Olha Kharlan was banned from the world championships in Italy for refusing to shake hands with a Russian opponent.
Today she she took first Ukrainian golden medal on #OlympicGames in France.
Thank you, Olha 🫶🏼🇺🇦
Happening NOW at DW headquarters in Bonn: Press conference hosted by The Anti-Corruption Foundation @ACF_int with former Russian prisoners @vkaramurza, @IlyaYashin and Andrei Pivovarov.
Follow the press conference live:
➡️ https://t.co/zxaZb8fE0v
Journalist Evan Gershkovich lifts his mother, Ella Milman, as US President Joe Biden looks on, on the tarmac after arriving home at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday.
love to listen to Supreme Court oral arguments about fun hypotheticals like “if you have a womb is it possible you aren’t a person” and “should we have a king”
Sen. Katie Britt intimately describes the trauma of a woman being held hostage and raped, but neglects to mention that she would force that women to give birth if she were impregnated.
When I started seriously studying Russia in college, my dad, who fled the place as a refugee, couldn’t understand it.
“Why do you need this?” he said. “This is a country without a future!”
I didn’t agree with him then, or when I lived in Russia.
Now I understand what he meant
If you read one story on how the culture wars are reshaping school districts, make it this one -- @kathrynajoyce's look at Florida's Sarasota County, where the onslaught of far-right education policies feels like "everything, everywhere, all at once" https://t.co/dP3o68F5Ux
If your Congressman or Senator tells you next week that we are helpless in the face of this carnage, and our gun laws are just fine as is, then decide to do one small thing, each week, to help elect his or her opponent.
Democracy is designed to fix a problem like this.
Manuel and Patricia Oliver were removed from the hearing room
I heard a loud thud outside the room, ran out, and saw officers pinning Manuel to the ground
Rep Frost ran out shortly after:
Extremist lawmakers across the country are ramping up attacks on trans youth and their families. They shouldn’t face this fight alone.
It’s time for all of us to get engaged, to show up and to fight back.
@dwebbKHN @kytja@besables This is a full time job. I wish every family had a qualified professional who has time, skills, and tenacity to dispute these bills. Or, better yet, I wish there was no need for it in the first place.
@tanzinavega And when your child attending daycare gets sick, you still pay for daycare, plus for for babysitter to care for them, and/or run out of your PTO.
NEW: An NYT investigation has found that scores of Hasidic Jewish schools in New York are purposely denying some 50,000 students a basic secular education – and have received $1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the last 4 years. w/ @brianmrosenthal
https://t.co/mjODtkjiMr
Yesterday was a big gathering of @WCKitchen partners and volunteers from all over Ukraine. For many the first day off during the last 163 days of this humanitarian catastrophe…Our more than 5k Ukranian #FoodFighters need our support….#ChefsForUkraine