After several horrific days and hanging on the brink of a true international crisis, Ukraine’s contending factions took a first step back from the brink last night. This is a big deal.
Daniel Strauss reports, is Scott Walker’s secret email club his Troopergate?
From one of Ted’s biggest hits “Stranglehold“
You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
You better trust your fate
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You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
That night I crushed your face
Two young men, Arron Keahey and Brice Johnson met on the mobile app Meetme and decided to get together for sex. Or that’s what Keahey thought. Now Johnson, 19, faces federal hate crimes charges for beating Keahey within an inch of his life. “I invited this guy over, right, at first it was basically like a joke that went too far and too wrong,” Johnson told a relative in a jail house phone call. “I invited him over because he was a fag or whatever.” Here’s the story.
From the AP …
“KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s border guard service says that a leading governor and a mayor from the president’s eastern base have fled to Russia.
A spokesman for the border guard service, Oleh Slobodyan, told The Associated Press that Kharkiv regional governor Mikhaylo Dobkin and Kharkiv Mayor Hennady Kernes left Ukraine across the nearby Russian border Saturday.
Tymoshenko speaking live now. Video after the jump …
From Arizona’s very conservative junior senator on Arizona’s rebrand anti-gay bigotry as religious freedom law …
I hope Governor Brewer vetoes SB 1062
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) February 22, 2014
More here.
The Tea Party primary challenger in the Kansas Senate race, a radiologist, posted on Facebook x-rays of what were apparently his own deceased patients (in other cases he appears to have obtained them through his hospital privileges), mocking and making light of the wounds that ended their lives. Beyond the sociopathy that gets you to do something like that, I have to imagine HIPAA (which sometimes complicates even rather trivial communication by medical professionals) makes this a big big no-no.
Obamacare as a key GOTV tool in 2014? If Dems have their way, it could play a role in at least one hotly contested Senate race. Dylan Scott explains.