Ukrainian Nurse Who Lost Legs And Fingers Marries And Regains Her Will To Live

Oksana Balandina, a nurse, lost both her legs and four fingers on one hand in a mine explosion in March. She also lost her will to live, but her family has restored her spirits. At the hospital where she is being treated, they held a wedding ceremony for her and her partner, Viktor Vasylyev. Originally published at – https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-nurse…

This is what the Russian war is doing to the people of Ukraine. There are people alive buried under the rubble in that steel mill and Russia won’t stop the bombing so the Ukrainians can dig them out. It is past time the countries of the world showed that this inhumanity won’t be allowed to continue. Russia hopes the world will lose interest and they can be as cruel and destructive to human life as they please. We cannot let that happen. This could have been a group of kids that got near that landmine. Remember Russia dropped thousands of trip wire triggered bombs from the skies over Ukrainian cities and towns. The idea was to kill and main as many civilians as possible. The idea is to cause terror so the people will beg Russia for peace at any cost or terms. The world cannot let this continue. We have the ability; we just need the will.

Right Wingers Distract From Stripping Women Of Their Rights

After the Supreme Court’s draft overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to Politico, conservatives immediately jumped on the opportunity to focus on how and who leaked the draft to distract from women losing a fundamental right. Anti-abortion groups and mainstream media outlets also hopped on the trend and even floated baseless conspiracy theories and misinformation that a clerk from a liberal justice leaked the document.

“Almost as soon as Politico published its explosive story on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion, which strongly suggests the court is about to overturn Roe v. Wade, conservatives responded by focusing not on the content of the news, but how it was obtained. Online Monday night, there were nearly immediate calls to find and punish the leaker. In a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insistently told reporters that the prospect of recriminalizing abortion was “not the story for today,” but rather the supposedly dangerous precedent of the leak. Also on Tuesday afternoon, Operation Rescue, the notorious anti-abortion activist group responsible for some of the movement’s most outrageous tactics, joined the fray, issuing a press release declaring that the leak had most likely come from the office of Justice Sonia Sotomayor. That claim traced back to pretty thin sourcing: a Twitter thread posted by a Republican political strategist who, about an hour after Politico published its story Monday night, suggested he’d solved the mystery: One of Sotomayor’s staffers had joined hundreds of classmates in opposing the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and, at an earlier point, had been quoted in Politico regarding a case on which he’d assisted. “