A New Era in Politics.

 According to an UK report, about 15,000 Russian troops have been killed in the conflict. Putin has given his own speech months ago that he said that the reason that he unjustly invaded Ukraine is because he feels that Ukraine has no right to its existence as a sovereign nation. Russia has struck Ukraine's rails, hours after the U.S. visit to Zelensky. The U.S. cabinet members who visited Ukraine are U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Right now, Ukraine has increasingly been given advanced military forces from the West. Top Russian diplomats warns of WWIII. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is obviously evil and unjust. Many Russian forces have committed acts of genocide, rape, targeting of civilian targets, and outright forcing people against their wills into Russia. These actions are overt war crimes that ought to be condemned by people from across the political spectrum. Yet, you have still Putin apologists from the far right and the fake left who still defend Putin. Putin is a far-right nationalist who have laws violating the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press too. He is a tyrant. Explosions hit the state security building in Moldova.

Some historic news is that Harvard University will set up an $100 million endowment fund for slavery reparations. Harvard wanted to use other measures to close the educational, social, and economic gaps that are a product of the legacies of slavery and racism. One email came from the Harvard President Lawrence Bacow included a link to a 100-page report by his university's 14 member Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. The panel was chaired by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (who is a legal historian and constitutional law expert who is dean of Harvard's interdisciplinary Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study). More and more people are having conversations about racism, slavery, and discrimination. It is very much true that African Americans deserve reparations. Many Japanese Americans, many Native Americans, and many Jewish Americans received reparations for years. Reparations is not just about monetary or financial payments to us black Americans though monetary resources should be given to black Americans. It is about addressing centuries long structures of racism, discrimination, and economic oppression that have ruined many of our community. Harvard historically back in the day excluded black students, and it had many scholars who were racists. Harvard did have many people who were abolitionists and in the civil rights movement, but the Harvard report admitted that Harvard helped to extend racial oppression and exploitation. A law in Virginia requires five public state universities to create scholarships for descendants of people enslaved by the institutions.

There are new Mark Meadows texts proving that he knew of the January 6th potential for violence before it took place. This is pre-knowledge. Meadows is in the middle of everything in trying to obstruct the proceedings of the Electoral College to allow Biden to be President officially. There are about 2,319 text messages that Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden's January 20, 2021. Meadows admitted in the text messages that he push for the coup d'état against American democracy. Many Republicans like Meadows wanted to work behind the scene to try to overturn the election results. The texts also involve members of Trump's family, Rudy Giuliani, My Pillow CEO Mike Kindell, Sean Hannity, and other FOX hosts. It is no secret that FOX News is a propaganda arm of Trump's agenda. There are text exchanges among many Republicans like Cruz, Jim Jordan, Mo Brooks, and Majorie Taylor Greene. Meadows didn't report the warnings of violence on January 6 to any law enforcement authority for preventing such a disaster. Meadows should answer real questions. Those, involved in the January 6th attempted coup d'etat, committed treason plain and simple.

The New York Times have released new McCarthy audio clips. McCarthy said that he was worried that pro-Trump extremists posed a security risk to their colleagues. He said that many far-right members of the conference would incite violence at an incendiary moment in America. The Minority Leader McCarthy said that the mob attack on the Capitol showed how people might respond to the inflammatory talk with violence. McCarthy said to reporters recently that he isn't worried that his statement would impact his goal of becoming speaker of the House. McCarthy initially lied and denied saying these comments, but now he has no choice but to admit his words. McCarthy is the ultimate coward by criticizing Trump about the 1/6 terrorist attack, and then he backtracked being one of Trump's greatest supporters. He has refused to control the extremists in his GOP Party. Now, we see people lying about the 2020 election from Greene to other GOP acolytes. His political ambitions are more important to him than standing up against the abhorrent ideological views of the bigot Donald Trump.

Now, Elon Musk has an agreement to buy Twitter in $44 billion. Elon Musk is the world's richest person on Earth. The deal will take the company private. The deal is about the shareholders getting $54.20 in cash for each share of Twitter stock they own matching Musk's original offer and marking a 38% premium over the stock price the day before Musk revealed his stake in the company. Musk claims to support free speech and democracy. The problem is that threats against people and hate speech are not representative of true free speech. Free speech doesn't mean that people are free from consequences. With one's words, there should exist accountability for those words. So, I don't believe in authoritarian censorship. Censorship have unjustly happened in Youtube and other social media platforms. It's evil and unfair. That censorship in the Internet has nothing to do with refuting misinformation, but it has to do with suppression voices in opposition to corruption from the establishment. That is real, and it has no place anywhere on Earth. Yet, we have to have a balance to make sure that threats and hate speech are not tolerated in any social media platforms too. We shall see what the next chapter of Twitter will be.

By Timothy