Russia has stepped up a powerful assault on Soledar in eastern Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said, forcing Ukrainian troops to repel waves of attacks led by the Wagner contract militia around the salt mining town and nearby fronts.

Soledar, in the industrial Donbas region, lies a few miles from Bakhmut, where troops from both sides have been taking heavy losses in some of the most intense trench warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly 11 months ago.

Ukrainian forces repelled an earlier attempt to take the town but a large number of Wagner Group units quickly returned, deploying new tactics and more soldiers under heavy artillery cover, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Monday on the Telegram messaging app.

“The enemy literally step over the corpses of their own soldiers, using massed artillery, MLRS systems and mortars,” Malyar said.

Russia’s defence ministry did not mention either Soledar or Bakhmut in a regular media briefing on Monday, a day after facing criticism for an apparently false claim of a missile strike on a temporary Ukrainian barracks.

Wagner was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Drawing some recruits from Russia’s prisons and known for uncompromising violence, it is active in conflicts in Africa and has taken a prominent role in Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.

Prigozhin has been trying to capture Bakhmut and Soledar for months at the cost of many lives on both sides. He said on Saturday its significance lay in a network of cavernous mining tunnels below the ground, which can hold big groups of people as well as tanks and other war machines.

Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said fighting in Bahkmut and Soledar is “the most intense on the entire frontline”, with little advancement by either side in the freezing conditions.

“So many (pro-Russian fighters) remain on the battlefield … either dead or wounded,” he said on YouTube.

“They attack our positions in waves, but the wounded as a rule die where they lie, either from exposure as it is very cold or from blood loss. No one is coming to help them or to collect the dead from the battlefield.”

Reuters could not immediately verify battlefield reports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in nightly video remarks on Monday that Bakhmut and Soledar were holding on despite widespread destruction.

He cited new and fiercer attacks in Soledar, where he said no walls have been left standing and the land is covered with Russian corpses.

“Thanks to the resilience of our soldiers in Soledar, we have won for Ukraine additional time and additional strength,” Zelenskiy said. He did not spell out what he meant by gaining time or strength.

But Ukrainian officials, led by the commander in chief General Valery Zaluzhniy, have warned that Russia is preparing fresh troops for a new, major offensive on Ukraine, possibly on the capital Kyiv.

Zelenskiy also appears to be banking on securing more, sophisticated weapons from Ukraine’s Western partners to beat off attacks and eventually expel Russian troops.

On Monday, he pressed on with diplomatic efforts, speaking to Petr Fiala, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, current chair of the 27-member European Union.

“I am certain that our soldiers at the front will get these weapons and equipment. Very soon,” he said.

France, Germany and the United States all pledged last week to send armoured fighting vehicles, fulfilling a long-standing Ukrainian request. Britain is considering supplying Ukraine with tanks for the first time, Sky News reported, citing a Western source. Britain’s Defence Ministry did not comment.

Military analysts say the strategic military benefit for Russia of capturing Bakhmut and Soledar would be limited.

Taras Berezovets, a Ukrainian journalist, political commentator and officer in the Ukrainian army, said capturing Soledar made little sense, except as a personal victory for Prigozhin, however it would be easier to take than Bakhmut.

“It’s his personal war,” Berezovets said on YouTube.

A U.S. official has said Prigozhin is eyeing the salt and gypsum from the mines, believed to extend over 100 miles underground and contain auditorium-scale caverns.

Berezovets said Ukrainian troops fighting in Bakhmut and Soledar say attacks come in waves of small groups, no more than 15, with the first wave usually wiped out. The pro-Russian forces retrench and leave white ribbons for the next wave to follow.

“The complexity of fighting in cities like Bakhmut and Soledar is that it is hard to determine who is with you and who is the enemy,” he said.

In an evacuee centre in nearby Kramatorsk, Olha, 60, said she had fled Soledar after moving from apartment to apartment as each was destroyed in tank battles.

“There isn’t one house left intact. Apartments were burning, breaking in half,” said Olha, who gave only her first name.

Two people were killed in a Russian rocket attack on Kramatorsk on Monday evening, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, an aide to Zelenskiy, said on Telegram.

Reuters was not able to independently verify the battlefield reports.

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The attack on state institutions in Brazil on Sunday will not delay the first actions planned by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s economic team, expected to be announced this week, Lula’s chief of staff said late on Monday.

Speaking to reporters, Rui Costa, also a minister in Lula’s cabinet, said government meetings were scheduled for Tuesday and the Finance Ministry and Management Ministry will announce measures this week. Lula took office on Jan. 1.

“(The attacks) may have disturbed today, but the flow (of work) is still normal,” he said. “They (protesters) can break windows, destroy public property, scratch Brazil’s image, but they will not destroy Brazilian democracy.”

Hundreds of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed and vandalized the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace on Sunday. Bolsonaro’s supporters contest the result of October’s presidential election, won by Lula by a narrow margin.

The attacks on state institutions are considered the worst since the country’s return to democracy in the 1980s.

Earlier on Monday, three sources had said there was a risk of postponing the first economic measures due to the chaos in the federal capital.

Pressured to present concrete actions to address the country’s public accounts deficit, aggravated by Congress’ approval of a multi-billion reais spending package to meet campaign promises, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad had publicly said he would make his first announcements this week.

The minister participated in emergency meetings with Lula and others on Monday.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who helped to amplify former President Donald Trump’s false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors seeking documents about payments he received from Trump or his presidential campaign, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.

The subpoena, which was issued in November, also asks Giuliani to provide testimony, said the person, who declined to be identified as they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

The nature of the inquiry by the U.S. attorney in Washington D.C., which began before Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed to oversee investigations into Trump, remains largely under wraps.

The former mayor, who has served as Trump’s personal attorney, did not respond to requests by Reuters for comment.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The source said the subpoena sought, among other things, copies of any retainer agreements between Trump and Giuliani, or the Trump campaign and Giuliani, and records of payments and who made those payments.

In December, a District of Columbia attorney ethics committee said Giuliani violated at least one attorney ethics rule in his work on a failed lawsuit by Trump challenging the 2020 election results.

Giuliani’s New York state law license was suspended in June 2021 after a state appeals court found he had made “demonstrably false and misleading” statements that widespread voter fraud undermined the 2020 election won by his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.

Britain’s attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said its rocket had suffered an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit.

The “horizontal launch” mission had left from the coastal town of Newquay in southwest England, with Virgin’s LauncherOne rocket carried under the wing of a modified Boeing 747 called “Cosmic Girl”, and later released over the Atlantic Ocean.

“We appear to have an anomaly that has prevented us from reaching orbit,” the company said. “We are evaluating the information.”

The failure deals a further blow to European space ambitions after an Italian-built Vega-C rocket mission failed after lift-off from French Guiana in late December.

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Europe has suffered a series of setbacks in the past year, with its key Ariane 6 launcher delayed, access to Russian Soyuz rockets blocked by the Ukraine war, Vega grounded and now a showcase launch for the burgeoning small launcher industry abandoned.

Virgin Orbit had initially said on Twitter that LauncherOne had reached earth orbit, a tweet it later deleted.

“Over the coming days there will be an investigation by the government and various bodies, including Virgin Orbit,” Matt Archer, Commercial Space Director at the UK Space Agency said.

Virgin Orbit (VORB.O), part-owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, had planned to deploy nine small satellites into lower Earth orbit (LEO) in its first mission outside its United States base.

The mission had been heralded as a historic first for Cornwall, Britain and Europe, and thousands of enthusiasts watching from beside the runway cheered when “Cosmic Girl” took off and when they were told the rocket had been deployed.

The crowd quickly and quietly dispersed following the announcement of failure.

A mission failure would be the second in Virgin Orbit’s history since its first launch in 2020. The company has had four successful missions.

Archer, at the UK Space Agency, said the a first stage burn had taken the rocket into space but the second stage had a “technical anomaly and didn’t reach the required orbit”.

A graphic display on an official video feed showed the mission at second-engine cut-off, three steps short of payload deployment about two hours after take-off.

The war in Ukraine has highlighted the importance for tactical military purposes of smaller satellites, like those being launched from Newquay, which can get into low orbit at much shorter notice than bigger ones.

It was not immediately clear how the failure, which will have to be investigated, would affect the timing or location of future missions. Virgin Orbit Chief Executive Dan Hart told reporters on Sunday that the company hoped to return to Newquay before the end of 2023.

Britain says it is the leading non-U.S. manufacturer of satellites, with 47,000 people employed in its space industry, and has called for the development of multiple potential microlaunch sites including two vertical launchpads in Scotland.

The UK Space Agency had described the Cornish mission as a moment of national pride for Britain’s growing space industry while Britain’s minister for science, George Freeman, told Reuters at the spaceport that it was a “historic moment”.

“Lots and lots of things have been achieved and yet the milestone is obviously disappointing,” Archer said. “But we will continue to press on and we will get there in the end.”

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A general view of Cosmic Girl, a repurposed Boeing 747 aircraft carrying the LauncherOne rocket under its left wing, as final preparations are made at Cornwall Airport Newquay on January 9, 2023 in Newquay, United Kingdom.

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• Virgin Orbit said it has experienced an “anomaly” with its rocket during a UK space mission.
• Cosmic Girl took off smoothly and released LauncherOne, but the rocket didn’t reach orbit.
• It was unclear what caused Virgin Orbit’s rocket to fail.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit on Monday said its rocket experienced an “anomaly” while flying to orbit, preventing the UK from succeeding in its historical space mission to deliver a payload of nine satellites to orbit.

The “Start Me Up” satellite mission was scheduled for Monday from Spaceport Cornwall at Cornwall Airport Newquay in southern England.

Cosmic Girl, a repurposed Boeing 747-400, took off around 5 pm ET on Monday, carrying the LauncherOne rocket under its wing. The aircraft then successfully released the rocket around an hour after taking off.

About half an hour later, Virgin Orbit tweeted: “We appear to have an anomaly that has prevented us from reaching orbit. We are evaluating the information.”

Richard Branson’s company previously wrote on Twitter that its LauncherOne rocket had successfully reached orbit, but later tweeted that didn’t happen and it would remove the post.

It’s so far unclear what caused the mission to fail. Cosmic Girl returned to the spaceport just after 6 pm ET.

Matt Archer, commercial space director at the UK Space Agency, told reporters on Monday that he was “disappointed, but proud of what we’ve achieved.”

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall, said she was “devastated” about the setback as the whole team had put their “heart and souls” into the mission, but she said she was glad all of the crew was safe.

He said over the next few days there would be an investigation into the mission failure.

The mission was set to be the UK’s first satellite launch and first orbital space mission from British ground, as well as Virgin Orbit’s first international mission.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is cheered while departing after he rode a motorcycle along with other bikers in Orlando, Florida on June 11, 2022.

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• Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro came to Florida late last year on a visa.
• After his supporters staged an insurrection, there are calls to send him back home.
• To deport him, the Secretary of State could rule that Bolsonaro is harming US foreign policy.

Jair Bolsonaro was thousands of miles away when a mob of his supporters ransacked Brazil’s capital over the weekend, but the lie that he and his allies told — that the far-right former president actually won an election that he lost — was what lit the fire of insurrection. Already there are calls for him to return home, willingly or not.

Late last year, Bolsonaro, while still Brazil’s head of state, came to Florida, with people spotting him everywhere from fast-food joints to grocery stores. He is now in a hospital outside Orlando where, according to his wife, he is receiving treatment for abdominal pain.

As Brazil’s president, Bolsonaro, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, enjoyed something his fellow Brazilians do not: easy access to the United States, courtesy of the type of visa awarded to diplomats and other foreign government officials. And even now that he is a private citizen, Bolsonaro enjoys legal rights that could long delay any forcible return to Brazil, should it come to that.

At a press briefing on Monday, Ned Price, a spokesperson for the US State Department, declined to comment on whether Bolsonaro used such a visa to enter the country. But he said that it is “incumbent” on any individual on a diplomatic visa — but no longer working for their government — to either leave the country or “request a change to another immigration status within 30 days” of their employment changing.

Bolsonaro arrived in Florida on December 30. His left-wing successor, Lula Inácio da Silva, was sworn in on January 1.

It is also possible that Bolsonaro arrived on a tourist visa. Regardless, should he wish to remain in the US, Brazil’s ex-leader will have the ability to legally challenge any effort to remove him, a process that could push back his return to Brazil for months, if not longer.

If Brazil files charges against him for any alleged role in the January 8 riots, Bolsonaro will also have the right to fight a separate legal battle against extradition.

‘Reasonable grounds’ to deport Bolsonaro

There is a potential, if little-used, alternative. Under federal law, Bolsonaro could be deported if the Secretary of State has “reasonable grounds” to believe that his presence in the country “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”

Under that provision, Bolsonaro could be deported whether or not he has even been charged with a crime.

In 1995, then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher reached such a conclusion with respect to a former Mexican prosecutor, Ruiz Massieu, who had been charged in his home country with obstructing an investigation into the assassination of his brother, a prominent politician. The same day that a US judge denied Mexico’s extradition request, Massieu was taken into custody by immigration officials, armed with a letter from the Secretary of State declaring him a nuisance to US foreign policy who should be deported, The Los Angeles Times reported.

But there were complications. US law granted Massieu the right to challenge that deportation, too. Four months later, US District Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, the sister of former President Donald Trump, ruled that the federal government had no right to deport someone solely on the determination of the US Secretary of State, provided that they had in fact entered the country legally and obeyed its laws.

“The issue is whether an alien in this country legally can, merely because he is here, have his liberty restrained and forcibly be removed to a specific country in the unfettered discretion of the Secretary of State and without any meaningful opportunity to be heard,” Barry wrote in her decision. “The answer is a ringing, ‘No!'”

The US Department of Justice pushed back on that conclusion. Its s Board of Immigration Appeals — whose decisions are the final say on questions before immigration judges — subsequently ruled that no court has the right to question a Secretary of State’s determination that a person is a threat to the country’s foreign policy.

Ultimately, though, the US never deported Massieu. Instead, in 1999, US prosecutors charged him themselves, accusing him of laundering millions of dollars he received from drug cartels. He died by suicide a month later.

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Joe Biden and the Democrats are working to prove their track record on markets and the economy ahead of the midterm elections.

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• CBS News reported Monday that classified documents were found at an office used by President Biden.
• The documents were found by Biden’s attorneys and provided to the National Archives.
• A legal expert said Biden’s team appears to have done “exactly what you’re supposed to do.”

A US attorney is reviewing a handful of classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s former office in Washington, CBS News reported Monday.

In a statement, Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, said the White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Justice Department on the matter.

“The documents were discovered when the president’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC,” Sauber said. Biden held a position at the center, run by the University of Pennsylvania, from 2017 to 2019.

The documents “were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives,” Sauber noted and were immediately handed over to the record-keeping agency.

Former President Donald Trump immediately pounced on the story. “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?” he posted on his social media network.

But Bradley P. Moss, a national security lawyer, told Insider that so far this looks like a routine matter with no allegation of criminal wrongdoing. He contrasted what we know about the case with that being built against Trump, who held boxes of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort even after their return had been demanded by the National Archives.

“Biden’s team did exactly what you’re supposed to do,” Moss said. “When you find improperly stored classified documents, you immediately notify the government — and you turn it over immediately.”

Classified documents are routinely misplaced, and so far this looks to be a routine investigation, perhaps motivated in part by a desire by the Department of Justice to show it is impartial, Moss said. The nature of the investigation would change if the US attorney in charge of reviewing the documents, Matt Lausch, a Trump appointee, were to uncover any evidence that Biden or his staff misled the National Archives.

“The reason Donald Trump is in criminal jeopardy right now isn’t just because of the documents being improperly stored. It was the obstruction,” Moss said. “That is why it has gotten to the point it has, where we’re looking at the real possibility of a criminal indictment.”

Republican Rep. George Santos of New York in the House chamber on January 4, 2023.

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• House Republicans voted on Monday to hobble the Office of Congressional Ethics.
• The body will now likely be limited in its ability to carry out investigations due to staffing shortages.
• George Santos, facing multiple investigations and ethics complaints, called the changes “fantastic.”

The House of Representatives on Monday passed a new set of rules to govern the chamber that will severely weaken the ability of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate members of Congress for potential wrongdoing.

“I think it’s fantastic,” Republican Rep. George Santos of New York said of the rules package, which passed by a 220-213 margin, in a brief interview with Insider at the Capitol on Monday.

The changes come just days after Santos — who was revealed to have lied about much of his background, is under investigation in multiple countries, and faces at least two OCE complaints related to his financial disclosures — was sworn into Congress.

“The proposed rules package severely curtails the ability of OCE to do the job it exists to do,” a constellation of good-government groups wrote in a letter published on January 4.

The Office of Congressional Ethics, first established in 2008, is a quasi-independent body tasked with investigating allegations of misconduct against members of Congress. It then makes a determination as to whether those allegations are worth investigating further, at which point it makes a referral to the House Ethics Committee, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.

But the rules package for the 118th Congress, put forward by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, re-imposes eight-year term limits for the OCE’s board members, made up of former members of Congress, that were originally laid out when the office was established in 2008 and later extended in subsequent congresses.

The practical effect of that will be the immediate removal of three of four Democratic-appointed board members: former Reps. Mike Barnes, Belinda Pinckney, and Karan English. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries can appoint their replacements, but that could take months.

Furthermore, the rules prevent the office from hiring new staff after one month and require four board members to sign off on any staffing decision. That means the office — which currently has just one investigative counsel on staff and is actively seeking to hire two more — likely won’t have enough time to hire new staff, and will not be able to fill any vacancies that might occur in the next two years.

Taken together, the rules will make it extraordinarily difficult for the body — which otherwise operates independently of Congress and has generally been more effective at investigating wrong-doing than self-policing Ethics Committee in the House or Senate — will not have the necessary resources it needs to carry out its work.

That means less ability to investigate wrongdoing, and more time needed to carry out investigations.

But Santos, who has otherwise declined to comment on the myriad scandals facing him, disagreed with the idea that the office would be weakened by the rules.

“I think it just gives them more power,” he said. He added that the newly-imposed rules wouldn’t “allow people to sit there without term limits,” apparently referring to the board members. “I believe in term limits.”

He also brushed off the staffing restrictions, saying it would allow “new members of the board to pick their discretionary members” without acknowledging that all of this must happen in just 30 days.

“It’s a good thing for transparency, it’s a good thing for Americans,” said Santos. “Renewal!” 

A ‘disturbing development’

House Democrats also condemned the changes in interviews with Insider at the Capitol on Monday.

“I don’t understand how anyone interprets the results of the midterms to say we need less ethics standards,” said Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California. “I have a lot of respect for the Office of Congressional Ethics. I think they’ve operated in a way that is fair, bipartisan, fact-based, and they there’s no justification for doing this.”

Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia — who told Insider that the rules package would render OCE a “toothless body in a forgotten hallway of the Capitol complex” in a statement — didn’t rule out seeking to fix it via legislation in the future.

The OCE has allowed for public accountability of several members of Congress during the last two years.

The body made referrals for several Republicans related to STOCK Act violations, led to significant fines for former Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina for improperly promoting a cryptocurrency, and referred a case against Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the House committee.

Ocasio-Cortez also condemned the rules changes, saying it was a “disturbing development” while declining to comment on her own ethics case — though she alluded to “spurious claims” filed against Democrats.

“It does call into question if they’re just going to remove it every time they’re in the majority,” said Ocasio-Cortez. 

McCarthy’s office did not immediately respond to a detailed set of questions from Insider seeking an explanation of the proposed changes.

In 2017, House Republicans voted in conference to subsume the office under the House Ethics Committee, effectively neutering it. But they reversed course when President Donald Trump tweeted his opposition.

—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2017

—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2017

 

In Brazil’s capital city of Brasilia, protestors are enjoying America’s latest export: fascism. The National Congress building and several other government buildings were stormed and broken into Sunday by right-wing extremist supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. They did it because they refused to accept his election defeat. It might be useful for you to know, brothers and sisters, that “big lie” in Portuguese is “grande mentira.”

Meanwhile Jair Bolsonaro is in the safest place he can possibly be. He’s in Florida. There can be little doubt that there are no shortages of sympathetic ears down there, including those belonging to both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. Much of Florida is on the side of the protestors. Scumbags like Steve Bannon are also cheering the Brazilian revolt.

I don’t think there can be any doubt that the unrest in Brazil is directly traceable to people like Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump. Without them and their spear-carriers there would have been nobody to give Brazilian fascists the idea that storming government buildings is “legitimate political discourse” instead of what it actually is, a traitorous attempt to overthrow both a legitimate election and a peaceful transfer of power. Nice going Trump, Miller and Bannon, your fascism is now on a world tour, and the world is less safe because of you.

Not to say anything against monkeys, but this is just a case of monkey see, monkey do. Stupid Brazilians saw what stupid Americans did and they decided to imitate it, stupidly. There’s something about the configurations of certain human brains that makes certain people adore violent and totalitarian fascists like Trump and Bolsonaro. Such people exist everywhere in the world including, as was so graphically and recently demonstrated, Brazil.

Initially, Brazilians giggled at the fools who protested and carried signs about the “stolen” election. It’s easy to understand why. Those protestors must have looked every inch as absurd as America’s own MAGA crowd with their silly hats and badly spelled signage.

But there’s too often deadly intent behind the glassy eyes of the ardent lovers of fascism. America made the mistake of underestimating its own crowd from January 6. So Department of Justice, if you’re listening, America’s bad guys need to be put in prison ASAP. There are many who need to go away, but Bannon with his Brazilian links together with Stephen Miller and Donald Trump top the list. And for good measure, the insurrectionists in Congress still plotting to destroy America are still enjoying too much freedom to do too much harm, and they need to go away as well.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am tired of waiting and I have a right to be tired. Too many innocent people are suffering because bad guys are still unindicted. It’s time to indict, and let the chips fall where they may. For one thing, I don’t want to look up the translation of “big lie” in other languages. Brazil’s grande mentira ought to scare us enough. Let’s stop the bad guys now. And, as ever, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, stay safe.

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Now that Majorie Taylor Greene has managed to get her feckless puppet Kevin McCarthy installed as Speaker of the House (for the moment), she appears to think she can simply get away with anything. But hip hop legend Dr. Dre of all people is now fighting back against Greene’s latest inappropriate antics.

Greene tweeted a politically themed video and she used a Dr. Dre song as the soundtrack. Dre didn’t take too kindly to this. He got Twitter to take the video down on a copyright violation, and he got Greene temporarily locked out of her Twitter account.

Lest anyone think that Dr. Dre objected to Greene’s video strictly on copyright grounds, he issued this statement: “I don’t license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one.” So there you have it.

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