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President Joe Biden needs to stop seeking bipartisanship with Republicans as the GOP abandons democracy, historian Thomas Zimmer wrote in The Guardian on Tuesday.

Zimmer noted Biden referred to GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as a "man of honor" during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast.

On Tuesday, following the decision by Germany to revoke certification for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and prime minister who currently serves as deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, took to Twitter to blast the decision, and warn the European Union that they will soon face an energy crisis where a thousand cubic meters of natural gas costs 2,000 Euros.

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which would deliver gas from Siberia to Germany, has been controversial from the start, with experts fearing it would increase European reliance on Russia for its energy and give Russia a way of bypassing the gas infrastructure in Ukraine.

A network of people tied to Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and his wife went into action following the 2020 presidential election, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

The newspaper reported that "a number of longtime friends and associates of the Thomases" were either involved in legal efforts to overturn the election results or had helped to plan Jan. 6 rallies.

According to a report from Politico, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is aggressively taking the lead in setting the Republican agenda while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has receded into the background hoping that the next midterm election will be a referendum on President Joe Biden.

Scott, as head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is currently serving his first term in the Senate and wants his colleagues to follow his battle plan in hopes of taking back the U.S. Senate, which Politico's Burgess Everett writes could be risky for the GOP.

There currently are few COVID-19 protocols in Michigan, with no statewide mask mandates since June 2021 and every county lifting its requirement.

The group has also been hosting daily “slow rolls” around the Capitol building last week, but these daily events also only had a small number of participants.

France will introduce “targeted sanctions” against Russian interests in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send troops to east Ukraine, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday.

“We are going to implement appropriate and targeted sanctions against Russian interests with our European partners,” Le Maire told journalists, adding that France reserved the right to “step up” the sanctions if Putin went further in his actions.

Retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney recently cited Russian President Vladimir Putin's troop build-up on the Ukraine border as proof that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was right to make false claims about the 2020 election.

During a recent appearance on Lindell's broadcast platform, Lindell-TV, McInerney suggested that the Russian troop build-up is a ruse.

Exactly one year after filing a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission over the actions of the 10 false electors who claimed to represent Wisconsin at the Electoral College, the two lead attorneys at Law Forward wrote a letter to Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, urging him to prosecute these false electors.

The 10 false electors are Carol Brunner, Mary Buestrin, Darryl Carson, Bill Feehan, Scott Grabins, Andrew Hitt, Kathy Kiernen, Kelly Ruh, Robert Spindell, and Pam Travis. (Spindell is a member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, and has not recused himself from Law Forward’s complaint to the commission about the false electors.)

A right-wing protest against COVID-19 mandates and supporting election fraud conspiracies at the Michigan Capitol building off the blockades at the border that shut down the Ambassador Bridge for a week has failed to gain traction for the last week.

Around 10 people showed up to the Capitol building Sunday afternoon for what was billed as the “Lansing Freedom Convoy.” The group has called on “all our good men” to park their cars in downtown Lansing and demand “honest elections,” “a voter-run audit and canvass” and for police to “arrest and charge all criminals in government, media and medicine.”

In commemoration of President's Day, the official Twitter account for the Republican National Committee posted an image disparaging President Joe Biden.

The image wished past U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump a happy President's Day -- but in the middle of the image was a picture of Biden with a mask on with the caption, "Not You."