DL Open Thread Friday February 25 2022
Yesterday was a bad day for non-cis, non-het Americans. Maybe if we only compromised harder, they'd meet us in the middle. Eh, Coonsie? Florida's House of Representatives passed a bill…
Though Russian forces have apparently crossed the Ukrainian border, both the White House and Zelensky at first appeared wary of formally declaring it an “invasion,” a distinction that would trigger the severe — and, for much of Europe, economically costly — sanctions that Biden has threatened. That led to attacks from Republicans, who have painted Biden as weak on Russia, and to calls from even some Democrats to immediately begin imposing “significant costs on President Putin and the Kremlin,” as Senator Chris Coons said Monday.