Arrest of FBI agent linked to Russian oligarch is a major blow

Arrest of FBI agent linked to Russian oligarch is a major blow

He remains under sanctions. In his executive role in the FBI, McGonigal received the sanctions list that included Deripaska among the Russians named as working...

This was one of two critical NYT stories in the *last week* before 2016 election.

—One was blanket Page One coverage of "but her emails."

—The other was "no Russian tie to Trump," fed by FBI agent now arrested for his ties to Russian oligarch.   - James Fallows tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 5 former officers in custody in connection to death of Tyre Nichols
• Arkansas officers charged in violent arrest caught on video
• Ron DeSantis accused of illegal acts of torture against Guantanamo detainees when he was a Navy JAG officer  👈
• 'Nothing Was Adding Up': CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz Says There Are Still Unanswered Questions in Uvalde
• Russia fumes over NATO tanks heading to Ukraine
• Fans Wave Flags Backing Russian Invasion and Allegedly Threaten Security Guards at Australian Open

FOUR teachers reported threats and sightings of a gun before a six-year-old shot his teacher. 

I can’t help but be reminded of Uvalde, where the teachers did everything right, and those tasked with keeping them and the kids safe did everything wrong. - KDnerack33 tweet

Former Kremlin Aide Falls From Balcony In 3...2...1...

A former Kremlin aide is warning that as Moscow blindly pursues its bloody conquest in Ukraine, the situation at home is quietly heading towards a military coup.

Abbas Gallyamov, Vladimir Putin’s former speechwriter, says the conditions are already there for a full revolt.

We can regulate guns with adequate laws, but how can we regulate hatred? - JonasAquin tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• ‘Over My Dead Body’: Senator Jon Tester Itching for a Fight Over House Republicans’ ‘Totally Ridiculous’ 30% Sales Tax Proposal
• House Oversight asks gallery owner about Hunter Biden art sales
• South Dakota Gov. Noem threatens charges for abortion pills
• ‘We’re Supposed to Be the Party of the Working Class?’ Republicans Complain About 'Ridiculous' Prices at Posh RNC Venue
• Huh? Devin Nunes Claims Adam Schiff ‘Reached Out to Russians’ to Solicit 'Nude Pictures of Trump'
• Elaine Chao Finally Speaks Out on Trump's Racist 'Coco Chow' Insults: 'Says a Whole Lot More About Him' Than About Asian Americans
• Santos Files Paperwork Showing Company He Claimed Managed $80 Million in Assets Has Address in Dollar Tree Strip Mall
• Fox Hosts Trash 'Idiot' New York Governor For Health Worker Vaccine Mandate: 'You Think I Care If the Nurse Is Unvaxxed?!'

Let me get this straight. Republican Rep. George Santos is a drag queen. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz is having an affair with a man while married to a woman & Republican Matt Schlapp sexually assaulted a male staffer & destroyed his marriage.

Come out, come out, wherever you are. - KylaInTheBurgh tweet

Mitch McConnell Trying To Be Relevant Again
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell excoriated Washington, D.C.’s city council on Tuesday, blaming the “woke far-left” for championing “reckless local policies” that have worsened the city’s crime epidemic.

Donald Trump has been indicted for no crimes.

Donald Trump has been reinstated to Twitter and Facebook.

Donald Trump is running for president again.

It's almost as if a violent, Trump-incited insurrection never happened. 

Or happened, and was then forgotten. - Mehdi Hasan tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden extends program allowing some Hong Kong residents to stay in US
• San Francisco Judge Orders Public Release of Footage From Attack on Nancy Pelosi's Husband
• Democrats vote to push back finalization of new primary calendar

You know what’s f*cked up? The fact that Martha Stewart went to prison and Donald Trump hasn’t. - MayoIsSpicy tweet

FYI: Do you know who the prosecutor was that put Martha Stewart in jail? James Comey. Yeah, that James Comey.

Sen. Tom Cotton Plans To Shut Down Biden's Nominees

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he and other Republicans will hold up President Biden’s nominees until the administration shares with Congress the classified documents seized at Biden’s Delaware home and Washington office and former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.  

Just reading the Washington Post's review of  Mike Pompeo's book, where he said that career Foreign Service Officers were "overwhelmingly UnAmerican" and how he felt complete disdain for them. Mike, the feeling is mutual. - Luis Moreno, Former US Ambassador tweet

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FACT: Kevin McCarthy has created the most dangerous national security situation in US history with who he has appointed to these committees. That’s not hyperbole. That’s just good old fashioned truth. - Jack Hopkins tweet

Business/Tech News

• SNAP payments to shrink in 32 states next month
• Trump Rails Against AT&T's 'Disgusting Move' to Drop Newsmax Over Network's Financial Demand
• NYT's Mara Gay Bashes Meta's Plan to Restore Trump on Facebook, Instagram: You Want to Help Him 'Take Down the Country?'
• Transportation Department looking into whether ‘unrealistic scheduling’ played role in Southwest holiday meltdown 

Can’t we please get a single journalist to go to some rural diner and ask republicans there why they support getting rid of their social security and Medicare? - GPovall tweet 

I hope Fox News Gets Sued From Here To Kingdom Come

A former booker for the Fox News Channel is suing the network and its parent company over what she says were decades of abuse and blackmail by former network head Roger Ailes.

Last year, Americans were paying up to $200 in some cases to get shots like the shingles vaccine.

As of this month: for seniors with Medicare prescription drug coverage, these shots will drop to zero.

Zero. - President Biden tweet

Public Service Announcement From NASA

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Odd News

• Asteroid coming exceedingly close to Earth, but will miss
• Colorado man intentionally drove pickup truck into police department lobby 'in order to be heard': police
• Freaky Spiral Over Hawaii Likely Caused by SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
• German cinema installs world's largest IMAX screen
• Florida Woman Arrested For Defrauding Holocaust Survivor Of $2.8 Million In Connection With Romance Scam

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The size of the Pacific Ocean.

Peace.

Trump Dunks on FBI Official After Arrest Over Russian Oligarch Allegations

Trump Dunks on FBI Official After Arrest Over Russian Oligarch Allegations

...FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jonathan Moffa in 2020 said an email from McGonigal in 2016 about Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos claiming to have “political dirt” on Hillary Clinton was “the basis for the opening of the case,” referring to the collusion probe...

Now that they've arrested the FBI agent who covered for Trump in 2016 and framed Hillary right before the election, we get to throw out the results of 2016 and declare Hillary the winner, right? Isn't that how Republicans have been telling us that all this is works? - BlackKnight10K tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• White House poised to send dozens of tanks to Ukraine
• Putin Lackeys Lose Their Minds Over Ukraine Getting Battle Tanks
• Newsom rips Republicans on gun safety measures after California mass shootings 
• Half of mass attacks sparked by personal, domestic, workplace disputes: Secret Service data
• 84 percent support special counsel in Biden documents case: survey 

I covered mass shootings for 10+ years. The “motive” is almost always the same. The man/boy was enraged about something. And he had a gun. 

We have a gun problem. And a broken men problem. - Clara Jeffery tweet

Mass shootings in the US:

2014: 273

2015: 336

2016: 383

2017: 348

2018: 336

2019: 417

2020: 610

2021: 690

2022: 647

In the first three weeks of 2023: 39

We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does. - Robert Reich tweet

Vice President Marjorie Taylor Greene? 😟

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is angling to be Donald Trump's running mate in 2024, according to two people who have spoken to the firebrand second-term congresswoman about her ambitions.

"This is no shrinking violet, she's ambitious — she's not shy about that, nor should she be," said Steve Bannon, the former top Trump aide who hosts the War Room podcast, where Greene has been a guest.

Pence, Biden, Trump. Only one of these men possessed Highly Classified Top Secret Documents, lied about having them, and refused to give them back. Take a wild guess. - Rob Reiner tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Senate GOP pours cold water on idea of impeaching Biden
• GOP Senator Marks 50 Years Since Roe Decision By Vowing to Make Abortion Not Just 'Illegal in this Country,' but 'Unthinkable'
• Kevin McCarthy Officially Gives Schiff and Swalwell the Heave-Ho from the Intelligence Committee: 'Integrity Matters'
• Jesse Watters Falsely Claims Trump Was ‘Allowed’ to Have Government Documents at Mar-a-Lago
• Trump tries to intervene as Navarro faces trial for defying Jan. 6 committee
• Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorists Spread Absurd Claim Damar Hamlin is Not Alive and NFL is Using a Body Double
• AP Confirms Diamond’s Actual Cause of Death After Silk Claimed She Died Upon Being Infected by Vaccinated People
• DeSantis actions could pose risk with Black voters in 2024
• Ghislaine Maxwell says Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in US jail
• Ghislaine Maxwell Refuses to Apologize to Victims in Jailhouse Interview, Complains About Prison Tofu
• Ghislaine Maxwell claims in jailhouse interview that Prince Andrew photo with Virginia Giuffre is 'fake'

Ghislaine Maxwell will say anything to be sent back to Britain to serve out the rest of her sentence. It is shocking, despicable, and sickening that she is being offered up as a credible witness to rehabilitate Prince Andrew's reputation before the coronation.

Absolutely vile. - TudorChick1501 tweet

Wow. Trump Doesn't Want To Hang Pence Anymore!

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended former Vice President Mike Pence after around a dozen documents marked as classified were discovered at his Indiana home.

"Mike Pence is an innocent man," Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, shortly after the news broke. "He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life. Leave him alone!!!"

James Comey felt compelled to announce the reopening of the Hillary email investigation because it had already been leaked by two agents at the NY FBI office, one of whom we now learn was a Russian agent.

Don’t tell me Putin didn’t steal the 2016 election. - duty2warn tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden once again urges Congress to pass assault weapons ban
• Aides to ex-presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton say they don't have classified files
• Harris huddles with House Democrats and stresses unity: ‘We have a lot of material to work with’

 

I don't get it.

Why isn't anyone asking to see George Santos' birth certificate?

The Pope told the Associated Press that homosexuality is not a crime and that Catholic bishops should welcome LGBTQ people to church. - Ali Velshi tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Biden rolls out 'Renters Bill of Rights' amid soaring rents
• Microsoft announces $52.7 billion in Q2 revenue amid plans to layoff 10,000 workers
• Tesla adding 3,000 workers in expansion of Nevada plant
• Twitter Ad Revenue Plummeted 71% In December

What's weird to me is how God can tell Mike Pence to run for president but couldn't tell him he has classified documents in his home. - Covie tweet

Florida Universities Considering Banning TikTok On Campus
University officials in Florida are considering a possible ban on TikTok that could block students from using the popular application on 12 campuses across the state.

1. Going to bed early 

2. Not leaving my house 

3. Not going to a party 

My childhood punishments have become my adult goals. - Introvert Problems tweet

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Odd News

• Recent Volcanic Activity on Jupiter’s Moon Io Is Confusing and Exciting Scientists
• Fake Pink Floyd Fans Mistake Dark Side of the Moon Rainbow for Gay Pride Flag, Start Homophobic Rambling
• Razor blades placed on gas pump handles in North Carolina city
• Maryland 9-year-old finds 15 million-year-old megalodon tooth
• Man uses change from gas station purchase to buy $107,590 lottery ticket

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Dear Big Apple,...soon your city will be green again! 

Peace.

Russians Oligarchs Sure Do Love to Invest in America

Russians Oligarchs Sure Do Love to Invest in America

The New York field office of the FBI has been a problem since it bullyragged James Comey during the 2016 presidential campaign. It has hungered for a Clinton head to hang on its lobby wall for almost two decades. On Monday, however, the office found itself wearing a sentence that included the phrases, "FBI official," "indicted by," and "Russian oligarch," which is a chain with several balls attached to it.

It's actually heartening to find out Garland was running a rat hunt of the FBI. - justiceputnam tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Washington Post publisher: ‘Shameful’ of Pompeo to spread ‘vile falsehoods’ about Khashoggi
• Republican Governor Noem says cell phone was hacked, blames Jan. 6 panel
• Fox & Friends Goes All In on Blaming George Soros for Fox Weatherman Subway Attack
• Officials say Half Moon Bay mass shooting that killed 7 believed to be workplace violence

The only way to stop a bad person with a gun is to stop bad gun industry loving lawmakers at the ballot box. - Rob Reiner tweet

Classified Documents Found At Mike Pence's Home. Let The Investigation Begin!

Documents with classified markings were found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home last week, officials confirmed Tuesday.

Pence’s team notified the National Archives on Jan. 18 that a small number of documents were “inadvertently boxed and transported” to the former vice president’s home at the end of the last administration. Pence was “unaware of the existence of sensitive or classified documents at his personal residence,” his lawyer wrote to the Archives.

Apparently all politicians just hoard classified material. I'm starting to wonder how Jimmy Carter insulates all those Habitats for Humanity.  ~ Stephen Colbert

Republican Shenanigans

• Decisions on charges in Trump election case 'imminent,' Georgia prosecutor says
• GOP senators demand Secret Service release Biden visitor logs
• Rev. Franklin Graham Says He's Not Backing Anyone in 2024 GOP Primary, Days After Trump Trashed Evangelicals For Holding Out
• George Santos Claims Someone Tried to Murder Him and That His Shoes Were Stolen off His Feet on Fifth Avenue
• Almost half of NY Republicans say Santos should resign: poll
• Fact Check-Financial disclosures do not show Rep. Lauren Boebert is worth $12 million

Instead of telling us he was being pressured to sabotage Clinton, Comey wrote a book

Instead of testifying against Trump, John Bolton wrote a book

Instead of testifying about Jan 6, Pence wrote a book

Instead of stopping Trump, Barr wrote a book

Hall of Fame of GREEDY COWARDS. - Lindy Li tweet

Just Shoot Me
Former President Trump holds a 3-point lead over President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 rematch, according to a new Emerson College poll released on Tuesday.

This 👇

“When the C.I.A. noticed in late 2010 that its spies were disappearing…as fears of a mole grew, the government set up a secret task force….A veteran F.B.I. counterintelligence agent, Charles McGonigal, was assigned to run it,” reported @nytimes in 2018. - Michael Beschloss

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Rock The Voter News

• Manchin doesn’t rule out White House bid: ‘Everything’s on the table’
• 'The Whole Thing Makes No Sense': Senator Whitehouse Smells a Rat in Supreme Court's Report on Leaked Opinion
• Biden approval rating ticks up to 44 percent in new survey

Wishful Thinking By Biden

President Biden renewed his call for an assault weapons ban on Tuesday following a shooting in Half Moon Bay, Calif., that left several people dead.

“Even as we await further details on these shootings, we know the scourge of gun violence across America requires stronger action. I once again urge both chambers of Congress to act quickly and deliver this Assault Weapons Ban to my desk, and take action to keep American communities, schools, workplaces, and homes safe,” Biden said in a statement.

Just remember, I’ve been saying for well over a year, and probably closer to TWO, that when this stuff all goes down….it will be so much bigger and complex than anyone ever imagined. Hold on to your asses, folks. There’s a storm brewing o’er yonder! - Jack Hopkins tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Judge upholds Whole Foods’s firing of workers who wore Black Lives Matter masks 
• Pandemic jobless benefits fraud may have topped $60 billion: watchdog
• GOP Governor Dings DeSantis’ Tactics on Fox: ‘You Don’t Penalize Private Businesses That Disagree with You’
• Senate panel holds hearing focused on Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco

Republicans are now boycotting prescription medications as a whole, under the premise “if prescriptions worked, why do I have to refill them?”

Analysts predict a decline in the population of Republicans in the coming weeks/months/years. - William LeGate tweet

Good News! Most Democrats Support Biden As Their Nominee!

A majority of Democratic voters say President Biden should be the party’s 2024 White House nominee, according to a new Emerson College poll released on Tuesday. 

Fifty-eight percent of registered Democrats said Biden should be the nominee, while 42 percent said it should be someone else. 

Learning that Paprika is just dried and crushed red bell peppers was really shocking. Like I dunno why I thought there was a Paprika tree somewhere. - simsimmaaz tweet

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Odd News

• Nasa to test nuclear rockets that could fly astronauts to Mars in record time
• Rare 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica
• Florida woman pulled from storm drain for third time in 2 years
• British Columbia artist creates world's largest spice painting
• Company offers $1,000 to eat cheese before bed

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Bran Castle in Transylvania, Romania. No wonder they believed in vampires.

Peace.