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Can Beane do my taxes?

Yup, but We the People went ahead and elected senile septuagenarians anyway, except one's in the white House and the other isn't.

Yeah, but he's not president right now, so this doesn't matter at all.

DHS Staffer Faces Punishment For Accidentally Adding a Reporter to Email About ICE Raids So someone has made a similar ***** up, and is going to face the music...but they were just a career civil servant, not a political appointee...

Putin vows to 'finish off' Ukraine and mocks size of British army after 'reassurance force' announced

So has this whole business been resolved yet.

Agreed. Hesgeth's resume so mediocre compared to his current job, it shouldn't be a problem finding an equal or better qualified replacement. Once he's fired or resigns in disgrace.

This whole episode is just a pathetic reflection on this administration Take your L and move on with the People's business.

We've got a developing story. Four American soldiers have been found dead in a training area in Lithuania.

This isn't a big deal.

You're a username on the internet. I guess you'll have to stay curious, no offense intended.

Yeah. What makes you think that either side is ready to consider humanitarian reasons? Popular support for the war is still high in both camps. There's no domestic pressure for peace based on wartime hardship. When the Ukrainians run short of men, they stitch the front back together with drones and artillery until they get more. When the Russians run short of men, they form prisoners into penal units, or offer their citizens the equivalent of 5-7 years wages to sign up for the SMO...

Post- Kursk withdrawal analysis. In a nutshell, the Kursk operation was a wash at best. The frontline is stabilizing but not stabilized fully. Russia is punching far below its weight in terms of mobilized forces vs battlefield gains. Ukraine is executing substantial reforms in training, mobilization and organization that are overdue. A bunch of bad Ukrainian commanders have been fired and replaced and it shows. There's really no military reason for either side the want a peace plan yet. Russia is still generating plenty of replacements, and some forward movement. Ukraine's figured out how to counter new Russian tactics, Russia's artillery advantage has been nullified, and Ukraine knows how to defend large areas with firepower and drones, which offsets its lower numbers.

Digested it. 1. Too stubborn in the playcalling on short yardage. 2. Oddly averse to running the ball, even when it was working. 3. The D got the stop it needed to get, when it needed to get it. For as good as Josh and Joe Brady were last season, that performance was disjointed and situationally tone deaf.

If only we had a tough, skillful negotiator for a president who could leverage economic threats to soften Putin's position.

Yawn. Yet some how this thread will bump up to top page longer than news about the failed ceasefire in Ukraine or the collapsing peace negotiations in the middle east. Total ragebait diversion.

I already did, there were local collections specifically for plate carriers, medical supplies and radios that I happily donated to.

They did agree not to bomb each other's power infrastructure for 30 days, so the negotiations weren't totally pointless.

So what concession did Trump get from Putin for giving up this leverage?

My play around portfolio was up 48% YTD before all this happened.

Why bother asking why it has to be one or the other, right?

Of course!

Yup! I also think it's true, so there's our impasse.

It's a judgement call. I trust a patriotic, pro-war Russian nationalist who led what was at the time, the most effective unit in the Russian military to Russia'a greatest victory yet in this war over pretty much any other source. His statement pretty much refutes all of those other arguments. The fact he was then murdered for speaking the truth, trying to upend part of the system, and being better at his job than Putins other cronies just seals the deal.

Ahhhh right. Fill the Zone with *****! Make truth irrelevant. Propaganda 101. Since launching the war, Putin has painted it as a defensive operation to protect Russia. He's claimed it was needed to stop imminent large-scale attacks from Ukraine on largely Russian-speaking eastern regions in Donbas that Russia has occupied since 2014. Prigozhin, whose fighters have played a leading role in the war, said that was not true and there had been no imminent risk of attack from Ukraine.  Recent Stories from ABC News     "The ministry of defense now is trying to deceive society, the president, and tell a story there was insane aggression from Ukraine and that they intended to attack us with the whole NATO bloc," Prigozhin said.  "The Special Military Operation that began on Feb. 24 was started for completely different reasons," he said. Prigozhin has been in a public feud with Russia's defense ministry and its head Sergey Shoigu for months, blaming them for Russia's disastrous prosecution of the war. As Russia has faced deepening setbacks in Ukraine, he has become an unexpected, prominent critic of Russia's leadership, using social media to post almost daily video updates excoriating it as incompetent, but stopping short of directly criticizing Putin. Prigozhin also said in Friday's video that the two goals Putin announced at the start of the war— the "demilitarization" and "de-Nazification" of Ukraine—were "pretty stories."Instead, he blamed Shoigu, the defense ministry and a "clan of oligarchs" for starting the war. He accused Shoigu of seeking glory and wanting "to rob" Ukraine and divide up its assets