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Writer, Editor, Newsletterer @NatGeo . At the other place: @davidbeard . Priors: @washingtonpost @AP @BostonGlobe Fan of peace, love, and understanding.

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If Florida, teachers are advised to hide their books to avoid felony charges. At one school, “the kids began crying and writing letters to the principal, saying, ‘Please don’t take my books, please don’t do this.’”
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U.S. bars and liquor stores are pulling Russian vodka from their shelves. “I think the whole world knows by now that Russia’s at war with #Ukraine for no apparent reason,” says one owner. “I guess this is our sanction.”
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The New York Public Library is making a group of commonly banned books available to all nationwide—no library card needed—using a free e-reader. "All people have the right to read or not read what they want," the @nypl says. @ALALibrary
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He founded the second biggest Christian network in the world. He used it to crusade against #COVID19 vaccines and to spread unfounded lies to millions of people about the life-saving jab. Now he has died. Of COVID.
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When he heard the Pulitzer-winning book “Maus” had been banned, a comic book store owner quickly snapped up 100 copies and offered them for free to kids in the close-minded Tennessee school district. 60 kids have taken him up on his offer so far.
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@jimsciutto In 2018, after Russia’s poisonings of people in England, he hoped the West would wake up to the danger of Putin.
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The next time you hear some loudmouth try to badmouth librarians, realize how tone-deaf that loser is. Librarians are more popular than ever, and more than 174 million Americans have library cards. @BookRiot
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It won the Pulitzer. It's a graphic novel. About the Holocaust. And about the writer's parents, one who survived Auschwitz, the other who killed herself. A Tennessee school board voted 10-0 to ban "Maus"
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The Supreme Court didn't want her flight upgraded. Didn't want to upgrade her hotel room. Said 'nope' to a free lunch or dinner. Turned down the $250 stipend. Sonia Sotomayor just wanted to talk with kids.
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How a white mob razed a Black town in Florida — and killed many of its residents — 100 years ago this month. They got away with it. Decades later, the truth was pieced together. Florida provided reparations. ⁦ @craigtimes #Rosewood
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“When I first became mayor, [a white woman told me] the town was not ready for a Black mayor,” Braxton recalls. The town is 85% Black. The former white mayor, along with his council members, wouldn't give him the keys to Town Hall.
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“It’s not just the masks,” Hedrick said. “Our passengers have changed. Their behavior on our flights, the safety of our flight attendants, the safety of our passengers — every day is being threatened here.”
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While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, "Did you do that?" Picasso responded, "No, you did." #Ukraine
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The respected children's book author was set to read to an Ohio school when the principal called. Don't come. Higher-ups don't want you here. ‘Does somebody think I made a gay book?’ Yes. The concern is that you’re coming to recruit kids to become gay.
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Ginni Thomas: ‘I regret all of these texts’ about overthrowing the government because of the 2020 election results. I was emotional. Mostly I regret they became public.
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Germany has arrested 25 people suspected of supporting a far-right domestic terrorist organization that planned to overthrow the government. Many had military training and were influenced by America’s QAnon.
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He's turning 98 on Saturday. Still humble. Still fighting. His grandson says Jimmy Carter ought to be known as the first 'millennial president,' because he was ahead of his time fighting for solar energy and national parks.
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His wife disappeared. He was a suspect. Five months after she vanished, he cast her mail-in ballot for president. Everybody cheats, he said. "I wanted Trump to win." He has been sentenced to a year in prison.
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Germany whacks Russia upside the head for parroting Putin’s Big Lie about his invasion of #Ukraine . “Sadly, we’re kinda experts on Nazism.”
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One worked in a Connecticut factory. Another in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. They were Nazi war criminals, hiding in America. Allan Ryan tracked them down—and got justice. America is no place for Nazis.
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It happened once before—members of Congress working on behalf of a dictatorial foreign power to subvert the US government. Back then, their loyalties were with Hitler.
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#PSA : I just ordered 4 free #COVID test kits via @USPS — it took 20 seconds. Here's the link:
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#Ukraine had help from pro-democracy saboteurs in #Belarus to stop the Russian advance on Kyiv. A clandestine network of railway workers, hackers and dissident security forces disrupted rail links for Russian supply line. @LizSly
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Anne Frank died 78 years ago in a Nazi concentration camp. A Florida school has banned an illustrated edition of her life story after a conservative advocacy group objected. @AP
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He was an unwanted child, grew up lonely and dyslexic. He developed rechargeable batteries now used in smartphones, tablets, and EVs. He signed his royalties away. At age 97, still working, John Goodenough won the @NobelPrize #RIP
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2 years
Think of the shaky years before the Civil War. Or the fragile years as fascism took hold in Italy and Nazi Germany. Those are examples that historians cite in talking about the scary state of America's democracy today.
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After corrupt Mississippi officials reportedly diverted $5 million in welfare funds to Brett Favre, the quarterback's biographer was disgusted. Don't buy my book, the writer says. "He's a bad guy." @Poynter @TomWJones #Packers #NFL
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The police officer was dragged into a crowd and beaten by #Jan6 thugs outside the Capitol. Today, he saw one of his attackers sentenced to 7-plus years in prison. That attack cost the officer his career. "I hope," he told the attacker, "you suffer."
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David Beard
3 years
Maybe airlines should rethink their own classification of passengers. Nurses, teachers, and firefighters are every bit as "first class" as a woman-hitting boor with money who doesn't think the rules apply to him.
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David Beard
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The bump happened when the flight attendant was moving through the cabin. She apologized. The first-class passenger got up—and punched her in the face. She was hospitalized for broken bones.
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Hey, thought everyone should be able to read this story about the former head of Twitter's trust and safety thinks will happen. So here's a free version.
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A few good things about 2022: —Solar power capacity is set to triple within 5 years and overtake coal as the leading source of power. —Parallel breakthroughs in batteries —Significant progress on vaccines for malaria —Extreme poverty declined @NickKristof
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She was a teacher, first and foremost. Some of her students weren't showing up. The Nazis had gotten them. The Belgian formed a group to shelter the Jewish kids, racing to hide them in convents, monasteries and farms. They saved 3,000 kids. #RIP
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Evergreen tweet, from Long Island's @Newsday #GeorgeSantos
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For the 1st time since 9/11, every early-warning US anti-terror center—all 80 of them—had info of a terror attack on Washington at 1 pm Jan. 6. 300 US officials attended a call 2 days before the attack on the US Capitol. Why didn’t they stop the violence?
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White contractors wouldn't do it. Devon Henry stepped in. He got death threats. Wore a bulletproof vest on the job. And removed Richmond's Confederate monuments. “He was the only one to step up."
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. @YoYo_Ma did something this afternoon. He set up his cello outside the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C.—right by the fresh "Zelensky Way" roadsign—and began to play. Video: #Ukraine
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Hoping Americans would die, Russia spend millions trying to persuade gullible Americans not to get vaccinated. The propaganda campaign worked too well—now its own people are reluctant to save their lives, too.
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"Librarians are not trying to force your children to read material you don’t want them to read. They are fulfilling their role as information professionals tasked with upholding the constitutional promise of access to information for all." #book ban
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Sure, the legendary Roberto Clemente experienced racism as a young baseball player. That's a fact of life, Roberto Clemente Jr. says. Not a reason to pull his dad's biography from schools. "You cannot erase history."
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33 US companies fund Putin's war machine, including: Koch Industries (Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, Quilted Northern toilet paper) Reebok Subway The parent co. of Cinnabon and Carvel Halliburton Cargill (Truvia, Diamond Crystal salt) #UkraineRussiaWar
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The white men, going hunting, openly shot at a group of people, killing one, wounding one. Seven were unscathed. The shooters quickly were freed on bail. The seven targets who escaped without wounds have been in detention for three weeks. #Texas
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Didn’t realize that adidas, which sponsors an antisemitic rapper, began from a company that supplied shoes to the Hitler Youth and Nazi membership. h/t @SanhoTree
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"In" Florida. Although the list of "disallowed" books is unclear, a teacher could face up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine for displaying or giving students one.
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A New Hampshire newspaper has removed its onetime publisher from its masthead after disclosures that he had been a child molester. "We know now," the paper wrote, "that William Loeb is not a man to be celebrated. @UnionLeader
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Kaylan Brazelton, a parent and educator at the elementary school, said teachers were ordered to take down children's drawings of rainbows and unicorns that they had made in anticipation of the author’s visit.
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The author, who suffered a brain tumor last year and is in recovery, "is convinced that those who objected to the book never actually read it because it is clear there is no reference to the LGBTQ community."
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Elon Musk's Starlink admits it has blocked Ukraine's military access to the critical satellite technology as Russia plans another offensive upon the democratic nation. h/t @HC_Richardson
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Love this snowfall total from a station in Maine, with help from the library.
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Native Americans talked of a legendary Spanish treasure ship, run aground. The tale inspired Steven Spielberg and the movie "The Goonies." This week, hunters uncovered the 329-year-old mystery in sea caves off the wild Pacific coast. @NatGeo @kristinromey
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Community by community, this is happening: A dangerous expansion of secret censorship. Conservatives are teaming up with politicians to remove books and gut library boards. by @anniegowen
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The wife of an Iowa candidate for U.S. Congress has been charged with 52 counts of voter fraud. Prosecutors say she delivered absentee ballots, sometimes without the knowledge of the people whose names were used. Her husband lost his bid anyway.
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"I’ve always thought that democracy is like a town square, or a bazaar, or, I guess, a piazza, in which passionate disagreements are constantly taking place. The ability to have such disagreements is what one might call “freedom.” - #SalmanRushdie
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@michele_norris "By putting his own life on the line and successfully, single-handedly leading insurrectionists away ... Officer Eugene Goodman performed his duty to protect the Congress with distinction, and ... left an indelible mark on American history." #Jan6th
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These kids are hungry. Some don't know where their next meal will come from. The U.S. wants to spend $18 million to feed the hungry Nebraska kids. But the state's governor won't let the feds do it.
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Like kids in a candy shop, they raised prices more than they had to. Because they could. What's keeping inflation up? "Greedflation," mainstream economists now argue. @EmilyRPeck @axios
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Long before Greensboro, Black teens lined up at the soda fountain at a Rexall drug store in Kansas. Day after day they sat as the store closed the counter. Taunted, spit on, they kept coming back—until Rexall agreed to serve Black people in Kansas. #BHM
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Secret money from a little-known group is being spent to try to block dozens of federal nominations. What is this dark-money outfit called, ironically, the American Accountability Foundation—and who the hell is pushing cash to jam up U.S. democracy?
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"We are all just prisoners here/ "Of our own device" Decades after the theft of the rock band Eagles' notes, including the handwritten lyrics to "Hotel California," 3 men have been arrested.
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"They were little." The US began investigating the meatpacking company after a 14-year-old student came to school with acid burns on her hands and knees.
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Russia's theft of tens of thousands of pieces of #Ukraine is the biggest art heist since the Nazis in World War II, intended to strip Ukraine of its cultural heritage. Putin's looters handled the masterpieces "as if they were garbage."
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She struck out Hank Aaron. And Ted Williams. Underhanded. She played 19 years on the LPGA. Once scored 67 points as an all-American basketball player. And won a state bowling championship a month after taking up the sport. #RIPJoanJoyce
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Safer with a gun? No. A 12-year study shows California adults who live with a gun owner face twice the risk of death by homicide.
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It's not just Florida. "15 states now have active educational gag orders ... with punishments including fines, civil suits, firing and criminal penalties for those who violate the broadly defined provisions." @JNelsonLDF
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An Oregon church has been serving free lunches to people without homes 6 days a week. Then city officials voted to limit it to 2 free meals a week. What's the church going to do, let people starve? Nope. The church kept serving. @byJoeHernandez @NPR @OPB
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“You think you can apply political science to Russia. You need to apply criminal science. ... People don’t go into [Russia's] government to serve the country. They go into government to steal money.” - @Billbrowder @alexnazaryan
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The Black couple built an oceanfront paradise in the California town of Manhattan Beach. Then whites stole it from them. It's worth $20 million. Now, over 90 years later, the descendants of that couple are getting the land back.
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America pushed 5 million more kids into poverty last year. "As a country, we chose to make them poor. Specifically, we chose to make them poor again, by snatching a short-lived safety-net program away." Now 1 in 8 US kids are living in poverty. @crampell
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Stunned to discover evidence of the #Rosewood massacre, the investigator “drove 45 miles to dig through historical records at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Librarians there assured him that no such event had occurred.”
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Police tased him. Tased him again. He begged them to stop. Said he had a heart condition. Was worried about the effect of repeated tasing. He died in custody. Was likely a victim of racial profiling. He was 32.
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2 years
And the world's most popular soccer video game is removing Russian teams from #FIFA22 in support of #Ukraine
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The Klan plotted to kill two men, one Black, one Hispanic. A Florida law enforcement official was among the domestic terrorists. Working as a FBI informant, 1 man foiled the 2 killings and exposed KKK/police/military ties. Those links are huge, he says.
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They knew he was a liar. A fraud. They knew he was fooling the voters. An internal survey revealed it. They asked him to quit the campaign. #GeorgeSantos wouldn't. 4 staffers quit. High up people knew, too—and kept quiet. Colluded in fooling the voters.
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Grandparents: We're moving to Florida. Grandson: I'll kill you if you do. I want to conduct a mass shooting and bombing. Grandparents: Please don't kill us. That was more than a year before the grandson's massacre of people in Colorado Springs. @AP
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"Maus," the graphic novel and Holocaust allegory that a Tennessee county deemed to racy for its school library, has zoomed to No. 1 in hardcover and No. 3 in paperback on Amazon's best-seller list tonight.
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Supporters of “Brazil’s Donald Trump” have stormed that nation’s Congress and massed in front of the Supreme Court to illegally bring back its defeated autocrat to the presidency in a Jan. 6-style coup.
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He ran the Interior Department. But he wanted to own a brewery in his hometown. A report shows he texted and emailed developers 64 times on the real estate project while in office. And lied to an ethics official about it. @annamphillips @Reinlwapo
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The most joyous 5 minutes you will have today. #RipShaneMacGowan
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Plus: Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill perform ‘Fairytale of New York’ as a reflection after Communion. Can honestly say this is the first time I’ve ever seen dancing in the aisles at a funeral…
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This #Jan6 rioter with a Hitler mustache said his participation in the overthrow attempt was a big misunderstanding. He said he didn't know that Congress met in the Capitol. Nice try — he just got a four-year prison sentence.
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"For a couple hours on Thursday evening, I felt ... deep pride in being American and at least some slight hope that our nation might be able to right itself." by @Sulliview #January6thHearings
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"Besides the United States, the only other countries with no paid maternity leave are the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Suriname and Tonga."
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"Hedrick said the union also is looking into an incident that occurred Wednesday in Honolulu. During the incident, a passenger allegedly spit at and slapped a flight attendant while exiting an airplane."
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All over the world, people who have lost limbs or tactile sensation are able to feel and employ human touch again. It means so much, and we take it for granted. The photographer behind this story hopes her images inspire you to hug someone. @NatGeo
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They were 2 soldiers with arms made useless in battle. Bob Dole still had the bum limb; Daniel Inouye did not. Recovering, the 2 (at left) planned their futures, which took both to the Senate. Republican and Democrat, they remained friends for life. #RIP
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@JMShumway “I do not like to betray a person or a creature,” E.B. White once said. “The theme of "Charlotte's Web" is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.”
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One Kremlin assassin tells Navalny the emergency landing messed up the poison. If the flight had lasted longer, then “things might have gone our way,” the unsuspecting assassin tells the man they tried to kill. From the documentary “Navalny,” now on @CNN
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Before #Uvalde , Texas pols spent the past year “protecting children” by trying to take away library books, not assault weapons that liquify bones.
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Apropos of nothing, I can't wait to see the documentary film 'Navalny.' 'It will be harder for the regime to murder him in prison if he is occupying space in the global conversation.' Hurry up, @hbomax @CNN #Putin #Ukraine
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He joined the crowd breaking into the U.S. Congress, seeking to thwart America's 233-year-old democracy. He is wanted for violent entry and assaulting and resisting law enforcement on #Jan6 . Now he has fled to authoritarian Belarus, seeking aslyum.
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“White evangelical Christians resist coronavirus vaccines at higher rates than other US religious groups, a phenomenon experts say is bound up in politics, skepticism about gov’t & in their consumption of alternative media & unfounded conspiracy theories about vaccine dangers.”
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