f63e635a75d2c58f98561bd88e8e55a53c228a2b280936573b2" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">photographed</a><span> </span>refusing to accept a phone call from Trump—considering the premium that Trump is known to put on loyalty, Rosendale’s snub was almost certainly a factor in the former president’s thinking. Trump, in this instance, could also be acting as a team player—Daines, who was<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftriblive.com%252Fnews%252Fpolitics-election%252Ftrump-gets-endorsed-by-daines-gops-senate-campaign-chief%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3De5964b9975307ac640251435375e3830d3b438643a0a391774eb192ed2a319a2&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw3O8sCzQ-XIuYklq6-zdL2t" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Ftriblive.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-election%2Ftrump-gets-endorsed-by-daines-gops-senate-campaign-chief%2F&cf=3715&v=e5964b9975307ac640251435375e3830d3b438643a0a391774eb192ed2a319a2" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">early</a><span> </span>to endorse Trump’s third GOP presidential bid, has telegraphed his preference for Sheehy.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">With Republicans set to decide on a nominee in early June, Democratic-aligned groups, as they did in 2022, are already essentially playing in the primary—a<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.huffpost.com%252Fentry%252Fmontana-senate-tim-sheehy-matt-rosendale_n_65b3ca79e4b014b873b0f261%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D809c4db98e523afa48096b2d2072735b26df3dd493050ac4593f8e100f229662&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw2xVwEt0_oPUavydFlURaBs" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fmontana-senate-tim-sheehy-matt-rosendale_n_65b3ca79e4b014b873b0f261&cf=3715&v=809c4db98e523afa48096b2d2072735b26df3dd493050ac4593f8e100f229662" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">group</a><span> </span>connected to Democratic outside spending giant Senate Majority PAC has spent millions trying to rough up Sheehy. Rosendale, who already lost to Tester and is considered Republicans’ less-electable option (though he’d still be capable of winning), would seem the likely beneficiary of any continued meddling.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In Arizona, the NRSC<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.politico.com%252Fnews%252F2024%252F02%252F13%252Fkari-lake-nrsc-endorsement-00141107%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D8d1468a73aa1b1f42474e85d2f94430c2174939dc6cc3452d84806362428bb8d&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw2zVmS-3Uqa6IFBwO66hN1W" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2F2024%2F02%2F13%2Fkari-lake-nrsc-endorsement-00141107&cf=3715&v=8d1468a73aa1b1f42474e85d2f94430c2174939dc6cc3452d84806362428bb8d" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">endorsed</a><span> </span>Kari Lake, the GOP’s losing 2022 gubernatorial nominee with a reputation as a vocal election denier, earlier this week. A few weeks ago, a leaked recording<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fapnews.com%252Farticle%252Fjeff-dewit-resigns-kari-lake-recording-bribe-07319f36b057f804f880a7e07f8d16b1%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D9bc8c503447ff2b49d9f51ec0f2ae4f42e52596b9033db371ece19d66a1403d5&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw2NG9pv73H6AKGmy7miJc5B" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fjeff-dewit-resigns-kari-lake-recording-bribe-07319f36b057f804f880a7e07f8d16b1&cf=3715&v=9bc8c503447ff2b49d9f51ec0f2ae4f42e52596b9033db371ece19d66a1403d5" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">surfaced</a><span> </span>of then-state GOP chairman Jeff DeWit trying to dissuade Lake from staying in the race—the episode ended with DeWit’s resignation. Lake’s most prominent opponent in the late July Republican primary is Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">On the Democratic side, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D, AZ-3) is campaigning as the presumptive Democratic nominee. One of the biggest, and last, question marks hanging over the Senate landscape is whether Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent who caucuses with Democrats and was elected as one in 2018, will run again. Arizona’s filing deadline is April 8, so perhaps we’ll have a better idea of the dynamics of the race in several weeks. Last quarter, Sinema raised just $595,000—if she were still in the House, that would make for a good figure, but it is far below what’s needed to compete in what seems likely to become a marquee Senate race. As Matt Holt, a Senate reporter,<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fx.com%252Fmattholt33%252Fstatus%252F1752536955307336077%253Fs%253D20%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D9dc4243486fcd2525bacb10d9cc5ef01f1879371cf2f49aff8e7cacc87d7082e&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw0Ydc0Iww-L5ck-cd1d0F-e" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fmattholt33%2Fstatus%2F1752536955307336077%3Fs%3D20&cf=3715&v=9dc4243486fcd2525bacb10d9cc5ef01f1879371cf2f49aff8e7cacc87d7082e" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">pointed out</a>, it may be telling that Sinema spent nothing on ballot access petitioning.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></h3><h3><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">The Democrats’ downside risk</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" style="color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" width="600"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As a concluding thought for this week, it has been obvious all cycle how exposed Democrats are in the Senate—all three races we’ve discussed in some depth during this edition are in states that elected Democrats in 2018. They are defending the only three seats they hold in states that Donald Trump won in 2020—Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia, with the Mountain State essentially a guaranteed loss with Manchin’s retirement. In addition to those seats, Democrats are defending an additional five seats in states that Joe Biden won, but by less than his roughly 4.5-point national margin: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">If Republicans win the presidency, they will carry at least some, and perhaps even all, of these aforementioned states. Given the growing convergence between presidential and Senate results, Republicans could then also win a number of the Senate seats in these states. If that happens, Republicans could hypothetically not just win the Senate this year, but also build a decent-sized majority that Democrats would have a hard time erasing in the short term.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">CNN’s Ron Brownstein recently wrote about this downside risk for Democrats in the Senate, and he included some observations from us. Check out <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807379%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081865%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cnn.com%252F2024%252F02%252F12%252Fpolitics%252Fsenate-democrats-biden-election-analysis%252Findex.html%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D82f88c6352d1d96a50f19a6df7a6d17660b2dd4e581481416fdb819040bda8e5&source=gmail&ust=1708308386936000&usg=AOvVaw2JZObI0UaJXB8SsUWwBt6h" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807379&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081865&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2024%2F02%2F12%2Fpolitics%2Fsenate-democrats-biden-election-analysis%2Findex.html&cf=3715&v=82f88c6352d1d96a50f19a6df7a6d17660b2dd4e581481416fdb819040bda8e5" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">his piece</a> for much more on this dynamic.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;">-- Crystal Ball Managing Editor Kyle Kondik and intern Tanish Gupta contributed to this piece.</span></em></p></td></tr></tbody></table></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Table 1: <em>Crystal Ball</em> House rating change</span></h3><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; display: block; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><th style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">District</span></th><th style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Old Rating</span></th><th style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">New Rating</span></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Tom Suozzi (D, NY-3)</span></td><td style="background-color: #f9f49b; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Toss-up</span></td><td style="background-color: #70cbf2; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Leans Democratic</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Suozzi’s big victory</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Rep.-elect Tom Suozzi’s (D) impressive victory in NY-3 should, like all special elections, be kept in context: Special elections can be influenced by unique local factors, and they are often not predictive of the future. Democrats have been doing well in these races, generally speaking, since the <em>Dobbs</em> decision in 2022, and a much bigger November electorate will be different and quite possibly less friendly.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That said, Democrats needed a shot in the arm following gloomy polling and questions about President Biden that were exacerbated by a classic “feeding frenzy”—to borrow a phrase coined by our Editor in Chief, Larry Sabato—over a special counsel report that contributed to preexisting doubts about Biden’s age. They got it. And, crucially, Democrats have an extra seat in the House, a seat they should be able to hold in November, when they now need to win only four additional seats beyond what they hold now at full strength in order to win the House majority. That is a doable task—even if the presidential race gets away from them. In this race, it appears that Suozzi will roughly match Biden’s 2020 8-point margin in this district. That is a strong showing for Democrats in a place many believe is trending away from them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Turnout in the NY-3 special was about 170,000 based on reporting Wednesday morning, with probably some small number of votes outstanding. Back in 2022, about 270,000 votes were cast in the congressional race, so this turnout was a little under two-thirds of that total. That turnout for a February special strikes us as relatively decent although certainly not overwhelming. Just as a point of comparison, the last major New York special House election—the old version of the Hudson Valley’s NY-19 in August 2022—saw a turnout of about 130,000 voters, which was less than half of the turnout from the 2018 midterm (which featured higher overall New York turnout than 2022—we can’t compare that NY-19 special to the 2022 midterm because the district lines were redrawn). Bloomberg’s Greg Giroux keeps a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807345%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081774%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fdocs.google.com%252Fspreadsheets%252Fd%252F1DX4nvZ32rOQeU6B-zc_khCFg7b35ezeXtJYG3bIOUDo%252Fedit%2523gid%253D0%26cf%3D3715%26v%3De7d49209c99b0b848e0799472880ddb629f1f0a0434b7bc060e453a920eb2536&source=gmail&ust=1708308387928000&usg=AOvVaw3CT73DILBF5e5TjoFsEctx" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807345&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081774&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1DX4nvZ32rOQeU6B-zc_khCFg7b35ezeXtJYG3bIOUDo%2Fedit%23gid%3D0&cf=3715&v=e7d49209c99b0b848e0799472880ddb629f1f0a0434b7bc060e453a920eb2536" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">running tally</a> of special House elections going back decades—you’ll see that in terms of total votes cast, NY-3 was reasonably high for a standalone special not held in conjunction with another election. However, some other famous special elections of recent vintage—like the Democratic win in PA-18 in March 2018, the Republican win in OH-12 later that year in August, and a 2018 do-over election in September 2019 won by Republicans in NC-9—all saw clearly higher raw vote totals than this election. A snowstorm on the morning of Election Day may have reduced turnout in NY-3, perhaps aiding Democrats who disproportionately banked their votes by voting early or by mail (which is of course the point of having those options in the first place—people can vote in advance and thus avoid some Election Day curveball, weather or otherwise, from keeping them from the polls). It appeared that the weather got better as the day progressed and polls in New York don’t close until 9 p.m., so the storm may not have actually had that much effect.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Democrats did have some key advantages in this race. Collectively, Suozzi and his Democratic allies outspent Pilip by a roughly $13.5 million to $8 million spread, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807345%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081774%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fadimpact.com%252Fblog%252Fny-03-followup-special-blog%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D4d6be8fb42fb6fee853b36ef75849089b82cb862fd58f33c101f0ea89932899e&source=gmail&ust=1708308387928000&usg=AOvVaw2Y-Qe8rt6Miw0mWwjyJrmW" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807345&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081774&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fadimpact.com%2Fblog%2Fny-03-followup-special-blog%2F&cf=3715&v=4d6be8fb42fb6fee853b36ef75849089b82cb862fd58f33c101f0ea89932899e" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">according to AdImpact</a>. The Republican ad spending came later on in the campaign—indeed, the late-breaking investments by GOP outside groups contributed to the belief, shared by both parties and many analysts, that the race was close and hard to call. Suozzi has been involved in local politics for decades and recently represented the old version of this seat prior to a quixotic gubernatorial bid in 2022. He ran a better-funded and more spirited race than local legislator Mazi Pilip (R).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The fairly impressive victory by Suozzi also could be seen as a broader test case for Democrats in fending off Republican attacks on immigration. Suozzi, to his credit, used his own advertising to defend himself from attacks on the issue, suggesting a path for other Democratic campaigns in the fall. In the leadup to this election, Republicans were salivating over President Biden’s horrible approval rating on immigration and the prospect of it being a giant weapon in this and future elections. It was not that kind of weapon in NY-3, and congressional Republicans’ decision to not even attempt to pass a border security package negotiated by Democrats and Republicans in the Senate gives Democrats some ammo on this issue, too.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">There is an old saying that “Good government is good politics,” although the way the Republicans are handling immigration is essentially “Bad government is good politics.” That actually makes some cold-blooded political sense because the party that does not hold the White House has an incentive to make the president look as bad as possible. But Republicans do hold the House majority, so they have a seat at the table in policymaking, and Suozzi attacked Pilip and Republicans more broadly for not backing the bipartisan border legislation. It’s impossible to know exactly what effect this had—perhaps a lot, perhaps not much at all—but it’s hard to come out of this election and say that the Republicans are wielding a political superweapon on immigration (had Pilip won, there would have been widespread belief that they in fact did have such a weapon).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">This result also makes the Democrats’ horrible 2022 showing in New York look like a little bit more of a fluke that will be harder to replicate in an environment less GOP-leaning than 2022 was (at least in New York). This has consequences for the other House district that covers Nassau County, NY-4, which Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R, NY-4) won in November. NY-4 is, by presidential partisanship, the most Democratic seat held by any Republican, at Biden +14.5 points. After tonight, D’Esposito should probably be looked at as an outright underdog, but there’s one thing that’s holding us back from just moving him from Toss-up to Leans Democratic: redistricting.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The state’s redistricting commission is <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807345%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081774%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.democratandchronicle.com%252Fstory%252Fnews%252Fny-news%252F2024%252F02%252F14%252Fny-redistricting-panel-to-vote-on-proposed-maps-what-happens-next%252F72541032007%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D0d58b8d69352407cab17139e0472e6a4625229b47b4962f3a1003197afcd9e19&source=gmail&ust=1708308387928000&usg=AOvVaw2lNEBrwnNYPgpeF7Euw0rV" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807345&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081774&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democratandchronicle.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fny-news%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fny-redistricting-panel-to-vote-on-proposed-maps-what-happens-next%2F72541032007%2F&cf=3715&v=0d58b8d69352407cab17139e0472e6a4625229b47b4962f3a1003197afcd9e19" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">poised to vote on a new congressional map proposal tomorrow</a>, after the state’s highest court reopened the redistricting process in a victory for Democrats. Democrats in the state legislature may eventually get a crack at a new gerrymander, and we’re hesitant to change any ratings before that happens, beyond giving Suozzi the benefit of the doubt as a Leans Democratic incumbent following his victory. We find it hard to imagine Suozzi would get a worse district than the one he just won, and we also suspect that D’Esposito’s district won’t change much—in which case we are very likely going to move his seat to Leans Democratic. Democrats do not necessarily need a new gerrymander in New York to win back several seats there, and it may be that the redistricting process results in a compromise map that marginally improves the Democrats’ overall position.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">With NY-3 now a Leans Democratic district, we have 212 seats rated as Safe, Likely, or Leaning Republican, 204 Safe/Likely/Leaning Democratic, and 19 Toss-ups. We suspect the new map in New York will prompt additional changes that are positive for Democrats—we have already telegraphed one, in NY-4—and that would bring our House ratings further in line with our overall assessment of the House: a true coin flip.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">A few other notes on the House</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We devoted two issues to the race for the House last week. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807345%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081774%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcenterforpolitics.org%252Fcrystalball%252Farticles%252Fthe-race-for-the-house-part-one%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D282268f3bdd87ee0698fb4d4f5aed08e7d3fc4f0ef89d9c6de11ee0f90fef4a1&source=gmail&ust=1708308387928000&usg=AOvVaw2r1d22UX6yVAhHQxIYV5ma" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807345&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081774&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fcenterforpolitics.org%2Fcrystalball%2Farticles%2Fthe-race-for-the-house-part-one%2F&cf=3715&v=282268f3bdd87ee0698fb4d4f5aed08e7d3fc4f0ef89d9c6de11ee0f90fef4a1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Part one</a> looked at ticket-splitting in the House, specifically in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election cycles, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807345%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081774%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcenterforpolitics.org%252Fcrystalball%252Farticles%252Fthe-race-for-the-house-part-two%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3Dcc348491a2d9494d821995d850501060b7b1ddd22a012bedc5fac1e2aebda674&source=gmail&ust=1708308387928000&usg=AOvVaw1DDbGGOF2Z6NnAunA2xVxx" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807345&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081774&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fcenterforpolitics.org%2Fcrystalball%2Farticles%2Fthe-race-for-the-house-part-two%2F&cf=3715&v=cc348491a2d9494d821995d850501060b7b1ddd22a012bedc5fac1e2aebda674" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">part two</a> described some rating changes. We had a few other observations about the House that didn’t make it into those two reports but that we still wanted to share:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">-- Our recent rating changes that moved Reps. Don Bacon (R, NE-2) and Jared Golden (D, ME-2) into the Toss-up column means that an even greater number of “crossover” House members—those who hold districts that the other party won for president—are in the Toss-up category.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">-- On the Democratic side, 3 of the 5 Trump-district Democrats are now in Toss-up: Golden as well as Rep. Matt Cartwright (D, PA-8) in northeast Pennsylvania and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D, WA-3) in a district that includes part of the Portland, OR metro area. Meanwhile, Reps. Mary Peltola (D, AK-AL) and Marcy Kaptur (D, OH-9) in the Toledo area remain in Leans Democratic. Kaptur dominated J.R. Majewski (R) in a 2022 contest, and Majewski is running again; if Majewski loses the primary, the race could more easily end up as a Toss-up. Peltola, meanwhile, still boasts good favorability numbers in her statewide seat, but her numbers have been <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807345%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081774%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fx.com%252FIvanMoore1%252Fstatus%252F1753579903243681846%253Fs%253D20%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D9950bf6ca8d5aa5a7637c5e78d5292a7aeb5b73f6d1d23c07a2da9931fecbe94&source=gmail&ust=1708308387928000&usg=AOvVaw3SxKfo2oZo4NW91JWvuNaf" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807345&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081774&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FIvanMoore1%2Fstatus%2F1753579903243681846%3Fs%3D20&cf=3715&v=9950bf6ca8d5aa5a7637c5e78d5292a7aeb5b73f6d1d23c07a2da9931fecbe94" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">slightly declining over time</a> in state pollster Ivan Moore’s surveys. Republicans are excited by Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom (R) as their candidate, but Alaska’s quirky top-4 voting system could aid Peltola as 2022 candidate Nick Begich (R) is still in the race. Dahlstrom’s 2023 fourth quarter fundraising, roughly $200,000, wasn’t that great either, particularly because Peltola raised over $1.1 million over the last quarter (although Dahlstrom only entered the race in the middle of the quarter, and she has time to pick up the pace). National Republicans basically gave up on these two races in 2022 but seem eager to more fully engage this cycle, which makes sense in a presidential year in districts that will (Alaska) and likely will (OH-9) vote Republican for president again.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">-- While there are only five Democrats in Trump seats—excluding three redrawn Democratic-held seats in North Carolina where redistricting turned Biden seats into Trump districts and prompted the Democratic incumbents to not seek reelection—there are a number of marginal Biden-won districts in our Toss-up column. These include two open seats in Michigan, Lansing-based MI-7 (Biden +0.5) and Flint-centric MI-8 (Biden +2); Rep. Susan Wild’s (D) Lehigh Valley-based PA-7 (Biden +0.6); Rep. Emilia Sykes’s (D) Akron/Canton district OH-13 (Biden +2.8); and Rep. Don Davis’s (D) redrawn NC-1 in northeastern North Carolina (Biden +1.7). Hypothetically, if the national popular vote in the presidential race is more like a tie than Biden’s +4.5 2020 margin, all of these districts could vote Republican for president, which would force Democrats to run ahead of the top of the ticket to hold them (which they very well may be able to do, to at least some extent, and Republican candidates generally have a fair amount to prove in this group of districts).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">-- Suozzi’s victory reduces the number of Republican-held Biden-won seats from 18 to 17, a tally that also excludes a pair of redrawn Republican-held districts in Alabama and Louisiana that flipped from Trump seats to Biden seats and are likely to flip to Democrats this year. Of those 17, 10 are in the Toss-up column: Four in New York and three in California, as well as Rep. David Schweikert’s (R) AZ-1, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s (R) Portland-to-Bend OR-5, and Bacon’s aforementioned NE-2 in Omaha. Of these, Schweikert’s would realistically be the most gettable for Trump, given that Biden’s margin there was just 1.5 points. Biden’s margin was better than his national margin in the other nine. New York’s looming redistricting of course could scramble the numbers in at least some of the districts there.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">-- One GOP-held district that seems a little more interesting than it was before is IA-3, a narrow Trump +0.3 Des Moines-based district that Rep. Zach Nunn (R) narrowly flipped last year. For much of 2023, the district seemed like a recruiting hole for Democrats, but Lanon Baccam, a veteran and former U.S. Department of Agriculture official and Biden campaign staffer, entered the race in November and turned in a solid initial fundraising quarter, outraising Nunn $507,000 to $426,000 (although Nunn still has a huge 3.5-to-1 cash on hand edge). This remains a Leans Republican seat in our ratings.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">-- If Baccam had a strong quarter, a Democratic challenger closer to our home base did not. Democrats have been excited by veteran Missy Cotter Smasal’s candidacy in the Virginia Beach-based VA-2, a competitive Biden +1.9 seat that Rep. Jen Kiggans (R) flipped last cycle. But Cotter Smasal only raised a little over $100,000, and Kiggans is sitting on a $1.5 million warchest. Democrats argue that congressional fundraising can get a bit later of a start in Virginia given a donor focus on odd-numbered year state-level elections, and there may be some truth to that from history. For instance, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D, VA-7), who is leaving the House this year in advance of a 2025 gubernatorial run, only raised $140,000 in 2017’s fourth quarter before later becoming a fundraising machine. Cotter Smasal was just endorsed by EMILYs List, which could help jumpstart her fundraising, although another Democrat, attorney Jake Denton, recently entered the race. For now, Kiggans looks like one of the better-positioned Biden-district Republicans (her race remains rated Leans Republican). This is another marginal Biden-won seat that could vote Republican for president in 2024. (Presidential district-level numbers and fundraising tallies cited in this article <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D807345%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6081774%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.dailykos.com%252Fstories%252F2018%252F2%252F21%252F1742660%252F-The-ultimate-Daily-Kos-Elections-guide-to-all-of-our-data-sets%26cf%3D3715%26v%3Dfbc035e3770e40b4a19e214ae4b094446c450af04fc144c5209b0a53bd0d2db5&source=gmail&ust=1708308387928000&usg=AOvVaw2dQZC4AKeQKJ1GKeIElQem" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=807345&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6081774&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F2018%2F2%2F21%2F1742660%2F-The-ultimate-Daily-Kos-Elections-guide-to-all-of-our-data-sets&cf=3715&v=fbc035e3770e40b4a19e214ae4b094446c450af04fc144c5209b0a53bd0d2db5" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">come courtesy of our friends at Daily Kos Elections</a>.)</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; 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font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Trump’s lead over Biden may be smaller than it looks</a></p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: #121212; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 8px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D68386d538897cc581b62199ec2acfc941a33e865e38d55931a53bfe447ea0022069a38210bdcb57a36c71fbb40e543306776e555b2bc2733ca41f3360658a212&source=gmail&ust=1708309114716000&usg=AOvVaw2-v1jIEd-_ZWDQxRK0Vo_U" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=68386d538897cc581b62199ec2acfc941a33e865e38d55931a53bfe447ea0022069a38210bdcb57a36c71fbb40e543306776e555b2bc2733ca41f3360658a212" style="color: #121212; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Consider only the highest-quality national polls, and the Republican’s advantage melts away</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></td></tr><tr></tr><tr></tr><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; 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font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The US Supreme Court is primed to recalibrate government power</a></p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: #121212; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 8px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D68386d538897cc58e9a64b0eedd122365f831b22abb0b7eaa48f65018e0f48ac7f882af73e58e1853e6ec4a57432861850c2b1e733fb20961168b3d52037a1f6&source=gmail&ust=1708309114716000&usg=AOvVaw2Y3KOPixK6HEQz-rfoTx6F" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=68386d538897cc58e9a64b0eedd122365f831b22abb0b7eaa48f65018e0f48ac7f882af73e58e1853e6ec4a57432861850c2b1e733fb20961168b3d52037a1f6" style="color: #121212; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“Chevron deference” could be on the justices’ chopping block</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></td></tr><tr></tr><tr></tr><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; 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Legislation in progress</a></p></td></tr><tr><td class="m_478893533145949620h2" style="color: #121212; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 8px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D68386d538897cc58dc8b54cbe0dacf29dcc1adcc4eb72a91cd5e453bcba359224aced7e5016a094a500e435b167d4f1d45ae22737dc98131f89ba1020fdab08c&source=gmail&ust=1708309114716000&usg=AOvVaw00glnBAmb_xHh7zDnvNMEu" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=68386d538897cc58dc8b54cbe0dacf29dcc1adcc4eb72a91cd5e453bcba359224aced7e5016a094a500e435b167d4f1d45ae22737dc98131f89ba1020fdab08c" style="color: #121212; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Congress might just pass an astonishingly sensible tax deal</a></p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: #121212; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 8px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D68386d538897cc58dc8b54cbe0dacf29dcc1adcc4eb72a91cd5e453bcba359224aced7e5016a094a500e435b167d4f1d45ae22737dc98131f89ba1020fdab08c&source=gmail&ust=1708309114716000&usg=AOvVaw00glnBAmb_xHh7zDnvNMEu" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=68386d538897cc58dc8b54cbe0dacf29dcc1adcc4eb72a91cd5e453bcba359224aced7e5016a094a500e435b167d4f1d45ae22737dc98131f89ba1020fdab08c" style="color: #121212; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">But too much attention could scupper it</a></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7953637665808319952mobile-hide" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_7953637665808319952mobile-hide" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://email.news-alerts.ft.com/c/eJw8kUFu4zwMRk8j71hIIm1JCy0CFAGy_vsfgBKp1mhjZ2wZmdx-0E47a74F3_sqd31dt0eu69J16YNkqzXQOGh2wYYUnbd20CvPHxfJ1JhiwgBCgYGKK5CSS0A61UCWmZL_C788bprnZe-89OEtI3mH1k4uFB8wheKReKSp4VgLNRrm7K0n691og0NHT5VFx4pCygF9IUN20fsO_KFb359af6rrdfjIb73fdoMn48_Gn-_3-_fJ-PO3k_HnQrG2qiNMbAtQdA6SugCRgjChJEY0eBbd3_t6M_jct0ONn3Z9verSL2LwWaKg4kQwuhTAWy3gQm3gCUMkJy5ENh6vj9YNnpa1z22u3Od1MXj6LgFfbQyefnLftlWO2vOiv_uw5ev8rrf12Hh78GLIvn7iX6Kb_jp07xfJNQp7dAIjRQJK1UEMlsEGdMVapiD2B1f5Txd5ma__1nSJhr7xsnP9fO0i2TeRyj6ANt-ASmKIjAV8abHVQC4KDseu2__HLNnGCUttCnWMHsi6AgVdhcZ-YvHJJdU_AQAA__9b2bZl&source=gmail&ust=1708309771619000&usg=AOvVaw0uUJakuKPR63mgHzFOaUvd" href="https://email.news-alerts.ft.com/c/eJw8kUFu4zwMRk8j71hIIm1JCy0CFAGy_vsfgBKp1mhjZ2wZmdx-0E47a74F3_sqd31dt0eu69J16YNkqzXQOGh2wYYUnbd20CvPHxfJ1JhiwgBCgYGKK5CSS0A61UCWmZL_C788bprnZe-89OEtI3mH1k4uFB8wheKReKSp4VgLNRrm7K0n691og0NHT5VFx4pCygF9IUN20fsO_KFb359af6rrdfjIb73fdoMn48_Gn-_3-_fJ-PO3k_HnQrG2qiNMbAtQdA6SugCRgjChJEY0eBbd3_t6M_jct0ONn3Z9verSL2LwWaKg4kQwuhTAWy3gQm3gCUMkJy5ENh6vj9YNnpa1z22u3Od1MXj6LgFfbQyefnLftlWO2vOiv_uw5ev8rrf12Hh78GLIvn7iX6Kb_jp07xfJNQp7dAIjRQJK1UEMlsEGdMVapiD2B1f5Txd5ma__1nSJhr7xsnP9fO0i2TeRyj6ANt-ASmKIjAV8abHVQC4KDseu2__HLNnGCUttCnWMHsi6AgVdhcZ-YvHJJdU_AQAA__9b2bZl" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="m_7953637665808319952mobile-hide CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZWFY9nUPrqF7eh_t9lMj-Nkx21bDOkJjFfxWV95r7l4eeVPFVMSnskLAAC8CpQuCZvDkiwOeu4QhUJU4GDIx7iDhBuXYi8a8yW1bCVWwusWO5HH1gDZwd6HNhaFP8odrRkfdFHtfr8WqML_c0jCg=s0-d-e1-ft#https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/88e3f797-63c8-4b94-b6b0-5cc0f162e092.jpg" style="display: block;" width="180" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></h1><h5 style="font-weight: normal; 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">UK economy contracts more than expected</span></a></h4><h1 style="color: #404040; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse !important; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; max-width: 600px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 16px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse !important; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_478893533145949620pb8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><div class="m_478893533145949620fluid" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 292px; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 292px;"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse !important; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="color: #121212; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 8px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7953637665808319952responsive-table" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; width: 380px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><p style="color: #66605c; line-height: 23px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;">Gross domestic product falls 0.3% in final quarter of 2023</p><p style="color: black; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FEBRUARY 15, 2024</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">by Valentina Romei</span></p></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></h1><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="height: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Orbán pledges to back Sweden Nato bid as he seeks to dispel domestic scandal</span></a></h4><p style="color: #66605c; line-height: 23px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Tens of thousands protest in Budapest as row threatens to undermine Hungarian leader’s grip on power</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FEBRUARY 17, 2024</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">by Marton Dunai in Budapest</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="right" style="height: 20px; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <br /></span><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><h1 style="color: #404040; line-height: 36px; 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margin: 1em 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: #404040; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson&source=gmail&ust=1708308384886000&usg=AOvVaw2iz6XkVWuNxXiP4Y9lTvyS" href="https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson" style="color: #404040; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">HEATHER COX RICHARDSON</span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">At the Munich Security Conference, where leaders from more than 70 countries gather annually in Germany to discuss international security policy, Vice President Kamala Harris today responded to Trump’s recent attacks on America’s global leadership with a full-throated defense of global engagement.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">People around the world have reason to wonder if the United States is committed to global leadership, she acknowledged. Americans, she said, must also ask themselves “[w]hether it is in America’s interest to continue to engage with the world or to turn inward. Whether it is in our interest to defend longstanding rules and norms that have provided for unprecedented peace and prosperity or to allow them to be trampled. Whether it is in America’s interest to fight for democracy or to accept the rise of dictators. And whether it is in America’s interest to continue to work in lockstep with our allies and partners or go it alone.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Harris spoke at least in part to people at home, saying that upholding international rules and democratic values “makes America strong, and it keeps Americans safe.” Isolating ourselves and embracing dictators while we “abandon commitments to our allies in favor of unilateral action” is “dangerous, destabilizing, and indeed short-sighted,” she said. “That view would weaken America and would undermine global stability and undermine global prosperity.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Biden administration’s approach to global engagement is not “based on the virtues of charity,” Harris said, but rather is based on the nation’s strategic interest. “Our leadership keeps our homeland safe, supports American jobs, secures supply chains, and opens new markets for American goods. And I firmly believe,” she added, “our commitment to build and sustain alliances has helped America become the most powerful and prosperous country in the world—alliances that have prevented wars, defended freedom, and maintained stability from Europe to the Indo-Pacific. To put all of that at risk would be foolish.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Turning to the defense of Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion, she said: “we have joined forces with our friends and allies to stand up for freedom and democracy…. The world has come together, with leadership from the United States, to defend the basic principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity and to stop an imperialist authoritarian from subjugating a free and democratic people.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The European Union has recently committed $54 billion to support Ukraine in addition to “the more than $100 billion our European allies and partners have already dedicated,” she said, noting that that support makes it clear that Europe will stand with Ukraine. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“I will make clear President Joe Biden and I stand with Ukraine,” Harris said. “In partnership with supportive, bipartisan majorities in both houses of the United States Congress, we will work to secure critical weapons and resources that Ukraine so badly needs. And let me be clear: The failure to do so would be a gift to Vladimir Putin.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“If we fail to impose severe consequences on Russia” for its invasion of Ukraine, she warned, “other authoritarians across the globe would be emboldened, because you see, they will be watching…and drawing lessons. “In these unsettled times, it is clear,” she said. “America cannot retreat. America must stand strong for democracy. We must stand in defense of international rules and norms, and we must stand with our allies.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“[T]he American people will meet this moment,” Vice President Harris said, “and America will continue to lead.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">News that arrived just before Harris began to speak underscored her argument: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a Russian prison a day after being recorded on video in court, seemingly healthy. Navalny’s crusade against Putin’s corruption had led Putin to try repeatedly to murder him, then finally in 2021 to imprison him on trumped-up charges. Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, took the stage after Harris and vowed that Vladimir Putin and his allies “will be brought to justice, and this day will come soon.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Russian elections will be held next month, and while Putin is assumed to be the certain victor, his recent disqualification of Boris Nadezhdin, who was running on a platform that opposed the Ukraine war, suggests he is concerned about opposition. Eliminating Navalny at this moment sends a warning to other Russians that, as Anne Applebaum noted in a piece today in <em>The Atlantic</em>, courage in opposing Putin is pointless. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In the U.S., Navalny’s apparent murder creates a political problem for Republicans. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) yesterday recessed the House for two weeks without taking up the national security supplemental bill that would support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, just as its supplies are running out. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">On Saturday, former president Trump told an audience he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries that are not devoting 2% of their gross domestic product to building up their militaries. Meanwhile, former Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson has been in Moscow, interviewing Putin and favorably comparing Russia to the United States.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">On Monday, in Dubai, Egyptian journalist Emad El Din Adeeb asked Carlson why, when interviewing Putin, he “did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations, about restrictions on opposition in the coming elections.” Carlson replied by equating Russia and the U.S., saying: “Every leader kills people…. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The death of Navalny at just this moment appears to tie the Republicans to Putin’s murderous regime, and party leaders scrambled today to distance themselves from Putin. House speaker Mike Johnson, who has resisted passing aid to Ukraine and insisted the House would not be “rushed” into passing such a measure, released a statement saying that “as international leaders are meeting in Munich, we must be clear that Putin will be met with united opposition…. [T]he United States, and our partners, must be using every means available to cut off Putin’s ability to fund his unprovoked war in Ukraine and aggression against the Baltic states.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Republicans trying to carve out distance between themselves and Trump’s MAGA Republicans used the occasion to call out MAGAs, saying, as former vice president Mike Pence did, “There is no room in the Republican Party for apologists for Putin.” Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who has pushed hard for Ukraine aid, wrote: “Putin is a murderous, paranoid dictator. History will not be kind to those in America who make apologies for Putin and praise Russian autocracy. Nor will history be kind to America’s leaders who stay silent because they fear backlash from online pundits.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Navalny attacked the Putin regime by calling attention to its extraordinary corruption, and somewhat fittingly, the corruption of former president Donald Trump, who won the White House with Putin’s help, was also on the docket today. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In Manhattan, in the case concerning Trump and the Trump Organization’s manipulation of financial statements in order to get better loan terms and to pay fewer taxes, Justice Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and the Trump Organization to disgorge about $355 million in ill-gotten gains as well as more than $98 million in interest on that money from the time Trump obtained it through fraud. The total came to just under $454 million. Engoron also barred Trump from running a business or applying for a loan in New York for three years. The judge ordered Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric to pay more than $4 million each and barred them from serving as officers or directors of any New York corporation or legal entity for two years. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“[D]efendants submitted blatantly false financial data to…accountants,” Engoron wrote, “resulting in fraudulent financial statements. When confronted at trial with the statements, defendants’ fact and expert witnesses simply denied reality, and defendants failed to accept responsibility….” Engoron detailed the reluctance of the Trumps, including Ivanka, to tell the truth on the witness stand, and concluded: “Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">New York attorney general Letitia James, who brought the lawsuit, commented: “Donald Trump is finally facing accountability for his lying, cheating, and staggering fraud. Because no matter how big, rich, or powerful you think you are, no one is above the law.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In his 2022 documentary about Alexei Navalny, director Daniel Roher asked Navalny what message he would leave for the Russian people if he were killed. “Listen,” Navalny answered. “I’ve got something very obvious to tell you. You’re not allowed to give up. If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong. We need to utilize this power to not give up, to remember we are a huge power that is being oppressed by these bad dudes. We don’t realize how strong we actually are.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">—</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Reminder, I am now reading the letters the morning after I post them. They are available at Substack, Apple Podcasts, and now Spotify, linked here:</span></p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e6891c0d-4b2b-4866-a63b-c2874340817b?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw2fAM6pyKFabIGKV4vuyviW" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e6891c0d-4b2b-4866-a63b-c2874340817b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"></span><table cellspacing="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 12px; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); margin: 32px 0px; min-height: 96px; min-width: 100%; width: 550px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-radius: 12px; height: 88px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 88px;"><div style="line-height: 26px; max-height: 0px; opacity: 0.999;"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="36" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYupF43AyIFTSemuB7W9oOTU_qWVgJjEEO5faGcf1lls9RaKkJjfM5XFRAgxx0NUyH4LULF2S2DqGBLP0_FopXcDJc3Wjv6n4aMq9qZNfiGDolKq-QHzXH2W1dxNGkIvHsKCS92dODz3g-H1dlx3rNtrNa1fXr80WjsVwzjgX5lYjsVA5ceFwDlv4JrsZCkdnw9c66RMQT7rB6zzU5-eZPL_LMuIg=s0-d-e1-ft#https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_72,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Fimg%2Fthumbnail-play.png" style="border: none !important; display: inline-block; height: 40px; margin: 24px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 40px;" width="36" /></div><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="80" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NbNOIxtc2OaZgm71yVgQDQeDD7n4lMGzzl9C6kmvRCqTxCX3VdqjekSYahlrsrE6PHLKID_qkHqs5sFgeHpTHV-xb0-mPY0H98aaBFHcifICGC4VxBQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a9d186d31fbfdae1664b548ab" style="border: none !important; display: block; height: 88px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 88px;" width="80" /></td><td style="letter-spacing: -0.012em; margin: 0px;"><p style="color: #404040; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;">Letters from an American</p><p style="color: grey; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;">Heather Cox Richardson</p><p style="color: grey; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;">Podcast</p></td></tr></tbody></table></a><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">—</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Notes:</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/86cd3e95-9203-4352-af02-8d59afb3fa27?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw1Z0EF_PpcG-Lwk0488Zk9O" href="https://substack.com/redirect/86cd3e95-9203-4352-af02-8d59afb3fa27?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.whitehouse.gov/<wbr></wbr>briefing-room/speeches-<wbr></wbr>remarks/2024/02/16/remarks-by-<wbr></wbr>vice-president-harris-at-the-<wbr></wbr>munich-security-conference-<wbr></wbr>munich-germany/</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/766d856f-c25c-45d7-bfc2-824a20d53542?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw0cebmNKyMeMC8slACRA4JF" href="https://substack.com/redirect/766d856f-c25c-45d7-bfc2-824a20d53542?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>world/2024/feb/16/yulia-<wbr></wbr>navalnaya-munich-security-<wbr></wbr>conference-navalny-putin</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/ac931a99-acf0-4881-a40f-e9e697783a21?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw0d0FL_h0L7_joxHKN5yeot" href="https://substack.com/redirect/ac931a99-acf0-4881-a40f-e9e697783a21?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.theatlantic.com/<wbr></wbr>ideas/archive/2024/02/navalny-<wbr></wbr>death-russia-prison/677485/I</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/f5f288b5-6090-41eb-8c9b-23a8893f3162?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw2Rle7jkUR69IfK2Miejr6r" href="https://substack.com/redirect/f5f288b5-6090-41eb-8c9b-23a8893f3162?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/<wbr></wbr>10/politics/trump-russia-nato/<wbr></wbr>index.html</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/37351cd4-6909-48b9-92cb-1d91ccdd0dfd?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw2lSfbfpRh2UOQA4ECqVzyz" href="https://substack.com/redirect/37351cd4-6909-48b9-92cb-1d91ccdd0dfd?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.thedailybeast.com/<wbr></wbr>putins-pals-link-death-of-<wbr></wbr>alexei-navalny-to-tucker-<wbr></wbr>carlson-interview</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/b80180b6-6b04-4c64-9130-0d93f2c559e4?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw1A3RXTEj3o3ml10S360KLm" href="https://substack.com/redirect/b80180b6-6b04-4c64-9130-0d93f2c559e4?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/<wbr></wbr>16/trump-fraud-trial-judge-<wbr></wbr>engoron-verdict-ny-ag-<wbr></wbr>business-case.html</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e2944bb4-1e39-498f-9e85-49d6dbacc8b8?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw1WKYjw7DdzjjVIzgxaURdm" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e2944bb4-1e39-498f-9e85-49d6dbacc8b8?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/<wbr></wbr>02/16/movies/aleksei-navalny-<wbr></wbr>documentary.html</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/49f88e88-c0ce-42ee-ad78-b5653372e467?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw38JFkihfr8RBUnq_409uY0" href="https://substack.com/redirect/49f88e88-c0ce-42ee-ad78-b5653372e467?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr></wbr>com/national-security/2024/02/<wbr></wbr>16/ruling-judge-engoron-trump-<wbr></wbr>fraud-trial/</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/2b556e5d-d3b6-4091-a359-2773794a4a22?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw1KJt8eOfRbzZOR6wBOOAss" href="https://substack.com/redirect/2b556e5d-d3b6-4091-a359-2773794a4a22?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://ag.ny.gov/press-<wbr></wbr>release/2024/attorney-general-<wbr></wbr>james-wins-landmark-victory-<wbr></wbr>case-against-donald-trump</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/7b527a7c-5496-4324-a407-9c57878b1b55?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw36AiFGPLZOJUneJmjUGn_2" href="https://substack.com/redirect/7b527a7c-5496-4324-a407-9c57878b1b55?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://thehill.com/opinion/<wbr></wbr>international/4458263-russia-<wbr></wbr>just-disqualified-putins-only-<wbr></wbr>serious-electoral-opponent/</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/45294b57-82f2-48c8-8f64-2bcce277540b?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308384887000&usg=AOvVaw2rn_sBQFKbBTqH5gV6nafH" href="https://substack.com/redirect/45294b57-82f2-48c8-8f64-2bcce277540b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.rollingstone.com/<wbr></wbr>politics/politics-news/tucker-<wbr></wbr>carlson-putin-navalny-<wbr></wbr>assassinations-1234969774/</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; 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color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Today House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) canceled tomorrow’s votes and sent the House of Representatives into recess until February 28.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Before recessing, Johnson refused to take up the national security supplemental bill the Senate passed early Tuesday morning, providing aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and humanitarian aid for Gaza. Johnson said the House must “work its own will” rather than vote on the bill at hand because the measure did not include border security measures.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Yesterday, Johnson told House Republicans that the House will not be “rushed” into passing foreign aid, despite the fact that Ukraine’s desperate need for ammunition is enabling Russia to regain some of the territory Ukraine’s troops reclaimed over the past year. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But is it a rush? President Biden asked for additional national security funding in October 2023. A majority of lawmakers in the Senate and the House support such a measure, but Johnson bowed to the demands of MAGA Republicans and said he would not bring such a bill up for a vote unless it contained border security measures to address what they insisted was a crisis at the southern border of the U.S., apparently banking on the idea that such a compromise was impossible.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But Democrats were so desperate to pass the Ukraine funding they see as crucial to our national security that they agreed to give up their demand for a path to citizenship for the so-called Dreamers, those brought to the United States as children and reared here but now stuck in citizenship limbo. So, after four months of work, Senate negotiators produced a bill that offered much of what Republicans demanded. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Once it was clear a deal was going to materialize, Trump demanded it be shut down, likely because he has promised his base that on his first day back in office, he will “begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” and a new border measure would both undermine his campaign message and stymie his plans. Although the border patrol officers union endorsed the Senate national security measure that included border security provisions, Republicans killed it. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Senators immediately went to work on a national security supplemental without the border measure, passing it with 70 votes on Tuesday morning. Johnson indicated he would not take it up, right about the same time that Trump renewed his attack on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that underpins U.S. and global security. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“House Republicans are…siding with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Tehran against our defense industrial base, against NATO, against Ukraine, against our interests in the Indo-Pacific,” the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said yesterday, and President Joe Biden has repeatedly warned that “[f]ailure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten.” But Republicans, too—including Trump’s vice president Mike Pence—are begging House Republicans to pass a version of the measure. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Perhaps to pressure Johnson, House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner (R-OH), who is a strong supporter of aiding Ukraine in its fight against Russia, yesterday released information about “a serious national security threat,” urged all members of Congress to view the intelligence, and called on Biden to declassify all information relating to it. That threat appears to be antisatellite weapons Russia is developing, but they are not yet operational. Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) of the Senate Intelligence Committee expressed concern that the disclosure might have revealed intelligence sources and methods.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And now, rather than taking up the national security measure, the House has recessed.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">National security and border measures are not the only things the House is ignoring. Since this is a leap year, putting February 29 on the calendar, the recess will give the House just three working days to pass appropriations measures for the 2024 budget before the stopgap continuing resolution to fund the government expires on March 1.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The appropriations process is so far overdue that it threatens to become tangled in that for 2025, which is set to begin March 11, when the White House is expected to release its budget proposal for the year. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">While they have been unable to make headway on these measures, on Tuesday night, Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to impeach Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, blaming him for an increase in migrants at the border. Johnson has named as impeachment managers a number of Republican extremists, including Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Clay Higgins (R-LA), and Harriet Hageman (R-WY). </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan of <em>Punchbowl News</em> reported: “This is the most chaotic, inefficient and ineffective majority we’ve seen in decades covering Congress. It started this way under former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and has gotten worse under Johnson.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump and his MAGA supporters are demonstrating their power over the Republican Party. Trump is trying to install hand-picked loyalists, including his daughter-in-law, at the head of the Republican National Committee, where she vows that “[e]very single penny will go to the No. 1 and the only job of the RNC—that is electing Donald J. Trump as President of the United States.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When Trump was in office, his team installed loyalists at the head of state parties, where they have worked to purge all but Trump loyalists. MAGA Republicans are continuing that process. After Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a reliable conservative tapped by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to negotiate a border measure, produced one that favored Republican positions, right-wing provocateur Benny Johnson called those like Lankford “traitors…spineless scum” who must “be criminally prosecuted.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That demand for purity appears to be radicalizing the House as Republicans inclined to get things done, including five committee chairs, have announced they will not run for reelection. Meanwhile, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene yesterday said that British foreign secretary David Cameron, who is urging Congress to pass Ukraine aid, “can kiss my ass.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But the MAGA agenda is falling apart in the courts. True the Vote, the right-wing organization that insisted it had evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, has told a Georgia judge that, in fact, it has no such evidence. Their claims provided the basis for the arguments about voter fraud highlighted in right-wing pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s film <em>2000 Mules.</em> </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Today a grand jury convened by Special Counsel David Weiss, whom Trump appointed to investigate Hunter Biden, indicted former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov for making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record about Hunter Biden. Smirnov has been a key witness for Republican allegations about Biden’s “corruption” since Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released Smirnov’s unverified claims about a year ago and other MAGA figures spread them. Matthew Gertz of <em>Media Matters</em> noted that Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity’s show highlighted these allegations in at least 85 separate segments last year, including 28 monologues. Now a grand jury has grounds to think Smirnov lied. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump’s personal problems also continue to mount. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Today Judge Juan Merchan confirmed that Trump is going to trial on his criminal election interference case, with jury selection beginning on March 25. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with 34 felonies for falsifying business records in order to hide critical information from voters before the 2016 election. Prosecutors say that Trump defrauded voters by illegally hiding payments he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about their affair before the election. As Andrew Warren put it in <em>The Daily Beast</em>, the case “is about a plot to deprive voters of information about a candidate for president—information that Trump and his allies believed to be damaging enough to hide.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And yet Trump’s MAGA Republicans are calling the shots in the House, and their refusal to support Ukraine threatens to empower Russian president Vladimir Putin and thus to lay waste to the rules-based international order that has helped to prevent world war since 1945. Conservative pundit Bill Kristol noted earlier this month that “politics is often a stage on which people act in bad faith. Still, the demagogic opposition of House Republicans to the border/Ukraine bill, when they've all said the border is an emergency and that Putin should be stopped, is just about the baddest bad faith ever.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The implications of that bad faith for the country—and the world—are huge.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">—</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Notes:</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e5edf1d7-3191-4dce-980b-eb843deae5ef?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308385965000&usg=AOvVaw0FpvNsPNTnJz6MI29GeNDy" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e5edf1d7-3191-4dce-980b-eb843deae5ef?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://abcnews.go.com/<wbr></wbr>Politics/house-republicans-<wbr></wbr>scalise-returning-impeach-<wbr></wbr>mayorkas/story?id=107158284</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; 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letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">HEATHER COX RICHARDSON</span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: grey; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“History is watching,” President Joe Biden said this afternoon. He warned “Republicans in Congress who think they can oppose funding for Ukraine and not be held accountable” that “[f]ailure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">At about 5:00 this morning, the Senate passed a $95 billion national security supplemental bill, providing funding for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most of the money in the measure will stay in the United States, paying defense contractors to restock the matériel the U.S. sends to Ukraine. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The vote was 70–29 and was strongly bipartisan. Twenty-two Republicans joined Democrats in support of the bill, overcoming the opposition of far-right Republicans.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The measure went to the House of Representatives, where House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he will not take it up, even though his far-right supporters acknowledged that a majority of the representatives supported it and that if it did come to the floor, it would pass. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Yesterday, House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner (R-OH)—who had just returned from his third trip to Ukraine, where he told President Volodymyr Zelensky that reinforcements were coming—told <em>Politico’s</em> Rachel Bade: “We have to get this done…. This is no longer an issue of, ‘When do we support Ukraine?’ If we do not move, this will be abandoning Ukraine.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“The speaker will need to bring it to the floor,” Turner said. “You’re either for or against the authoritarian governments invading democratic countries.… You’re either for or against the killing of innocent civilians. You’re either for or against Russia reconstituting the Soviet Union.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Today, Biden spoke to the press to “call on the Speaker to let the full House speak its mind and not allow a minority of the most extreme voices in the House to block this bill even from being voted on—even from being voted on. This is a critical act for the House to move. It needs to move.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Bipartisan support for Ukraine “sends a clear message to Ukrainians and to our partners and to our allies around the world: America can be trusted, America can be relied upon, and America stands up for freedom,” he said. “We stand strong for our allies. We never bow down to anyone, and certainly not to Vladimir Putin.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“Supporting this bill is standing up to Putin. Opposing it is playing into Putin’s hands.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“The stakes were already high for American security before this bill was passed in the Senate last night,” Biden said. “But in recent days, those stakes have risen. And that’s because the former President has sent a dangerous and shockingly, frankly, un-American signal to the world” Biden said, referring to Trump’s statement on Saturday night that he would “encourage [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—the 75-year-old collective security organization that spans North America and Europe—but are not devoting 2% of the gross domestic product to their militaries. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump’s invitation to Putin to invade our NATO allies was “dumb,…shameful,…dangerous, [and] un-American,” Biden said. “When America gives its word, it means something. When we make a commitment, we keep it. And NATO is a sacred commitment.” NATO, Biden said, is “the alliance that protects America and the world.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“[O]ur adversaries have long sought to create cracks in the Alliance. The greatest hope of all those who wish America harm is for NATO to fall apart. And you can be sure that they all cheered when they heard [what] Donald Trump…said.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“Our nation stands at…an inflection point in history…where the decisions we make now are going to determine the course of our future for decades to come. This is one of those moments.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And I say to the House members, House Republicans: You’ve got to decide. Are you going to stand up for freedom, or are you going to side with terror and tyranny? Are you going to stand with Ukraine, or are you going to stand with Putin? Will we stand with America or…with Trump?”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“Republicans and Democrats in the Senate came together to send a message of unity to the world. It’s time for the House Republicans to do the same thing: to pass this bill immediately, to stand for decency, stand for democracy, to stand up to a so-called leader hellbent on weakening American security,” Biden said. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“And I mean this sincerely: History is watching. History is watching.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But instead of taking up the supplemental national security bill tonight, House speaker Johnson took advantage of the fact that Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) has returned to Washington after a stem cell transplant to battle his multiple myeloma and that Judy Chu (D-CA) is absent because she has Covid to make a second attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for “high crimes and misdemeanors” for his oversight of the southern border of the United States. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Republicans voted to impeach Mayorkas by a vote of 214 to 213. The vote catered to far-right Republicans, but impeachment will go nowhere in the Senate.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games,” Biden said in a statement. He called on the House to pass the border security measure Republicans killed last week on Trump’s orders, and to pass the national security supplemental bill.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has said he will use every possible tool to force a vote on the national security supplemental bill. In contrast, as Biden noted, House Republicans are taking their cue from former president Trump, who does not want aid to Ukraine to pass and who last night demonstrated that he is trying to consolidate his power over the party by installing hand-picked loyalists, including his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who is married to his son Eric, at the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC). </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">This move is likely due in part to outgoing RNC chair Ronna McDaniel’s having said the RNC could not pay Trump’s legal bills once he declared himself a presidential candidate. After his political action committees dropped $50 million on legal fees last year, he could likely use another pipeline, and even closer loyalists might give him one. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In addition, Trump probably recognizes that he might well lose the protective legal bulwark of the Trump Organization when Judge Arthur Engoron hands down his verdict in Trump’s $370 million civil fraud trial. New York attorney general Letitia James is seeking not only monetary penalties but also a ban on Trump’s ability to conduct business in the New York real estate industry. In that event, the RNC could become a base of operations for Trump if he succeeds in taking it over entirely. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But it is not clear that all Republican lawmakers will follow him into that takeover, as his demands from the party not only put it out of step with the majority of the American people but also now clearly threaten to blow up global security. “Our base cannot possibly know what’s at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what’s at stake if Putin wins,” Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) told his colleagues as he urged them to vote for the national security supplemental bill.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Politicians should recognize that Trump’s determination to win doesn’t help them much: it is all about him and does not extend to any down-ballot races. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Indeed, the attempt of a Republican minority to impose its will on the majority of Americans appears to be sparking a backlash. In today’s election in New York’s Third Congressional District to replace indicted serial liar George Santos, a loyal Trump Republican, voters chose Democrat Tom Suozzi by about 8 points. CNN’s Dana Bash tonight said voters had told her they voted against the Republican candidate because Republicans, on Trump’s orders, killed the bipartisan border deal. The shift both cuts down the Republican majority in the House and suggests that going into 2024, suburban swing voters are breaking for Democrats. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As Trump tries to complete his takeover of the formerly grand old Republican Party, its members have to decide whether to capitulate.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">History is watching.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">—</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">[If you prefer to hear me read this letter, it will be available tomorrow, at about noon, at these sites (for free):<br /><br />On Substack: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/42b4a1a7-b637-4fa4-b9d2-a345ee32f7e2?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308348408000&usg=AOvVaw1WxjI2zFGPgLLTJ6Ah-Qas" href="https://substack.com/redirect/42b4a1a7-b637-4fa4-b9d2-a345ee32f7e2?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.<wbr></wbr>substack.com/podcast</a><br />On Apple Podcasts: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/2c88e78e-c9eb-4ed2-a402-e993d412bebc?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308348408000&usg=AOvVaw0bnFxppEM0myKAQCfs6Txd" href="https://substack.com/redirect/2c88e78e-c9eb-4ed2-a402-e993d412bebc?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/...<wbr></wbr>/letters-from.../id1730358737</a> ]</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">—</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Notes:</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/c638955f-c958-4991-b290-92f78b101be2?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308348408000&usg=AOvVaw2jrg9lrUnnKBM-piXKYxXY" href="https://substack.com/redirect/c638955f-c958-4991-b290-92f78b101be2?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.appropriations.<wbr></wbr>senate.gov/news/minority/<wbr></wbr>senator-collins-makes-case-<wbr></wbr>for-national-security-<wbr></wbr>supplemental</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/9de61e96-0da8-4ae2-aed8-1fda10a438f1?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308348408000&usg=AOvVaw2zRO5J0jVRrXsdIH0E0Jrg" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9de61e96-0da8-4ae2-aed8-1fda10a438f1?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.politico.com/news/<wbr></wbr>2024/02/06/border-bill-<wbr></wbr>ukraine-aid-military-00139870</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/595d35e4-1411-4c6e-b46a-d006462ad567?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308348408000&usg=AOvVaw2_kX2A7EMGCyOtlsTIqBEt" href="https://substack.com/redirect/595d35e4-1411-4c6e-b46a-d006462ad567?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.politico.com/news/<wbr></wbr>2024/02/12/mike-turner-<wbr></wbr>ukraine-funding-00140924</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/31ab144d-07e2-4524-b85f-f60828f58dae?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308348408000&usg=AOvVaw1_pVVit7xglZSYT91zwwFg" href="https://substack.com/redirect/31ab144d-07e2-4524-b85f-f60828f58dae?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.whitehouse.gov/<wbr></wbr>briefing-room/speeches-<wbr></wbr>remarks/2024/02/13/remarks-by-<wbr></wbr>president-biden-on-senate-<wbr></wbr>passage-of-the-bipartisan-<wbr></wbr>supplemental-agreement/</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; 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line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/dd60e349-42dd-4139-870d-532ff83f6f56?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308348408000&usg=AOvVaw3olaR019u1FCVJSoTAfiYi" href="https://substack.com/redirect/dd60e349-42dd-4139-870d-532ff83f6f56?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.whitehouse.gov/<wbr></wbr>briefing-room/statements-<wbr></wbr>releases/2024/02/13/statement-<wbr></wbr>from-president-joe-biden-on-<wbr></wbr>house-gops-baseless-<wbr></wbr>impeachment-of-secretary-<wbr></wbr>mayorkas/</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/048891fc-eccd-4bdd-8f5e-e2660c050ef0?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1708308348408000&usg=AOvVaw2bZEP09_5f22oPZLnrh867" href="https://substack.com/redirect/048891fc-eccd-4bdd-8f5e-e2660c050ef0?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.<wbr></wbr>com/ronna-mcdaniel-rnc-cannot-<wbr></wbr>pay-legal-bills-donald-trump-<wbr></wbr>runs-2022-11</a></span></p><p style="color: #404040; 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His generals don’t</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/u/?qs%3D5b1f62f7302786435a4d22f3b2af48a0b3b401a352516bd6e3eca6d7331c8f846f5870ab61e7615d06b818f67eac4cd3909fef44b1f7cbaf420395f14bb24687&source=gmail&ust=1707983657720000&usg=AOvVaw3-kTzaWJXBJ4d02Dx1j_EK" href="https://click.e.economist.com/u/?qs=5b1f62f7302786435a4d22f3b2af48a0b3b401a352516bd6e3eca6d7331c8f846f5870ab61e7615d06b818f67eac4cd3909fef44b1f7cbaf420395f14bb24687" style="font-weight: inherit; 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color: #121212; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 32px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D54503e703864539b452d06792420677efa1eb66382ee0aa1fab53ac0c8e835de13d662af16b42d46123113fe7b11506072efd76a58ab0a8bdeafec2288e01df6&source=gmail&ust=1707983657720000&usg=AOvVaw0agRi0NrfDVk_vvVZ2TjsB" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=54503e703864539b452d06792420677efa1eb66382ee0aa1fab53ac0c8e835de13d662af16b42d46123113fe7b11506072efd76a58ab0a8bdeafec2288e01df6" style="color: black; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;">Firms such as Huawei are cultivating local suppliers</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D54503e703864539babe7290162c177da55a962c80a78291da7ee207dd354cf83a2aeebdebce981d21cf017fe24b86797520cb553205a0b1843c0ee65f2bd8fdb&source=gmail&ust=1707983657721000&usg=AOvVaw1w5e9ATeWEGtQ0R7b7n9a7" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=54503e703864539babe7290162c177da55a962c80a78291da7ee207dd354cf83a2aeebdebce981d21cf017fe24b86797520cb553205a0b1843c0ee65f2bd8fdb" style="color: #121212; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;">A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed</span></a></p></td></tr><tr><td class="m_1354199447781251517pb32" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); color: #121212; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 32px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D54503e703864539babe7290162c177da55a962c80a78291da7ee207dd354cf83a2aeebdebce981d21cf017fe24b86797520cb553205a0b1843c0ee65f2bd8fdb&source=gmail&ust=1707983657721000&usg=AOvVaw1w5e9ATeWEGtQ0R7b7n9a7" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=54503e703864539babe7290162c177da55a962c80a78291da7ee207dd354cf83a2aeebdebce981d21cf017fe24b86797520cb553205a0b1843c0ee65f2bd8fdb" style="color: black; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D54503e703864539b6de07039968f6bc2b60dee8292ba46d471f74378bc25540ec4650ac27bebe88ca9fa048e09197cabe08d4f96e1bd0b330aafffedfb3fa855&source=gmail&ust=1707983657721000&usg=AOvVaw3Tq1W0VqXiMZnZ6w9TGUId" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=54503e703864539b6de07039968f6bc2b60dee8292ba46d471f74378bc25540ec4650ac27bebe88ca9fa048e09197cabe08d4f96e1bd0b330aafffedfb3fa855" style="color: #121212; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;">How Donald Trump’s re-election would threaten NATO’s Article 5</span></a></p></td></tr><tr><td class="m_1354199447781251517pb32" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); color: #121212; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 32px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D54503e703864539b6de07039968f6bc2b60dee8292ba46d471f74378bc25540ec4650ac27bebe88ca9fa048e09197cabe08d4f96e1bd0b330aafffedfb3fa855&source=gmail&ust=1707983657722000&usg=AOvVaw2u5uMsi749o0wxiXnLDsFD" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=54503e703864539b6de07039968f6bc2b60dee8292ba46d471f74378bc25540ec4650ac27bebe88ca9fa048e09197cabe08d4f96e1bd0b330aafffedfb3fa855" style="color: black; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;">And thus play into Russia’s hands</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-26507832540413180582024-02-17T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-17T00:00:00.146-08:00Notations On Our World (Special W-End Edition): President John F. 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font-family: Charter, "Bitstream Charter", "Iowan Old Style", "Calisto MT", Georgia, serif; font-size: 23px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3Db6fc5fd1671ea50f9fb3bd06bd64772ed8524611a7445756782aad29f17998160e795cd99f9e19cc4566d6f24603c6c4266198d0ebea359a2a19e777273fa6c2&source=gmail&ust=1707882662532000&usg=AOvVaw1BeUtDUnuvgKocO6eK2yvm" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=b6fc5fd1671ea50f9fb3bd06bd64772ed8524611a7445756782aad29f17998160e795cd99f9e19cc4566d6f24603c6c4266198d0ebea359a2a19e777273fa6c2" style="color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="">Europe must hurry to defend itself against Russia—and Donald Trump</a></p></td></tr><tr><td class="m_1994231832343223002pb32" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); color: #121212; font-family: Charter, "Bitstream Charter", "Iowan Old Style", "Calisto MT", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 32px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3Db6fc5fd1671ea50f9fb3bd06bd64772ed8524611a7445756782aad29f17998160e795cd99f9e19cc4566d6f24603c6c4266198d0ebea359a2a19e777273fa6c2&source=gmail&ust=1707882662532000&usg=AOvVaw1BeUtDUnuvgKocO6eK2yvm" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=b6fc5fd1671ea50f9fb3bd06bd64772ed8524611a7445756782aad29f17998160e795cd99f9e19cc4566d6f24603c6c4266198d0ebea359a2a19e777273fa6c2" style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="">The ex-president’s invitation to Vladimir Putin to attack American allies is an assault on NATO. Ultimately, that is bad for America</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1976277185449044070templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; max-width: 600px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1976277185449044070mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1976277185449044070mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">The Israel Defense Forces appear poised to launch an all-out assault on Rafah, where about half of Gaza’s population is now sheltering after months of bombardment in the North, following <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D7e7d9bba04%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707880900444000&usg=AOvVaw3E04PBT90K1SOZz9mDq9AR" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=7e7d9bba04&e=d8b9d1068d" target="_blank">a brutal commando rescue operation that killed 74 people there</a>. As a result of the operation, Israel freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages on Monday, the first of the October 7 hostages being held by Hamas released through military action, as opposed to a prisoner swap. <br /> </span></b></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">In four months of the conflict, much of Gaza has been flattened, and 28,340 Palestinians have been killed there, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D2a7a87f5a3%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707880900444000&usg=AOvVaw0MFLU9Z_iGAwXEHxnokfg7" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=2a7a87f5a3&e=d8b9d1068d" target="_blank">according to Gaza health officials</a>. Almost 68,000 people are wounded, those officials say, and many more are believed to be buried under the rubble. The Israeli military says 31 of the hostages have died over the course of that period. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the rescue of the two hostages (out of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D3d2fb1ecd7%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707880900444000&usg=AOvVaw0DupDf9PlH9hjw15OYAzEQ" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=3d2fb1ecd7&e=d8b9d1068d" target="_blank">100 estimated to remain in Hamas captivity</a>) demonstrates that military pressure should continue, and rebuffed international alarm at the plans for a ground assault on Rafah.<br /> </span></b></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Israel reportedly proposed the creation of sprawling tent cities in Gaza as part of its evacuation plan, to be funded by the United States and its partners in the Arab Gulf ahead of the invasion. The proposal was sent to Egypt in recent days, just as the Biden administration was warning Israel against proceeding into Rafah, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> reported, citing Egyptian officials. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Db594cbc20b%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707880900444000&usg=AOvVaw23vgFz_taK1Sb0s-KXPE4w" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b594cbc20b&e=d8b9d1068d" target="_blank">Cairo has reportedly said that it would suspend the 1979 peace treaty with Israel if Palestinians crossed the border from Rafah to flee an Israeli offensive</a>. Netanyahu declined to comment on the proposal.</span></b></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_-1976277185449044070mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWn5xOwZIamOQePklCymRPs6SFBnoaJFTVVboNoNMy_FV7IjLXIi5UEeGybnB7K26gsozcSszvTYb3krPQuaYZSCpmfPFNYQgv9v9ClCje_8DUIAgw_KIcwnyqlpyDqm5Cqa_DpGDCO7Wt9W4dpnSO8TnAN3B2kKd2GSlkLn1su19LeWFK2aP2EdF9SpZ81uOclvppxg9ZgH6n5E5CmyoPFe5g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1976277185449044070mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1976277185449044070mcnTextContent" style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">The U.S., UN and International Criminal Court <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dff0eb779df%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707880900444000&usg=AOvVaw0PpmxhKGk2jv6BwKR-SsY9" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=ff0eb779df&e=d8b9d1068d" target="_blank">are all raising warnings</a> about the looming invasion of Rafah, and urging Israel to exercise greater restraint. <br /> </span></b></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that some progress has been made in negotiations towards a pause in fighting, but more work remains. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dfab2b1e725%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707880900444000&usg=AOvVaw346ArxKDvwksHyadOXnZDH" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=fab2b1e725&e=d8b9d1068d" target="_blank">The Biden administration pressed Israel on Monday to work toward a pause in the conflict to win freedom for more hostages and to rapidly increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians</a>. President Biden reportedly spoke with Netanyahu on Sunday by phone and told him a military operation in Rafah “should not proceed” without a plan to protect civilians. Biden has privately disparaged Netanyahu as impossible to deal with, NBC News reported, but <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D5ea3acf0de%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707880900444000&usg=AOvVaw2XcNvfuJU5RWfCxbvJreBe" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=5ea3acf0de&e=d8b9d1068d" target="_blank">the administration’s official policy towards supporting Israel has remained largely unchanged</a>. <br /> </span></b></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dc1d26fffb4%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707880900444000&usg=AOvVaw0R_A9yVicoPJuB0ivbIOnd" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=c1d26fffb4&e=d8b9d1068d" target="_blank">A Dutch Court on Monday ordered the government of the Netherlands to stop exporting parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel</a>, in a sign of mounting alarm over the staggering civilian death toll in Gaza. The Netherlands hosts a warehouse of American-owned F-35 parts that are exported to other countries where the fighter jets are operated. Oxfam and two other human rights organizations filed lawsuits against the Dutch government in December demanding that it halt these exports amid concerns that Israel may be potentially violating international law in the enclave. Monday’s ruling, in part, read: “The court finds that there is a clear risk that Israel’s F-35 fighter jets might be used in the commission of serious violations of international humanitarian law.”</span></b></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />Shortly after speaking with President Biden, King Abdullah II of Jordan—home to a large population of Palestinian refugees and their descendants—again called for an immediate ceasefire. “We cannot afford an Israeli attack on Rafah,” he said. “It is certain to produce another humanitarian catastrophe.”</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><p></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; 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padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An epic overtime offensive drive won the Super Bowl for Kansas City last night. But for advertisers, the game was all defense. At $7 million a pop, Super Bowl ads provide a unique window into the business zeitgeist of the moment. And what we saw this year was a desire to play it safe. There were no crypto businesses trying to break through. No edgy controversies. No social messaging. Just lots of nostalgia and a lot of celebrities. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVK-ClRTMTt3ZMN2xSR92-tVD2UzjyWusqmyHjeWwZywJW0z5qk6P3pJ7C8v1DrAwmiKxK-usKvtHT1kwlpap0BWIZ49jeqAA7JEpgWQAn8JCmnJXoDkSyYYfnwMwKF9bLysBiG3pI3BREp7EG5agNtmEZv46llV4LiMOaVJvSRpox4rzf-y_yCc_rIZ0wa7xVRAYXJRwK-00r3C9Hx_0DUc%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw2jESdGnX-Tas6SL52CQbD-" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVK-ClRTMTt3ZMN2xSR92-tVD2UzjyWusqmyHjeWwZywJW0z5qk6P3pJ7C8v1DrAwmiKxK-usKvtHT1kwlpap0BWIZ49jeqAA7JEpgWQAn8JCmnJXoDkSyYYfnwMwKF9bLysBiG3pI3BREp7EG5agNtmEZv46llV4LiMOaVJvSRpox4rzf-y_yCc_rIZ0wa7xVRAYXJRwK-00r3C9Hx_0DUc%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Budweiser</a> led the way: Who can object to a Labrador nuzzling a Clydesdale? And <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVPAU9_d_jLukjRMtDcSWO9_Xp1JBikIuxovOiZsRd-vOkn2F8_DKDW_eeqr33UKwwZp_7CpAVkONMYgMz70Phqx5tiblt1DOhrEbNDYjv0H3ABSx7vE39LiUXUliPssCDVA2lxnYa8Q3nig2-TLpOB1w6Xn2eXDAHO0jzPW4N8ENF_7ifwnwKyK0MJI0vDYDD8UsXmTnBw_WPo1g5vYCxWw%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw0MKLiIQA8S6OGwJDeSeSIJ" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVPAU9_d_jLukjRMtDcSWO9_Xp1JBikIuxovOiZsRd-vOkn2F8_DKDW_eeqr33UKwwZp_7CpAVkONMYgMz70Phqx5tiblt1DOhrEbNDYjv0H3ABSx7vE39LiUXUliPssCDVA2lxnYa8Q3nig2-TLpOB1w6Xn2eXDAHO0jzPW4N8ENF_7ifwnwKyK0MJI0vDYDD8UsXmTnBw_WPo1g5vYCxWw%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Bud Light</a> attempted to power its comeback with an ad about an unambiguously male genie who grants wishes. No harm, no foul.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Still, the night had its creative moments. My favorite ones were:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">• <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVBNPMBvZwSKr6EAlGHcqSMXW5zFOHwW_ygRRQP69AR1CD_mJuM82Tcb636JQuMzc8Etb6u334gn3wBz-sWu-cVuiQEe1wn3cKlYQwSheyp3CqPyCqxLtfJ6vCi1sfQV1V6s96Cl_1aM4NlT4I3iBKVb-r89uMZw7ZSupGgDJ8xuIJEo7rlwjHSazFlv_VrZ2r2RZl09oLej2b2rPAmvAp3c%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw0ajijgheWwnWfEvcd_YsmJ" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVBNPMBvZwSKr6EAlGHcqSMXW5zFOHwW_ygRRQP69AR1CD_mJuM82Tcb636JQuMzc8Etb6u334gn3wBz-sWu-cVuiQEe1wn3cKlYQwSheyp3CqPyCqxLtfJ6vCi1sfQV1V6s96Cl_1aM4NlT4I3iBKVb-r89uMZw7ZSupGgDJ8xuIJEo7rlwjHSazFlv_VrZ2r2RZl09oLej2b2rPAmvAp3c%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Dove soap</a> stayed true to its purpose, with an amusing and moving ad on keeping young girls in sports. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">• <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVNjIZInuq7R8QlsKy5MB08xEL0uOydod7xZQix-vScKhz2E0_kVyArKdF4XFqiq2LJ75KgTmAo0w3nBVHJjAE18Dl763mathuenZW35x1cudoau8GpDbcHI6SgluvWeUQKfnbeCrfaW-M00NSxIkD7idd90HxoyCAUBEMGZBG30XOP3BsgUAsVCuYoB-rZj8mxIGS7JIJ8SzmEdpUixTSzM%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw1dAAI1yuxPIUUn_Aaxvvd1" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVNjIZInuq7R8QlsKy5MB08xEL0uOydod7xZQix-vScKhz2E0_kVyArKdF4XFqiq2LJ75KgTmAo0w3nBVHJjAE18Dl763mathuenZW35x1cudoau8GpDbcHI6SgluvWeUQKfnbeCrfaW-M00NSxIkD7idd90HxoyCAUBEMGZBG30XOP3BsgUAsVCuYoB-rZj8mxIGS7JIJ8SzmEdpUixTSzM%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Dunkin’ Donuts</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVGJjWiC9qFcf1jap_0MN2UTq3_bDRCmbkuhfReowe78MBE-7MGDnEohjktSXHJnu7g0Mbzi_7YILfKaLXJ6ObHRVTtZrcEsbHkslFp9ciO3W7IvFqt0T6Q80wORCm2mWNGTncnkeJPDOD7tvzpZf5xF-m7tcg0eZPzSyrSiJv9EJ7Y070rTU6tc8jL6CAjRTgkqUHqtV0_X7JxuKvu3o1Rw%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw2GKkya01UHQKd6h2q2Ej1p" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVGJjWiC9qFcf1jap_0MN2UTq3_bDRCmbkuhfReowe78MBE-7MGDnEohjktSXHJnu7g0Mbzi_7YILfKaLXJ6ObHRVTtZrcEsbHkslFp9ciO3W7IvFqt0T6Q80wORCm2mWNGTncnkeJPDOD7tvzpZf5xF-m7tcg0eZPzSyrSiJv9EJ7Y070rTU6tc8jL6CAjRTgkqUHqtV0_X7JxuKvu3o1Rw%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Uber Eats</a> tied for the best use of celebrities. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">• <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVKd8lhazYGk7dFyCGzuwH6zCDhizOQvM4Ew0I-u4PHGheOuY5CRRGG7i2P9Gs1mvr5FzOODhID6Ulx1SUCHjLpFxYApMDRzhoVd6xxdWmHHciwxEFgWQHqdFh_D3M5cdtsZ1-UvRxbWqeS3OrF0KChjNNjmMkz89UglrTXaWL-WXqSvMjmVhkWJ5g8a6OOgHVpDbbXqBgS0PJm4daV9wI6I%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw0OH9BWSMCMSJ3g0S1vdKC5" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVKd8lhazYGk7dFyCGzuwH6zCDhizOQvM4Ew0I-u4PHGheOuY5CRRGG7i2P9Gs1mvr5FzOODhID6Ulx1SUCHjLpFxYApMDRzhoVd6xxdWmHHciwxEFgWQHqdFh_D3M5cdtsZ1-UvRxbWqeS3OrF0KChjNNjmMkz89UglrTXaWL-WXqSvMjmVhkWJ5g8a6OOgHVpDbbXqBgS0PJm4daV9wI6I%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Messi</a> in a Michelob Ultra ad was the most fun to watch. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">• Arnold Schwarzenegger taking elocution lessons from Jake from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVIaIcM-vwo0qXV27VSpFcaZH8AHSjO2IvvD2awN9mBcwOT_WXvIgIB3CEnTIzGE3N38E3ZYX2EGHwPLa9hQRQ8uQAxRj2Ok0D_4E5HaA0i9fyRY0GZ2pS0LkQOFfbS0WtuXKE3IJW6XURyrIY9fKLmmeQTGXCQGS1wYyxxO-u95aI-gM9R4-_b8oJuL8bQvIcMfohoO1rUbzbSTVccBkAhc%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw0vtqe2mxtpAIzCt70gQGt4" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVIaIcM-vwo0qXV27VSpFcaZH8AHSjO2IvvD2awN9mBcwOT_WXvIgIB3CEnTIzGE3N38E3ZYX2EGHwPLa9hQRQ8uQAxRj2Ok0D_4E5HaA0i9fyRY0GZ2pS0LkQOFfbS0WtuXKE3IJW6XURyrIY9fKLmmeQTGXCQGS1wYyxxO-u95aI-gM9R4-_b8oJuL8bQvIcMfohoO1rUbzbSTVccBkAhc%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">State Farm</a> made me laugh.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">• And the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVF_G5fLF_lmFPREFbIwatJJZ4NtQp9yn-XHrlSJqKZuJjxj1kH3n18PvkeH2niT84XTeq5-DOqUrqx05fu0DMzgyr162mf0ct7bgih4z5wvOKZYr-diLUySxDaW8zzp1H5_xzHiCRNYJHLgtS1qjm7f4Sm2uu5qyDB5UgT6kldAdKDVCiukOMrY97dG0hEOsIHyTsYBSM1mp3aJq4nds0qgfhZWcmRFoU8jB81-hBytiya-mh9r0BGU2Ah4U1QL03g%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw26S8W1LAZD4oV3GhTKDiSO" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVF_G5fLF_lmFPREFbIwatJJZ4NtQp9yn-XHrlSJqKZuJjxj1kH3n18PvkeH2niT84XTeq5-DOqUrqx05fu0DMzgyr162mf0ct7bgih4z5wvOKZYr-diLUySxDaW8zzp1H5_xzHiCRNYJHLgtS1qjm7f4Sm2uu5qyDB5UgT6kldAdKDVCiukOMrY97dG0hEOsIHyTsYBSM1mp3aJq4nds0qgfhZWcmRFoU8jB81-hBytiya-mh9r0BGU2Ah4U1QL03g%3D%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">NFL’s ad</a> for its global player opportunity program, filmed in Ghana, was a delight. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Biggest waste of $7 million? The message-free nostalgiarama run by a super PAC supporting <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVCsoupdQBoNclD8DAvFZODd3fN6URExqpgs5A6Uy_ibtV7Cu5YtGu5XKs-SgNL0kKqNxH99jxsB-iQ5CugNgfO9i5dsbllHlCGYBJA9H1bv_F1cgVHTqBsI6JifRk_opNNgazidE5UYh7u7BOyRv1LGqp3Cu_17x92WvDlkSXHmBCdoePJqb2hmFI0rZ2Mwf0HFN2vsqsK_utUXPSJlgwymJacVaNyyyeYeCI497yCPD_zbchCAgMOPKercm_yvHVQ%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw3EXlpD7NDl3lNRgWjxIP-L" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVCsoupdQBoNclD8DAvFZODd3fN6URExqpgs5A6Uy_ibtV7Cu5YtGu5XKs-SgNL0kKqNxH99jxsB-iQ5CugNgfO9i5dsbllHlCGYBJA9H1bv_F1cgVHTqBsI6JifRk_opNNgazidE5UYh7u7BOyRv1LGqp3Cu_17x92WvDlkSXHmBCdoePJqb2hmFI0rZ2Mwf0HFN2vsqsK_utUXPSJlgwymJacVaNyyyeYeCI497yCPD_zbchCAgMOPKercm_yvHVQ%3D%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Robert Kennedy</a> that simply repeated the Kennedy name over and over. And the GOAT of Superbowl ad celebrities? Tom Brady, who starred in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5%26_e%3D-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVF_G5fLF_lmFPREFbIwatJLtu1fop8c90pVteAQCGwhfJioTXD9oAjiVwxfzj4eLJeKZDrDEkDON8JDiR2d8-BjYkHzcW30aVNHVrD5DfPf9YIPB4ZW12uOATK55OVrsID1xLC-ErAVI6HplFqtirvA6GMvhVUUNJUYVcuav9JnvFZ8zNHNNCZhAYvQ7PV_1N0aK_8VBdhRECwdI3cjs7ZytlcwCz7n1BfQWQe3ob6uP&source=gmail&ust=1707855660417000&usg=AOvVaw0m9f12g35I8Ha1dbVczmiS" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=375a9017c1744f28b15d4a67c95ae0b5&_e=-SQVOCl8FjQSM4XTMrFpVF_G5fLF_lmFPREFbIwatJLtu1fop8c90pVteAQCGwhfJioTXD9oAjiVwxfzj4eLJeKZDrDEkDON8JDiR2d8-BjYkHzcW30aVNHVrD5DfPf9YIPB4ZW12uOATK55OVrsID1xLC-ErAVI6HplFqtirvA6GMvhVUUNJUYVcuav9JnvFZ8zNHNNCZhAYvQ7PV_1N0aK_8VBdhRECwdI3cjs7ZytlcwCz7n1BfQWQe3ob6uP" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">BetMGM’s</a> ad and also played a supporting role to Ben Affleck in the Dunkin’ ad.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Finally, a shout out to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fortune</em>’s partners at Blackbaud EverFi, who power the NFL’s “Character Playbook” education program that was highlighted in two moving spots in the second half.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr height="16"><td height="16" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"></span></span></p><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px auto 32px;"><figure style="margin: 0px auto; width: 550px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" width="452"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/7a1c48d6-317f-4e81-b032-0f54c73d872c?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1707857569877000&usg=AOvVaw1HN1UQzbESCxodXGFA358e" href="https://substack.com/redirect/7a1c48d6-317f-4e81-b032-0f54c73d872c?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="border: none; color: #1155cc; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="576.1408450704225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg_SS5TqtMxt6S-bsqqjWvxvwcA0UpaTG1u7lqwEl3veWo1zvvmzkFE2A3668qa050b0a_Fv42GZa9OrOzfqYTShAfV2QMIf548dcme-zeK2VaHXO30RTammdlx_yhyY6OPHCqj6krYGqSq7FBWSUAUy_G9EE55jTx_cwJLPw9O_l6qaYY8A0vQi1_L3mCKcrVQD5fJOnBmnVNW5sXw7soe2xbwiSXosWBx_xbL0VmxNQmkGLtolhbic62CunLzQ4lPK3BqO1roF4075aEG2xK61KdmNw-Rhk1sMDo5vScrcnG9N52yLYCMn7utV6c926UQRxkp6oW6t2UpJGHocyppZKomji1xgCo2k2sjsigzyANqG78=s0-d-e1-ft,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F996dd296-3071-47d7-bb0d-7816da25c896_852x1086.png" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="452" /></a></td><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"> </span></i></b></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">By Marc Cooper</span></strong></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">The U.S. Supreme Court did today what we expected it to do. Or is preparing to do. In Thursday morn’s hearing on the 14<sup>th</sup> amendment case from Colorado trying to keep Donald Trump off the ballot the questioning from the justices made it abundantly clear they have zero intention of banning the Orange Jesus from running just because he incited a violent attack on the Capitol and plotted to deny the peaceful transfer of power.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">P’shaw. A minor hiccup.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">There are several truths competing in this case and at no point do they link up.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">The third section of the 14<sup>th</sup> Amendment clearly disqualifies Donald Trump from running for office. True.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Colorado made the right decision. True.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">If left to stand it could be incentive for red states to start banning candidates with the ease which they now use the filibuster and impeachment. True</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">This court is a strident defender of states’ rights and by that measure the ruling should be upheld. True.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Letting one judge in one state skew the entire election is a bad idea. Anyway that’s Judge Cannon’s job, isn’t it? True.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Simply put, Trump should not be on the ballot in 2024. True. And the Supreme Court will make sure he is. True.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">It would also be a lot better for all of is if Donald Trump was firmly defeated and voted off stage by the American people, not a court ruling. Not necessarily true.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">But as I said last week, we chickens are all just sitting here, listening to a loudly clicking clock, and waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting for the Democrats to begin their campaign against him in a serious manner. Well, hurry up and wait some more.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">I am now going to contradict everything I have written for the last couple of years and go back on an affirmation I made a few lines ago. I am officially now NOT expecting a robust Democratic campaign to defeat Trump. Sorry, just not seeing it and it’s getting late. Nor am I expecting some magical wave of citizen anger to wash over the country and a bring a million people into the streets last week like the Germans did to protest the rise of the extreme right. The fascist Right. Like MAGA. Nope, I am expecting the country to pretty much continue sleep walking into out next phase of history that begins exactly eight months from now. And one year from now we might already be a couple of weeks into a Trump dictatorial regime. That’s how close we are.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">We watch the unbelievable incompetence and partisan narrow vision that now dominates the House and not a creature stirs. Instead, newspapers and magazines fold at record pace as the public loses interest in even following politics. I mean, who can even follow the absolute unbridled craziness that is now the US House Of Representatives whose Republican majority this week voted down a totally pro-Republican border package only because Trump and Friends would rather keep the border a festering issue rather than an issue solved by a bi partisan group under the Biden White House. In other times and in other places this might have stirred several thousands peasants to take the field with their pitchforks. What we got last week instead was mostly media riffing on Taylor Swift.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_-5489448831815564312mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEijjrqF0ooDIyF4pvIcWrIQQz2xZ0bg9W7_MrLijDdjQmW7KnS5FpyNSHd63pdLkUK__fFTOhDWxfVAQdEj-tXRb2-FNevYVwmzba_qk7aapkmn7FKPPdFwxYlWjTn70o8Pgk-wSRrUWX7iea4DQfsRajUyq6LeHpADtlYozxW9AtT1psoUQKNIC4CRa4NMT5IOLIhI71FsKBGjwJegPOhS_uCe=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5489448831815564312mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5489448831815564312mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Secretary of State Antony Blinken </strong>continued his latest round of high-stakes negotiations in the Middle East on Tuesday, as conditions in the region remain on a razor's edge. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Hamas gave a “positive” response to a ceasefire framework brokered by Qatar, Egypt, the U.S. and Israel, the prime minister of Qatar said Thursday in a news conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The three-part plan involves both a pause in hostilities and a hostage swap. The Qatari prime minister gave few details thereafter, but it’s the first movement on the issue since the deal was presented to Hamas. Blinken also said little, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd412124b66%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060647000&usg=AOvVaw06NUwQWsj3Lh3icHSatM1N" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d412124b66&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">acknowledging that the deal is achievable but there was still “a lot of work to be done.”</a> Back in Washington, President Biden called Hamas’s demands “a little over the top,” but similarly did not elaborate further. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani was the most optimistic of the three. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Hamas confirmed that it had responded to the proposal, but did not lay out any specifics. The group reaffirmed earlier demands for a permanent ceasefire, reconstruction of Gaza, lifting of the 17-year blockade of the enclave, and the release of Palestinian prisoners. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already thrown cold water on a few of those demands. An unnamed Israeli official told the <em>New York Times</em> that the country’s leadership are dissatisfied with Hamas’s response, as both control of Gaza and ending the war are conditions rejected by Israel. As Blinken continues on his fifth trip to the Middle East since October 7, he will discuss what diplomats are referring to as the “day-after” plans for governing Gaza when the war ends, including the possible role for the Palestinian Authority, the group that administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. <br /> </span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">News emerged on Tuesday that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dbe564a86fd%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060648000&usg=AOvVaw1GO7EYCOL2Nfcp258AV8Vy" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=be564a86fd&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">at least 30 of the 136 hostages remaining in Hamas captivity from the October 7 terrorist attack have died since the start of the war</a>, according to a confidential Israeli intelligence assessment reviewed by the <em>Times</em>. The bodies of two other slain Israelis, which have been held since the 2014 Gaza War between Israel and Hamas, have also been held in the territory ever since. Some of the 30-plus dead were killed in Israel on October 7, and then their bodies moved by Hamas to Gaza, while others died of injuries. Others still, officials said, were killed by Hamas once in captivity in Gaza. At least three hostages were killed by the Israeli military during its ground operations in the enclave.</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_-5489448831815564312mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWn5xOwZIamOQePklCymRPs6SFBnoaJFTVVboNoNMy_FV7IjLXIi5UEeGybnB7K26gsozcSszvTYb3krPQuaYZSCpmfPFNYQgv9v9ClCje_8DUIAgw_KIcwnyqlpyDqm5Cqa_DpGDCO7Wt9W4dpnSO8TnAN3B2kKd2GSlkLn1su19LeWFK2aP2EdF9SpZ81uOclvppxg9ZgH6n5E5CmyoPFe5g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5489448831815564312mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5489448831815564312mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Meanwhile, global humanitarian aid organizations</strong> continue to raise flags about human rights abuses in the conflict. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D8dad9e99fe%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060648000&usg=AOvVaw0keyOGGapMCNMLfMwwnire" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=8dad9e99fe&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Amnesty International released a new report on Monday</a> claiming that Israeli forces were killing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank with “near total impunity” as the world focused on Gaza. Accusing Israeli security forces of “unlawful killings, including by using lethal force without necessity or disproportionately during protests,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D272f82b113%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060648000&usg=AOvVaw3v_0ChDoLaIc895VHfbu9N" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=272f82b113&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">the organization demanded in the report that the International Criminal Court sharpen the focus of its investigation into Israel’s conduct</a> in the occupied territory. The report also states that Israeli forces “obstructed medical assistance to people with life-threatening wounds and attacked those attempting to assist injured Palestinians, including paramedics.” <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The uptick in violence in the occupied territory, AI says, adds to Israel’s “well-documented track record of using excessive and often lethal force to stifle dissent and enforce its system of apartheid against Palestinians.” The Israeli military has described its operations in the West Bank as counterterrorism efforts, and the country has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Df536b4dade%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060648000&usg=AOvVaw1SSN2SyQ5y1aSHgC_1l3Of" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=f536b4dade&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">strenuously denied prior accusations of committing apartheid</a>. Amnesty International said it sent a request for information about the cases documented in its report to the Israeli military’s spokesperson unit in late November and did not receive a response. <br /> </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>After months of Israeli officials</strong> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd4f6eefbad%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060648000&usg=AOvVaw3-gC7o7RBff2j_eRaOjkUD" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d4f6eefbad&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">directing Gaza residents to move south</a> to escape its escalating bombardment, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D794e665426%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060648000&usg=AOvVaw1asbVBBsLAd8kzMFxhtiOk" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=794e665426&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">more than half of Gaza’s population now resides in the greater Rafah area</a> in the southern part of the enclave. Even before the war, Gaza had one of the world’s highest population densities. Israel continued its new campaign to hit the south with relentless pressure on Khan Younis—the main city in southern Gaza—and Rafah, just to its south, which <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Da08b587898%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060648000&usg=AOvVaw17UixdiDIRuqfVqL1-t8_B" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=a08b587898&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">was also hit by airstrikes and tank fire</a>. Back in Washington, the House of Representatives <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D58af2c4fcc%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707858060648000&usg=AOvVaw3Ar9NW0p_lCMJdQDwTh5D3" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=58af2c4fcc&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">rejected a standalone $17.6 billion aid package to Israel</a> on Tuesday, reflecting growing unease with issuing the country unconditional aid.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5489448831815564312mcnDividerBlock" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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This week, ballots started hitting mailboxes and early voting sites opened for the primary election on March 5. To help you research your stance on Proposition 1 and your picks for the U.S. Senate race and other key contests, check out the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51234&source=gmail&ust=1707858060611000&usg=AOvVaw2Yd4Upib36SzC55NQzQ_uY" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51234" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">CalMatters Voter Guide</a>. We’ve answered the most <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51235&source=gmail&ust=1707858060611000&usg=AOvVaw1oJi1N8badZavddxQ-2B95" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51235" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">common voting questions</a> already, but is there something else you’re curious about? <a href="mailto:info@calmatters.org?subject=voting" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Let us know</a>. -Anna</span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; line-height: 0; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; width: 600px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51236&source=gmail&ust=1707858060611000&usg=AOvVaw1hfL6JljU-5mUqEb980xq1" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51236" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiJb3Gg9m1pvcgYnmsr0WxIDn7vQzBFcsJrykl_obcgNbsf8_SMyIGyzArK_vooj006xsoY9Dh0Gx7_C7gfJ1kllgCoiADEe6ntCMW-JXVZfPouDugf48NnCCOWq0uG4Wp-BCW_H8DkY4Yc4uJyKad_-TSXri3QrlIqwHLijD0teaTymajAQQE91OBfZAbHmpyYEZo4IQYUofn0S6Tk6eHgjQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="height: 12px; line-height: 12px;"> </div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px; line-height: 26.4px;"><h3 style="font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51236&source=gmail&ust=1707858060611000&usg=AOvVaw1hfL6JljU-5mUqEb980xq1" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51236" style="color: #1155cc; letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">An initiative promised 20,000 homes for mentally ill Californians. It delivered far less</span></a></h3></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px; line-height: 26.4px;"><h6 style="color: #666666; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 15.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51237&source=gmail&ust=1707858060611000&usg=AOvVaw3CV8yaHTZx7WScdg2A0EvM" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51237" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Jocelyn Wiener</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51238&source=gmail&ust=1707858060611000&usg=AOvVaw0CNVCM76_fR4vg3oXbeZjh" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51238" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Marisa Kendall</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51239&source=gmail&ust=1707858060611000&usg=AOvVaw3gmDG0bJldcRd9thLJFldn" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51239" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Kristen Hwang</a>, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51240&source=gmail&ust=1707858060611000&usg=AOvVaw1-oGfvyVVJjI_41rlYdNaN" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51240" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Erica Yee</a></span></h6></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 40px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">California voters this spring are considering a $6.4 billion bond that would build thousands of housing units and treatment beds for people with serious mental health conditions. A 2018 ballot measure that made similar promises offers lessons about the obstacles that stand in the way of construction.</span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="height: 0px; line-height: 0px;"> </div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><center><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0px; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; max-width: 600px; padding: 12px 16px;" width="100%"><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Nonprofit & Nonpartisan </span>This week we launched our Voter Guide thanks to support from our members. 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letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 18.7px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51242&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw14aPZzAdYUCzeDodyASwZ0" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51242" style="color: #1155cc; letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 18.7px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Is California ready for psychedelic therapy?</a></h3></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.7px;"><h6 style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 15.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51243&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw33mKHx0E-Qa4F32rAApQ_3" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51243" style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Ana B. Ibarra</a></h6></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px;">California could follow Oregon in authorizing the use of psychedelics in therapeutic settings. Growing research characterizes certain hallucinogens as helpful in treating mental illnesses, such as depression and PTSD.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; line-height: 0; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-per-33-33" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 33.33%; vertical-align: top; width: 199.969px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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line-height: 18.7px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51244&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw0EeCitPq9bANvDfEfXUrdb" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51244" style="color: #1155cc; letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 18.7px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Los Angeles’ one weird trick to build affordable housing at no public cost</a></h3></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.7px;"><h6 style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 15.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51245&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw303ViG7qubmYy8mSFU41DW" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51245" style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Ben Christopher</a></h6></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px;">The term “unsubsidized 100% affordable project” was once an oxymoron. Under Mayor Karen Bass, Los Angeles is now approving them by the hundreds.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; line-height: 0; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-per-33-33" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 33.33%; vertical-align: top; width: 199.969px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 18.7px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51246&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw0waQZrBylE-3bUQfAEzpuh" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51246" style="color: #1155cc; letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 18.7px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Get to know Mike McGuire, one of California’s most powerful lawmakers</a></h3></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.7px;"><h6 style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 15.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51247&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw3RXsNrO53oE6kMs8G-GkP1" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51247" style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Alexei Koseff</a></h6></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px;">Sen. Mike McGuire of Healdsburg takes over as Democratic leader in the state Senate from Sen. Toni Atkins. He terms out in 2026, so has limited time to push his agenda.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; line-height: 0; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-per-33-33" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 33.33%; vertical-align: top; width: 199.969px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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line-height: 18.7px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51248&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw1IKSIgVBGCmYSWvNHmxcWC" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51248" style="color: #1155cc; letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 18.7px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">California plans to use AI to answer your tax questions</a></h3></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.7px;"><h6 style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 15.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51249&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw11UIKC2dWGdrL-8rGh6uPo" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51249" style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Khari Johnson</a></h6></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px;">A state tax agency wants to use generative AI to give business owners tax advice. The state of California calls it an opportunity. Risk assessments are forthcoming.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-px-600" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; line-height: 0; max-width: 600px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><div class="m_-2667869695220493579mj-column-per-33-33" style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; max-width: 33.33%; vertical-align: top; width: 199.969px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; 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letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 18.7px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51250&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw3oyGuU-tOdOw4S431qFm1g" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51250" style="color: #1155cc; letter-spacing: -0.34px; line-height: 18.7px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">California’s pursuit of clean air just got much harder</a></h3></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.7px;"><h6 style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 15.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s%3D4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e%26i%3D1457A633A33A51251&source=gmail&ust=1707858060612000&usg=AOvVaw0CBf5y4HPajga7ssDbwuuB" href="https://calmatters.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=4bece6b65e9ba5af9fdf866d1923a25e&i=1457A633A33A51251" style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 15.6px; padding: 4px 0px;" target="_blank">Alejandro Lazo</a></h6></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #212121; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px;">The federal standard will likely throw new California counties out of compliance — and put even more pressure on the LA basin and San Joaquin Valley to clean the air.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: start;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px; width: 632px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A Super Bowl Note to Taylor Swift: Love the Music, Park the Private Jet</span></a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Congrats, Taylor, for your talent and decades of consistently great songwriting. You deserve all the accolades and rewards. But I have one request...</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3735288658498685197row-content m_3735288658498685197stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_3735288658498685197column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="25%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3735288658498685197image_block" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/78712034/454226274/786751015?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImIxOTFhN2MzLTc2YzctZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3DQnOvBIK9ckIdLrjgqETwRjgf4GRHk6uOsHa9PP7Sf5U%3D%26emci%3Dce6f833b-57c7-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26emdi%3Db191a7c3-76c7-ee11-85f9-002248223794%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1707857569792000&usg=AOvVaw0USNm58jEVQ2eNpbWg1VVX" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/78712034/454226274/786751015?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImIxOTFhN2MzLTc2YzctZWUxMS04NWY5LTAwMjI0ODIyMzc5NCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=QnOvBIK9ckIdLrjgqETwRjgf4GRHk6uOsHa9PP7Sf5U=&emci=ce6f833b-57c7-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=b191a7c3-76c7-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=3987520" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Waking the Sleeping Giant of the Low-Income Voting Bloc</span></a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Poor People’s Campaign is planning 42 weeks of actions to mobilize this potentially powerful yet often ignored segment of the electorate.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Senate's Failed War and Border Deal is Not Security</span></a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Security for all means honoring legal immigration, creating paths to citizenship, and it means ending and preventing wars.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Penalty for Exposing How Our Plutocracy Operates? Five Years Behind Bars</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Tax consultant Charles Littlejohn faces prison while our richest continue to feel precious little tax-time pain.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; font-size: small; max-width: 540px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px;"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><img alt="Former President Donald Trump arrives on stage during an event." class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" data-pin-me-only="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh4i3OhNVSr3hHMgnfF0gfnCzAoUrCYSc0EGh6PbaoNTLftBHkY_3Q-lWLjxrIr1ECK1wMs0OvAgOBiVMaHpbZJSMB4XvBvLtXk-ZEOlhfhM-07qAwG868zDTNW-ljKlLfQNT0TZWxbNFdJV-ywmMWK8Almvt2XYiJn2Xux7zwkX_gLk443xa66xPvFrPy4Rro5UW4RJ7JHubI_L1XY2sg-cvrOtPqmaDTOTIRy0fsHg1dMt2mBdf3r-lwPvkmXJ-Uhx6WkQqsfPpoQ-JZSrjmpV3AfcWFEkdNu_yMsN6Zn16b6Soww6wcEPeanx8YpDGtung9svFnSfhKH7OSN_ghIyX2koljgv1-qI5-AXiFsok9KNtBIBZd49VOXJgM=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; max-width: 500px; outline: 0px; width: 500px;" tabindex="0" title="Former President Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Conway, South Carolina" width="500" /></p><p style="color: #6e7381; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 24px;">In November, a survey found former President Donald Trump was more trusted to handle relations with China and both wars. | Win McNamee/Getty Images</p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Combo;">With help from Daniel Lippman</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>DONALD TRUMP</strong>’s remark that he’d <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs%3Dcfcba7d004a0070a26d07629750ba0a0bdeb54f103db24cf9bcc78c3ea8bb7092454abc6dc36f503d701dd1a17d8bb10&source=gmail&ust=1707858146008000&usg=AOvVaw13q7VkUMyXpWAJZkxebtUz" href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=cfcba7d004a0070a26d07629750ba0a0bdeb54f103db24cf9bcc78c3ea8bb7092454abc6dc36f503d701dd1a17d8bb10" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">allow Russia to attack a NATO nation that didn’t spend enough on defense</a>, and do nothing, is curious for a candidate accusing President <strong>JOE BIDEN</strong> of courting the next great war.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs%3D21bcec55034eed60ec040b24af02364485c84bb7e531929f231ef0c57b0536d0abbb88f2afb21e9baed4bbea27ee783e&source=gmail&ust=1707858146008000&usg=AOvVaw1iNASgufkktEJ-E4c9lZwy" href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21bcec55034eed60ec040b24af02364485c84bb7e531929f231ef0c57b0536d0abbb88f2afb21e9baed4bbea27ee783e" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">We are on the brink of World War III</a>,” Trump said in January following an Iran-backed militia killing three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. Biden, in response to Trump’s NATO remark, blasted the Republican frontrunner for abandoning allies, a stance he claimed would make Americans less safe at home.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The exchange underscored the 2024 foreign policy debate’s metanarrative: which candidate is best positioned to avoid the largest global conflict in decades.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“The specter of World War III is becoming the successor to the specter of endless war,” said <strong>STEPHEN WERTHEIM</strong>, a senior fellow in the American statecraft program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">After Russian troops entered Ukraine in Feb. 2022, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs%3D6091d10cb20b96912af548ae67a09981158d4573a55628e717fe67095406a96ab32accc7bd0b52bb93518c64fa9b172f&source=gmail&ust=1707858146008000&usg=AOvVaw2GcoO8xgiBcovTkujlEX4X" href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6091d10cb20b96912af548ae67a09981158d4573a55628e717fe67095406a96ab32accc7bd0b52bb93518c64fa9b172f" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">69 percent of Americans</a> feared those were the opening salvos of World War III. And a Quinnipiac poll from January found that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs%3Db81d053ba53e2653475ebce4394204fac603f918c96def208402fa684270061527e0e12c435a7a1feb69a4a405c53659&source=gmail&ust=1707858146008000&usg=AOvVaw1AzzEUflAg5v0JMp7JRLdK" href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b81d053ba53e2653475ebce4394204fac603f918c96def208402fa684270061527e0e12c435a7a1feb69a4a405c53659" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">more than 8 in 10 Americans</a> were concerned the U.S. would be drawn into a conflict in the Middle East.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump may have the upper hand on addressing those fears. In November, a survey found the former president was more trusted to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs%3D898e8479f8761df3fc001ef013dd0f45ab0df431838e074a971cd870815b30cee62a544e6d686fe665de14f93e0363f3&source=gmail&ust=1707858146008000&usg=AOvVaw1Jt8VhvzvAquB-me5ZVhwB" href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=898e8479f8761df3fc001ef013dd0f45ab0df431838e074a971cd870815b30cee62a544e6d686fe665de14f93e0363f3" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">handle relations with China and both wars</a>.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Meanwhile, concerns about a broadening fight are, well, broadening. Iran and its proxies are attacking Americans and their allies. Russia continues to wage war against Ukraine and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs%3D259ffca2cd5a91e72b3770dc171921fac2d424f936072ee524ed70551feb49c7abb9cfbafca22c5ed6bca08e7b9c33b5&source=gmail&ust=1707858146008000&usg=AOvVaw24XQ0syYSdKWOgwB0dvqI5" href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=259ffca2cd5a91e72b3770dc171921fac2d424f936072ee524ed70551feb49c7abb9cfbafca22c5ed6bca08e7b9c33b5" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">may mobilize a half-million troops more</a>. And the prospect of China invading Taiwan looms large.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That all has Republicans and Democrats thinking about the best ways to handle the crises and ensure they don’t grow into bigger problems.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“Most Democrats seem to think that the risk in Europe is doing too little, and the risk in the Middle East is doing too much. Many Republicans believe the opposite,” said <strong>JUSTIN LOGAN</strong>, who leads defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">No president wants to be the one responsible for a massive fight that leads to tens of thousands of deaths and upends the global economy. But both world wars started in large part by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs%3D4452e4d458c8f7b6cd71fbd1143cbe986492082163463dfaedc3282513587e73db68e5e0e307d521c8ed9e673ff54d23&source=gmail&ust=1707858146008000&usg=AOvVaw2pceIlMfoPR488zbMyqO3j" href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4452e4d458c8f7b6cd71fbd1143cbe986492082163463dfaedc3282513587e73db68e5e0e307d521c8ed9e673ff54d23" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">miscalculations and misjudgements about intentions</a>. The worry is more about Biden and Trump <i>stumbling </i>into World War III than anything else.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">For example, Iran could continue supporting proxies who attack American forces in the Middle East, leading to escalating tit-for-tat exchanges. Trump’s messaging to Russia could compel <strong>VLADIMIR PUTIN</strong> to test if the second-time president would commit American forces to Europe’s defense. If he does, then the world’s foremost nuclear powers would be in a direct confrontation.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>KORI SCHAKE</strong>, who leads the American Enterprise Institute’s foreign and defense work, said avoiding World War III isn’t the right way to look at this political fight: “It’ll be about who can keep us safe.” Americans aren’t reflexively antiwar, Schake added, saying if they were, support for Biden wouldn’t have dropped after he withdrew troops from Afghanistan and there’d be opposition to striking the Houthis in Yemen or standing by Taiwan.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Still, Wertheim argues it’s good for the citizenry to be engaged in the debate about how dangerous things seem, and are, right now. “If this election raises awareness of the risks of World War III, that could be a good thing,” he said.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-7043961511604158632024-02-11T22:11:00.000-08:002024-02-11T22:11:49.143-08:00#OutsiderVibes" : Senorita Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" Full HD Video Song | Farhan Akhtar <iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yDv0WSgXJVg/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/yDv0WSgXJVg?si=zE_JKhljxdLrftO9" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-63976197295843382262024-02-11T22:09:00.000-08:002024-02-11T22:09:14.735-08:00#OutsiderVibes (Special W-End Edition): Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara theme song - Spanish Guitar arrangement<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/a7WC5Bs2ZGs?si=0mpFIpsCwGZxplHO" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-55518775798714596522024-02-06T21:49:00.000-08:002024-02-06T21:49:45.154-08:00Notations On Our World (Special Mid-Week Edition): Out & About in America <p> </p><p> </p><iframe width="595" height="595" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NbyHCUH75tI" title="GOP Impeachment Plan BLOWS UP in their FACES on House Floor" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<iframe width="535" height="535" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/edp3cgijdvI" title="Rejected: Trump Has No Immunity | Biden Speaks To The Dead | Super Bowl LVIII Is A Biden-Swift Ps…" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-40379688371023822352024-02-04T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-04T00:00:00.158-08:00On Our "Virtual Route 66" This Week <p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"> As a new week and month dawns, our team pulled together an assessment of the week that was as we look forward to the continued privilege to serve with thoughts courtesy of Defense One, The Coop Scoop, Heather Cox Richardson, and Crooked Media: </span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; 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min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">“If they can do this to populist billionaires like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, just imagine what they can do to the rest of us.”</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_591839719732127208mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgzFoCLIMn6unMInnNdpjHBwJ96CjXQecHGyhZh5A7opSga4vvMjkTCU7JPocYzosrpD5K3AEAG-9RrPcaAN5GxC0bopDJKp-Wpsz2adyEaF7ZhRzHffftZcwBf3V-iLASdav17DORuGhyphenhyphenz5ZLL58_1o2LnsLnsR3-UrvU8lQyDtsbtYBhERbAM4vCej5IqOkU0duzfctIHAgHxDBozFFwEeIqU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; 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margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Fulton County District Attorney <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3De86634e1b2%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324454000&usg=AOvVaw2v5q0D1-WVwQa0_izSavl3" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=e86634e1b2&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Fani Willis (D-GA) admitted on Friday that she had a personal relationship with the outside prosecutor she appointed to manage the election interference case</a> against disgraced former president Donald Trump and his band of corrupt lackeys, after accusations surfaced in January. She denied claims that the relationship has tainted the proceedings but damn, this doesn’t look good! <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">In a 176-page court filing on Friday, Willis insisted the situation created no conflict of interest that could warrant removing her from the case. She called the claims against her “meritless” and “salacious” and asked a judge to reject motions from Trump and his other co-defendants seeking to disqualify her office from the case. She denied claims of misconduct and said there was no evidence that the relationship between her and special prosecutor Nathan Wade had corrupted the proceedings. The filing includes a sworn affidavit from Wade, who said that his personal relationship with Willis did not pre-date his appointment as special prosecutor. He also denied that his role financially benefited Willis, as Trump’s co-defendant Mike Roman had claimed.<br /> </span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Still: So messy. Republicans were always going to shove a crowbar in the smallest opening of impropriety, and now they can. The unhinged psychos in the House GOP were already hot on Willis’s trail because her two-year investigation into their precious daddy god Donald Trump resulted in major charges against him and his co-conspirators. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dda74be4c3c%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324454000&usg=AOvVaw01vmPAP84nwmrYBTQScjg5" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=da74be4c3c&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed Willis, demanding documents from her office</a>. The Judiciary Committee is investigating allegations that Willis fired a whistleblower who tried to stop a campaign aid from misusing federal funds. Jordan is trying to prove that she used federal funds in her investigation of Trump. Willis’s office has shot back at Jordan and the committee’s requests, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Db21b61235c%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324454000&usg=AOvVaw3HxVaY0K7aoRtdVkaHUqwG" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b21b61235c&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">writing in a letter last year</a> that there is “no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter.”</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_591839719732127208mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWn5xOwZIamOQePklCymRPs6SFBnoaJFTVVboNoNMy_FV7IjLXIi5UEeGybnB7K26gsozcSszvTYb3krPQuaYZSCpmfPFNYQgv9v9ClCje_8DUIAgw_KIcwnyqlpyDqm5Cqa_DpGDCO7Wt9W4dpnSO8TnAN3B2kKd2GSlkLn1su19LeWFK2aP2EdF9SpZ81uOclvppxg9ZgH6n5E5CmyoPFe5g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>The all-important question now</strong> is whether the judge will kick Willis off this case, after a hearing scheduled for February 15. Some <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D2eb7b773b2%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324454000&usg=AOvVaw38gb0enYUyN_---Wvv4vUZ" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=2eb7b773b2&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">legal experts insist</a> that there’s no <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Da28661cfef%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324454000&usg=AOvVaw2VVn85nkxtqjCkHQlxxPD3" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=a28661cfef&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">technical or legal reason</a> to do this—but, in theory, he could. If that happens, it will take months to find a new prosecutor and likely push the start date of the trial past the election, which would be good for Trump and bad for everyone else. If not, Republicans will just yell and scream about impropriety—which is fine because they yell and scream about everything to begin with. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">So where does this leave the man at the center of the allegations? Well, Trump has breezed past all of his primary challengers and is swiftly on his way to the GOP nomination. Sources told Axios that he privately expressed a belief that he would likely be convicted if the January 6 case came to trial in Washington. On Friday, he caught a break when <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dcab4561a04%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324454000&usg=AOvVaw2xQ-q02PcGQ7TqVxb8rC9u" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=cab4561a04&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">a federal judge in Washington formally postponed the trial, which was slated to begin in March</a>, because a key legal appeal resting on the idea of “presidential immunity” remains unresolved in the court system. That means the New York hush money case—largely considered to be the least legally perilous for Trump—is now likely to go first. Any postponement of his myriad criminal cases will be a boon to his campaign.<br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Trump has made his legal battles a central focus of his presidential campaign as a way to portray himself as a beleaguered hero under constant siege by The Libs. But after raking in the big bucks around the time of his first court appearances last year, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D10ed26a218%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324454000&usg=AOvVaw1fHtImfxpmnGjrxFCRtz9Q" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=10ed26a218&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">his recent deranged clashes with judges have</a> produced diminishing returns in campaign fundraising. In fact, his legal problems are showing more and more signs of adversely affecting the financing of his campaign. There’s also the fact that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D9add002c31%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324454000&usg=AOvVaw3UqYaoHQDp_lNBzZ-Ttb12" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=9add002c31&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Trump’s legal bills are causing his PACs to hemorrhage money</a>. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br /><strong>Despite the cloud of perceived impropriety</strong> that now hangs over the Fulton County RICO case, the four indictments and 91 felony counts hang even more heavily on Donald Trump. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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The latest escalation in Middle East violence delivered a blow to the groups that Washington accused of attacks on U.S. forces that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D8a8832459a%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw2WyeyVn4ZKKNeTuBdHujnU" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=8a8832459a&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">killed three American service members in Jordan on Sunday</a>. U.S. Central Command reported that low-range bombers hit more than 85 targets affiliated with the Quds, a powerful unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and the local militias it supports. The Biden administration has blamed Iran for expanding violence in the Middle East in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Iraqi military spokesman Yahaya Rasool described the U.S. strikes as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and would “undermine the efforts of the Iraqi government, and pose a threat that could lead Iraq and the region to dire consequences.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd0b2012b48%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw2gsKI23Mbyzgkr6LD8D_w9" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d0b2012b48&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">President Biden released a statement</a> on Friday afternoon, which, in part, read: “[Our military response] will continue at times and places of our choosing. The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.”</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_591839719732127208mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgFEUCyAKAGkt5eoHpkprI6yZh03YYA6NgK1K0u6Bacgy_RGigyzMygu53AEpjVondz6sXRh-Zkp65m7fapopNAM9sXbzYSW6TnLTHpoA1geUwEfOSYpaPJg07lpzoeOoChkK0k8-ye7OgCklyLIlbURDvwvJzY4WcDwbzFBpRYvrizIYYKNpeTsJUm7WTwJK_Q6rGWjuzXOvImApVEHbDOdvi-=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">A federal judge found all five members of a group of January 6 insurrectionists who heaved a line of linked barriers onto a group of Capitol Police officers <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dea1bd64f42%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw3o0yxklYgtaONN5ljwXoRL" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=ea1bd64f42&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">guilty of assaulting law enforcement and convicted three of them for obstructing the confirmation of the 2020 presidential election</a>. Prosecutors said these five defendants set a heightened precedent of violence for the deadly chaos that ensued that day. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">After other European Union members strong-armed Hungarian President Viktor Orbán into signing on to a new aid package to Ukraine, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dbd765bea07%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw3Vx9I7glM0tgfLvWId7-tS" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=bd765bea07&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">pressure is mounting on the country to ratify Sweden’s bid to join NATO</a>. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dd03a3977e2%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw1yvNU93v-N_9jm4NCQ3z3d" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=d03a3977e2&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">The Intenational Court of Justice ruled on Friday that it will hear a case brought by Ukraine seeking to debunk the claim that Russia used as pretext for its invasion</a> two years ago: that Kyiv committed genocide in eastern Ukraine.</span></p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D31bf1da234%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw0jDu8yB9W6ul8sw5Dx5SAx" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=31bf1da234&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the attack of an Ontario mosque on Thursday, which is being probed as a hate crime</a>. Activists have described the attack as part of a rise in Islamophobia. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D1bea0b6c77%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw3KN3-YixgZRoyuUhhR18FM" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=1bea0b6c77&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">American auto safety regulators have turned up their probe into Tesla vehicles over power steering loss</a>. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the investigation covers about 334,000 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles from the 2023 model. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dbddf75cbfb%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw0O8rMCglBJEJbORNPjaR9F" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=bddf75cbfb&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Lawmakers in Northern Ireland are set to elect an Irish nationalist First Minister for the first time on Saturday</a>, which will bring the unionist party Sinn Féin to power in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D47a2efa1c5%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw1Dr8S3f3SP3PkalRkOhKqw" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=47a2efa1c5&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_591839719732127208mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhRVZcp4SzmaVFg-AHeeicvQLjp2Rsh4JBqTVEaewLcrEJB7D7UpQvckSlxpYFD1x73DSaqJvuhEsXvEwE1ITSgY7TLXmfFK3mOGFbGW5p4fOi1z4M8idDCAQD6ULge79Yzh-9Qqb8SKMubwtiIyQ37kC4li7OFeC4F7pCsFWvturpc9eBrDLuE7W2rpNMSuTyGOP2QSl2WX8V0HhfypBv4pYSE8g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_591839719732127208mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">As the world waits for Hamas’s response to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dfb6c4d62ee%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw0589JZD2TThfB9SpvhVlAP" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=fb6c4d62ee&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">triphasic hostage exchange plan submitted to them by Israel</a> last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant seems undeterred in his plans to continue the military campaign against Gazans. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Da58ac1494c%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw3jxd_z5aLAFqg8lk-QFO1O" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=a58ac1494c&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Gallant said on Friday that Israeli ground forces will advance on Rafah</a>—one of the last cities in southern Gaza they have not yet reached—raising new concerns about the fate of the hundreds of thousands of people from other parts of the enclave who have crowded there. Roughly half of Gaza’s population are crammed into Rafah and its surrounding area, according to a United Nations report released Friday. Many there have fled multiple times since the war began. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that Israel will continue fighting in Gaza until “complete victory” is reached, even as he faces growing pressure at home and abroad to make a deal for the release of hostages and to ease fighting in the enclave to limit the harm of civilians.<strong></strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_591839719732127208mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhea_x83OXwAijgXGKdJUD9el2Klelrap3gFAc5YtjyZX8ELRFCWdS08sJUvP_nfUQwZtEZfpmZ5WUtcSNEDRLpIprmEMxfPzuArBPY5GtEn1wF1699Y6Kf3B-Yt1LEgtjrkBdzqcm6Ay6gFWlv6mSfKQhxUgsLnzwfxf_pcamfN8bEymYeeyAiJM9nq3IjhB0-GJv6U5T5JBfByrRD8pNUVibRN8RZdQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D2ab69ffdaf%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw0dQnSjKS_ShBGEt1fpZgo2" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=2ab69ffdaf&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Europe moved one step closer to adopting rules governing the use of artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT on Friday</a>. The rules aim to set a global standard for use of the technology. I vote "Don't use it to hurt my feelings" for Rule Number 1. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Did you hear? The economy is doing way better than anyone expected. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Db747cd7f19%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw3gpM8lO97bmFWbb2of2lxR" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b747cd7f19&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">That could be good news for President Biden’s reelection campaign</a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br />Democrats might be fighting for their lives at the federal level, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D827161b822%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1707108324455000&usg=AOvVaw3o63Jt_d6DY_9AQ11QJ_Ed" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=827161b822&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">but they’re having big-time success in special elections at the state and local levels</a>. The secret? Voter turnout.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-radius: 0px; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 7.5pt 0in 0in 7.5pt; width: 590px;" width="100%"><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5985148341878800853tinymce-placeholder"><span style="color: #767474;">Mideast strikes</span></span><span style="color: #767474;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>The U.S. will soon conduct counterstrikes on militia targets inside Iraq and Syria in response to the drone attack in Jordan </strong>that killed three Americans and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmF0aW9uYWxndWFyZC5taWwvTmV3cy9QcmVzcy1SZWxlYXNlcy9BcnRpY2xlLzM2NjIxNTUvbmF0aW9uYWwtZ3VhcmQtY29uZmlybXMtc29sZGllcnMtaW5qdXJlZC1pbi1ub3J0aGVhc3Qtam9yZGFuLW5lYXItc3lyaWFuLWJvcmRlci8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B2e411c19__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbZo0l5Fw$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw3I5oNYpn-Wu5PEBaxJNSQa" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmF0aW9uYWxndWFyZC5taWwvTmV3cy9QcmVzcy1SZWxlYXNlcy9BcnRpY2xlLzM2NjIxNTUvbmF0aW9uYWwtZ3VhcmQtY29uZmlybXMtc29sZGllcnMtaW5qdXJlZC1pbi1ub3J0aGVhc3Qtam9yZGFuLW5lYXItc3lyaWFuLWJvcmRlci8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B2e411c19__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbZo0l5Fw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">wounded</span></a> at least 41 others on Sunday, U.S. officials told <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy91cy1zdHJpa2VzLWlyYW4tcGVyc29ubmVsLWZhY2lsaXRpZXMtaW4taXJhcS1zeXJpYS1hcHByb3ZlZC1qb3JkYW4tZHJvbmUtYXR0YWNrLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bed2814a8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZHY_6HBA$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw16lCNDs82Jkg2Jc3IQPsp0" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy91cy1zdHJpa2VzLWlyYW4tcGVyc29ubmVsLWZhY2lsaXRpZXMtaW4taXJhcS1zeXJpYS1hcHByb3ZlZC1qb3JkYW4tZHJvbmUtYXR0YWNrLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bed2814a8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZHY_6HBA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">CBS News</span></a> on Thursday. The strikes are expected to take place “over a number of days” and will target “Iranian personnel and facilities,” CBS reports. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>White House’s John Kirby told reporters Wednesday,</b></em> “We believe the attack in Jordan was planned, resourced and facilitated by an umbrella group called the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3Rvbmluc3RpdHV0ZS5vcmcvcG9saWN5LWFuYWx5c2lzL3Byb2ZpbGUtaXNsYW1pYy1yZXNpc3RhbmNlLWlyYXE_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfad7a536__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPYMhdJdSg$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw3xCtTOArLXLSQaaSYepII1" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3Rvbmluc3RpdHV0ZS5vcmcvcG9saWN5LWFuYWx5c2lzL3Byb2ZpbGUtaXNsYW1pYy1yZXNpc3RhbmNlLWlyYXE_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfad7a536__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPYMhdJdSg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Islamic Resistance in Iraq</span></a>, which contains multiple groups, including Kata’ib Hezbollah.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>“This a dangerous moment in the Middle East,” but the U.S. is determined not to widen conflict</b></em> across the region while Israel continues its war with Hamas in Gaza, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZHZpZHNodWIubmV0L3dlYmNhc3QvMzM2ODc_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B735eb8bd__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZi4L_z3w$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw1wa61K2bW-tY3Gtn-rqV-l" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZHZpZHNodWIubmV0L3dlYmNhc3QvMzM2ODc_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B735eb8bd__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZi4L_z3w$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a> Thursday at the Pentagon. It was Austin’s first press briefing since being secretly hospitalized twice in late December and early January. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>By the way: Iranian officials have largely fled Syria </b></em>“and will rely more on allied Shi'ite militia to preserve their sway there” as they recover from recent Israeli strikes and await future U.S. strikes, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbWlkZGxlLWVhc3QvaXJhbnMtZ3VhcmRzLXB1bGwtb2ZmaWNlcnMtc3lyaWEtYWZ0ZXItaXNyYWVsaS1zdHJpa2VzLTIwMjQtMDItMDEvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B26bd94cb__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPaa9Su0OQ$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw34KkhoQmcdgskYjkJ8u7dZ" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbWlkZGxlLWVhc3QvaXJhbnMtZ3VhcmRzLXB1bGwtb2ZmaWNlcnMtc3lyaWEtYWZ0ZXItaXNyYWVsaS1zdHJpa2VzLTIwMjQtMDItMDEvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B26bd94cb__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPaa9Su0OQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Reuters</span></a> reported Thursday. <u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-radius: 0px; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 1.5pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(168, 170, 171); margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>When asked if the U.S. is doing too much to warn about its Jordan response,</b></em> Austin demurred and insisted the Defense Department maintains the ability to strike back “a number of times, depending on what the situation is.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>New: The U.S. military attacked a “ground control station” with 10 “Houthi one-way [drones]” inside Yemen</b></em> shortly after midnight local time, the U.S. military’s Tampa-based Central Command <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY2MjcwOC9jZW50Y29tLXNlbGYtZGVmZW5zZS1zdHJpa2UtYWdhaW5zdC1ob3V0aGktdWF2cy1hbmQtZ3JvdW5kLWNvbnRyb2wtc3RhdGlvbi8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bf35dd8bd__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbBx8-Tfw$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw2pugTd36Em78iE73GAHyVb" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY2MjcwOC9jZW50Y29tLXNlbGYtZGVmZW5zZS1zdHJpa2UtYWdhaW5zdC1ob3V0aGktdWF2cy1hbmQtZ3JvdW5kLWNvbnRyb2wtc3RhdGlvbi8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bf35dd8bd__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbBx8-Tfw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a> Thursday in the latest “self-defense strike” linked to the Iran-backed group ruling from the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>An “explosive sea drone” was also destroyed in the Red Sea overnight,</b></em> according to CBS, though the outlet had no further details. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>The U.S. Navy’s USS Carney also shot down an anti-ship ballistic missile</b></em> fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen and toward the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday. Just over half an hour later, the same Navy vessel shot down three “Iranian [drones] in its vicinity,” CENTCOM officials <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY2MjcyNS9ob3V0aGktYW50aS1zaGlwLWJhbGxpc3RpYy1taXNzaWxlLWFuZC1pcmFuaWFuLXVhdnMtc2hvdC1kb3duLWluLWd1bGYtb2YtYWRlbi8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bbfdee313__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbid1URLg$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw0e92tRIgli7jO9HHfLnFy2" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY2MjcyNS9ob3V0aGktYW50aS1zaGlwLWJhbGxpc3RpYy1taXNzaWxlLWFuZC1pcmFuaWFuLXVhdnMtc2hvdC1kb3duLWluLWd1bGYtb2YtYWRlbi8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bbfdee313__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbid1URLg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a> afterward. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Earlier in the afternoon, unspecified U.S. forces shot down a Houthi missile intended for aircraft and drones.</b></em> “U.S. forces identified the missile in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined that it presented an imminent threat to U.S. aircraft,” CENTCOM <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY2MjE4NS91cy1mb3JjZXMtc3RyaWtlLWFuZC1kZXN0cm95LWhvdXRoaS1zdXJmYWNlLXRvLWFpci1taXNzaWxlLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B09fb33b9__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPY1pN43Yw$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw3nAIR5W-2y19UMoqmEBXWr" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY2MjE4NS91cy1mb3JjZXMtc3RyaWtlLWFuZC1kZXN0cm95LWhvdXRoaS1zdXJmYWNlLXRvLWFpci1taXNzaWxlLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B09fb33b9__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPY1pN43Yw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>A cruise missile launched from Yemen on Tuesday came within one mile of the USS Gravely,</b></em> whose crew shot it down with the ship’s Phalanx Close-In Weapons Systems, which is essentially an automatic machine gun and “one of the final defensive lines the ship has to shoot down an incoming missile,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25uLmNvbS8yMDI0LzAxLzMxL3BvbGl0aWNzL3VzLXdhcnNoaXAtY2xvc2UtY2FsbC1ob3V0aGktbWlzc2lsZS9pbmRleC5odG1sP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B497c530c__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPa6sIBYlA$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw12yhW3LGiKL1Z7OYfHcqNU" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25uLmNvbS8yMDI0LzAxLzMxL3BvbGl0aWNzL3VzLXdhcnNoaXAtY2xvc2UtY2FsbC1ob3V0aGktbWlzc2lsZS9pbmRleC5odG1sP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B497c530c__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPa6sIBYlA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">CNN</span></a> reported Wednesday. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>“If I’m not mistaken, this is the first time that a [U.S. Navy] warship has ever had to use its last-ditch Phalanx close-in weapon system</b></em> to defend itself from an inbound anti-ship cruise missile,” said former U.S. Navy submariner <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS90c2h1Z2FydDMvc3RhdHVzLzE3NTI4MTc5MTg3MDg5ODIwNTU_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bcd8b7748__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZbf8z02w$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw3kuobedaMedwaS_Y9Eutaj" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS90c2h1Z2FydDMvc3RhdHVzLzE3NTI4MTc5MTg3MDg5ODIwNTU_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bcd8b7748__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZbf8z02w$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Tom Shugart</span></a> of the Center for a New American Security. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>A second opinion: The U.S. Navy “can’t afford to sit here and play catch indefinitely,”</b></em> Tom Karako of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told CNN. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Developing: The European Union says its Red Sea naval mission will be launched in about two weeks,</b></em> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvZXVyb3BlL2V1cy1ib3JyZWxsLWhvcGVzLWxlYWQtZXUtcmVkLXNlYS1taXNzaW9uLXdpbGwtYmUta25vd24tc29vbi0yMDI0LTAxLTMxLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B2ec6f2aa__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPaeRrpJqw$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw1qGFzfVul0DGvJxxodEGeX" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvZXVyb3BlL2V1cy1ib3JyZWxsLWhvcGVzLWxlYWQtZXUtcmVkLXNlYS1taXNzaW9uLXdpbGwtYmUta25vd24tc29vbi0yMDI0LTAxLTMxLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B2ec6f2aa__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPaeRrpJqw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Reuters</span></a> reported Wednesday from Brussels. “I hope that on the 17th of this month the mission can be launched,” EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Update: The Pentagon has listed 15 nations participating in its Red Sea shipping mission Operation Prosperity Guardian</b></em>, but officials say “more than 20 nations” have committed to the operation. Why don’t we know all of the participants? “It is longstanding DoD policy that we respect each sovereign nation’s right to characterize their participation as they see fit and not get ahead of any national announcements,” Air Force Lt. Col. Bryon McGarry said in a statement Wednesday. “That being said,” he continued, “the following nations have publicly acknowledged their participation in Prosperity Guardian: Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, and the United States.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>“This is about freedom of navigation,”</b></em> SecDef Austin said Thursday. “There are others in the world who are watching this to see how serious we are about this. And we are serious…This is costing companies and countries significant amounts of money as they are having to redirect commercial traffic around” southern Africa, he said. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>In video: </b></em>Norah O’Donnell of CBS News this week visited the USS Eisenhower and USS Mason, the aircraft carrier and destroyer defending ships in the Red Sea. “Bottom line,” she said, “despite the Biden administration’s efforts to calm tensions, things are escalating.” View her nearly six-minute dispatch, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JzbmV3cy5jb20vdmlkZW8vYW4taW5zaWRlLWxvb2stYXQtdS1zLW5hdnktc2hpcHMtdGFza2VkLXdpdGgtc2VjdXJpbmctdGhlLXJlZC1zZWEvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B81896c2a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPaVemzQcA$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw2mmJfjiVdWsDoyLgk3CVYf" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JzbmV3cy5jb20vdmlkZW8vYW4taW5zaWRlLWxvb2stYXQtdS1zLW5hdnktc2hpcHMtdGFza2VkLXdpdGgtc2VjdXJpbmctdGhlLXJlZC1zZWEvP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B81896c2a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPaVemzQcA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Also: The U.S. sanctioned four people from Lebanon and Turkey on Wednesday</b></em> for their role facilitating payments to Iranian and Hezbollah officials, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday. Details <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly9ob21lLnRyZWFzdXJ5Lmdvdi9uZXdzL3ByZXNzLXJlbGVhc2VzL2p5MjA2NT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B3745ff0a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZv0Eloog$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw0eEiYaVJNJ4xj32Mi_Wm8d" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly9ob21lLnRyZWFzdXJ5Lmdvdi9uZXdzL3ByZXNzLXJlbGVhc2VzL2p5MjA2NT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B3745ff0a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZv0Eloog$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 0in 0in 7.5pt; width: 590px;" width="100%"><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5985148341878800853tinymce-placeholder"><span style="color: #767474;">Ukraine</span></span><span style="color: #767474;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>New: The European Union agreed to a new €50 billion aid package to Ukraine,</strong> the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNmQwZjExYmMxNmI0YjIxMDczZjkyOTI1ZGUyMDQ2ZTQ_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B0d84ef8c__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbtwa2LFw$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw3rkVmF1M9ONbyDUL90P0CJ" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNmQwZjExYmMxNmI0YjIxMDczZjkyOTI1ZGUyMDQ2ZTQ_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B0d84ef8c__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbtwa2LFw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Associated Press</span></a> reported Thursday from Brussels. “The financial package was part of a review of the EU’s continuing seven-year budget, which requires unanimous approval,” AP writes. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Bloc-wide approval was in limbo as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused to support the plan;</b></em> however, he dropped his opposition this week after he said he “received a guarantee that Hungary’s money would not be transferred to Ukraine.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>On the other hand, the EU said Wednesday that it’s fallen well short of its ammunition promises for Ukraine.</b></em> The bloc had promised to deliver a million artillery rounds by March; but now only 524,000 shells are expected by that date, Josep Borrell said. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly91ay5uZXdzLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9ldS1mYWxscy13ZWxsLXNob3J0LWFtbXVuaXRpb24tMTYwOTA0OTU3Lmh0bWw_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B841c17d4__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPY-ovD1xg$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw1QI00rfabUnquRFbunBF4j" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly91ay5uZXdzLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9ldS1mYWxscy13ZWxsLXNob3J0LWFtbXVuaXRpb24tMTYwOTA0OTU3Lmh0bWw_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B841c17d4__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPY-ovD1xg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Agence France-Presse</span></a> has more. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>Germany investigating a former spy chief for right-wing extremism. </strong>Hans-Georg Maassen has been designated an “observation case” by Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)—the domestic intelligence agency Maassen once led, the <em>Financial Times</em> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZnQuY29tL2NvbnRlbnQvZTY3ZTgwODQtNzhjNS00ZWQ2LWIzZjQtMjJjYmVjOGVmZGZkP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B29542eb8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbMDtLmmA$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw2B9vHM24SleTIaaY8IHWU6" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZnQuY29tL2NvbnRlbnQvZTY3ZTgwODQtNzhjNS00ZWQ2LWIzZjQtMjJjYmVjOGVmZGZkP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B29542eb8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbMDtLmmA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">reports</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 0in 0in 7.5pt; width: 590px;" width="100%"><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5985148341878800853tinymce-placeholder"><span style="color: #767474;">Around the Pacific</span></span><span style="color: #767474;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>China’s new defense minister chats with Russian counterpart.</strong> Chinese officials say Dong Jun held a video call with Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday, in his first public engagement since being appointed last month. “Former Navy chief Dong's appointment came after his predecessor, Li Shangfu, disappeared from public view in August, throwing China's military diplomacy in doubt,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbmV3LWNoaW5hLWRlZmVuY2UtbWluaXN0ZXItaG9sZHMtdmlkZW8tdGFsa3Mtd2l0aC1ydXNzaWFzLXNob2lndS0yMDI0LTAxLTMxLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfeb1762a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZWXAtkHQ$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw30YjLZQnN-4wAijfw0pvfo" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbmV3LWNoaW5hLWRlZmVuY2UtbWluaXN0ZXItaG9sZHMtdmlkZW8tdGFsa3Mtd2l0aC1ydXNzaWFzLXNob2lndS0yMDI0LTAxLTMxLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfeb1762a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZWXAtkHQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Reuters</span></a> writes. “Dong told Shoigu that the Chinese and Russian militaries will ‘promote bilateral military relations to reach an even higher level, in order to play an even bigger role in upholding global security and stability’.” More, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbmV3LWNoaW5hLWRlZmVuY2UtbWluaXN0ZXItaG9sZHMtdmlkZW8tdGFsa3Mtd2l0aC1ydXNzaWFzLXNob2lndS0yMDI0LTAxLTMxLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Cfeb1762a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPYvH2caZw$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw0SPWeXTiaQSiFReIxhlQUX" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbmV3LWNoaW5hLWRlZmVuY2UtbWluaXN0ZXItaG9sZHMtdmlkZW8tdGFsa3Mtd2l0aC1ydXNzaWFzLXNob2lndS0yMDI0LTAxLTMxLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Cfeb1762a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPYvH2caZw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>A new wrinkle in China’s censorship?</b></em> “Several prominent commentaries by economists and journalists in China have vanished from the internet in recent weeks, raising concerns that Beijing is stepping up its censorship efforts as it tries to put a positive spin on a struggling economy,” the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud3NqLmNvbS93b3JsZC9jaGluYS9jaGluYS1lY29ub215LWNlbnNvcnNoaXAtaW50ZXJuZXQtNGQwMzcyYjg_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6a1410d9__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPb8G784Aw$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw2G58NrVe5okyNnxRDLxVqk" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud3NqLmNvbS93b3JsZC9jaGluYS9jaGluYS1lY29ub215LWNlbnNvcnNoaXAtaW50ZXJuZXQtNGQwMzcyYjg_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6a1410d9__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPb8G784Aw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">WSJ</span></a> reports.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>F-16 crashes near Kunsan Air Base in South Korea. </strong>The pilot, who is assigned to the U.S. Air Force’s 8th Fighter Wing, experienced an in-flight emergency over the West Sea and ejected about 8:40 a.m. local time. “The pilot ejected safely and was recovered at around 9:30 a.m. He is conscious and was transported to a medical facility for assessment,” the Air Force said in a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cua3Vuc2FuLmFmLm1pbC8tV29sZi1QYWNrLU5ld3MvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZXMvQXJ0aWNsZS8zNjYxNDA2L2YtMTYtY3Jhc2hlcy1uZWFyLWt1bnNhbi1haXItYmFzZS8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bff86f6e8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZySWWM8A$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw1HvKUezxeoaFOyUozA26Mq" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cua3Vuc2FuLmFmLm1pbC8tV29sZi1QYWNrLU5ld3MvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZXMvQXJ0aWNsZS8zNjYxNDA2L2YtMTYtY3Jhc2hlcy1uZWFyLWt1bnNhbi1haXItYmFzZS8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bff86f6e8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZySWWM8A$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">statement</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 0in 0in 7.5pt; width: 590px;" width="100%"><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5985148341878800853tinymce-placeholder"><span style="color: #767474;">Etc.</span></span><span style="color: #767474;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>Pentagon may take over Starship rocket for some missions. DOD </strong>officials have asked SpaceX about taking over its still-under-development super-heavy-lift rocket “for sensitive and potentially dangerous missions as a government-owned, government-operated asset instead of contracting the company to launch payloads,” Aviation Week <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdmlhdGlvbndlZWsuY29tL2RlZmVuc2Utc3BhY2Uvc3BhY2Uvc3BhY2V4LWRvZC1oYXMtcmVxdWVzdGVkLXRha2luZy1vdmVyLXN0YXJzaGlwLWluZGl2aWR1YWwtbWlzc2lvbnM_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Be402805e__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPb2HDF83Q$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw3PYxLEFEyybpGApzrrqsN3" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdmlhdGlvbndlZWsuY29tL2RlZmVuc2Utc3BhY2Uvc3BhY2Uvc3BhY2V4LWRvZC1oYXMtcmVxdWVzdGVkLXRha2luZy1vdmVyLXN0YXJzaGlwLWluZGl2aWR1YWwtbWlzc2lvbnM_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Be402805e__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPb2HDF83Q$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">reported</span></a>, citing a SpaceX advisor who spoke at the the Space Mobility Conference earlier this week.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>Army prep course has graduated 15,000 potential soldiers.</strong> In August 2022, the Army launched the Future Soldier Preparatory Course at Fort Jackson, S.C., to help would-be recruits raise their physical and academic scores enough to meet enlistment standards. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Within a year,</b></em> 10,260 soldiers—some 95% of participants—had graduated from the course and begun basic training, the first step in an Army career, Military.com <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWlsaXRhcnkuY29tL2RhaWx5LW5ld3MvMjAyMy8wOC8zMC9hcm15cy1wcmUtYm9vdC1jYW1wLXRyYWluaW5nLWNvdXJzZXMtYXJlLWhlcmUtc3RheS1hZnRlci1lYXJseS1zdWNjZXNzLmh0bWw_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B37e3bc10__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZ_mzUBeQ$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw3mEWgrYXqTg8UxOHLx3YX1" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWlsaXRhcnkuY29tL2RhaWx5LW5ld3MvMjAyMy8wOC8zMC9hcm15cy1wcmUtYm9vdC1jYW1wLXRyYWluaW5nLWNvdXJzZXMtYXJlLWhlcmUtc3RheS1hZnRlci1lYXJseS1zdWNjZXNzLmh0bWw_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B37e3bc10__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZ_mzUBeQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">reported</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Now a total of 14,700 applicants have graduated,</b></em> Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. D1’s Sam Skove has more, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vcG9saWN5LzIwMjQvMDEvYXJteS1wcmVwLWNvdXJzZS1oYXMtZ3JhZHVhdGVkLTE1MDAwLXBvdGVudGlhbC1zb2xkaWVycy1hbWlkLXJlY3J1aXRpbmctc2x1bXAvMzkzODA5Lz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd14261b0__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPYXvR1Rfg$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw2o2LTny9FvfVAAZr0_c5m1" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vcG9saWN5LzIwMjQvMDEvYXJteS1wcmVwLWNvdXJzZS1oYXMtZ3JhZHVhdGVkLTE1MDAwLXBvdGVudGlhbC1zb2xkaWVycy1hbWlkLXJlY3J1aXRpbmctc2x1bXAvMzkzODA5Lz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd14261b0__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPYXvR1Rfg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Meanwhile, the Navy is lowering requirements again. </b></em>“The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals,” Stripes <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RyaXBlcy5jb20vYnJhbmNoZXMvbmF2eS8yMDI0LTAxLTI2L25hdnktbG93ZXJzLWVkdWNhdGlvbi1yZXF1aXJlbWVudHMtcmVjcnVpdG1lbnQtc3RydWdnbGVzLTEyODA2Mjc5Lmh0bWw_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B16bf27a1__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZbgo0SDg$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834207000&usg=AOvVaw3LztWzpXVJTw21H0Y6xacS" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RyaXBlcy5jb20vYnJhbmNoZXMvbmF2eS8yMDI0LTAxLTI2L25hdnktbG93ZXJzLWVkdWNhdGlvbi1yZXF1aXJlbWVudHMtcmVjcnVpdG1lbnQtc3RydWdnbGVzLTEyODA2Mjc5Lmh0bWw_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B16bf27a1__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZbgo0SDg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">reports</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>A Space Force guardian will head to space in August. </b></em>Space Force Col. Nick Hague will head to the International Space Station on NASA’s Space X Crew-9 mission. Once the crew arrives, Hague will transition to the role of flight engineer where he “will conduct a wide-ranging set of operations and research activities for the duration of their more than six-month mission,” according to the Space Force.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em><b>Note: </b></em>Hague will be the first guardian launched into orbit, but not the first one in space. “That honor belongs to Col. Mike Hopkins, who was orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station in 2020 when he transferred from the Air Force to the Space Force,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vdGVjaG5vbG9neS8yMDI0LzAxL2ZpcnN0LXNwYWNlLWZvcmNlLWd1YXJkaWFuLWJlLWxhdW5jaGVkLXNwYWNlLXN1bW1lci8zOTM4MDMvP29yZWY9ZDEtaG9tZXBhZ2UtdG9wLXN0b3J5/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B73571a54__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPY60ba_CQ$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834208000&usg=AOvVaw3lyFZj25CgS4unTYzyKNKx" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vdGVjaG5vbG9neS8yMDI0LzAxL2ZpcnN0LXNwYWNlLWZvcmNlLWd1YXJkaWFuLWJlLWxhdW5jaGVkLXNwYWNlLXN1bW1lci8zOTM4MDMvP29yZWY9ZDEtaG9tZXBhZ2UtdG9wLXN0b3J5/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B73571a54__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPY60ba_CQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">writes</span></a> D1’s Audrey Decker.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><strong>Lastly, “Dr. Strangelove” was released 60 years ago this week.</strong> Read a chronology of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9BVFJpZ2h0TW92aWVzL3N0YXR1cy8xNzUyMzIxNjgyMDM3OTQwNDM4P29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B8494c728__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZgxjfqXw$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834208000&usg=AOvVaw340lfoWdIXaNIfkuKh1yqd" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9BVFJpZ2h0TW92aWVzL3N0YXR1cy8xNzUyMzIxNjgyMDM3OTQwNDM4P29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B8494c728__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPZgxjfqXw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">how the film came to be</span></a> (from All the Right Movies), and an examination of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3eW9ya2VyLmNvbS9uZXdzL25ld3MtZGVzay9hbG1vc3QtZXZlcnl0aGluZy1pbi1kci1zdHJhbmdlbG92ZS13YXMtdHJ1ZT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Be7922f30__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbJhNIeTg$&source=gmail&ust=1707103834208000&usg=AOvVaw23-mu0hjktDIipMNMr6_7h" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34199996.50910/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3eW9ya2VyLmNvbS9uZXdzL25ld3MtZGVzay9hbG1vc3QtZXZlcnl0aGluZy1pbi1kci1zdHJhbmdlbG92ZS13YXMtdHJ1ZT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Be7922f30__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!nolB5ok_7TATt1YjUxuFuqBh-m_jcdD-T8uH-Qcj5GP-CUa5AiPdIBOuDo9KMgK17o05YaEUuugelAMfqPbJhNIeTg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">what it got right</span></a> (from Eric Schlosser).<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; 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font-size: medium;">Coop Scoop: On the Border of Insanity</span></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><h3 style="color: grey; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">The border crisis is politically manufactured and could be politically solved.</span></h3></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); color: #222222; 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color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">February 1, 2024</span></strong></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">By Marc Cooper</span></strong></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">If you want to measure the immense depth of our current political dysfunction you need only take a quick peek into the “border crisis” to see just how far down the rabbit hole we have gone. It’s rare to see when a political party, in this case the House GOP and its sure-to-be presidential nominee, are doing everything they can right out in public that we would expect them to do only in private. But MAGA and its followers have lost any and all sense of shame and feel they no longer even need to pretend that they are interested in governing, in solving any problems, in engaging in any dialogue and they have no problem demonstrating their commitment to a continuing legal and legislative logjam for the most banal of political purposes.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">First, the narcissistic psychopath that is the virtual Republican nominee starts beating the drum again about the poisonous effects of so many foreigners – migrants—coming into the country with their diseased minds and bodies, intent on poisoning our bloodline, over running our cities and perhaps even conspiring with Taylor Swift to help install a communist dictatorship. The fear mongering is way over the top but as political demagogy goes, it’s pretty much a sure winner. It always is.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">We have seen historically, and quite a bit just these last 30 years, that one of the great weaknesses of groups of human beings is their irrational and often dangerous fear of other groups of human beings, especially one that is poorer and looks different and doubly so if they are darker skinned and speak a different language. The now undisputed gains in the macro-economy are rendering impotent the whining from the Right about the “Biden Economy.” So Orange Jesus has jumped horses and gone back to the old reliable of intense xenophobia.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">There is no question that there is an elevated and seemingly unstoppable flow of migrants across the border and –by the way—through the airports on tourist and other visas that are then overstayed. The reasons for this inflow are myriad and have little to do with “so-called” border policy. We can tick off a few relevant factors. The Central American economy and the pillars of its civic society were pretty much demolished by Ronald Reagan’s regional wars of the 1980’s and we are now reaping the full consequences. The NAFTA package of two decades ago decimated the subsistence farmers of southern Mexico who have been forced to pull up stakes. It basically comes down to he United States having a 2000 mile long land border that butts up against an impoverished Global South. Wages for immigrant workers -legal or not- are ten to twenty times higher than they are in rural Mexico and most all of Central America. Let’s not even get to Venezuela from where some 7 million have recently fled the marvels and miracles of President Maduro’s “revolutionary” regime. Argentina is now also in the crapper with 150% inflation and an extremist president who doesn’t seem to be all there; I would expect a new contingent of Argentines to be soon joining the northward flow of migration. And Nicaraguans who have always been reticent to emigrate are now doing so in much greater number as Daniel Ortega continues to defile Sandinismo and tightens his one family dictatorship. Cuba’s economy has also entered a new phase of radical shortages and folks are leaving in droves.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">If the minimum wage is Canada was 10 times higher than the U.S. – if you could make $1000 a day by picking tomatoes or washing dishes — you too might also be jumping over some border walls and trekking through glaciers to get to the Great Northern Paradise, eh?</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">This massive flow into the Unites states via Mexico –taken over the last 4 decades—is the largest cross-border migration in modern history – one of biblical proportions and that includes tens of millions. Trying to stop that flow, trying to stop people from flooding into the US as their societies crumbles, makes about as much sense and will be just about as effective as standing on the Dover Cliffs and yelling out loud for someone to stop the tides. It’s not going to happen.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">The United States also requires a good chunk of immigration to maintain and grow the economy. It’s going to be hard for the xenophobes – and that’s what those “concerned about the border” are—to explain why at a time there is an unprecedented pile up at the border we also have the lowest unemployment rate in decades and continuing booming growth (in spite of two constant years of CW that we were headed for an all-consuming recession). We need younger, foreign workers, period. As many as a million new ones a year. If we just recognized the fact, issued the visas, and calmly regulated this flow, tehre would be no “crisis.”</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">America’s birth rate, like all developed countries, is anemic. And, fortunately, our educational system has not been stagnant and over the last 50 years or so and has completely re-configured the American work force. The percentage of high school grads that go to college has more than doubled since World War II. De-industrialization has reconfigured the nature of “jobs.” A lot of these changes have been for the worse. Some for the better, Either way, if one does not recognize the changes then immigration cannot be understood, let alone managed. So here’s a question for you: how many parents do you know who are staying up nights hoping that when Johnny graduates high school he can get that job down at the car wash or on the construction site while his sisters takes on the work of live-in maid? You know any kids taking students loans to study bussing tables, gardening and roofing?</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">The issue we face is NOT “immigration,” it is rather how to manage what is the inevitable flow of humanity to our shores. There are solutions, or at least, some remedies. And we know what they are because in the last 20 years they have been on several occasions packaged into proposed legislation, reviewed by both parties, won support from sectors of both parties and then have consistently been voted down. Comprehensive reform would create a massive number of work permits, an acceleration in processing asylum at the border, more immigration judges, and some rational path to legalization and residency for the 10-15 million already resident without legal standing. Remember that while the President has some, and quite limited, authority to decree policy tweaks at the border, it is congress and congress alone that must approve and shape that policy. And congress has consistently failed, over and over again. Much like opposing abortion, they would rather have the political issue than the political remedy.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">We are seeing that in spades this week. President Biden, apparently, has forced a Democratic capitulation in a yet-to-be-revealed “border deal” with a group of Senate Republicans. Sounding exactly like Donald Trump. Biden has twice said this week he is ready “to shut down the border tomorrow” if Congress approves this deal we have not seen. I assume that the agreement has a number of points that Democrats want: funding for Israel and Ukraine (which has been cynically tied to the border issue) and some forward-looking reforms for migrant processing. The Republicans have put Biden in a jam that I am sympathetic to but his mouthing off about closing the border is not only political suicide for a Democratic candidate, it is also immoral and repulsive and should not be rationalized. It will only heighten the ignorance and undue fear.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">The good news for Biden, though, is that the Republicans are even more craven than he is so he probably won’t get his Trumpian chance to shut the border.. Mitch McConnell told his congressional troops and House allies that they should think twice about passing this measure as it would upset Donald Trump who wants no solution, just the issue itself to harp on for his campaign of fear. The religious nut, House Speaker Mike Johnson, is also blocking the bill as he does not want his name on a measure that would require some Democratic votes. As I write this on Wednesday, I think there is little to no chance of it passing unless Johnson can skew it farther to the right – thereby losing the Democratic and even some Republican Senate votes. So as of today, a 99% chance of no immigration legislation.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Instead, we have the absolutely bizarre tragi-comedy today of MAGGAT House Republicans moving to impeach DHS Secretary Alexander Mayorkas for his alleged failure to control the border and allow the current “invasion.” Impeachment should be used for high crimes and misdemeanors, not for policy differences and the only crime Mayorkas has committed is working for a Democratic president. With a 3 seat majority, it’s not clear the Republicans even have the votes to get to formal impeachment. And if they do, the Senate is not going to touch this travesty with a ten foot pole. This is100% political theater.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Instead of doing anything to remedy the border crisis, the MAGGATS are going to do NOTHING except engage in right wing virtue-signaling. Scapegoating Mayorkas to earn more Brownie points among its riled up and howling base of racists. Indeed, imagine a series of interviews with MAGGAT voters in, say, Iowa or Wisconsin and ask them directly, how is it, sir, that immigration is affecting “your life” apart from someone to cart away your dirty dishes? No matter. Jews had little to no effect on the lives of ordinary Germans and, initially, Hitler even downplayed antisemitism because he thought the Germans wouldn’t but it. Goebbels thought differently and finally convinced Hitler that with enough propaganda, Germans can be convinced that Jews were at the root of all the indignities average Germans experienced. And the rest is history.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Which brings us to Fox News, the caravans, the breathless reports about mentally-ill fentanyl-armed migrants storming the border, and so on and so on. Nothing is going to change policy-wise as a debased Republican House works only for The Leader and not for us. It’s going to get worse and do not buy into the now relentless propaganda. Biden cannot continue to show weakness on this issue and cower and capitulate to Republican demands. That’s why he must take immediate action to shut down the current stunt run by the fascist and rogue Governor of Texas who is defying the Supreme Court by permitting his National Guard to block Border Patrol from the borders! That guard must be immediately federalized and Biden must take command. Likewise with the trucker bozos and their “Army of God” currently barreling toward the border. There are legal ways to stop this before it spins into bloody violence and now is the time.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">One final piece of news: Nancy Pelosi.</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">I’ve never been a fan of hers. I’ve always seen her as more of a hardball pol from a politically connected East Coast family rather a benign Queen of Social Justice from San Francisco. This week, the octogenarian former speaker threw some of her admirers for a loop when she loudly suggested –as if she were Richard Nixon-- that the FBI investigate what she said are links between some ceasefire in Gaza activists and Russia. Wowza! She tried a couple of times to clarify and water down such a stupid and chilling statement but I am afraid its substance still sticks. Apart from its appalling stench disregarding civil liberties, it’s about as reckless a statement she could have made. Somewhere between 65-80% of Democrats favor a cease fire and Nancy’s not gonna make them rush to the polls to reward her or the party for her insulting statement. There’s an easy solution here. Nancy Pelosi should resign and take the time to enjoy her $200m in net worth while she’s still young enough.++</span></p></div></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="height: 20px; 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By a lot. The International Monetary Fund yesterday reported that the U.S. gross domestic product—the way countries estimate their productivity—grew by 2.5%, significantly higher than the GDP of the next country on the list: Japan, at 1.9%.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">IMF economists predict U.S. growth next year of 2.1%, again, higher than all the other G7 countries. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta projects growth of 4.2% in the first quarter of 2024.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Every time I write about the booming economy, people accurately point out that these numbers don’t necessarily reflect the experiences of everyone. But they have enormous political implications. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, and the Democrats embraced the idea that using the government to support ordinary Americans—those on the “demand” side of the economy—would nurture strong economic growth. Republicans have insisted since the 1980s that the way to expand the economy is the opposite: to invest in the “supply side,” investors who use their capital to build businesses. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">In the first two years of the Biden-Harris administration, while the Democrats had control of the House and Senate, they passed a range of laws to boost American manufacturing, rebuild infrastructure, protect consumers, and so on. They did so almost entirely with Democratic votes, as Republicans insisted that such investments would destroy growth, in part through inflation. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Now that the laws are beginning to take effect, their results have proved that demand-side economic policies like those in place between 1933 and 1981, when President Ronald Reagan ushered in supply-side economics, work. Even inflation, which ran high, appears to have been driven by supply chain issues, as the administration said, and by “greedflation,” in which corporations raised prices far beyond cost increases, padding payouts for their shareholders.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">The demonstration that the Democrats’ policies work has put Republicans in an awkward spot. Projects funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, are so popular that Republicans are claiming credit for new projects or, as Representative Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) did on Sunday, claiming they don’t remember how they voted on the infrastructure measure and other popular bills like the CHIPS and Science Act (she voted no). When the infrastructure measure passed in 2021, just 13 House Republicans supported it. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Today, Medicare sent its initial offers to the drug companies that manufacture the first ten drugs for which the government will negotiate prices under the Inflation Reduction Act, another hugely popular measure that passed without Republican votes. The Republicans have called for repealing this act, but their stance against what they have insisted is “socialized medicine” is showing signs of softening. In <em>Politico</em> yesterday, Megan Messerly noted that in three Republican-dominated states—Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi—House speakers are saying they are now open to the idea of expanding healthcare through Medicaid expansion.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">In another sign that some Republicans recognize that the Democrats’ economic policies are popular, the House last night passed bipartisan tax legislation that expanded the Child Tax Credit, which had expired last year after Senate Republicans refused to extend it. Democrats still provided most of the yea votes—188 to 169—and Republicans most of the nays—47 to 23—but, together with a tax cut for businesses in the bill, the measure was a rare bipartisan victory. If it passes the Senate, it is expected to lift at least half a million children out of poverty and help about 5 million more. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">But Republicans have a personnel problem as well as a policy problem. Since the 1980s, party leaders have maintained that the federal government needs to be slashed, and their determination to just say no has elevated lawmakers whose skill set features obstruction rather than the negotiation required to pass bills. Their goal is to stay in power to stop legislation from passing.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Yesterday, for example, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who sits on the Senate Finance Committee and used to chair it, told a reporter not to have too much faith that the child tax credit measure would pass the Senate, where Republicans can kill it with the filibuster. “Passing a tax bill that makes the president look good…means he could be reelected, and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax cuts,” Grassley said.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">At the same time, the rise of right-wing media, which rewards extremism, has upended the relationship between lawmakers and voters. In CNN yesterday, Oliver Darcy explained that “the incentive structure in conservative politics has gone awry. The irresponsible and dishonest stars of the right-wing media kingdom are motivated by vastly different goals than those who are <em>actually trying</em> to advance conservative causes, get Republicans elected, and then ultimately govern in office.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Right-wing influencers want views and shares, which translate to more money and power, Darcy wrote. So they spread “increasingly outlandish, attention-grabbing junk,” and more established outlets tag along out of fear they will lose their audience. But those influencers and media hosts don’t have to govern, and the anger they generate in the base makes it hard for anyone else to, either. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">This dynamic has shown up dramatically in the House Republicans’ refusal to consider a proposed border measure on which a bipartisan group of senators had worked for four months because Trump and his extremist base turned against the idea—one that Republicans initially demanded. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Since they took control of the House in 2023, House Republicans have been able to conduct almost no business as the extremists are essentially refusing to govern unless all their demands are met. Rather than lawmaking, they are passing extremist bills to signal to their base, holding hearings to push their talking points, and trying to find excuses to impeach the president and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Yesterday the editorial board of the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, which is firmly on the right, warned House Republicans that “Impeaching Mayorkas Achieves Nothing” other than “political symbolism,” and urged them to work to get a border bill passed. “Grandstanding is easier than governing, and Republicans have to decide whether to accomplish anything other than impeaching Democrats,” it said. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Today in the <em>Washington Post</em>, Jennifer Rubin called the Republicans’ behavior “nihilism and performative politics.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">On CNN this morning, Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) identified the increasing isolation of the MAGA Republicans from a democratic government. “Here we are both on immigration and now on this tax bill where President Biden and a bipartisan group of Congress are trying to actually solve problems for the American people,” Goldman said, “and Chuck Grassley, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson—they are trying to kill solutions just for political gain." </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Notes:</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/2c05435f-4835-44af-8436-29b88aecdd1d?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1707103834176000&usg=AOvVaw3SbmG_NvkEkPamKS5xZEGd" href="https://substack.com/redirect/2c05435f-4835-44af-8436-29b88aecdd1d?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; 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font-size: medium;">https://www.wsj.com/articles/<wbr></wbr>alejandro-mayorkas-<wbr></wbr>impeachment-house-republicans-<wbr></wbr>border-immigration-homeland-<wbr></wbr>security-1a431a5d</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/fe94cc3e-b9d0-4762-a602-7dcd3dc3f168?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1707103834176000&usg=AOvVaw3vqglD7XwMPB0sc6hveUEF" href="https://substack.com/redirect/fe94cc3e-b9d0-4762-a602-7dcd3dc3f168?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/<wbr></wbr>09/politics/biden-republicans-<wbr></wbr>infrastructure-law/index.html</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/144e5d83-e999-483e-9bd9-07c5f39a1d3b?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1707103834176000&usg=AOvVaw0I1P962_0waI1HrMZ7NUCJ" href="https://substack.com/redirect/144e5d83-e999-483e-9bd9-07c5f39a1d3b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; 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line-height: 26px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><h1 style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px;"></h1><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="height: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson&source=gmail&ust=1707111758437000&usg=AOvVaw10k_TxPSOPygnDA2D_bLDW" href="https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson" style="color: #404040; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">HEATHER COX RICHARDSON</span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: grey; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><time datetime="2024-02-04T05:40:03.366Z"><span style="font-family: Combo;">FEB 4</span></time></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); 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line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Today, U.S. and British forces launched strikes against 13 military targets in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iran-backed Houthis, who have disrupted international shipping by attacking international vessels in the Red Sea. The coalition struck against “deeply buried weapons storage facilities, missile systems and launchers, air defense systems, and radars,” according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Austin continued: “This collective action sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels. We will not hesitate to defend lives and the free flow of commerce in one of the world's most critical waterways.”</span></p></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We close out with the following: </span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #f7fafb; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_5807243126363692917stack-me" style="margin: 0px;" width="306"><div class="m_5807243126363692917hide"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" background="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgZ-OvZKzBRInWoe5mgr8kK9oMSkWXVqSGK0_s6RSzqvr45_nztD8NTtwUqbnEJ3x9YIsCyzVdAx_5Boh0WckjJW1PxqX2ntgChaOxmgpczarvStnu0dvAvyRbYf6MNefMHdpSh9_wv_PCH-31JLwFbegWuBlDsw3AWO18uKczsFZujig=s0-d-e1-ft" style="background-color: #42ddff; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; 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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-86298716573876414772024-01-29T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-29T00:00:00.168-08:00On Our Final "Virtual Route 66" For January 2024 <div><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_7057546359821442864responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_7057546359821442864responsive-cell" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img class="m_7057546359821442864mobile-image-stretch-enabled CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhpF7tdmXqcBeacd0ktwUvUkVhNDIaCbn4-dBTfHOBlfyBib1AePW6PHu7f3Aznqq5DYrX_1nyjTKHR1P5TpLIvR3ESMImbLp483FPxYXk7shDNmT3nU5amvP9o4ZS1sYnu3btxM3oaN9EfSNS5qgm2q-whHL37vb1vx76bX5VvdzG19oEoKM5yHgZnyG80LJP0Gl8own4JybeO3Y-SURmiSGufT8CGJQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_7057546359821442864responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="m_7057546359821442864responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <br /></span><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Your mother really did know the secret to a better world:<br />"Play nicely together. Don't fight."<br /><br />Compromise is the worst way to address human differences, except for all the others.<br />(modeled on Churchill's quote "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.")<br /><br />The alternative to compromise is conflict.<br /><br />When we seek to discover the best in others,<br />we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.<br />- William Arthur Ward<br /><br />Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.<br />- Jimmy Carter<br /><br />Today's affirmation:<br />I feel unity with Spirit and with all that is.<br />My life is richer for sharing my being with all those I meet.<br />Each experience, however it appears at the time,<br />highlights and strengthens the fabric of my life.<br />- Jonathan Lockwood Huie</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><table align="center" bgcolor="" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_8259668616114382745mlContentTable" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; 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direction: ltr; font-size: 18px;">POLITICS</span></strong></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Court allows razor wire cuts on US-Mexico border.</strong> A divided US Supreme Court allowed Border Patrol agents to resume cutting razor wire that Texas installed along a stretch of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTY4JmQ9bDBwMnU4dw%3D%3D.k71IcnuO9FYmVLzru2a3pTuKlP7nXYsjkTpC4dFVIFM&source=gmail&ust=1706587544015000&usg=AOvVaw0_ajb53Fp6KyYv6KhuOa7i" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTY4JmQ9bDBwMnU4dw==.k71IcnuO9FYmVLzru2a3pTuKlP7nXYsjkTpC4dFVIFM" style="color: #1b75bc; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">US-Mexico border</a> at the centre of an escalating standoff between the Biden administration and Texas state over immigration enforcement.</p><p style="direction: ltr; 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But Somalia says there is <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTY5JmQ9azl3M3A2Zg%3D%3D.q03-Beu8ss_IrOneq6PEusMJiEHwWVH3jJROVZh-6n8&source=gmail&ust=1706587544015000&usg=AOvVaw35nGXbzBN5htPCzbRUi2EN" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTY5JmQ9azl3M3A2Zg==.q03-Beu8ss_IrOneq6PEusMJiEHwWVH3jJROVZh-6n8" style="color: #1b75bc; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">no space for mediation</a></span> unless Ethiopia retracts its illegal MOU and reaffirms the sovereignty and integrity of Somalia.</p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">German farmers converge on Berlin to protest higher taxes.</strong> Some 3,000 tractors, 2,000 trucks and an estimated 10,000 people crammed the avenue leading to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The government is facing fierce backlash after <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTcwJmQ9cDFtN2I0dA%3D%3D.WLetfJXm3RdLWJGhAlAWPqPauPtTbX2jNPnVt5iIaE4&source=gmail&ust=1706587544015000&usg=AOvVaw36JGsun1kumDaGLv3utA9o" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTcwJmQ9cDFtN2I0dA==.WLetfJXm3RdLWJGhAlAWPqPauPtTbX2jNPnVt5iIaE4" style="color: #1b75bc; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">cutting agricultural subsidies</a></span> to fix its budget deficit.</p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Felix Tshisekedi sworn in as DRC’s President after a contested election victory.</strong> His inauguration speech was attended by several African presidents and made <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTcxJmQ9eTBjN200dA%3D%3D.o76zerhUgcEKx_DiNxk6i5gg-wA9YmPFELSqA_jVvyE&source=gmail&ust=1706587544015000&usg=AOvVaw2b6GoXx2qx5rYkodewfHmJ" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTcxJmQ9eTBjN200dA==.o76zerhUgcEKx_DiNxk6i5gg-wA9YmPFELSqA_jVvyE" style="color: #1b75bc; 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border-spacing: 0px; direction: ltr; min-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td align="center" class="m_8259668616114382745mlContentOuter" style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; direction: ltr; width: 100%;"><tbody style="direction: ltr;"><tr style="direction: ltr;"><td id="m_8259668616114382745bodyText-16" style="border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;"><span style="color: #1b75bc; direction: ltr; font-size: 18px;">CONFLICT</span></strong></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Pakistan missiles strike Iran in retaliatory bombing as tensions soar.</strong> Pakistan has hit Iran with what it described as “highly coordinated” <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTczJmQ9bjRqNGEwaw%3D%3D.p7d7TORQTc8US0P2Vb9agQJwJIOd3yl7hAWut-PopXA&source=gmail&ust=1706587544015000&usg=AOvVaw1EampGMwQKCiLvCBIfp8j9" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTczJmQ9bjRqNGEwaw==.p7d7TORQTc8US0P2Vb9agQJwJIOd3yl7hAWut-PopXA" style="color: #1b75bc; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">military strikes</a></span>, a little more than 24 hours after Iranian air raids in Balochistan, further raising tensions between the neighbours amid fears of a broader conflict.</p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">Ecuador police capture Colombian rebel leader.</strong> Ecuador's police said they have captured the leader of Colombian armed group <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTc0JmQ9bTZtMHA1Yg%3D%3D.zic97iJ1MmFGOfQ2a3F-9iwZuyWsLmuVyDc4mLjNQQ4&source=gmail&ust=1706587544015000&usg=AOvVaw0hDU9NRxq-NoCrFTFXG-Sp" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTc0JmQ9bTZtMHA1Yg==.zic97iJ1MmFGOfQ2a3F-9iwZuyWsLmuVyDc4mLjNQQ4" style="color: #1b75bc; 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It comes amid a government military offensive to combat criminal gangs.</p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">African leaders call for an immediate end to hostilities in Gaza during Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting.</strong> The NAM is a collection of <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTc1JmQ9cjRvN2wzZQ%3D%3D.XH10LjoDBW33YZmJX3xwIMF7QxUAL-xru_2azyj_mGM&source=gmail&ust=1706587544015000&usg=AOvVaw37br_whBaAl37FkvYahRwA" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTc1JmQ9cjRvN2wzZQ==.XH10LjoDBW33YZmJX3xwIMF7QxUAL-xru_2azyj_mGM" style="color: #1b75bc; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">120 countries</a></span> not officially connected to major global blocs. This call was accompanied by a criticism of Israel’s actions in the conflict.</p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="direction: ltr;">US base in Iraq attacked after Iran vows revenge.</strong> US military said "multiple ballistic missiles and rockets were launched" at its Al-Assad based in western Iraq. <span style="direction: ltr;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTc2JmQ9YTB6OWQ5Zg%3D%3D.mJteJjtL6ykU1VgWZ8NfohdJ5cpGKcHO4XOgm1BGFCA&source=gmail&ust=1706587544015000&usg=AOvVaw3zz-qNDHQ5QwJXeaqtv_fD" href="https://click.mlsend2.com/link/c/YT0yMzk4NjUxMDMyODgxMDc2NzQ0JmM9YzNyNyZlPTAmYj0xMjczODY2NTc2JmQ9YTB6OWQ5Zg==.mJteJjtL6ykU1VgWZ8NfohdJ5cpGKcHO4XOgm1BGFCA" style="color: #1b75bc; direction: ltr; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">The attack</a></span> came after Iran vowed revenge and blamed Israel for a deadly attack on a building housing its elite forces in Syria</p><p style="direction: ltr; 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border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEijjrqF0ooDIyF4pvIcWrIQQz2xZ0bg9W7_MrLijDdjQmW7KnS5FpyNSHd63pdLkUK__fFTOhDWxfVAQdEj-tXRb2-FNevYVwmzba_qk7aapkmn7FKPPdFwxYlWjTn70o8Pgk-wSRrUWX7iea4DQfsRajUyq6LeHpADtlYozxW9AtT1psoUQKNIC4CRa4NMT5IOLIhI71FsKBGjwJegPOhS_uCe=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>After weeks of deliberation</strong> following South Africa’s landmark accusations of genocide against Israel, judges in the World Court reached a decision. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians and increase efforts to help civilians, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D823bcd3fca%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw3-BqnfBkaCKHpoG3WOC4dn" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=823bcd3fca&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">but stopped short of ordering the ceasefire sought by South Africa</a>, which brought the case to The Hague. It’s not quite the outcome hoped for by many Palestinians. But does represent a significant legal setback for Israel, as the country had hoped to get the case thrown out entirely. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The ICJ found that “at least some of the acts and omissions alleged by South Africa to have been committed by Israel in Gaza to be <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3De6cb0cc4db%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw2uZrJFayPejdCLwMXo-4PD" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=e6cb0cc4db&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">capable of falling within the provisions of the [Genocide] Convention.”</a> The ruling requires Israel to prevent and punish any public incitements to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and to preserve evidence related to such allegations. The judges also ruled that Israel must take measures to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza. Fifteen of 17 judges on the panel voted in favor of imposing these provisional measures, including the court’s president from the United States, Joan Donoghue.<br /> </span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">So what happens now? Well, Israel is required to submit a report to the court on steps it has taken to comply with the orders within one month of today’s ruling. The process of the courts examining the merits of the case could take years. Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu has called the charges of genocide brought against Israel “outrageous” and said that the country would defend itself by any means necessary. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir mocked the ruling, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D164b8959b4%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw2JAbBFdKe3NH56qEBw145L" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=164b8959b4&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">posting on X</a>, “Hague Schmague.”</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWn5xOwZIamOQePklCymRPs6SFBnoaJFTVVboNoNMy_FV7IjLXIi5UEeGybnB7K26gsozcSszvTYb3krPQuaYZSCpmfPFNYQgv9v9ClCje_8DUIAgw_KIcwnyqlpyDqm5Cqa_DpGDCO7Wt9W4dpnSO8TnAN3B2kKd2GSlkLn1su19LeWFK2aP2EdF9SpZ81uOclvppxg9ZgH6n5E5CmyoPFe5g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>The ICJ’s ruling</strong> lacks immediate practical consequences, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D6483479dd8%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw3AgQVsYJFZuS98qzWtsBZ-" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=6483479dd8&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">but its implications are deeply symbolic for both Israelis and Palestinians</a>. For Israel—which was was founded in the aftermath of the Holocaust—to be directly ordered to comply with the Genocide Convention (also created in response to the Holocaust) sends a powerful message. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The United Nations Agency that facilitates aid to Palestinians, known as <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dc23c7073eb%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw0SxDS6RwCitmHaMZZSb6il" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=c23c7073eb&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">UNRWA said that it had dismissed several employees accused of being involved in the October 7 Hamas attack, and has launched an official investigation</a>. Israel had previously accused the agency of fueling anti-Israeli sentiment, which the U.N. has repeatedly denied. The head of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini said that the dismissals were carried out to “protect the Agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance.” No evidence of wrongdoing has yet been uncovered, but Lazzarini said that if any UNRWA worker is found to have been involved, they “will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution.” <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Lazzarini did not specify how many of UNRWA’s 13,000-person workforce in Gaza had been accused, but the U.S. State Department released a statement noting that the allegations involved 12 people. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Df788ae3de8%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw3SlS2iwB2vV4hvDnpzDCjC" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=f788ae3de8&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">The State Department release</a> asserted that it has “temporarily paused additional funding for UNRWA while we review these allegations and the steps the United Nations is taking to address them.” It also commended UNRWA for its “critical role in providing lifesaving assistants to Palestinians,” and said the administration welcomes the U.N.’s announcement of a “comprehensive and independent” review of the agency. <br /> </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>The United States</strong> is <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Db97fea13a3%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw38B0tr5z1gSyJp-x9FhWV8" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b97fea13a3&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">UNRWA’s largest donor</a>, so the suspension of aid <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Db8d00087d0%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw1KiClzTWDaHyW-yVaklo27" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b8d00087d0&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">at a time when more than 93 percent of the population in Gaza experiences “crisis levels of hunger,”</a> will be a major blow to the agency’s already-stretched resources. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dcaf4f6b280%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw2bALsoe09XlUERjOmqJnDo" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=caf4f6b280&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Lazzarini stated</a> that the goal of the independent investigation will be to “establish the truth without delay.” </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnDividerBlock" style="background-color: black; 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We have so much in store for you, but to kick us off, Lovett or Leave It will be coming to Washington, DC on April 25 for another barnburner of a show at The Lincoln Theatre. Trust us—you won’t want to miss this one. Join our <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Da74b90c8b7%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw0QvdjyEBHIid0ulo3DzG3x" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=a74b90c8b7&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Friend of the Pod</a> subscription service for exclusive access to pre-sale tickets today!</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D25533aaabe%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw1-83t7sc6oiZVWSqvGQ4GE" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=25533aaabe&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgiyRq4eqBsX_zZ3D5UW1JGw947Mm_P0ZbkKqE5lejj5woAji49fZdQyvH-xrzbq53d7oHGv3qphpTdhgfx845_-0jN8sPHaNWL1KI7eY8nNcA9RoF2JMjuErIkx8P0BOHR0hl-_hyphenhyphenk0ZBm_YYtdaWX5ThwQabL81rnarVGuCOW1RxhVBwwd_OMVlWJrl0IS9dqwAWaiByZ53-qpwzYX5Xm45ow=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D7097614b02%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw24-fr6oi4t3yi9P1cSSLSh" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=7097614b02&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">A New York City jury ordered disgraced former president Donald Trump to pay columnist E. Jean Caroll $83.3 million for defaming her in 2019 by derisively denying</a> her accusation that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 90’s. The sum exceeded even the amount Carroll’s lawyers’ explicitly asked for. Trump called the ruling “absolutely ridiculous” and vowed to appeal. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D7bcdfedcff%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw1RmYiNZGjzcEnv5M8JJOBO" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=7bcdfedcff&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Carroll’s lawyers used Trump’s own testimony from the civil fraud trial</a> brought against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James (in which he bragged about how much money he has) as proof that he could afford such a hefty fine. But there’s little hope that Carroll will be awarded the money anytime soon. Trump’s appeal means that the $83 million will be held by the court during what could be years of legal battles. He could also secure a bond, which would not require him to pay the full amount up front. The civil fraud case is due to be decided next week, which could add significantly to Trump’s list of legal debts. State Attorney General James is seeking $370 million from the Trump Organization, as well as banning him from doing business in New York real estate for life.<strong></strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnDividerBlock" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnDividerBlock" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnDividerBlock" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgFEUCyAKAGkt5eoHpkprI6yZh03YYA6NgK1K0u6Bacgy_RGigyzMygu53AEpjVondz6sXRh-Zkp65m7fapopNAM9sXbzYSW6TnLTHpoA1geUwEfOSYpaPJg07lpzoeOoChkK0k8-ye7OgCklyLIlbURDvwvJzY4WcDwbzFBpRYvrizIYYKNpeTsJUm7WTwJK_Q6rGWjuzXOvImApVEHbDOdvi-=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A bipartisan group of over two dozen members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Biden on Friday <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D997493c154%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw01ZGee1qacnqxyT87on_3P" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=997493c154&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">arguing that he must seek congressional authorization before launching additional strikes against the Houthis in Yemen</a>. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D4693153098%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw1DlbLEkK8HWfrIjYdcctEX" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=4693153098&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Nearly a dozen mainstream media outlets have gutted their staff and newsrooms since the beginning of the year</a>, including the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>Sports Illustrated</em>, <em>Business Insider</em>, and the <em>New York Daily News</em>. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D6bdca26141%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw0ppgsMQmWT0ahxiTXMHAmL" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=6bdca26141&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing the assisted-living industry for answers on Thursday in a hearing about the industry-wide problems</a> of inadequate staffing, high costs, and a lack of transparency about insufficient care and preventable deaths of elderly residents. </span></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D1ace231cce%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw0RYDrqEJLIPNjKogbj3eAM" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=1ace231cce&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">The NFL issued a ruling that players on the two teams competing in the Super Bowl will be prohibited from gambling during the week of the game</a>, which will be held in Las Vegas this year. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Ddea96abbe5%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw0A3z9qWDTcDwaCjbViYUWA" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=dea96abbe5&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Washington D.C. saw temperatures nearing 80 degrees on Friday, 35 degrees above average</a>. Okay climate change, you got us!</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnDividerBlock" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj_w7_vKbzcjjNXYL1euUKQhnU7DIqxYWKUTE8nqms03Cy_4g5VkswH0gFBZN88T39miZtosRq_6Nnx8DVbuMHCEnUMewJSzBGXvjZOL7hpOouNto4ipOTa9IL87ZRLpGbwJ9ThlEXDrhAqm0YOzv8rs1eVOE7Goyu5EHbMUp9q5k8U7ejny8oo5ZNlWsS1yXVTfrQndTgCZ8ru74lM4U5Xg6dC=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3580381348741928768mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D5ad811f6a0%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1706587695309000&usg=AOvVaw3SYV7NrnHJuHrHJFS_aXMl" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=5ad811f6a0&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">The Justice Department formally concluded its investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and settled the case with the New York executive chamber</a>. According to the settlement, Cuomo “repeatedly subjected [current and former state] female employees to unwelcome, non-consensual sexual contact; ogling; unwelcome sexual comments; gender-based nicknames; comments on their physical appearances; and/or preferential treatment based on their physical appearances.” The executive chamber, DOJ concluded, “failed to effectively remediate the harassment on a systemic level,” and senior staff in the Cuomo administration were aware of the behavior and retaliated against some of the women involved. The chamber will be forced to implement a variety of new preventative measures, some of which have already been adopted by the administration of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY).</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="m_-5527712503850645223templateContainer" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px none rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="m_-5527712503850645223templateHeader" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5527712503850645223headerContainer" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr height="16"><td height="16" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px auto 32px;"><figure style="margin: 0px auto; width: 550px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" width="578"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/066f2277-7a8b-43c5-8890-12239c3fb114?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1706587543926000&usg=AOvVaw3VQ5QGK0tleYz6gwCh1edT" href="https://substack.com/redirect/066f2277-7a8b-43c5-8890-12239c3fb114?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="border: none; color: #1155cc; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="387.1909340659341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhrTMshE6s1jevUVvlnrrknH-XEFrJJ5QrzcmSrSQDhjm6PTUbVf88pDcgfDJYuk3xveAzSNH44TWZa44xl2g-tM8nl3aqYJqNEEayJNx8aZiScaBHNCWJ2OC8jsJ0NYox2bUkuANyh2hyaouBkv-KsFOr5XBpnOQIWhPr-s8eUr0OKrfyCQuk80wwe8mBBc0VxuHAh2tfcQEW-2fpCrcg9SQPH3DhXDkp5jB2BWTUhJeBQxX-pJCesSVCP0PIdzumnlN8uEyHrfUtLSDNj-lqLX_uO-X-hGX-mVLHi_pAWI4LTTr21AdvMcGpC8yb4CSwGiyM8uK2e-uu-PYxrzkkBnKrGU5Z47EfdsRosyP6hP3PeG63TDw=s0-d-e1-ft,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd9b411a5-0670-4d36-8385-37922a2c4a75_1642x1156.png" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="550" /></a></td><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">January 23-24</span></strong></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Marc Cooper</span></strong></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">So you didn't have to, I spent Tuesday watching the coverage of the faux New Hampshire primary and all I can say is that it has been stultifying, depressing and enraging.<br /><br />Let me save you time by informing you that in spite of all the hot air and rat-tat-tat of data points that the media is obsessed with, it makes<strong> NO difference</strong> whatsoever if Haley finished five, ten or fifty points behind Trump (looks like it's going to be about 15).</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">This "primary" season was over before it started as from the beginning Trump was going to be the nominee for two simple reasons: he long ago captured the mass of a degenerate and degraded GOP who is in his thrall and who dreams of dictatorship and second, there was never any serious challenger to him because they were all cowards and at best were running to be a lackey of his in any future cabinet. Only Chris Christie challenged his own party base.<br /><br />I watched the whole thing on the putatively liberal MSNBC and it came off as one prolonged gigantic smoking train wreck. When Trump showed up for a "press gaggle" they ran his demented and impaired and mendacious rant live with NO context, pushback or even a tough question. He rambled on for several minutes completely making up an incoherent but fear-filled pitch about the danger of immigrants -- like "they are opening up to all the mental hospitals in the world…all the criminals…” yada yada.<br /><br />And, somehow, the only voters that were interviewed seemed like until 10 minutes before getting on camera they were uprooted from a turnip patch. These yo-yos were inarticulate and irrational and as ill-informed as possible, a lethal mix only amplified by the corps of MSNBC reporters who, apparently, were ordered to never ask a single important follow up. And MSNBC could not find ONE voter who could form an entire paragraph of linear thought? Or would that be too long for a 7 second sound bite?<br /><br />When one dolt after another was asked who did you vote for and they grunted "Trump" they were <em>sometimes </em>asked why and for those capable of answering most said "immigration." End of interview.<br /><br />You'd think at least ONE reporter might ask, um, what is it about immigration that affects your life? Or do you worry that your choice is facing a panoply of criminal trials? Or are you Okay voting for a guy who says he will be a dictator? Or, even, have you ever read a newspaper? But nothing, nada, zip.<br /><br />Then it's back to that frickin’ Big Board where Steve Kornacki breaks down the 2024 turnout in East Jesus County compared to that of 2016 and it is basically all totally pointless and worthless information. Sorry. Talk about horse race coverage! This was like trying to explain the voting by sifting through clumps of horse shit.<br /><br />Perhaps the follow up coverage later Tuesday nite or Wednesday might delve a bit deeper but I did not see ONE minute of coverage during the day (and I watched from 9 AM onward) that dealt with this circus as anything except one more absolutely normal election. Not a moment of analysis (and I mean analysis not opinion) on how we are moving closer to the death of democracy, not one moment delving into the appeal of naked xenophobia...just one common place or threadbare cliche after another.<br /><br />As I write this at 5:30 PM PST, Haley is making a "victory" speech claiming she is in for the long run. My God, she is an empty vessel and quite a right winger herself!<br /><br />As if anybody cares if she is going to "stay in," as if she is going to NOT get crushed in hew own state of South Carolina next month. As if she, and the bootlickers like Tim Scott and Ron DeSantis are going to be anything other than asterisks by November.<br /><br />As I said last week after the ridiculous Iowa caucuses, the general election has already started and what went down in NH was a sideshow that entertained --and mattered to-- only the media who did it’s damndest to give this horror show a varnish of respectability and gravity.<br /><br />The only good news coming out this week is that the Republicans have saddled themselves with Trump as its virtual nominee and has thereby created the longest general election campaign in recent history. And that is bad for Trump and his party. He will be going on trial at least on that most important federal charge on the January 6 conspiracy before the election and, if convicted as he probably will be, the Republican Party will be going into November with a convicted felon as its standard bearer. Not a winning idea strategy. More than 40% of even these NH voters said if he is convicted they will not vote for him.<br /><br />Though the media continues to pee its pants over Biden's age, they are very very very slowly catching on to just how muddled and impaired Trump's mental acuity has become. The more he talks in the coming months, the worse it will be for him. And for his soft supporters.<br /><br />As for cable "news" today -- it would have been more useful to just play re-runs of the Twilight Zone and then late Tuesday, take maybe 5 minutes to sum up the New Hampshire results. It would have been a greater public service than uncapping the open sewer pipe they drowned us in today. ++</span></p></div></div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83%26id%3D0bb9c304da%26e%3D7906e796f3&source=gmail&ust=1706587539716000&usg=AOvVaw060ROdrjbdf745n4Vn0ign" href="https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=0bb9c304da&e=7906e796f3" style="color: #1155cc; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="PS on Sunday" class="m_-5527712503850645223mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhPhUnhXu4WN2dN7cDI1GM0jRjqYSlxaU3Zo5bfqU8HSiBFBhVVdRMDQygi_IpuvM8FwYeo4LtR_Zpvje8PdaB3zWX1mI3xHxH3RyWZ0THwTUa3Pm27ZlNJj9KuLk3B948VJU0KAhCfzqpznlJhabYiIaSzzd2I95WK_dw5igh8XPiJnN-r2bzRgARNtc1EfKWuFT49vQL1XU3cSe8HrumAnr2C=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline; max-width: 1122px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="m_-5527712503850645223templateBody" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5527712503850645223bodyContainer" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 0px 18px 6px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5527712503850645223mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">JANUARY 28, 2024</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 6px 18px 12px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5527712503850645223mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;">This week at <em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83%26id%3D6b966d5a9f%26e%3D7906e796f3&source=gmail&ust=1706587539716000&usg=AOvVaw3xg9piNPZYg3ts1MTFuuMB" href="https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=6b966d5a9f&e=7906e796f3" style="color: #2c9add; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Project Syndicate</a></em>, Stephen S. Roach warns that, without a more imaginative approach to economic stewardship, China could remain stuck; Nina L. Khrushcheva explains that the goal of current Kremlin propaganda is not to convince people that life in Russia is safe and prosperous, but to prepare Russians for more war; Jim O'Neill asks whether global economic forecasts are overly optimistic; and more.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 12px 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5527712503850645223mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;" valign="top"><h3 style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 12.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Politics & World Affairs</span></h3><h4 style="line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83%26id%3D159942059c%26e%3D7906e796f3&source=gmail&ust=1706587539716000&usg=AOvVaw3gM_la0RGFtmJSL4g6UJib" href="https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=159942059c&e=7906e796f3" style="color: #2c9add; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">China’s Imagination Deficit</span></a></h4><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83%26id%3D243a52a47c%26e%3D7906e796f3&source=gmail&ust=1706587539716000&usg=AOvVaw0Ia_zKxhVaYT4zSptMcwJt" href="https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=243a52a47c&e=7906e796f3" style="color: #2c9add; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stephen S. Roach</a> warns that the government’s response to tough problems is being driven by stale tactics and ideology.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 12px 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5527712503850645223mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;" valign="top"><h3 style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 12.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Politics & World Affairs</span></h3><h4 style="line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83%26id%3D526cf5a93e%26e%3D7906e796f3&source=gmail&ust=1706587539716000&usg=AOvVaw2FqlyVjsRxk4JzF5Ag4ldj" href="https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=526cf5a93e&e=7906e796f3" style="color: #2c9add; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Preparing Russia for Permanent War</span></a></h4><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83%26id%3D2d49000374%26e%3D7906e796f3&source=gmail&ust=1706587539716000&usg=AOvVaw04iO2kf7O7FwVDyY1rQ2Zq" href="https://project-syndicate.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=2d49000374&e=7906e796f3" style="color: #2c9add; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nina L. Khrushcheva</a> deciphers the significance of the Kremlin’s latest propaganda push – and hears ominous echoes of the past.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 2px 18px 12px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Jim O'Neill</a> considers whether less favorable inflation data changes the overall forecast for 2024 and beyond.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 12px 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">In the news this month</span></a></h1><div style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Recent events as seen through our archive</span></i></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; padding: calc(5px + 1.6vw); text-align: center; width: 600px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; text-align: left;"><ul style="clear: both; list-style: none; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2023/10/10electricity&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw1979t-YqpmvVZkOwIQNqFt" href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/10/10electricity" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">The high price of deregulating the EU's electricity</span></a></h3><div style="color: #999999; display: inline; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Aurélien Bernier, October 2023</span></div></div><div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2023/10/10electricity&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw1979t-YqpmvVZkOwIQNqFt" href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/10/10electricity" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><img alt="" class="m_-1297153530099193235spip_logos CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj0U_9d1AYTQgDkPByu2zWue0bTZbG3FJGnUc6c0TKRRZjCnXdM23w6X23Gbyf2fKf9oTogj2S79mfyP-ipCoYnPX3fMl0vqm0XZbLi31kzZlWzAX1_8fj9Vzw7yucKLdYtSU7JYCT_xC80PktQkXTbRE7Wr5AqG2XqC4TJUxGlwnVziBVa6Yf0r_hQ0O4OBSkUx8Br4v_O07MHUwg=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></span></a></div><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="float: left; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 6px 20px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">TUESDAY</span><br />23 JANUARY 2024.</span></span><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">French electricity prices will increase by almost 10% from 1 February, the economy minister Bruno Le Maire announced on Sunday. The government presents this hike as a 'return to normality', linked to the 'gradual end of the tariff shield' put in place in the autumn of 2021, but according to Aurélien Bernier, the inflation that has caused bills to grow over the last few years is 'deliberate'. Back in October, Bernier dissected the pricing mechanisms that lead to the increase in prices, and showed how EU-led deregulation explains this phenomenon.</span></div></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/11ecuador&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw2WPLdWqEAtxmK3wlvh5d9z" href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/11ecuador" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Ecuador: the road to hell</span></a></h3><div style="color: #999999; display: inline; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Maurice Lemoine, December 2023</span></div></div><div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/11ecuador&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw2WPLdWqEAtxmK3wlvh5d9z" href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/11ecuador" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><img alt="" class="m_-1297153530099193235spip_logos CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgNZJHUuSRETg2oP_-Oy_a3jGmNACR_Pb3fv4ZerVFH28Ol7-eZezXvv_EN1feXlMwEFjwpiv6tVDoKy-fKiJrVuex256RjsUkv3Ki8iI4RIn40UYvpDvY3y4RoaEnlCoug_7tRaMa-VYI28Wect7UVb-Fi0yfVU01nLsSX2soAd77g-6uCXdev6sXLwQDMVg0uf3dR7LcHD4P5KvE=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></span></a></div><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="float: left; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 6px 20px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">THURSDAY</span><br />11 JANUARY 2024.</span></span><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Violence in Ecuador has reached a new pitch since the leader of the Los Choneros drug cartel, José Macías Villamar (also known as 'Fito'), escaped Guayaquil prison on 7 January. On Tuesday 9 January, the country witnessed masked gunmen storm a live TV broadcast and terrorise staff. President Daniel Noboa, only recently come to power, has declared a state of emergency and ordered the armed forces to 'neutralise' criminal gangs. 'Some now call this city "Guayakill",' noted Maurice Lemoine in December, in an analysis of the security collapse of a nation once renowned for its tranquility.</span></div></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/03gaza-international-law&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw0uuaYpBeT9DkerdHxEEI_U" href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/03gaza-international-law" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Even war has rules</span></a></h3><div style="color: #999999; display: inline; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Anne-Cécile Robert, December 2023</span></div></div><div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/03gaza-international-law&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw0uuaYpBeT9DkerdHxEEI_U" href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/03gaza-international-law" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><img alt="" class="m_-1297153530099193235spip_logos CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh4T90zaYzIHiEUq8D9A1v2SVTZu-lTwGCn9yQj_ulzQSwqGw6N-_fOA-1NzoA-zreJBdali1yu9cYcrWSvqBTQI2W6dCDrAfB5WQXjStIQ0lHKYdksicO91VLxvvfmMlonQFnymKj7-K3HbmvToOhWb5Wi0LFDC_DIpxLjOr4EHwi0MYaLhrty3iJGjmRu-JHjZKb5wzPe2awUUd8=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></span></a></div><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="float: left; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 6px 20px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">TUESDAY</span><br />9 JANUARY 2024.</span></span><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">This Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will hear South Africa's case alleging that Israel is committing 'genocidal acts' in Gaza. South Africa's 84-page filing to the court argues that Israel is creating conditions 'calculated to bring about [Palestinians'] physical destruction'.<br /><br />In our December issue, Anne-Cécile Robert traced the history of the rules of war, quoting Max Huber, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in 1944: 'War, as it becomes more and more total, annuls the differences which formerly existed between armies and civilian populations in regard to exposure to injury and danger ... We were coming to grips with war itself, since it was no longer merely a case of alleviating suffering, but of attacking the evil at its root'. As Robert argues, 'Current events in the Middle East are a textbook case of practices the [Geneva] convention negotiators felt should be banned and, if they occurred, should be stopped immediately.'</span></div></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2024/01/02israel&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw1Ou68P4lID4HwEKxPJ_FwF" href="https://mondediplo.com/2024/01/02israel" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Israel's strategic error</span></a></h3><div style="color: #999999; display: inline; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Charles Enderlin, January 2024</span></div></div><div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2024/01/02israel&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw1Ou68P4lID4HwEKxPJ_FwF" href="https://mondediplo.com/2024/01/02israel" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><img alt="" class="m_-1297153530099193235spip_logos CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhX4PoNaTWB-LbhPoSMNTwYAfxMKa2gDX1ONdewZMQxw5WPNghdWZ2dQ89O1yQUV6M7SwecuhxWyW0hIKAk4xOfBzfCJke7hskG8SgDXDJIfKPKRApLlSVLbNvGHsRTm8axeGuZAvDaXqVqWbsOLYqaqyOmOQA1QrbqpGIL11Ytb4_ReBgOPyy-gVxQ5EaqIqs5FprzsgzlwZgXPug=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></span></a></div><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="float: left; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 6px 20px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">MONDAY</span><br />8 JANUARY 2024.</span></span><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Saleh Al-Arouri, a senior leader of Hamas (in the West Bank), was killed in a targeted strike in Beirut on Tuesday 2 January. His funeral was held on Thursday.<br /><br />In this month's issue, Charles Enderlin traces the dangers of Netanyahu's strategy to keep Hamas in power in Gaza — making a Palestinian state, and a political solution, less likely.</span></div></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2023/05/11nigeria&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw2OnAUIz3EJ22yahBRh4pEv" href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/05/11nigeria" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">The irresistible rise of Nigeria's cement billionaire</span></a></h3><div style="color: #999999; display: inline; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Jean-Christophe Servant, May 2023</span></div></div><div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2023/05/11nigeria&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw2OnAUIz3EJ22yahBRh4pEv" href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/05/11nigeria" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><img alt="" class="m_-1297153530099193235spip_logos CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhrE7AQwrWeVqgbNvCupjRyK5dyyIbJM_-DYMXB9WoXWe0qcz6U5fQ4_EoC2jUVvUTp5e99ZfbhWh_T5ZL2Uxh1Fip7w2XgoqkUiQor6I7kSh-ATbIlwD8xMcTVmZO2kjNtRl6-A2JwxrPPep2CqHy41yCAb-cHCY3K_bexvIo-Bf9F3AEfLdR9ic1YeObXjUL-luYyXklU4FOoJN8=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></span></a></div><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="float: left; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 6px 20px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">FRIDAY</span><br />12 JANUARY 2024.</span></span><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">A Nigerian government probe into the former governor of the central bank has searched the Dangote Group's offices, spooking investors. Nigeria's president Bola Tinubu quickly suspended the governor of central bank after he came into power in May 2023, disapproving of the bank's foreign exchange practices. Aliko Dangote, 66 — 'Africa's richest person and the world's 136th wealthiest, worth $19.6bn in January 2023', as Jean-Christophe Servant wrote around that time — financed Tinubu's campaign (as well as that of his challengers). He built his empire out of cement.</span></div></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2015/08/03ordoliberalism&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw13TZPVX61ak134WeM8TDmH" href="https://mondediplo.com/2015/08/03ordoliberalism" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Germany's iron cage</span></a></h3><div style="color: #999999; display: inline; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">François Denord, Rachel Knaebel & Pierre Rimbert, August 2015</span></div></div><div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2015/08/03ordoliberalism&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw13TZPVX61ak134WeM8TDmH" href="https://mondediplo.com/2015/08/03ordoliberalism" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg3QUB4ORFhdwfwD-M4ptUV4rdG_7phN2n1sfvcOnE0FpZDNrEiVFVsRaHFyMtkcT6VaOc58jR-kHQD8aX_jeCQ92eSezWg3QOdsKR-1A3wSxrXLIISGuxRW_Vxj3KY8AeNWbSgUt8LkXMmqu4DqaFW9OFMFu-eiVJz44K-E48HD1Hvh1GWvmsSu42OsDnxse0RCOUKTGxA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></span></a></div><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="float: left; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 6px 20px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">MONDAY</span><br />8 JANUARY 2024.</span></span><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Wolfgang Schäuble died on 26 December 2023. The embodiment of German 'ordoliberalism', the statesman worked to impose this doctrine on the rest of Europe. An architect of 'German unification' in 1990, the annexation of the GDR by its neighbour (read '<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2019/11/06germany&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw0GjOW8GjBspVW4rTmzy7nV" href="https://mondediplo.com/2019/11/06germany" style="color: #3c789a; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The economic Anschluss of the GDR</a>'), he also argued to impose draconian austerity on Greece in 2015 (read '<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2015/08/02varoufakis&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw1usR0WMSOcvdVUbykAnAFt" href="https://mondediplo.com/2015/08/02varoufakis" style="color: #3c789a; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The defeat of Europe</a>').<br /><br />In political and economic matters, Schäuble held monetary stability above all else, and had open contempt for democratic institutions. 'Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy,' he said to Yanis Varoufakis.</span></div></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2018/07/13football&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw1REIAnky2IIn82wk5ABQpQ" href="https://mondediplo.com/2018/07/13football" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Exploiting African football</span></a></h3><div style="color: #999999; display: inline; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">David Garcia, July 2018</span></div></div><div style="margin: 10px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/2018/07/13football&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw1REIAnky2IIn82wk5ABQpQ" href="https://mondediplo.com/2018/07/13football" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><img alt="" class="m_-1297153530099193235spip_logos CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg6vDTPItU6lWI2HIkwa2ZnM3V1StrNiKCArwqAIvLn8JHqDt4EVVfctaasCUWNYE8mw-8d2slVWqD3w0w7xIjUTQxE5w79Vn6Nau0SHchCvalWSlhgZ5vZtYcFsj7NoI_6J6lmmy4Sxtj-In1YAlZGRM4ADAgGelyj_PybI71bey_EodT-xHoEJiN_cDNWl_AMVdPZ4HgJybuvhQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></span></a></div><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="float: left; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 6px 20px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">SUNDAY</span><br />21 JANUARY 2024.</span></span><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Who will follow in the footsteps of the Algerian Fennecs in 2019 and the Senegalese Lions of Teranga in 2021 by winning the African Cup of Nations? 24 teams have been competing in Ivory Coast since 13 January. The winning team will take home m, the highest sum in the history of the tournament, all the more appealing in a sector plagued by precarity and low wages. Unpaid signing bonuses, salary delays, unpaid hospital care for injuries: such is the daily life of African players, as David Garcia wrote back in July 2018.</span></div></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mondediplo.com/1997/10/somaliland&source=gmail&ust=1706587543962000&usg=AOvVaw0NIkvmApSqMLgJpqqIANN6" href="https://mondediplo.com/1997/10/somaliland" style="color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Somaliland, a forgotten country</span></a></h3><div style="color: #999999; display: inline; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Gérard Prunier, October 1997</span></div></div><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="float: left; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 6px 20px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">SATURDAY</span><br />13 JANUARY 2024.</span></span><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Addis Ababa and Mogadishu are at loggerheads after Somaliland granted Ethiopia access to the Red Sea for commercial and military purposes on 1 January, as part of a secretive deal. Somaliland, a former British protectorate that declared itself independent of Somalia in 1991, was rewarded with a stake in Ethiopian Airlines and recognition of its sovereignty, a first. 'The paradox is that a state that certainly has more legitimacy and roots in society than most other African states, operating with very limited financial resources and no outside aid, is managing to survive and sustain a fragile peace despite the almost total indifference of the international community,' Gérard Prunier wrote in October 1997.</span></div></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 35px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><div class="m_-1297153530099193235chapodactu" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7448737586046844027templateContainer" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-size: small; max-width: 600px !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td id="m_7448737586046844027templatePreheader" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); 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Argentine President Milei now has a golden opportunity to cut at least a few of the five wires of this society-destroying machinery. But he must act! 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So it must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis will do. 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Just Ask Blackberry</a></div><div>Trey Price</div></div></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">WE look forward to the continued<br /><br /><br /> privilege to serve</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></li></ul></div></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-24064335912588957552024-01-20T21:07:00.000-08:002024-01-22T22:22:47.231-08:00On Our "Virtual Route 66" This Week: On the Week That Was (Updated) <p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We present a snapshot of the week courtesy of Crooked Media, The Institute for Policy Studies, the Financial Times of London, Heather Cox Richardson, Defense One, Palestine Chronicles, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and The Knowledge (with updates on the US Election scene and the war in the Middle East): </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgzMM8yOMfFDIczKCQfMz-qqaartDZzuNiWwzvkQ2_lYNxQmCCThx8oT0P_ox65VTgOUNkcpcC7mXgXDkkMknusdekOSy6RjzZsrFkoutD9MC0cTSarVFWhKDgNX7dKB7GL6KCYoUAkgEDDy9lObBWJXoTDbrMttDbanBEHucv1U6RTyJDkYkDmxh4rI/s1024/Elections.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgzMM8yOMfFDIczKCQfMz-qqaartDZzuNiWwzvkQ2_lYNxQmCCThx8oT0P_ox65VTgOUNkcpcC7mXgXDkkMknusdekOSy6RjzZsrFkoutD9MC0cTSarVFWhKDgNX7dKB7GL6KCYoUAkgEDDy9lObBWJXoTDbrMttDbanBEHucv1U6RTyJDkYkDmxh4rI/w640-h360/Elections.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Richest 1 Percent Own a Greater Share of the Stock Market Than Ever Before</span></a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Baby bonds are one effective strategy for addressing the fact that only 1 percent of stock market wealth is owned by the bottom half of households.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">What’s Driving Our Epidemic of Distrust?</span></a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The answer we get when we look at our nation’s most distrusted institutions.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As Elites Gather in Davos, They Can’t Ignore That Most High-Net Worth Individuals Like Me Want To Pay More Tax</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">If we don’t act soon, we will ultimately hand the initiative to enemies of democracy, and the results will undoubtedly be grim.</span></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-7053258384743483860row-content m_-7053258384743483860stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-7053258384743483860column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 15px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.2;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">IPS IN THE NEWS</span></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A new <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368513/450217003/-218833345?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw3K5uyhilq_xbxTpYy3wi16" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368513/450217003/-218833345?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Fortune</a></strong></em> analysis of stock ownership quotes Chuck Collins that all the growth in stocks has gone to the top 1 percent. “As much as wages have gone up, the rules of the economy have been tilted to asset owners at the expense of wage earners.”</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"At a time when the United States and its allies often claim — inaccurately — to carry out precision killing with ‘surgical strikes,’ cluster bombs are imprecise by nature," Khury Petersen-Smith tells <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368514/450217006/-521222324?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw34Wy6rJgJxjaF3UO9jt9ww" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368514/450217006/-521222324?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">New Ideal</a></strong></em>.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368515/450217007/-95210876?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw1925VFoxRAhi3sMZeakQT5" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368515/450217007/-95210876?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"></a></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Phyllis Bennis joins <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368516/450217010/-1574035031?audio%3D414001%26nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw0E1zKqmlPuOLN172l2-nqM" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368516/450217010/-1574035031?audio=414001&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">KPFA</a></strong></em> to discuss South Africa's genocide case against Israel.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Manuel Perez Rocha explains to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368517/450217013/-933961450?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw2B0-ml3HLbKIqe31C7HNzp" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368517/450217013/-933961450?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Inside Climate News</a></strong></em> how wealthy corporations exploit investment agreements to try to prevent countries from stopping or outlawing harmful resource extraction processes like mining. "This system is like playing soccer on just half of the pitch, in which one team attacks and the other one can only defend itself, and that’s the game,” he says.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368518/450217016/-95210876?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw0h7_qMxWsm8KjbK34so64-" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368518/450217016/-95210876?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"></a></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368519/450217019/720771881?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw0cJRD3ZS4q_PpAuxwy7ubX" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368519/450217019/720771881?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">The Economist</a></strong></em> highlights findings from IPS's report on the true cost of billionaire philanthropy, which found that the combined assets held by the 73 living signers of the Giving Pledge rose from $348 billion to $828 billion in 2022.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Over a dozen outlets have highlighted IPS's new report on the state of human rights in El Salvador and the risks of authoritarian Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele bringing back mining, including <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368520/450217022/-95210876?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw1j4VFo84dyaJOCS0NnCGnM" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368520/450217022/-95210876?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Mining Journal</a></strong></em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368521/450217023/1135112944?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw0N7iKacuDohqRxif6WPTI_" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368521/450217023/1135112944?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Mining.com</a></strong></em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368522/450217025/1188932468?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw19Yp3rxe6_jpy1W7v7-8IK" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368522/450217025/1188932468?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">La Prensa Grafica</a></strong></em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368523/450217034/1146972181?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw2MPUUWXbxemgAf3rFpnla_" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368523/450217034/1146972181?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Le Devoir</a></strong></em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368524/450217040/1529753497?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw37JsWEJWL0qlExQLFcDth5" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368524/450217040/1529753497?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Actual News Magazine</a></strong></em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368525/450217042/-244127118?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw2DxNR94Q7JM-jEWeofaeGx" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368525/450217042/-244127118?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Radio Canada</a></strong></em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368526/450217044/1729094999?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw27W79wwqTFWo7wWrOimtut" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368526/450217044/1729094999?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">El Diario</a></strong></em>, and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368527/450217047/208295770?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw0HLXEsd6abWHEo_1ef0zoQ" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368527/450217047/208295770?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Latin American Bureau</a></strong></em>, among others. </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368528/450217048/-95210876?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw1s1p8SFgSBfYsHFxNWMCez" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368528/450217048/-95210876?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></a>Peter Certo tells <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368529/450217051/-2145013810?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw2GXjLRxRulaMi1aw1KTgHg" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368529/450217051/-2145013810?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Newsweek</a></strong></em> that ordinary Americans aren’t as divided as politicians would have them believe. “Poll after poll shows broad, bipartisan support for raising taxes on billionaires and cutting our military spending to fund investments in infrastructure, climate and social programs,” he says. “Vast bipartisan majorities tell pollsters they support a ceasefire in Gaza and think immigration is good.”</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-7053258384743483860row-content m_-7053258384743483860stack" role="presentation" style="background-color: #ffdd64; color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-7053258384743483860column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“</span></strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">"Ending Israel’s assault on Gaza remains the linchpin of any effort to calm the spreading regional violence. There is no military solution to military escalation in the Middle East: diplomacy is needed. And it needs to start with a cease-fire in Gaza now."</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– Phyllis Bennis at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368530/450217054/-1019926325?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dxj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA%3D%26emci%3Dcba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3D2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705899398102000&usg=AOvVaw0RCfPRcx8kq9qB4B4NN8py" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/77368530/450217054/-1019926325?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjJmYTE0NWFmLWY0YjYtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=xj6i-EZkkRXd-j8ij5lPvJ4m4NHincCvE12B754cjaA=&emci=cba71077-d8b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=2fa145af-f4b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Chip Roy</a> (R-TX) talking about House Republicans and, well, we couldn’t have said it better!</span></em></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6059319794760518638mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6059319794760518638mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6059319794760518638mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Ded8100b65b%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw2nyiNJ7w0IqYCCIMKOottT" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=ed8100b65b&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Pakistan launched retaliatory ballistic strikes against militants in Iran on Thursday</a>, two days after Iran said it struck the headquarters of another group in Pakistani territory. Pakistan’s attack days earlier killed at least nine people, including four children. Iran’s foreign ministry said on Thursday it was committed to maintaining good relations with Pakistan, but called on the Pakistani government to prevent the establishment of “terrorist bases” within its borders. Both countries expressed the desire to avert further escalation. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In Washington, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D1023ba533b%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw1QwIeGq_fxT_O312vVK3Gb" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=1023ba533b&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">President Joe Biden said on Thursday</a> that the clashes between Iran and Pakistan this week demonstrate that Iran, a U.S. adversary, is not well-liked in the region. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dead3abe629%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw26na-c0qJiZ1l3w64FYgru" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=ead3abe629&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Washington carried out its fifth round of airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday against Houthi militants</a>. When asked by reporters if he thought the strikes against Houthi targets were working, Biden said: “Well, when you say, ‘working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they gonna continue? Yes.” Well okay then! Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh later told reporters: “We are not at war with the Houthis. Actions we are taking are defensive in nature.”<br /> </span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Lebanese militant group <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D71c8f40ff8%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw3NeEXAJvBCjTnnca1cpeLk" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=71c8f40ff8&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Hezbollah rebuffed U.S. proposals that could lead to a cooldown in fighting with neighboring Israe</a>l, such as withdrawing its fighters further from the border. But the group said it remains open to American diplomacy to prevent a more damaging regional war. A senior Lebanese official said: “Hezbollah is ready to listen,” while at the same time emphasizing that the group feels the State Department’s latest round of proposals is unrealistic. Attacks from Yemen’s Houthi militants, who like Hezbollah are also backed by Iran, add to the urgency of these negotiations.</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_6059319794760518638mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWn5xOwZIamOQePklCymRPs6SFBnoaJFTVVboNoNMy_FV7IjLXIi5UEeGybnB7K26gsozcSszvTYb3krPQuaYZSCpmfPFNYQgv9v9ClCje_8DUIAgw_KIcwnyqlpyDqm5Cqa_DpGDCO7Wt9W4dpnSO8TnAN3B2kKd2GSlkLn1su19LeWFK2aP2EdF9SpZ81uOclvppxg9ZgH6n5E5CmyoPFe5g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6059319794760518638mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6059319794760518638mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>The recent spate of intensifying conflicts</strong> in the Middle East have in part sprung out of the catastrophic violence between Israel and Hamas that began on October 7. It shows no signs of slowing. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">At a Thursday news conference, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D9bee3542ab%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw3UY_ozwOERhHor_JkAGvIH" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=9bee3542ab&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again rejected the proposal of a postwar peace plan</a> that would result in the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state. Even working towards such a goal, he said, was out of the question. “Israel must have security over all the territory west of the Jordan,” Netanyahu said, referring to the Jordan River. “This clashes with the idea of sovereignty. What can you do?” President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have made their support for a two-state solution clear, and Biden has suggested that a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority run post-Hamas Gaza, as it currently runs the West Bank. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A one-state solution, in which Israelis and Palestinians would live in one democratic state (incorporating Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza) with full rights for both groups, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D39e902b27a%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw3zJuE9QYsMFZPVWogHc3s7" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=39e902b27a&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">is favored by many Palestinians</a>. But it’s opposed by many Israelis on the right, as under this plan, Jewish Israelis would be outnumbered by Arab Muslims. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D796f97bf20%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw36i5_10YD8sSoU0iW1hu09" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=796f97bf20&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Netanyahu and other right-wing Israelis</a> have tacitly or explicitly expressed support for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dfeb33cb6d4%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw0C1ldM9IfL7EWLrC1st1vv" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=feb33cb6d4&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">a one-state solution of their own</a>, which could involve <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D6da9b40619%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw2408WbaKyOUE4nZ8jP3md3" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=6da9b40619&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">annexation of the West Bank</a> and the disenfranchisement of Palestinians—or simply forcing them out entirely. This option is rejected by not only virtually the whole world, but also most Israelis. In the past, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D276b9e8887%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705812045565000&usg=AOvVaw0ZJsZoMcKXtdxHnDtt6yzL" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=276b9e8887&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Netanyahu has drawn criticism</a> for declaring that Israel is “the national state, not of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish people.” <br /> </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Netanyahu said he would not compromise</strong> on Israel’s goal of “total victory” over Hamas, and told the public to prepare for months more of fighting. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; 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font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Mexico</a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_FX3cK_Dnv7d0Bdv2KAf6VDwPxe9tJ3PxRAU4HzilFpakp3qPrtgOGIZFK-63OYGzEMT17hHqIXuFmJsnGy051_nnVpjQDf0HUWTM60axiDebx34dcM-oSnbedV1OtHrCHQACSj7fQPnIeGEdAoaf7QciVaxfWzNgo-kf49t80pzJWvEr_bXxWnEItui6jUBJDYsSaMWtKjk8QkVODvpc3mCmoWFqGBQEc5Y-gjTpX-LdetVhzyOBwfmzFeU9wbBDIfsRRwUQRhxM%3D%26c%3D1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg%3D%3D%26ch%3DfzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705812044553000&usg=AOvVaw3OVU6srVy1ZFlfzLVqiSkk" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_FX3cK_Dnv7d0Bdv2KAf6VDwPxe9tJ3PxRAU4HzilFpakp3qPrtgOGIZFK-63OYGzEMT17hHqIXuFmJsnGy051_nnVpjQDf0HUWTM60axiDebx34dcM-oSnbedV1OtHrCHQACSj7fQPnIeGEdAoaf7QciVaxfWzNgo-kf49t80pzJWvEr_bXxWnEItui6jUBJDYsSaMWtKjk8QkVODvpc3mCmoWFqGBQEc5Y-gjTpX-LdetVhzyOBwfmzFeU9wbBDIfsRRwUQRhxM=&c=1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg==&ch=fzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ==" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> Refers Israel to ICC – </a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_FX3cK_Dnv7d0Bdv2KAf6VDwPxe9tJ3PxRAU4HzilFpakp3qPrtgOGIZFK-63OYGzEMT17hHqIXuFmJsnGy051_nnVpjQDf0HUWTM60axiDebx34dcM-oSnbedV1OtHrCHQACSj7fQPnIeGEdAoaf7QciVaxfWzNgo-kf49t80pzJWvEr_bXxWnEItui6jUBJDYsSaMWtKjk8QkVODvpc3mCmoWFqGBQEc5Y-gjTpX-LdetVhzyOBwfmzFeU9wbBDIfsRRwUQRhxM%3D%26c%3D1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg%3D%3D%26ch%3DfzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705812044553000&usg=AOvVaw3OVU6srVy1ZFlfzLVqiSkk" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_FX3cK_Dnv7d0Bdv2KAf6VDwPxe9tJ3PxRAU4HzilFpakp3qPrtgOGIZFK-63OYGzEMT17hHqIXuFmJsnGy051_nnVpjQDf0HUWTM60axiDebx34dcM-oSnbedV1OtHrCHQACSj7fQPnIeGEdAoaf7QciVaxfWzNgo-kf49t80pzJWvEr_bXxWnEItui6jUBJDYsSaMWtKjk8QkVODvpc3mCmoWFqGBQEc5Y-gjTpX-LdetVhzyOBwfmzFeU9wbBDIfsRRwUQRhxM=&c=1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg==&ch=fzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ==" style="color: #e94c3a; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">DAY 105</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2148366104290619384layout" style="color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_2148366104290619384column m_2148366104290619384scale m_2148366104290619384stack" style="margin: 0px; width: 590px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_2148366104290619384content-padding-horizontal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 550px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" height="1" style="background-color: black; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhlX_3FpJUql1Vsky1q4nQ0VJ5WiSX_nXw_F5X-od9qukxZu3dBqV-lxP3tzmJk5r3vkiYupNfaKMV8mSY0n3ZiKpo1qwhzKzq1mKjizeBDlRXOji-gTwXORR34aPB0pn02ImjKHC1LES_1CLTrm7Lq3X1mqFaOYefaV5bn-WcrEK2i_jRn=s0-d-e1-ft" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2148366104290619384layout" style="color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_2148366104290619384column m_2148366104290619384scale m_2148366104290619384stack" style="margin: 0px; width: 324.5px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2148366104290619384text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="m_2148366104290619384text_content-cell m_2148366104290619384content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #333333; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Nearly 20,000 Palestinian babies have been born into war in the Gaza Strip, while 135,000 children under age two in the besieged enclave are at severe risk of malnutrition. 'That’s a baby born into this horrendous war every 10 minutes.''" - </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_F3K2QCbx0xeLZhXj4otOPcV-pxMmwbmow92fmnhXgsuFxZHYdPIj6YeYi1SN3JsX-mEHJlnCKMyU3Y57GjoHr_6bPQDPGtnWyNMe2IhtkzScfbHtdVrMIWEmKGrN2CSm9VaK2iuj6vVLK3GxqK7HV28-7gxEuMxnDavFY61t5Ipc%3D%26c%3D1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg%3D%3D%26ch%3DfzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705812044553000&usg=AOvVaw0d5eVsOyuFFyh2JtS1of7A" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_F3K2QCbx0xeLZhXj4otOPcV-pxMmwbmow92fmnhXgsuFxZHYdPIj6YeYi1SN3JsX-mEHJlnCKMyU3Y57GjoHr_6bPQDPGtnWyNMe2IhtkzScfbHtdVrMIWEmKGrN2CSm9VaK2iuj6vVLK3GxqK7HV28-7gxEuMxnDavFY61t5Ipc=&c=1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg==&ch=fzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ==" style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Tess Ingram, UNICEF. </a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_2148366104290619384content-padding-horizontal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 294.5px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" height="1" style="background-color: black; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhlX_3FpJUql1Vsky1q4nQ0VJ5WiSX_nXw_F5X-od9qukxZu3dBqV-lxP3tzmJk5r3vkiYupNfaKMV8mSY0n3ZiKpo1qwhzKzq1mKjizeBDlRXOji-gTwXORR34aPB0pn02ImjKHC1LES_1CLTrm7Lq3X1mqFaOYefaV5bn-WcrEK2i_jRn=s0-d-e1-ft" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2148366104290619384image--mobile-scale m_2148366104290619384image--mobile-center" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="m_2148366104290619384image_container m_2148366104290619384content-padding-horizontal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3CtzGJBF2Gnsn9GWRbuqwCMjZ2pmyL4n-yTOVpro0i-7re97NlvvA9lK5ycbucNT5ST_kf7r0dRhbpgwmLSjrgV0h_X9OVYP52vmsxRoQN3SahepbUsF0hMsmopLN-ssGiiRWHLDebjpMPXQW-DzU3a2x6YjTRDdKeYhVDxIGr20TATGOU2Ry0wEN4ZxECH2DFa24LR4mabQu9%26c%3D1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg%3D%3D%26ch%3DfzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705812044553000&usg=AOvVaw2eR4Ny_TFdsGs6iIgOTN3Y" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3CtzGJBF2Gnsn9GWRbuqwCMjZ2pmyL4n-yTOVpro0i-7re97NlvvA9lK5ycbucNT5ST_kf7r0dRhbpgwmLSjrgV0h_X9OVYP52vmsxRoQN3SahepbUsF0hMsmopLN-ssGiiRWHLDebjpMPXQW-DzU3a2x6YjTRDdKeYhVDxIGr20TATGOU2Ry0wEN4ZxECH2DFa24LR4mabQu9&c=1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg==&ch=fzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ==" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhb9BRc1jKzUD_Dqjo4aaKjjT8NHiGtOxj_jvxRR7q87r5yV7X94Gx9LXT3leDWMfgzqhRFVxoUASyXobvFqwl1Cr23Ov6n-pvCZXT796O03xlKxlYRGO6Qv1j7FU-R7HN0jgUYWThKTSF0Vj9OCh7MjEQFuKjO9KKlmgQGhEy5ehcHr-iQYQGIYFYjcyatlWlTpY0DShk=s0-d-e1-ft" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="295" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2148366104290619384text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="m_2148366104290619384text_content-cell m_2148366104290619384content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #333333; display: block; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-style: italic;">"Our national football heroes continue to strive on the football pitch for Asian football glory, while their people are fighting a legendary battle against an Israeli genocide in Gaza. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"For Palestinians, football is not just about sports. It is about persistence, collective identity and hope." </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_F9h1yQMZzq7OHdR12jT-7T5bMK3Os5Pp9N6yxWgat8i9r6baBL6-Xo-pVAUUGIDIN36Ie4nIwHejyMEklJ6SVEhzLy8E2tFWuRB1EfIcCWxoKeGiuXCq6o6_2Vynznw7yoAly8gwARaYnly1HBchM4Mia8_XixUEjYNpVy3qE2LU%3D%26c%3D1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg%3D%3D%26ch%3DfzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705812044553000&usg=AOvVaw0GsKAunTdNTfVnib2msomu" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_F9h1yQMZzq7OHdR12jT-7T5bMK3Os5Pp9N6yxWgat8i9r6baBL6-Xo-pVAUUGIDIN36Ie4nIwHejyMEklJ6SVEhzLy8E2tFWuRB1EfIcCWxoKeGiuXCq6o6_2Vynznw7yoAly8gwARaYnly1HBchM4Mia8_XixUEjYNpVy3qE2LU=&c=1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg==&ch=fzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ==" style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">MORE</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></p><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-200950889098370033layout" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-200950889098370033column m_-200950889098370033scale m_-200950889098370033stack" style="margin: 0px; width: 590px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-200950889098370033text" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="m_-200950889098370033text_content-cell m_-200950889098370033content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #333333; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; 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font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Netanyahu Declares </a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001Y54fJsC_6TyiD2GmdSTYeF6uOx5SJg24zasN068HJGZEc39iULCuaTlTqfPeW_GM10rVfaRyrZdyGxIWCYNXWabJPCtUXp9HrEEPQYC8TzPv6DaDcydFBe58kVyYc2T2IZTBAYWkQhRsdB0UdROozx1aKfBlhvb3i_-qtHAnVuMQfbvTJ87ajSp3_6cACFIb7vn1N59rP4MZHsy-E7hSfmP1G0UyrkE9Q_RskFeh6KdBrhzM4tnsqaHc5W24dir-Iv_UfDF3_nb5oaAZJNXt_A%3D%3D%26c%3D57U9wSM-AFJ5R10ltH4JgFsEmYEoKNDGCa2qg_JGLOnzAdgdO1HoVQ%3D%3D%26ch%3D0509bUnBvw6dYpDnelgsWmhjeEy77HDPUkqcYTqRiJtDZlhKxB2nkA%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705887675658000&usg=AOvVaw08ZTrON653u6j9jB97Qi0N" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Y54fJsC_6TyiD2GmdSTYeF6uOx5SJg24zasN068HJGZEc39iULCuaTlTqfPeW_GM10rVfaRyrZdyGxIWCYNXWabJPCtUXp9HrEEPQYC8TzPv6DaDcydFBe58kVyYc2T2IZTBAYWkQhRsdB0UdROozx1aKfBlhvb3i_-qtHAnVuMQfbvTJ87ajSp3_6cACFIb7vn1N59rP4MZHsy-E7hSfmP1G0UyrkE9Q_RskFeh6KdBrhzM4tnsqaHc5W24dir-Iv_UfDF3_nb5oaAZJNXt_A==&c=57U9wSM-AFJ5R10ltH4JgFsEmYEoKNDGCa2qg_JGLOnzAdgdO1HoVQ==&ch=0509bUnBvw6dYpDnelgsWmhjeEy77HDPUkqcYTqRiJtDZlhKxB2nkA==" style="color: #e94c3a; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Israel’s Vision</a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001Y54fJsC_6TyiD2GmdSTYeF6uOx5SJg24zasN068HJGZEc39iULCuaTlTqfPeW_GM10rVfaRyrZdyGxIWCYNXWabJPCtUXp9HrEEPQYC8TzPv6DaDcydFBe58kVyYc2T2IZTBAYWkQhRsdB0UdROozx1aKfBlhvb3i_-qtHAnVuMQfbvTJ87ajSp3_6cACFIb7vn1N59rP4MZHsy-E7hSfmP1G0UyrkE9Q_RskFeh6KdBrhzM4tnsqaHc5W24dir-Iv_UfDF3_nb5oaAZJNXt_A%3D%3D%26c%3D57U9wSM-AFJ5R10ltH4JgFsEmYEoKNDGCa2qg_JGLOnzAdgdO1HoVQ%3D%3D%26ch%3D0509bUnBvw6dYpDnelgsWmhjeEy77HDPUkqcYTqRiJtDZlhKxB2nkA%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705887675658000&usg=AOvVaw08ZTrON653u6j9jB97Qi0N" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Y54fJsC_6TyiD2GmdSTYeF6uOx5SJg24zasN068HJGZEc39iULCuaTlTqfPeW_GM10rVfaRyrZdyGxIWCYNXWabJPCtUXp9HrEEPQYC8TzPv6DaDcydFBe58kVyYc2T2IZTBAYWkQhRsdB0UdROozx1aKfBlhvb3i_-qtHAnVuMQfbvTJ87ajSp3_6cACFIb7vn1N59rP4MZHsy-E7hSfmP1G0UyrkE9Q_RskFeh6KdBrhzM4tnsqaHc5W24dir-Iv_UfDF3_nb5oaAZJNXt_A==&c=57U9wSM-AFJ5R10ltH4JgFsEmYEoKNDGCa2qg_JGLOnzAdgdO1HoVQ==&ch=0509bUnBvw6dYpDnelgsWmhjeEy77HDPUkqcYTqRiJtDZlhKxB2nkA==" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> in Occupied Palestine – </a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001Y54fJsC_6TyiD2GmdSTYeF6uOx5SJg24zasN068HJGZEc39iULCuaTlTqfPeW_GM10rVfaRyrZdyGxIWCYNXWabJPCtUXp9HrEEPQYC8TzPv6DaDcydFBe58kVyYc2T2IZTBAYWkQhRsdB0UdROozx1aKfBlhvb3i_-qtHAnVuMQfbvTJ87ajSp3_6cACFIb7vn1N59rP4MZHsy-E7hSfmP1G0UyrkE9Q_RskFeh6KdBrhzM4tnsqaHc5W24dir-Iv_UfDF3_nb5oaAZJNXt_A%3D%3D%26c%3D57U9wSM-AFJ5R10ltH4JgFsEmYEoKNDGCa2qg_JGLOnzAdgdO1HoVQ%3D%3D%26ch%3D0509bUnBvw6dYpDnelgsWmhjeEy77HDPUkqcYTqRiJtDZlhKxB2nkA%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705887675658000&usg=AOvVaw08ZTrON653u6j9jB97Qi0N" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Y54fJsC_6TyiD2GmdSTYeF6uOx5SJg24zasN068HJGZEc39iULCuaTlTqfPeW_GM10rVfaRyrZdyGxIWCYNXWabJPCtUXp9HrEEPQYC8TzPv6DaDcydFBe58kVyYc2T2IZTBAYWkQhRsdB0UdROozx1aKfBlhvb3i_-qtHAnVuMQfbvTJ87ajSp3_6cACFIb7vn1N59rP4MZHsy-E7hSfmP1G0UyrkE9Q_RskFeh6KdBrhzM4tnsqaHc5W24dir-Iv_UfDF3_nb5oaAZJNXt_A==&c=57U9wSM-AFJ5R10ltH4JgFsEmYEoKNDGCa2qg_JGLOnzAdgdO1HoVQ==&ch=0509bUnBvw6dYpDnelgsWmhjeEy77HDPUkqcYTqRiJtDZlhKxB2nkA==" style="color: #e94c3a; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">‘From the River to the Sea’</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-200950889098370033content-padding-horizontal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 550px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" height="1" style="background-color: black; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhlX_3FpJUql1Vsky1q4nQ0VJ5WiSX_nXw_F5X-od9qukxZu3dBqV-lxP3tzmJk5r3vkiYupNfaKMV8mSY0n3ZiKpo1qwhzKzq1mKjizeBDlRXOji-gTwXORR34aPB0pn02ImjKHC1LES_1CLTrm7Lq3X1mqFaOYefaV5bn-WcrEK2i_jRn=s0-d-e1-ft" style="display: block; 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Those deadlines were tomorrow (January 19) and February 2. The deadlines in the new measure are March 1 and March 8. This is the third continuing resolution passed in four months as extremist Republicans have refused to fund the government unless they get a wish list of concessions to their ideology.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Today’s vote was no exception. Eighteen Republican senators voted against the measure, while five Republicans did not vote (at least one, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, is ill). All the Democrats voted in favor. The final tally was 77 to 18, with five not voting. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In the House the vote was 314 to 108, with 11 not voting. Republicans were evenly split between supporting government funding and voting against it, threatening to shut down the government. They split 107 to 106. All but two Democrats voted in favor of government funding. (In the past, Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts and MIke Quigley of Illinois have voted no on a continuing resolution to fund the government in protest that the measure did not include funding for Ukraine.) </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">This means that, like his predecessor Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to turn to Democrats to keep the government operating. The chair of the extremist House Freedom Caucus, Bob Good (R-VA), told reporters that before the House vote, Freedom Caucus members had tried to get Johnson to add to the measure the terms of their extremist border security bill. Such an addition would have tanked the bill, forcing a government shutdown, and Johnson refused.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“I always tell people back home beware of bipartisanship," Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) said on the House floor during the debate. “The most bipartisan thing in Washington, D.C., is bankrupting our country, if not financially, morally…. It’s not just the spending, it’s all the terrible policies that are attached to the spending.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Republican extremists in Congress are also doing the bidding of former president Donald Trump, blocking further aid to Ukraine in its struggle to fight off Russian aggression and standing in the way of a bipartisan immigration reform measure. Aid to Ukraine is widely popular both among the American people and among lawmakers. Immigration reform, which Republicans have demanded but are now opposing, would take away one of Trump’s only talking points before the 2024 election. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A piece today in the <em>Washington Post</em> by European affairs columnist Lee Hockstadter about the difficulties of reestablishing democracy in Poland after eight years under a right-wing leader illuminates this moment in the U.S. Hockstadter’s description of the party of former Polish leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski sounds familiar: the party “jury-rigged systems, rules and institutions to its own partisan advantage, seeding its allies in the courts, prosecutors’ offices, state-owned media and central bank. Kaczynski’s administration erected an intricate legal obstacle course designed to leave the party with a stranglehold on key levers of power even if it were ousted in elections.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Although voters in Poland last fall reelected former prime minister Donald Tusk to reestablish democracy, his ability to rebuild the democratic and judicial norms torched by his predecessor have been hamstrung by his opponents, who make up an “irreconcilable opposition” and are trying to retain control over Poland through their seizure of key levers of government. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The U.S. was in a similar situation during Reconstruction, when in 1879, former Confederates in the Democratic Party tried to end the government protection of Black rights altogether by refusing to fund the government until the president, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, withdrew all the U.S. troops from the South (it’s a myth that they left in 1877) and stopped trying to protect Black voting. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">At the time, the president and House minority leader James A. Garfield refused to bow to the former Confederates. Five times, Hayes vetoed funding measures that carried the riders former Confederates wanted, writing that the Confederates’ policy was “radical, dangerous, and unconstitutional,” for it would allow a “bare majority” in the House to dictate its terms to the Senate and the President, thus destroying the balance of power in the American government.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In 1879, well aware of the stakes in the fight, newspapers made the case that the government was under assault. American voters listened, the former Confederates backed down, and Garfield somewhat unexpectedly was elected president in 1880 as a man who would champion the idea of the protection of Black rights and the country itself from those who wanted to establish that states were more powerful than the federal government. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Chastened, the leaders of the Democratic Party marginalized former Confederates and turned to northern cities to reestablish the party, beginning the transition to the party that would, fifty years later, usher in the New Deal.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">—</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Notes:</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/7ecc8b73-aef7-4e2f-a33e-dbf6e68fa97f?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045531000&usg=AOvVaw2Mr3tzTTyQCMEInN---Nns" href="https://substack.com/redirect/7ecc8b73-aef7-4e2f-a33e-dbf6e68fa97f?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.senate.gov/<wbr></wbr>legislative/LIS/roll_call_<wbr></wbr>votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_<wbr></wbr>00012.htm</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/a6fecf06-5b73-4fc8-ae39-44bea6aa838f?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045531000&usg=AOvVaw269DR5bBsx1-fxJapkKFj9" href="https://substack.com/redirect/a6fecf06-5b73-4fc8-ae39-44bea6aa838f?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/<wbr></wbr>202415</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/dd54a145-42e2-4685-a4f7-ec67f7e9e510?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045531000&usg=AOvVaw1EZDnGQ-RI9tn3Jw8-DARd" href="https://substack.com/redirect/dd54a145-42e2-4685-a4f7-ec67f7e9e510?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://chicago.suntimes.com/<wbr></wbr>2023/9/30/23897443/mike-<wbr></wbr>quigley-no-vote-federal-<wbr></wbr>shutdown-stopgap-bill</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/4022cc86-17e0-4135-834b-4c4fca78ed2f?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045531000&usg=AOvVaw0gQUQfLRkvaY0_7LZoqQZr" href="https://substack.com/redirect/4022cc86-17e0-4135-834b-4c4fca78ed2f?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.masslive.com/<wbr></wbr>politics/2023/11/no-ukraine-<wbr></wbr>aid-a-no-vote-why-mass-rep-<wbr></wbr>jake-auchincloss-opposed-gops-<wbr></wbr>stopgap-funding-bill.html</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/422bfd97-81cd-45b8-85e6-27929a622ac9?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045531000&usg=AOvVaw2cq_PoFYP_R1_0oO-MtLeF" href="https://substack.com/redirect/422bfd97-81cd-45b8-85e6-27929a622ac9?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://rollcall.com/2024/01/<wbr></wbr>18/senate-passes-stopgap-<wbr></wbr>funding-extension-into-march/</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/df263178-b1c8-4450-92e7-d1f252e2eace?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045531000&usg=AOvVaw36TibEwN_ndozGpofu9ne0" href="https://substack.com/redirect/df263178-b1c8-4450-92e7-d1f252e2eace?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr></wbr>com/opinions/2024/01/18/<wbr></wbr>poland-democracy-tusk-<wbr></wbr>kaczynski/</span></a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Ari Hoogenboom, <em>The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes</em> (University Press of Kansas, 1988), pp. 75–78.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><div align="left"><p align="left"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l%3D116899626%26f%3D812526%26c%3D14726642%26u%3D21124492&source=gmail&ust=1705812046297000&usg=AOvVaw24vl0UTfdayHO5__3rMR2p" href="https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=116899626&f=812526&c=14726642&u=21124492" rel="NOFOLLOW" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgRksam_tocqg9r5XsXZ7azPaSv6GbX9S1M_eLSLlLDJ1W-xO1yrkjnJpSARw4A7csLnLTg37T2wzgH-GDvMXVohxwW7MSpFj_q7_zzOEZl-6gD7mg66mu_vRm2L20p3LCcrWAqI-abW3wymgLGwBic6PKppQnx0w3KwEQFV2Fs3SwvSPPIWkhMyDDuZn8=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: 49px; width: 385px;" /></span></a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="clear: both;"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><div align="left"><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><div align="left"><h1><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">New From CBO</span></h1><ul></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="clear: both;"><hr color="#b48116" size="3" /></div><h1><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><a id="m_-20632425130428359320" name="m_-2063242513042835932_0" style="color: #222222;"></a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://p.feedblitz.com/t3/812526/21124492/14726642_/~feeds.feedblitz.com/~/863823587/0/cbospublications~CBO-to-Release-Budget-and-Economic-Outlook-on-February?utm_source%3Dfeedblitz%26utm_medium%3DFeedBlitzEmail%26utm_content%3D812526%26utm_campaign%3DExpress_2024-01-18_15:30%26utm_medium%3DFeedBlitzEmail%26utm_content%3D812526%26utm_campaign%3DExpress_2024-01-18_15:30&source=gmail&ust=1705812046297000&usg=AOvVaw0wimrWaILAvrli_LmrgIrS" href="https://p.feedblitz.com/t3/812526/21124492/14726642_/~feeds.feedblitz.com/~/863823587/0/cbospublications~CBO-to-Release-Budget-and-Economic-Outlook-on-February?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=812526&utm_campaign=Express_2024-01-18_15:30&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=812526&utm_campaign=Express_2024-01-18_15:30" rel="NOFOLLOW" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">CBO to Release Budget and Economic Outlook on February 7</a></span></h1><div><h2></h2><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Combo;">CBO will release "The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034" at 2 p.m. EST on February 7.</span></p><h3 style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">A New Hampshire roadmap</span></h3><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The winnowing of the GOP presidential field both before (Chris Christie) and after (Vivek Ramaswamy) Donald Trump’s big victory in Iowa reduces the field of notable Republican presidential contenders to just three: Trump, along with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. Unlike Iowa, New Hampshire <em>may</em> produce a close finish. This would not be unusual for the Granite State: 3 of the last 6 competitive presidential primaries have been decided by fewer than 10 percentage points (Bernie Sanders edged out Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 Democratic primary, while both Hillary Clinton and John McCain won close victories in 2008). In the event that exit poll analysts declare the Granite State “too close to call,” what information should the savvy election observer seek as returns come in?</span></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Just 4 of New Hampshire’s 10 counties—Hillsborough and Rockingham, on the Massachusetts border; Merrimack, which contains the state capital of Concord; and Strafford, home of the University of New Hampshire—will likely comprise 75% of the primary electorate. But aggregate, county-level results won’t be available until the wee hours of the morning, if not the day or two afterward. For in-the-moment analysis, psephologists have to zoom in on New Hampshire’s cities and towns in order to piece together a picture of the final results. The following is a guide to which New England hamlets will offer the best clues to the ultimate outcome on Tuesday, Jan. 23.</span></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">One factor that distinguishes this contest from previous ones is the degree to which voters already have sorted themselves along ideological lines. In the latest New Hampshire survey from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D806008%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6078784%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.suffolk.edu%252F-%252Fmedia%252Fsuffolk%252Fdocuments%252Facademics%252Fresearch-at-suffolk%252Fsuprc%252Fpolls%252Fnew-hampshire%252F2024%252F1_17_2024_nh_tracking_tables.pdf%253Fla%253Den%2526hash%253D7CA5AA8B796E704AD74B978133338B83630D7B59%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D70b4b7e48cbb60f90ba92f4b1eee2552a4b1e4c9c08c31330a119f066c229230&source=gmail&ust=1705812048253000&usg=AOvVaw1lWZ2ui6mbTH0lcfP3h_5s" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=806008&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6078784&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.suffolk.edu%2F-%2Fmedia%2Fsuffolk%2Fdocuments%2Facademics%2Fresearch-at-suffolk%2Fsuprc%2Fpolls%2Fnew-hampshire%2F2024%2F1_17_2024_nh_tracking_tables.pdf%3Fla%3Den%26hash%3D7CA5AA8B796E704AD74B978133338B83630D7B59&cf=3715&v=70b4b7e48cbb60f90ba92f4b1eee2552a4b1e4c9c08c31330a119f066c229230" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Suffolk University</a>, Trump enjoys the support of two-thirds of conservatives while a majority of moderates back Haley. This divergence speaks to Trump’s dominance of the Republican Party: As political scientists Daniel Hopkins and Hans Noel have <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D806008%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6078784%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cambridge.org%252Fcore%252Fjournals%252Famerican-political-science-review%252Farticle%252Fabs%252Ftrump-and-the-shifting-meaning-of-conservative-using-activists-pairwise-comparisons-to-measure-politicians-perceived-ideologies%252FEC8511D8EB16CD947D9B5DC8201F0515%26cf%3D3715%26v%3Dfab73d2dd0474bb290c8429324a0d5295cfc9e81bf97094e40afd696da30cd88&source=gmail&ust=1705812048253000&usg=AOvVaw0R7Se4KZuicZ7jPajPWcUc" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=806008&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6078784&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fjournals%2Famerican-political-science-review%2Farticle%2Fabs%2Ftrump-and-the-shifting-meaning-of-conservative-using-activists-pairwise-comparisons-to-measure-politicians-perceived-ideologies%2FEC8511D8EB16CD947D9B5DC8201F0515&cf=3715&v=fab73d2dd0474bb290c8429324a0d5295cfc9e81bf97094e40afd696da30cd88" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">demonstrated</a>, voters define a person’s degree of conservatism these days, at least in part, by how they view the former president.</span></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">All of this should make it somewhat easier to identify key municipalities in New Hampshire that will offer solid clues to the primary’s outcome, based on previous elections here. The 2016 Republican primary, which Trump won with 35% of the vote, is such a proxy for next week’s contest. Although Trump’s range of outcomes across counties was modest (from a low of 29% in Grafton to a high of 39% in Rockingham), there were a handful of municipalities where he performed especially well or poorly (at least 5 percentage points better or worse than his statewide vote percentage). As a proxy for the strength of moderates in a municipality, I use the performance of 2016 second-place finisher John Kasich. The former Ohio governor, who preached the virtues of bipartisanship during his campaign, won 16% of the vote statewide, but almost doubled that support among moderates, according to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D806008%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6078784%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nbcnews.com%252Fpolitics%252F2016-election%252Fprimaries%252Fnh%252F%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D70582cb8b5176e5fec4fbde0cebf7a716ffcb4d3c87ee2dd967291261205dd3b&source=gmail&ust=1705812048253000&usg=AOvVaw2a7BOSsMIAf1dxT5XPof7_" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=806008&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6078784&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2016-election%2Fprimaries%2Fnh%2F&cf=3715&v=70582cb8b5176e5fec4fbde0cebf7a716ffcb4d3c87ee2dd967291261205dd3b" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">exit polls</a>.</span></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">With these two proxies in mind, let’s take a tour of the Granite State. Readers can use Map 1 as something of a guide: The left map shows the counties in the state, and the right map shows the 2016 results by city/town. Trump carried all 10 counties, but Kasich did win a smattering of places across the state at the city/town level. We’ll call out important towns and cities on the map in the text, when possible to do so.</span></p><h3 style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Map 1: NH counties plus 2016 GOP primary results by town</span></h3><center style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEisewiceGRbaYESba6UQTn_1EFk5uZMgKy7DyMpOlctSHcBB5IV4u-6kfBFz1IdtwMrjMuE8QPuQrnU0tUYmVHhu9loXqix5Yoao4FKF-5Nnuv7nCJ_aAn8Be8bk0Hq6BZ5zXVbgSHwHCzUalTPd5QnP0n89c7gj9iGi7YcjMtodPdtm8UAASI3ttpOS4T5qhYGQw=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" /></span></center><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Notes</strong>: On the city/town map on the right, 2016 Donald Trump wins are in shades of orange/brown and John Kasich wins are in shades of pink/red, with darker shades representing higher vote shares. Blue represents a tie (Trump got a single vote and Jeb Bush got a single vote in sparsely-populated Cambridge Township) and Ted Cruz (yellow) won a single, tiny township, Millsfield. Light grey means no votes were cast.</span></em></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Source</strong>: Dave’s Redistricting App for county map, Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections for 2016 presidential primary map</span></em></p><h3 style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Hillsborough County</span></h3><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Hillsborough, which contains the state’s two largest cities, Manchester and Nashua, represented nearly 30% of the primary vote in 2016. Both Trump and Kasich performed about as well in Hillsborough as they did statewide. But both also had particular pockets of strength. The eventual winner performed especially well in towns along the Massachusetts border, such as Pelham (52%), Hudson (43%) and New Ipswich (40%), some of which are in darker shades of Trump orange/brown along the southern border on the map; and rural towns in the county’s northwest corner, including Windsor (45%), Hillsborough (43%), and Deering (42%). Kasich, in contrast, was especially popular in towns west of Manchester along Route 101, which runs across the state’s southern tier. Expect Haley to do especially well in “Kasich towns” such as Sharon (32%, double his statewide percentage), Peterborough (23%), and Hancock (22%)—those three, running from south to north in the order listed above, are the three Kasich-shaded towns in the southern part of Map 1.</span></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The town of Bedford could prove pivotal to the primary’s outcome. For one, its residents cast some 7,000 votes in 2016, the third-most in the county, behind only Manchester and Nashua. Just as importantly, Bedford is full of well-off, well-educated residents who were repelled by the Trump presidency. In 2016, Trump performed 7 points worse here than statewide. And in the 2020 general election, Joe Biden carried the town, historically one of the most Republican in the state. If Haley is to have a chance to pull off an upset, she has to win Bedford and upscale towns like it decisively. If Trump carries it, take it as a sign that a significant number of college-educated Republicans have joined his working-class base.</span></p><h3 style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Rockingham County</span></h3><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Rockingham County, which sits in the southeastern corner of the state along the Massachusetts border, will almost match adjoining Hillsborough in turnout. In the 2016 primary, one out of four voters came from Rockingham. Eight years ago, Trump performed best here, carrying 39% of the vote. More than half of the voters in Seabrook, a working-class town that juts out toward the Atlantic Ocean, cast ballots for him, his second-best performance in the state. Trump’s greatest strength, however, was closer to Interstate 93 in the western half of the county, which contains both large, well-developed areas as well as smaller exurbs. In town after town there, Trump carried 40% or more of Republican voters. If Trump’s current poll numbers hold on primary day, expect him to win a majority in places such as Danville, Plaistow, Salem, Sandown, Raymond, Atkinson, Derry, Fremont, and Windham (note the darker Trump shades in the state’s southeastern corner). Conversely, if there is a Haley upset in the wind, expect her to hold her own here and keep Trump’s margins of victory narrow.</span></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, Haley’s chief ally, lives on the other side of the county in Newfields, not far from the Seacoast. (Former state House Speaker Doug Scamman, another Haley endorser, owns a farm in nearby Stratham.) The eastern half of Rockingham, known for its old wealth and moderate Republican politics, contained some of Kasich’s best areas in 2016, such as Stratham, Greenland, the city of Portsmouth, Rye, Exeter, and New Castle (the little speck of Kasich pink along the eastern border in that part of the state). Haley should be able to establish a beachhead in Rockingham—but that will not be enough if Trump has a strong night on the western side of the county.</span></p><h3 style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Strafford and Merrimack counties</span></h3><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">North of Rockingham is Strafford County, home of the state’s University of New Hampshire. One of 12 Republican primary voters came from this county in 2016. Towns in the orbit of the state university—Durham, Lee, Madbury, and the city of Dover—which lean strongly Democratic in general elections, will be test cases for whether Democratic-leaning independents have elected to crash the GOP primary and cast votes for Haley (or in their minds, against Trump). Trump should be on firmer ground further north in the county, in small towns such as Farmington and Milton. Rochester and Somersworth, two small working-class cities, will be bellwethers to watch.</span></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A similar dynamic between center and periphery should play out to the west of Strafford in neighboring Merrimack County, which contained 12% of Republican primary voters in 2016. Eight years ago, Kasich performed especially well in the state capital of Concord and towns in its environs, such as Bow and Hopkinton. Further away from the capital, Trump did especially well in small towns such as Allenstown and Northfield, as well as the city of Franklin. (Bear in mind, cities in New Hampshire are sometimes small entities; just 1,500 voters cast Republican ballots in Franklin in 2016.)</span></p><h3 style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Northern and western New Hampshire</span></h3><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The remainder of the Republican primary vote—about 25%—is scattered across 6 other counties to the north and west. They are largely rural, but they are also a reminder that not all rural is equally friendly toward Trump. On the Vermont border in the Connecticut River Valley, Trump posted a strong performance (37%) in Sullivan County, in such areas as Newport and the city of Claremont. But north and south along the valley, Trump’s performance declined in counties containing institutions of higher learning. This trend was especially pronounced in Grafton County, home of Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Kasich’s best countywide performance was in Grafton (21%), especially so in the college town of Hanover and its environs (Lyme, Orford, and the city of Lebanon). These are the four Kasich-won municipalities along the state’s western border with Vermont, running Orford, Lyme, Hanover, and Lebanon from north to south.</span></p><h3 style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Conclusion</span></h3><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A couple of weeks ago, Haley made what some saw as a gaffe when she <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r%3D60520370%26msgid%3D806008%26act%3DLFRQ%26c%3D561522%26pid%3D6078784%26destination%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fabcnews.go.com%252FPolitics%252Fhaley-downplays-iowa-new-hampshire-voters-correct-caucuses%252Fstory%253Fid%253D106100774%26cf%3D3715%26v%3D5a67dfbd95f71a9240a67ae301d7cc3460c4116699169d40b578bf93145b4b3b&source=gmail&ust=1705812048253000&usg=AOvVaw3fQu5eJBXAEq31im9VWIlg" href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60520370&msgid=806008&act=LFRQ&c=561522&pid=6078784&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FPolitics%2Fhaley-downplays-iowa-new-hampshire-voters-correct-caucuses%2Fstory%3Fid%3D106100774&cf=3715&v=5a67dfbd95f71a9240a67ae301d7cc3460c4116699169d40b578bf93145b4b3b" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">suggested</a> that New Hampshire would “correct” whatever Iowa did. As impolitic as that may have been, there is some truth to it. The last three non-incumbent Republican nominees—John McCain in 2008, Mitt Romney in 2012, and Donald Trump himself in 2016—all failed to win Iowa but then captured New Hampshire on the way to the nomination. This does also sometimes work the other way, though: The two non-incumbent winners before them, Bob Dole in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2000, won Iowa before stubbing their toes in New Hampshire. Clearly, winning both early-state contests is not a requirement to be the GOP nominee.</span></p><p style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Eight years ago, New Hampshire persuaded me that Trump’s support was solid when I saw how well he performed across divisions of class and socioeconomic status in the Granite State. Next week’s primary results, coupled with those of the Iowa caucus, will tell us a lot about how seriously to take Haley’s challenge to the former president. For Kasich in 2016, New Hampshire turned out to be a cul-de-sac. His message of bipartisanship found a niche here among moderates and liberals in places like Hanover and Durham, but failed to resonate among mainstream conservatives, in New Hampshire and elsewhere. Ominously, Haley’s best performance in Iowa was in Johnson County, home of the University of Iowa. Next Tuesday may tell us whether she is a Dartmouth College professor’s ideal of a good Republican, or if she has laid the groundwork of a broader base of support in her party.</span></p><div style="color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px auto 32px;"><figure style="margin: 0px auto; width: 550px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" width="1456"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/66e9a913-6f82-40c4-ae97-35f65f7ff22e?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw3Zkkwca5N1-xHLj3Nvd2Ky" href="https://substack.com/redirect/66e9a913-6f82-40c4-ae97-35f65f7ff22e?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="border: none; color: #1155cc; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="366.7925824175824" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjzaY6mLEVAXXwRkUjc4MY20i9DTj7Dkyf5oB2Bmmn0rQCAQyhYH-3XtR0fgq1DbMzP1CXqR4khvtk-TCMMcst7OxqItveudXvdpDEO2x0NdfBXOonxB6J6OaAeMJvA7beamZGQUpvCTT4VCMoes958bvjTIcyAskA_xRCAq08WT3d00JWyUbBbipvKr6Civt4gnVNB3JKzSncWddBL-LWUM69MEWQTNq9_7MW5EpesX8u1wVF3nAeLtDTcNElYqRqdQqJVnoVdLOmuELp7FQJnxMtVEPJ7qG5pDQATf32NF-T3-CwjQrzJ8orUSk7m6_ZUhFDXNHFwyqCw9sVZVx7nMp5VzAcs7GMr-cdZUbjMJnckik6Htx4=s0-d-e1-ft,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbde0d166-2e43-4a9c-8e57-397e53ada634_6000x4000.jpeg" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="550" /></a></td><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><figcaption style="box-sizing: content-box; color: grey; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 82.5px; padding-right: 82.5px; text-align: center; width: 385px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">U.S. Capitol Police officers in gear, stand with the dome of the Capitol in the background as people gather at Union Square near the Capitol Reflecting Pool, facing the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building for the Justice for J6 Rally on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)</span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Catching up:</span></p><ul style="color: #222222; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Of course. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/5d61dc9d-06b2-41e1-8db2-957a5af6b7b6?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw1NrN-_y11m7huBSlQmszPG" href="https://substack.com/redirect/5d61dc9d-06b2-41e1-8db2-957a5af6b7b6?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Trump Moves to Quash Hopes of Ukraine, Border Deal</a></strong> <strong>- Bloomberg</strong></span></p></li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Sounds like a threat. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/9b3c318e-4086-4e7f-8945-20e4d850bde5?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw22ccwcCr1J2RH7c5y6CCkr" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9b3c318e-4086-4e7f-8945-20e4d850bde5?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Trump warns Supreme Court of ‘chaos and bedlam’ in ballot removal case</a></strong> <strong>- The Independent</strong></span></p></li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">So thirsty. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/8fc60f25-04b1-4d70-bfe1-f38975f1f0e7?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw2wZs9bChLtMADW2Qfi0Iv7" href="https://substack.com/redirect/8fc60f25-04b1-4d70-bfe1-f38975f1f0e7?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Trump eyes Rep. Elise Stefanik as a potential VP pick: 'She's a killer</a>' — NBC</span></strong></p></li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Death march continues. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/63849ffc-eace-4bb8-90db-804b4a94a919?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw01EVbyKSqZgu9_TLvwt0fN" href="https://substack.com/redirect/63849ffc-eace-4bb8-90db-804b4a94a919?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Shake-Up by a Desperate DeSantis Opens Wider Path for Haley in New Hampshire -</a></strong> <strong>The New York Times</strong></span></p></li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">Heartbreaking and enraging. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e59a1d30-e285-4433-9774-0cf45c5c553c?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw2DW_-UMTn7LJElEg4Qav4H" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e59a1d30-e285-4433-9774-0cf45c5c553c?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">DOJ report on Uvalde shooting calls police response a ‘significant failure’</a> - The Washington Post</span></strong></p></li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">Scandal watch: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/f35fb5ea-bac6-4bcb-acc6-68c80edab6cc?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw2eUBATFkJ2C8rBoQVNH2SI" href="https://substack.com/redirect/f35fb5ea-bac6-4bcb-acc6-68c80edab6cc?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Judge in Trump Georgia case orders hearing on Fani Willis misconduct claims </a>- Reuters</span></strong></p></li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 0px 32px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 4px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">Cue the chaos: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/4dad6a5e-94f0-4ef8-bcd9-c7afcab8e000?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw0535n7Tc-dT82zkADOZnju" href="https://substack.com/redirect/4dad6a5e-94f0-4ef8-bcd9-c7afcab8e000?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #d10000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Congress Averts Government Shutdown as Conservatives Steam Over Border, Spending</a> - WSJ/ Plus: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/c3aadbaa-c9af-4015-a398-2bce9fa762a5?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705812045052000&usg=AOvVaw0Lqgk0shYMCrhhwqe59aEh" href="https://substack.com/redirect/c3aadbaa-c9af-4015-a398-2bce9fa762a5?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #d10000; 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color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The White House will soon relist the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists,</span></strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> U.S. officials told the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdXMtaG91dGhpcy1yZWQtc2VhLWpha2Utc3VsbGl2YW4teWVtZW4tZmY1MDdkMDZhN2E0NGQ2ZjM2NDRmMTI4ZTc3NjZiM2Q_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd20e66c6__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIvny_zvA$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw2m-iFchJkZdk2Lx7bOjX_M" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdXMtaG91dGhpcy1yZWQtc2VhLWpha2Utc3VsbGl2YW4teWVtZW4tZmY1MDdkMDZhN2E0NGQ2ZjM2NDRmMTI4ZTc3NjZiM2Q_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd20e66c6__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIvny_zvA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Associated Press</span></a> on Tuesday. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Context: </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The militia (also known as “Ansarallah”) was <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhdGUuZ292L3Jldm9jYXRpb24tb2YtdGhlLXRlcnJvcmlzdC1kZXNpZ25hdGlvbnMtb2YtYW5zYXJhbGxhaC8_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B60f72869__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sKtuUpU1g$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw0K3YOv1x7A-kVS-4UtQebV" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhdGUuZ292L3Jldm9jYXRpb24tb2YtdGhlLXRlcnJvcmlzdC1kZXNpZ25hdGlvbnMtb2YtYW5zYXJhbGxhaC8_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B60f72869__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sKtuUpU1g$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">delisted</span></a> almost exactly three years ago as part of President Joe Biden’s campaign goal to de-escalate the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and free up humanitarian aid to millions of Yemenis in poverty. But almost three dozen Houthi missile attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea since mid-November have reversed many U.S. lawmakers and now the White House’s interest in working with the Houthis toward some sort of peace deal in Yemen. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">By the way: The U.S. military carried out another airstrike inside Yemen Tuesday, </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">destroying four Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles, Central Command officials announced afterward. “These missiles were prepared to launch from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and presented an imminent threat to both merchant and U.S. Navy ships in the region,” said CENTCOM in a short statement. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; 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width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Capitol Hill reactions:</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> The Houthis’ “actions clearly meet the definition of terrorism, and I strongly support designating them as a terrorist organization,” Sen. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9TZW5KYWNreVJvc2VuL3N0YXR1cy8xNzQ3NDEyMzAxOTk5NzE0NzE5Pz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba8d03426__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLLR1pYpQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw16o3Pf4eTTuK0hb6NWbx_z" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9TZW5KYWNreVJvc2VuL3N0YXR1cy8xNzQ3NDEyMzAxOTk5NzE0NzE5Pz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba8d03426__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLLR1pYpQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Jacky Rosen</span></a>, D-Nevada, said Tuesday after the AP report. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“From day one, the Biden Administration met Iranian aggression with accommodation and squandered the credibility of American deterrence,”</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> said Senate Minority Leader <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9MZWFkZXJNY0Nvbm5lbGwvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDczOTY1NjI2NzcwODA0OTI_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc1d56192__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLDuHOb6w$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw0TE_BopbEGYHbEMLcMpx1k" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9MZWFkZXJNY0Nvbm5lbGwvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDczOTY1NjI2NzcwODA0OTI_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc1d56192__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLDuHOb6w$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Mitch McConnell</span></a>, R-Kentucky. “It’s time for [President Biden] to explain how exactly he intends to compel Iran and its proxies to change their behavior,” he said. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“Removing [the Houthis] from the list of terror organizations was a deadly mistake</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> and another failed attempt to appease the Ayatollah,” Sen. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9TZW5Ub21Db3R0b24vc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc0MDQ3MTc2NzA0OTAyNjQ_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B45602d93__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIvYOzqYQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw0OUcXoz8xGSlId9JXfhckx" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9TZW5Ub21Db3R0b24vc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc0MDQ3MTc2NzA0OTAyNjQ_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B45602d93__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIvYOzqYQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Tom Cotton</span></a>, R-Arkansas, said. “Joe Biden’s weakness and poor judgement [sic] continues to put our security at risk,” he added. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“Now, the administration needs to take the next step and formally designate the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,”</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> said Sen. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9TZW5hdG9yRmlzY2hlci9zdGF0dXMvMTc0NzQyODE5MjYyNzk1ODE3Mj8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B258ee4d1__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLAAMkK1A$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw3O22rNbKP9a4UW7AxrYRqW" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9TZW5hdG9yRmlzY2hlci9zdGF0dXMvMTc0NzQyODE5MjYyNzk1ODE3Mj8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B258ee4d1__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLAAMkK1A$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Deb Fischer</span></a>, R-Nebraska.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">You may wonder: </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">What’s the difference between “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhdGUuZ292L3RlcnJvcmlzbS1kZXNpZ25hdGlvbnMtcHJlc3MtcmVsZWFzZXMvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B8096028a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJvM1epXA$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw31Sx01_9obmpklVo0F9IUd" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhdGUuZ292L3RlcnJvcmlzbS1kZXNpZ25hdGlvbnMtcHJlc3MtcmVsZWFzZXMvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B8096028a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJvM1epXA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">specially designated terrorists</span></a>” and a “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhdGUuZ292L2ZvcmVpZ24tdGVycm9yaXN0LW9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbnMvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd4a1699d__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJhq7PTiA$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw3AyfF2cVyt5VeoWWraYaGy" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhdGUuZ292L2ZvcmVpZ24tdGVycm9yaXN0LW9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbnMvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd4a1699d__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJhq7PTiA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">foreign terrorist organization</span></a>” label? The latter would include travel bans, immigration restrictions, and additional sanctions for anyone supporting the Houthis, which could be rather a lot of Yemeni citizens, AP points out. Read more, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdXMtaG91dGhpcy1yZWQtc2VhLWpha2Utc3VsbGl2YW4teWVtZW4tZmY1MDdkMDZhN2E0NGQ2ZjM2NDRmMTI4ZTc3NjZiM2Q_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Cd20e66c6__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJjSZkE9A$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961996000&usg=AOvVaw1N75cQJmoHlONuG6_qloOj" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdXMtaG91dGhpcy1yZWQtc2VhLWpha2Utc3VsbGl2YW4teWVtZW4tZmY1MDdkMDZhN2E0NGQ2ZjM2NDRmMTI4ZTc3NjZiM2Q_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Cd20e66c6__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJjSZkE9A$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">What are your concerns when it comes to the Houthis and the future of Yemen?</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> We’ll be tackling the topic in a future podcast episode, and would love to hear your thoughts <a href="mailto:bwatson@defenseone.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">via email</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 0in 0in 7.5pt; width: 590px;" width="100%"><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #767474;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Israel-Gaza<u></u><u></u></span></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">While Israel continues its brutal war on Hamas militants across Gaza,</span></strong><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke with several top officials from the Middle East Tuesday in Davos, including Qatari Prime Minister <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9zdGF0ZW1lbnRzLXJlbGVhc2VzLzIwMjQvMDEvMTYvcmVhZG91dC1vZi1uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS1hZHZpc29yLWpha2Utc3VsbGl2YW5zLW1lZXRpbmctd2l0aC1xYXRhcmktcHJpbWUtbWluaXN0ZXItbW9oYW1tZWQtYmluLWFiZHVscmFobWFuLWJpbi1qYXNzaW0tYWwtdGhhbmkvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B4f2f3c3b__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLfmzZrcg$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw3fqukZ94t2f29D1hGRAW6q" 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href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9zdGF0ZW1lbnRzLXJlbGVhc2VzLzIwMjQvMDEvMTYvcmVhZG91dC1vZi1uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS1hZHZpc29yLWpha2Utc3VsbGl2YW5zLW1lZXRpbmctd2l0aC10aGUtcHJpbWUtbWluaXN0ZXItb2YtaXJhcS1tb2hhbW1lZC1zaGlhLWFsLXN1ZGFuaS8_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6c2a46c0__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sK3v2zf8Q$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Mohammed Shia al-Sudani</span></a>, and the Prime Minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9zdGF0ZW1lbnRzLXJlbGVhc2VzLzIwMjQvMDEvMTYvcmVhZG91dC1vZi1uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS1hZHZpc29yLWpha2Utc3VsbGl2YW5zLW1lZXRpbmctd2l0aC10aGUtcHJpbWUtbWluaXN0ZXItb2YtaXJhcXMta3VyZGlzdGFuLXJlZ2lvbi1tYXNyb3VyLWJhcnphbmkvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B5e5d5ac7__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sKmyVdP3Q$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw2GV6CDgH3IxI6W3LPGVegG" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9zdGF0ZW1lbnRzLXJlbGVhc2VzLzIwMjQvMDEvMTYvcmVhZG91dC1vZi1uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS1hZHZpc29yLWpha2Utc3VsbGl2YW5zLW1lZXRpbmctd2l0aC10aGUtcHJpbWUtbWluaXN0ZXItb2YtaXJhcXMta3VyZGlzdGFuLXJlZ2lvbi1tYXNyb3VyLWJhcnphbmkvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B5e5d5ac7__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sKmyVdP3Q$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Masrour Barzani</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Sullivan discussed Israel’s Gaza war with Al Thani,</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> who <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGltZXNvZmlzcmFlbC5jb20vYWNjdXNpbmctaXNyYWVsLW9mLWNhcnBldC1ib21iaW5nLWdhemEtcWF0YXItcG0tY2FsbHMtZm9yLXRpbWUtYm91bmQtcGVhY2UtcHJvY2Vzcy8_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B5f9fcb93__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIgPuV4dQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw1Ainn_jYnbPvkJF0jG5YP3" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGltZXNvZmlzcmFlbC5jb20vYWNjdXNpbmctaXNyYWVsLW9mLWNhcnBldC1ib21iaW5nLWdhemEtcWF0YXItcG0tY2FsbHMtZm9yLXRpbWUtYm91bmQtcGVhY2UtcHJvY2Vzcy8_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B5f9fcb93__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIgPuV4dQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">told</span></a> the Davos crowd Tuesday, “Gaza is not there anymore. I mean, there is nothing over there.” He also said Israel is being run by “extremists” who are blocking a two-state solution for peaceful co-existence with Palestinians. “We cannot leave this just at the hand of the Israelis,” he said. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Qatar’s PM also said he thinks Houthi attacks on the Red Sea will stop if the Gaza war stops.</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> “We need to address the central issue, which is Gaza in order to get everything else defused...if we are just focusing on the symptoms and not treating the real issues, (solutions) will be temporary,” Al Thani <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbWlkZGxlLWVhc3QvZW5kLWdhemEtd2FyLXN0b3AtaG91dGhpLWF0dGFja3MtcWF0YXJpLXBtLWRhdm9zLTIwMjQtMDEtMTYvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B449c2498__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sL0fywhzA$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw29ZTgVr-WUgoehlpgBHo8E" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbWlkZGxlLWVhc3QvZW5kLWdhemEtd2FyLXN0b3AtaG91dGhpLWF0dGFja3MtcWF0YXJpLXBtLWRhdm9zLTIwMjQtMDEtMTYvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B449c2498__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sL0fywhzA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a> at Davos on Tuesday.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The White House’s Sullivan discussed Iran’s ballistic missile strikes inside Iraq on Monday with the two Iraqi leaders.</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> Sullivan also stressed the need to stop attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria in his conversation with PM al-Sudani; and he encouraged Kurdistan’s Barzani to export more oil. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">After striking inside Iraq and Syria, Iran launched more cross-border strikes inside Pakistan on Tuesday. </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Iran attacked two bases of the militant group Jaish al Adl with drone and missile salvos that killed two children, Pakistani officials said. The group has previously attacked Iranian forces near the two countries’ border, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvYXNpYS1wYWNpZmljL3Bha2lzdGFuLXJlY2FsbHMtYW1iYXNzYWRvci1pcmFuLWFmdGVyLWFpcnNwYWNlLXZpb2xhdGlvbi0yMDI0LTAxLTE3Lz8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bf456563e__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sKCMHf1VA$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw3RAYwRzcLhO5y2GjGIk3Ht" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvYXNpYS1wYWNpZmljL3Bha2lzdGFuLXJlY2FsbHMtYW1iYXNzYWRvci1pcmFuLWFmdGVyLWFpcnNwYWNlLXZpb2xhdGlvbi0yMDI0LTAxLTE3Lz8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bf456563e__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sKCMHf1VA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Reuters</span></a> reports. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaXJhbi1pcmFxLW1pbGl0YW50LWJhc2VzLWF0dGFjay0wNWM3NTMwZDY2ZmIwNWRkNmYyODY4NTI3MDAzYmEyZD8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6b59094e__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIT7NvOoA$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw1DUvDaAfQt4NDLtSQ9sDvN" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaXJhbi1pcmFxLW1pbGl0YW50LWJhc2VzLWF0dGFjay0wNWM3NTMwZDY2ZmIwNWRkNmYyODY4NTI3MDAzYmEyZD8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6b59094e__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIT7NvOoA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">AP</span></a> called Iran’s eastward attacks “unprecedented.” Officials in Islamabad described them as a “completely unacceptable” breach of Pakistan’s sovereignty, and formally withdrew their ambassador to Iran hours later. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Developing: Italy is urging the European Union to fast track approval of its own Red Sea maritime task force</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> so it can be up and running by next week, which seems like an ambitious timeline, Reuters reported Wednesday from Rome. (Previous plans wouldn’t have established the unit until February 19.) More, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvZXVyb3BlL2l0YWx5LXB1c2hlcy1xdWljay1kZWNpc2lvbi1ldS1tYXJpdGltZS1yZWQtc2VhLWZvcmNlLTIwMjQtMDEtMTcvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B54a29439__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sL--JpkKg$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw2CQ8X_Wh14xGgsSKAV2XhM" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvZXVyb3BlL2l0YWx5LXB1c2hlcy1xdWljay1kZWNpc2lvbi1ldS1tYXJpdGltZS1yZWQtc2VhLWZvcmNlLTIwMjQtMDEtMTcvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B54a29439__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sL--JpkKg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Related reading: </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaXNyYWVsLWhhbWFzLXdhci1ndW5zLXdlYXBvbnMtbWlzc2lsZXMtc211Z2dsaW5nLWFkYWU5ZGFlNGM0ODA1OWQyYTNjOGU1ZDU2NWRhYTMwPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B9bb31601__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLhT_Kw1A$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw06rXD3Jk_yZmCKuOpfXfIX" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaXNyYWVsLWhhbWFzLXdhci1ndW5zLXdlYXBvbnMtbWlzc2lsZXMtc211Z2dsaW5nLWFkYWU5ZGFlNGM0ODA1OWQyYTNjOGU1ZDU2NWRhYTMwPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B9bb31601__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sLhT_Kw1A$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea</span></a>,” AP reported Monday; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy9zZW5hdGUtcmVqZWN0cy1iZXJuaWUtc2FuZGVycy1iaWQtcHJvYmUtaXNyYWVsLWdhemEtaHVtYW4tcmlnaHRzLWNvbmNlcm5zLz8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B92e2db50__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJkWZV__A$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw095C_tmjlbHKuDAl-JWOas" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy9zZW5hdGUtcmVqZWN0cy1iZXJuaWUtc2FuZGVycy1iaWQtcHJvYmUtaXNyYWVsLWdhemEtaHVtYW4tcmlnaHRzLWNvbmNlcm5zLz8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B92e2db50__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJkWZV__A$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Senate rejects Bernie Sanders' bid to probe Israel over Gaza human rights concerns</span></a>,” CBS News reported Tuesday evening; 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color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 0in 0in 7.5pt; width: 590px;" width="100%"><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><span class="m_4119388270498216722tinymce-placeholder"><span style="color: #767474;">Ukraine</span></span><span style="color: #767474;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Biden’s aid meeting.</span></strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> The president will host Congressional leaders at the White House this afternoon to push his <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9zdGF0ZW1lbnRzLXJlbGVhc2VzLzIwMjMvMTIvMDYvc3RhdGVtZW50LWZyb20tbmF0aW9uYWwtc2VjdXJpdHktYWR2aXNvci1qYWtlLXN1bGxpdmFuLW9uLXByZXNpZGVudC1iaWRlbnMtbmF0aW9uYWwtc2VjdXJpdHktc3VwcGxlbWVudGFsLXJlcXVlc3QvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZiM6fjp0ZXh0PVRoZSUyMFByZXNpZGVudCdzJTIwc3VwcGxlbWVudGFsJTIwcmVxdWVzdCUyMGlzLGZlbnRhbnlsJTIwaW50byUyMHRoZSUyMFVuaXRlZCUyMFN0YXRlcy4/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bec095679__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJIsDdIfg$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw3drAakSThXFBmfIgMkQHVn" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hpdGVob3VzZS5nb3YvYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS9zdGF0ZW1lbnRzLXJlbGVhc2VzLzIwMjMvMTIvMDYvc3RhdGVtZW50LWZyb20tbmF0aW9uYWwtc2VjdXJpdHktYWR2aXNvci1qYWtlLXN1bGxpdmFuLW9uLXByZXNpZGVudC1iaWRlbnMtbmF0aW9uYWwtc2VjdXJpdHktc3VwcGxlbWVudGFsLXJlcXVlc3QvPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZiM6fjp0ZXh0PVRoZSUyMFByZXNpZGVudCdzJTIwc3VwcGxlbWVudGFsJTIwcmVxdWVzdCUyMGlzLGZlbnRhbnlsJTIwaW50byUyMHRoZSUyMFVuaXRlZCUyMFN0YXRlcy4/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bec095679__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sJIsDdIfg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">national security supplemental request</span></a>, which includes aid for Ukraine and Israel, among other things, administration officials announced.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Senate Republicans are pressing House Speaker Johnson</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> to take a Democrat-proffered deal that would take steps to reduce migrant flows into the southern United States in return for approving the supplemental, <em>Politico</em> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cDovL3Q_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B14bbe735__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sItkIDRmQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw0QGrLVmZNurVudnYl12Pov" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cDovL3Q_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B14bbe735__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sItkIDRmQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">reported</span></a> Tuesday.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Calling Germany: </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">POTUS also discussed the Ukraine and Gaza wars with his German counterpart, Olaf Scholz, on Tuesday. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">An unusual view of the Ukraine war.</span></b></em><strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">AP’s John Leicester flew on a French Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, aircraft keeping watch. “With a powerful radar that rotates six times every minute on the fuselage and a bellyful of surveillance gear, the plane can spot missile launches, airborne bombing runs and other military activity in the conflict. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdWtyYWluZS1ydXNzaWEtc3VydmVpbGxhbmNlLWRlZmVuc2Utd2FyLTY1YjkzZDQ1ZjY3MjA0YzlkYjdhMDczMzBlNzIyMDk3Pz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bb2209eeb__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIld0Yofw$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw3y9B2hDURuHiwbMNCEc9kb" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdWtyYWluZS1ydXNzaWEtc3VydmVpbGxhbmNlLWRlZmVuc2Utd2FyLTY1YjkzZDQ1ZjY3MjA0YzlkYjdhMDczMzBlNzIyMDk3Pz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bb2209eeb__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIld0Yofw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Read on.</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Russia’s sat gap. </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The belligerent in the Ukraine war has very few satellites, and they’re pretty old. <em>Defence Industry Europe </em>has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9kZWZlbmNlLWluZHVzdHJ5LmV1L3NwYWNlLWxlc3NvbnMtbGVhcm5lZC1mcm9tLXRoZS13YXItaW4tdWtyYWluZS8_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6fa4f6ec__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIPvUR-MQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705815961997000&usg=AOvVaw3b4bwVMVNukg9KRChLlfKY" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34029085.51580/aHR0cHM6Ly9kZWZlbmNlLWluZHVzdHJ5LmV1L3NwYWNlLWxlc3NvbnMtbGVhcm5lZC1mcm9tLXRoZS13YXItaW4tdWtyYWluZS8_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6fa4f6ec__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!j2NUqz92gZj3Eo-G5Es0N1E8tWtiWSaEys7N66FYZdiB_mGycTNvWwTQ60VxQKgWLMhodW7VIUN4rf7J2sIPvUR-MQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">this roundup</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; 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The following day, he called his Ukrainian counterpart, Rustem Umerov, in Kyiv. Austin will host the Pentagon’s latest virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group on Tuesday. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">ICYMI: The Daily Beast obtained audio of a phone call</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> that seems to have triggered an ambulance driving the SecDef to Walter Reed in early January. Names were redacted from the recording, but the timing lines up pretty well, Shannon Vavra of TDB writes after submitting a Freedom of Information Act request. 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font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Resistance Roundup</a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_FBavnVUu3vbCrJNdJvteiidxypJ3nMUAERTcOghlIO8L7K6k5MFeE06Ab2Gk4vq6YfYM20vPCfvp-HlEwqETY_YoiOzauDCdaowbkWI8r9YTlapzSzTce7klAIyxKXDCWtf1GoPGQqpyeS12ci6F_Mary-xYSoF3yqKrXRRi5LFA%3D%26c%3D1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg%3D%3D%26ch%3DfzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705812044553000&usg=AOvVaw1eT2Y1LrnjY06jGoxf_Uqi" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_FBavnVUu3vbCrJNdJvteiidxypJ3nMUAERTcOghlIO8L7K6k5MFeE06Ab2Gk4vq6YfYM20vPCfvp-HlEwqETY_YoiOzauDCdaowbkWI8r9YTlapzSzTce7klAIyxKXDCWtf1GoPGQqpyeS12ci6F_Mary-xYSoF3yqKrXRRi5LFA=&c=1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg==&ch=fzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ==" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> – Day 105</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_2148366104290619384content-padding-horizontal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 235.5px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#c4c4c4" height="1" style="background-color: #c4c4c4; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhlX_3FpJUql1Vsky1q4nQ0VJ5WiSX_nXw_F5X-od9qukxZu3dBqV-lxP3tzmJk5r3vkiYupNfaKMV8mSY0n3ZiKpo1qwhzKzq1mKjizeBDlRXOji-gTwXORR34aPB0pn02ImjKHC1LES_1CLTrm7Lq3X1mqFaOYefaV5bn-WcrEK2i_jRn=s0-d-e1-ft" style="display: block; 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font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Crimes against Humanity – </a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_F6WI792Fa35-ih3HW-9_nwY-E2Zkg5lFlqWeNxBOG_yE9qWE7mtGpZQ79lPxMkNUtidqZDTDP8XeoeCZLrLSH3hGOrWERRNygLwomI0VloRVh8XOKDoIIm2GtLuLF752G3lB8OcPTiu3Gkh5SAHZMDX8eR55MBX6fvwtePxYKGINJoX9myV9DwKq7hu2rRSjkZCSSN3o4zA0HNE-dUr7dMw%3D%3D%26c%3D1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg%3D%3D%26ch%3DfzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705812044554000&usg=AOvVaw3xEnsqKPZWSsqWE71vuS3U" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_F6WI792Fa35-ih3HW-9_nwY-E2Zkg5lFlqWeNxBOG_yE9qWE7mtGpZQ79lPxMkNUtidqZDTDP8XeoeCZLrLSH3hGOrWERRNygLwomI0VloRVh8XOKDoIIm2GtLuLF752G3lB8OcPTiu3Gkh5SAHZMDX8eR55MBX6fvwtePxYKGINJoX9myV9DwKq7hu2rRSjkZCSSN3o4zA0HNE-dUr7dMw==&c=1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg==&ch=fzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ==" style="color: #e94c3a; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Israeli President Hit with Criminal Complaint </a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_F6WI792Fa35-ih3HW-9_nwY-E2Zkg5lFlqWeNxBOG_yE9qWE7mtGpZQ79lPxMkNUtidqZDTDP8XeoeCZLrLSH3hGOrWERRNygLwomI0VloRVh8XOKDoIIm2GtLuLF752G3lB8OcPTiu3Gkh5SAHZMDX8eR55MBX6fvwtePxYKGINJoX9myV9DwKq7hu2rRSjkZCSSN3o4zA0HNE-dUr7dMw%3D%3D%26c%3D1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg%3D%3D%26ch%3DfzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705812044554000&usg=AOvVaw3xEnsqKPZWSsqWE71vuS3U" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JlMJ1opLNq_THseiSvO6Dea4JLLDcQcHvke62OqvA5ffRXl-Pn3Ct6rh1PGMns_F6WI792Fa35-ih3HW-9_nwY-E2Zkg5lFlqWeNxBOG_yE9qWE7mtGpZQ79lPxMkNUtidqZDTDP8XeoeCZLrLSH3hGOrWERRNygLwomI0VloRVh8XOKDoIIm2GtLuLF752G3lB8OcPTiu3Gkh5SAHZMDX8eR55MBX6fvwtePxYKGINJoX9myV9DwKq7hu2rRSjkZCSSN3o4zA0HNE-dUr7dMw==&c=1VQ0A5Vtz3K0-3FLpETn15TPg0arpUFrDr1GnfQ9y6qHvpMC_6_rzg==&ch=fzYP5N5vosaHHuZzMQ2l3Gd3m7ywB0D3U_35op5nwik3fXul_WmBCQ==" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">in Switzerland</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span><br /></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Pakistan’s military </span></strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9QYWtBcm15QVIvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc3OTgzNDMxMDE5MzU3MjM_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd4c3ead0__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUlWT6kXw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047680000&usg=AOvVaw1fa6wK7boeHHwWA5IxgzQ1" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9QYWtBcm15QVIvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc3OTgzNDMxMDE5MzU3MjM_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bd4c3ead0__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUlWT6kXw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0068a5;">says</span></strong></a><strong> it attacked separatists inside Iran with missiles and drones on Thursday, </strong>less than two days after Iran attacked insurgents inside Pakistan with its own missiles and drones, allegedly killing at least two people, including children, earlier this week. Iranian state-run media said Thursday that Pakistan’s attacks killed at least nine people, including four children.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Iran’s Tuesday strikes targeted </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvQmFsb2NoX3Blb3BsZT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bdcfb27e5__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyV1H4JmNw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047680000&usg=AOvVaw0et8_qkE-y_2u8HK4Yzgo6" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvQmFsb2NoX3Blb3BsZT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bdcfb27e5__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyV1H4JmNw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><em><b><span style="color: #0068a5;">Baloch</span></b></em></a><em><b> militants from the group Jaish al-Adl, </b></em>which is Sunni Muslim group based in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province as well as the western Pakistani province of Balochistan. The militants advocate on behalf of greater rights and recognition for ethnic minority Baluchis, according to a U.S. intelligence <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZG5pLmdvdi9uY3RjL2Z0b3MvamFhX2Z0by5odG1sP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc72ced83__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWpK5VsQw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047680000&usg=AOvVaw1Sar4arUXqTYUMlGMUVtx4" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZG5pLmdvdi9uY3RjL2Z0b3MvamFhX2Z0by5odG1sP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc72ced83__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWpK5VsQw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">assessment</span></a>. But the group has attacked and ambushed Iranian security forces several times over the last few decades, including with suicide bombers, which led to the U.S. designating Jaish al-Adl as a foreign terrorist organization back in 2010. Iran, which is a predominantly Shia Muslim nation, executed the group’s leader the same year, but the organization still endures. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Pakistan, too, attacked what it said were different Baloch militants on Thursday </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">based at a village in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province. “Hideouts used by terrorist organisations namely Balochistan Liberation Army and Balochistan Liberation Front were successfully struck in an intelligence based operation [with the] code name 'Marg Bar Sarmachar',” Pakistan’s military said in a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9pc3ByLmdvdi5way9wcmVzcy1yZWxlYXNlLWRldGFpbD9pZD02NzI4Jm9yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfe217731__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyX07nd8nQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047680000&usg=AOvVaw3V7LUtCl916d9T2tSibK2X" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9pc3ByLmdvdi5way9wcmVzcy1yZWxlYXNlLWRldGFpbD9pZD02NzI4Jm9yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfe217731__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyX07nd8nQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">statement</span></a> following the operation early Thursday. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“The precision strikes were carried out using killer drones, rockets, loitering munitions and stand-off weapons,”</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> Pakistani defense officials said. Pakistan’s army was considerably saltier in its post-strike <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9QYWtBcm15QVIvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc3OTgzNDMxMDE5MzU3MjM_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Cd4c3ead0__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXSXv39nQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047680000&usg=AOvVaw0d6btGmn1nU8c2oFBYp-hu" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9QYWtBcm15QVIvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc3OTgzNDMxMDE5MzU3MjM_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Cd4c3ead0__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXSXv39nQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">statement</span></a>, warning, “We note and warn that whoever extends his finger towards us will return to it only amputated, and whoever thinks of attacking us will return reprehensible and defeated.” </span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span><br /></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-radius: 0px; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3pt;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(168, 170, 171); margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span><br /></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Pakistan’s foreign ministry blamed Iran for inaction leading up to the Thursday strikes.</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> “Pakistan also shared multiple dossiers with concrete evidence of the presence and activities of these terrorists,” Islamabad said in a separate <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9tb2ZhLmdvdi5way9wcmVzcy1yZWxlYXNlcy9vcGVyYXRpb24tbWFyZy1iYXItc2FybWFjaGFyP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B0c8647a3__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUodKoO-g$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047680000&usg=AOvVaw1oDzwjTcDXxBFz9Y41KEjm" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9tb2ZhLmdvdi5way9wcmVzcy1yZWxlYXNlcy9vcGVyYXRpb24tbWFyZy1iYXItc2FybWFjaGFyP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B0c8647a3__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUodKoO-g$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">statement</span></a> Thursday. “However, because of lack of action on our serious concerns, these so-called Sarmachars continued to spill the blood of innocent Pakistanis with impunity,” the officials said, and emphasized they had received “credible intelligence of impending large scale terrorist activities,” which compelled Pakistan to attack. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">However, “Iran is a brotherly country and the people of Pakistan have great respect and affection for the Iranian people,”</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> said Islamabad’s diplomatic office, adding, “We have always emphasized dialogue and cooperation in confronting common challenges including the menace of terrorism.” The military echoed that message in its statement, which concluded, “Going forward, dialogue and cooperation is deemed prudent in resolving bilateral issues between the two neighbouring brotherly countries.”<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Tehran condemned the Thursday attacks, and summoned Pakistan’s ambassador for an explanation,</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> according to a particularly short <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi5tZmEuaXIvcG9ydGFsL25ld3N2aWV3LzczODUxNj9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bf5f4cf69__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVzKBLT9Q$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw0CB-pVykBCAlUrPBSytf8k" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi5tZmEuaXIvcG9ydGFsL25ld3N2aWV3LzczODUxNj9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bf5f4cf69__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVzKBLT9Q$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">statement</span></a> Thursday from Iran’s foreign ministry. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Sidenote on Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian:</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> He <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZ3VhcmRpYW4uY29tL2J1c2luZXNzL2xpdmUvMjAyNC9qYW4vMTcvZGF2b3MtZGF5LXR3by1yYWNoZWwtcmVldmVzLWNlb3MtYmxpbmtlbi1ndXRlcnJlcy1tYWNyb24tbWlsZWktdWtyYWluZS1pcmFuLWJ1c2luZXNzLWxpdmU_cGFnZT13aXRoOmJsb2NrLTY1YTdjZjMwOGYwODEwODY0OTk4OTFjOSZmaWx0ZXJLZXlFdmVudHM9ZmFsc2Umb3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25sI2xpdmVibG9nLW5hdmlnYXRpb24/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B4183927f__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWMjiFmFA$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw3P4cK7Fmo4ZCNAdvhvvzb5" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZ3VhcmRpYW4uY29tL2J1c2luZXNzL2xpdmUvMjAyNC9qYW4vMTcvZGF2b3MtZGF5LXR3by1yYWNoZWwtcmVldmVzLWNlb3MtYmxpbmtlbi1ndXRlcnJlcy1tYWNyb24tbWlsZWktdWtyYWluZS1pcmFuLWJ1c2luZXNzLWxpdmU_cGFnZT13aXRoOmJsb2NrLTY1YTdjZjMwOGYwODEwODY0OTk4OTFjOSZmaWx0ZXJLZXlFdmVudHM9ZmFsc2Umb3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25sI2xpdmVibG9nLW5hdmlnYXRpb24/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B4183927f__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWMjiFmFA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">claimed</span></a> Wednesday in Davos that Iran has never supplied Russia with drones or missiles. Washington-based think tanker <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9Kb25hdGhhbkxvcmREQy9zdGF0dXMvMTc0NzY0MTEzMjA3MzIzODc0Nj9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B03f9df5e__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWksn9N1A$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw19nCn8NWNKjaaxWruzrBt8" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9Kb25hdGhhbkxvcmREQy9zdGF0dXMvMTc0NzY0MTEzMjA3MzIzODc0Nj9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B03f9df5e__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWksn9N1A$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Jonathan Lord</span></a> responded shortly afterward that the diplomat’s allegation is “Just an outright lie. I’ve held in my hands the remnants of [Iranian-made] Shahed drones that were taken off the field in Ukraine. The evidence of Iran’s lethal support to Russia’s illegal war is irrefutable,” he added, and linked to a recent public assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency, which you can find (PDF) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL0VxTTFqNEVaMkw_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bba7f8116__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUEwpGObw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw0PEsHnZrxi32nwg7LAMg6s" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL0VxTTFqNEVaMkw_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bba7f8116__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUEwpGObw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></span></li></ul><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Pakistan’s former military chief Khwaja Asif said he considered the Thursday strikes enough</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> to both save face for Islamabad’s leaders, and to stop further escalation. “A measured response has been given and it was important,” he told Geo TV, according to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvcGFraXN0YW4taGFzLWNvbmR1Y3RlZC1zdHJpa2VzLWluc2lkZS1pcmFuLWFmcC1yZXBvcnQtMjAyNC0wMS0xOC8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B4ddc7749__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWIhqOI1w$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw0dTILrKIig986l4_5syjJy" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvcGFraXN0YW4taGFzLWNvbmR1Y3RlZC1zdHJpa2VzLWluc2lkZS1pcmFuLWFmcC1yZXBvcnQtMjAyNC0wMS0xOC8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B4ddc7749__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWIhqOI1w$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Reuters</span></a>. Next, he said, “There should be ongoing efforts on the side [so] that this doesn't escalate.”<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">An optimistic forecast:</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> “My guess is [Iran] eases off, Pakistan refrains from another strike, and both sides jaw a bit more, but decide to let things be even-steven,” said U.S. Naval Academy historian <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS93aHNpZWgvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc4MTA3NTA1NzAxMTUyNzQ_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba7558b13__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXA-K109A$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw19GA5526GEZyCvPruS41NQ" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS93aHNpZWgvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc4MTA3NTA1NzAxMTUyNzQ_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba7558b13__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXA-K109A$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">W. W. S. Hsieh</span></a>. “Remember [back in November 2015] when the Turks shot down a Russian Su-24? Usually cooler heads prevail after everyone's made their point,” he added. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">A sobering review: “In the past week alone, the Middle East has seen an insane scale of cross-border conflict,”</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9DaGFybGVzX0xpc3Rlci9zdGF0dXMvMTc0NzgwNjg1NDU4NTkzNDEyMT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B1702d032__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVtzrsjdw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw2jTJjL6awGj3S3KxOS-lZH" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9DaGFybGVzX0xpc3Rlci9zdGF0dXMvMTc0NzgwNjg1NDU4NTkzNDEyMT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B1702d032__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVtzrsjdw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Charles Lister</span></a> of the Washington-based Middle East Institute wrote on social media, and highlighted:<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Pakistan-Iran attacks noted above; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaXJhcS1zeXJpYS1pcmFuLWlzcmFlbC1zdHJpa2UtZXJiaWwtY29uc3VsYXRlLTMxZTIzODEzMjEzZDMwNjliYzM5Yjk0ZTZlNDIyNDM0P29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B8f521324__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyU1t_AoTQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw2CRmKci-MOL_FIh9E3o96j" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaXJhcS1zeXJpYS1pcmFuLWlzcmFlbC1zdHJpa2UtZXJiaWwtY29uc3VsYXRlLTMxZTIzODEzMjEzZDMwNjliYzM5Yjk0ZTZlNDIyNDM0P29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B8f521324__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyU1t_AoTQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Iran's other strikes</span></a> inside Syria and Iraq; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGltZXNvZmlzcmFlbC5jb20vZWxkZXJseS13b21hbi1hbmQtaGVyLXNvbi1raWxsZWQtYXQtaG9tZS1pbi1oZXpib2xsYWgtYW50aS10YW5rLW1pc3NpbGUtYXR0YWNrLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bad2115ad__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXHbPzQvA$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw0TvINgcSp_gJer3gyCzeO_" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGltZXNvZmlzcmFlbC5jb20vZWxkZXJseS13b21hbi1hbmQtaGVyLXNvbi1raWxsZWQtYXQtaG9tZS1pbi1oZXpib2xsYWgtYW50aS10YW5rLW1pc3NpbGUtYXR0YWNrLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bad2115ad__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXHbPzQvA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Hezbollah's attacks</span></a> inside Israel; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmJjLmNvbS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLW1pZGRsZS1lYXN0LTY3OTkyNjAwP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B04828696__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyV9ksUmjg$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw074JvRJsk_rsYtiQb532dw" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmJjLmNvbS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLW1pZGRsZS1lYXN0LTY3OTkyNjAwP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B04828696__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyV9ksUmjg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Houthi missile attacks</span></a> on ships in the Red Sea (full list <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9TY2hpem9pbnRlbC9zdGF0dXMvMTc0Nzg3MTk5MjY5NzU2OTYzOD9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba00bb545__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVcOc3DWQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw00OgLkNXdZckpTw8gLgElK" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9TY2hpem9pbnRlbC9zdGF0dXMvMTc0Nzg3MTk5MjY5NzU2OTYzOD9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba00bb545__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVcOc3DWQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>);<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">British and American retaliatory air and naval strikes on Houthi targets inside Yemen (more on that in a moment); <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbWlkZGxlLWVhc3QvdHVya2V5LWxhdW5jaGVzLWFpcnN0cmlrZXMtYWdhaW5zdC1taWxpdGFudHMtaXJhcS1zeXJpYS0yMDI0LTAxLTE2Lz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bbfe18ba8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUlDQzvJw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw1CryQEkVvEiDETtLSrTuTK" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvbWlkZGxlLWVhc3QvdHVya2V5LWxhdW5jaGVzLWFpcnN0cmlrZXMtYWdhaW5zdC1taWxpdGFudHMtaXJhcS1zeXJpYS0yMDI0LTAxLTE2Lz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bbfe18ba8__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUlDQzvJw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Turkey's strikes</span></a> inside Syria and Iraq; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">New, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9hYmNuZXdzLmdvLmNvbS9JbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsL3dpcmVTdG9yeS9haXJzdHJpa2Utc291dGhlcm4tc3lyaWEtY2FycmllZC1qb3JkYW5zLWFpci1mb3JjZS1raWxscy0xMDY0NzM0OTg_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bdc25f135__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyX_m2Vzzg$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw0124JlPFQ9HbDl9grPcFVp" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9hYmNuZXdzLmdvLmNvbS9JbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsL3dpcmVTdG9yeS9haXJzdHJpa2Utc291dGhlcm4tc3lyaWEtY2FycmllZC1qb3JkYW5zLWFpci1mb3JjZS1raWxscy0xMDY0NzM0OTg_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bdc25f135__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyX_m2Vzzg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">suspected Jordanian strikes</span></a> inside Syria in the early morning hours on Thursday; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And the Iran-backed militia the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaXJhbmludGwuY29tL2VuLzIwMjMxMjIyOTU4MD9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B3ea32a28__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyV2BBKSyA$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw3gY9twpUUeuRCUmrUikVjI" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaXJhbmludGwuY29tL2VuLzIwMjMxMjIyOTU4MD9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B3ea32a28__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyV2BBKSyA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">targeted</span></a> Israel last Friday.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li></ul><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">A second opinion:</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> “These days,” said scholar <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9ybXNsaW0vP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfdb21c57__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWwQJVUGw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw0gTiQSWnzAMksXe07M34fr" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9ybXNsaW0vP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfdb21c57__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWwQJVUGw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Randa Slim</span></a>, “the Middle East is too crazy, too unpredictable, too dangerous even for someone like me who lived during a bloody civil war and an Israeli invasion of Beirut.”<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Has the U.S. “overlearned” lessons from the recent past in the Middle East?</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> Perhaps, argued Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations. He advocated in late December for U.S. strikes against Houthi capabilities, writing in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9mb3JlaWducG9saWN5LmNvbS8yMDIzLzEyLzI5L2hvdXRoaXMteWVtZW4tcmVkLXNlYS1iaWRlbi11bml0ZWQtc3RhdGVzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPXByZXNzaW52aXRlJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPVByZXNzJTIwSW52aXRlJnV0bV90ZXJtPVRocmVhZF8wLTllODA3N2ZjLTk5YjQtZWUxMS1hOWE1LTAwNTA1Njg3YTYwZi02Mzg0MTA5Mjk1Mzk4NDM1MTAmb3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B5b1bbe0b__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVQLdeZwQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw2lxZDcXgif1KH9B_mBNeHS" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9mb3JlaWducG9saWN5LmNvbS8yMDIzLzEyLzI5L2hvdXRoaXMteWVtZW4tcmVkLXNlYS1iaWRlbi11bml0ZWQtc3RhdGVzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPXByZXNzaW52aXRlJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPVByZXNzJTIwSW52aXRlJnV0bV90ZXJtPVRocmVhZF8wLTllODA3N2ZjLTk5YjQtZWUxMS1hOWE1LTAwNTA1Njg3YTYwZi02Mzg0MTA5Mjk1Mzk4NDM1MTAmb3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B5b1bbe0b__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVQLdeZwQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0068a5;">Foreign Policy</span></em></a> (emphasis added), “Critics will no doubt argue that this prescription risks ensnaring the United States in yet another open-ended conflict in the Middle East. Fair point, though <em>the search for a risk-free policy is as close to a unicorn as one can get in foreign policy</em>. Besides, disrupting or destroying the Houthis’ ability to disrupt shipping is hardly akin to the overambitious policies of the past aimed at regime change and remaking of societies. Rather, it’s a move to protect a vital national interest.” Read on, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9mb3JlaWducG9saWN5LmNvbS8yMDIzLzEyLzI5L2hvdXRoaXMteWVtZW4tcmVkLXNlYS1iaWRlbi11bml0ZWQtc3RhdGVzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPXByZXNzaW52aXRlJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPVByZXNzJTIwSW52aXRlJnV0bV90ZXJtPVRocmVhZF8wLTllODA3N2ZjLTk5YjQtZWUxMS1hOWE1LTAwNTA1Njg3YTYwZi02Mzg0MTA5Mjk1Mzk4NDM1MTAmb3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7C5b1bbe0b__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXsHvab-w$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw1cDD1iv_kL2eQ1KenTyxCc" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly9mb3JlaWducG9saWN5LmNvbS8yMDIzLzEyLzI5L2hvdXRoaXMteWVtZW4tcmVkLXNlYS1iaWRlbi11bml0ZWQtc3RhdGVzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPXByZXNzaW52aXRlJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPVByZXNzJTIwSW52aXRlJnV0bV90ZXJtPVRocmVhZF8wLTllODA3N2ZjLTk5YjQtZWUxMS1hOWE1LTAwNTA1Njg3YTYwZi02Mzg0MTA5Mjk1Mzk4NDM1MTAmb3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7C5b1bbe0b__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXsHvab-w$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">New: The U.S. military struck suspected Houthi missile sites again overnight,</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> targeting “14 Iran-backed Houthi missiles that were loaded to be fired in Houthi controlled areas in Yemen,” according to defense officials at Central Command. That operation is the fourth of its kind since Friday—though the last three have been considerably smaller in scope than the initial barrage with the Brits late last week. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Another preemptive self-defense strike: </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">“These missiles on launch rails presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region and could have been fired at any time, prompting U.S. forces to exercise their inherent right and obligation to defend themselves,” CENTCOM said, echoing a similar justification for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY0NjEwOS91cy1jb25kdWN0cy1zdHJpa2VzLWluLXllbWVuLWFzLWhvdXRoaS1hdHRhY2tzLWFnYWluc3QtaW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1zaGlwcGluZy1jLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B85050f6a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyV8Haq_ZA$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw1hCV2ZZirKjOILpeORSv7D" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGNvbS5taWwvTUVESUEvUFJFU1MtUkVMRUFTRVMvUHJlc3MtUmVsZWFzZS1WaWV3L0FydGljbGUvMzY0NjEwOS91cy1jb25kdWN0cy1zdHJpa2VzLWluLXllbWVuLWFzLWhvdXRoaS1hdHRhY2tzLWFnYWluc3QtaW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1zaGlwcGluZy1jLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B85050f6a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyV8Haq_ZA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">different</span></a> preemptive strikes inside Yemen on Tuesday. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Also new: The Houthis attacked another commercial ship late Wednesday,</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"> striking the U.S.-owned bulk carrier <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyaW5ldHJhZmZpYy5jb20vZW4vYWlzL2RldGFpbHMvc2hpcHMvc2hpcGlkOjcxMjIxMi9tbXNpOjUzODAwMjg0MS9pbW86OTMwMTcyMC92ZXNzZWw6R0VOQ09fUElDQVJEWT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B88f0ab96__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyW_N7ndmA$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw3KIZi9ThQS_JNhcUn6lqhB" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyaW5ldHJhZmZpYy5jb20vZW4vYWlzL2RldGFpbHMvc2hpcHMvc2hpcGlkOjcxMjIxMi9tbXNpOjUzODAwMjg0MS9pbW86OTMwMTcyMC92ZXNzZWw6R0VOQ09fUElDQVJEWT9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B88f0ab96__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyW_N7ndmA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Genco Picardy</span></a> with a kamikaze drone as the ship transited the Gulf of Aden. “There were no injuries and some damage reported,” but the ship was deemed “seaworthy” and continued on its way, according to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9DRU5UQ09NL3N0YXR1cy8xNzQ3NzQ5MDc4Njg1ODcyMjE2P29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B91f2bb99__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWjHwc3Kw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw18UA1N_QXoce8l-FEJetQf" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9DRU5UQ09NL3N0YXR1cy8xNzQ3NzQ5MDc4Njg1ODcyMjE2P29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B91f2bb99__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWjHwc3Kw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">CENTCOM</span></a>. (You can see a few post-strike images <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9BTkkvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc4ODI1ODQzMzQ1NTMxMTA_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B4fbd24b5__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXdRrUgjg$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw0xQoA8V4fM8xfnCWDR0Gv2" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9BTkkvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDc4ODI1ODQzMzQ1NTMxMTA_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B4fbd24b5__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXdRrUgjg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>.)<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">However, the Indian navy </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9pbmRpYW5uYXZ5L3N0YXR1cy8xNzQ3ODgyMzEzNTMzNDkzNzMwP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6ba09b7a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWlSmn0Cg$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw3usM-jmwCuIle7KRA3iZKK" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9pbmRpYW5uYXZ5L3N0YXR1cy8xNzQ3ODgyMzEzNTMzNDkzNzMwP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6ba09b7a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyWlSmn0Cg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><em><b><span style="color: #0068a5;">says</span></b></em></a><em><b> it rescued the 22-person crew of the Picardy,</b></em> which included nine Indian nationals, according to Reuters. Read more about the effects of routing vessels away from the Red Sea and around southern Africa, which is “boosting demand for bunker fuel used by ships at far-flung ports,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvaW5kaWFuLW5hdnktcmVzY3Vlcy1jcmV3LWFmdGVyLWF0dGFjay1zaGlwLW9mZi1jb2FzdC15ZW1lbi0yMDI0LTAxLTE4Lz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bf83bcefa__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXHWNpHlw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw0pH4nZkUlxQC7EMFtIYuI9" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvaW5kaWFuLW5hdnktcmVzY3Vlcy1jcmV3LWFmdGVyLWF0dGFjay1zaGlwLW9mZi1jb2FzdC15ZW1lbi0yMDI0LTAxLTE4Lz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bf83bcefa__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXHWNpHlw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Related reading: </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGltZXNvZmlzcmFlbC5jb20vbGl2ZWJsb2dfZW50cnkvaWRmLWNoaWVmLXNheXMtbGlrZWxpaG9vZC1vZi13YXItaW4tbGViYW5vbi1pbi1jb21pbmctbW9udGhzLWlzLWhpZ2hlci10aGFuLWJlZm9yZS8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc0a64932__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyX_AIMHiw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw2iVOJcs7NIndrmFnKai2gS" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGltZXNvZmlzcmFlbC5jb20vbGl2ZWJsb2dfZW50cnkvaWRmLWNoaWVmLXNheXMtbGlrZWxpaG9vZC1vZi13YXItaW4tbGViYW5vbi1pbi1jb21pbmctbW9udGhzLWlzLWhpZ2hlci10aGFuLWJlZm9yZS8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc0a64932__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyX_AIMHiw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">[Israeli military] chief says likelihood of war in Lebanon in coming months is ‘higher than before’</span></a>,” the <em>Times of Israel </em>reported Wednesday; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25uLmNvbS8yMDI0LzAxLzE3L21pZGRsZWVhc3QvaXJhbi1saW5rcy1hdHRhY2tzLXRvLWlzcmFlbHMtd2FyLWluLWdhemEtaW50bC9pbmRleC5odG1sP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba913f72a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXmaYlFOw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw3-T9rk3SM3pFggb685maeL" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25uLmNvbS8yMDI0LzAxLzE3L21pZGRsZWVhc3QvaXJhbi1saW5rcy1hdHRhY2tzLXRvLWlzcmFlbHMtd2FyLWluLWdhemEtaW50bC9pbmRleC5odG1sP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Ba913f72a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyXmaYlFOw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Iran says attacks by its allies won’t stop until Israel’s war in Gaza ends</span></a>,” CNN reported Wednesday; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZ3VhcmRpYW4uY29tL3dvcmxkLzIwMjQvamFuLzE4L3VzLXN1cHBseS13ZWFwb25zLWlzcmFlbC1hbGxlZ2VkLWFidXNlcy1odW1hbi1yaWdodHM_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B52e1c0cb__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUS35gfog$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw267En_6J_HqyowBLaSB2xs" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZ3VhcmRpYW4uY29tL3dvcmxkLzIwMjQvamFuLzE4L3VzLXN1cHBseS13ZWFwb25zLWlzcmFlbC1hbGxlZ2VkLWFidXNlcy1odW1hbi1yaWdodHM_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B52e1c0cb__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyUS35gfog$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses</span></a>,” the <em>Guardian </em>reported Thursday; <u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90aW1lLmNvbS82NTU5MjkzL21vcm5pbmctY29uc3VsdC1pc3JhZWwtZ2xvYmFsLW9waW5pb24vP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfea103bd__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVqWw4R9A$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw208BrNGmpk3yK68Dc-5QcA" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly90aW1lLmNvbS82NTU5MjkzL21vcm5pbmctY29uc3VsdC1pc3JhZWwtZ2xvYmFsLW9waW5pb24vP29yZWY9ZF9icmllZl9ubA/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bfea103bd__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyVqWw4R9A$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">New Polling Shows How Much Global Support Israel Has Lost</span></a>,” <em>Time</em> reported Wednesday.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span><br /></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt 0in; width: 600px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 0in 0in 7.5pt; width: 590px;" width="100%"><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #767474;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Pentagon<u></u><u></u></span></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">B-21 flight testing confirmed underway. </span></strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The B-21 Raider bomber took its second officially confirmed flight on Wednesday from Edwards Air Force Base, California. D1’s Audrey Decker has a bit more, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vZGVmZW5zZS1zeXN0ZW1zLzIwMjQvMDEvYWlyLWZvcmNlLWNvbmZpcm1zLWItMjEtZmxpZ2h0LXRlc3RpbmctdW5kZXJ3YXktZWR3YXJkcy1hZmIvMzkzNDIwLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B13d7230c__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyW5ziSGEQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw18mWZV1n3tm7dg-E903d9M" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vZGVmZW5zZS1zeXN0ZW1zLzIwMjQvMDEvYWlyLWZvcmNlLWNvbmZpcm1zLWItMjEtZmxpZ2h0LXRlc3RpbmctdW5kZXJ3YXktZWR3YXJkcy1hZmIvMzkzNDIwLz9vcmVmPWRfYnJpZWZfbmw/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B13d7230c__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyW5ziSGEQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">here</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">And lastly: Some secret military programs are getting a little less secret. </span></strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">It’s a rare thing for the Pentagon to allow some of its most secret programs to be classified at a lower level, but that’s what’s going to happen in the wake of a memo from DepSecDef Kathleen Hicks. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The classified memo, </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">which was signed at the end of 2023, “completely rewrites” internal guidance that was decades old, John Plumb, the Pentagon’s top space policy official, told reporters Wednesday.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">The new guidance covers all levels of secrecy</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">, including unclassified, and acknowledges “vast changes in publicly available information on space and space programs since the last classification guidance,” a DOD spokesperson told <em>Defense One</em> via email. Lauren William has more,<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vZGVmZW5zZS1zeXN0ZW1zLzIwMjQvMDEvc29tZS1zZWNyZXQtbWlsaXRhcnktcHJvZ3JhbXMtYXJlLWdldHRpbmctbGl0dGxlLWxlc3Mtc2VjcmV0LzM5MzQxNy8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B1bf8ed72__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyW8PLevAw$&source=gmail&ust=1705812047681000&usg=AOvVaw063AfaxWqKTG3ezK9UpCAC" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/34041634.36851/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vZGVmZW5zZS1zeXN0ZW1zLzIwMjQvMDEvc29tZS1zZWNyZXQtbWlsaXRhcnktcHJvZ3JhbXMtYXJlLWdldHRpbmctbGl0dGxlLWxlc3Mtc2VjcmV0LzM5MzQxNy8_b3JlZj1kX2JyaWVmX25s/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B1bf8ed72__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!m3rkQdXDMyIxmE6sh_-w_GhElnMD6MthVjtXsgvvm_FI-ZmPZt67aFl68eFx45mVnYebm9cU6SEqVr2joyW8PLevAw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;"> here</span></a>.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: Combo;"></span></span></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; width: 650px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="margin: 0px auto 16px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; width: 590px;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh3ZcWujdLQ1b_Ujv7uKfw9Fj2FM8XXqiYJFnZ0AbUcLdHVy7Qxf-u6MASN7Dra9KGJlJFNsEJMpAL8kXUTzy0gOKs2Rd2hoH15QtEY9rsePZMqgvL2DOHk-bQAcIyWb5ifme9To29sPCNKb63GfVygS1b6yxSl0JKeJrDX6eodjY3WMg0t0i0b96VhO7I9r8KmPAVAc37q7FTKnBWo-83vimZyUoYnq4AjJhxE2NBsLJkruxPI7-fs1ls-r79Muxk-sYy4oK20obMUGIFcZkUJyKmYhW-AvC9kmlrMU9JBGzsOQPjuFS8jsil06INmqiilROVJIVmnXHCt_lGkxdi9mMhIiIpyIKGwSXk=s0-d-e1-ft,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/39f2a765-2827-415a-962b-a17ba9515c03/Screenshot_2024-01-17_at_11.47.41.png?t=1705492074" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; outline: none; width: 590px;" tabindex="0" width="590" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 0px;"><div style="height: 1px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjYiEEb0mwkr5LGsSHoPW5E1TXJDhvZ5Ehce2IcjuK2i97M5E-VyjzO_eO0DOu2wot5wEn8oEwDBfaq1IuEXhkBmHV65UHqQDRi8AfjgGwvC9r-M-PyptVFzXQf8GqgWROteXC7YIbNmDghHltzBCCLMApMZZtO074HV-_TxHn7hrwNNVICeBUM1sZls1gON4ztL8b7hIAgJcZU4Q=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px !important; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 1px;" width="1" /></span></div></td></tr><tr id="m_112368315001089180content-blocks"><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 30px;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><span style="border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(86, 195, 236); line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;">In the headlines</span></em></span></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b>Rishi Sunak faced the largest rebellion of his premiership last night</b>,<b> </b>as 60 Tory MPs voted for amendments seeking to toughen up his Rwanda bill. Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resigned as deputy party chairmen to do so. This evening’s vote, on the legislation as a whole, is expected to go more smoothly.<b> Iran has launched airstrikes and drone attacks in Pakistani territory</b>,<b> </b>apparently aimed at militants seeking independence for the cross-border Balochistan region. Pakistan says two children were killed in the strikes and that Tehran will face “serious consequences”. <b>Temperatures fell to -14C in parts of Scotland last night, and tonight they could hit -15C</b>. The cold snap has led to school closures as far south as Liverpool.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="margin: 0px auto;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; width: 590px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj3qGYX9Tes6MeClVImbJRlj7m1t_QTfiSdMpuGHZTWcyVKxORZkaweUDOqe-u_6eTlvZX_AQ7tPHCpe2pVGohgBBZjZkEJF2Dmmsx0YfySbACGx7KqIMKuF8CbapZ0gtiOTzE8AFenXlKm4tY3yKjMTIcrsP2Dyr2gBHCQhyVM5OtTPZG-7gJDbZR8EUdJ7eiBbGUpmKa-aszIGlynjYsP2xp-ry5mAbQnVIN_9qmBEvc-JDz11R69tIe6qOVFx8Q1Tuj8OlJR5qlWzVUXmCNUXZ-wQdviEOl60G8aTHksxXrAzHstbL4qrJkyVEfaNAJyqJCMaD-Rrp_4tc2nz73b=s0-d-e1-ft,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/0b1c3991-cf98-469a-84ca-24cdcf4b9f2c/ezgif.com-optimize-174.gif?t=1705492204" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; outline: none; width: 590px;" tabindex="0" width="590" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_112368315001089180j" role="none" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(145, 145, 145); width: 91%%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 30px;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 15px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><span style="border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(86, 195, 236); line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;">Comment</span></em></span></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="margin: 0px auto;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; width: 590px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgY5KzOAomPMLnHfqV2APADWYIvFpM_-SmS8BamYt5PssIeCNyutClZyC3GOwCpOTUu-2llZQZqlAEniqa4TjI48ku8jThuMUZpA8XgXzBDnIAa_-EbspjxdYIHYK7woHU_4le2_JB9d7xUOIMDX9kOysE9UpQlYoHYCDLelahMZaPlJJJmD3gQIcgGREvBq1nl7PtU08NyFpo1_7w5quu_Eg41osxtZDmnSMpy-MT016sayK6chgsoBpyJYFOgJsvQb_9pYYlZgOgdvplEY0l6GEGVwC97TXPlm7r9CjqOq3NW4M4nF54HTmQ386SzBFBTKpH3hC7jtQ=s0-d-e1-ft,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/8d23d44c-ba0c-4939-9bde-f395621b1ac4/Taiwanelection.jpg?t=1705489613" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; outline: none; width: 590px;" tabindex="0" width="590" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_112368315001089180t" style="margin: 0px; width: 590px;" valign="top"><p style="font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Taiwan’s president-elect William Lai. Annabelle Chih/Getty</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" id="m_112368315001089180why-xi-may-hesitate-over-taiwan" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px;" valign="top"><h1 style="color: #222222; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Why Xi may hesitate over Taiwan</span></h1></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">William Lai’s win in Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday was a “victory for democracy”, says <b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/sN1TQcgvg68L25qyVtltZvQWwgJGx2pmr9cvSM3DqlG6i3hxeqf8zyTI2GMaLK8P7kDtledeh1m21HRqqkn-gLe-oOCAx_PYtRptBmE599Fi_isZZNNinDw1keNKeteMFctF7c6lSme1JiuXI_223EVuzSOXkgIG-o_vnkVaHImOkRGaA9pgGIBz_VNLNsBSebTsKIY79DDmnE7GNNv4UuyZUO2qJGbx5T6SMP9J0QoURlgG-iLe47BGyfUmZjOXZOwqWKkHgz4sHQh7kBE2ww/432/NQcAbkQhRCutEZZTfFNnfA/h1/EDHDtBrGuRBlS8jjYoUifkc6u4JcdjRG58DgU7B96gM&source=gmail&ust=1705899402575000&usg=AOvVaw3jwLD-U5gU6IVGGWpCDMnC" href="https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/sN1TQcgvg68L25qyVtltZvQWwgJGx2pmr9cvSM3DqlG6i3hxeqf8zyTI2GMaLK8P7kDtledeh1m21HRqqkn-gLe-oOCAx_PYtRptBmE599Fi_isZZNNinDw1keNKeteMFctF7c6lSme1JiuXI_223EVuzSOXkgIG-o_vnkVaHImOkRGaA9pgGIBz_VNLNsBSebTsKIY79DDmnE7GNNv4UuyZUO2qJGbx5T6SMP9J0QoURlgG-iLe47BGyfUmZjOXZOwqWKkHgz4sHQh7kBE2ww/432/NQcAbkQhRCutEZZTfFNnfA/h1/EDHDtBrGuRBlS8jjYoUifkc6u4JcdjRG58DgU7B96gM" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a></b>. Lai, the current vice president, was the candidate “most disliked by Beijing”. The Chinese did everything they could to scare the Taiwanese into voting for the main opposition party, the more pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) – even sending spy balloons over the island ahead of the ballot to “intimidate” locals. But these efforts backfired, increasing support for candidates who projected “the strongest sense of Taiwanese identity”. While Lai won’t have a “blank check” – his ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost its legislative majority – his success is welcome proof that the Taiwanese people still believe in “democratic self-government”.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The big question is whether Lai’s win makes a Chinese invasion of Taiwan more likely, says <b>Gideon Rachman</b> in the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/sN1TQcgvg68L25qyVtltZivaL7ZGDpom2ch2NFTv61VothRjqV-JncXRMhOjraZl5RZSCXYddpZQd4NOEbo_BUFt_HYwcwmIUH_xFdeTv4fgYDmF1lZ_mGR2M26yCW-Y_e7D4ED3RzB31kXV9-hsxC7xTxTl-IdcKa7MjM5jwuy5FZTMV_yB0Syub5qCCIrq8nwppLILMO8DWkdqr8sbCm_0wdUN1N-UxhRfSDygfl4/432/NQcAbkQhRCutEZZTfFNnfA/h2/9iDEsN-IXXNj35d2gKr7Z8ETvI54AzwePJ5EMci2zjc&source=gmail&ust=1705899402575000&usg=AOvVaw0QNMshPRqnBfdLVnvY4hk5" href="https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/sN1TQcgvg68L25qyVtltZivaL7ZGDpom2ch2NFTv61VothRjqV-JncXRMhOjraZl5RZSCXYddpZQd4NOEbo_BUFt_HYwcwmIUH_xFdeTv4fgYDmF1lZ_mGR2M26yCW-Y_e7D4ED3RzB31kXV9-hsxC7xTxTl-IdcKa7MjM5jwuy5FZTMV_yB0Syub5qCCIrq8nwppLILMO8DWkdqr8sbCm_0wdUN1N-UxhRfSDygfl4/432/NQcAbkQhRCutEZZTfFNnfA/h2/9iDEsN-IXXNj35d2gKr7Z8ETvI54AzwePJ5EMci2zjc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"><b>FT</b></a>. It may make Xi worry that he is running out of time to fulfil his long-held dream of reunifying Taiwan with the mainland. After eight years of DPP rule, this was meant to be the election where the pendulum swung to the KMT. But the “catastrophic costs” Russia has paid for its invasion of Ukraine will “surely give Xi pause”. Chinese officials argue that their own forces wouldn’t struggle in the same way because they are much larger and more formidable than those of Russia. But an amphibious invasion is much harder than a land incursion. And Putin’s troops were “battle-hardened” from operations in Syria, Georgia and Chechnya. “China has not gone to war since 1979.” For all his bluster, Xi may conclude that an invasion is simply “too risky”.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="transparent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_112368315001089180j" role="none" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(145, 145, 145); width: 91%%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="15px" style="height: 15px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#222222" style="background-color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 30px;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 15px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><span style="border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(86, 195, 236); color: white; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;">Nature</span></em></span></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#222222" style="background-color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 10px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="margin: 0px auto;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; width: 570px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiQmd9w2LxB3-n0pj8Crr6DlIquSXo0ZBKfedUUMNQRUIdqg0fbm1Mg38HCcggiliFFy6N-2g6QI9eiVcKgmfv6AzsJifTBm4QX8eiC_RrVkULiNXdG-ooC75yz2Wdz8aAbDYMKIpxv0XUOCQMlcX3VnDgzxOw40jHK-GSMwUQSRiZ8mPUw1_6saTDr5rNr5GcIcyqkiD07gJdEE50_wRT2Ey9Pg87SeujGthl4qb-f4-fC8GM2ODTGbTIZvZsZaoxGarQwSy1ebRlaNyW6EJb777Hvnq2VpLNnwAWK_V7TAoyGEHS6S2maclcupixksnUK1AOm0vHbqyOFZKQhc4B_=s0-d-e1-ft,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/17581c13-add0-4845-9f5a-c516d6bbbb3a/ezgif.com-optimize-171.gif?t=1705489825" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; outline: none; width: 570px;" tabindex="0" width="570" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px;" valign="top"><h6 style="color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">These “exquisite images”, says New Scientist, are of starlings swirling and swooping as one in “dramatic, cloud-like flocks known as murmurations”. They were taken by Søren Solkær, a Danish photographer best known for photographing musicians like Paul McCartney and Björk. 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The former PM reportedly put his offer in for the 13ft prop – which comes with the lantern, railings and boot-scrapers – “as soon as the lot went live”. 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Sean Gallup/Getty</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" id="m_112368315001089180trump-is-already-shaping-the-future" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px;" valign="top"><h1 style="color: #222222; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Trump is already shaping the future</span></h1></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">World leaders are waking up to the fact that, a year from now, “Donald Trump could actually be returning to the White House”, says <b>Graham Allison</b> in <b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/sN1TQcgvg68L25qyVtltZk2c8kV3oIfSHrURR4tJO_JhOrH3kwAx5nw9RiO2mzTc_5FmfehfpgPPDXD5YTVOGW0udbywE-X98P5kRsOG20KX118lXboywExMEDbDSlNGf0bESy4kHlB87se-5AHlvN-Ulj_gM5pgxIpl55sytsDXA-OSApj8dvdsNqs6QniUS1autZ5ugEAlxaPWFtLsxkUu6tMs3d5uQjs00bYYaLv81jDnHvk25fQE3gSt-dIl/432/NQcAbkQhRCutEZZTfFNnfA/h5/5cN3fasCcSn1n1SOaClH0Qtdt1umCCpqEzdBrZgMwUI&source=gmail&ust=1705899402575000&usg=AOvVaw1VDuLH0TpyRdocFACNTSAv" href="https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/sN1TQcgvg68L25qyVtltZk2c8kV3oIfSHrURR4tJO_JhOrH3kwAx5nw9RiO2mzTc_5FmfehfpgPPDXD5YTVOGW0udbywE-X98P5kRsOG20KX118lXboywExMEDbDSlNGf0bESy4kHlB87se-5AHlvN-Ulj_gM5pgxIpl55sytsDXA-OSApj8dvdsNqs6QniUS1autZ5ugEAlxaPWFtLsxkUu6tMs3d5uQjs00bYYaLv81jDnHvk25fQE3gSt-dIl/432/NQcAbkQhRCutEZZTfFNnfA/h5/5cN3fasCcSn1n1SOaClH0Qtdt1umCCpqEzdBrZgMwUI" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Foreign Affairs</a></b>. Some are starting to delay negotiating with the US in the hope that better deals will soon be available. Others are beginning to search for a “Trump hedge”, to minimise the ways in which his return will leave them worse off. Take the Ukraine war – if Vladimir Putin can drag the conflict out for another year, he may have a much friendlier Washington to deal with. Kyiv and Europe have the opposite problem. Germany, in particular, remembers Angela Merkel’s conclusion after her bruising encounters with the then US president: “We must fight for our future on our own.”</span></p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump’s possible return also had a strange effect on the mood at the recent COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Proceedings stretched “even further into fantasy” than they normally do – including an agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” – in part because delegates know that if Trump returns, his promise to “drill, baby, drill” will render such pledges redundant. And the Biden administration is increasingly “handicapped” in negotiations with everyone from China’s Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, as foreign leaders weigh the likelihood that they will be dealing with a “very different government” a year from now. Like it or not, the next US president will also be the world’s “most consequential leader”.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="transparent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_112368315001089180j" role="none" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(145, 145, 145); width: 91%%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 30px;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 15px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><span style="border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(86, 195, 236); line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;">Gone viral</span></em></span></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="margin: 0px auto;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; width: 590px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg51bxerL3yzkC51LE9KTGP7Qf2RW_8L-Jm06bXRRYpdG1ZHC8YW7uE3D1pFcOT8qbJ8DTB_Ijk8ydtIhbigRia2dKRCCloL4KXcfOAY29VGxu3e5Mqz2IDvtyknnlt4681f7sPjvv9zs_dI9cD0CGpGtLnwCxNEVKV4Pm7jThJRYnyEDwY3BlEy-QTdR1CgITBrdQ2sYjq9n1l0r3UtnCEX86BAnBx6k6ig5fMuS00g0hVpTi7h6t8xpzP_iv1hVhEU1cxYlqrFGco-x3kWy5VBy2Ij4fEw4YgVcKdyWs8rIuYL4tkMb9rYVPTLY8BziIDVZr95ysNNPSnC-B-lY8CqAUb0ycxcGXtR2kFSx8RI_1S6fFGx1Sd1PZi3g=s0-d-e1-ft,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/5fe8d369-004b-4698-9b86-7dc6fc23b9eb/ScreenRecording2024-01-17at10.43.28-ezgif.com-crop.gif?t=1705490394" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; outline: none; width: 590px;" tabindex="0" width="590" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="5px" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="transparent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">If you’re a Wordle fan, says Digg, you’ll enjoy Typeshift, a word game created by the online puzzle platform Puzzmo. To play, you move columns of letters up and down until they create a word horizontally. This turns the letters in that word black – the aim is to do the same for every letter on the grid. 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The UK’s conversion to North Sea gas in the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the decommissioning of the RAF’s Lightning fleet, so engineers “snapped up” their Rolls-Royce Avon engines and repurposed them to pump gas.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="transparent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_112368315001089180j" role="none" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(145, 145, 145); width: 91%%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 30px;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 15px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><span style="border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(86, 195, 236); line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;">Snapshot</span></em></span></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="margin: 0px auto;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; width: 590px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEipiRsbXZ3DiFRtxD59FGskeKFP8w6muzb6akMnXdKlBLY9qXgV7OwFpLAEOkOGyfABnV0Z4t2sUm1EZDprOV1qahssi5Ufiqs6T-ZOEi0kH-d-M3m_Hbbm7MMcW4bvf61Wj6EmMVCnEZzxUSRbqwnMVfAMJ4EtktyqzjH5eQw675ES0YGjKfuxN5YgLzh1nMEm9vkk0BcwMbqbc4TVK8R5KC2ologTXjlVkw-cSItpkjC3KfRLeyUW-mIruLFay_ZrrM85mpHHf-iB4sTNqhU_oXaEjWA-vbNTzHVarwwdYwDVgIIrai1kl6FZLLq1pNQh537icc0u3qE=s0-d-e1-ft,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/26e5ff1e-e2ee-4811-b893-25c71988c6a6/Yemeni_snapshot.gif?t=1705490471" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; outline: none; width: 590px;" tabindex="0" width="590" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="5px" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="transparent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_112368315001089180j" role="none" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(145, 145, 145); width: 91%%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 30px;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 15px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><span style="border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(86, 195, 236); line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><em><span style="font-family: Combo;">Snapshot answer</span></em></span></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #2d2d2d; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It’s “Tim-Houthi Chalamet”, a young Yemeni man who bears a striking resemblance to the Hollywood star Timothée Chalamet. The wavy-haired Rashid Al Haddad recently posted TikToks of himself approaching, and then on the deck of, a cargo ship seized by the Houthis in November. He may not actually be a militant – the boat has become a tourist attraction since its hijacking – but that hasn’t stopped social media users from lusting after him. As one said: “He can board my ship any time.”</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="transparent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_112368315001089180j" role="none" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(145, 145, 145); width: 91%%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="10px" style="height: 10px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="none" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="line-height: 1px; 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DeSantis had tried to present himself as the alternative to Trump, but he put so little daylight between himself and the former president that he could never get traction.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">DeSantis appeared to use his power as the governor of Florida to push measures he thought would boost his candidacy, many of which followed the pattern of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, who has used his government to destroy democracy and assume autocratic powers. DeSantis pushed anti-LGBTQ+ laws, book bans, and the idea that businesses like Disney must answer to the moral positions of the government rather than market forces, and he flew migrants who were in the U.S. legally to Martha’s Vineyard in an apparent attempt to stand out as an anti-immigrant crusader. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">But DeSantis never broke free of Trump’s orbit.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The <em>Miami Herald</em> editorial board noted that while DeSantis’s presidential bid had ended, “the damage of the laws he has pushed through in Florida, as he landed more appearances on Fox News, will live on. Without his political ambitions, there likely wouldn’t be ‘Don’t say gay,’ woke wars and the waste of state resources to fight meaningless battles against drag queen bars. These were efforts to appeal to Trump’s base but his supporters refused to leave the former president, especially after he was indicted.” </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The New Hampshire primary is tomorrow, with former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley squaring off against Trump. It is not at all clear what daylight exists between the two of them, either, although Haley is perceived as the representative of the pre-Trump corporate Republican Party. Still, the contest is revealing the future in at least one way: today, New Hampshire voters are reporting that they have received robocalls with a deepfake of President Joe Biden’s voice telling them not to vote. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Republican party officials worry that while Trump is taking up tons of oxygen, the party itself has nothing to run on. Since taking control of the House in 2023, Republicans have very little to show for it except a lot of infighting. The last congressional session was “historically unproductive,” as Sahil Kapur of NBC News put it today. House Republicans’ investigations of President Joe Biden, hyped before the media, have fizzled, and now, after insisting that they would not pass funding for Ukraine, Israel, or Taiwan until the “crisis” at the border was addressed, they have backed off and now say they will not pass border legislation. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Meanwhile, radicals appear to be manufacturing a crisis on the border. On January 11, Michael Scherer and Dylan Wells of the <em>Washington Post</em> reported that political ads had used the word “border” 1,319 times since the start of the year, more than any other word including “approve” and “message,” standard disclaimer terms for political ads.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">On Wednesday, January 17, state authorities began to arrest migrants at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, as part of Governor Greg Abbott’s attempt to take control of immigration away from the federal government. When the government told Texas to stop blocking federal officials from the stretch of the Rio Grande where three migrants died last week, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s office responded: “Texas will not surrender.” </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Today the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the federal government is authorized to remove the razor wire Texas has installed across the U.S.-Mexico border, although considering the federal government’s authority over border security is very well established, the fact that the vote was 5–4 is surprising. Far-right lawmakers were outraged nonetheless. Representative Chip Roy of Texas urged his House colleagues to defund the Department of Homeland Security, and Louisiana representative Clay Higgins said on social media that the federal government was “staging a civil war” and that “Texas should stand their ground.” </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Meanwhile, on Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted Mexican Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena to follow up on migration discussions the two countries had in meetings on December 27, 2023, in Mexico. In September 2023, Mexico eclipsed China as the largest trading partner of the U.S., and in the December meeting, Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, U.S. ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar, and National Security Council Coordinator for the Los Angeles Declaration Katie Tobin discussed cooperation to manage the border safely and humanely while also combating the drug smuggling and conditions that have been driving migration. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">On January 8, Julia Ainsley of NBC News explained that the Biden administration has been pressuring Mexico to increase enforcement on its own southern border with Guatemala, deport more migrants from within Mexico, and take in more non-Mexican migrants back across the U.S. southern border. In exchange, Ainsley says, Mexico’s president—who is on the defensive at home because of corruption charges—has proposed that the U.S. invest more money in Latin America and Caribbean countries, suspend its blockade of Cuba, ease sanctions against Venezuela, and make it easier for migrants to work legally in the U.S.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">On Friday, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. said that the coordinated efforts were having a positive effect on migration as officials have cracked down on smuggling networks, trains, and bus routes. “Migration is a hemispheric challenge,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said. “The United States is committed to work hand in hand with Mexico and countries across the region to address the root causes of migration and advance economic opportunities in the spirit of Los Angeles Declaration for Migration and Protection,” a landmark 2022 agreement in which the heads of twenty of the countries in the Americas agreed to embrace a regional approach to managing migration. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Today, on the anniversary of the 1973 <em>Roe v. Wade</em> decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has made protecting reproductive rights key to her portfolio, and President Joe Biden noted that thanks to the “extreme decision” of today’s Supreme Court to overturn that decision has left tens of millions of American women “in states with extreme and dangerous abortion bans.” </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">“Because of Republican elected officials,” Biden said in a statement, “women’s health and lives are at risk…. Even as Americans…have resoundingly rejected attempts to limit reproductive freedom, Republican elected officials continue to push for a national ban and devastating new restrictions across the country.” He and Vice President Harris “are fighting to protect women’s reproductive freedom against Republicans officials’ dangerous, extreme, and out-of-touch agenda,” he said. “We stand with the vast majority of Americans who support a woman’s right to choose, and continue to call on Congress to restore the protections of <em>Roe</em> in federal law once and for all.”</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This is a position embraced by 69% of Americans, and the Biden campaign has run videos with Trump bragging that he overturned <em>Roe v. Wade</em> and suggesting that women who obtain abortions should be punished. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Recently, the campaign released an ad in which a Texas woman who is herself an OBGYN talks about being unable to obtain an abortion for a planned pregnancy after a routine ultrasound revealed that the fetus could not survive. “Because of Donald Trump overturning <em>Roe v. Wade</em>,” she says, Texas “completely” took her choice away and put her life in danger. “It’s every woman’s worst nightmare and it was absolutely unbearable. We need leaders that will protect our rights and not take them away,” she says.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Finally, today, a historical moment: the Dow Jones Industrial Average, an average of the value of 30 leading companies, passed 38,000 for the first time.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">—</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Notes:</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/5c367968-fc36-4d73-aeb4-7915a5acb42c?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1706077330046000&usg=AOvVaw1ScWD1A9Uh61fBDf7ZxQ8_" href="https://substack.com/redirect/5c367968-fc36-4d73-aeb4-7915a5acb42c?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/<wbr></wbr>politics/2024-election/fake-<wbr></wbr>joe-biden-robocall-tells-new-<wbr></wbr>hampshire-democrats-not-vote-<wbr></wbr>tuesday-rcna134984</a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/8dc7d87b-71dd-4069-944b-dac3192a4c49?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1706077330046000&usg=AOvVaw3sSexdTb8X4HrN-ljxDJ1J" href="https://substack.com/redirect/8dc7d87b-71dd-4069-944b-dac3192a4c49?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/<wbr></wbr>briefing-room/statements-<wbr></wbr>releases/2024/01/22/statement-<wbr></wbr>from-president-joe-biden-on-<wbr></wbr>the-51st-anniversary-of-roe-v-<wbr></wbr>wade/</a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/23537b8a-6353-4c89-832b-ef77718886c9?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1706077330046000&usg=AOvVaw1-cv192ft0IV_CX4SanGX3" href="https://substack.com/redirect/23537b8a-6353-4c89-832b-ef77718886c9?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/<wbr></wbr>politics/2024-election/s-<wbr></wbr>embarrassing-republicans-<wbr></wbr>worry-no-achievements-run-<wbr></wbr>2024-rcna131902</a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/46c775f5-03ba-4258-b6a1-25458dbb45c3?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1706077330046000&usg=AOvVaw341gEc4A-3Rv_4112CJSZf" href="https://substack.com/redirect/46c775f5-03ba-4258-b6a1-25458dbb45c3?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/<wbr></wbr>briefing-room/statements-<wbr></wbr>releases/2023/12/28/mexico-u-<wbr></wbr>s-joint-communique-mexico-and-<wbr></wbr>the-united-states-reaffirm-<wbr></wbr>their-shared-commitments-on-<wbr></wbr>an-orderly-humane-and-regular-<wbr></wbr>migration/</a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/c5d4fca4-de4c-4a1d-b6f2-496a93ccf88f?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1706077330046000&usg=AOvVaw0qzag7zqE--kpktWtheKsw" href="https://substack.com/redirect/c5d4fca4-de4c-4a1d-b6f2-496a93ccf88f?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://en.wikisource.org/<wbr></wbr>wiki/Los_Angeles_Declaration_<wbr></wbr>on_Migration_and_Protection</a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e3de64e6-43e4-4e57-91e1-f572cfc83672?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1706077330046000&usg=AOvVaw3cBXsqHuzndn7mdNMqz_cl" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e3de64e6-43e4-4e57-91e1-f572cfc83672?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://www.state.gov/<wbr></wbr>discussions-with-mexican-<wbr></wbr>officials-on-migration-at-the-<wbr></wbr>department-of-state/</a></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/f59b9377-e4fb-452d-854a-a93c0e602267?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1706077330046000&usg=AOvVaw3bhP-4qgVr0d5wE_GOEbG4" href="https://substack.com/redirect/f59b9377-e4fb-452d-854a-a93c0e602267?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="color: #404040;" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/<wbr></wbr>graphics/2023-mexico-china-us-<wbr></wbr>trade-opportunity/</a></p><p style="color: #404040; 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President Biden celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. King today by volunteering at a Food Pantry as the war in Gaza and Ukraine raged on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We present a snapshot of the week courtesy of the Crooked Media team, Coop Sccop, Heather Cox Richardson, Aljazeera; The Institute for Policy Studies, and the Financial Times of London. </span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="m_9085922195475086016templateBody" style="background: none 50% 50% / cover no-repeat rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_9085922195475086016templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 600px; 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Real pot calling the kettle black situation over here, Tim. You’re all terrible!</strong></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_9085922195475086016mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_9085922195475086016mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_9085922195475086016mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_9085922195475086016mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_9085922195475086016mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Lawyers for Israel rejected allegations of genocide</strong> against Palestinians in Gaza on the second day of a high-profile international criminal lawsuit brought by South Africa.<br /> </p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Da2e1249c81%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705377088405000&usg=AOvVaw2z__5PebNmRiKCsMGTUQPI" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=a2e1249c81&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Israel called on the International Court of Justice to dismiss the case as groundless</a> and reject South Africa’s request to order an immediate halt to the Israel Defense Forces offensive. “There is no genocide,” insisted a lawyer for Israel, Malcolm Shaw, in proceedings taking place at The Hague in the Netherlands. Israel said it respected international law and asserted its right to defend itself. “The appalling suffering of civilians, both Israeli and Palestinian, is first and foremost the result of Hamas’ strategy,” said a legal adviser to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tal Becker. Becker said that if there “were acts of genocide, they have been perpetrated against Israel.” If you missed <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D705a57d142%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705377088405000&usg=AOvVaw1JVi_2H3BufgxPtfFe8OuI" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=705a57d142&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">yesterday’s newsletter</a>, we covered a full breakdown of South Africa’s arguments there. <br /> </p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday reported that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D4769ab1b6a%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705377088405000&usg=AOvVaw0Ot-hThaosM_pJvMu0UceC" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=4769ab1b6a&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Israeli authorities were systematically denying the agency access to northern Gaza</a> to deliver aid. The Israeli Defense Ministry agency tasked with coordinating aid deliveries into the Palestinian territories did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters, but the country has previously denied blocking the entry of aid. Aid deliveries to northern Gaza have been limited since the war began, and in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 Hamas attack, the area was cut off from external aid altogether for weeks. <br /> </p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">Andrea De Domenico, head of OCHA for the occupied Palestinian territories, said: “In particular, [Israel has] been very systematic in not allowing us to support hospitals, which is something that is reaching a level of inhumanity that, for me, is beyond comprehension.” A spokesperson for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said: “We’ve repeatedly highlighted Israel’s recurring failures to uphold the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law: distinction, proportionality, and precautions in carrying out attacks.</p></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_9085922195475086016mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWn5xOwZIamOQePklCymRPs6SFBnoaJFTVVboNoNMy_FV7IjLXIi5UEeGybnB7K26gsozcSszvTYb3krPQuaYZSCpmfPFNYQgv9v9ClCje_8DUIAgw_KIcwnyqlpyDqm5Cqa_DpGDCO7Wt9W4dpnSO8TnAN3B2kKd2GSlkLn1su19LeWFK2aP2EdF9SpZ81uOclvppxg9ZgH6n5E5CmyoPFe5g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_9085922195475086016mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_9085922195475086016mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>The ICJ is predicted to rule later this month</strong> on possible emergency measures, including South Africa’s request to order an immediate halt of Israel’s offensive. The accusations of genocide, on the other hand, will take years to litigate. The court’s decisions are final and without appeal, but it lacks the ability to enforce its rulings. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, tremors from the Israel-Hamas war continue to spread throughout the region. </p> <ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">The U.S. and United Kingdom conducted a series of retaliatory airstrikes in Yemen against Houthi targets on Thursday and Friday, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D6d5ad5989e%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705377088405000&usg=AOvVaw31iQ0auLquxTxjrhEzpRRY" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=6d5ad5989e&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">drawing condemnation from Iran’s allies in the Middle East</a>. The Houthis, a Shiite rebel group that controls the northwest of Yemen, conducted a series of attacks against ships in the Red Sea earlier in the week, and claimed it is targeting Israeli ships and vessels in an effort to support Palestinians in Gaza. However, some Houthi targets have no logical connection to Israel. The Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah are all backed by Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani called the U.S.-led strikes “a violation of international laws” that will “have no result other than fueling insecurity and instability in the region.” Even close U.S. ally Oman expressed concern over the American strikes.</p></li></ul> <ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">Some analysts say that the airstrikes could play into the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D93788c757a%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705377088405000&usg=AOvVaw2lo3OP5kgZeHEOEVX0XLlk" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=93788c757a&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Houthis’ agenda and are “extremely unlikely”</a> to stop the group’s attacks in the Red Sea. National Security Council spokesperson <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Dc513dd0844%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705377088405000&usg=AOvVaw2vr2IZjNYKM5lYAviiBihx" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=c513dd0844&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">John Kirby said that the U.S. is aware that the militant group might try to retaliate</a> and that Washington is “not interested in a war with Yemen. We’re not interested in a conflict of any kind here.” He added that the strikes had hit “valid, legitimate military targets,” all aimed at “the Houthis’ ability to store, launch, and guide drones and missiles.” More strikes were carried out than initially disclosed, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D74064f1763%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705377088405000&usg=AOvVaw2Z2_11QV1ykYkkkAuASJcO" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=74064f1763&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">according to a senior U.S. military official</a>. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D1afc19d4f3%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1705377088405000&usg=AOvVaw1ejMNhhZPVbNtBOWHc98F5" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=1afc19d4f3&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">President Joe Biden said</a> during a stop in Allentown, PA that the United States “will make sure we respond to the Houthis if they continue this outrageous behavior.” </p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><div><br /></div></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px;" width="550"><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><h1 style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">Iran’s navy hijacked an oil tanker ship carrying Iraqi oil in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. </span></strong><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel is known as the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyaW5ldHJhZmZpYy5jb20vZW4vYWlzL2RldGFpbHMvc2hpcHMvc2hpcGlkOjcxMzUxOC9tbXNpOjUzODAxMDY3Ni9pbW86OTUyNDQ3NS92ZXNzZWw6U1RfTklLT0xBUz8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B99dae7cb__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHvUxKOjgA$&source=gmail&ust=1705377090643000&usg=AOvVaw0iFDL9wdcQYV-uWS4Dn1Un" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyaW5ldHJhZmZpYy5jb20vZW4vYWlzL2RldGFpbHMvc2hpcHMvc2hpcGlkOjcxMzUxOC9tbXNpOjUzODAxMDY3Ni9pbW86OTUyNDQ3NS92ZXNzZWw6U1RfTklLT0xBUz8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B99dae7cb__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHvUxKOjgA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">St Nikolas</span></a>, and was bound for Turkey when it was captured by Iranian forces just south of the United Arab Emirates, according to Iranian state-run <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9QcmVzc1RWL3N0YXR1cy8xNzQ1NDUwMDU3NTgxODU1MTA1Pz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bcfb2418a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHuw_bSe3Q$&source=gmail&ust=1705377090643000&usg=AOvVaw2TI3WCW-RjiUs9ene_2Z5l" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9QcmVzc1RWL3N0YXR1cy8xNzQ1NDUwMDU3NTgxODU1MTA1Pz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bcfb2418a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHuw_bSe3Q$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Press TV</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">At least four men “wearing military style black uniforms with black masks” boarded the ship</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"> early Thursday morning while it was traveling about 50 nautical miles east of Oman, British authorities <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudWttdG8ub3JnL2luZGlhbi1vY2Vhbi9yZWNlbnQtaW5jaWRlbnRzPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZiM/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B0ff79140__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHsT-B1Yqg$&source=gmail&ust=1705377090643000&usg=AOvVaw3fLBoOYDobeCNFMvE85d7r" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudWttdG8ub3JnL2luZGlhbi1vY2Vhbi9yZWNlbnQtaW5jaWRlbnRzPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZiM/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B0ff79140__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHsT-B1Yqg$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">said</span></a>. The ship’s crew consists of 18 Filipino nationals and one Greek national, according to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvcGVyc2lhbi1ndWxmLW9tYW4tc3RyYWl0LWhvcm11ei0zYTkwNmU5MDliZTJjZTYzYzg3YzFiMjA4ZWQwNWJhYT8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6d4ab9d2__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHs2tGrobA$&source=gmail&ust=1705377090643000&usg=AOvVaw0BU2dTO9Al56YaFg9ep7BM" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvcGVyc2lhbi1ndWxmLW9tYW4tc3RyYWl0LWhvcm11ei0zYTkwNmU5MDliZTJjZTYzYzg3YzFiMjA4ZWQwNWJhYT8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B6d4ab9d2__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHs2tGrobA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Associated Press</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">Rewind: </span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">U.S. authorities <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuanVzdGljZS5nb3Yvb3BhL3ByL2p1c3RpY2UtZGVwYXJ0bWVudC1hbm5vdW5jZXMtZmlyc3QtY3JpbWluYWwtcmVzb2x1dGlvbi1pbnZvbHZpbmctaWxsaWNpdC1zYWxlLWFuZC10cmFuc3BvcnQ_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bda38b794__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHv94qmr5g$&source=gmail&ust=1705377090644000&usg=AOvVaw2UhJev0Pmgobmdh4qqS2Br" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuanVzdGljZS5nb3Yvb3BhL3ByL2p1c3RpY2UtZGVwYXJ0bWVudC1hbm5vdW5jZXMtZmlyc3QtY3JpbWluYWwtcmVzb2x1dGlvbi1pbnZvbHZpbmctaWxsaWNpdC1zYWxlLWFuZC10cmFuc3BvcnQ_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bda38b794__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHv94qmr5g$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">captured</span></a> the very same ship last April off the Gulf Coast for carrying almost a million barrels of sanctioned Iranian crude oil, which was <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25uLmNvbS8yMDIzLzA5LzA5L3BvbGl0aWNzL3VzLW9pbC1pcmFuLWNoaW5hLWRvai9pbmRleC5odG1sPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc5a7eb3f__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHthVXHZVA$&source=gmail&ust=1705377090644000&usg=AOvVaw0gSQ2RAxyQKVU896e6K14Q" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25uLmNvbS8yMDIzLzA5LzA5L3BvbGl0aWNzL3VzLW9pbC1pcmFuLWNoaW5hLWRvai9pbmRleC5odG1sPz9vcmVmPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJzX2RicmllZg/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bc5a7eb3f__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHthVXHZVA$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">allegedly</span></a> going to be sold to China; that oil was later offloaded in Houston. The vessel was known as the Suez Rajan when it was seized by U.S. officials; its owners changed its name after the incident. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><em><b><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">Big picture: This action had been expected,</span></b></em><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"> as historian Sal Mercogliano <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9tZXJjb2dsaWFub3Mvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDU0MTk4MzEzOTcwMDc4Njg_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bccc68ca9__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHtEbTRzdw$&source=gmail&ust=1705377090644000&usg=AOvVaw3NaK3f8OuUq3GH1q9VQC43" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9tZXJjb2dsaWFub3Mvc3RhdHVzLzE3NDU0MTk4MzEzOTcwMDc4Njg_P29yZWY9bmV3c2xldHRlcnNfZGJyaWVm/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7Bccc68ca9__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHtEbTRzdw$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">pointed out</span></a> on social media Thursday. Sal also has a great video on YouTube explaining what he’s witnessed from tracking software monitoring the Red Sea—including a convincing illustration of an Iranian vessel (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyaW5ldHJhZmZpYy5jb20vZW4vYWlzL2RldGFpbHMvc2hpcHMvc2hpcGlkOjY1NzgzOS9tbXNpOjQyMjAzNjIwMC9pbW86OTE2NzI4OS92ZXNzZWw6QkVIU0hBRD8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B3f28bf7a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHvaUV8tiQ$&source=gmail&ust=1705377090644000&usg=AOvVaw3SNx0uwtGnvoUMZQh1wbPR" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.defenseone.com/click/33967068.48056/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyaW5ldHJhZmZpYy5jb20vZW4vYWlzL2RldGFpbHMvc2hpcHMvc2hpcGlkOjY1NzgzOS9tbXNpOjQyMjAzNjIwMC9pbW86OTE2NzI4OS92ZXNzZWw6QkVIU0hBRD8_b3JlZj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyc19kYnJpZWY/659f2c0cfbb7f044ed0627e7B3f28bf7a__;!!KL1yqyOaGX2drUI!l--WLoI3JVObOGsAHy8Z7AVe9O3CNAzVNMwRPdVKdx8Fi8U9pzWc9lUVJKqtDy2wF9FsD6gxc6R18gvqsHvaUV8tiQ$" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068a5;">Behshad</span></a>) that seems to be feeding the Houthis with targeting information. </span></p><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.13px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><div align="left" style="font-size: 13.2613px;"><p align="left"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l%3D116899626%26f%3D812526%26c%3D14633558%26u%3D21124492&source=gmail&ust=1705377093157000&usg=AOvVaw3XdMlxfQoY5kndhPrGP-bJ" href="https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=116899626&f=812526&c=14633558&u=21124492" rel="NOFOLLOW" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgRksam_tocqg9r5XsXZ7azPaSv6GbX9S1M_eLSLlLDJ1W-xO1yrkjnJpSARw4A7csLnLTg37T2wzgH-GDvMXVohxwW7MSpFj_q7_zzOEZl-6gD7mg66mu_vRm2L20p3LCcrWAqI-abW3wymgLGwBic6PKppQnx0w3KwEQFV2Fs3SwvSPPIWkhMyDDuZn8=s0-d-e1-ft" style="height: 49px; width: 385px;" /></a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></h1><h1>New From CBO</h1><h1 style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><div style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2613px;"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><div align="left" style="font-size: 13.3939px;"><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><div align="left" style="font-size: 13.5279px;"><ul></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="clear: both; font-size: 13.3939px;"><hr color="#b48116" size="3" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></h1><h1><a id="m_-65731023175576645680" name="m_-6573102317557664568_0"></a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://p.feedblitz.com/t3/812526/21124492/14633558_/~feeds.feedblitz.com/~/859913645/0/cbospublications~Monthly-Budget-Review-December?utm_source%3Dfeedblitz%26utm_medium%3DFeedBlitzEmail%26utm_content%3D812526%26utm_campaign%3DExpress_2024-01-09_14:30%26utm_medium%3DFeedBlitzEmail%26utm_content%3D812526%26utm_campaign%3DExpress_2024-01-09_14:30&source=gmail&ust=1705377093157000&usg=AOvVaw1EnmTqBDJkJ5wleJUeWIQ8" href="https://p.feedblitz.com/t3/812526/21124492/14633558_/~feeds.feedblitz.com/~/859913645/0/cbospublications~Monthly-Budget-Review-December?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=812526&utm_campaign=Express_2024-01-09_14:30&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=812526&utm_campaign=Express_2024-01-09_14:30" rel="NOFOLLOW" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Monthly Budget Review: December 2023</a></h1><h2></h2><h1 style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in 7.5pt;"><div style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2613px;"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 13.3939px;"><p></p><p>The federal budget deficit totaled $509 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, CBO estimates—$87 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="line-height: 16.9pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-7422135473681461105row-content m_-7422135473681461105stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-7422135473681461105column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 95 this year. Each year, we take his bold vision to heart by fighting not only against systemic racism, but the connected injustices of militarism and poverty as well.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our racial wealth divide <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978306/448979010/1190136497?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089348000&usg=AOvVaw3F6_qC9VKhysybGd7k36dY" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978306/448979010/1190136497?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">report</a></strong> last year found that under current policies, it would take over 500 years for Black Americans to achieve economic inequality. This week in our <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">OtherWords </em>service, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Chuck Collins explain <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978307/448979011/1192374476?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089348000&usg=AOvVaw3UgcCSafHnPqhZNfZLOezi" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978307/448979011/1192374476?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">how we get back on track</a></strong>. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This January also marks a year since the right-wing government of El Salvador arrested five water defenders who led a successful campaign to ban environmentally destructive metal mining in the country — one of the great nonviolent campaign victories of our lifetime.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This week, IPS and several allies released released a new fact-finding report on the "<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978308/448979012/-491031686?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089348000&usg=AOvVaw1SF8GJjfS_QMV8hYD6rS8i" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978308/448979012/-491031686?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">State of Deception</strong></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">/</strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978309/448979013/1075181152?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089348000&usg=AOvVaw1BpAkSOk8aFWLq-zF7betP" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978309/448979013/1075181152?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Estado de Decepción</strong></a>" in El Salvador, which reveals new information about those arrests and the state of human rights there under President Nayib Bukele — as well as evidence that his government intends to bring back toxic mining. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our experts visited El Salvador late last year and interviewed scores of community leaders. “We were shocked by the level of fear of arbitrary arrest among ordinary people in El Salvador today,” notes John Cavanagh. “It is incumbent upon the United States, Canada, and other nations to show they respect democracy and the rule of law by <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978310/448979014/1929489297?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089348000&usg=AOvVaw3azwd7NYBRk1uJXQ1i8cVc" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978310/448979014/1929489297?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">speaking out against these unlawful arrests</a></strong> and the abuse of basic democratic principles."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Advancing justice means holding leaders everywhere accountable for human rights violations. Right now, the whole world is watching as South Africa — a country where social movements defeated a racist apartheid regime — presents its case to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Three decades since the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa, the post-apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation’ is taking the lead in challenging Israel’s genocidal assault,” <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978311/448979015/911210409?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089348000&usg=AOvVaw1Fn818j0WcT80QXKFwS-8H" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978311/448979015/911210409?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">write Phyllis Bennis and international human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber</a></strong> at <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Foreign Policy In Focus </em>this week.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Calling the case “a crack in a 75-year-old wall of impunity,” they urge global social movements to “seize the moment to turn that crack into a wider portal towards justice.” We think King would agree.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," warned King. "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Today, we're still fighting for King's vision of a more equitable world, where peace and justice can and will prevail. Thank you for being a part of this fight with us.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-7422135473681461105image_block" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; width: 595px;"><div align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 208.25px;"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWP65FwqQD38FpatxM7Tp3GhDsx_MuoaMF8DuR5Rxu_bYv05jQ0JIe953LZbJhH6zs91FiKqENMVZcDv3XAVk0rJesHmo-GaTSqH7zTCo2WKpAWZ80iXOadxQ9jyQTQPb3pGc4PDCkwnBOcuIBqg509_b3aY6nKLISgcJM3Kcy8uT_JJq0R0MjjC76LxNOXyk1Klk13BH95CrTwXZNrg=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; width: 208.25px;" width="208.25" /></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Some Facts for the Unconvinced: Why We Need a Gaza Ceasefire Now</a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">Why we need a ceasefire to save lives, release the hostages, prosecute war crimes, and follow international law: a guide for those still uneasy, unconvinced, or uncertain.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ignoring Calls for a Ceasefire Is Putting Biden’s Reelection at Risk</a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">Amid the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza, a striking thing is happening in the United States: a scale of protest opposing the Israeli bombardment — and U.S. support for it — unlike anything in recent history. </span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Never Underestimate the Power of a Small Group of Committed People</a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">What began as a small meeting among a handful of people in 1980 contributed to a blossoming national recognition of the dangers of nuclear weapons and our failure to find safe and reliable ways of managing their waste product.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; 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color: #e40160; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another</a></span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-7422135473681461105row-content m_-7422135473681461105stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-7422135473681461105column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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width: 595px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_-7422135473681461105column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 15px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, sans-serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; font-family: Montserrat, "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 24px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">IPS IN THE NEWS</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #12539c; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978333/448979037/-95210876?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089349000&usg=AOvVaw2Im9G5tTi9MjDP8SUonEWy" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978333/448979037/-95210876?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mining Journal</em></strong></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </strong>and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978334/448979038/-1548225999?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089349000&usg=AOvVaw1kQaug6wBL5oTls587tI4E" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978334/448979038/-1548225999?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Truthout</em></strong></a> highlight IPS and others' report on new evidence regarding the arrest of the five Salvadoran water defenders who face political persecution under the Bukele administration. “It’s outrageous that the Canadian and U.S. government are standing back and staying silent in the faces of the abuses outlined in this report,” said John Cavanagh. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978335/448979039/1341376004?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089349000&usg=AOvVaw2ucDpqODXS-xe4Qvm5P7Zn" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978335/448979039/1341376004?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Inside Philanthropy</em></strong></a> highlights IPS's report on how billionaire philanthropy enriches the ultra-wealthy at the expense of active charities and taxpayers, citing Chuck Collins' argument that "billionaires’ shell games are actually keeping money from going to nonprofits that are doing vitally important and vitally beneficial work." Another <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978336/448979041/2128556205?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089350000&usg=AOvVaw1oj4KlXry-iog48nb2WWcY" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978336/448979041/2128556205?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Insider Philanthropy</em></strong></a> article shines a spotlight on Collins and Helen Flannery's research as part of an investigation into the Gates Foundation's philanthropic practices.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978337/448979042/-654479041?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089350000&usg=AOvVaw3BU38G71k5Wyzfmrhl5i2N" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978337/448979042/-654479041?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Canada's National Observer</em></strong></a>, Jen Moore warns that Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) awards “can impose a chill on the actions of regulators and governments to properly implement the decisions that have been made in the interest of people and the environment.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978338/448979043/510419557?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089350000&usg=AOvVaw2sRLoE3buoo5_XfBm1wUmk" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978338/448979043/510419557?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Truthout</em></strong></a> highlights a <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978339/448979044/-803653937?v%3DPtGe39Bs69A%26embeds_referring_euri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fips-dc.org%252F%26source_ve_path%3DOTY3MTQ%26feature%3Demb_imp_woyt%26nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089350000&usg=AOvVaw10PKUwq6rDcFlPndFHNE3_" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978339/448979044/-803653937?v=PtGe39Bs69A&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fips-dc.org%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e40160;" target="_blank">December 13 webinar</a></strong> sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Friends Committee on National Legislation, and MPower Action in an article on the UN’s options to protect Gaza from genocide.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-7422135473681461105row-content m_-7422135473681461105stack" role="presentation" style="background-color: #ffdd64; 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font-size: 50px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"The government of El Salvador has moved systematically in the direction of becoming a dictatorship — with the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of the Santa Marta Five only the tip of the iceberg... We urge the governments of the United States and Canada to call for a return to democracy."</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978341/448979045/-491031686?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9%26hmac%3Dhxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y%3D%26emci%3D48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26emdi%3Dfa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da%26ceid%3D3987520&source=gmail&ust=1705377089350000&usg=AOvVaw1P-YOXNTf9I2Ofwku1cvDJ" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/76978341/448979045/-491031686?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMy8xLzc1MjEwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImZhNzEzZjNiLTcxYjEtZWUxMS1iZWExLTAwMjI0ODIyMzdkYSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibWlrZXBvdXJhcnlhbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iDQp9&hmac=hxw3DzSsv3qZzUdAv2XwDUiNDf-l0fDAbQd0bSQdC_Y=&emci=48b93b2c-4eb1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=fa713f3b-71b1-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=3987520" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #e40160;" target="_blank">Barbara Lee: If We Learned Anything From the Disastrous War on Terror, Now’s the Time To Show It</a></span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Orange County Register</em></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></h1><h1 style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id%3D103502%26post_id%3D140602272%26utm_source%3Dpost-email-title%26utm_campaign%3Demail-post-title%26isFreemail%3Dfalse%26r%3D1y3fw%26token%3DeyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMjcwMzgwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDA2MDIyNzIsImlhdCI6MTcwNTA3NjQyNywiZXhwIjoxNzA3NjY4NDI3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTAzNTAyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.fzwngWvKj4cpG_NYhG66z0MamIVx-cZBESvga7Ifc3o&source=gmail&ust=1705377089379000&usg=AOvVaw1jKWB8PgZg6BsnYMWO3Z7E" href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=103502&post_id=140602272&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1y3fw&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMjcwMzgwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDA2MDIyNzIsImlhdCI6MTcwNTA3NjQyNywiZXhwIjoxNzA3NjY4NDI3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTAzNTAyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.fzwngWvKj4cpG_NYhG66z0MamIVx-cZBESvga7Ifc3o" style="color: #404040; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">You Don't Have to Vote for Biden When There are Six Ways to Vote for Trump</a></h1><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><h3 style="color: grey; font-family: "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px 0px;">Every third party vote is a vote for Trump</h3> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="height: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; 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text-align: center;" width="612"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/634f13c6-3f97-4732-a051-7ca8dd483419?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705377089380000&usg=AOvVaw0rvOVPx3C3anrdc_mAfPTO" href="https://substack.com/redirect/634f13c6-3f97-4732-a051-7ca8dd483419?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="border: none; color: #1155cc; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="369.3627450980392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgMUTlJhvLBDXzIxx_CDKMrIEqZ-NGs5kQaVFgeb1dWw6I667yjnyE8ephyphenhyphenjGQGNApiNqTS-3sccdni2A0wSJBQzMElbMzxVh8EQ9FOGOe-ajAsGHYbB7lW3Y5kPsYf2Y9Z8V3EtDMzTOfrf-xK13DSfX9V0P224Qiy37vNoJ2FG2E7sYsshLN1CJ3ikc_bamCo8S2ZHrXkzyvP2_s-9_t_HlZuwHB5s5AQs3NVPZmAqC8lBhP6PlcEnalrXLj5BO-zoQx5QiFxGJr7lZpnFCpLaJFSVzvkt42Y2OngcUndDT_ph54H0zKyt4roZOcxgC0s2HXRCUkpfSRlm1JJveh2h5GYn3rjRUCIJAdn8lkUtHfiIhVS=s0-d-e1-ft,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bbbe78d-93b3-48f0-8cff-91510ba38d59_612x411.webp" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="550" /></a></td><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong>January 12, 2024</strong></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong>By Marc Cooper</strong></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">First of all, Happy New Year, Enjoy it while you can because it’s going to get really nasty and ugly as we move toward the showdown November vote on the future of the United States.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I am, however, fully prepared. After spending an entire month, ducking the PNW atmospheric rivers, in Clearwater Beach Florida and after successfully refusing to join up either with Scientology (that’s based there) or QAnon, that runs the state government, I have returned tanned, rested and ready to serve. It was a great break even though it was sort of a shock to get snow dusted last night back here in South West Washington!</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I don’t know how excited you are, maybe uncontrollably, knowing that the Iowa caucuses are skedded for this coming Monday with weather projections falling to 20 degrees below zero on caucus night. It should be quite a sight to watch Donald Trump’s aged constituents stumble into the caucus sites like so many half-frozen zombies. Not that the severe cold will further impair their already aberrant thought processes. I made the mistake of listening to a TV report from Des Moines of some babbling Trump supporters and it was quite a scene. Never have so many ruddy cheeked all-American granmas and crusty old pops shown so much enthusiasm and zeal planning to vote for a serial liar and public psychopath who is facing 91 felony counts in 5 different jurisdictions, a man on the cusp of being railroaded by the courts out of his fraudulent New York real estate business, a guy ruled by the courts to be a sexual abuser, and a guy who has frankly morphed from being obnoxious into simply demented and irrational while vowing he will only be dictator for a day…just long enough to implement the Insurrection Act and begin the round up of immigrants. Or…what? You don’t believe what he says?</p><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly90aGVjb29wc2Nvb3Auc3Vic3RhY2suY29tL2FjY291bnQiLCJwIjoxNDA2MDIyNzIsInMiOjEwMzUwMiwiZiI6ZmFsc2UsInUiOjMyNzAzODAsImlhdCI6MTcwNTA3NjQyNywiZXhwIjoxNzA3NjY4NDI3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMCIsInN1YiI6ImxpbmstcmVkaXJlY3QifQ.IKzk56swyKF_AD574Z2jQ3h8n48Xnk6a1QAGAiaZtH0?&source=gmail&ust=1705377089380000&usg=AOvVaw2xAU4Fq3K8l_FF1cShZ_bn" href="https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly90aGVjb29wc2Nvb3Auc3Vic3RhY2suY29tL2FjY291bnQiLCJwIjoxNDA2MDIyNzIsInMiOjEwMzUwMiwiZiI6ZmFsc2UsInUiOjMyNzAzODAsImlhdCI6MTcwNTA3NjQyNywiZXhwIjoxNzA3NjY4NDI3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMCIsInN1YiI6ImxpbmstcmVkaXJlY3QifQ.IKzk56swyKF_AD574Z2jQ3h8n48Xnk6a1QAGAiaZtH0?" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgb(83, 101, 208); box-sizing: border-box; color: #5365d0; display: inline-block; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; height: auto; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; opacity: 1; outline: none; padding: 12px 20px; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhLvXYbw5TmMxfG42Kc1ETvy1cwgb72P8iTevB0UwD3mb4lGZLP_mr6OeXxRVLCmyTKunT4j5ty-dj5zU0KPqYdiEONmXd0zCg27c_fxp9JpCyFsPr8PC0WENn8ACcKXx-rvoPgAWtdWhIH4UQv-DqFjY0rMfAjLe3LM0MmQicgOvpxYMMPqFMxbX6l6DggaNUox4Z6SFE98E9L4y4VZKZ1IhsddxYD9PYnEEKYiktR0-J-PoKL9uxOQ8ibrswnrVCjzNsDqeDJWvfbPReE-X0cNEAkG9s9n-lcl2lrw5L4fblm0UosGJ6uFGCZkt_PKxjpps6XAodvqqwX7itd_Tz_9QPOc1uplvcgAQJGGS3ux3m2nMWA2T1aJ5rhpT7hqA=s0-d-e1-ft,c_scale,f_png,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FLucideCheck%3Fv%3D4%26height%3D40%26fill%3Dtransparent%26stroke%3D%25235365d0%26strokeWidth%3D3.6" style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 20px; vertical-align: middle;" width="20" />Subscribed</a></p></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I had been kicking around the idea of going to report for y’all on the Iowa caucuses but it’s not gonna happen. Flying off to Florida for the month of December got in the way of doing the necessary fundraising and…more importantly…it sure seems there would be damn little to report in any case. The last we looked Trump was leading his two limp rivals, DeSantis and Haley by 20 or 30 or 40 points and, yes, yes, anything can happen in an election. But that said, I would venture that there is somewhere between a 98.6 percent and 99.9 percent chance that Donald Trump will emerge as victor on Monday night. That 1 percent or less chance that he will lose pertains only to the possibility of a giant icicle breaking loose from his hotel portico and piercing his very thick skull.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">One thing that is not going to stop Trump, at least in Iowa, is Nikki Haley (nor the soon to be former candidate DeSantis). Look, I understand the media doing its damnedest trying to turn this Trump juggernaut into a “race” but are you kidding me? Some network wags have actually used the term “surging” to describe Nikki Haley’s breathtaking rise to something like 12 points in total. Wow! Imagine if she was flatlining.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I did tune into the final Iowa debate last nite and was happy to see “the field” had been reduced down to just Nikki and Ron who commenced from the first moment to do nothing except sling moon pies and cow pies at each other, arguing who is the more craven and heartless. I declared it a tie as both are equally nauseating. They tried to beat each other to the punch in proclaiming that all 10 million “illegal aliens” must be deported – no exceptions, pal. If one of them slips into office, which I doubt, or if the Great Orange Jesus should be elected and does the same, please do me the favor of waking me up early that day as I won’t want to miss a minute of what will be the historic clown show of so many upstanding American burghers surrendering their maids, mechanics and gardeners to La Migra or, conversely, using their BMW’s and Teslas as barricades as they throw their bodies against the jack-booted Feds coming to take Maria and Jose out of the kitchen,</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">If this should ever come to pass it will be a re-run on steroids of the political catastrophe of the last 18 months since the Republican hounds caught up with that speeding abortion car and now doesn’t know what to do with it. It’s one thing to <em>campaign </em>against immigrants, it’s quite another to start actually dismantling, jailing and then deporting a strategic sector of the American work force.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">After Iowa comes New Hampshire – another “flinty” place the media completely gets wrong and out of which it consistently builds a fantasy world usually centered in some greasy spoon café in which poorly educated obese white men with John Deere caps on are interrogated by relentless TV reporters who want to know how these geniuses are going to vote. Having spent many a caucus and primary in Iowa and New Hampshire, I can affirm they are quite different places and Hew Hampshire can be quirky. That’s why I am lowering my prediction of Trump’s primary victory there to an 88-95% chance (and frankly, I don’t even really believe that).</p><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><figure style="margin: 0px auto; width: 550px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" width="398"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/8819dd69-1d78-4ed6-a83d-4dce1e39d73e?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705377089380000&usg=AOvVaw21ASzzfx8SuXpdWDxCouW7" href="https://substack.com/redirect/8819dd69-1d78-4ed6-a83d-4dce1e39d73e?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" rel="" style="border: none; color: #1155cc; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="260.4712041884817" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhcZ8PjFQyVBqz7P7FZmdJzn3ItooxVfnucxdWP_zpYl7JT1DlrwYPmA9Ohtz8pckp4r7N9vcagrM_fimH9Hctepp7UU6VyI1EEOApPa04_5CuxSzc3-x9iYB8M6qCRNrZ5c0-pLbKQ0iwVmUOBT76FSGmemdreI-9qSxbLmS1nmM176Fsj7tGO5xajrIEy2drvIa3wkb1Lv6uCfTVoNl8vxfCbJp7TyMJKxA_3kXctEbr7nO1pU0OsOCtrDnpG2PbECNLN3uoJuX-iLBliTWTRInxPU7EiJPwtyvmkoX8RLa2C0LBfSfibeiHtb8D-XJ2r_koeTQMdLAME2Iqgr2K7z6BVIcugqxwzZChNQ6DFQyupDCA=s0-d-e1-ft,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd931103e-254b-4d09-8862-b4cab6622b54_1146x750.png" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="398" /></a></td><td style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></div><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Barring any real news, and that does not count early polling, Trump is going to be the nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States. And if that thought doesn’t chill you, even at this juncture, you are not paying enough attention. To cite the obvious parallel, we are in much worse shape than when he was first elected 2016. Back then a lot of us knew he was a liar a con man, and an ignoramus. But that was before the Muslim ban, the kids in cages, the deal with the Taliban, the 91 felony counts, being found liable for sexual assault, the vow to become a dictator, the intoxication with the musk of Xi, Putin and Kim, the steady stream of threats, insults, and non-sequiturs that pour hourly out of his mouth.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">To be honest, I sit here rather amazed today, I am amazed that voting for the president begins on Monday and one of the candidates is a declared fascist while his political party, the GOP, has descended into a state of permanent obstruction, fear mongering, racism, xenophobia, and militant anti-democratic politics while the other major party, the Democrats, and most of the American people, for that matter, are sitting quietly on their hands.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">It is no longer hyperbole to say November might the last free and fair election in our lifetime and I just don’t see what people are doing about it. If anything.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I was pleased to finally hear Biden last week give his deep throated warning about the fascist threat that MAGA now represents – though it did come three year late and after thousands of words of prior bullshit from Biden about the wonders of bi-partisanship and about how many friends he has “on the other side.”</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Let’s hope that Biden has finally realized that the other side are committed anti-democrats absolutely bent on the destruction of the institutions that once bound America. Personally, at least this week, I don’t think Trump can win. He appears to have a ceiling of about 46-47% and that might be enough to win the electoral college. Maybe.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Biden is gonna have to break 50% and not just by some decimal points, to keep this reprobate out of office. I think he will. It sure looks like in spite of all the delays, that Trump will have the all-important January 6 trial before the election and he will be convicted. That conviction will not void his candidacy but it will sink it.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">(BTW, on the topic of trial dates, can we please work up a few boos and catcalls for the Wimpy General Merrick Garland who waited a year and half to indict Trump on January 6 when it should have been within the first month. I am convinced that Garland would have simply let Trump skate if it were not for the pressure brought by the January 6 committee. When this history is written, Liz Cheney will brightly outshine Merrick Garland).</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Biden—and the Democrats—are going to have make several campaign moves very quickly now if they want to win. The president is going to have sustain his rhetoric about the authoritarian threat BUT he has to add in a second part to that warning. He has to explain how democracy and the rule of law are pre-requisites for all the more mundane issues that affect daily life: how much you get paid, what kind of medical care can you get, what kind of consumer protection can be had, what is the quality of public information and government transparency exists, what kind of reproductive rights you have, what kind of education is available and who pays for it and how about that little issue of retaining your right to vote for and elect the representatives of your choice. There is no wall between democracy and “kitchen table issues.”</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The Democrats need a virtual army of strong and compelling surrogates, especially given Biden’s communication weakness. Where are the great human rights and civil rights defenders of the past who can draw an audience and hold their attention? Sorry, I can’t name one. They have to exist, I assume. But maybe if we can push Schumer, Pelosi, Clayburn and the other decomposing mummies off center stage there might be room for some new, younger more inspiring voices. They better appear fast.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Also, the campaign has to do something radical to re-inspire or re-enlist the youth. I get their despair over the war. When I was 17 years old in November 1968 I was too young to vote. But I did attend an on campus SDS rally billed as “Vote in the Streets – Vote With Your Feet” that argued there was no difference between Humphrey and Nixon and therefore no reason to vote, other than for the Peace and Freedom Party. Youth alienation from Humphrey over Vietnam definitely cost him the election and while just the thought of Old Hubert still leaves a sour taste in my mouth, I can say we were just plain wrong. Humphrey was a stumble bum but he was no Dick Nixon. I don’t know If the war would have ended earlier with him – I think it would have—but the country as a whole would have been better off if we had just skipped the whole Nixon Crime Gang Era.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Vietnam was a much greater trauma than Gaza, though the latter seems to grow worse daily. Biden’s responsibility in backing Israel – even with his growing regrets—cannot and should not be denied and he should be roundly criticized for his posture.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> And then you should vote for him for president. I have written this 100 times and will probably do so another 100 this coming year, but elections –almost without exception—are among competing power blocs and candidates that individual voters played at best a minor role, if next to nothing, in selecting as candidates. They are not your heroes (they should not be), they are not your friends, they probably do no not really represent you, and you probably disagree with a number of positions they hold and associations they maintain you are unaware of. They are stand-ins created by a system that is pretty much not controllable by ordinary citizens. They are a pre-determined choice created by The System.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Should you be ok with? Of course not. It’s despicable. It’s also a reality. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I have been seeing a lot of fb posts from younger folks angry over Gaza and saying they “could never vote” for anybody like Biden again. Oh, really? I don’t know. There were about 30 issues I strongly opposed Biden on but I voted for him in 2020 simply because the other alternative was Donald J. Trump. Just like it will be this year. Here’s some news you can take to the bank: Marianne Williamson is not going to get elected, though she will raise her speaking fee. Jill Stein is not going to get elected (though she might get another dinner invite from Vlad), RFK JR. is what you can call a wrecker and he is not going to win. An arsehole like Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema might run on the deceptive and insidious No Labels ticket and they ain’t gonna win. And Cornel West? WTF? He’s not gonna win even though he seems due for another yearly mental health check up. No third party you are tempted to vote for is going to win.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The winner in 2024 is going to be Joe Biden or Donald Trump (and Trump will be on the ballot as the Supremes will guarantee it). And any vote for any of the above third parties is a vote FOR Donald Trump. Period. Also, if you vote “your conscience” and you vote for, say, Cornel West instead of Biden, guess what? Nothing is going to change overnight except maybe Trump getting elected. Eugene Debs or V.I. Lenin are not going to resuscitate to pin a virtuous red ribbon on your shirt for doing the right thing by shunning neoliberal Joe. Nope.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This is not a time for a protest vote, a vote of conscience or any other sort of vote except a deeply pragmatic one. We now have just about half the country having bought into the Big Lie. They are disdainful of democracy and want to do away with it because It unfairly allows queers and Blacks the right to vote. This is not like 2016 where millions were willing to “take a chance” with a quirky half-bonkers celebrity populist. This is 2024 where a sizable minority and a possible electoral college majority actually WANT to vote for someone willing to “suspend” the constitution, deploy army troops in the cities, deport millions of hard working immigrants, persecute and jail his political rivals and Godknowswhatelse. They yearn for dictatorship while too many on the left yearn for personal purity. And that means we are going to face a huge internal threat even after the elections and even if Trump is defeated (in that case what do you suppose his die-hard Trumpanzee followers are gonna do?).</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I cannot think of a more self-centered- a more egotistical, a more privileged stand than saying in 2024 instead of voting for the one albeit flawed alternative to authoritarian rule, you prefer to vote for a more purified loser because it will make YOU feel better. That’s right. So what if Trump get elected and starts pruning away civil liberties and social support programs. It’s not your problem if he kicks a bunch of folks off of Medicaid, or WIC or food stamps and lies down in bed with the Saudis, the Chinese and the Russians or of he hands Taiwan over to Xi?. Or if signs a national abortion aban passed by a Christian Nationalist congress voted in with him? Not your fault. Hey, you didn’t vote for him, right? You voted for Jill Stein! </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">And you, then, are not the kind of serious person these perilous times demand. You are a 17 year old in disguise. We have a prolonged and existential fight facing us. If you are going to be a fool, please just step out of the way.++</p></div></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="height: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Compact", -apple-system, -apple-system, -system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson&source=gmail&ust=1705377088375000&usg=AOvVaw13RQyoCiE7NHr-qgGe0aXR" href="https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson" style="color: #404040; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">HEATHER COX RICHARDSON</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: grey; font-family: "SF Compact", -apple-system, -apple-system, -system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Last week, after President Joe Biden went to Valley Forge and then spoke in Pennsylvania, I got a chance to sit down with him to ask a few questions. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">What I wanted to hear from him illustrates the difference between journalists and historians. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Journalists are trained to find breaking stories and to explain them clearly so that their audience is better informed about what is happening in the world. What they do is vitally important to a democracy, and it is hard work. One of the reasons I always try to call out the names of journalists whose articles I’m describing is to highlight that there are real people working hard to dig out the stories we all need to know and that we are all part of a community trying together to figure out what’s happening in this country.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Historians do something different than journalists. We study how and why societies change. We are trained to see larger patterns in the facts we find in documents, speeches, letters, and photographs…and in the work of journalists. Some historians believe that mass movements change society, and so they focus on such movements; others believe that great figures change society, and they focus on biographies. Still others focus on economic change. And so on. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">In my case, I am fascinated by the way ideas change society, and I am especially interested in the gap between what people believe and what is actually happening in the real world. That interest means that I always want to know how people think and especially how their worldview informs the way they act. Then I compare that worldview to the real-world policies they are putting into place. I sometimes think of what I study as the place where the rubber of ideas meets the road of the real world.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I have twice now been able to interview President Biden. (And let me tell you, it is an odd experience to have your historical subject be able to talk back to you!) The opportunity to ask a historical figure how he thinks, after I have spent years studying his policies, is mind-blowing.</p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">To that end, I wanted to know why he chose to go to Valley Forge, where General George Washington quartered his Continental Army troops for six months in the hard winter of 1777–1788, to start his 2024 presidential campaign. Valley Forge looms huge in American mythology, but most people probably can’t say why. So what did it mean to him to launch his 2024 presidential campaign from there? </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">I also was deeply interested in what he means when he says he has great faith in the American people—something he says all the time but usually without much context. So what exactly is it about the American people that gives him such faith? </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The answers are important, I think, and I found at least one of them surprising. </p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">As I say, it is an odd thing to have a historical subject who can talk back to you, but in all the right ways: it forces you to adjust your understanding of our historical moment. That’s the sort of information that will make the historical record clearer and that, when today’s society has itself become history, will help historians in the future better understand how and why it changed.</p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/ace95d6b-4542-4ceb-81dd-171fb5661e07?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1705377088376000&usg=AOvVaw24Nh1I1HGPi3CkY5Idw-GE" href="https://substack.com/redirect/ace95d6b-4542-4ceb-81dd-171fb5661e07?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" style="color: #1155cc; display: block; margin: 1.6em 0px;" target="_blank"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEipgI6661aohauOGF18Nc0kjqDPE974hGbDZRs_14QjHqiaf2Nl3U7Hajet_T60ZSugp_Z3MSRi67oxmZTZ27AJI9a2C3pqK3NHPqB9TIp4Npeg_8xoj0AEX6evwxZGJfe3DhRuR8elm2mIJI8SCnbzZS4Wxr34u7wtKHd-eTh4ez7WO5ZxUytSrRDRjHo0Ss7DcwOYVm_Vfj6wFA=s0-d-e1-ft,c_limit/l_youtube_play_qyqt8q,w_120/tGRXnB_GQcM" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 550px;" /></a><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p></div></div><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: Combo;"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="535" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_OAniUDMA1Y" title="Yanis Varoufakis on Israel-Gaza: 'We Europeans have created this' | UpFront" width="535"></iframe></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-92000573239993691942024-01-14T14:45:00.000-08:002024-01-14T14:45:53.756-08:00Notations On Our World (Special Sunday Ediiton): Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera Reflects on #Palestine & #Gaza <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">Marwan Bishara, the Senior Analyst for Al Jazeera, Reflects on Palestine, Israel and Gaza: </span> <iframe frameborder="0" height="526" src="https://youtube.com/embed/8VHuMF6uCbs?si=uLswibhCslhMPmUV" width="526"></iframe>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="526" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Ze_uHjyRA4" title="ISRAEL VS PALESTINE - MARRY OR DIVORCE - MARWAN BISHARA" width="526"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-67426043747046613902024-01-10T22:03:00.000-08:002024-01-10T22:03:05.471-08:00Notations On Our World (Special Edition): George Conway On Trump’s lawyer walking into ‘nasty’ trap at immunity hearing<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/rKjATbiTgZw?si=aKTRkLSUxGib5KdK" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-56201977442464873702024-01-08T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-08T00:00:00.167-08:00On Our First Weekly "Virtual Route 66" For 2024 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5fDlvXKZvGsT4Q46eEtbFZURPfcPBOAHKZb1P2wlKEFLURhb1Gi7bf3kRz-ieLfaNjk4q4dTkeUGOETJcEJElfstrx4U0GcbbILU2v22nstNxGea5Fa_HpkYAHN6v1gHLVI5nfJhRFlufT6QfQJfHMc1kRDQCB71ALLnYvrqwjEZ3UCfTfKGAdCFVtE/s600/Daily%20Outsider%202024.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="600" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5fDlvXKZvGsT4Q46eEtbFZURPfcPBOAHKZb1P2wlKEFLURhb1Gi7bf3kRz-ieLfaNjk4q4dTkeUGOETJcEJElfstrx4U0GcbbILU2v22nstNxGea5Fa_HpkYAHN6v1gHLVI5nfJhRFlufT6QfQJfHMc1kRDQCB71ALLnYvrqwjEZ3UCfTfKGAdCFVtE/s320/Daily%20Outsider%202024.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;">2024 will be challenging as almost 50% of the World will have elections. They include The United States, India, Europe, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. As we finalized our first edition of the Weekly "Virtual Route" 66, Bangladesh had finalized an election with a meager turnout as the current Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, was being re-elected. This is as the War in Gaza, along with Ukraine, rages on. There are also reports of deep divisions in the Israeli War Cabinet. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;">It will be a tumultuous and challenging year as we present a snapshot of our World as 2024 begins with a curated snapshot from leading Media players around the World, including the Economist of London, SKyNews, and thinkers like Heather Cox Richardson: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #000001; font-family: Assistant, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: auto; 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The FBI had offered a $30,000 reward for “Jonny” Pollock, while the other two had been arrested but removed their ankle bracelets in March 2023 and fled. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Family members of the fugitives and of other Lakeland residents arrested for their involvement in the January 6 attack on the Capitol insist their relatives are innocent, framed by a government eager to undermine their way of life. The Pollock family has gone so far as to erect a monument “in honor of the ones who lost their lives on January 6, 2021.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But it does not honor the law enforcement officers who were killed or injured. It honors the insurrectionists: Ashli Babbitt, shot by a law enforcement officer as she tried to break into the House Chamber through a smashed window (her family today sued the government for $30 million for wrongful death), and three others, one who died of a stroke; one of a heart attack, and one of an amphetamine overdose. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The monument in Lakeland, Florida, is a stark contrast to the one President Biden visited yesterday in Pennsylvania. Valley Forge National Park is the site of the six-month winter encampment of the Continental Army in the hard winter of 1777–1778. After the British army captured the city of Philadelphia in September 1777, General George Washington settled 12,000 people of his army about 18 miles to the northwest. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">There the army almost fell apart. Supply chains were broken as the British captured food or it spoiled in transit to the soldiers, and wartime inflation meant the Continental Congress did not appropriate enough money for food and clothing. Hunger and disease stalked the camp, but even worse was the lack of clothing. More than 1,000 soldiers died, and about eight or ten deserted every day. Washington warned the president of the Continental Congress that the men were close to mutiny. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Even if they didn’t quit, they weren’t very well organized for an army charged with resisting one of the greatest military forces on the globe. The different units had been trained with different field manuals, making it hard to coordinate movements, and a group of army officers were working with congressmen to replace Washington, complaining about how he was prosecuting the war. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By February 1778, though, things were falling into place. A delegation from the Continental Congress had visited Valley Forge and understood that the lack of supplies made the army, and thus the country, truly vulnerable, and they set out to reform the supply department. Then a newly arrived Prussian officer, Baron Friedrich von Steuben, drilled the soldiers into unity and better morale. And then, in May, the soldiers learned that France had signed a treaty with the American states in February, lending money, matériel, and men to the cause of American independence. When the soldiers broke camp in June, they marched out ready to take on the British at the Battle of Monmouth, where their new training paid off as they held their own against the British soldiers.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The January 6 insurrectionists were fond of claiming they were echoing these American revolutionaries who created the new nation in the 1770s. The right-wing Proud Boys’ strategic plan for taking over buildings in the Capitol complex on January 6 was titled: “1776 Returns,” and even more famously, newly elected representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) wrote on January 5, 2021: “Remember these next 48 hours. These are some of the most important days in American history.” On January 6, she wrote: “Today is 1776.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump has repeatedly called those January 6 insurrectionists “patriots.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Biden yesterday called Trump out for “trying to steal history the same way he tried to steal the election.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Indeed. The insurrectionists at the Capitol were not patriots. They were trying to overthrow the government in order to take away the right at the center of American democracy: our right to determine our own destiny. Commemorating them as heroes is the 21st century’s version of erecting Confederate statues.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The January 6th insurrectionists were nothing like the community at Valley Forge, made up of people who had offered up their lives to support a government pledged, however imperfectly in that era, to expanding that right. When faced with hunger, disease, and discord, that community—which was made up not just of a remarkably diverse set of soldiers from all 13 colonies, including Black and Indigenous men, but also of their families and the workers, enslaved and free, who came with them—worked together to build a force that could establish a nation based in the idea of freedom. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The people at the Capitol on January 6 who followed in the footsteps of those who were living in the Valley Forge encampment 246 years ago were not the rioters. 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Donald Trump does not succeed and b.) the MAGA movement is extinguished.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Unlike the violence of the January 6th insurrectionists, the experience of the people at Valley Forge is etched deep into our national identity as a symbol of the sacrifice and struggle Americans have made to preserve and renew democracy. It is so central to who we are that we have commemorated it in myths and monuments and have projected into the future that its meaning will always remain at the heart of America. According to <em>The Star Trek Encyclopedia</em>, the Federation Excelsior-class starship USS <em>Valley Forge</em> will still be fighting in the 24th century… against the Dominion empire.</span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today released a 156-page report showing that when he was in the presidency, Trump received at least $7.8 million from 20 different governments, including those of China, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Malaysia, through businesses he owned. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Democrats brought receipts. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">According to the report—and the documents from Trump’s former accounting firm Mazars that are attached to it—the People’s Republic of China and companies substantially controlled by the PRC government paid at least $5,572,548 to Trump-owned properties while Trump was in office; Saudi Arabia paid at least $615,422; Qatar paid at least $465,744; Kuwait paid at least $300,000; India paid at least $282,764; Malaysia paid at least $248,962; Afghanistan paid at least $154,750; the Philippines paid at least $74,810; the United Arab Emirates paid at least $65,225. The list went on and on. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The committee Democrats explained that these payments were likely only a fraction of the actual money exchanged, since they cover only four of more than 500 entities Trump owned at the time. When the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in January 2023, Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) stopped the investigation before Mazars had produced the documents the committee had asked for when Democrats were in charge of it. Those records included documents relating to Russia, South Korea, South Africa, and Brazil. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trump fought hard against the production of these documents, dragging out the court fight until September 2022. The committee worked on them for just four months before voters put Republicans in charge of the House and the investigation stopped. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">These are the first hard numbers that show how foreign governments funneled money to the president while policies involving their countries were in front of him. The report notes, for example, that Trump refused to impose sanctions on Chinese banks that were helping the North Korean government; one of those banks was paying him close to $2 million in rent annually for commercial office space in Trump Tower. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The first article of the U.S. Constitution reads: “[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument [that is, salary, fee, or profit], Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The report also contrasted powerfully with the attempt of Republicans on the Oversight Committee, led by Comer, to argue that Democratic Joe Biden has corruptly profited from the presidency. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In the <em>Washington Post</em> on December 26, 2023, Philip Bump noted that just after voters elected a Republican majority, Comer told the <em>Washington Post</em> that as soon as he was in charge of the Oversight Committee, he would use his power to “determine if this president and this White House are compromised because of the millions of dollars that his family has received from our adversaries in China, Russia and Ukraine.”</span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">For the past year, while he and the committee have made a number of highly misleading statements to make it sound as if there are Biden family businesses involving the president (there are not) and the president was involved in them (he was not), their claims were never backed by any evidence. Bump noted in a piece on December 14, 2023, for example, that Comer told Fox News Channel personality Maria Bartiromo that “the Bidens” have “taken in” more than $24 million. In fact, Bump explained, Biden’s son Hunter and his business partners did receive such payments, but most of the money went to the business partners. About $7.5 million of it went to Hunter Biden. There is no evidence that any of it went to Joe Biden. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">All of the committee’s claims have similar reality checks. 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><b>No relief</b></span></a></p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: #121212; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D658db32b568d5ac60137042c2161fb6ce83d5975292df3222d89704fe0fc7d3522785c4196b78780d0a4fdd5899117bc738801fe4578574587f436f7f6bf689f&source=gmail&ust=1704747349222000&usg=AOvVaw3wnZ47oC-dpmmrYAR6FeIv" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=658db32b568d5ac60137042c2161fb6ce83d5975292df3222d89704fe0fc7d3522785c4196b78780d0a4fdd5899117bc738801fe4578574587f436f7f6bf689f" style="color: #121212; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><b>War, hunger and disease stalk Gaza’s 2.2m people</b></span></a></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); color: #121212; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 32px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.e.economist.com/?qs%3D658db32b568d5ac60137042c2161fb6ce83d5975292df3222d89704fe0fc7d3522785c4196b78780d0a4fdd5899117bc738801fe4578574587f436f7f6bf689f&source=gmail&ust=1704747349222000&usg=AOvVaw3wnZ47oC-dpmmrYAR6FeIv" href="https://click.e.economist.com/?qs=658db32b568d5ac60137042c2161fb6ce83d5975292df3222d89704fe0fc7d3522785c4196b78780d0a4fdd5899117bc738801fe4578574587f436f7f6bf689f" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><b>The territory is on the verge of famine after three months of war</b></span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_3138404993518772737mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEijjrqF0ooDIyF4pvIcWrIQQz2xZ0bg9W7_MrLijDdjQmW7KnS5FpyNSHd63pdLkUK__fFTOhDWxfVAQdEj-tXRb2-FNevYVwmzba_qk7aapkmn7FKPPdFwxYlWjTn70o8Pgk-wSRrUWX7iea4DQfsRajUyq6LeHpADtlYozxW9AtT1psoUQKNIC4CRa4NMT5IOLIhI71FsKBGjwJegPOhS_uCe=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3138404993518772737mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3138404993518772737mcnTextContent" style="color: #e6e6e6; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Secretary of State Antony Blinken</strong> arrived back in the Middle East for the fourth time since October 7 for a grueling week of tense negotiations as the region simmers with violence. <br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Blinken is on a mission to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza, curtail Israeli attacks that have killed thousands of Palestinians, quell <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D0857213851%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1704747349284000&usg=AOvVaw1cPrX1yG8XpWi1uidg7a8N" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=0857213851&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">ever-increasing settler violence in the occupied West Bank</a>, and stop the entire region from erupting in a wider conflict. But a new report about his diplomatic dustup with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an earlier visit shows just how fraught this job will be. In November, Blinken told Netanyahu that Israel would have to agree to a series of humanitarian pauses in Gaza to allow for the flow of more aid into the enclave and give civilians the opportunity to leave areas under attack. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D3320fe6c8f%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1704747349284000&usg=AOvVaw3w78C5VnvJHxabw4NSNyJe" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=3320fe6c8f&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">But Netanyahu refused</a>, according to a detailed account in <em>The New York Times</em>. Blinken retorted that he would then announce the Biden administration’s demand in a news conference in order to accelerate public pressure, which led to Netanyahu preempting him <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D3f0d21bd03%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1704747349284000&usg=AOvVaw3FJIkz-raHMtH10pa6nzX0" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=3f0d21bd03&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">by releasing a defiant video statement</a> declaring “nothing will stop us” until Israel defeats Hamas. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Several days later, the Israel Defense Forces started taking four-hour pauses in the fighting in a few areas, despite Netanyahu’s objection. Armed with weapons from the United States, the IDF has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians since the war began, most of whom are civilians, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. American State Department officials are increasingly struggling to come to an agreement with their Israeli counterparts over a wide range of critical issues, including the need to reduce civilian casualties as soon as possible. <br /> </span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Secretary Blinken has both maintained steadfast support for Israel, while also repeatedly expressing the need to minimize Palestinian suffering in recent months. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D22c042a526%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1704747349284000&usg=AOvVaw04Qv_6pYAmf-XLK0U3ghvK" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=22c042a526&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">On Tuesday, the State Department issued a sharp rebuke of two Israeli government officials</a>—one of whom was Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir—who advocated for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza. The statement read that the United States has been “clear, consistent, and unequivocal that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land.” To underscore the tension rising between the allies, Ben-Gvir responded on social media: “with all due respect, we are not another star in the American flag.”</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_3138404993518772737mcnImage CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgWn5xOwZIamOQePklCymRPs6SFBnoaJFTVVboNoNMy_FV7IjLXIi5UEeGybnB7K26gsozcSszvTYb3krPQuaYZSCpmfPFNYQgv9v9ClCje_8DUIAgw_KIcwnyqlpyDqm5Cqa_DpGDCO7Wt9W4dpnSO8TnAN3B2kKd2GSlkLn1su19LeWFK2aP2EdF9SpZ81uOclvppxg9ZgH6n5E5CmyoPFe5g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3138404993518772737mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3138404993518772737mcnTextContent" style="color: #e5e5e5; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Secretary Blinken’s marathon trip</strong> will include stops in Israel, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Greece, and Turkey. (And you thought YOU were busy at work!)<br /> </span></p><ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Israel has reportedly blocked water purifiers, medical supplies, and other necessary items from entering Gaza, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3D6b9051dff4%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1704747349284000&usg=AOvVaw0zv0gQhhiV8qjIIAAcPWPJ" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=6b9051dff4&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">according to an internal document from the Egyptian Red Crescent viewed by Reuters</a>. Israel has long maintained the practice of inspecting trucks entering Gaza to stop the flow of any items with potential “dual use” for both civilian or military purposes. However, the unprecedented conditions of starvation and urgent medical needs resulting from Israel’s assault on Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attack make any disruption in the delivery of supplies to the enclave a dire prospect. Israel denies blocking the supplies detailed in a list on the Red Crescent documents. <br /> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Ddd87ce1cb7%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1704747349284000&usg=AOvVaw2d8H8jOVpOGPaQyGhVyfmf" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=dd87ce1cb7&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced on Friday that his country will begin the process of removing the U.S.-led international military coalition</a>. The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq on a mission it describes as an effort to advise and assist local forces in preventing a resurgence of the Islamic State. The statement came just one day after an American strike killed a militia leader in Baghdad that the Pentagon claimed was responsible for recent attacks on U.S. personnel. Iran-aligned militia groups in Iraq and Syria (where the U.S. has 900 troops) oppose Israel’s campaign in Gaza, and hold the United States responsible as well. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for two explosions in Iran that killed more than 100 people on Wednesday. <br /> </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 25.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Even as Blinken is expected to have tense talks</strong> with Netanyahu, the Biden administration has continued to approve huge weapons shipments to Israel <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://Crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6%26id%3Df46a3e9a12%26e%3Dd8b9d1068d&source=gmail&ust=1704747349284000&usg=AOvVaw3J4HzB2t74AUgXxmVVaWhh" href="https://crooked.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=f46a3e9a12&e=d8b9d1068d" style="color: #e5e5e5;" target="_blank">without any conditions</a>.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3138404993518772737mcnDividerBlock" style="background-color: black; 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Is the west talking itself into decline?</a></h4><p style="color: #66605c; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;">The data suggests that we have shifted away from a culture of progress towards one of worry</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">JANUARY 5, 2024</span> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">by John Burn-Murdoch</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The questions that matter to markets in ‘24</a></h4><p style="color: #66605c; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;">And our catastrophic 2023 stock picks</p><p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">JANUARY 3, 2024</span> <span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">by Robert Armstrong & Ethan Wu</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;">We close out this edition with this:</span></p><p style="line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: none; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="display: inline-block; margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 600px;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiwfji1by9nyWtcE8dinpTJ-qTxUjLvIht_hxUuI9QZKtbWkVMWUWKUfWFdaeMudGZ7YsmAQT4aGwePapblqhlt4_Q-o0KrJQaK6nr3oKBNbmlV0ONOfddMUEtkjuTG7jvpVYXDMicEb4TE9LYvHppl65aYNXqh5G6Dz2p8xtljJaKdcYltYcsfNWl8sw=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222;"><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;">We know what <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/kkhmh6hlngmvkohl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zZW5lY2Ev&source=gmail&ust=1704747350220000&usg=AOvVaw3xxKzxDc4mVCbevADr2_OC" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/kkhmh6hlngmvkohl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zZW5lY2Ev" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Seneca</a> thought of Alexander the Great. We know what he thought of Marius. We know what he thought of entitled and gluttonous Romans. We have his seething satire of Claudius.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;">His prolific writings condemn and judge—rightfully so—these hypocritical and often miserable folks. We have hundreds of his letters (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/58hvh7hmgp72rwb6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5MTM_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9MzU2MGZhNTE5Jl9zcz1y&source=gmail&ust=1704747350220000&usg=AOvVaw2OqwjmgdOg65IdQnpyPAXI" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/58hvh7hmgp72rwb6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5MTM_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9MzU2MGZhNTE5Jl9zcz1y" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">a must read!</a>), dozens of essays, volumes on natural history, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/25h2hoh23rdwk5a3/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5MTk_X3Bvcz00Jl9zaWQ9NTZkZGNkNTc5Jl9zcz1y&source=gmail&ust=1704747350220000&usg=AOvVaw3VA3Ugb5674-8r1XbyXCI4" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/25h2hoh23rdwk5a3/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5MTk_X3Bvcz00Jl9zaWQ9NTZkZGNkNTc5Jl9zcz1y" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">multiple books</a> that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/qvh8h7hrdgnpkgfl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9ob3ctdG8tZGllLWFuLWFuY2llbnQtZ3VpZGUtdG8tdGhlLWVuZC1vZi1saWZlP19wb3M9NiZfc2lkPTU2ZGRjZDU3OSZfc3M9cg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704747350220000&usg=AOvVaw3COnyZ4Is842BZM7MXyGaF" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/qvh8h7hrdgnpkgfl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9ob3ctdG8tZGllLWFuLWFuY2llbnQtZ3VpZGUtdG8tdGhlLWVuZC1vZi1saWZlP19wb3M9NiZfc2lkPTU2ZGRjZDU3OSZfc3M9cg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">explore countless topics</a> at incredible depth. But you know what we don’t know much about? What Seneca thought about himself and his job at Nero’s right hand.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: large;">It’s like that line from the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/g3hnh5h3m7pwqdtr/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1iMWtiTHd2cXVnaw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704747350220000&usg=AOvVaw3XHUs5XFIB_KQYJg70L3ZE" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/g3hnh5h3m7pwqdtr/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1iMWtiTHd2cXVnaw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Taylor Swift song “Anti-Hero”</a>—Seneca would apparently rather stare directly at the sun than look in the mirror. He’s got volumes for other people. He’s got an eagle eye for elsewhere. But his own struggles, his own contradictions, his own flaws? Well, he never seems to touch on that.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">And most of us are just like him in that way. We <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/9qhzhnhpdk9r56f9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9hcmUteW91LXNlbGYtYXdhcmUv&source=gmail&ust=1704747350220000&usg=AOvVaw0SE6gGD8eeoqWqrK2nLa2F" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdr90ddixi8x7k277/9qhzhnhpdk9r56f9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9hcmUteW91LXNlbGYtYXdhcmUv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">don’t want to look in the mirror</a>. We don’t want to put ourselves up for review. We can see what everyone else is doing wrong, their obvious issues and compulsions, but our own? We turn away.</p></div><p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-1404054088306652732024-01-07T09:53:00.000-08:002024-01-07T09:53:45.802-08:00Notations On Our World (Special Edition): In Doha With Secretary of State Antony Blinken news conference<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/oCtk1Mc5GD0?si=TnNYXvR15QrQ-51k" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585764935052730450.post-51633697096379268802024-01-01T17:00:00.000-08:002024-01-01T17:01:28.151-08:00Notations On Our World (Special Edition): On Our World As 2024 is Before Us <span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We welcome all to 2024 here at the Daily Outsider. 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