A funny thing keeps happening when Vladimir Putin travels: The GPS systems of nearby ships go haywire and place them on airport runways hundreds of miles away. https://t.co/MiRZvMYya8
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously recommended today that retired Gen. John Abizaid serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia while voting 13-2 to advance Matthew Tueller as ambassador to Iraq, paving the way for their confirmation in the coming days.
Pssst: Rep. Omar, in case you didn't know, Julian Borger is an old Brit hand at international diplomacy beat and he recommends this op-ed, as in "the American way is different":
Impact! In yesterday's Congressional hearing on ending surprise medical bills, legislators cited multiple stories we've told on @voxdotcom about patients hit with big those big fees.https://t.co/DeQe1JbWX0
You know the system is rigged when the IRS targets working Americans while dedicating fewer and fewer resources to holding the ultra-wealthy taxpayers accountable. https://t.co/5rhn0n8WCJ
[....] Within hours of the new policy’s announcement, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) criticized the DCCC. Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley are two of the 10 House Democrats who won their seats by beating sitting members of their own party.
[....] The vote gives Nadler the discretion to issue a subpoena at any time to Attorney General William Barr, a move that likely would launch a legal confrontation between Congress and the Justice Department.
Many Democrats think the best answer to an angry old white guy with crazy hair, New York accent and flair for demagoguery is, well, another angry old white guy with crazy hair, a New York accent and a flair for demagoguery. https://t.co/FsCV8DCRai
Jussie Smollett is a free man who wants to “just get back to work” as an actor. Tucker Carlson is still employed by Fox News. Ralph Northam is still Virginia’s governor. They seem to have ridden out viral backlash. You may even have forgotten about them by now.
Jobs are skill and experience bundles. “Miners, it turns out, are accustomed to deep focus, team play, and working with complex engineering tech. “Coal miners are really technology workers who get dirty,” Justice says”.https://t.co/YTcnv4am6o via @WIRED
[....] the study led by Cardiff University researchers suggests the number of teenagers who said they had tried smoking or thought it was acceptable to smoke has continued to fall despite the rise in e-cigarette use.
A rapidly tanking economy and a highly disciplined opposition have contributed to a significant political loss for Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://t.co/vPG4Z3dhK2
