🇺🇸 Conservative PACs inject millions into local school races

As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing number of conservative political action groups are targeting their efforts closer to home: at local school boards. Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against what they see as a liberal tide in public education classrooms, libraries, sports fields, even building plans.

School board elections started to heat up last year as parents aired frustrations with pandemic policies. As those issues fade, right-leaning groups are spending millions on candidates who promise to scale back teachings on race and sexuality, remove offending books from libraries and nix plans for gender-neutral bathrooms or transgender-inclusive sports teams.

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‼️ Biden says there will be consequences for Saudi Arabia after recent OPEC+ decision.

📹The Russian Ministry of Defense has published footage showing Russian SU-25 aircraft in combat.

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⚡️An air alert has been activated in Kiev, local authorities say.

⚡️Ukrainian media report the sounds of explosions in the Nikolaev region.

⚡️An explosive device has been detonated at the main entrance to the central market in Melitopol; there are no casualties, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

📹🚀Have a look at Falcon 9’s launch and landing from the view of the droneship

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⚡️Main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, its head is behind of the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge - FSB

⚡️A leak was detected on Tuesday evening on one of the two strings of the Druzhba Oil pipeline in Poland, the main route for oil supplies to Germany, according to Pern (Poland's leading company in crude and fuel logistics).

‼️The FSB’s full statement about the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge:

▪️The organizer was the Main intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, its head Kirill Budanov, employees and agents;

▪️The bomb was camouflaged in rolls with construction polyethylene film on 22 pallets with a total weight of 22.77 metric tons and in early August was shipped from the port of Odessa to Ruse, Bulgaria under contract No. 02/08/2022 between Translogistic UA LLC (Kiev) and Baltex Capital S.A. (Ruse);

▪️Citizens of Ukraine Mikhail Vladimirovich Tsyurkalo, Denis Olegovich Kovach and Roman Ivanovich Solomko , Georgian citizens Sandro Inosaridze and a broker named Levan, and Armenian citizen Artur Terchanyan were involved in organizing the shipment of cargo from Bulgaria to the port of Poti (Georgia), and then to Armenia;

▪️From September 29 to October 3 in Yerevan at the Transalliance terminal, the cargo was cleared according to the rules of the (EAEU), documents were substituted, after which its sender was already GU AR JI GROUP LLC (Armenia, Alaverdi city), and the recipient was Leader LLC (Moscow);

▪️On October 4, the cargo crossed the Russian-Georgian border via Verkhny Lars on a DAF truck registered in Georgia and was delivered and unloaded at the Armavir wholesale base in Krasnodar Territory on October 6;

▪️On October 7, with the assistance of Solomko, a citizen of Ukraine, Vladimir Vasilyevich Zloba (1987), and five established citizens of Russia, the documents for the cargo were changed again, the sender indicated LLC TEK-34 (Ulyanovsk), and the recipient was a non-existent company in Crimea;

▪️On the same day, the pallets were loaded into the truck of Russian citizen Mahir Yusubov, who left for Simferopol, and on October 8 at 06:03 a.m., while following the Crimean Bridge, an explosion was carried out;

▪️Control over the movement of cargo along the entire route and contacts with participants in the criminal scheme were carried out by an employee of the GUR of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, who presented himself as Ivan Ivanovich, who used both a virtual anonymous number purchased on the Internet and registered to a citizen of Ukraine, Sergey Vladimirovich Andreichenko, from Kremenchuk for coordination;

▪️Five citizens of Russia and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia who participated in the preparation of the crime have been detained;

▪️The investigation is ongoing, all organizers and accomplices, including foreigners, will be brought to justice in accordance with Russian law.

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⚡️Russia's FSB foiled the preparation by the Ukrainian special services of a sabotage and terrorist act at one of the transport and logistics terminals in Bryansk.

A citizen of Ukraine was detained, who, at the instruction of the Ukrainian Security Service, arrived from Kiev in transit through Estonia, and a device he'd made using the warhead of an anti-tank guided missile with an explosive power of about 3 kg in TNT equivalent was seized.

📹Footage showing the arrest of the suspect during the preparation of a terrorist attack on a logistics terminal in Bryansk

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⚡️Terrorist attacks with Igla MANPADS prepared by Ukraine in the Moscow region were foiled, and an agent of Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) was detained, Russia’s FSB reports. What exactly was supposed to be blown up with "Igla" has not yet been disclosed.

⚡️An air alert has been announced in the center and in the south of Ukraine, including Odessa, local media reports.

📹Russia’s FSB has published a video of the arrest of the SBU agent during the preparation of a terrorist attack in the Moscow region.

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⚡️An official car of the Azerbaijani Embassy has been fired upon at in Washington, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry says

📹Russia’s MoD has published footage showing a 2S4 Tyulpan self-propelled mortar crew in combat.

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