"Guys, don't stand! F*cking push forward! What mines are there? There's a road, they should move!"
Soviet methods in the Russian army, but instead of infantry, tanks are used for demining: part of the column of Russian armored vehicles enters the minefield.
The conversations between drone operators, staff commanders, and tank crews are a special treat for the ears.
The footage was taken in the village of Spirne, Donetsk region
#Trump has a huge posse today, including #KashPatel; #GerryKassar, a #conservative party leader in NY; #BernieKerik, fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; #AlanDershowitz, lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & #BorisEpshteyn, legal adviser who was #indicted in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court had severely limited the honest services doctrine in #Skilling v. United States, by deciding that the “intangible” right to honest services required a very
👉tangible exchange of money or property from a person to an official for some precise action as part of a bribery or kickback scheme.
And in United States v. #Sun-#Diamond#Growers,
a case with facts eerily reminiscent of those uncovered in recent Supreme Court ethics scandals,
the justices significantly limited the reach of another public corruption law,
the illegal gratuities statute, 18 USC § 201(c), in similar fashion.
In Sun-Diamond Growers, the Court overturned a conviction against a trade association for giving then-Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy $5,900 in illegal gratuities–including items such as tickets to the 1993 U.S. Open Tennis Tournament and thousands of dollars of luggage and meals.
The unanimous Court interpreted that statute to apply only to situations where officials accept or are given gifts “for or because of some particular official act.”
♦️Until Sun-Diamond, the government could establish an illegal gratuities violation by showing that a gift was based on the official’s position;
♦️but after Sun-Diamond, prosecutors were required to establish a “link between a thing of value conferred upon a federal official and a specific ‘official act’ for or because of which it was given.”
Based on this analysis, gifts or money,
-- even when they’re given by an advocacy organization to an official explicitly in charge of regulating that advocacy group,
-- are not problems in themselves; rather, they only become problematic when they are linked to a very specific set of actions. @panamared27401
Climate change is going to bankrupt the U.S. and make large parts of the world unlivable including places in the U.S. if our progress isn’t at the very least upheld.
Trump is the biggest threat in the U.S. to the health of the planet and life on it. Anyone who doubts it now won’t in 2025.
For dealing with climate change it’ll be game over. We are already out of second chances
"GOP megadonors are funding an anti-democracy movement.
Buying election-denying twits like Rubio has become a dime-a-dozen system of public corruption."
Anything to evade taxes.
Anything to thwart investigation into the Jan 6 funding.
Anything to keep frying the planet.
Anything to keep Xi and Putin satisfied.
Adelson
Uihlein
Tim Dunn
Kelcy Warren
Ken Griffin
Steve Schwarzman
Bernie Marcus
Charles Koch
Barre Seid
Farris Wilks
Jeff Yass
Ike Perlmutter
JJ Ricketts
Jacob Helberg
Charles Schwab
Linda McMahon
Warren Stephens
Paul Singer
Ron Lauder
Patrick Ryan
Steve Wynn
Omeed Malik
Jeffrey Sprecher
#Trump pledges to 'roll back' Democratic President Joe #Biden’s #gun#regulations put in place by Democratic President Joe #Biden & to fire the #ATF chief during a lengthy rally speech to the #NRA on Sat, during which he accepted the influential group's #endorsement.
I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that the extremist settler movement in Israel is rooted in the USA and culturally has a lot in common with US white supremacist/settler ideology—there's a reason Netanyahu is so comfortable with Republicans who dine at the Christian Nationalist table. https://mastodon.social/@cmonagle/112462865808610948
So while he was celebrating his 80th birthday with Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and 75 MAGA guests, Rudy Giuliani was finally served with the Arizona indictment for their criminal conspiracy to overturn our 2020 election. — Now that’s what I call the definition of sweet karma.
The Telegraph headline on Palestinian refugees is in essence identical to how rightwing British tabloids wrote about Jewish refugees when Britain denied them safe refuge during the Holocaust.
These institutions are dedicated to White supremacy at all costs. They view us as disposable nonhumans.
Any PoC and/or Jew who thinks these people are on their side is wrong. They may temporarily pretend to not hate Jews or Ukrainians or whoever but that’s all it is: temporary.
"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."
May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government. Trump appointed him anyway.
Just a bunch of plutocrats utilising their free-speech rights..
Report
Pro-Israel billionaires pushed NYC Mayor to use police on pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University.
They donated to him & offered to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.
The group included Howard Schultz, Michael Dell, Bill Ackman & Joshua Kushner, with Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Len Blavatnik & Joseph Sitt also associated.
The same people who bought a coup attempt, a corrupt Supreme Court, and 147 members of Congress to deny election results, are funding violence at campus protests.
Britain's record on homelessness is world beating, just not in a good way.
We've the highest recorded levels of homelessness in the developed world; while other counties have seen (albeit slow) declines in homelessness, since 2010 the UK's rate has been accelerating away.
The housing crisis has many dimensions, but here there's a direct correlation between the arrival of the current Tory govt. & massive increases!
The party of landlords is working for them & doing nothing for us!
At Justice #Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display
An upside-down flag, adopted by #Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. #SCOTUS
An organization led by a wealthy Republican donor helped write a controversial new state law meant to force homeless people across Florida into state-sanctioned camps:
Sixty days in jail and forced psychiatric treatment: What Florida could do next to homeless people https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/sixty-days-in-jail-and-forced-psychiatric
