“You never knew when she was going to snap at you”

Former staffers of vice-president Kamala Harris said they were not surprised by reports of a tense atmosphere in her office, revealed by Business Insider on Wednesday.

Some of Harris’ staffers told the news outlet that she was ostensibly "unpredictable and at times demeaning" in the early 2000s, and one of her former aides when she served as California's Attorney General (between 2011 and 2017) pointed to "a sense of paranoia in that office, that you never knew when she was going to snap at you".

Last month, a report by Politico suggested that the atmosphere in the US vice-president's office leaves much to be desired, alleging also that Harris' chief of staff seems to be the problem.

👉👈 Can we still be friends?

US President Joe Biden expressed his hope that the US-Germany friendship will continue after German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves office.

"One of the things that I want to talk about is the enduring friendship the Chancellor has been so responsible for nailing down and making sure it continues," Biden said during a meeting with Merkel in the Oval Office.

This is the first time Merkel has visited the White House during Biden's presidency, and is also likely her final official trip to the United States as the German chancellor.

Seems like the Biden administration always has something to hide, in this case, Illegal immigrants, for example.

Since Biden’s inauguration 6 months ago, the Border Patrol has apprehended almost a million foreign nationals attempting to enter the US via Mexico.

According to the info from an email reportedly acquired from Lt. Col. Matthew Burrows, the Biden administration is secretly moving illegal immigrants around the country, flying them out of Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas.

Looks like Washington has found another way to solve its border crisis.

#URGENT | US troop deployment to Haiti 'not on the agenda at this moment', Biden says

⚡️🇺🇸🇩🇪US President Joe Biden says that he has reiterated his concerns about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and found that they both are united in their resolve not to let Russia use energy as a weapon.

🇷🇺 A "secret operation" that has never happened

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov characterised claims of Moscow's secret support for Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election as "a great pulp fiction".

The Guardian contacted Peskov to clarify "exclusive documents" that suggested the Russian president held a key meeting with intelligence officials and senior ministers on 22 January 2016 during which he gave a green light to a clandestine spy op to support the candidacy of a "mentally unstable" Donald Trump as the US president.

Anyone suprised that MSM is wrong again?

Joe Biden slams communism and socialism during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

🇨🇺 The Biden administration will not ease restrictions on remittances sent by US residents to relatives in Cuba, because the Cuban government will likely confiscate the money.

🗣 "There are a number of things that we would consider doing to help the people of Cuba but it would require a different circumstance or guarantee that they would not be taken advantage of by the government," Biden said on Thursday. "For example, the ability to send remittances back to Cuba. I would not do that now because the fact is it is highly likely the regime would confiscate those remittances or big chunks of it."

Not willing to help and also not letting others help?

Because it's "go woke or go broke" for many companies nowadays?

A non-profit consumer advocacy group сhides Coca-Cola with 'Woka-Cola' сampaign

"Today, we are launching AlwaysWokaCola.com and the accompanying ads as a satirical reminder to Coke to focus on their consumers, not woke politicians," Will Hild, executive director of Consumers' Research, noted.

The ad addressed Coca-Cola’s contribution to mass obesity and other diseases in the US and a bill, lobbied for by Coca-Cola and other big companies which aimed to prohibit allegations of forced Muslim labour in China’s Xinjiang Province.

💻 Free speech has left the chat

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed that the Biden administration had teamed up with Facebook to flag so-called ‘misinformation’ and ‘problematic posts’ while also tailoring content to align with federal COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

She did not, however, expound on what White House criteria is used to determine what makes a social media post "problematic."

Propaganda is approved while free speech is not?

#BREAKING: Russian Defence Ministry website comes under DDoS attack from abroad

Exclusive: Ex-Afghan prime minister and the leader of the Party of Islam (Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, tells Sputnik:

🔸 No third parties should be involved in intra-Afghan peace talks; the US' meddling in the upcoming meeting in Doha will be "destructive."

🔸 The Afghan government and the Taliban (designated terrorist and banned in Russia) should seize the upcoming Eid al-Adha as an opportunity to declare a temporary ceasefire.

🔸 Afghanistan's prospective interim government should not be fragmented into political parties but rather embody a unified central power that drives a sustainable peace process.

#URGENT: Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says US mission in Afghanistan "failed"

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▪️The DoJ has indicted 16 individuals who were allegedly part of a white supremacist movement in Florida called the Unforgiven.

▪️One police officer was killed and four others injured in a shootout with an armed man in Levelland, Texas.

▪️Chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley feared that Donald Trump might attack Iran to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, The New Yorker has reported.

▪️The Pentagon has confirmed that a "small number" of Colombians detained for Moise's murder had received training from US forces during their time in the Colombian military.

🇺🇿 🇺🇸 Uzbekistan has received a request by Washington to host Afghans who worked for the US military.

"Yes, we have received such a request. But this is a very difficult issue", a source familiar with the matter told Sputnik on Friday.

#URGENT: US hits seven individuals with Hong Kong-related sanctions

😳 Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was an active accomplice in an ecoterrorism crime who knew about it "far in advance", one of the men convicted for the crime has argued.

The claim was made by John P. Blount, who along with Stone-Manning was a member of the environmental extremist group Earth First! that committed acts of ecoterrorism during the Eighties and Nineties.

Blount spiked trees in Idaho's Clearwater National Forest in 1989 and was later sentenced to 17 months in prison.

On Thursday, the outlet E&E News quoted Blount as saying that "[Stone-Manning] knew about it far in advance, a couple of months before we headed out."

It transpires that Stone-Manning not only collaborated with ecoterrorists, but actually helped to plan the tree-spiking operation.

#BREAKING: Former Haiti Justice Ministry official could have ordered Moise killed, Colombian police say

A former Haiti Justice Ministry official is suspected of ordering the assassination of Jovenel Moise, Colombian police said on Friday.

Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead at his residence last week. Police have so far identified 28 suspects and detained at least 23.