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Leader of Alabama Chapter of Oath Keepers Pleads Guilty to Seditious Conspiracy and Obstruction of Congress for Efforts to Stop Transfer of Power Following 2020 Presidential Election | OPA | Department of Justice

In his guilty plea, James, a military veteran, admitted that, from November 2020 through January 2021, he conspired with other Oath Keeper members and affiliates to use force to prevent, hinder and delay the execution of the laws of the United States governing the transfer of presidential power. He used encrypted and private communications, equipped himself with a variety of weapons, donned combat and tactical gear, and was prepared to answer a call to take up arms.

According to court documents, on Jan. 4, 2021, James and others traveled to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. He brought a semi-automatic handgun and stored multiple firearms at a Virginia hotel. On Jan. 6, after learning the Capitol had been breached, James and others traveled to the Capitol on golf carts, driving around multiple barricades, including marked law enforcement vehicles. James was wearing a backpack, a combat shirt, tactical gloves, boots, a paracord attachment, and an Oath Keepers hat and patches. He and others unlawfully entered the Capitol together through the East Rotunda doors. Inside the Rotunda, James assaulted a Metropolitan Police Department officer by grabbing the officer’s vest and pulling him towards the mob. While pulling the officer, James yelled, “Get out of my Capitol! This is not yours! This is my Capitol!” James was expelled by law enforcement, including at least one officer who aimed chemical spray at him.

Source: Leader of Alabama Chapter of Oath Keepers Pleads Guilty to Seditious Conspiracy and Obstruction of Congress for Efforts to Stop Transfer of Power Following 2020 Presidential Election | OPA | Department of Justice

Opinion | Putin No Longer Seems Like a Master of Disinformation – The New York Times

In the Ukraine invasion, though, we are seeing that Russian influence has significant limits — and perhaps the unraveling of the myth of Putin’s mastery over global discourse. Whatever the military and geopolitical outcome in Ukraine, it’s already clear that Russia has suffered a public-relations catastrophe. Repudiation of the invasion has been swift, forceful and widespread — spanning adversaries and even a few Russian allies and acolytes, and crossing from the world of foreign affairs into culture, sports and business. Even Putin admirers like Tucker Carlson and Trump himself have been forced to walk back early praise for Putin’s designs on Ukraine. “They’re just reading the room,” said Todd Helmus, a behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation who analyzes Russian propaganda. “Anyone who’s been watching this can see that Russia has been struggling to build any kind of narrative to support what it’s doing.” There are many theories for why Russian propaganda about Ukraine has fallen so flat. Perhaps the most obvious is that the invasion is just too ugly a pig to pretty up — an act so baldly unjustified that no amount of propaganda could set it right…

Solidarity in Wartime: Interview with a Ukrainian Union Leader | Labor Notes

Ignacy Jóźwiak of the Polish union Workers’ Initiative interviewed Witalij Machinko, leader of the Workers’ Solidarity Trade Union in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 27. This interview comes to us via the International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggle. It has been translated through Polish and French, and we apologize for any errors in the process.

Source: Solidarity in Wartime: Interview with a Ukrainian Union Leader | Labor Notes

Cada letra, cada palabra, cada texto

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Cada letra es un pétalo, una flor, una hoja, un pedazo de árbol, un fragmento de tantas palabras que se escriben y a veces se pronuncian y en ocasiones se callan, igual que el viento que, al soplar, envuelve su aliento en murmullos o lo encapsula en silencios. Cada palabra forma parte de la narración o del poema, del cuento que arrulla a los niños o de las novelas que emocionan a los lectores, de los versos que enamoran y dan paz y armonía. Cada texto, en el arte, es un deleite, un regalo que se entrega, una noche o a cualquier hora, a alguien muy amado y especial, a los lectores, a la gente que se deleita al recibirlo. Cada letra abraza a la que uno traza al lado y, juntas, fabrican cuentos, novelas, relatos, poemas, como las…

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Maria da Penha.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Não tem aquela história de que em briga de marido e mulher ninguém mete a colher? A Lei Maria da Penha é totalmente contra esse pensamento.”

Maria da Penha. Mulheres Incríveis.

É impressionante como muitas mulheres vivem aprisionadas em relacionamentos doentios. A sensação vivida por muitas é a de impotência. Como descreve a própria Maria da Penha quando ainda estava casada com o seu agressor. Segundo palavras dela mesma ” Não podia fazer nada para conter as agressões do marido às filhas ou a si mesma”. Às vezes, a mulher se sente sozinha e desesperada! Essa que é a realidade. Eu vejo isso nas palavras de muitas mulheres hoje. É comum, que parte destas “entregue a situação a Deus” sim – apesar da lei, parte dessas vítimas não conhecem os seus direitos. Quer dizer, essas mulheres passam por todos os tipos de violência, e pasmem – para sobreviver, elas…

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Não cantarei amores que não tenho,

e, quando tive, nunca celebrei.

Não cantarei o riso que não rira

e que, se risse, ofertaria a pobres.

Minha matéria é o nada.

Jamais ousei cantar algo de vida:

Se o canto sai da boca ensimesmada,

é porque a brisa o trouxe, e o leva a brisa,

nem sabe a planta o vento que a visita.

Ou sabes?Algo de nós acaso se transmite,

mas tão disperso, e vago, tão estranho,

que, se regressa a mim que o apascentava,

o ouro suposto é nele cobre e estanho, estanho e cobre,

e o que não é maleável deixa de ser nobre,

nem era amor aquilo que se amava.

Nem era dor aquilo que doía;

ou dói, agora, quando já se foi?

Que dor se sabe dor, e não se extingue?

( Não cantarei o mar: que ele se vingue

de meu silêncio, nesta concha. )

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Opinion | Pushing Back Against the C.D.C.’s Easing of Covid Rules – The New York Times

As the parent of a 3-year-old, I am outraged and saddened that the C.D.C. has decided to place my child and all other children under the age of 5 at increased risk by dropping most mask requirements. My child has spent two-thirds of their young life unable to go many places, because the places were closed or because they would be around large groups of other children.

My child has not been to a children’s museum, a friend’s birthday party or a McDonald’s play area. And while we parents wait to be able to vaccinate our kids, the C.D.C. has decided to make it so I can’t take my kid to the grocery store either.