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Chuck Darwin

DOJ fires officials who worked on Jack Smith’s Trump investigations

#TrumpHasMadeAmericaPoorerSickerWeakerAndLessSecure

The Justice Department fired more than a dozen officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases,
citing a lack of trust in them, a department spokesman said Monday.

Acting attorney general James McHenry informed the officials of their firings,
saying that he “does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”

The firings were effective immediately and focused on officials who played key roles in prosecuting Trump, the spokesman said.

The terminations are the latest example of the Trump administration reshaping the Justice Department since the inauguration last week,
transferring or firing veteran career officials who the president’s allies believe would impede or interfere with their agenda.

The shake-up has hit nearly every major department and could eliminate some guardrails at the Justice Department intended to keep politics from interfering with investigations,
according to people familiar with the moves.

Among the people transferred to a less-influential position was #Bradley #Weinsheimer, the Justice Department’s most senior career official.

His position included being involved in some of the department’s thorniest cases, acting as a mediator in ethical disputes, and telling political appointees in the law enforcement agency what they could and could not do.

The chief of the Justice Department’s public integrity section, #Corey #Amundson, was also being removed from his post, according to people familiar with the personnel move.

The section oversees election crimes and investigations into public officials, and its chief is a nonpartisan career official, according to the Justice Department website.
washingtonpost.com/national-se

The Washington Post · DOJ fires officials who worked on Jack Smith’s Trump investigationBy Perry Stein
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Daniel Dvorkin

The screenshot is a post by a friend, who prefers to remain anonymous, from several years ago. It's horribly relevant again, for obvious reasons.

I'd prefer to know, on the whole. Particularly when the artist in question is still alive: I may (or may not) still be able to enjoy their art that I already have, but I want to know whose pockets to avoid lining. Once they're dead, "separate the art from the artist" becomes a lot easier for me.

Of course I'd far rather there were nothing *to* know. I wish with all my heart that Edgar Rice #Burroughs and HP #Lovecraft were not raging racists, that Marion Zimmer #Bradley were not at the very least an enabler of child molestation and perhaps† a molester herself, that Joss #Whedon were a feminist in deed as well as word, that JK #Rowling believed the messages about equality and inclusion she gave a whole generation of children and their parents, that Neil #Gaiman were a kind and decent person who created mythologies to tell thoughtful stories about the human condition. But since they are what they are and were what they were, that's not an option.

There are writers I still regard as role models *as writers* even if I don't care for them much as people. Not monsters, for the most part, just garden-variety jerks. The way they put words together speaks to me, as I want my words to speak to my readers. I'm not in a hurry to give up what they've taught me by example.

Still. I don't have a whole lot of money to spend, and I'd rather that what I do have go to people I don't despise. Knowing is almost always better.

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Hanse Mina

Elements of an elite Ukrainian unit armed with #US-made M1A1 #Abrams tanks and #Bradley infantry fighting vehicles are in combat inside #Russia’s #Kursk region, news and official reports said Tuesday.

#Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade over the weekend used the American armored vehicles to conduct local counterattacks in a northeastern sector of a salient.

kyivpost.com/post/40933

Kyiv Post · US-made Abrams Tanks and Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles on the Ground Inside RussiaBy Stefan Korshak
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@Free_Press

#WarInUkraine

How many shells can a #Bradley #tank hold.

What does one of them cost?

ETA:
As the West will have to foot the bill for #Ukraine, the question is how much #ammunition is needed per month and how much this will cost (on top of weapons, civil aid, etc.)

In my view, it would be much "cheaper" for the West, and all trading nations WW, to prevent #Iran from producing #drones and selling them to #terrorists, i.e. the #Houthis in #Yemen and the #RussiaIsATerroristState

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SWP Europe

Comme la France qui avait annoncé l’envoi de -10 RC, l’Allemagne et les Etats-Unis vont livrer des à l’Ukraine, notamment et le défense aérien . @RonjaKempin analyse les implications de cette rupture de tebou @LeTemps

letemps.ch/monde/marder-lallem

Le Temps SAAvec ses Marder, l’Allemagne prend acte d’un «changement de la guerre» en UkraineBy Delphine Nerbollier
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