"For the sake of the lives of all people in the region, and the safety and futures of all of us in the #UnitedStates, we urge you to make good on your own promise to cease sending offensive munitions to #Israel."
#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
#Biden leads the #UnitedStates as the American century is fading into an uncertain future, a changing world of #threats, opportunities, & #power shifts. At 81, he holds fast to a vision that has reigned since WWII, in which a rich & powerful America leads an #alliance of #democracies to safeguard the globe from #tyranny.
The difference in #Arizona is that the fight is playing out not in a solidly #RedState, but in a closely divided battleground. #Political experts say the #immigration enforcement measure could have unpredictable ripple effects on races for president & for control of the #UnitedStates#Senate.
On Tues, the AZ House, which is under #Republican control, is expected to give the proposal final approval for the ballot.
…AZ’s pop is 32% #Latino, & many voters still have searing memories of #SB1070.
Big show of family support on the 1st day of #HunterBiden’s trial.
In addition to #POTUS’ statement, Hunter’s wife, Melissa Cohen, his sister Ashley Biden, his friend Kevin Morris, Peter Neal, who is married to Hunter’s daughter Naomi, & #FLOTUS Dr. #JillBiden are in attendance.
President #Biden will be in Wilmington, DL, w/no appearances scheduled. But he has given no indication that he would be in the courthouse — a possibility that would require considerable security arrangements.
In #HunterBiden’s trial, jury selection highlights #UnitedStates’ drug epidemic
The nation’s political divisions were also laid bare as 6 men & 6 women were chosen…. #JurySelection for the trial of #POTUS#Biden’s son Hunter turned into an impromptu but painful indictment of the nation’s drug epidemic, w/person after person telling the court of their loved ones’ battles w/ #addiction.
"There have been 19 presidential elections in my lifetime. In every one, the losing candidates accepted the results as lawful, with one exception: Donald Trump."
ℹ On this day, June 1, 1996, we transferred the last nuclear missiles to the Federation of #russia in accordance with the #Budapest Memorandum.
In 1991, #Ukraine had 130 SS-19, 46 SS-24, up to 43 Tu-95MS and Tu-160, up to 2156 strategic nuclear warheads and up to 4200 tactical nuclear warheads.
↪ This diplomatic memorandum was signed in December 1994 by #Ukraine, #russia, the #UnitedStates, and the #UnitedKingdom. It's not a formal treaty, but rather a document under which signatories made promises to each other as part of the denuclearization of former #Soviet republics after the dissolution of the #SovietUnion.
The main idea was for #Ukraine to give up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons and sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. ⏩
The #UnitedStates is actively weighing whether to lift one of #POTUS#Biden’s longest-held precautionary measures of the #Ukraine war: a ban on the use of #US provided #weapons for offensive strikes inside #Russia.
The reassessment is a byproduct of Russia’s renewed cross-border assault on #Kharkiv, a chorus of pressure from #EU ofcls & a visit to Kyiv by Secy of State #Blinken that reinforced the peril facing Ukraine….
Conditions improved in south-central and northern areas of Kansas this week, while both extreme and severe drought expanded slightly in parts of western Kansas.
The state’s vacillating drought conditions over the past few weeks have affected some winter wheat crops. This week’s USDA Crop Progress report rated Kansas’ winter wheat condition at 11% very poor, 21% poor, 36% fair, 29% good and 3% excellent.
The 'real' #polls in the #US presidential race are pretty meaningless, so why not a #Mastodon#poll?
Here's the question - Will Donald #Trump be elected president of the #UnitedStates in November? (Clearly he should not be elected to any office, or even allowed on the ballot, but that's not the question)
“Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese attack the USA? - The answer is oil.”
#Video length: thirteen minutes and fifty one seconds.
“Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese attack the USA? - The answer is oil.”
“Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese attack the USA? - The answer is oil.”