Good for him! 👏
Overgrown coppice trees
Seems we might have an answer for why, on the eve of the 2016 election, someone at the FBI lied to the NYTimes about the links the FBI saw between Trump and Russia.
Because the then-head of counterintelligence for FBI in NY was just indicted for money laundering and helping Russian oligarchs evade sanctions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/nyregion/fbi-money-laundering-charles-mcgonigal.html
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1563476/download
MAGA radicals are refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless Biden agrees to devastating cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
I was involved in a similar fight over the debt ceiling twenty-eight years ago, which holds some lessons for what happens now. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/back-to-another-horrible-hellish
Friends, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen just announced that the federal government will hit the limit on total federal debt on January 19, just two days from now. After that, the Treasury Department will be forced to take “extraordinary measures” to avoid defaulting on the debt, which would likely trigger a global financial crisis.
This is premiering shortly on PBS, tune in now if you can! #zoranealehurston #blackmastodon