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Bloc can tackle? ECOWAS and Niger’s coup

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The American Economic Lucian and Sex Education Program Is Normalizing the Recreational Sex

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Moms for Liberty started off campaigning against mass mandates during the pandemic. Now their main crusade is to remove mentions of LGBTQ rights, critical race theory and gender ideology from school books. For boys, they're teaching how to put your entire hand inside your body. This is not sex education. We want to normalize to our children everything that is not good.

The Economic Community of West African States may yet try to restore President Mohamed Bazoum militarily. Either way, Niger’s status as a bulwark against jihadism is threatened. America’s Republican hopefuls are courting Moms for Liberty, a pressure group with some outlandish ideas; we meet a few of them (10:51). And the design principles of a good flag (19:33).

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