It's Friday, March 18th. I'm Gideon Resinc.

And I'm Trevelle Anderson and this is what a day, we're not taking a position on the

debate over daylight savings to avoid offending either the moon or the sun.

Yes, we love these celestial bodies equally. Honestly, I wish they were both up at all times.

Listen, don't make us choose, please, and thank you.

Mm hmm. On today's show, the ongoing teacher strike in Minneapolis, plus President Biden

announced a new White House COVID-19 response coordinator.

But first, a quick update on the Russia Ukraine war. This is as of our recording last night

at 9.30 p.m. Eastern spoiler alert. Russia is still Russia-ing as their invasion of Ukraine

continues for a third week. We briefly mentioned on yesterday's show, the drama theater of

Maryopoul that was bombed by Russian air forces. That theater had been serving as a shelter

for up to 1300 people when it was bombed, according to one member of Ukraine's parliament,

Serhi Taruta. We still don't know the extent of casualties, but there was a makeshift bomb

shelter in the theater that seemed to hold at least 130 survivors were rescued from

the rubble yesterday. But the recovery process has been slow as shelling continues.

Serhi Taruta told a Ukrainian TV station, quote, people are clearing away the rubble themselves.

There is no rescue operation because all the services that are supposed to rescue people

to treat them, to bury them, these services no longer exist.

Russia, of course, is denying that it carried out any attack in Maryopoul. A spokeswoman

for Russia's foreign ministry said yesterday, quote, our armed forces don't bomb cities.

Everyone is well aware of this.

Yes, and neither of us host a morning news podcast either.

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