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As the crisis in Belarus has unfolded over the past month, there has been a growing sense of deja vu about the Russian response. Officials and media in Moscow have attacked the Belarusian pro-democracy protests as the work of extremists and foreign agents, while at the same time warning of a nationalist threat and drawing emotionally explosive parallels to the WWII Soviet struggle against Nazism. These narratives are not new. They directly echo the Kremlin reaction to the 2004 and 2014 pro-democracy uprisings in neighboring Ukraine. Moscow’s lack of originality should come as no surprise. This script sells itself in modern Russia, where attitudes towards the former captive nations of the Soviet and Tsarist eras remain strikingly imperialistic and few question the ethics of continued Russian domination. Such thinking makes it all too easy for the Kremlin to demonize non-Russian national awakenings in the post-Soviet world as little more than treacherous Russophobia. It also obscures the nation-building processes that began in 1991 and are still very much underway.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
By keeping healthy children under quarantine, we are cruelly depriving them of the in-person free play and social interaction that are critical to their development and emotional well-being.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Supporting Our Troops?
Jeffrey Goldberg’s allegation that President Trump derided American troops has injected much-needed adrenaline into Joe Biden’s supporters. The unwillingness of Goldberg’s sources to identify themselves and the holes poked in the story by named witnesses have done little to stem the flood of articles and Tweets characterizing the episode as the latest proof of Trump’s depravity. The badmouthing of the military is said to be a “new low.”
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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)
Deputies tell 4 News Now that 70-80 percent of the homes in Malden have been destroyed by a fire sweeping through the area. Level 3 Evacuations were issued for residents in the area, but within hours, most of the town had burned to the ground, with powerful winds pushing the flames and smoke southwest.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Mansfield was under a Level 3 evacuation, meaning residents were urged to leave immediately on Monday morning after the Cold Creek fire in Omak moved down, hopped the Columbia River and became the Pearl Hill Fire. Despite a Level 3 evacuation, residents were unable to leave due to low visibility caused by smoke and dust, so many stayed in their homes or got on their tractors to cut fire lines around nearby buildings. Kirstil Heath, who lives just out of town, said she evacuated at about noon Monday with no visibility and barely made it into Mansfield. The town lost power midday Monday and regained power before dawn on Tuesday. After a sleepless night at a friend’s house drinking coffee brewed on the barbecue, she went out to check on her house Tuesday morning. ... Fortunately, local farmers had hopped on their equipment and begun creating fire lines around Mansfield. “This is how they handle fires, rural farmers control it here,” Allen said. “Farmers get in their equipment and till the ground so they have a fire line to slow it down.” ... As of noon Tuesday the winds shifted, pushing the fire away from town, with Douglas County Fire crews working alongside local farmers to protect the community.
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from USA Today
Salt Lake City police are investigating after officers shot a 13-year-old boy with autism whose mother had called 911 for help. Golda Barton told KUTV she called police because her son Linden Cameron, who has Asperger's, was having a mental health episode. Barton, who had just returned to work for the first time in a year, told police her son had "bad separation anxiety" but was unarmed.
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