Today In Labor History March 27, 1866: President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. However, Congress overrode his veto and passed the bill, the first time this had occurred over any major legislation. The bill was the first in the U.S. to define citizenship, and to affirm equal rights under the law for all citizens, including African Americans. Johnson’s rationale for the veto was that the law “discriminated” against whites in favor of blacks.
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bring you to a foregone conclusion favoring #DefSec et al.
What ACTUALLY happened was #DefSec, #POTUS et al dodged a bloody bullet & the outsider they "accidentally" included is an upstanding journo who didn't reveal publicly what he believed, on the basis of his wide experience, was secret info that'd compromise a military op.
This does NOT mean it was OK - or is now - to break natl security protocol, use an unclassified comms system in an unsecured setting w/your mobile to communicate.
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Since #DefSec & #POTUS have declared the Signal chat messaging thread abt the #Houthi air strike does not contain classified info, The Atlantic has decided to publish the war plans in that thread: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
Then #PressSec says the public should decide for THEMSELVES how to evaluate the Signal text thread "based on the success of the operation."
So, yeah, you can decide for yourself IF you decide to follow her instrux to limit your consideration to her parameters designed to
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The Atlantic · Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
Sky NewsCan US be trusted after war chat leak? What does it mean for Ukraine talks? | Michael Clarke Q&ASecurity and defence analyst Michael Clarke has just been answering your questions - on the Trump security leak, the Ukraine war and Russia-US ceasefire talks. Watch the Q&A below.
No Breakthrough Expected Because Putin Doesn't Want Peace
Ceasefire and Black Sea Focus: The US proposed a 30-day ceasefire, including a moratorium on energy infrastructure attacks. Two weeks ago, Ukraine agreed, Putin did not. Skepticism remains over Russia's intentions due to its maximalist demands, including Ukraine abandoning #NATO aspirations. Which is an insane demand as Ukraine is a sovereign nation makes its own security decisions.
Continued attacks highlight the fragility of peace efforts, with Russian airstrikes on Kyiv and Putin's forces daily mass murder of Ukrainians.
TODAY, A Russian missile attack hit a densely-populated district of Ukraine's NE city of Sumy, wounding 88 people, including 17 children.
Putin's ESCALATION has also involved cyberattacks and extensive injuries from missile strikes on Ukrainian civilians.
Talks focus on the grain export agreement, which Russia abandoned. The Black Sea remains a pivotal issue for both nations.
While Putin's forces commit mass murder of Ukrainians, the weak #POTUS's agents meets with Putin's agents In Saudi.
The Russian and US delegations will meet separately in Riyadh on Monday.
In the meantime, at least seven people have been killed in overnight Russian drone attacks in Ukraine, as Zelenskyy urged his Western allies to put more pressure on Moscow to cease its attacks on the country in advance of the peace talks.
Three people, including a five-year-old child, were killed and 10 were injured in a drone attack on the capital Kyiv, the city’s military administration said on Sunday.
Elsewhere, four people were killed in Russian attacks in the Donetsk region, regional Governor Vadym Filashkin said, including three who died in an attack on the front-line Ukrainian town of Dobropillya.
The Kyiv Independent · Who is Sergey Beseda, Russian spy handler leading talks with US?
Austria says it has uncovered a Russian-steered campaign to spread disinformation about Ukraine | AP News
AP News · Austria says it has uncovered a Russian-steered campaign to spread disinformation about UkraineAustrian authorities say they uncovered a Russian-steered campaign aimed at spreading disinformation about Ukraine following the detention in December of a Bulgarian woman accused of spying for Russia. The Interior Ministry said Monday that Austria’s domestic intelligence agency unearthed evidence of the operation as it analyzed devices found in a search of the woman's home. It said the investigation showed that a few weeks after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a cell working for Russian intelligence started was set up and planned a large-scale disinformation campaign in German-speaking countries, particularly Austria.
Remember this when you negotiate with a war criminal.
Russians murdered and raped children. Shot civilians at crossings. Bombed people waiting in line for bread. Wiped out entire families—parents and children together. Beheaded prisoners of war. And committed countless other atrocities. There are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children held captive in Russia, Putin claims he has 700,000 Ukrainian children.
There can be no deals without justice. No peace without accountability.
Journalist Jim Sciutto: I visited a polling station in east #Ukraine in 2014 after one referendum - when pro-Russian separatists (Kremlin agents) didn’t like the results, they burned the ballots.
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Americans speaking English doesn’t trigger the annexation of the US by the UK. Latin American countries speaking Spanish and Portuguese doesn’t make them part of Spain or Portugal.
Yes, absolutely the same applies to Ukraine and russia.
Putin doesn't want one or three or five regions, they want to get all of #Ukraine and move westward.
There are US officials repeating Kremlin propaganda about "russian speakers" or citing sham 'referenda' held at gunpoint are playing with fire: the rewriting of borders across the world is becoming the new norma. It will backfire on all of us if it isn't stopped.
The Putin "referendum" in the russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
--held literally at gunpoint. Yet, the #US administration now claims the results reflect what people from eastern Ukraine want.
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Deleting pages highlighting the contributions of anyone who wasn't a "straight white male" is the very CORE of #WhiteSupremacy/#WhiteGrievance.
Having a #Potus engaging in #Discrimination in the name of "Anti-discrimination" is their dream come true.
Trump is destroying America, wreaking American soft power and its hard-earned international reputation. Putin has humiliated him with its refusal to negotiate. Will he be as hard on them as he has been on Ukraine?
I'm waiting for the felon #potus to speak and act as strongly against Putin as he did against President Zelenskyy.
I have not seen even one statement demanding Putin to stop the invasion, stop raping Ukrainians, stop bombing Ukraine, and to return all the tens of thousands of children and adults Not one word.
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Of course, because this deportation case is the one they've chosen to beat the judiciary into submission. Every step will be an attack to force the courts to lose ground.
I like Elie Mystal's take on Robert's statement. That Roberts will bend over backwards to avoid any ruling that Trump cannot accept.
So, expect this deportation case to get to the #CorruptSCOTUS where they will invent some new #POTUS powers that makes this go Trump's way
How many kidnapped Ukrainian children will Putin get to keep?
This depraved war criminal has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Stealing one child is a crime, and Putin has taken tens of thousands, starting in 2015. He must be arrested and brought to the Hague Criminal Court to face charges of genocide.
WTF WTF WTF
WHAT IS HE DOING WITH THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN HE HAS STOLEN.
RELEASE EVERY CHILD BACK TO THEIR HOMELAND.
PUTIN YOU SICK KURWA WAR CRIMINAL
Release the children from Russian captivity.
Fact check: Ukraine agreed to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire; Russia did not.
️Right now there are 40 Shahed in our sky, there is a direct hit of a shaheed in a hospital in Sumy, – President Zelenskyy.
“Today Putin has effectively rejected the proposal for a complete ceasefire. It would be right for the world to respond by rejecting any attempts by Putin to drag out the war.”
Welp, that didn't last long.
PUTIN BOMBS UKRAINE, CITY NOW WITHOUT POWER.
ONE hour into the energy ceasefire
A ceasefire without a credible monitoring authority nor consequences collapse.
It is now 57 days after the date Trump repeatedly guaranteed he would have the Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine resolved with a peace agreement. Guaranteed to be a liar.
Also, felon #potus lied for Putin. And child kidnapper Putin refused to stop his killing in Ukraine.