The #US Constitution states that the President: "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the #Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur". ⏩
Executive agreements can enjoy broad support from #Congress though. While the #UnitedStates and #Israel are not actually Treaty allies, #US - #Israeli#security cooperation is based on numerous other provisions of #US law, and a commitment to a renewable Memorandum of Understanding on #security assistance. This MoU is an executive agreement that #Congress has had significant input on, and continues to abide by, despite lacking any legal force of law. ⏩
It is not automatically included in the federal budget like entitlement programs are.
So while this agreement commits the #UnitedStates to ongoing security assistance to #Ukraine, there is no guarantee of that. You will find no specific amounts anywhere in the agreement, because that's beyond the authority of the President. ⏩
Sharks, #Trump claimed, were attacking more than usual (not true) & posed a new risk bc boats were being required to use batteries (not true), which cause them to sink bc they’re too heavy (really, really not true—the world’s heaviest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, stays afloat bc of laws of #physics despite weighing >550M lbs).
These #deranged rants are tempting to laugh off. They’re par for the course. #Trump is Trump. But Trump may also soon be the president of the #UnitedStates. Imagine the response if Joe #Biden had made the same #rambling remarks, word for word. Consider this excerpt (pic)
The hostages will not be released until after #election2024 unless they are rescued soon.
They will be used a political tool against both #Israel and the #UnitedStates.
A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism by Daniel A. Sjursen, 2021
In vivid, engaging prose, Sjursen challenges readers to think critically and to apply common sense to their understanding our nation's past, and present.
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Ziegler said many leaders in the #SBC & in the broader #antiabortion movement have long opposed #IVF, seeing it as a process that separates conception from the act of #heterosexual sex & is disrespectful of human life. Church leaders have downplayed that view in public, however, since IVF is popular in the #UnitedStates. 70% of Americans in April told Pew Research they think IVF is a “good thing,” including 63% of White #evangelicals, who line up ideologically in general w/ #SouthernBaptists.
Shalom Lipner thinks Israel is losing its longstanding ally, the US, and this is due to a sad self-serving miscalculation by Netanyahu:
"Reprising his classic divide-and-conquer ploy, Netanyahu is stoking the flames of polarization within both Israel and the United States in order to fend off criticism of his leadership. In so doing, he is making a grave mistake."
Many #Trump allies had been secretly rooting for an #acquittal. The talking points wrote themselves: It would have been yet more evidence that the #UnitedStates#justice system was rigged in favor of #Bidens & against Trumps. Tues’s #guilty#verdict was inconvenient to that narrative.
Even more valuable would have been the #fundraising potential.
The global economy is in better shape than it was at the start of the year, thanks largely to the performance of the #UnitedStates, the World Bank said in its latest forecast Tues. But the sunnier outlook could cloud over if major central banks — including the #FederalReserve — keep #InterestRates at elevated levels.
Trump's team is more focused so far on building a sprawling network of "#ElectionIntegrity" #lawyers & #PollWatchers than on rounding up organizers & door knockers to reach voters.
It's a sign that 5 months before Election Day, the legal battle is underway —& that Trump PLANS to cry "rigged" if he loses, as it did after the #2020election & his #felony#convictions.
For background, my mid 70's parents drove from ATL to Michigan on Thursday to attend my neice's high school graduation. Friday morning, my dad wasn't feeling well and he kept feeling worse. After convincing himself that it wasn't just indigestion, he went to a local hospital ER. While there, he started developing intense pain in his chest. The ER docs hooked him up to an EKG and ran an enzyme test to see if he had a heart attack. They came back clean. But the pain was worsening. The doc administered some morphine, which apparently did nothing. They hooked him back up to the EKG and monitored him for a bit. While monitoring him, he had a heart attack.
The docs rushed him into surgery where he needed 3 stents to open up an artery that was 99% blocked.
He was moved out of ICU into a regular bed today and expects to be discharged tomorrow. He has to wear a defibrillator vest for the next 3 months, while he is assessed for futher treatments. My dad describes the vest as a "bra with metal pop-tarts all the way around his chest". I had a chance to talk to him today and he says that he feels better than he has in many years, other than the pop tart bra.
The doctor told him that the only real reason he was able to survive was that it happened while he was in the hospital. Apparently this sort of heart attack is not one that people commonly survive otherwise.
I am immensely grateful to the doctors, nurses, scientists, janitors, clerical staff, and so on, that gave me and my family the incredible gift of more time with my dad.
"We are witnessing a historic process -- Russians are leaving for the first time in two centuries," independent Azerbaijani analyst Elhan Shahinoglu told AFP.