Before you decide that #PaulWhelan should have been freed before #BrittneyGriner because he was a Marine - at last look at the Navy's court record in this link below
Whelan was *courtmartialed* for attempted larceny, dereliction of duty, among other things.
To be clear, I am all for getting any American, including Whelan, unjustly jailed out of the ПИЗДЕЦ (Google it) terrorist/Fascist state that# Russia has become. We should be celebrating a small victory in getting at least Griner home.
Now let the Biden Administration continue working to get Whelan and others home, because the Trump Administration did nothing when Whelan was jailed in Russia.
https://www.jag.navy.mil/courts/documents/archive/2008/WHELAN,%20P.N.%20200800152%20PCE.pdf
To all the Nazis, bigots, and #ChristoFascists with their panties in a twist about the Respect for Marriage Act, it's simple.
Just don't get gay or interracially married. Nobody's forcing you.
Unless your "respect for marriage" is just about your white nationalist dream of a Republican Fourth Reich.
Breaking News: The FDA authorized the updated coronavirus vaccines for children as young as 6 months old. The move broadens access to the reformulated shots. https://nyti.ms/3VKeGEf
Brittney Griner's release puts a spotlight on Paul Whelan, an American corporate security executive imprisoned in Russia. He was arrested in 2018 and convicted on espionage charges. The Biden administration is continuing to work for his release, it said. https://nyti.ms/3FaUFja
Viktor Bout has been accused of supplying arms to Al Qaeda, the Taliban and rebels in Rwanda. He was convicted in the U.S. in 2011.
Now, after a prisoner swap involving Brittney Griner, Bout is free, despite serving less than half of his 25-year sentence. https://nyti.ms/3FAw1cY
#BrittneyGriner traded for an arms dealer. I am glad she was released.
#Russia remains a Fascist state.
Washington DC voted to make its bus system fare-free, starting July 1. This is big...the first major city to make their bus service completely free, and hopefully will serve as an example to other bus services around the nation. This makes the busses available not only to the middle class but also to the very poor who can't afford transit...in other words, greater equity. (Yes, this is me in my transit advocacy mode.) #transit #bus #PublicTransit
Вітаю Президента Володимира Зеленського! Congratulations President Volodomyr Zelenskyy. Time's Person Of The Year, 2022.
Ukrainians, please feel free to correct my Ukrainian. I'm a beginner at your language.
https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2022-volodymyr-zelensky/
Thank you Georgia! Warner beats Walker.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/06/georgia-runoff-live-updates/
NY Times coverage of Trump Org NY criminal tax fraud trial.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/06/nyregion/trump-organization-trial-verdict
Breaking news: Former president Donald Trump’s namesake company was convicted of tax crimes committed by two of its longtime executives after a Manhattan trial that gave jurors a peek at some of the inner workings of the Trump Organization’s finances. https://wapo.st/3VydG5U
Trump Organization convicted in NY criminal tax fraud trial.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/06/trump-organization-guilty-tax-fraud/
相対性理論。"Theory of relativity" I moved the camera and umbrella at the same time and took a panning shot.#followfriday #cyberpunk #photography