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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1351824)	3/31/2022 7:29:25 PM
From: Qone0	2 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 Doo Respond to of 1580264

ROTFLMAO, so this is what you are down to. Typical when you lose a argument. And you lose fast. That's why I named you that.

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1351824)	3/31/2022 8:14:02 PM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1580264

BOMBSHELL: JUDGE BLOCKS FLORIDA'S RACIST VOTING LAWS IN BLISTERING RULING thedailybeast.com Judge Blocks Florida’s Racist Voting Laws in Blistering Ruling SHUT IT DOWN “This Court finds that, in the past 20 years, Florida has repeatedly sought to make voting tougher for Black voters,” Judge Mark Walker wrote. Rachel Olding Breaking News Editor Updated Mar. 31, 2022 5:08PM ET / Published Mar. 31, 2022 2:11PM ET A federal judge permanently blocked Florida’s new voter suppression laws from going into effect on Thursday, issuing a blistering ruling that said the bill unfairly and unconstitutionally violated minorities’ voting rights. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker blocked three major components of the sweeping bill from going into effect because they suppressed Black voters: A requirement that third-party voter registration drives include warnings, such as telling voters their registrations might not be done in time to vote; New limits on ballot drop-boxes including confining them to early voting hours unless they’re in a supervisor’s office and requiring them to be guarded at all time, and; A new law criminalizing the act of helping voters in line, even if it’s something as simple as handing out water or snacks. Walker, an Obama appointee, also put the state back into pre-clearance status under the Voting Rights Act for the next 10 years because Florida has “repeatedly, recently, and persistently acted to deny Black Floridians access to the franchise.” Pre-clearance means Florida will need to obtain federal approval before passing new laws related to those three issues. In his 288-page ruling, Walker shredded Florida’s “grotesque history of racial discrimination in voting” and said Senate Bill 90, signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this year, added to two decades of incremental attacks on voting rights. He went a step further than suggesting such attacks disproportionately affect Black voters, instead saying that racism was a “motivating factor in SB 90’s adoption.” “At some point, when the Florida Legislature passes law after law disproportionately burdening Black voters, this Court can no longer accept that the effect is incidental,” he said. “Based on the indisputable pattern set out above, this Court finds that, in the past 20 years, Florida has repeatedly sought to make voting tougher for Black voters because of their propensity to favor Democratic candidates.” He also slammed higher courts, namely the Supreme Court, for “gutting” the Voting Rights Act and losing sight of “the spirit that spurred” its passage. “Federal courts would not countenance a law denying Christians their sacred right to prayer, and they should not countenance a law denying Floridians their sacred right to vote,” he wrote. Florida’s law is one of several alarming voter suppression laws to be implemented across the nation in response to frenzied, but evidence-free, claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. The Department of Justice is suing Georgia for a bill that mirrors Florida’s. The Florida lawsuit was filed by the League of Women Voters of Florida and the NAACP against Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Republican National Committee, and other state officials. “Defendants argue that SB 90 makes minor prophylactic changes to the election code,” Walker wrote. “Plaintiffs, on the other hand, allege that SB 90 runs roughshod over the right to vote, unnecessarily making voting harder for all eligible Floridians, unduly burdening disabled voters, and intentionally targeting minority voters—all to improve the electoral prospects of the party in power.” After reviewing thousands of pages of evidence and listening to two weeks of testimony from 42 witnesses, “this Court finds that, for the most part, Plaintiffs are right,” Walker wrote. While Walker’s injunction is permanent, his ruling is likely to be appealed to the more conservative-leaning 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1351824)	3/31/2022 10:49:59 PM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1580264

RUSSIAN MORONS JUST AS STUPID AS US tRUMPTARDS: Russian Troops Suffer ‘Acute Radiation Sickness’ After Digging Chernobyl Trenches Barbie Latza Nadeau Thu, March 31, 2022, 1:38 AM·2 min read news.yahoo.com Several hundred Russian soldiers were forced to hastily withdraw from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after suffering “acute radiation sickness” from contaminated soil, according to Ukrainian officials. The troops, who dug trenches in a contaminated Red Forest near the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, are now reportedly being treated in a special medical facility in Gomel, Belarus. The forest is so named because thousands of pine trees turned red during the 1986 nuclear disaster. The area is considered so highly toxic that not even highly specialized Chernobyl workers are allowed to enter the zone. Energoatom, the Ukrainian agency in charge of the country’s nuclear power stations, said the Russian soldiers had panicked and fled. “It has been confirmed that the occupiers who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the Exclusion Zone set off in two columns towards Ukraine’s border with Belarus. The occupiers announced their intentions to leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant this morning to the Ukrainian personnel of the station," the agency said in a statement on Telegram, adding that a small number of Russians still remained at the facility. The agency said it had also confirmed reports of Russian forces digging trenches in the Red Forest, “the most polluted in the entire exclusion zone.” “Not surprisingly, the occupiers received significant doses of radiation and panicked at the first sign of illness. And it showed up very quickly.” Local reports suggest that seven buses with the zapped troops arrived in Gomel early Thursday. Journalists on the ground have also reported “ghost buses” of dead soldiers being transported from Belarus to Russia under the cover of dark. Ukraine Admits It’s ‘Impossible’ to Say if Chernobyl Is Safe U.S. intelligence reported Wednesday that Russian forces began withdrawing from the defunct site. Russia said the withdrawal from Chernobyl was part of a pledge to scale back the invasion. But Ukrainian media says it is actually because the troops were “irradiated” from the contaminated soil. “Another batch of Russian irradiated terrorists who seized the Chernobyl zone was brought to the Belarusian Radiation Medicine Center in Gomel today,” Yaroslav Yemelianenko, who works for the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, posted on Facebook. “There are rules for dealing with this territory.” The Chernobyl facility fell to Russian control on Feb. 24, the first day of the invasion. Workers were on duty for more than 600 hours before being allowed a shift change. International concern grew immediately when Russian troops moved heavy military hardware through the area, kicking up radioactive dust without any protective equipment. Forest fires in the area also raised concern about environmental contamination. Digging trenches in the forest—considered the most contaminated area of the site—drew widespread ridicule from Ukrainians who work at the site. The debacle is the latest in a series of missteps by the Russian troops struggling to keep their footing in their increasingly failed war. Read more at The Daily Beast.