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Unbelievable! Footage shows Ukraine & Russia Army soldiers fighting each other in Obolon district of Kiev/Kyiv. This is why driver of that 9K35 Strela-10 mobile short-range surface-to-air missile system got distracted & collided with a civilian car!

Russian soldier speaks as Ukrainian soldier tends to his injuries...

There’s no gentle way to say it, but the truth is that a lot of us hate our elites far more than we hate some foreign dictator.Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine Thursday. He’d been fixing on it for a while. Most of the world knew it was coming. By nightfall, their advanced forces had reached the capital city of Kyiv, and the situation looked dire. In the ensuing bloodshed, the internet was awash in hot takes. Not insignificant among them: That treason is amiss on the right, where our elites detect an insufficient support for the...

U.S. officials tried half a dozen times over three months to get China to help head off a Russian invasion of Ukraine — but were repeatedly rebuffed by Beijing... The U.S. kept presenting Beijing with intelligence on Russia's buildup around Ukraine "and beseeched the Chinese to tell Russia not to invade...The Chinese, including the foreign minister and the ambassador to the U.S., said they did not think an invasion was in the works. "After one diplomatic exchange in December," ..."U.S. officials got intelligence showing Beijing had shared the information with Moscow."

Americans presented Chinese officials with intelligence on Russia’s troop buildup in hopes that President Xi Jinping would step in, but were repeatedly rebuffed. Over three months, senior Biden administration officials held half a dozen urgent meetings with top Chinese officials in which the Americans presented intelligence showing Russia’s troop buildup around Ukraine and beseeched the Chinese to tell Russia not to invade, according to U.S. officials.Each time, the Chinese officials, including the foreign minister and the ambassador to the United States, rebuffed the Americans, saying they did not think an invasion was in the works. After one diplomatic exchange in...

Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton touted President Joe Biden’s handling of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion and attack on Ukraine. Clinton told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Biden’s response to the escalation from Putin “has been well-executed.”

ST. LOUIS, Monday, Feb. 24. A special dispatch from Cairo to the Democrat says the latest intelligence from the Cumberland is that Gen. BUELL's forces occupy Nashville; that Gov. HARRIS has called in all the Tennessee troops, and that a strong reaction has occurred among the people. LOUISVILLE, Monday, Feb. 24. Reliable private information received to-night assures us that Nashville is virtually in possession of the National forces. By the capture of Nashville, we obtain possession of the largest city in the rebel States which has yet been occupied by our troops. Nashville, the capital of the State of Tennessee,...

Doctors discovered he had a deviated septum -- a condition in which the partition between nasal passages is pushed to one side -- and a rhinoscopy conducted with a small camera discovered the cause -- a tooth growing on "the floor of the right nostril." The ectopic tooth, a term for a tooth growing in an abnormal place, was measured at about .6 inch long. The surgeons said they removed the tooth without complications, and the man reported during a follow-up visit three months after the procedure that he was able to breath normally through both nostrils.

The Kyiv Independent@KyivIndependent Russia is ready to send a delegation to Minsk for negotiations with Ukraine.Source: Vladimir Putin's spokesmanmi Dtry Peskov, as quoted by the UNIAN agency.4:57 AM · Feb 25, 2022·Twitter Web App

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Ryan even testified on Brown’s behalf when she was nominated to the district court in 2012, offering his “unequivocal” endorsement of her qualifications in recommending her for the bench.“Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, for her integrity is unequivocal,” Ryan said at her December 2012 nomination hearing. “She’s an amazing person, and I favorably recommend her consideration.” -snip- “We’re family, by marriage,” Ryan explained in the 2012 hearing. “Her brother and sister-in-law, who are my brother and sister-in-law, William and Dana Jackson, are here with us as well today.”

In a grimly ridiculous moment Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed that Joe Biden wasn’t being serious when he said that “No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening,” with Russia and Ukraine, moments after announcing more sanctions. Biden stated that “Putin’s not going to say ‘oh, my God, the sanctions are coming,’” almost in the same breath as having announced that he would bring more sanctions on Russia. Psaki claimed “That’s not exactly what he meant,” without providing a better explanation for what the hell Biden was talking about:

Frank Barbieri, Jr., Board Chair of the Palm Beach County school board, cursed school police out after a contentious school board meeting Wednesday night. The understaffed, underpaid school police allegedly signed an email to Governor Ron DeSantis requesting a merger between the School Police and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

[Catholic Caucus] What Next for the FSSP & Co? The February 11 papal decree granting the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter the continued use of liturgical books according to the traditional rite is a pleasant surprise. But in the environment created by Traditionis Custodes and the document from the Congregation for Divine Worship, Pope Francis’s step, unexpected in this form, also raises irritating questions. Too great is the contradiction between the will expressed in these documents to oust the traditional liturgy from the life of the Roman Church and the willingness now expressed to maintain the care of the...

It's hard to find consensus these days, but everyone seems to agree that there was something rotten about the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. Not the athletes and the sporting events, of course; they trained their entire lives to compete, were as brilliant as ever and are not responsible for the decisions that led to such a cursed and corrupt event. Athletes aside, just about everything else was horrible. Condemnation came from all corners. Some called these the "Genocide Games." Others the "Dystopian Olympics." NBC's ratings for the games were the lowest in televised Olympic history. The stunning 2008 Beijing Summer...

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/oscar-nominated-mash-actor-sally-kellerman-dies-at-84/3571446/?amp She passes at 84.

Customers and workers at most Target stores no longer have to wear masks. The Minnesota-based retailer updated its policies on Feb. 21, saying masks won’t be required as long as local regulations don’t force stores to require them. “The health and safety of our guests and team members have been Target’s top priority throughout the pandemic. As COVID-19 cases continue to decline across the country, Target will not require our U.S. team members or guests to wear masks, as local regulations allow,” Target said in a statement. “We’ll follow all state and local COVID-19 safety regulations and encourage our team...

President Joe Biden has made his choice to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, according to multiple media reports. Biden will announce today that he will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to the court. If confirmed, Jackson would become the first Black woman to serve on the court. She is 51. That would make her the second-youngest justice on the current court. Justice Amy Coney Barrett turned 50 in January. She would also be the first justice since Thurgood Marshall who served as a longtime defense...

What are the implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Could it be that we are on the edge of a massively costly, truly disastrous, global war? And what does this feel like for the people of Ukraine? The brother of my personal assistant is married to a Ukrainian woman (they both live here in the US), and as of Thursday morning, my assistant received this report from his brother: “Her parents, who live now in Nova Kakhovka [in Ukraine] have Russian flags planted in their city. Roads and bridges and some airports have been blown up. There’s no access to...

The View” co-host Joy Behar has sparked outrage for an unbelievably tone-deaf remark on the show — where she complained that the war in Ukraine may disrupt her European vacation. The vocal 79-year-old stuck her foot firmly in her mouth when the panelists discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday’s show.