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Ukraine update: So much talk about logistics, let’s talk strategy today

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Ukraine is pushing out from Kyiv in the north, Kharkiv and Sumy in the northeast, and Mykolaiv toward Kherson in the south. Here we are in the northeast: 

📽️Ukrainian troops assaulting Russian positions in #Sumy region #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/g6WOQjpwgR— MilitaryLand.net (@Militarylandnet) March 26, 2022

This looks like the assault into Trostyanets, south of Sumy.

Ginni Thomas wanted to overturn the election. About Clarence Thomas’ Jan. 6 documents dissent …

From now on, every Supreme Court decision on which Justice Clarence Thomas is the deciding vote comes with a giant asterisk: This matter was decided by a man whose wife advocated for the overthrow of the government. Those aren’t the only Thomas votes that require the asterisk, though. Take the Supreme Court’s January rejection of Donald Trump’s attempt to block the Jan. 6 select committee from getting White House documents. Thomas was the only dissent on that.

That Supreme Court confirmation hearing was so racist. We can’t ignore it or normalize it

Let me fix that headline for you, Washington Post: It’s not “Race hovered over Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing.” It’s “Racism hovered over Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing.” Although, really, racism was so prevalent in the hearing that the way it hovered was, COVID-like, in the air after belching out of the mouths of Republican senators like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.

Tennessee GOP tries to block Trump-endorsed candidate who doesn’t know anything about Tennessee

Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles has announced that he’s joining the August Republican primary for Tennessee’s open 5th Congressional District, which Republicans recently transformed from blue to red by cracking apart the city of Nashville. Ogles is a former state director for the Koch network’s Americans for Prosperity, and he launched a primary bid in 2017 against Sen. Bob Corker days before the incumbent decided to retire.

Biden’s Comments About Putin Were an Unforced Error

Sign up for Tom’s newsletter, Peacefield, here.Joe Biden has been a model of restraint during the most serious global crisis in nearly sixty years, and thank goodness for that. He has provided assistance to Ukraine while keeping NATO together against the possibility of a Russian attack against the Alliance.

Sorry, I Lied About Fake News

Okay this is embarrassing: The news I shared the other day, about the sharing of fake news, was fake.That news—which, again, let’s be clear, was fake—concerned a well-known MIT study from 2018 that analyzed the spread of news stories on Twitter.

The Wrong Way to Tackle Inflation

This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a kind of universal basic income for cars. This is, put short, a bad idea.The proposal was part of a package of policies designed to shield families in the state from the wallet-squeezing, impoverishing effects of inflation in general, and spiraling gas prices in particular.

Atlanta Confronts the Spectacle of White Ignorance

Anyone can be white. So proclaims a drawling, drunk white man to his Black fishing buddy in the opening scene of Atlanta’s long-awaited third season. They sit in a small skiff floating on a lake at night. The vibes are eerie. The pair, dressed almost identically, are unfamiliar to viewers and are left unnamed. The show’s central cast, led by the cash-strapped and fumbling Earn (played by creator Donald Glover), is nowhere in sight.

Channing Tatum Reaches Peak Himbo in The Lost City

One could easily accuse The Lost City of cribbing from the classics. The fizzy action comedy sees the romance author Loretta Sage (played masterfully by Sandra Bullock) get dragged to a mysterious tropical island, where she’s forced to contend with the kind of high-stakes adventure she writes about. She’s joined there by Alan Caprison (Channing Tatum), the beefy model who graces all of her book’s covers; predictably, the two end up together.

Conservatives on Supreme Court Prepare to “Gut Roe v. Wade” as State Abortion Bans Multiply

Anti-abortion bills are sweeping the U.S., with the Guttmacher Institute reporting that 82 restrictions have been introduced in 30 states in 2022 so far. On Wednesday, Idaho signed into law a six-week abortion ban, and lawmakers in Oklahoma passed a near-total ban on abortions — each modeled after a Texas “bounty hunter” law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on Dobbs v.

News Roundup: Judge Jackson weathers banal racism; Ukraine updates; Clarence Thomas should resign

It is Friday! What a week it has been. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is on the precipice of history, on the cusp of becoming the first black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sadly, as in most great moments in American history where someone perseveres for years before achieving some great milestone for humanity, Judge Jackson must face off against the last burps of bigotry available to the ruling class who are impotent to stop this moment in time.

Ginni Thomas wanted to overturn the election. About Clarence Thomas’ Jan. 6 documents dissent …

From now on, every Supreme Court decision on which Justice Clarence Thomas is the deciding vote comes with a giant asterisk: This matter was decided by a man whose wife advocated for the overthrow of the government. Those aren’t the only Thomas votes that require the asterisk, though. Take the Supreme Court’s January rejection of Donald Trump’s attempt to block the Jan. 6 select committee from getting White House documents. Thomas was the only dissent on that.

That Supreme Court confirmation hearing was so racist. We can’t ignore it or normalize it

Let me fix that headline for you, Washington Post: It’s not “Race hovered over Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing.” It’s “Racism hovered over Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing.” Although, really, racism was so prevalent in the hearing that the way it hovered was, COVID-like, in the air after belching out of the mouths of Republican senators like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.

Jan. 6 committee eyeing subpoena for Ginni Thomas

It’s going to be a long weekend for Ginni Thomas. 

The right-wing activist and Q-Anon conspiracy theory-spouting wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is reportedly on the cusp of receiving a subpoena from Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, CBS reported Friday.