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Jack Teixeira, a former member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, received a 15-year prison sentence on Tuesday for leaking classified Pentagon documents on social media platform Discord, NBC News reported. The sentencing, handed down by Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts' U.S. District Court, follows Teixeira's guilty plea in March to six counts of violating the Espionage Act through the willful retention and transmission of national defense information. .....

Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday defended 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, the accused leaker of highly sensitive Pentagon intelligence documents, and said he’s being treated by the Biden administration “like a traitor and criminal.” “Jake Teixeira is white, male, Christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime,” Greene (R-Ga.) wrote in a tweet. Greene, who is staunchly against the US providing military aid to Ukraine as it attempts to fend off a Russian invasion, has called the Biden administration’s role in the conflict in the former Soviet state “a proxy war with Russia.”...

Being from Virginia, I have had a solid year of thinking about a good word for the coalition of voters that Glenn Younkin pulled together to shift a state with a pretty blue voting history into the Republican column. "MAGA"is good for Trump supporters, but the coalition is broader than people who really like Trump. "Deplorables" is my personal favorite, but that is because I enjoy the irony of turning a clear insult into a good rally cry. Ruy Texeira, who is a Democrat kind of writer, noted that Hispanic voters are "Normie" voters, "Normie" being a mildly dismissive term...