A Ukrainian soldier naps before moving to the front line near the city of Lysychansk, May 23, 2022, This morning, Russian troops are once again gathering along the border of northern Ukraine. It includes forces massing in Russia near Sumy, and more gathering in Belarus near Chernihiv. This is likely nothing more than an attempt…
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More on the horrible Uvalde school shooting in the coming days. Meanwhile, a very thoughtful thread on better ways to cover these stories: Will James / Twitter: We are past the point at which news orgs in every state should consider formalizing “pool” systems for contacting the families of victims and perparators when there’s a…
by Aiyuba Thomas and Tommaso Bardelli This is a narrative in the Unheard Voices of the Pandemic series from Voice of Witness, an oral history nonprofit, and published through a partnership with Prism. Interview and editing by Aiyuba Thomas and Tommaso Bardelli. Theresa G. is a community organizer with the RAPP (Release Aging People in…
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RINO Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers’ thuggery was on full display last Tuesday when he attempted to call on armed DPS Troopers to go after two conservative House members. Rusty Bowers opposes election integrity laws, and he has previously weaponized the Arizona State House to prevent the passage of election integrity bills and the decertification…
Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post writes that while the Buffalo media has done a superlative job with respect to the mass-shooting, the Buffalo media also overlooked a lot of racism. The suspect “did not pick a Tops in Amherst or Lancaster or Orchard Park,” wrote News columnist Rod Watson, ticking off the names of…
This is absolutely another This is My Best (TIMB) roundup. But first, this is also my journey into the Daily Kos Community. If I’m honest, I didn’t start reading the comments on my stories until I’d been here a few weeks; it would take a few months before I even felt comfortable replying to them….
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All eyes were on North Carolina this week, where a prominent US Senate Republican primary contest saw Rep. Ted Budd easily defeat former Gov. Pat McCrory, by about 59% to 25%. This ended up not being a close race at all, Beard noted. In November, Budd will face former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri…
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x Why did 192 Republicans vote against a $ 28 million emergency fund to address the baby formula shortage? – Kyle Griffin (@ kylegriffin1) May 19, 2022 Dara Massicot / Foreign Affairs: The Russian Military’s People Problem It’s Hard for Moscow to Win While Mistreating Its Soldiers Despite its sophisticated military equipment and multiple advantages…
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Old-school trench warfare, with new-school anti-tank weapon, somewhere on the eastern Donbas front. Hey, look at that, the Pentagon finally admits that a Russian BTG is not really a BTG. x NEW: Russia did push some units into the Donbas fight that weren’t at 100 percent after taking losses in the failed assault on Kyiv:…
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There are virulently xenophobic Black American groups like ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) and FBA (Foundational Black Americans) currently spewing anti-immigrant, anti-African, and anti-Caribbean vitriol — fronting for the white supremacist cheerleaders and funders behind them — and spreading disinformation. Members of ADOS and FBA constantly attempt to gatekeep “Blackness” here in the United States….
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