Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/03/texas-democrat-henry-cuellar-and-wife-charged-with-corruption.html
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… running a site that is supposed to be fun and wacky and weird is not necessarily compatible with blow-by-blow election coverage
Elections, and thus politicians and politics, are fundamentally stupid and boring and repetitive
BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN don’t forget to vote 
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How terrible - taking a load of oil money to support a foreign government who are in the middle of a bout of ethnic cleansing.
Doesn’t he know that in this Congress, you’re expected to do that free of charge.
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important context that Azerbaijan is a large exporter of oil to Israel, and AIPAC gave multi millions in contributions to Cuellar to support his stance on oil sanctions, climate, and arms trade.
“Crucially, the states that seek to erase Artsakh and Palestine have arranged themselves as a triptych, in a relation of triangulated power, petro-capital, and militarism in which the US comprises the third vertex. Not incidentally, some 40 percent of Israel’s oil is reportedly supplied by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s state oil company (SOCAR) was among the six firms to whom Israel awarded licenses for natural gas exploration in the Mediterranean on October 29. On October 19, amidst the bombardment of Gaza, Azerbaijan sent Israel over one million barrels of oil in a 900-foot tanker called Seaviolet. The former’s petro-rich status has long insulated it against accountability for state violence, as detailed in a major investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, revealing a multibillion-dollar laundering scheme connected to the Azerbaijani state.” Originally from Where Scenes of Catastrophe Reappear: On Armenian and Palestinian Solidarities – Social Text
on AIPAC: AIPAC funds help Henry Cuellar, one of Congress’ most conservative Dems - The Jerusalem Post
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