Just a few weeks ago we had Democrats at +12 and Republicans at -6
So this has changed quite a bit over the past few of weeks. We are down to three states left after some lawsuits were settled in favor of the Republicans. There are fourteen states still in litigation that show as complete on this map, but it is very likely that most of these map (if not all) will stand.
The New York map got dinged again this week, as the appeals court agreed with the first judge and rejected the NY map claiming it violated the laws on gerrymandering. That map had cut the projected GOP seats down to four out of twenty six. Even the original map was a form of gerrymandering, so if these rulings stand and a non-partisan map is drawn by a third party it is possible that the GOP might even pick up a seat rather than lose four.
All in all, Democrats and the GOP both gained seats in five different states. The vast majority of states had little or no partisan change. After how it "looked" at one time, the fact that we are down to Democrats only picking up 6 potential seats overall is a serious difference. There is a possibility that the gerrymandered NY map still makes it through and that could change things again. But it will still be better than it was or looked like it was going to be..
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U.S. diplomats will return to Ukraine this week and the U.S. will announce more military aid to Ukraine after a high-profile meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and others in Kyiv on Sunday, according to Fox News' Jennifer Griffin, who traveled with the U.S. delegation.
"It was a very productive meeting, very engaging session, and we were very happy to have that opportunity," Austin said at a news conference early Monday. "We expressed our deepest condolences to the president for the loss of so many civilians" and for the loss of troops. He said U.S. officials discussed with Zelenskyy what will "enable us to win the current fight and also build for tomorrow."
Blinken said the battle for Kyiv is won and that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been a failure when measured by Russian President Vladimir Putin's original goal, to "fully subsume Ukraine into Russia."
The meeting with Blinken, Austin, and Zelenskyy also included Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, Ambassador Oksana Makarova, General Valerii Zaluzhny, head of Presidential administration Andrii Yermak, and presidential aide Andrii Sybiyha.
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Secretary Austin brought Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of Defense, and Lt. Gen. Randy George, his senior military aide. Tom Sullivan, deputy chief of staff for policy at State and the brother of Jake Sullivan, accompanied Blinken.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pauses while speaking during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Biden will announce at 7 a.m. Eastern Monday that he is nominating a new ambassador to Ukraine: Bridget Brink. Brink, the current U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia, has decades of experience in the region, having previously served as deputy chief of mission in Tiblisi, Georgia, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
A senior U.S. Defense and State Department official told Fox News that the diplomats addressed the following issues.
Blinken will announce that U.S. Embassy officials will return to Ukraine this week, starting with day trips to Lviv and graduating to overnight, with the goal of returning to Kyiv as soon as possible. Blinken discussed this plan with Zelenskyy Sunday, sending a strong message of solidary with the people of Ukraine
Blinken will also announce $713 million in foreign military financing for Ukraine and 15 other U.S. allies, with $322 million to Ukraine, enabling the country to buy off-the-shelf weapons and ammunition from other countries that may have older non-standard (often Soviet made) weapons and ammunition that Ukrainians know how to use.
After the Zelenskyy meeting, Austin will announce that the 6-day training of the first tranche of 50 Ukrainian artillerymen is wrapping up and the next set of soldiers begin training after that. The training is taking place outside Ukraine in another European host nation that wishes to remain anonymous. U.S. military officials are training Ukrainians on how to use 155 mm Howitzers, training soldiers who will in turn train other soldiers. Austin will also announce that the first 18 Howitzers are now in Ukraine, with another 7 currently being prepped for transit and another 72 to be sent in another package soon.
Twenty-plus defense ministers and chiefs of defense will meet with Austin and U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley in Ramstein, Germany, on Tuesday, April 26, about how to increase aid to Ukraine. The Ukrainian defense minister, Reznikov, will attend that meeting, as will NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
"For all the Russian claims that they have control of Mariupol, they are not acting like an army that has control of Mariupol," a senior U.S. Defense official told Fox News.
Reporters who were traveling with Blinken and Austin, including Fox News' own Jennifer Griffin, had to wait in Poland on the Ukrainian border due to security concerns, but they spoke to U.S. commanders on the ground there about the situation.
Lt. Gen. John Kolasheski, the commander of V Corps, told Fox News that 5th Corps is working with NATO partners to set up battle groups in all the NATO eastern front nations from Estonia to Bulgaria
Late News.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Top American officials promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hundreds of millions of dollars in new aid during the highest-level U.S. visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion two months earlier, while Britain said Monday that Moscow has yet to achieve a significant breakthrough in its offensive in the eastern industrial heartland of the country.
In meetings with Zelenskyy in Kyiv, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the United States had approved a $165 million sale of ammunition for Ukraine’s war effort, along with more than $300 million in foreign military financing.
The pledges came Sunday, the 60th day since the start of the invasion, as Ukraine pressed the West for more powerful weapons against Russia’s campaign in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where Moscow’s forces sought to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops in the battered port of Mariupol.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense said Monday that Ukrainian troops holed up in a steel plant in the strategic city were tying down Russian forces, and keeping them from being added to the offensive elsewhere in the Donbas.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR
Blinken: Russia is failing in war aims, Ukraine 'succeeding'
US promises new aid to Ukraine in fight against Russia
“Many Russian units remain fixed in the city and cannot be redeployed,” the ministry said in a statement posted on Twitter. “Ukraine’s defense of Mariupol has also exhausted many Russian units and reduced their combat effectiveness.”
The ministry added that, so far, Russia has only made “minor advances in some areas since shifting its focus to fully occupying the Donbas.”
“Without sufficient logistical and combat support enablers in place, Russia has yet to achieve a significant breakthrough,” the ministry said.
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Donald Trump's efforts to punish Gov. Brian Kemp for refusing to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia could set the former president up for humiliation as former Sen. David Perdue's campaign fails to gain traction, according to a new analysis.
"Now, as the May 24 primary draws near, this Republican battle royale has turned out to be as bitterly personal as expected. That much was clear at a debate between the two men on Sunday night, which ended up being a bare-knuckled brawl over the 2020 election. Perdue blamed Kemp for his and Trump’s losses—and Kemp called him 'weak' for trying to avoid accountability for his humiliating loss," Daily Beast congressional correspondent Sam Brodey wrote. "What wasn’t expected, however, is what Kemp carefully alluded to in Louisville: the possibility that Perdue’s much-hyped challenge fizzles out in embarrassment."
Brodey noted there has not been a single poll showing Perdue leading Kemp, even though Trump held a rally with Perdue in March and also campaigned against Kemp at a rally in September.
"If Kemp successfully vanquishes Perdue, the win might have implications that extend far beyond this spring’s primary, which has become a litmus test for the future of the GOP," Brody explained. "For one, it shows that even the most devoted Republicans simply aren’t making decisions based on Trump’s endorsements or his fixation on the 2020 election—a potential boon to Republican leaders who have been urging candidates nationwide to focus on Democrats’ handling of the economy and COVID instead."
Trump has threatened his MAGA base will sit out the midterms if his candidate loses the primary, meaning a victory by Kemp could strategically position Democrat Stacey Abrams for victory.
Trump has worried of a "humiliating experience" if Kemp wins the primary.
Again, from the document (most legal citations omitted):
In his Amended Complaint, Mr. Meadows asserts a range of legal arguments purporting to justify his refusal to comply with the Select Committee’s subpoena. Each is deeply flawed as a matter of law. For example, Mr. Meadows argues that the Select Committee lacks an appropriate legislative purpose. But the D.C. Circuit in Trump v. Thompson, 20 F.4th 10, 37-38 (D.C. Cir. 2021), has already rejected that argument, recognizing “Congress’s uniquely weighty interest in investigating the causes and circumstances of the January 6th attack so that it can adopt measures to better protect the Capitol Complex, prevent similar harm in the future, and ensure the peaceful transfer of power.”
Similarly, two other courts have already rejected Mr. Meadows’s arguments that the Select Committee is improperly composed under House Resolution 503 or applicable House Rules, or that the subpoenas issued by the Select Committee are other wise infirm. As those and other courts recognize, the Constitution’s Rulemaking Clause compels deference to the House of Representatives’s interpretation and application of its own rules.
The document then asserts that the Committee has since progressed significantly in its work and has identified “seven discrete topics” of inquiry for Meadows. Those areas are defined as follows:
1. Testimony regarding non-privileged documents (including text and email communications) that Mr. Meadows has already provided to the Select Committee in response to the subpoena, and testimony about events that Mr. Meadows has already publicly described in his book and elsewhere;
2. Testimony and documents regarding post-election efforts by the Trump campaign, the Trump legal team, and Mr. Meadows to create false slates of Presidential electors, or to pressure or persuade state and local officials and legislators to take actions to change the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election;
3. Testimony and documents relating to communications with Members of Congress in preparation for and during the events of January 6th;
4. Testimony and documents regarding the plan, in the days before January 6th, to replace Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Mr. Jeffrey Clark so that the Department could corruptly change its conclusions regarding election fraud;
5. Testimony and documents relating to efforts by President Trump to instruct, direct, persuade or pressure Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral votes on January 6th;
6. Testimony and documents relating to activity in the White House immediately before and during the events of January 6th; and
7. Testimony and documents relating to meetings and communications with individuals not affiliated with the federal government regarding the efforts to change the results of the 2020 election.
“Mr. Meadows participated, as a functionary of the Trump campaign, in activities intended to result in actions by state officials and legislatures to change the certified results of the election,” the document later asserts. “Thus, under D.C. Circuit precedent, documents and testimony regarding events in this capacity are not subject to claims of executive privilege.”
https://lawandcrime.com/jan-6-committee/jan-6-committee-asks-judge-to-spike-mark-meadows-lawsuit-reveals-testimony-about-how-trump-admin-discussed-staying-in-power/
But what really matters is Russia is losing the war.
Ukraine can win with ‘right equipment’: Austin
The US defence chief says Ukrainians can win against Russia with the right equipment and support.
“The first step in winning is believing that you can win. And so they believe that [they] can win,” Austin said in a news briefing on the Polish-Ukraine border.
“We believe that they can win. They can win if they have the right equipment, the right support. And we’re going to do everything we can, continue to do everything we had to ensure that they get it.”
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak with reporters after returning from their trip to Kyiv [Alex Brandon/Pool via Reuters]
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Russia ‘failing’ in its Ukraine war aims: Blinken
After a secrecy-shrouded visit to Kyiv, the US Secretary of State has said that Russia is failing in its war aims in Ukraine.
Our top diplomats are saying the world has united in resistance to ���� Russia
https://washingtonpost.com//world/2022/04/25/russia-ukraine-war-news-blinken-austin-live-updates/
IN POLAND, NEAR THE BORDER WITH UKRAINE — On the heels of a visit to Kyiv, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters that Russia is clearly “failing” in its war aims and “Ukraine is succeeding," while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the United States wanted to see "Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.”
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Western countries are rushing heavy weaponry to Ukraine as the war enters what promises to be a deadly, and potentially protracted, new phase.
Those deliveries are coming amid increasingly desperate pleas from Ukrainian battlefield commanders as they endure withering Russian artillery and rocket fire that could last weeks or months.
Over the past two weeks, the Biden administration began shipping out $1.2 billion worth of howitzers, around 200,000 artillery rounds, armored vehicles, counter-battery radars and experimental new armed drones capable of flying into targets. The deliveries are a significant advance from the small arms and Javelin anti-tank armor shipments that dominated the first eight weeks of fighting, and which helped stave off Russian thrusts toward the capital of Kyiv in the early days of the invasion.
On Friday, France and Canada unveiled new plans to send long-range artillery systems for the first time, and the U.K. is looking to backfill heavy armor to Poland as Warsaw contemplates sending Polish tanks to Ukraine.
On Sunday, during a surprise trip to Kyiv by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the U.S. announced more than $300 million in foreign military financing to allow Ukraine to purchase more sophisticated weapons, along with an additional $165 million for ammunition.
The rapid shift in aid reflects the recognition that the new fight will likely be dominated by artillery barrages and tank battles as infantry units square off over the flat fields of eastern Ukraine. But getting these new weapons to the front quickly will prove critical in the coming days.
Russia is failing spectacularly due to support from the US and other allies.
US 'wants to see Russia weakened', says defence secretary
Here’s more from the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, following his meeting with the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv.
Speaking to reporters from an undisclosed location in Poland near the Ukrainian border, Austin was asked what the US now sees as success in Ukraine.
Austin replied:
We want to see Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country able to protect its sovereign territory.
We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.
It has already lost a lot of military capability. We want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.
Austin said he believed Ukraine could win the war if it had the “right equipment” and “right support”.
In terms of their ability to win - the first step in winning is believing that you can win. And so, they believe that we can win.
We believe that we - they - can win, if they have the right equipment, the right support, and we’re going to do everything we can and continue to do everything we can.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/25/ukraine-weaponry-russia-war-00027406
Good job alky.
13 comments and not a single one ON-topic.
The 5th Beatle ain't the mentally ill one in your tiny Cuckoo's Nest duplex.
YOU are.
rrb said...
Good job alky.
13 comments and not a single one ON-topic.
The 5th Beatle ain't the mentally ill one in your tiny Cuckoo's Nest duplex.
YOU are.
This is just roger filibustering.
you know that racist thing dems do
like attacking republicans for gerrymandering while they do it in spades themselves
LMAO:
Twitter set to accept Musk's original $43 bln offer
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-twitter-set-accept-musks-best-final-offer-sources-2022-04-25/
This Fox News report is representing the cultural war that's going on now.
Authirs of the 1619 Project in August 2019 has helped spark a bevy of think pieces on critical race theory and paved the way for a surge in race-based reporting, multiple experts and analysts agreed.
The project, penned in part by lead writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, purports that 1619, the year the first enslaved Africans were brought to what would later become the United States, should be considered the true founding year of the country. Critics and historians who were consulted on the project have since hit the report as being full of historical inaccuracies, such as suggesting the Revolutionary War was fought in part to preserve slavery.
THE NEW YORK TIMES JOURNEY FROM PAPER OF RECORD TO HOME OF THE 1619 PROJECT
No matter what side of the debate Americans found themselves on, many noted the uptick in race-based studies and news reports.
The Washington Post published a database in January on the number of congressmen who once owned slaves. The authors declared their research provides a "greater understanding" of how slaveholding "influenced early America."
"More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation," the title of the study read.
"The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents," the report began.
The researchers found that 1,800 congressmen from 38 different states owned slaves, and linked slavery to present-day debates.
"The country is still grappling with the legacy of their embrace of slavery," the authors wrote. "The link between race and political power in early America echoes in complicated ways, from the racial inequities that persist to this day to the polarizing fights over voting rights and the way history is taught in schools."
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The conservative movement of today doesn't want the history of slavery taught in schools. Because people get woke up and think for themselves.
I think the first thing republicans need to do when they capture enough power is eliminate the filibuster.
That is all roger does
And aren't democrats for eliminating it (currently)?
democrats would never have power again if republicans played it right...
fair ?
* democrats should go along in that case.
They wouldn't want to be known again as the party of racists, right?
though that is their founding brand
* Republicans see Americans
roger sees whites, blacks, asians, mexicans etc
to him skin color matters
well actually just politics.
he actually doesn't give a shit about people
* unless they are democrats
I'm a lifetime car nut and this is amazing.
DETROIT – General Motors will produce an electrified Chevrolet Corvette next year, followed by an all-electric version of the iconic sports car, GM President Mark Reuss said Monday.
Reuss said the automaker will continue to produce traditional models with internal combustion engines alongside the electrified models. He declined to disclose when the all-electric Corvette would be released or whether the “electrified” model would be a traditional hybrid or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
If they go fully electrified, because electric motors has 100% power instantly, unlike standard gasoline engines that have to reach several hundred rpm before they produce more horsepower.
NY court of appeals also rejected the dem gerrymandered map. Rightly so. It was absurd.
25 Apr 2022 07.08 EDT
Russia should be “weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine”, the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said after he and the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, visited Kyiv and pledged a further $713m to help Ukraine in its war effort.
The direct comment came a few hours after the two senior US figures met Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy – and was followed by Russia making an official diplomatic complaint about American arms supplies.
In a press briefing on the Polish-Ukrainian border, following a visit that had until then been conducted under a media blackout for security reasons, Austin was asked what the US would see as a successful outcome to the two-month-long war.
“We want to see Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country able to protect its sovereign territory. We want to see Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine,” the defence chief said.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, the US has supplied more than $3.7bn-worth of arms to Kyiv, from Javelin anti-tank missiles and Switchblade combat drones to 90 howitzers to help combat Russia’s artillery.
The western military alliance Nato has said repeatedly it does not intend to fight directly in the conflict, but Austin’s comments also make clear that the US has become increasingly drawn into a proxy war – in which it has become the leading supplier of military aid.
Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken at their meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Kyiv. Photograph: AP
Tony Blinken, the secretary of state, added that the US had put in place a strategy of “massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia” across Nato members. It was “having real results” he said, adding: “And we’re seeing that when it comes to Russia’s war aims, Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding.”
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What we don't know is what Vladimir Putin may do. Or maybe a domestic coup or a civil war..
Myballs said...
NY court of appeals also rejected the dem gerrymandered map. Rightly so. It was absurd.
I think California is worse.
Too bad no one here knows anything about that
Russia should be “weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine”, the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said after he and the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, visited Kyiv and pledged a further $713m to help Ukraine in its war effort.
I don't think anyone should be willing to listen to an assclown who is transforming the US military into a bunch of Corporal Klinger's.
Where was General Milley? Getting his nails done?
If they go fully electrified, because electric motors has 100% power instantly, unlike standard gasoline engines that have to reach several hundred rpm before they produce more horsepower.
And when your battery is drained you can just walk to the nearest electric station and pick up a bucket of electricity.
Whee!
GM has been a shitshow clusterfuck since 0linsky bailed out their UAW members.
I see Tesla is up today
Is the stock market bouncing back better today ?
Down 1,000 points Friday
Well today it's only down 400
thanks Joe
How are mortgage rates and inflation and the border and crime etc doing ?
worse president ever
and its not even close
Los Angeles sees over 50% increase in homeless deaths during COVID, but overdoses are leading cause
Drug overdose homeless deaths skyrocketed 78% from pre-pandemic.
https://justthenews.com/government/local/los-angeles-sees-over-50-increase-homeless-deaths-during-covid-overdoses-are
Looks like the democrats are addressing their homeless problem
except with an open border they just keep getting more new ones
COURT BATTLESJudge to weigh whether Trump should be held in contempt
BY HARPER NEIDIG - 04/25/22 5:15 AM ET
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A judge on Monday morning will consider whether to hold former President Trump in contempt for violating a court order that he comply with a subpoena regarding a civil investigation into his business practices.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is asking a state judge to fine Trump $10,000 for each day that he has failed to turn over documents relevant to its subpoena.
Earlier this month, her office accused Trump of defying the court order by claiming that he doesn’t have any documents sought by the subpoena and even raising objections to the records demand after he was commanded to comply with it.
“Mr. Trump’s purported ‘Response’ violates the Court’s order; it is not full compliance, or any degree of compliance, but simply more delay and obfuscation,” James’s office wrote in its contempt motion.
“In the circumstances presented here, long after the subpoena’s return date had passed, and long after this Court denied the motion to quash, Mr. Trump had no further right to contest the subpoena.”
The investigation is a civil matter, meaning it can’t lead directly to criminal charges, but it’s running parallel to a Manhattan district attorney probe which has already resulted in the indictment of the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer.
While Trump has repeatedly attacked James and her probe into his business practices, his lawyers deny that he has improperly withheld anything from investigators.
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NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the CEO of Tesla has called his "best and final" offer for the social media company, people familiar with the matter said.
Twitter may announce the $54.20-per-share deal later on Monday once its board has met to recommend the transaction to Twitter shareholders, the sources said, adding it was still possible the deal could collapse at the last minute.
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Musk, the world's richest person according to Forbes, is negotiating to buy Twitter in a personal capacity and Tesla (TSLA.O) is not involved in the deal.
Twitter has not been able to secure so far a 'go-shop' provision under its agreement with Musk that would allow it to solicit other bids once the deal is signed, the sources said. Still, Twitter would be allowed to accept an offer from another party by paying Musk a break-up fee, the sources added.
Hi Roger.
You son of a cheap Who're.
Roger, you are powerless.
I am a former US Army Sergeant .
I actually Defended the US Constitution.
I will continue to say what I want , when I want and to and About whom I want on any subject I want.
Unless asked to refrain by Scott Johnson.
Period. So Roger you deeply in debt worthless sponge FU.
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