The Associated Press reports:
Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russia’s military bombed an art school sheltering some 400 people in the port city of Mariupol, where heavy street fighting is underway weeks into a devastating Russian siege.
The strike on the art school was the second time in less than a week that local officials reported an attack on a public building where Mariupol residents had taken shelter. A bomb hit a theater where more than 1,000 people were believed to be sheltering on Wednesday.
City officials and aid groups have described dire conditions in Mariupol, where food, water and electricity have run low and the fighting has prevented humanitarian convoys from reaching the city.
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Category: Gun Control
AL House Passes Ban On “Divisive” History Lessons
The Montgomery Advertiser reports:
The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would ban the teaching of “divisive concepts” in K-12 history after a debate in which Democrats accused Republicans of trying to erase history.
The bill, HB 312, passed 65 to 32, on a mostly party-line vote. Four Republicans joined the chamber’s Democrats in voting against the bill.
The bill, one of many being pushed by Republicans around the country to restrict the teaching of race and history, would forbid teachers from teaching students to “adopt or believe” a list of “divisive concepts.”
The Birmingham News reports:
After the bill passed, the Democratic representatives stood together to denounce the bill and the Republican majority’s procedural move to cut off the debate and pass the legislation, which was part of the House GOP agenda for this year, dubbed “Standing Tall for Alabama.”
The bill, by Rep. Ed Oliver, R-Dadeville, has been one of the most controversial this year. Oliver was asked if there was any indication that is happening in Alabama, Oliver said there is but did not provide any specifics. He said the bill was intended to be preventive.
Cheney Floats “Enhanced Criminal Penalties” For Trump
“Certainly our first priority is to make recommendations. And we’re looking at things like do we need additional enhanced criminal penalties for the kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump, when he refused to tell the mob to go home after he had provoked that attack on the Capitol.
“I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned, or less worried, about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway.” – Rep. Liz Cheney, today on Meet The Press.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Are workers people who should have a decent life or livestock to be used to make profit then discarded when used up
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Absolute control and submission.
The right is desperate to have their Covid boogieman back. They built up such a hatred for a public servant whose job was only to advise to the best of his ability. Now that the need for that advice has diminished Dr Fauci is less in the news and the right can not use him to distract, misinform, and rile up their base.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
I do get tired of going over the same things. Her chemistry levels are with in specs for a woman. She was getting beat by other women but that doesn’t get much press. She has put in the time and effort to get good at her craft, which is swimming. Some people just excel at their sport, and others do not. Women have been under the accusation of being too manly since women’s sports started. I posted that this morning as I was getting up. What about the woman runner that was so good she was breaking records, there were claims she was really a man and other crap. She was born a woman and because she was really good she was accused of being a man? What does that say about how women’s sports and the women in them are really seen?
Lia Thomas came in 5th in a race yesterday. Seems average to me. This is something that the right likes to hide and only stress the wins so it seems the trans people are sweeping every event in women’s sports. But that is a lie.
I posted the audio of an oil executive saying the wouldn’t increase production because right now the profits are too great. They are price gouging and they are proud of it. It doesn’t matter any more who gets hurt in the pursuit of the almighty profit.
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Drone footage shows damaged shopping mall and residential buildings in Mariupol
2-year-old killed in Russian shelling attack
Young man tells how family was shot by Russian tanks
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The US is called the wealthiest country on earth and yet the public is the too poor to enjoy life
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I am seeing this sort of cartoon all over the web.
This was drawn by a right wing cartoonist with no acknowledgement that the right denying masks and getting vaccinated would cut down on the chance of another surge in the Covid virus variants.
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It’s NOT because of gas prices. It’s because they don’t want to pay taxes to support anyone but themselves. Trade lower gas prices for lower education, restrictive healthcare, lax safety regulations, more government in your private parts, etc.
Reading the comments on this cartoon was enlightening. Every tenth comment explained that the report did not say that. Every tenth comment explained what the report said, and how it differed from the right wing narrative. Then after the comment that explained things there was a rash of right wing misinformation posted as the real true story and then the insults. That is what the right wing is today.
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Josh Mandel Calls Opponent “Pussy” In Near Fist-Fight
These are statesmen? This is what passes as reasonable people for the US congress? This is what the Republican party has devolved into. Thugs. Hyper aggressive and quick to anger. Threaten violence to get what you want. The people that voted for tRump love this as they run on emotion. They don’t think things out, they yell and scream.
The right wing Washington Examiner reports:
Ohio Republican Senate candidates Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons nearly came to blows during a candidate forum Friday evening. Mandel, a former state treasurer and an early front-runner in the race, has targeted Gibbons in recent weeks in the contentious and competitive Republican primary.
At a GOP candidate forum organized by FreedomWorks, Mandel claimed that Gibbons made “billions of dollars” shipping Ohio businesses to China. Gibbons disputed the claim, saying Mandel “never worked in the private sector.”
Mandel then jumped up and stood inches from Gibbons, yelling that he served two tours in Iraq. “Don’t tell me I haven’t worked,” Mandel said.
The Huffington Post reports:
“You’re dealing with the wrong guy,” said Mandel, the race’s evangelical-backed candidate, after a heated exchange about Gibbons’ business interests in China, seemingly mumbling under his breath: “You watch what happens. Pussy.”
Making the incident all the more disturbing, the two men are the current front-runners in the primary to replace Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who is retiring. It underscores just how intense Ohio’s primary has gotten and the extreme plays the candidates are willing to make to get Donald Trump’s attention.
The moderator intervened just as Vance urged them: “Guys, sit down. C’mon. God damn. This is ridiculous.”
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why is the US the only developed nation with out a real family leave system? Are we not as pro-life as the right wing claims?
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Sorry got a real late start. Enjoy!
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Conservative politics uses the lens of anger.
It’s an international commodity, folks.
Comrade Carlson.
Tucker said it was not ‘un-American’ to support Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. He was wrong. Tucker’s opinion is non-stop coordinated pro-Putin propaganda.
Trump bullshit laid bare.
Republicans are soft on crime because they would lose the entire Party if they had ethics.
Entire Republican Party is garbage politics legislated by garbage politicians to appease the garbage intellect of their base.
So many horrible conservatives to keep track of.
Authoritarians ban books. Create a false world where only THEY have the truth. See: GOP
Control speech. Attack truth. Punish women.
Russia or GOP?
Teaching people about the history of cruel actions only offends you if you identify with the cruelty.
Ex: People were racist. They were cruel.
Cruel person: Hey, I’m racist. Don’t hurt my feelings.
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The right is desperate to ignore all the work Biden has done to box in Putin at the same time the right sings Putin’s praises.
Again the right wing cartoons are desperate to find anything to stick in blaming Biden. Gas prices have been addressed, we even have audio of one of the CEOs saying there is no way they would increase production and reduce their profits.
My gods, their country is being destroy while their people slaughtered and the right wing can only think of the money going to help them. Why, because the right things only of the wealthy wanting every cent of the nation’s wealth and they cry to see it going to help people.
Sick. While crime in the US may seem up right now it is not anywhere near what it was 10 years ago. But to compare any crime in the US to a war torn country that has been invaded and their people are being slaughtered is gross.
Yes Biden made a gaff. He goofed. He admitted it, he laughed about it. He is human. He has been known for making verbal mistakes. He did not get angry when he did it, he did not deny it. I find the difference between him and trump greatly refreshing. tRump would have attacked the press who reported it and claimed he never said what everyone heard him say.
Despite the rights many lies, such as Rudy saying he had the laptop but the authorities wouldn’t look at it, the authorities really had the laptop, the emails that refuted what the right wing was claiming were already in the hands of the DOJ / FBI. They clear both Hunter and Joe Biden. The emails to Hunter’s business partners also stressed many times that Joe Biden wouldn’t be bound by anything that Hunter was doing, that no one doing business with them should do so thinking they would influence Joe Biden’s behavior. It was so above board it is like watching a 1940’s TV show.
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Scottie's Playtime 
The number of people that get sexual reassignment surgery is extremely small as a percentage of the population. The number that participate in sports is even smaller. It’s certainly nt a problem that needs to be addressed in Congress or in the state legislatures. Let the governing bodies of the various sports address it.
Nebulous
A) If you’re not good enough to be competitive on the men’s team, you’re sure not going to be making records on the women’s team. There’s not THAT much difference in most sports.
B) Would anybody actually believe that a jock would want to become a woman and draw the ire of conservative homophobes and transphobes merely because he’s not the top man on the team?
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So show me this line of young men eager for surgery or chemical castration so they can compete in women’s sports!
And you can’t. You can’t because it doesn’t exist. A tiny handful of people on hormones or who’ve had surgery want to compete and that’s a national issue because Tucker and his buddies say it is. Why?
Their usual whine is “gender assigned at birth”. Yet the briefest possible glance at Caspar Semenya’s Wikipedia page clearly says HER gender assigned at birth was female, and she’s never taken hormone therapy of any kind. But SHE has issues being allowed to compete.
I’m sure she’s grateful to all you Qubs. /s
And, just to get the rest of the story:
THIS is what Qublicans usually cite about cisgender sport:
ally includes suppressing testosterone levels and boosting estrogen.
The research was carried out by Dr. Timothy Roberts, a pediatrician and associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and his colleagues. They found that trans women who underwent hormone therapy for one year continued to outperform non-transgender women, also known as cisgender women, though the gap largely closed after two years. But even then, trans women still ran 12% faster.
HOWEVER they leave off this part (usual Qub partial quotes) :
Roberts, however, suggested the difference in running times needs additional perspective. “It was a 12% advantage after two years in run times. But to be in the top 10% of female runners, you have to be 29% faster than the average woman. And to be an elite runner, you’ve got to be 59% faster than the average cis woman,” he told DW.