Dave Fernig @DaveFernig@qoto.org

Yesterday, better footage of the incendiary ammunition used by Russian forces on Kherson. The amount wounded has risen tot 55. There are different stories about the number of deaths but it is somewhere between 10-20. All as a results of the shelling in the city center.

Russian media report that the life of Oleksandr Buzakov, general director of the Admiralty Shipyards, a company that built submarines that were carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles, "had a premature and tragic end" in St. Petersburg.

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The big news is not that a committee of Congress has made a criminal referral urging that the DOJ prosecute a former president. The big news is that the committee has compiled overwhelming evidence that the former president has committed serious crimes. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-news-about-the-january-6?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=91755428&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

One of my fav quotes, from Anatole France:

“La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.”

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

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Yes, the Rwanda removals policy has been ruled legal

But the court held UK government has applied that policy unlawfully 19 times

Yesterday's judgment not that welcome to the government

By me, at my new Substack

https://lawandlore.substack.com/p/how-the-government-won-and-lost-the

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Yep, you’ve misunderstood.

Why can't Russia just stop exploding?! https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1605167685842907137

https://t.me/United24media/1940 ⚠️🇺🇦 Export of stolen grain from the temporarily occupied Crimea to Syria increased 17 times this year – Reuters. According to the Refinitiv trade and information platform, in 2021, Syria imported about 28.2 thousand tons of stolen wheat from Sevastopol, for 11 months of 2022 – about 501.8 thousand tons. The Ukrainian embassy in Beirut, which monitors cargo entering Syria, believes that these (more) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

#pinetree #glassbox #mycorrhizal #mycelium#mushroom

A small pine tree in a glass box shows the level of white finally branched mycorrhizal threads or mycelium that attach to roots and feed the plant.

https://t.me/liveukraine_eng/3106 ⚠️🇺🇦 There are some interesting things on the Crimean Isthmus near Chongar (VIDEO and MAP) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

You’ll be unsurprised to learn that the incident with the supposed Musk stalker appears to have nothing to do with the jet tracking account. It occurred 26 miles from the airport, and a full day after ElonJet placed the plane in Los Angeles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/

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Russian-occupied Mariupol has been turned into a dystopian city. #Ukraine #Mariupol #Donetsk

As Twitter kicked me out of the so-called digital town square, I'm trying to embrace the open source Mastodon with high hopes.
Please say hello and help me to navigate through this new app.
#newbie #hello #India #twitter

As a teenager I read a book by Richard Feynman. He was talking about his father reading him an Encyclopaedia Britannica. He would read a story of say a Tyrannosaurus rex, “This dinosaur is twenty-five feet high and its head is six feet across.” His father would stop reading and show him just how big that was. The importance of translating everything you read.

Before I studied science, this one page opened my eyes to critical thinking. 🖖