
Guest Commentary: Happy Pride Month, Ohio. GOP Lawmakers are Fixated on Assaulting Our Community.
citybeat.com > news...By David Dewitt, Ohio Capital Journal on Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 10:51 am Transgender people -- especially transgender people of color -- have been leading... ...the activist charge toward LGBTQ+ human rights and equality since the beginning, literally throwing the first bottles at the Stonewall riots.... ...Both the Ohio High School Athletic Association and NCAA have rules around transgender participation that are well-established and based on a wide... ...David Dewitt, Ohio Capital Journal Pop-Up Dunch Blurs the Lines Between Dinner and Lunch, Past and Present Amazon Corporate Pushes Back Against Claim...

Analysis | What the debt ceiling deal means for U.S. cyber agency
washingtonpost.com > politics...Russia blames the United States and Apple for a recent hacking campaign, and a judge dismisses a privacy suit against Meta over Cambridge Analytica... ...The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is largely shielded from a provision of the debt ceiling deal that takes back money that Congress... ...The ARPA funds listed in the bill have been used by CISA for four things, as Eric Goldstein, the agency"s executive assistant director for cybersecurity... ...The debt ceiling agreement -- which was brokered by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Biden -- suspends the nation"s borrowing...

US, Taiwan Sign Trade Deal Over China's Opposition
voanews.com...-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade will strengthen commercial relations by improving customs, investment and other regulation.... ...US, Taiwan Sign Trade Deal Over China's Opposition The United States signed a trade agreement Thursday with Taiwan over opposition from China, which... ...Trade Representative said in a statement. The deputy USTR, Sarah Bianchi, attended the signing.... ...Chinese leader Xi Jinping's government has stepped up efforts to intimidate Taiwan by flying fighter jets and bombers near the island....

A ‘Russian love affair’: Why South Africa stays ‘neutral’ on war
aljazeera.com > features...Cape Town, South Africa – In April, a delegation of senior officials of South Africa"s ruling African National Congress (ANC) undertook what the... ...Among the delegation was Deputy Foreign Minister Alvin Botes.... ...This month, army chief Lawrence Mbatha was also in Moscow on the invitation of Oleg Salyukov, commander-in-chief of Russia"s ground forces, who described... ...State security minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni is also to visit Russia in a few days, ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of an African leaders...

Ron DeSantis threatens academic freedom in Florida with these new bills
vox.com > policy...Ron DeSantis is threatening academic freedom everywhere. Florida Gov.... ...Ron DeSantis and the state's Republican-led legislature are fighting a political and ideological war with public colleges and universities.... ...A new report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the organization that established the nation"s tenure principles back... ...Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist and newly appointed New College trustee leading the attack on critical race theory....

Historic debt ceiling vote aligns Bay Area progressives with Freedom Caucus, ties Nancy Pelosi to Kevin McCarthy to … Marjorie Taylor Green?...
mercurynews.com...Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna with far-right Republicans Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar on one side, and putting Nancy Pelosi alongside Kevin McCarthy and... ...Marjorie Taylor Green on the other.... ...But 11 Democrats, including the Bay Area"s Khanna, Lee and Mark DeSaulnier, voted no.... ..., a political science professor at UC San Diego....

'Everyone can see the reality' in Ukraine except for Putin, UK defense minister says
cnbc.com...British Defense Minister Ben Wallace on Friday said Vladimir Putin is "at risk of losing everything" if Russia does not withdraw its forces from... ...In a busy week for diplomacy, European leaders met in Moldova in recent days for the European Political Community summit, attended by Ukrainian President... ...Speaking to reporters outside the EPC meeting in Moldova on Thursday, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said that the conflict will only cease if Ukraine... ...Moscow was meanwhile hit by drone strikes earlier this week, with President Vladimir Putin claiming the attacks targeted Russian civilians, while...

Biden Administration Urged to Back Tribunal on Russian Aggression
voanews.com...On Wednesday, Democrats Ben Cardin and Tim Kaine, both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a resolution calling on the... ...accountable the leaders of the Russian Federation who led and sanctioned aggression in Ukraine.”... ...“I don't know how you overcome that with the method you"re pursuing,” Cardin told van Schaack during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing... ...General Assembly and negotiated between Ukraine and the United Nations....

The Cat Lockdown That Divided a German Town
newyorker.com > science...Regine Tredwell decided to become a cat owner in 2009, shortly after she divorced the father of her two young daughters.... ...The children named the kitten Mimi and quarrelled so much over holding her that, after a few months, Tredwell also rescued Fluffy, a cuddly white... ...Walldorf was required to monitor locally threatened species, so it hired Hans-Joachim Fischer, a biologist who worked for an environmental-planning... ...Around that time, a young ornithologist named Tobias Lepp passed through the area while looking for his favorite species, the crested lark....

‘Stop sending weapons, hold talks’ to end Russia-Ukraine war
aljazeera.com > news...China"s envoy Li Hui says in order to achieve peace, Kyiv"s allies must "stop sending weapons to the battlefield".... ...Li Hui"s appeal came as Washington and many European nations are ramping up supplies of missiles, tanks and other weapons to Ukrainian forces that... ...In May, Li completed a 12-day tour of Kyiv, Warsaw, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Moscow in what China said was a bid to find common ground for an... ...Beijing has refused to criticise the invasion and used its status as one of five permanent United Nations Security Council members to deflect diplomatic...