A group of 26 House Republican lawmakers recently sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, demanding to know when the military-wide COVID-19 vaccine mandate will end.
By the time I visited Masterpiece Cakeshop in 2016, Jack Phillips, the man who had famously refused to bake a specialty cake celebrating the wedding of a gay couple, had been the victim of a four-year campaign of harassment by the authoritarians at the Colorado Civil Rights Commission intent on punishing him for a thought crime.
The recent ceremony of accession of four Ukrainian regions to Russia brought a speech from President Putin that outlined the reasons behind Russia’s current struggles, the character and identity of its foes and, more importantly, laid the groundwork for Russia’s next level of confrontation with the West beyond the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine.
Tennessee Republicans have demanded that the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) cease performing gender-related surgeries on minors following reporting from the Daily Wire outlining the goings on at the facility.