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BeyondGeography's JournalSlovak PM Fico in hospital after being shot
Source: BBC
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot and wounded, according to local media reports.Mr Fico was shot in front of a cultural community centre in the town of Handlova, where a government meeting had been held, reports say.
Several shots were heard, according to journalists on the scene.
The Slovak leader has been taken to hospital and his alleged assailant detained by police.
Handlova is around 180km (112 miles) north-east of the capital Bratislava. A video showed several men rushing to detain the suspect just outside the cultural centre in Handlova. The BBC has not yet verified the footage.
Mr Fico returned to power in Slovakia after elections last September, at the head of a populist-nationalist coalition.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg6761ggxz1o.amp
Judge Merchan knows how to keep it real
This is the basic stuff of civilization:
Merchan said Trumps actions constitute a direct attack on the rule of law [and] I cannot allow that to continue:
So as much as I do not want to impose a jail sanction I want you to understand that I will, if necessary, and appropriate.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/06/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-case-resumes-following-tearful-hope-hicks-testimony-live-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
L'ame des poetes - French people in a room
Long after the poets have disappeared
Their songs still roam the streets
President Biden tells Howard Stern he will debate Trump
Good.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1783881121614254409?s=61&t=EcvWMxA1syxTf8zqNwq-IA
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/politics/biden-trump-debate/index.html
CNN
President Joe Biden said he will debate former President Donald Trump ahead of this years election, though he said he didnt know in what format.
I am, somewhere. I dont know when, Biden said when asked by interviewer Howard Stern whether he planned to debate his predecessor. Im happy to debate him.
Its the first time Biden has said explicitly he would debate Trump in this election cycle. Previously, he has equivocated, saying it would depend on Trumps behavior.
Kristi Noem is trash
https://twitter.com/therickwilson/status/1783839315727888679?s=61&t=EcvWMxA1syxTf8zqNwq-IADecades with hunting- and bird-dogs, and the number I've killed because they were chicken-sharp or had too much prey drive is ZERO. Puppies need slow exposure to birds, and bird-scent.
She killed a puppy because she was lazy at training bird dogs, not because it was a bad dog.
Not every dog is for the field, but 99.9% of them are trainable or re-homeable. We have one now who was never going in the field, but I didn't kill her. She's sleeping on the couch.
You down old dogs, hurt dogs, and sick dogs humanely, not by shooting them and tossing them in a gravel pit.
Unsporting and deliberately cruel...but she wrote this to prove the cruelty is the point.
Context:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Sciutto: The script-flipping here is remarkable
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1783529948172398893?s=61&t=EcvWMxA1syxTf8zqNwq-IAMendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61 - Nocturne
?si=TC9bCZgiNu6Ek6oxRoman Gabriel, legendary Rams QB and former NFL MVP, dead at 83
Gabriel, the first Filipino-American quarterback in the NFL and the league MVP in 1969, died Saturday. He was 83. His son, Roman Gabriel III, announced his fathers death on social media, saying he died peacefully at home of natural causes.
Gabriel, who played at North Carolina State and was a two-time player of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989. He was 6-foot-5 and 235 pounds, big for a quarterback in that era. Green Bay coach Vince Lombardi once described him as a big telephone pole, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Gabriel was such a hot prospect that the Rams made him the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, and the Oakland Raiders of the rival AFL selected him No. 1. Gabriel wound up signing with the Rams, though it took until George Allen was hired as coach in 1966 for Gabriel to start leaving a mark. From 1967 to 1970, Gabriel led the Rams to a 41-14-4 record and two division titles, though never a playoff game. He was voted MVP in 1969 after throwing for 2,549 yards with 24 touchdown passes and five rushing scores.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/sports/roman-gabriel-former-rams-and-eagles-qb-dead-at-83/
Leader Jeffries Floor Speech in Support of Bipartisan Legislation for America's National Security
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US House approves $61bn in military aid for Ukraine after months of stalling
The bipartisan vote saw 210 Democrats and 101 Republicans join to support Ukraine, with 112 Republicans voting against. It came after the Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, forced a series of bills onto the floor in the face of fierce resistance within his own Republican party, many of whom oppose spending more on Ukraines defense.
Voting began hours ahead of schedule in an extraordinary Saturday session that delayed the Houses planned recess.
In a powerful effort to sum up the stakes before the vote, the former Democratic speaker, Nancy Pelosi, made a stridently graphic appeal: I hope our colleagues will choose democracy and decency rather than autocracy and evil because I fear if you choose the Putin route, you will have blood on your hands, blood of the children, blood of their mothers raped in front of their parents, raped in front of their children, she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/us-house-approves-61bn-aid-ukraine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I wont lie, I am almost tearful with gratitude for this.
President Biden is such a pro, this only happens IMO because he got through to Johnson about whats at stake in Ukraine. Biden was patient, he held his fire, he got his points across to the Speaker.
He got it done.
Four more years.
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