Favorites March 28th 2022 (really this time)
Adam Klasfeld@KlasfeldReports
A federal judge finds it "more likely than not" that Trump committed felony obstruction of Congress on Jan. 6, in what he described as an attempted "coup in search of a legal theory."
Story ahead, @lawcrimenews storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Background: lawandcrime.com/jan-6-committe…
3:59 PM · Mar 28, 2022
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Seems pretty likely that nothing is going to come of this, which is pretty messed up. Serious people call the judge's statement 'remarkable'.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
MIT is bringing back SAT/ACT requirements and has a good explanation of why.
(ht @kph3k)
mitadmissions.org
We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles | MIT Admissions
4:40 PM · Mar 28, 2022
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If you want to read a very thorough argument in favor of using testing for admissions, this is it.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
In real terms this represents a significant decline in defense spending, due to inflation.
Public Citizen @Public_Citizen
BREAKING: Biden proposes a $813,000,000,000 Pentagon budget, a $31 BILLION increase from last year’s budget.
6:41 PM · Mar 28, 2022
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An interesting perspective, most of the commentary about the budget talked exclusively about the nominal increase in funding.
Bellingcat@bellingcat
Bellingcat can confirm that three members of the delegation attending the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on the night of 3 to 4 March 2022 experienced symptoms consistent with poisoning with chemical weapons. One of victims was Russian entrepreneur Roman Abramovich.
Max Colchester @MaximColch
Scoop: Abramovich suffered suspected poisoning along with Ukraine peace negotiators earlier this month. Full Story on @WSJ shortly
3:18 PM · Mar 28, 2022
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Roman Abramovich is a Russian diplomat/oligarch, the thread has more details. One idea I saw was that Putin is trying to warn other oligarchs not to move against him. By the way, many senior Russian officials, possibly incliding Putin are currently in nuclear bunkers according to flight data.
