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What is Babi Yar?
Babi Yar is a ravine in Kyiv, the Ukrainian city now under Russian fire. During World War 2, a major battle was fought around Kyiv (then Kiev) in August and September 1941 (details here), in which a Soviet army of about 150,000 was encircled and destroyed. By September 22 the city had fallen to the [...]
March 2nd, 2022 - 12:11 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
White police union boss fired for leaking false report against black city council member
Portland cop Brian Hunzeker (photo, left), who’s white, was out to get City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who’s black (photo, below right). Hunzeker, president of Portland’s police union at the time, didn’t like Hardesty’s police reform efforts on the city council. So, [...]
Democrats’ election plot exposed!
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March 1st, 2022 - 11:13 pm § in Politics
GOP’s 2 biggest idiots heckle Biden at State of the Union
GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) heckled President Biden during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 (read story here). They’re not the first Republicans to behave this way. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) did it in 2009. They might want to look that u[...]
March of the geese (video)
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Kids hiding under desks
Journalist Jill Filipovic (profile here), who frequently writes op-eds for CNN, says here, “Making the prospect of nuclear war … a part of the international calculus in potential conflict” — which is what Russia’s Putin did this week — is “a startling depart[...]
March 1st, 2022 - 5:17 am § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
Many U.S. officials are worried about Putin’s state of mind
In many ways, Putin is a known quantity. “He has always been a killer,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted last week. But now he, and many others with access to classified briefings, worry that Putin may be “unhinged.” All will concede the Kremlin is impenetrable, and U.S. intel[...]
A simple answer to vote suppression
GOP legislatures are scrambling to restrict voting rights. In Arizona, “Republicans have introduced a bill that would … [also] allow the state legislature to reject election results” (see story here). (That’s not all. “The people who took video of police killing George [...]
March 1st, 2022 - 1:33 am § in Politics
Sen. Patty Murray will be re-elected; who’ll be the GOP human sacrifice this time?
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) will be 72 when she’s re-elected in November 2022. This will be her 6th term; she’s been a senator since January 1993. Her GOP opponent will get ±42% of the statewide vote. Republicans have thrown every big name they have at her. Dino Rossi, who narrowly missed [...]