shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

288
active users

#bobwoodward

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

“President Biden privately voiced fury at his attorney general, Merrick Garland, who had appointed a special counsel to investigate Hunter [Biden]. “Should never have picked Garland,” President Biden told an associate. But his inner circle had pushed hard for Garland’s appointment.”

Excerpt From
War
Bob Woodward

“Before Russia’s invasion, Putin had argued for a long time that overspending on defense was one of the great mistakes of the Soviet Union. It had destroyed Russia’s economy.
“Now he’s basically making that same move,” [DNI Avril] Haines said with bewilderment. “It is pretty extraordinary to watch.”

Excerpt From
War
Bob Woodward

Continued thread

By the end of the meeting…, it appeared to Shipley & Lewis that #Bezos had reservations about The #WashingtonPost endorsing either candidate….But they thought he was open to persuasion.

Bezos’ ultimate decision, to end #WaPo’s decades-long practice of endorsing presidential candidates, exploded into public view on Friday, drawing criticism from #reporters, #editors & #readers, along w/an unusual rebuke from the legendary Post journalists #BobWoodward & #CarlBernstein.

Continued thread

“We have got to stop him!” Milley said. “You have got to stop him!” By “you” he meant the press broadly. “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.”
“A fascist to the core!” Milley repeated to me.
I will never forget the intensity of his worry.”

Excerpt From
War
Bob Woodward

Putin’s bitch in Mar-a-Lago February 2022, on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine: “He is “pretty smart,” Trump said of Putin during a Florida fundraiser that evening, assessing the invasion like a real estate deal rather than a former president.
“He’s taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions,” Trump said, “really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people—and just walking right in.”

Excerpt From
War
Bob Woodward
#war #bobwoodward #books #bookstodon