* Fighting continues in Kiev despite claims of a truce. Casualties continue to mount. The EU talks of sanctions. President Obama has issued a threat. Parts of Kiev continue to burn and people keep dying ( Read more... )

* Nairobi Airport is a major transportation hub for East Africa, serving 49 destinations in 23 countries and five continents, with modern, recently upgraded facilities. As a result, it's a big fucking deal that it just burned down. Travelers are stranded, obviously, but it's seriously messing up air traffic and transport across the region. It ( Read more... )

* I struggled all evening with trying to figure out how to explain my extremely complicated thoughts on the embassy closures, and eventually simply gave up. This looks like the best coverage to me and references some of the related issues that feed into my thinking:

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* Widespread mainstream republican Racism:

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* Greenwick's North Korea round up: greenwick.livejournal.com/197005.html?mode=reply&style=mine ( Read more... )

* A neighboring town has offered Newton an empty Middle School that just closed. The building is to code and furnished. They will likely need to swap in elementary sized toilets etc., but the important thing is that the students and teachers all don't have to go back to that school. They have not decided when to restart, but are already talking ( Read more... )

* Important labour history that explains what's going on now:

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* It looks like the only reason more people didn't die yesterday is that the weapon jammed. He had multiple magazines and intended to kill more. My thoughts are with the family of the teenaged grl in the hospital and with the families of the dead ( Read more... )

* The dirty tricks involved in the Republican stripping of Union rights in Michigan:

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* The dirty tricks involved in the Republican stripping of Union rights in Michigan:

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