BUZZFEED NEWS: The Right’s Political Strategy Against LGBTQ People Is Just Repackaging Anger About M asks And Critical Race Theory

The Right’s Political Strategy Against LGBTQ People Is Just Repackaging Anger About Masks And Critical Race Theory
“They’ve stopped trying to pretend that they’re doing anything other than coming after LGBTQ people because they don’t like us.”

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NBC NEWS: How some churches’ ties to Trump-based politics are fueling an exodus of young evangelicals

How some churches’ ties to Trump-based politics are fueling an exodus of young evangelicals
Jared Stacy is one of a small but growing number of younger evangelical Christians who have left what they see as a religious community led astray from its faith by far-right politics.

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DAILY MAIL: Zelensky says Russia launched large scale offensive in eastern Ukraine

Zelensky says Russia launched large scale offensive in eastern Ukraine
After weeks of having their assaults on Kyiv thwarted at every turn, Putin’s commanders are now refocusing their efforts on the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine.

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Florida rejects 41% of new math textbooks, citing critical race theory among its reasons

Florida rejects 41% of new math textbooks, citing critical race theory among its reasons
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/us/florida-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory/index.html

Injured, alone and destined for a Russian orphanage

Injured, alone and destined for a Russian orphanage
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/europe/ukrainian-girl-russian-orphanage-intl-cmd/index.html

CNN: Injured, alone and destined for a Russian orphanage

Injured, alone and destined for a Russian orphanage
Before Russia’s war on Ukraine began, Kira Obedinsky was a joyful, loved 12-year-old girl. Now orphaned, injured and alone in a Russian-controlled hospital in eastern Ukraine, she has become an unwitting pawn in Moscow’s information war.

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BUZZFEED NEWS: The Right’s Political Strategy Against LGBTQ People Is Just Repackaging Anger About M asks And Critical Race Theory

The Right’s Political Strategy Against LGBTQ People Is Just Repackaging Anger About Masks And Critical Race Theory
“They’ve stopped trying to pretend that they’re doing anything other than coming after LGBTQ people because they don’t like us.”

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Rotting fruit, spoiled vegetables: How Texas just made the supply chain even worse

Rotting fruit, spoiled vegetables: How Texas just made the supply chain even worse
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/16/economy/texas-mexico-abbott-border-economic-impact/index.html

NPR: Germany seizes the world’s largest yacht (at least according to volume)

Germany seizes the world’s largest yacht (at least according to volume)
German authorities impounded the 15,917-ton yacht after confirming that sanctioned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov had transferred ownership to his sister, who is also under Western sanctions.

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Mariupol: ‘Nothing Left To Save’

I have no words to add. At this point if the world / NATO doesn’t act with their full force to intervene, then the words “Never Again” meant nothing.

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“Trust me, comrades, why would I lie?”

This is grim:

As Russia appears poised to capture Mariupol more than six weeks into the invasion, the governor of Ukraine’s Donetsk region said Friday that while Ukrainian troops remain in control of the strategic port city, Mariupol “has been wiped off the face of the earth” by Russian forces.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor, told CNN that troops are still “courageously defending Mariupol” against the Russian forces that have bombarded the city on the Sea of Azov, leaving it in ruins.

“The enemy cannot seize Mariupol. The enemy may seize the land that Mariupol used to stand on, but the city of Mariupol is no more,” Kyrylenko said. “The city of Mariupol has been wiped off the face of the earth by the Russian Federation, by those who will never be able to restore it.”

Is there any doubt that Putin…

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