IMMEASURABLE IMPACT Observations from the comfort of Brooklyn Carrying on the ADW tradition of not actually being on the frontlines, these are some of the news and thoughts from smarter, braver people in Ukraine and elsewhere.
LOOK FOR THE HELPERS It seems like people always need a reminder that the first way to make a situation better is to not be a jerk. Russianspeaking neighbors and restaurant owners are not necessarily Russian let alone supporting President Putin. Meanwhile, Tinder and Airbnb played into the fight for Ukraine with catfish collecting intel and money going directly to residents of Ukraine.
TO STICK WITH THE LEGO MINI FIGURE SCALE, based on UN
data and my scale of 1 mini fig equals 317 humans, it would take 76 boards to represent the 4.3 million Ukrainians who have fled the country. It would take another 116 boards to represent the 6.5 million Ukrainians displaced within their own country. That’s like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, *and* Philadelphia completely evacuating in a month and a half.
DIPLOMATIC Historian Kimberly St. JulianVarnon explained on the Into America podcast how racism is everywhere but there are existing communities to plug into in Ukraine because of the work Chairman Vladimir Lenin did during the Great Depression and Jim Crow era to attract skilled workers and spur the Soviet Union’s industrialization. Seaside towns became favorite vacation spots for the likes of Langston Hughes because Soviet police enforced that the beach was for everyone. It’s the reason so many students chose to be in Ukraine before the attacks.
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OF COURSE I was not impressed by the use “I have a dream,” so it wasn’t shocking when Senator Murphy followed the above Tweet with another to name all the Republicans who voted against a bipartisan $12 billion aid package for Ukraine after holding a press conference to say President Biden isn’t doing enough: Risch, Sasse, Kennedy, Cruz, Marshall, Fischer, Lankford, Hoeven, and Sullivan.
FOLLOW Before NBC sent a dozen reporters to Ukraine, they called on Terrell Jermaine Starr.
