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Anthony Scaramucci
@Scaramucci
Brief explanation of Trump world, for those who have never personally experienced it: Project 2025. They are furious. Backstabbed by transactional Trump. They all went to work there, knowing that he was fully throated in his support for them and now like everything in his life, it’s no longer working for him so he’s backing up the bus on them. They are betrayed. And of course, Trump is deploying his go to line: “I barely knew these people” yet they were all loyal long-standing supporters and employees of his. Everyone thought working on Project 2025 would put them on fast track to a job in the admin. Now anybody who officially worked on it is toxic. We will be discussing this on
@RestPoliticsUS
this week with
@KattyKay_

[ponchi101]

Every time I see Scaramucci's name, I remember:
Wasn't he all in for about 6 days? And now he is this "I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT TRUMP" phony.
If Tiny calls him with the right price, he would go back in a second.

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Evan Gershkovich, others freed by Russia in landmark prisoner swap

August 1, 2024 at 4:54 p.m. EDT7 min ago

The United States, Russia, Germany and four other countries swapped at least two dozen people Thursday in the largest prisoner exchange since the height of the Cold War. Those released included American journalist Evan Gershkovich, former Marine Paul Whelan, Russian dissidents and others from the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus.

The exchange caps months of painstaking diplomacy involving negotiations at the highest levels of multiple governments. “The deal that secured their freedom was a feat of diplomacy,” said President Biden in a statement. Russia received eight prisoners Thursday, and released 16, many of whom were unjustly accused or handed heavy sentences for minor offenses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... oner-swap/

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A list of people freed in prisoner swap deal with Russia
Journalists, including Evan Gershkovich, and political activists were released by Russia for spies and a convicted assassin.


Among those being released from Russia are, clockwise from top left: Lilia Chanysheva, a Russian opposition leader; Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal; Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine; Vladimir Kara-Muzra, a Russian journalist and contributing columnist for The Washington Post. Among those being returned to Russia is, at right, Vadim Krasikov, a convicted Russian assassin. (Washington Post illustration; AP; Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty; Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty; Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP; German Police; iStock)

By Mary Ilyushina, Robyn Dixon, Sammy Westfall and Cate Brown
August 1, 2024 at 11:37 a.m. EDT

It’s the largest international prisoner exchange since the Cold War. Through this complicated deal, journalists, a former U.S. Marine and political activists were freed by Russia in exchange for the release of a convicted Russian assassin imprisoned in Germany and several Russian intelligence operatives and hackers held in the United States and Europe. Below is a complete list of who was released as well as the Americans still being held in Russia. (at the link)

RETURNING TO THE UNITED STATES

Evan Gershkovich
Paul Whelan
Alsu Kurmasheva
Vladimir Kara-Murza
GOING TO GERMANY
Lilia Chanysheva
Ksenia Fadeyeva
Oleg Orlov
Ilya Yashin
Kevin Lik
Rico Krieger
Dieter Voronin
Patrick Schobel
German Moyzhes
Vadim Ostanin
Andrei Pivovarov
Alexandra Skochilenko

RETURNING TO RUSSIA

Vadim Krasikov
Vladislav Klyushin
Roman Seleznev
Vadim Konoshchenok
Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva
Pablo González
Mikhail Valerievich Mikushin

AMERICANS REMAINING IN RUSSIA

Marc Fogel
Robert Romanov Woodland
Gordon Black
Robert Gilman
Ksenia Karelina
David Barnes
Eugene Spector
Michael Travis Leake

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... -released/

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[ashkor87]

Is Harris Indian? Or Black? She is both, of course, genetically speaking ..
Just for context, the people of South India may be descended from Ancestral South Indians as evolutionary geneticists like Reich call them..ASI draw their ancestry from two sources- the Indus Valley people and the (essentially) Africans who now inhabit only the Andamans..Kamala Harris' mother is from South India...

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Of course, what drives racists mad about her is that she cannot be casually classified- which is the case with most human beings! Once you are unable to label someone, attacking them becomes difficult...

[ashkor87]

i find it hilarious that folks like Sununu are begging Trump to focus on policy, stop the trash talk - but what has brought him this far? it sure aint policy!

[patrick]

Very true about Mr. Delay in 2016 to present

[ponchi101]

When historians will get to rank Uncle Joe, we will finally see how good of a president he is.

[skatingfan]

When historians will get to rank Uncle Joe, we will finally see how good of a president he is.

It takes time for the policies of a particular president to be fully understood. Clinton looked really good when he left office, and so far history hasn't been kind to his record, and Bush Jr. was awful, but in light of Trump, he doesn't seem as bad. Things change with the perspective of time

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