#politics Joe Biden *GAINED* 5 points vs Trump in this poll conducted after the Hur report was released & media hyped it as a death blow to Biden's campaign https://opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240213
in case anyone is wondering Assange is trending on X because - next week High Court in London decides wither to extradite or not
looking forward to Julian Assange getting extradited to the U.S. He belongs to the prison
Julian Assange's court hearing on Feb 20 and 21.
Why Russia Killed Navalny
Even behind bars, the dissident leader was a threat to the corrupt Russian dictator.
By Anne Applebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/navalny-death-russia-prison/677485/
From PBS, on Alexey Navalny Death (placeholder; likely will be quickly updated as Cause of Death is released)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russia-says-imprisoned-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-has-died
David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street
I wasn't even looking for anything news related, something nice and chillhoppy to cleanse the palate,
but then this was just there, staring at me from the playlist.
Most of the time, the songs find me, not the other way around.
NYC Bounce
by Blockhead
sidenote:
yesterday >> The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowed Donald Trump's media and technology company to merge with a blank-check acquisition vehicle in a deal that currently values the parent of his social media app Truth Social at as much as $10 billion
SEC clears Trump's social media deal worth as much as $10 billion
Got back! Paul McCartney's stolen bass is found and returned to the Beatle after more than 50 years
Trump being banned from doing business in NYC should’ve happened 35 years ago before he ruined rents and quality of life for the working and middle class in NYC with his weakening of the department of buildings and zoning boards making the real estate companies in NYC untouchable to any real accountability to the people here.
One super-predatory scum bag like Trump is like a scum-bag accelerant everywhere he goes and with every slimeball thing he’a done.
This ruling has hit him where he lives.
Judge orders Trump and his companies to pay nearly $355 million in New York civil fraud case. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-civil-fraud-trial-decision-02-16-24/index.html
Valentine's Day -- Denver, CO (2023)
by this anonymous photographer:
https://gblahlife.tumblr.com
(Two days late, but what the heck)
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