News Roundup: Putin's bad play; a broken Supreme Court; the fight for civil rights justice

Classic "What, me, worry?" face.

Hello Tuesday! Russian oligarch Vladimir Putin, with propaganda help from Fox News and the GOP-o-sphere, continues to make aggressively bad foreign policy threats to invade Ukraine. It seems clear to most experts that a move into Ukraine could very well be the same “quick action” that the United States experienced in Iraq back when George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice lied their way into a forever war abroad. At the same time, the United States continues to suffer the rollback of civil and reproductive rights because of an activist right-wing, business-owned Jesus Supreme Court. Lower down, Black men, murdered by the state and white supremacy’s lasting impression of racism, continue to try and find a justice that they were not afforded in their lifetime.

Here is some of what you may have missed:

• Texas abortion ban spawns dozens of copycat vigilante bills
• Supreme Court to decide whether one federal judge can sabotage Biden's immigration agenda
• Three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery found guilty of hate crime and kidnapping charges
• Putin's actions in Ukraine could be as catastrophic for Russia as invading Afghanistan was for USSR
• Russia's economy can't handle a war, and Putin can't handle the Russian economy​​​​​​​
• Thomas Lane testifies to waiting until just before ambulance arrives to attempt CPR on George Floyd
• New poll throws a major wrench into the storyline on Glenn Youngkin and education
• Iowa middle-schooler gives heartbreaking testimony against trans inclusion in sports​​​​​​​
• The extremist majority broke the Supreme Court. Republicans voting for Biden’s nominee won’t fix it
• Trucker says plans in place for convoy to occupy beltway around nation's capital

The Brief:

• We can't win 2022 elections without great candidates up and down the ballot

And from the community:

• Clarence and Ginni Thomas show why the Supreme Court is a problem that can't be ignored
• Can We Talk About Social Security?​​​​​​​