Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
The remnants of the enemy grouping are blocked at Azovstal. The territory of the plant is subjected to artillery strikes. Attempts by individual groups to infiltrate from Azovstal are being suppressed.
2. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without changes. Fighting is going on east of Gulyaipole. The grouping of the RF Armed Forces is probing the enemy defenses to the west of Velikaya Novoselka.
3. Ugledar.
On the Novomikhailovka-Ugledar-Velikaya Novoselka line, the enemy is holding positions.
4. Marinka.
There is no serious progress in the village. The front line, as before, lies in the area of the waste heap.
5. Nikolaev.
Fighting in the villages between Nikolaev and Kherson. The enemy suffers serious losses, the grouping in Nikolaev is subjected to heavy artillery and MLRS attacks. The front line has shifted somewhat in the direction of Nikolaev, which the enemy also recognizes. Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to move from the Novorontsovka area were unsuccessful.
6. Avdievka.
Without changes. Fighting continues in the area of Novobakhmutovka and Novoselki-2. There were also battles at Troitsky.
7. LPR.
A small advance of the LPR in Popasnaya. There are reports of the capture of Novotoshkovsky. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is considering options with a withdrawal from Severodonetsk to Lysychansk in order to avoid fragmentation of the group.
8. Izyum.
There is no progress in the direction of Barvenkovo yet. In the direction of Slavyansk, the troops approached the Red Liman. Taken Lozovoe. The grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration is subjected to severe blows.
9. Kharkov.
An attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be active north of Kharkov, not far from the Goptovka border checkpoint, ended in serious losses for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are trying to distract the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from further accumulation of forces in the Izyum direction. Attacks on the flank of the Izyum group are dedicated to the same goal.
10. Odessa.
Without changes. The enemy is accumulating forces for the defense of the city, plus using the supply of weapons from Romania and fuel from Moldova to improve the supply of troops in the Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog directions.
[Babylon Bee] Chris Wallace’s name started trending along with search terms "unemployed" and "learn to code" when CNN+ shut down this week, but Wallace has voiced a more troubling concern than potential joblessness: his recently-acquired CNN+ tattoo on his lower back.
"I went all-in on CNN after ditching Fox, but now I’m starting to have second thoughts," Wallace said in an interview with a smirking Peter Doocy, wincing as he touched the still-tender skin just above his buttocks. "I was sure CNN+ was going to be a hit and that I would soar to new heights of relevance! How could this happen?"
Sources confirmed that Wallace is looking into tattoo removal services, but has been told a full removal will be difficult as he got the tattoo in solid black ink. He has also asked for his old job back at Fox but was turned down as Fox has a strict policy against anchors having CNN+ lower-back tattoos. The out-of-work newsman is now hoping for a future career on Dancing With The Stars or The Masked Singer.
At publishing time, Congressman Kevin McCarthy was a few offices over, reportedly looking into tattoo removal services for his "Trump Stamp."
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[Daily Bell] Talk show host Alex Jones — he-who-must-not-be-named, who wears the conspiracy theory crown of thorns, the OG social media persona non-grata — has, for decades, taken time from his 3-hour daily radio show to commence long-winded rants about Western politicians being literal demons. Even a broken clock is said to be right twice per day.
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Jones was on Joe Rogan who had someone verifying his claims in real time and he said some batty things that were confirmed again and again. Local news stories that the national news refused to pick up. Maybe local news is filled with drunks and jokers and crazies, or maybe the national news are a bit political in their selections.
[NYPOST] Just like that, tyranny has descended on Florida.
The state legislature, with the support of Gov. Ron DeSantis ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president... , voted to repeal the "special independent district" enjoyed by Disney for half-a-century.
This is a sign, we are told, of the advent of an American authoritarianism that brooks no dissent — Disney criticizes a measure supported by the Florida GOP, the so-called "Don’t Say Gay" bill, and immediately gets targeted.
There’s a reason this fight escalated to this point, though. Disney was the aggressor in the battle over the education bill, lied about it and pledged to work to repeal it.
Even though the bill had nothing to do with Disney whatsoever — nothing to do with its product, its business model or its employees. The company got pushed into its stance based on pressure from a woke segment of its employees and from progressives on the outside.
Disney’s case against the bill relied on the smear that the legislation somehow threatened gay or trans people. In fact, the law merely seeks to exclude inappropriate material from being taught to young children in the classroom — an objective that once would have been considered utterly banal.
"Classroom instruction," the law says, "by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."
Based on that, Disney went to the mattresses. And it did so, not to serve its shareholders, enhance its profitability, protect its intellectual property or align itself with its vast and politically diverse customer base.
This was, shockingly, an iconic American brand making itself into a free-floating weapon of woke cultural politics in response to the social and political influence of a small number of vocal progressives.
Like so many companies before, Disney calculated the risk/reward of gratuitously taking up a left-wing political and cultural fight and considered it all reward, no risk. The Florida legislature decided to convince it that it was wrong.
Republicans have fantasized about exacting Dire Revenge on woke corporations before, but to no effect. Disney’s problem is that it had a glaring vulnerability in the form of an arrangement that can easily be portrayed as a special favor.
The provisions allowing Disney to govern itself in its special independent district are so extensive that one analyst refers to the so-called Reedy Creek Improvement District as "the Vatican with mouse ears."
"Never before or since has such outlandish dominion been given to a private corporation," the Florida writer Carl Hiaasen notes in his book "Team Rodent." "Disney owns its own utilities. It administers its own planning and zoning. It composes its own building codes and employs its own inspectors. It maintains its own fire department. It even has the authority to levy taxes."
For good measure, it can build its own airport and nuclear power plant.
Now, that’s all scheduled to go away in a year’s time. Obviously, it is not a good practice for government to retaliate against a business, even a business enjoying a special status.
This fight could have welcome effects, though, if it convinces Disney it made a mistake by allowing itself to get bullied and cajoled into becoming a combatant in the culture war, and convinces other corporations that there’s a potential price to be paid for joining woke mobs.
Republicans don’t want corporations to become tools in advancing their agenda; they just want them to exit the culture wars and focus, once again, on their business, an outcome that would lower the temperature in the country’s cultural fights at least a little.
Ideally, Disney and the Florida legislature work out a renewal of the company’s special district before it is set to expire, and that the house of mouse — and other corporations seduced into making themselves de facto left-wing pressure groups — resolves to stick to its core competency and mission.
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Huge impact. Disney employs about 0.35 % of the Florida population and their gross revenue here is equal to about 0.35% of the state's GDP.
Waiting now for uber-leftie Carl Hiassen, who wrote an entire book about how awful the Reedy Creek arrangement was, to come out and tell us how it's a sacred thing now.
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It WAS a Family Theme Park that became an Adult Political Alternative Sex agenda spewing Special Interest Group.
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Did you know: Other parks in Florida, Universal World Studios, LegoLand, Marineworld, don't have a similar carve out sweetheart deal?
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The prices Disney charges for everything inside the park should be criminal.
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Disney has been in bed with the Chinese Communist Party for the past few decades. Now that's perverted. Yes, Fester, they are free to leave and I hope they do. I hope they take George Stephenopolous when they go because he's a lying dirt bag. Maybe they can take their billions and billions to Peking and stop grooming American kids.
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Leftists: "Company Towns are BAD, unless they are OUR company towns!"
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[Babylon Bee] Chris Wallace’s name started trending along with search terms "unemployed" and "learn to code" when CNN+ shut down this week, but Wallace has voiced a more troubling concern than potential joblessness: his recently-acquired CNN+ tattoo on his lower back.
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
