Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.07.22

* Pressure mounts as Russia's actions in Ukraine labeled genocidal. [CNN] * Freedom or free doom? Wind energy can be a life or death reality for bald eagles and other birds. Bet they'll be safer once each death costs the company about $30k. [NPR] * Handsy cop quietly gets his job back. Don't worry, not in the Cuomo way. Just the Ike way. That's apparently acceptable for the force. [Vice] * Just change the words a little: Ohio copies Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill. [Dispatch] * It is no longer illegal to braid hair in Idaho without a cosmetology license. In other news, it was once illegal to braid hair in Idaho without a cosmetology license. [Forbes]

Unity March Held In Kyiv As Russian Military Invasion Seems Imminent

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* Pressure mounts as Russia’s actions in Ukraine labeled genocidal. [CNN]

* Freedom or free doom? Wind energy can be a life or death reality for bald eagles and other birds. Bet they’ll be safer once each death costs the company about $30k. [NPR]

* Handsy cop quietly gets his job back. Don’t worry, not in the Cuomo way. Just the Ike way. That’s apparently acceptable for the force. [Vice]

* Just change the words a little: Ohio copies Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. [Dispatch]

* It is no longer illegal to braid hair in Idaho without a cosmetology license. In other news, it was once illegal to braid hair in Idaho without a cosmetology license. [Forbes]


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