"This is not the first time Ivanka Trump has used โcheap stuntsโ to improve her image and brand. ..
.. She recently pledged to bring justice for #NativeAmerican families afflicted by higher rates of violence, homicide, and human trafficking by opening the nationโs first Indian Affairs task force office dedicated to solving cold cases of missing and murdered American Indians...
... and #Alaska Natives. #NativeAmerican women and tribal leaders however remain skeptical towards her commitment to resolving the root causes of violence against #Indigenous women and providing adequate federal resources. (2) They point to a lack of concern during the last...
"The democracy promotion organisation founded by former president #JimmyCarter ๐ is to launch its first-ever #UnitedStates#election initiative this year, citing an โerosionโ of democracy in the country. The @CarterCenter has monitored more than 110 #elections in the...
"The United States Postal Service proposed removing 20 percent of letter sorting machines it uses around the country before revising the plan weeks later to closer to 15 percent of all machines, meaning 502 will be taken out of service, according to documents obtained by...
... Motherboard outlining the agencyโs plans. #USPS workers told Motherboard this will slow their ability to sort #mail."
"One of the documents also suggests these changes were in the works before #LouisDeJoy, a top #Trump donor and #Republican fundraiser, became...
"A damning documentary about Donald #Trump* that the US president โdoesnโt want you to seeโ is getting released worldwide."
"Having been held back by legal threats from the #TrumpOrganisation for the past four years, 'Youโve Been Trumped Too' has been picked up for release...
... and will arrive less than three months before the #2020Election. The documentary explores the โdeeply troublingโ confrontation between #Trump* and 96-year-old Scottish widow #MollyForbes half a decade after itโs discovered that the presidentโs workers shut off...
The offending occurred between 1994 and April last year involving 13 #Samoans ๐ผ๐ธ ๐ณ๐ฟ from three villages on the island of #Upolu. The youngest...
... was just 12. ๐ข The Crown argued there was a pattern to #Matamataโs offending, with him bringing small groups of people to #NewZealand over the 25-year period for his โown financial benefitโ.
In Belarus ๐ง๐พ, Three Women Unite To Fight Strongman Lukashenko
"Three women have teamed up to fight presidential polls in #Belarus, pitting "female solidarity" against strongman #AlexanderLukashenko, who insists the country is not ready...
...for a woman president. ๐ #Lukashenko is standing for a sixth term in August 9 polls in the authoritarian country bordering Russia and the European Union.
The vote's result is in little doubt given his total dominance of previous elections, not recognised as free or fair...
...by Western observers. Law enforcement forces detained hundreds at opposition protests this week and three prominent opposition figures are in custody."
"But the contest has been shaken up by the decision of one woman, #SvetlanaTikhanovskaya, to stand for president...
"Since New Zealand closed its borders on March 19, the rate of COVID-19 infections globally has increased 50-fold, to more than 13 million confirmed cases worldwide.
All new arrivals to New Zealand have to spend 14 days in quarantine at government-managed hotels."
Ukraine denounces Apple for calling Crimea part of Russia in apps reut.rs/2KZ42qy
"Ukraine said on Wednesday Apple did not โgive a damnโ about its pain, after the U.S. tech giant began referring to the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russia in its Maps and Weather apps for Russian users."
"Russia and Ukraine have both been highly sensitive to...
...way global companies identify Crimea, since Russian troops seized the territory and Moscow annexed it after a referendum that Kiev and its Western allies say was illegal."
"Apple appeared to have changed the way it displays locations in Crimea in its software...
"From the beginning of the Trump presidency, it was clear to any observer that something about Trump is not the same as any other president or, indeed, as any mentally healthy person at all. From his seemingly pathological need to lie to his extreme narcissism, Trumpโs brain...
...obviously does not function like most of the rest of us"
"But most people chalked it up to simply having grown up in an extremely wealthy family, or the fact that he was given a huge amount of money by his father to start his own business career. Some even think it may be...
"Burros are federally protected under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. Anyone found guilty of capturing, branding, harassing or killing wild, free-roaming horses or burros could face a fine and jail time.
The total list of groups who have pledged money for the reward are:
The Platero Project: $32,500
The Humane Society of the United States: $2,500
Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue: $2,500
Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue: $2,500
Bureau of Land Management: $10,000
