Ukrainians defending their democracy from the Russian invasion ordered by the autocratic, nuke-theatening Putin are dying in increasing numbers because Republicans continue to refuse to provide weapons to our ally and friend.
Scared of Trump, the cowardly Republicans keep running out the clock. That's killing Ukrainians who we promised to help defend.
It's shameful
In the 1960s, the conservative slogan was, America: Love it or leave it. Today the message is, America: If you love it, hate it.
“Conservatives are going into self-exile.”
https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/01/self-exile/
For rural, ethnic broadcasters in the US the low fidelity band has its advantages
This diagram—with permission, from the Congressional testimony of Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research and development at the VA St. Louis Health Care System and clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis—really drives home the scope of Long #Covid. Brain to skin to kidneys to the circulatory system, there is almost no organ or structure in the body which can't be directly affected by the lasting impact of this disease.
In 2022, HHS issued guidance that a federal ER law includes abortion care protections.
The Fifth Circuit issued a decision on Tuesday that blocks the Biden administration from enforcing those protections in Texas. https://www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circuit-emtala-texas-er-abortion-care
EU WARNS: DON'T FALL FOR IT:
"He will not give up the war, especially not before the American election, which may present him with a much more favorable scenario," said Josep Borrell.
#Putin will likely hold out to see if he’ll find more advantageous leadership in the White House.
https://kyivindependent.com/borrell-putin-will-continue-war-until-final-victory/
Russian leader Vladimir Putin "cannot be satisfied with a limited territorial victory" and "has decided to continue the war until the final victory," the EU's chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, said in an interview with the Guardian on Dec. 24.
There are 100 ways the current ransomware problem can and probably will get worse and nastier. Every single cybercriminal or aspiring crook is now focused on ransomware or data ransom payments as THE path to financial success. It's no longer just the Russians. It's the Chinese, the North Koreans, and Iran.
Either way, these countries don't just want to hurt the United States: They would rather the US died in a fire. For companies to make payments to these regimes -- and their cybercriminal apparatus is always part of the regime -- is bonkers, IMHO.
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