Twelve Senate Democrats voted to end the US Covid emergency law.

This would prevent Biden from suspending repayment of student loans. It could also kick millions of Americans off medicaid. Right-wingers would in general like poor people to die.

About abother woman who almost died from getting pregnant while living in Texas.

The Ukrainian soldiers and border guards on Snake Island, who told the Moskva, "Russian warship, go fuck yourself," were captured. The Putin forces gave Ukraine no word about them and Ukraine believed they were dead. In fact, they were imprisoned, and tortured, but not killed.

One, Bohdan Hotskiy, was eventually swapped for a Russian prisoner of war, which is how we know how he was tortured. The rest remain prisoners, as far as I can tell from this article.

Republican operative Senator Manchin is making sure the Democrats cannot eliminate the debt ceiling this year, and thus ensuring the Republicans can use it for blackmail next year.

A terrorist bombing took place in Istanbul, targeting civilians. Turkey blamed the Kurdish militant group PKK, and the Syrian Kurds, but the PKK says that it does not approve of attacking civilians and had nothing to do with it.