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Special counsel Robert Mueller has charged an attorney for making false statements to the FBI and his office, which is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Alex Van Der Zwaan was charged Feb. 16 with “willfully and knowingly making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to both the special counsel’s office and FBI investigators.
Are boys ‘broken’? Another mass shooting renews debate on toxic masculinity (USA Today)
After 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz was accused of gunning down 17 people at a Florida high school last week, comedian Michael Ian Black started a thread on Twitter that sparked a vitriolic debate about the role of gender in gun violence. It began with the tweet, “Deeper even than the gun problem is this: boys are broken.”
Black’s tweet has been liked nearly 65,000 times. In an interview with NPR on Sunday, he elaborated.
“I think it means that there is something going on with American men that is giving them the permission and space to commit violence,” he said. “And one of the main things we focus on correctly is guns and mental health, but I think deeper than that is a problem, a crisis in masculinity.”
Many people on Twitter praised Black for his take. [Read More]
There are now six D.C. Councilmembers who are calling for the resignation of D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson after it was revealed that he bypassed the District’s school lottery system to secure a transfer
for his own child to a highly sought after educational institution.
Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie joined Councilmembers Elissa Silverman, Charles Allen, Mary Cheh, Robert White and Councilman and former Mayor Vincent Gray in calling for Wilson to step aside. [Read More]
W. Va. teachers prepping for strike make sure empty classrooms won’t mean hungry students (WJLA)
Schools in West Virginia are bracing for a walk-out.
Teachers across the state are threatening to strike this Thursday and Friday in a dispute over wages and insurance premiums. [Read More]
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