MOVING DAY for Jared and Ivanka!!!
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Keep your 
on the lookout for Navalny’s return to Russia. Hope he can stay safe and not be detained.
Five months after a near-fatal poisoning, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny headed back to Moscow on Sunday, setting up another showdown between Navalny’s supporters and the Kremlin.
Russian authorities announced that Navalny is on a wanted list for allegedly violating the terms of his suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction, which Navalny and the European Court of Human Rights have called a political prosecution.
Russia’s prison service said it has “an order to take measures to arrest him when establishing his whereabouts.”
That means he could be detained immediately upon his return from Berlin, where he has been recovering from a nerve agent poisoning during a trip to Siberia in August. Navalny and his supporters say the attack was ordered by President Vladimir Putin — an accusation the Kremlin denies.
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Census Bureau says Trump’s push to exclude undocumented is dead
The Census Bureau said in a statement on Saturday it has agreed not to release data used to apportion congressional seats until after “the change of [a]dministration” on Jan. 20.
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NYTimes:
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Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition.
The Seth Rich story which Fox blew up into a complete fabrication.
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I guess you in America all have your minds on other things right now, but down under here in NZ we have a particular event going on that I’m sure all American Patriots will be interested in. 
The Americas Cup.
Right now we are in the middle of the Prada Cup challenger series to determine which yacht will race Team NZ for the America’s Cup in March.
These AC75 monohull, hydrofoil designs are seriously fast, capable of “sailing” at up to 50 knots. And they are very touchy to handle. On friday last week I was in Auckland for the opening of the round robin races and to see these yachts racing across the harbour is something quite special.
But yesterday something rather sad happened.
American Magic skipper and executive director Terry Hutchinson spoke to media today after his team’s AC75 Patriot capsized in dramatic fashion yesterday, resulting in serious damage to the boat including a large hole in the hull.
Hutchinson was on board the boat when it hit the water at approximately 80km/h and said it was “pretty hairball”.
80km/h is around 50mph.
Hutchinson thanked the other crews as well as the New Zealand police, Fire and Emergency NZ and others who responded to the situation straight away yesterday and helped stop Patriot from sinking.
With the boat safely back on land, American Magic is now repairing the boat with a focus on being back on the water in time for the semi-finals which kick off on January 29.
As a result, Hutchinson confirmed the Americans would not race next weekend in the third and fourth round robins meaning they will enter the knockout stage winless after losing their first four races over the weekend.
“If I insisted we raced next weekend, I’d have to manage a mutiny,” Hutchinson said.
“In all seriousness, it’ll be a big effort to get the boat to go sailing for the semi-finals and we have a realistic timetable.”
Hutchinson joked the boat may not be as beautiful when it returns to the water but they aim to keep it as fast as it was yesterday before the crash.
“We have great support from the Auckland maritime and boat-building community to help us and we’ve had great support from the teams. Everyone has offered up their services to get Patriot back on the water.
“At the end of the day, you couldn’t come across more generous teams in the world.”
Hutchinson said some early options they were looking at to fix the hole included cutting parts from their first boat or getting resources from local boat-builders.
We were watching this race as it happened and I can say the whole country felt for those guys out there. We hope they can get Patriot back together again and back in the race as soon as.
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Big news here in Annapolis.
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WTFery
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Washington Post
Fall out at Fox
And punishing the ones who don’t carry the BIG LIE.
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The place where some Qanon group stormed. Retargeted?
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Protests in the Streets in Russia over the detention of Alexei Navalny.
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Good report here:
Russia’s national Investigative Committee said it had opened an inquiry into violence against police officers on Saturday evening. A spokeswoman for the US embassy condemned the violence against demonstrators, accusing Moscow of suppressing Russians’ rights to peaceful protest.
No one is reported to have died, but several protesters appeared to have been seriously injured, including one pictured bleeding from the head and another who appeared to be unconscious when he was put into a police van. Another protester, who was rubbing snow on a bruise below his right eye to reduce the swelling, told the Observer he had been hit in the face with a nightstick twice.
The largest protests took place in Moscow, where a crowd estimated by Reuters at 40,000 mobbed a downtown square dominated by a statue to the poet Alexander Pushkin. “Leave!” the protesters chanted, calling on Putin to step down.
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This helps untangle how people perceive their beliefs and how hard to get at some core truths for people.
Hint - it is not through reasoning.
Worth a read.
Complicating the Narratives
What if journalists covered controversial issues differently — based on how humans actually behave when they are polarized and suspicious?
https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/complicating-the-narratives-b91ea06ddf63
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Myanmar held elections in November of last year. The National League for Democracy won a landslide victory securing 396 seats out of 476 seats. The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party won just 33 seats. However they (like someone else we know) could not accept defeat. And in a military take over has taken place. What might have been on 6 Jan!
Aung San Suu Kyi calls for Myanmar protests in wake of coup | Global development | The Guardian
Aung San Suu Kyi has called for public protests against a military coup in Myanmar, hours after she and other figures from the ruling party were detained by the army.
The leader, who was seized in a morning raid, said the military was trying re-impose dictatorship. “I urge people not to accept this, to respond and wholeheartedly to protest against the coup by the military,” a statement released in her name said.
Ten years of freedom ends: Myanmar’s tarnished heroine sees dark days return
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Military television announced on Monday morning that the army had taken control of the country for one year, with power handed to commander-in-chief General Min Aung Hlaing. It said the army had declared a state of emergency, and had detained senior government leaders in response to “fraud” during last year’s general election .
Phone and mobile internet services in Yangon were down on Monday morning and military trucks, one carrying barbed-wire barriers, were parked outside City Hall. State-run MRTV television said it had been unable to broadcast. Banks were closed across the nation.
The military’s actions brought swift condemnation from leaders and human rights experts around the world.
US president Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, said the US opposed “any attempt to alter the outcome of recent elections or impede Myanmar’s democratic transition, and will take action against those responsible if these steps are not reversed.”
US secretary of state Antony Blinken also called for the release Aung San Suu Kyi and other detainees. UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said the developments represented “a serious blow to democratic reforms in Myanmar”.
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High school principal works overnight at Walmart to help students in need
North Charleston High School principal Henry Darby calls his students his grandchildren. Every paycheck goes toward helping them.
Pls don’t take this as shade @ dragonfly b/c I do appreciate and feel true love for the beautiful humans who bust their asses to help out their communities! but jesus christ all I can think of is that all of our “feel good stories” are just whitewashing how our system fucks over its own citizens.
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