Rep. Boebert's State of the Union heckle disrespected the president and veterans like m

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Rep. Boebert's State of the Union heckle disrespected the president and veterans like me

I spent four years of my life in the Army as an Arabic linguist. I come from a family of veterans. And I am angry.
Eileen Rivers
USA TODAY
Published 2:17 a.m. ET March 2, 2022 / Updated 8:26 a.m. March 2, 2022

How disconcerting. How angering. How disappointing.

During his first State of the Union address Tuesday, as President Joe Biden spoke about coffins, dead veterans and the passing of his son, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., found a way to lower America's discourse, and sow the very division Biden spent much of his speech pushing against.

She heckled the president.

She bragged about her comment – a scream from the House floor – on Twitter: "When Biden said flag draped coffins I couldn't stay silent. I told him directly he did it. He put 13 in there." She's referring to 13 service members who died as the United States was evacuating Americans and allies from Afghanistan last summer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/03/02/boebert-state-of-union-heckle-disrespected-veterans/9336615002/

Boeberts.... has no clue how many men, woman of combat and civilians have died in Afghanistan or the GD costs associated with that fiasco from start to finish...

Just resign ....... and also that w*(&%$ from Georgia...

DeSantis refuses to divest Florida of $300 million in Russian investments - but criticizes Biden ove

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DeSantis refuses to divest Florida of $300 million in Russian investments – but criticizes Biden over Russia and Ukraine

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
Published March 02, 2022

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Governor Ron DeSantis is once again mud-slinging while refusing to take concrete steps to address the problems in his own backyard.

The Florida Republican is refusing to divest the Sunshine state of $300 million in Russian-owned companies – investments it controls – while attacking President Joe Biden on Ukraine and Russia, as The New York Daily News reports.

DeSantis was notably silent for days after Russia attacked Ukraine but finally decided to weigh in – by attacking President Joe Biden while praising Trump.

https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-refuses-to-divest-florida-of-300-million-in-russian-investments-but-criticizes-biden-over-russia-and-ukraine/

Hey DeSatan, you stated this.... On Monday DeSantis declared, “when Trump was president" Russia "didn’t take anything.”





We'll your wrong and your misinformation is a lie, in your authoritarian fascist buddy gave classified information to the Russian and they took it....it happened in the Oval Office....and since you will not divest the states interest from a authoritarian ()*^$%#* in invading UKRAINE and you have immigrants from there living in your state, your basically aiding and abetting a dictator and terrorist .....your a (*&^%$#.....

Pro-Putin Disinformation on Ukraine Is Thriving in Online Anti-Vax Groups

All the usual themes: Secret government alliances, anti-Semitic tropes, and nefarious scientists.
KIERA BUTLE

Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve seen how conspiracy theories can overlap and collide. I’ve documented how anti-vaccine groups embraced QAnon disinformation about liberal elites conspiring to unseat Trump, and how white nationalists find willing audiences for their racist ideology in anti-mask groups. Over the last week, a new disinformation hybrid has appeared, as online anti-vaccine groups have become a hotbed of pro-Russia conspiracy theories about the conflict in Ukraine—and some of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists are actively promoting geopolitical falsehoods.

Imran Ahmed, executive director of the online extremism tracking group Center for Countering Digital Hate, has been following the convergence of the conspiracy theories, and he’s noticed they share familiar themes: alleged secret government alliances, anti-Semitic accusations, and allusions to nefarious scientists. “There are particular individuals within the anti-vaccine world who are amenable to pro-Russian propaganda,” he says, “and that would include some of the people who’ve cohered around QAnon and Trump.”

One example of this is how an old Trump-era storyline—the theory that SARS-CoV-2 was deliberately engineered in a lab and released—seems to have been reconstituted in a new form: Anti-vaccine influencers claim that the United States owns a network of secret biolabs in Ukraine where dangerous infectious disease research takes place. For them, it’s just obvious that Biden is sending aid to Ukraine in order to protect those assets. This rumor has been proven to be manifestly false—but that hasn’t stopped it from circulating and gaining momentum.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/pro-putin-disinformation-on-ukraine-is-thriving-in-online-anti-vax-groups/

I just wonder if any of these people had gotten vaccination shots when they were a kid, like David Wolf, Naomi Wolf....and others....because maybe Mr. Wolf can say that its George Soros fault that he had to get the vaccination shots when he was a kid....

Cartoon: Puppet propaganda By Clay Jones -March 1, 2022 9:00 AM

Marco Rubio to boycott State of the Union because it requires a Covid test: 'I don't have time' to t

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Marco Rubio to boycott State of the Union because it requires a Covid test: 'I don't have time' to take one

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According to The Daily Beast, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will boycott President Joe Biden's first State of the Union address.

The reason? Negative COVID tests will be required to attend — and he does not want to take one.

“I don’t have time to go take a COVID test today," Rubio told Igor Bobic of The Huffington Post. "I only take a test if I’m sick.”

https://www.rawstory.com/rubio-state-of-the-union/

Just fucking resign your still a infantile POS....

Sorting fact, disinformation after Russian attack on Ukraine

16 minutes ago

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Associated Press journalists around Ukraine and beyond are documenting military activity during Russia’s invasion. With disinformation rife and social media amplifying military claims and counterclaims, determining exactly what is happening is difficult. Here’s a look at what could be confirmed Monday as Russia’s military assault on Ukraine was in its fifth day.

DIRECTLY WITNESSED

— Explosions and gunfire appeared to subside overnight around Kyiv, the capital, before Ukrainian and Russian delegations met Monday on Ukraine’s border with Belarus.

— As the talks wrapped up, several blasts could be heard in Kyiv.


https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-europe-media-785e7e6126c5734da8754dc42df47a4f

Cherokee on a smartphone: Part of a drive to save a language

By MATT O'BRIEN
yesterday

By itself, being able to read smartphone home screens in Cherokee won’t be enough to safeguard the Indigenous language, endangered after a long history of erasure. But it might be a step toward immersing younger tribal citizens in the language spoken by a dwindling number of their elders.

That’s the hope of Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who’s counting on more inclusive consumer technology — and the involvement of a major tech company — to help out.

Sneed and other Cherokee leaders have spent several months consulting with Lenovo-owned Motorola, which last week introduced a Cherokee language interface on its newest line of phones. Now phone users will be able to find apps and toggle settings using the syllable-based written form of the language first created by the Cherokee Nation’s Sequoyah in the early 1800s. It will appear on the company’s high-end Edge Plus phones when they go on sale in the spring.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-language-smartphones-0d6adb7874de0146121a2e337b9c85e3

Black female WWII unit recognized with congressional honor

By MICHAEL CASEY
an hour ago

BOSTON (AP) — The House voted Monday to award the only all-female, Black unit to serve in Europe during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal.

The 422-0 vote follows a long-running campaign to recognize the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. The Senate passed the legislation last year. The unit, known in short as the Six Triple Eight, was tasked with sorting and routing mail for millions of American service members and civilians. Only a half-dozen of the more than 850 members are still alive.

“It’s overwhelming,” Maj. Fannie Griffin McClendon, who is 101 and lives in Arizona, said when told of the vote. “It’s something I never even thought about it. I don’t know if I can stand this.”

https://apnews.com/article/business-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-congress-a801e5e329c274efac243fcdaf1984e4

Godfather of Vladimir Putin's daughter among latest names on EU sanctions list

Sergei Roldugin, 71, formerly a high-profile orchestra cellist, is one of 26 new additions to 680-strong list

Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Mon 28 Feb 2022 17.08 EST

A Russian oligarch who is godfather to Vladimir Putin’s daughter is one of 26 businessmen, officials and military figures who have been added to the EU’s expanding sanctions list.

Sergei Roldugin, 71, the former principal cellist of the Kirov Opera Theatre’s orchestra in the 1980s and godfather to Putin’s eldest daughter, Maria, is among those who it is claimed are threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

He joins a total of 680 individuals and 53 entities whose assets in EU member states are frozen and who are under a travel ban.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/man-known-as-putins-wallet-among-latest-names-on-eu-sanctions-list

The rightwing US supreme court has climate protection in its sights

Laurence H Tribe and Jeremy Lewin
Mon 28 Feb 2022 06.08 EST

The court is breaking with precedent, procedure and prudence to achieve the ultra-conservative majority’s policy preferences

Granting a petition by several states and coal companies, the supreme court on 28 February will address what appears to be a technical legal question: does the Environmental Protection Agency have authority to calculate CO2 emissions targets for power plants based on mitigation techniques involving steps “beyond the fence-line” of individual plants? In truth, the matter the court is considering implicates –and imperils – the federal government’s power to fashion flexible solutions not only to global warming but to all manner of complex problems.

The stakes are higher still: by ruling on the case at all, the court usurps power constitutionally entrusted to government’s politically accountable branches. Article 3 of the constitution limits federal courts to deciding concrete “cases and controversies” about the rights of individual parties. Yet this “case” involves neither a concrete dispute nor the specific rights of any of the challengers. Instead, it’s akin to an exam question about the options theoretically available to a federal agency to address a grave problem. In answering that hypothetical question, the court will have arrogated to itself an unprecedented, open-ended power to reshape the nation’s social and economic landscape – far in excess of its legitimate authority, as the foundational case Marbury v. Madison put it, to “declare what the law is”.

The court has avoided such a wide-ranging role ever since our founding, when Chief Justice Jay refused President George Washington’s 1793 request for legal advice about America’s obligations under treaties with France and Britain, concluding that issuing such an “advisory opinion” to guide the nation’s foreign policy would exceed the court’s constitutionally assigned power. The underlying axiom is neither liberal nor conservative but universal. As Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the court just last term, “federal courts decide only ‘the rights of individuals’ [and] do not possess a roving commission to publicly opine on every legal question.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/us-supreme-court-rightwing-climate-crisis

Two things come to mind about this court....do they know what acid rain is and...

When are they going to get a petition to attack social security and medicare....