Robin Brenizer 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

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Ex-corporate consultant, retired in Mexico because I can. Avid reader.

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🇷🇺 #Russia has designated pianist Evgeny Kissin as a "foreign agent" because of his support for Ukraine and opposition to the war. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Russia names pianist Evgeny Kissin as 'foreign agent'www.reuters.com Russia has designated pianist Evgeny Kissin as a "foreign agent" because of his support for Ukraine and opposition to the war, state news agency TASS quoted the justice ministry as saying on Friday.

Feels like if Dems can’t even leave a fascist owned communication platform they aren’t prepared to fight fascism.

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#crooks #blackrock okay, this is weird. mega corporation Blackrock ran an advertisement that prominently featured the shooter. Now they want to bury the ad. what are the odds of this particular student appearing in this ad? www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/b... www.visualcapitalist.com/blackrocks-t...

BlackRock pulls commercial that included Trump rally shooter | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Investment giant BlackRock is pulling an ad that included Thomas Crooks, the gunman who shot at Donald Trump, injuring the former president and killing an attendee at a rally near Pittsburgh on Saturd...

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@nytimes: A federal appeals court temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new student loan repayment plan, in a move that could unleash chaos for the eight million borrowers enrolled in the program. https://t.co/3xx16z60sb

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Aside from the obvious fascism, I can’t believe how far we’ve slid in presidential discourse that nobody cares that Vance is unqualified to be president in the case of an emergency. He’s been in the Senate for five seconds and has no other experience.

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"One reason I’m interested in the hard drive is because Hines himself revealed that the “backup” of it is 62% bigger than the laptop of which it purports to be a copy. Understanding why that is so might go a long way to explain anything John Paul Mac Isaac did with Hunter Biden’s data."

Reup: In Bid to Withhold Laptop and Hard Drive Forensic Reports, Derek Hines Misstates Hunter Biden's View on Authenticity of Data on Laptop www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/17/i...

In Bid to Withhold Laptop and Hard Drive Forensic Reports, Derek Hines Misstates Hunter Biden's View on Authenticity of Data on Laptop - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net In a bid to withhold the forensic reports on the laptop attributed to Hunter Biden and the hard drive copy of it, Derek Hynes falsely implied that Hunter Biden had agreed the data on the laptop was au...

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I still mean to do a post on why having Biden as POTUS to protect the election and Harris as candidate could be really important given the certainty that right wingers are going to resort to extreme measures again. Maybe tomorrow.

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Note that Alexander Smirnov has done so too. With Smirnov, if he succeeded it would create problems for his continued detention.

Hunter Biden moves to dismiss both his gun charges and his tax charges based on Judge Cannon's ruling that the special counsel was improperly appointed. GUN CASE: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... TAX CASE: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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See if you can spot the common thread between the three highest profile speakers at tonight’s Republican National Convention

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This is 100% true. Soon Biden would be more popular than Michelle Obama.

If Biden drops, in a month Harris's numbers will be similar to Biden's now, Biden's approval will skyrocket now that he's no longer running, there will also be a bunch of spurious but lingering legal challenges to her on ballots, and Dem fundraisers will start leaking about swapping Biden back in.

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Remember how dipshits on the right thought that Twitter moderating content was "election interference?"

Elon Musk has rapidly turned Twitter into a pro-Trump campaign engine. - Icon of Trump after his assassination attempt on the MAGA hashtag (hat tip to @parkermolloy.com) - Unremovable Trump 2024 hashtag at the top of the trending topics list - Unremovable Trump campaign ads on the Explore tab

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I just love it when a FedSoc-stacked federal appellate court blocks student debt relief without any explanation whatsoever. They don't even describe the scope of their order, they just write "granted" in response to GOP AG nonsense. Very rule of law-ish! www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US appeals court blocks all of Biden student debt relief planwww.reuters.com A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans.

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"People should come here legally." "Asylum is legal." "But they should apply first." "That is not allowed by law, you have to be here first." "Well, you know what I mean."

I'm so glad the Politics Understanders have decided today they're Immigration Understanders. I really wasn't aggravated enough this week

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With seventh person seemingly cured of HIV, signs of hope for a broader cure

With seventh person seemingly cured of HIV, signs of hope for a broader curewww.fiercebiotech.com Though his real name isn’t known, there’s no doubt that he’ll go down in history. | Though his real name isn’t known, there’s no doubt that he’ll go down in history. An adult man dubbed “The Next Berl...

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From Hopium: - House Dems/battleground candidates post big fundraising numbers, outraise Rs - For an uplift come watch my big presentation, “With Democrats, Things Get Better” - Powerful Biden ad on reproductive freedom - Trump is unfit & unwell More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/house-dems...

House Dems Bringing It, Powerful New Biden Ad, Trump Is Unfit and Unwell, On The Greatness and Goodness of the Democratic Partywww.hopiumchronicles.com Hopium Get Together Tuesday at 7pm ET, Join Me in Raleigh, NC Tomorrow!

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I think my favorite flavor of Trump voter is the person who a) is very upset about high grocery prices and b) is fired up about Trump's plan to deport 50% of the nation's agricultural workforce.

Bibi must go

Netanyahu released a video in English directly attacking Biden and Blinken. "I told Secretary Blinken it's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel".

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The Threats that Hunter Biden's Prosecutors Pretended Didn't Exist Continue Unabated www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/16/t...

The Threats that Hunter Biden's Prosecutors Pretended Didn't Exist Continue Unabated - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net When Hunter Biden raised the way Trump had elicited threats against those investigating him, prosecutors simply pretended the threats didn't exist. But the arrest of a rabid Trump supporter last week ...

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By making a recovering addict “icky,” the right has successfully drowned out all the skepticism the press once had for this obviously politically motivated attack on Joe Biden’s son. You can also listen to Marcy break down this story on Friday's @nicolesandler.bsky.social show.

Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show - 6-14-24www.youtube.com I'm still out sick with Covid, but we couldn't let today go by without hearing from Marcy Wheeler! So with an assist from Spocko and LOLGOP aka Jason Statler...

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"They have just stopped covering the scandal that is Donald Trump framing his opponent's son over the course of five years. Gone." Almost everyone has missed or forgotten why Hunter's persecution matters. Here's a bonus member Ball of Thread episode where @emptywheel.bsky.social ties it together.

BONUS EPISODE: The Tiger Beat Dehumanization of Hunter Biden | Ball of Threadwww.patreon.com Get more from Ball of Thread on Patreon

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It's been said a bunch of times but I want to say it, too: what's been so bracing about these Lauren Windsor/Rolling Stone stories is not that they reveal Alitos as grand villains but as absolute off-the-rack nightmare suburban shitheads. 0 wins above replacement between the two of them.

mamma mia! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New Audio: Alito Bashes ProPublica for Reporting on Supreme Court Ethicswww.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a new recording suggests partisan funding is to blame for coverage of justices’ undisclosed luxury gifts.

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There's never been a more blatant case for billionaires owning our politics than JD Vance being considered for VP. He underperformed his Republican predecessor by 15% in a key swing state. But he's in consideration not because he represents Ohio. But because he's the Senator from Peter Thiel.

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The Scolding that Hunter Biden Should Have Pled Guilty Ignores the Complexity of What Happened www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/12/t...

The Scolding that Hunter Biden Should Have Pled Guilty Ignores the Complexity of What Happened - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net The problem with most pieces scolding Hunter Biden for not pleading out before his gun trial is that Leo Wise and Derek Hines have made clear their intent to humiliate Hunter Biden no matter what he d...

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Contrary to what Hannity et al are telling people, the Hunter Biden trial did not prove that everyone was lying about the laptop back in 2020. It didn't prove much of anything, in fact. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The right takes a Biden-laptop victory lap around an empty arenawww.washingtonpost.com The issue was always whether the material was part of a foreign effort to influence the election — as had occurred four years before.

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Alito is mad because people donate to ProPublica? Sign me up. I donated to ProPublica this morning because they're doing essential investigative journalism, and it pisses off Sam Alito. That's like getting chocolate with your peanut butter.

Sammy Alito furious that donors modestly funded ProPublica to investigate Harlan Crow's massive donations. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Reup: There has been a lot of wildly misinformed commentary abt WHY Hunter Biden's plea deal crashed, about which we learned a lot in MTD proceedings. This post lays it out. It WASN'T scope of immunity, tho Weiss did renege on that. www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/12/w...

What Happened to Hunter Biden's Plea Agreement - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net The timeline of the collapse of the plea deal released in the last year makes it clear that David Weiss reneged on the scope of the immunity offered to Hunter Biden. But Hunter was willing to accept t...

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Demons: The Greek Tragedy of America's Hunter Biden Addiction www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/08/d...

Demons: The Greek Tragedy of America's Hunter Biden Addiction - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Naomi Biden's testimony in the Hunter Biden trial on Friday may well help prove the possession case against her dad, while conflicting stories from the gun shop guys might harm the counts pertaining t...

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I lived in CT when Sandy Hook happened. One of my colleagues lost a child in that shooting. I watched about three minutes of The People Vs Alex Jones before my rage reached dangerous levels and I had to turn it off. I hope he loses everything.

Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages...