PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN---DAY403---SECOND YEAR DAY39---Evening Shade-Sunday

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020

W E L C O M E

TO THE SHADE

YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS

AND EVEN MORE CATS

   

THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CATS

EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CAT

   

RULES IN THE DIARY

WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE

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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN

Biden admin: The United States, through USAID and the State Department, is providing nearly $54 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Ukraine "following Russia's unprovoked and unjustified further invasion of Ukraine."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

SUPREME COURT

NBC News: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, will begin holding meetings with U.S. senators next week. @NBCNews

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

UKRAINE

Ukraine's government received more than $4 million in cryptocurrency on Saturday shortly after it began directly soliciting funds on social media, according to its accounts' public transactions. @NBCNews

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

KYIV

NBC News: There are "no Russian troops" in Kyiv and the capital "continues to defend itself," the city's mayor says.

"Our military, law enforcement and territorial defense continue to detect and neutralize saboteurs," Vitali Klitschko says in a Telegram post. @NBCNews

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine president's office says Ukrainian envoys will meet with Russian diplomats as Russian troops draw closer to Kyiv.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has vowed that his country will stand its ground and continue fighting for control of Kyiv.

"The world saw — Ukrainians are strong ... Ukrainians are powerful. Ukrainians are brave, Ukrainians are in their homeland and will never give it to anyone."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR

Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., says that her government is sending its allegations of Russian war crimes to The Hague, home of the International Criminal Court. @NBCNews

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

FRANCE

France has joined a growing list of European nations in banning Russian aircraft from its airspace. @NBCNews

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

GERMANY

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany is committing 100 billion euros ($112.7 billion) to a special fund for its armed forces, raising its defense spending above 2 percent of its GDP. @NBCNews

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

REPUBLICAN SEN. TOOMEY

"As Europe ramps up its efforts to equip Ukrainians w/ the support they need, so must the US," says @SenToomey who voted against holding Trump accountable for w/holding the support Ukraine needed until Zelensky agreed to concoct dirt on Biden. Z stood up to Trump, just like Putin

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 27, 2022

SIDNEY POWELL

Far-right attorney Sidney Powell and her co-counsel will have to undergo additional legal education thanks to their failed post-election lawsuit challenging Michigan's presidential election results. https://t.co/EIqFKLosUG

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

TRUMP

Some of the Trump presidential records recovered from Mar-a-Lago are so sensitive they may not be able to be described in forthcoming inventory reports in an unclassified way. https://t.co/gMWTN0Q6sp

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2022

YESTERDAY & WILL HAVE BIG IMPACT & TOMORROW

Reuters: U.S., ALLIES COMMIT TO ENSURING SELECTED RUSSIAN BANKS ARE REMOVED FROM THE SWIFT INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS SYSTEM

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 26, 2022