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Mar-4
Ma’am I just absolutely must beg your pardon here
— Chris Polansky (@ChrisKPolansky) March 4, 2022
via @KBSX915 @RadioDawson https://t.co/g2I8GICevK pic.twitter.com/9hJYeNiG93
Mar-6
Central station in Kyiv...
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 6, 2022pic.twitter.com/odLqtUBDXu
Mar-28
As the World Turns ...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - When the bombs started falling on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, last month, Tatyana Zhuravliova had a horrible deja vu: the 83-year-old Ukrainian Jew felt the same panic she suffered as a little girl when the Nazis were flying air attacks on her hometown of Odesa.
Read more from AP NEWSApr-12
Tens of thousands killed in Mariupol!
Guess we're not doing too bad here in the USA, we kill that many every few months.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
Apr-22
Happy Earthday !
A group of wild elephants sift through garbage looking for food at a landfill in Sri Lanka. It's a dangerous undertaking - around 20 elephants have died from consuming plastic trash from the landfill in the Ampara district over the last eight years.
Read more from AP NEWSApr-22
You've heard of K-pop which is Korean and relatively harmless, saffron pop on the other hand is homegrown Indian and deadly to Muslims in a Hindu India.
NEW DELHI (AP) - The frenzied fury against Muslims began with provocative songs played by Hindu mobs that called for violence. It ended with Muslim neighborhoods resembling a war zone, with pavements littered with broken glass, charred vehicles and burned mosques.
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The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, when asked about a video of her calling for the execution of Democrats : I don't recall saying all of this.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, asked about liking a comment on her Facebook wall about executing Nancy Pelosi by shooting her in the head.
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) April 22, 2022
Greene: "I have no idea who liked that." pic.twitter.com/HHs1JhpnQp
Apr-24
I've been expecting this. Taking a cue from recent Florida book bannings, a petitioner demands that the Bible should be removed from schools due to "inappropriateness, social-emotional learning, mentions of bestiality and rape, and "wokeness" as reasons to ban the Bible. Each reason is accompanied by a corresponding Bible excerpt."
Any bets on how this will go down?
Chaz Stevens has petitioned eight Florida school districts to ban the Bible, citing its inappropriate content.
Read more from Miami New TimesApr-25
The Bible is not promoting those acts ... it condemns such activity as sinful ... that is a big difference