By intensifying interaction with other #courts and rulers, Russian #diplomats became cultural brokers who contributed to the transfer of people, objects and ideas from Europe to Russia.
Petrova argues that the introduction of the European diplomatic rank system and ceremonial was aimed more at demonstrating the superiority of Russian rulers than at creating equal relations with other powers. (4/4)
#Transgender Care Coverage Policies in North Carolina and West Virginia Are Discriminatory, Court Rules
The states violated federal #law by banning coverage of certain treatments for transgender people but allowing it for others, according to a decision that could influence #courts around the country.
READ: Here is the entire transcript of Day Two (Tuesday, April 23) of Orange Thug’s New York City trial for falsifying business records in order to conceal the crime of election fraud in the 2016 presidential election, as released by the New York Courts website. https://tinyurl.com/4hk47ayu
Ugh, almost NONE of the important posts I’ve seen about the Arizona ruling were tagged with #arizona, let alone #courts, #abortion, or a number of other tags. Tags were never supposed to replace search. Not ever. Unless the fediverse—or at least Mastodon’s network—gets past this objection to global search, it’s never going to matter as much as we like to believe it should.