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The school board wars continue as the far-right seeks to take over schools to restrict content involving people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals and others to whom they object.

Such was the case with Nevada candidate John Carlo, who was filmed speaking at a church saying that the U.S. Constitution demands Americans procreate. He explained that because homosexuals can't give birth that they are unconstitutional. He did not address whether heterosexual couples who are unable to have children are also "unconstitutional" under his definition.

Last year, the Suez Canal was blocked when the Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, ran aground. It clogged commerce for six days. A year later, the exact same thing happened again with a ship from the Evergreen Marine Corporation, but this time it was in the Chesapeake Bay.

The ship, the Ever Forward, has sat for a month, stuck and delivery of the containers was delayed. According to The Guardian, the ship was freed on Sunday after two barges and five tugboats tried for a third time to pull the ship out of the bay. They'd worked on the effort before, removing 500 of the 5,000 containers hoping it would lighten the load and raise the ship from the bottom.

The View's Joy Behar noted that there was trouble in paradise on Fox News this week as prime-time hosts debated whether or not they should continue to support Dr. Mehmet Oz, running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican. Trump endorsed Oz, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday night that the doctor had a highly rated show, which translates into votes.

"He — I believe endorsed Oz, and, you know, I think that's, you know, that's probably not inconsequential for President Trump," said Laura Ingraham. "You wouldn't answer the question whether it was a mistake. I think it was a mistake to endorse Oz. I'll say it. I'm not afraid to say it. It was a mistake to endorse Oz."

A Tennessee Republican told fellow legislators that you've got to hand it to Adolf Hitler for overcoming homelessness.

State Sen. Frank Niceley, who recently said he'd "vote for [Donald] Trump as long as he lives," gave an impromptu history lesson during a hearing on unauthorized camping on public property, and he told lawmakers that the Nazi dictator had spent several years living on the streets as a young man in Vienna, Austria.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) released the right-wing "Plan to Rescue America" that he intended as a winning message ahead of the midterm elections, but voters are hostile to the GOP vision for America.

Even fellow Republicans are bashing his requirement for poor people to pay income taxes, and Democrats have been running ads against the proposal that even Scott has found difficult to justify, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has found strong opposition to other proposal that would end popular federal programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, reported NBC News.

"The View" discussed the recent comments by former Vice President Mike Pence that he would say "I love you," if his son came out as gay. According to former Pence staffer Alyssa Farrah, she thinks he "is coming around" when it comes to LGBTQ rights.

"I advised a number of Republicans, and one issue that I have -- or two issues I've told them across the board, you will lose the younger generation if you do not come around on marriage equality and climate change," said Farrah. "The country's mind is made up. I'm someone who believes you can believe what you want in your church. I'm Episcopalian. I have certain beliefs in my church, but it is the law of the land you can marry who you love, and it's a good thing. And I see a little bit — I watch that clip and I think Mike Pence might be coming around a little bit."

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp faced conspiracy-minded hecklers at a Republican Party event.

The GOP governor lost his patience with a group of critics sitting at a handful of tables at the Fulton County Republican Party meeting Saturday, and he pushed back on their shouted conspiracy theories about Donald Trump's election loss in the state, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

A Washington Post reporter has become the latest victim of Russian President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on negative media reports about him.

According to a report from the Post, Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has traveled around the world criticizing Putin, was arrested after appearing on CNN where he predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine would result in Putin's downfall.

Russian propaganda outlets see Donald Trump as their "partner," and they're hoping he runs again for president.

Julia Davis, who monitors Russian media and publishes columns for The Daily Beast, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Russian propaganda and Fox News programming are pushing similar divisive messages as Kremlin troops punish Ukraine.

One of Vladimir Putin's greatest enemies predicted a grim endgame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Bill Browder, an American investor and one of the world's most prominent Putin critics, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the Russian president had risked everything on the invasion, which made it impossible for him to give up despite his army's losses.

A historian who's publishing a record of Donald Trump's presidency believes he will make another run for the White House.

Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer, the editor of the forthcoming book The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was was contacted by the former president, who had read about his work and wanted to correct the record with his own version of reality.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the only justice in the entire history of the High Court that has taken a photo with a political campaign candidate.

Herschel Walker, who is running for U.S. Senate as a Republican in Georgia, posted a photo of himself with Thomas, which MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is the only one to have posed for such a photo. O'Donnell said that his research team looked for photos throughout history and that only once has a justice done such a photo and is using it for his political campaign.