NEW!!! #Lithuania’s president calls for tougher #russia sanctions, including disconnecting all remaining russian banks from SWIFT and #sanctioning vessels
President Nauseda also proposed targeting energy companies that fund russian state budget, such as Rosatom, Gazprom, Lukoil
“There is an #aggressor, which is #Russia, and an attacked people, which is #Ukraine,” #Macron told reporters in Portugal.
He emphasized that supporting Ukraine and #sanctioning Russia was the right decision three years ago and remains so today.
“We must thank all those who helped, and we must respect those who have been #fighting since the beginning,” he added.
French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized that Russia is the aggressor in its war against Ukraine following a heated exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 28.
#Colorado #GOP files lawsuit over #Durango #SchoolDistrict #sanctioning #LGBTQ, #BLM #flags.
#Hateful #Republicans are suing #DurangoSchools for classifying #BLM and #LGBTQ flags as #protected #speech. The flags were banned but later reinstated after protests.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Colorado #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
The #WBC has #refused to #evolve’: #AmandaSerrano #vacates her #worldtitle in #dispute with #sanctioning #body.
Amanda Serrano takes a #moral #stand after the WBC refuses request to allow #women to fight 12, three minute rounds.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Boxing #Misogyny #Representation #Culture
Poll Workers’ Lawyers Bill Rudy Giuliani $89k for Missing Evidence
Faced with a potentially costly #defamation #lawsuit for spreading conspiracy theories about two Georgia poll workers following the 2020 election, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney #Rudy #Giuliani is already facing consequences for refusing to turn over evidence in the case.
Following a federal judge’s order #sanctioning Giuliani last month—and ordering him to #pay legal fees #for #wasting #everyone’s #time—the poll workers’ lawyers on Wednesday submitted a legal bill in court totaling $89,172.
It's less than half of what they say they normally charge for the time they spent dealing with Giuliani's antics.
The final bill is up to U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who previously wrote that Giuliani “#arbitrarily #limited his #search” of an email server and “conducted only an imprecise ‘manual search’ of his text messages,” causing a #ten-#month #delay—only to later #surprise the opposing side with another 4,000 pages of evidence.
Giuliani was once Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor but is now facing #disbarment in the nation’s capital for having “#weaponized his #law #license to bring a #frivolous #action in an attempt to #undermine the #Constitution” in the service of former President Donald Trump.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawyers-bill-rudy-giuliani-dollar89k-for-missing-evidence
#Trans #boxer #PatricioManuel wins #fight against #cisgender #rival, is his second #win of the year and his #third #boxing #match against #cisgender #male #opponents.
Manuel is currently ranked 99th in the #US and 782nd in the #world, and could now be #ranked in one of the major world #boxing-#sanctioning #bodies
#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Boxing #Representation #Culture
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/patricio-manuel-trans-boxer-wins-fight-cisgender-rival/
Instead of targeting #oligarchs and their assets, the #researchers at #DartmouthCollege proposed a “more effective and efficient” #strategy : #sanctioning the #professional #wealth #managers who help the oligarchs stack their #wealth #offshore , such as #bankers , #lawyers and #accountants . This would be particularly #effective with #Russian oligarchs, because they tend to employ the same #FinancialAdvisers and boutique #WealthManagement firms, the #study found.
@kenji: What do you have in mind when talking about "#hackback" and effective #sanctioning tools?