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Fixing the elections
The ACLU of Florida argued that “the governor’s map is a blatant and illegal partisan gerrymander.”
“These maps clearly sever Black communities across the state, manipulate the lines to favor the governor’s party, and diminish minority voting ability in violation of the Fair Districts requirements—which were enshrined in the Florida Constitution by a supermajority of Floridians,” the group added. “Leaders of the Florida House and Senate abdicated their responsibility to craft a fair, constitutional map and ceded its authority to a governor who is clearly not interested in respecting Fair Districts.”
Florida Republicans have not been the only ones.
The hunt for collaborators?
“I cannot even call these people Ukrainians, even though they have Ukrainian passports and were born here and lived here all their lives,” said Malish. “These are not professional spies who were trained in Moscow and sent here.”
“Russians as savages.”
I knew a person from Estonia and they definitely hold attitudes that consider ethnic-Russian settlers as such
No headlines in the media about Ukraine’s use of cluster bombs although reported by the New York Times.
Why the empathy for Ukraine and not others
https://www.dw.com/en/the-weird-science-of-empathy/a-61394542
200,000 Russians have abandoned their homes and jobs because they are disgusted by the Kremlin’s attack on Ukraine and the largely enthusiastic response to the war by their compatriots.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/18/why-white-collar-russians-flee-two
Will they receive as a warm welcome as the Ukrainians have?
With the usual caveat that Grayzone’s political position is a contrarian one such as denying Assad used chemical weapons in Syria, it presents in this article an analysis of Ukraine’s authoritarianism and activities of its SBU
In my research concerning population decline, I note that in Japan adult nappies now outsell those for babies and toddlers.
“Frankenchickens”
the Ross 308 has been bred to reach its kill weight in just 35 days, growing more than three times faster than the conventional breeds of the 1950s.
Between 2014-2017, Israel deported around 4,000 asylum seekers to Rwanda and Uganda under similar plans. It said it was only aware of nine people who had stayed in Rwanda.
I find it interesting that the media is glorifying a “soldier of fortune” who first fought for the Kurds in Syria and then moved to Ukraine in 2018 to join the Ukrainian military.
Surely they should be questioning his attraction to war and fighting.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has confirmed that the government will boost military assistance spending in 2022 to €2 billion
The UK’s proposal to send some migrants who arrive in Britain on small boats to Rwanda is a breach of international law, the UN’s refugee agency has said.
The UNHCR called it a “troubling development” and said the UK was seeking to “shift responsibility”.
