"Mr. Kara-Murza is a permanent resident of the United States and lives in the D.C. area with his family. His detention and the charges against him must be forcefully rejected by the U.S. government."

Busy guy. Putin takes time out from killing thousands of Ukrainian civilians -- and shooting rockets at a nuclear power plant -- to lament the *victimization* of the Russian ice skater who got caught for doping at the Olympics. He gave her an award today.

"There is deep anxiety that Moscow will try to destabilize the country following dramatic elections last year in which a pro-Western political party headed by Moldova’s first female president, Maia Sandu, won decisively."

Denial, meet tape! for the gazillionth time this week... He said the reporter was the subject of a criminal investigation. He put her picture on a poster, described her reporting as (many!) alleged crimes, confirmed it under questioning. It's. On. Tape:

“Five years after being denied an abortion, women are four times as likely to live below the poverty line as those who received the procedure. A decade after being denied an abortion, women had higher bankruptcies, evictions and lower credit scores.”

"As Idahoans plan for a future without abortion rights, a leading Republican says he will hold hearings on banning emergency contraception..." Also, IUDs: "'IUDs, I’m not for certain yet on where I would be on that particular issue,' he said."

“Republican legislators in Texas, for example, also want to approve measures that would prevent pregnant Texans from seeking legal abortions in other states.”

We should all be so lucky to have even 1% of the positive impact on the world that Urvashi Vaid did, and in a life cut short today. Vision, commitment, brilliance — yes, but her relentless persistence to see it through was truly rare. God bless you, Urv. A life so well lived.

Stunning.

“A notorious Hungarian racist who has called Jews ‘stinking excrement’, referred to Roma people as ‘animals’ and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major gathering of US Republicans in Budapest.”