British Prankster Ruthlessly Trolls KKK Leader In Bonkers ‘BBC’ Interview
In this case, “BBC” doesn’t mean what this guy thinks it does.
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Ukraine Update: Russia doesn’t realize it needs a functional military to threaten others
Whether by battlefield success or strategic Ukrainian retreat, Russia is seeing some success in the Lyman-Severodonetsk axis.
Updates: To the North of Lyman, 🇷🇺 have captured Shandryholove, Derylove, and Stavky. Reports that 🇷🇺 may have also taken control of Drobysheve. pic.twitter.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi Slams Supreme Court As ‘Dangerous To Freedoms In Our Country’
“Who would have ever suspected a creature like Donald Trump would become president” and appoint 3 “anti-freedom judges to court?” she asked.
News Roundup: A Republican-promoted conspiracy theory results in terrorism. Again
Once again, the conspiracy theories promoted by Fox News and Republican elected officials have resulted in an act of racist domestic terrorism.
CNN Host Asks Fauci Whether He’d Stay In His Post If Trump Was Re-Elected
“Uh, well, no,” the White House chief medical adviser said.
Buffalo shooting only the latest attack in the radical right’s insurgent war on American democracy
The brutal act of domestic terrorism that unfolded Saturday in Buffalo, New York, at a Tops grocery store, at the hands of a hate-filled white nationalist who drove 200 miles from his home in Conklin because he had specifically targeted a predominantly Black community, was not an “isolated incident” committed by a “lone wolf.” Rather the opposite.
Rep. Elise Stefanik promoted ‘great replacement’ conspiracy cited by Buffalo terrorist
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik was catapulted to a top House Republican leadership position after Republicans purged Rep. Liz Cheney from the role as punishment for speaking out against Donald Trump’s violent attempted coup.
Ukraine Update: American artillery proved decisive in Russia’s Bilohorivka bridge-crossing disaster
For all the sturm und drang of today’s fighting, changes on the ground were scant. Ukraine officially picked up a small town here, Russia did the same over there. While much of the front line was on fire (Ukraine claimed 14 separate attacks), the situation on the ground remained essentially unchanged. @War_Mapper’s updates on Twitter are always great, if you want to see today’s changes.
Trump Briefly Mentions Buffalo Violence, Jumps To Imagined Great Job In Afghanistan
The former president also failed to offer any condolences or express sadness about the racist mass shootings in Buffalo, New York.
Buffalo Mayor Calls For ‘Sensible Gun Control’ After Supermarket Shooting
“No community seemingly is safe from these mass shootings,” said Mayor Byron Brown, who urged lawmakers to tackle what has become a “uniquely American phenomenon.
The Frenetic Basketball Nostalgia of Winning Time
The 1980s Los Angeles Lakers were one of the most dominant teams in sports. At a time when professional basketball was on its heels, the Lakers brought new excitement: Magic Johnson versus Larry Bird, Jerry Buss and the glitzy Forum Club, and an up-tempo flow offense. That’s the story of HBO’s big-budget series Winning Time, whose Season 1 finale aired on Sunday, May 8.David Sims, Vann R.
SNL Couldn’t Be Bothered
Playing a prince tasked with choosing a bride from among three princesses on Saturday Night Live last night, Mikey Day asked a question that turned out to define the episode well: “Okay, is that it?” He raised the inquiry in a sketch poking fun at the rule of three in folklore. His options included a beautiful princess and a smart princess, which meant that something had to have been wrong with the third princess.
Infant formula shortage ‘is very personal for us,’ Buttigieg says
“We’ve got two 9-month-old children,” he noted.
A ‘Lone-Wolf’ Shooter Has an Online Pack
Wolves are not a particularly special species. They are not as menacing nor as powerful as mountain lions. They are not as big as many other predators, nor as strong, nor terribly wise, nor do they have sophisticated tools or genetic dispositions that make them individually dangerous in the animal kingdom. Their ability to capture prey worthier than themselves results from collaboration—from the pack.
When a Right Becomes a Privilege
When New York legalized abortion in 1970—three years before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade—a shrewd entrepreneur named Martin Mitchell saw an opportunity. The 31-year-old Detroit-area man chartered a tiny private plane and began advertising frequent flights from Michigan, where elective abortion was illegal, to Niagara Falls, New York, where it was not.
Desire
1. Lying in bed all day, watching and rewatching the video of a man crying out to his mother with his last breath, I look up the term dysania and text it to you.2. On the walk up the hill from Saint Nicholas, searching for the moon among brick towers, the night sky sets off into a never-ending series of explosions. The police set a curfew.3.
U.S., foreign officials to announce $3.1B in new Covid funding
The bulk of the funding pledges are set to come from international officials.
U.S. drug overdose deaths surpass 107,000 last year, another record
More than 1 million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 2001.
Blue states want to become abortion safe havens. It will cost them.
Groups that operate clinics and run abortion access funds warn that they’ll need more money, more providers and more space to help care for the influx of people who will cross state lines to seek abortions.
What if Delaware disappeared? 1 million Covid-19 deaths explained in 4 charts.
Imagine an entire state falling off the map.
Emergent’s Covid vaccine problems more extensive than previously known
Lawmakers detail how 400 million Covid-19 doses were destroyed at the company’s Baltimore facility after it failed to heed internal warnings about quality standards.
U.S. inflation hit 8.3% last month but slows from 40-year high
On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.3% from March to April, a still-elevated rate but the smallest increase in eight months.
Fed set to launch fresh assault on inflation in new era for economy
Rates this year could reach their highest levels since before the 2008 Wall Street crash if surging prices continue.
Surprise GDP slump undercuts White House recovery story
The government said gross domestic product shrank at a 1.4 percent annualized rate in the first quarter.
U.S. economy shrank by 1.4 percent in Q1 but consumers kept spending
The steady spending suggested the economy could keep expanding this year even though the Federal Reserve plans to raise rates aggressively to fight the inflation surge.
IMF warns of ‘severe’ global economic risk from war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine will “severely” set back the global recovery from Covid-19, according to the IMF.
German Peace Activist Warns Finland Joining NATO Could Be Step Toward Nuclear War with Russia
Finland’s president and prime minister say they plan to end decades of neutrality and join NATO. Sweden is also expected to seek NATO membership. The Kremlin says Russia sees the expansion of NATO on its borders as a threat. “People on both sides will suffer,” says Reiner Braun, executive director of the International Peace Bureau, who warns Russia will escalate in response and move more nuclear weapons near the 830-mile-long Finland-Russia border.
Mexican Journalists Protest “Staggering” Toll of Journalists Murdered with Impunity; 11 Slain in 2022
Three journalists were killed within a three-day span this week in Mexico, bringing the toll to 11 so far this year and making Mexico the deadliest country in the world for journalists, behind Ukraine. Most of the murders have gone unsolved. This week journalists across Mexico took to the streets protesting the murder of their colleagues and called for accountability.
Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”
Calls are growing for President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, the 77-year-old imprisoned Native American activist who has spent 46 years behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit. Amnesty International considers Peltier a political prisoner, and numerous legal observers say his 1977 conviction for alleged involvement in killing two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation was riddled with irregularities and prosecutorial misconduct.
Nick Estes: Indian Boarding Schools Were Part of “Horrific Genocidal Process” Carried Out by the U.S.
The Interior Department has documented the deaths of more than 500 Indigenous children at Indian boarding schools run or supported by the federal government in the United States which operated from 1819 to 1969. The actual death toll is believed to be far higher, and the report located 53 burial sites at former schools. The report was ordered by the first Indigenous cabinet member, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose grandparents were forced to attend boarding school at the age of 8.