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So I'm seeing one player total from each conference? Since we're now SEC, it'll be interesting to see who they add. We'd have to beat out the Georgia, Bama, and LSU rosters, etc.
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On 4/29/2024 at 10:13 PM, ChickenSandwich said:
WTF
At least 25 overdoses reported in downtown Austin: ATCEMS
Up to 75 total overdoses just this week:
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/02/austin-tx-fentanyl-opioid-overdose-outbreak-nine-dead-and-dozens-affected/73538792007/Nine dead, 66 affected by drugs believed to be laced with fentanyl, Austin officials say
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Russia breached global chemical weapons ban in Ukraine war, US says
Story by Jonathan Landay and Daphne Psaledakis • 51m • 3 min readWASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of warfare" in Ukraine.
"The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident and is probably driven by Russian forces' desire to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield," the State Department said in a statement.
The Russian embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Chloropicrin is listed as a banned choking agent by the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was created to implement and monitor compliance with the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
German forces fired the gas against Allied troops during World War I in one of the first uses of a chemical weapon.Earlier this month, Reuters reported the Ukrainian military as saying Russia has stepped up its illegal of use riot control agents as it presses its biggest advances in eastern Ukraine in more than two years.
In addition to chloropicrin, Russian forces have used grenades loaded with CS and CN gases, the Ukrainian military says. It says at least 500 Ukrainian soldiers have been treated for exposure to toxic substances and one was killed by suffocating on tear gas.
While civilians usually can escape riot control gases during protests, soldiers stuck in trenches without gas masks must either flee under enemy fire or risk suffocating.
The State Department said it was delivering to Congress its determination that Russia's use of chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops violated the CWC.
Moscow's use of the gas "comes from the same playbook as its operations to poison" the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2020 and Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in 2018 with the Novichok nerve agent, the statement said.
Russia denied involvement in both cases.
The department also determined that Russia has breached the CWC's prohibition on the use of riot control agents as a method of warfare, the statement said.
It said it was sanctioning three Russian state entities linked to Moscow's chemical and biological weapons programs, including a specialized military unit that facilitated the use of chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops.
Four Russian companies that support the three entities were also sanctioned, it said.
The sanctions freeze any U.S. assets belonging to the targeted entities and generally prohibit Americans from doing business with them.
Separately, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on three entities and two individuals involved in purchasing items for Russian military institutes involved in the country's chemical and biological weapons programs.
The sanctions were among new measures announced by the United States on Wednesday targeting Russia over its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The CWC bans the production and use of chemical weapons. It also requires the 193 countries that have ratified the convention, which include Russia and the U.S., to destroy any stocks of banned chemicals.
The State Department was expected to convey its determination that Russia has violated the CWC to the OPCW.
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaching the treaty in OPCW meetings. But the organization says it has not been formally asked to open an investigation into the use of prohibited substances in Ukraine.
Reuters has not been able to independently verify the use of banned chemical substances by either side.
(Reporting by Jonathan Landay and Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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2 minutes ago, bolverk said:Do you mind using the thread reader app on that second tweet or go ahead and post the subsequent tweets in the thread? Please and thank you.
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The European Parliament's refusal to recognize Putin's presidency is a turning point.
Here’s why it matters 🧵👇
MEPs today voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution denouncing last month’s sham election and rejecting its falsified results. Of the 522 members, 493 voted in favor of the motion
The resolution points to the lack of competition and the atmosphere of fear and repression created by the regime before the election, as well as the fact polling stations were open in occupied Ukrainian lands
It also explicitly refers to Alexey Navalny’s death as a murder, holds the regime – and Putin personally – criminally and politically responsible, and demands the immediate release of all political prisoners held in Russia
Most importantly, the resolution urges EU states to support Russian civil society organizations, and issue humanitarian visas to Russians who face persecution for their opposition to Putin
This is a first public result of the campaign to delegitimize Putin, launched by the Russian Anti-War Committee in October of last year.This step serves as a signal to Putin that the days when he could unilaterally declare himself the legitimate president and receive universal recognition are over
While he may hate to admit it, Putin needs foreign approval, particularly from the West, because despite all of his best efforts, Russians still place a lot of stock in Western recognition
I want to extend thanks to the MEPs who supported this resolution, as well as my friends and colleagues in the Free Russia Foundation and the Russian Anti-War Committee, whose collective efforts made this possible
Follow @khodorkovsky_en for more on how the West can help us get rid of Putin and end the war in Ukraine.
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Pretty much last LHN (for football at least). Goes away July 1
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Sark in the presser is claiming pass rush is better than we saw. I dunno, Vausic looked good, but we didn’t see the rest.
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anyone got Owens stat line?
I’ll have to rewatch for completion rate but he did 228yards with 3 TDs- 2
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Who is the postgame host with BRob?
no Lowell? There is a God?
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Post game on LHN
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August is too far away
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Excited for this season!
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Gotta rush better than that, wasted almost 10 seconds off the clock
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Wingo bingo
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Face mask
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Impressive stats, 17-20, 3TDs for arch
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Dropped it right in
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Another red zone score when it mattered
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Hey we scored on the red zone!
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Bond…Isiah bond.
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So far, Run defense is pretty good. Secondary is an issue, WRs are still up in the air, and our QB room is really promising, and punter is…?
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Burt!
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Arch’s first incompletion
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