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MarkJ · « **Reply #45 on:** October 04, 2023, 09:08:05 pm »

"...Ron DeSantis' money problems deepen ahead of a key stretch in the GOP primary
The Florida governor's campaign spent more on the nominating fight than it raised in the third quarter, as it shifts staff from its headquarters in Tallahassee to Iowa..."

MarkJ · « **Reply #46 on:** October 04, 2023, 09:13:36 pm »

She did but it will be interesting to see if she wins in spite of that.

"...RT executive Margarita Simonyan launches defamation suit after suggesting Russia should blow up nuclear bomb ‘somewhere over Siberia’

RT executive Margarita Simonyan says she’s filed a complaint about “some aide to some legislator” who had accused her of saying that Russia should launch a nuclear strike on Siberia.

“The earthly within me has prevailed,” Simonyan wrote on Telegram, suggesting that (contrary to her heavenly nature) she was obliged to launch a defamation suit, taking the first step by filing a police report.

The propagandist insists she couldn’t possibly have argued for a nuclear strike on the Russian territory. “This monstrous allegation,” she wrote, “smears my reputation and inflicts all manner of damages and suffering upon me.”..."

"..After saying live on RT that Russia should detonate a nuclear bomb “somewhere over Siberia” as an ultimatum to the West, Margarita Simonyan is trying to silence the critics (some of them from Siberia) by threatening and filing defamation complaints.."

MarkJ · « **Reply #47 on:** October 04, 2023, 09:15:09 pm »

Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose on this day in 1970

guest10 · « **Reply #48 on:** October 04, 2023, 09:22:02 pm »

One of the senior cats still left from the old days has not come by in 3 weeks. The Maine Coon next door has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. My cat is going down every day. It is so depressing when they pass.