Crooked Media - What A Day: RUSt bucket

Friday, December 2, 2022
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA

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Nine months have elapsed since Russia invaded Ukraine, and ever-shifting geopolitical negotiations have significantly altered where the war stands now. 
 

Although Putin has publicly maintained a defiant posture, it appears as though he is privately beginning to squirm in his seat.
 

  • In the first contact between a G-7 leader and the Kremlin since Russia suffered a string of military defeats and began shelling Ukrainian energy infrastructure, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Putin today. Putin deflected about an E.U. proposal to create a tribunal on alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine by claiming it was Ukraine who was inflicting “more and more bloody crimes against the civilian population,” without any evidentiary support for such a claim. Scholz reportedly condemned the ongoing Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and told Putin that a diplomatic solution, “including a withdrawal of Russian troops, must be reached as soon as possible.” A spokesperson for the European Commission (an arm of the E.U) said that the group had not been briefed ahead of Scholz’s call. Some E.U. countries have also suggested that conversations with Putin risk the appearance of division among Western allies. 
     

  • Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan was able to contact his family for the first time in over a week today. Whelan, who like WNBA star Brittney Griner is being held prisoner by the Kremlin, recently fell ill. The week of silence from Russian authorities about his whereabouts that followed caused the White House to express concern about his safety and well-being. Griner was recently transported to one of the most brutal penal colonies in Russia, and efforts by the Biden Administration to bring her and Whelan home remain ongoing.  
     

All of Europe is bracing for a bitter winter, but hope remains that regulations put in place by a united coalition of Western allies will be able to rob Putin of the leverage he has used for too long.

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In a letter yesterday to the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws sub-committee, President Biden broke his silence about the Democratic Presidential primary calendar that has caused so many headaches in recent years. He did not explicitly name the state he would like to see go first in the letter (the slot held by Iowa in previous elections) but said that Dems should give up “restrictive” caucuses that demand too much time from voters and prioritize diversity. In other words: See ya later, Iowa. While not specified in his letter, Biden has reportedly personally told certain DNC members that he would like to see South Carolina moved to Iowa’s spot. Biden’s bias for the Palmetto State makes sense, because South Carolina’s primary in 2020 gave the president his first big win after disappointing finishes in other states. I’m sure DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison, former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, was pleased to accommodate him as well. So today, the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee members overwhelmingly signed onto a plan to move South Carolina to the first slot and move Georgia and Michigan up in the calendar as well. The updated schedule will still have to go before the full DNC for a vote early next year, but Chairman Harrison touted the new calendar as more “reflective of the values of the Democratic Party.”

President Biden signed the forced deal between rail companies and their unionized workers into law today, effectively ending the monthslong dispute. Rail workers will receive salary increases and immediate payouts, but are still left with zero paid sick leave. 

 

Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy in Texas, citing debts of $1.5 billion he has been ordered to pay Sandy Hook families for harassing them

 

Closing arguments were heard today in the case involving twice-elected state attorney Andrew Warren, who claims he was fired by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on expressly political grounds because Warren would not pursue criminal charges against abortion patients or providers or gender transition treatments. 

 

President Biden went to Boston today to join the phone bank run by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to help Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D-GA) reelection campaign effort. 

 

Police in Tampa, FL issued an arrest warrant last night for former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown related to domestic battery of a female partner, which resulted in a standoff outside of Brown’s house. 


A New York prosecutor argued today that disgraced former president Donald Trump knew about a 15-year tax fraud carried out by longtime executives at the Trump Organization. “Yeah, DUH!” said everyone.

According to preliminary findings in a new Department of Commerce Investigation, four of the largest solar manufacturers are evading steep tariffs on solar products manufactured in China by using other countries as pass-throughs in the production process. The findings come at an opportune time, just as many large solar industry groups and lawmakers have been aggressively lobbying Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to drop the investigation. But the Biden Administration is undeterred, and remains clear-eyed on steering clean energy manufacturing jobs back to the United States. The investigation was initially launched back in March after a small U.S. solar manufacturer in California said it was being driven to financial ruin because competitors were making panels with materials illegally sourced in China.

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Cochise County, AZ was forced to certify its midterm election results yesterday after a judge ruled that Republican supervisors broke the law by refusing to do so by the vote count deadline. Nice try, you election-denying loons.
 

The Department of Health and Human Services reported that mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is expected to no longer be considered a health emergency in the United States as of February 1st of next year. Apparently vaccines work. Who knew?


Over 900,000 immigrants became legal United States citizens via naturalization this year, the highest number since 2008.

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