Self-described white nationalist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer - who has joined Trump's entourage during his campaign - spoke at the white supremacist 'American Renaissance' conference in 2022.

American Renaissance helped launch the careers of many neo-Nazis that would go on to organize the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Holocaust deniers and white supremacists like Nick Fuentes are regular speakers.

At the heart of the American Renaissance project - led by Jared Taylor - is the belief that Black people are subhuman and "destroy civilizations." There's should be no surprise that Loomer's playbook is pushing anti-Black racist conspiracy theories.

"At the center of the Alt-Right is anti-black racism; based around a narrative masquerading as ideology built on fact that black people are genetically and mentally inferior to whites, that they destroy “white” civilizations that they come into contact with, and that they are prone to not only anti-social crime but also attacks specifically on white people. These claims are built upon decades of pseudoscience as well as the totalized entrenched fears of slave owners, police officers, and captains of industry that a revolt from the bottom would abolish the established racial caste system that America is founded upon, ultimately laying waste to the ability of power and capital to dominate and control."

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More than 100 Ukrainians released in prisoner-of-war swap with Russia

Exchange of military personnel took place as Ukraine called again on west to allow use of long-range weapons.

The prisoner swap on Saturday, mediated by the United Arab Emirates,
involved 206 military personnel from both countries.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that of the 103 Ukrainian “warriors” who were released,
82 were soldiers and privates and 21 were officers,
including police officers and border guards.

Later, he said that his forces’ incursion into Kursk had helped bring about the prisoner exchange.

In his nightly video address Zelenskiy thanked his forces for their work on the prisoner exchanges, and added:

“In particular, our operation in the Kursk region gave a necessary boost.”

Photographers captured the moment that the smiling and emotional Ukrainians, wrapped in their country’s flag, embraced their fellow soldiers after being swapped at an unknown location in Ukraine.

They looked pale and thin, and all of the men released had shaved heads.

One kneeled on the ground, his national flag draped around his shoulders, and stared down at his homeland as he made an emotional phone call.

In return for their freedom, Ukraine has handed over 103 Russian military personnel taken prisoner in the Kursk border region when Ukrainian forces launched a surprise incursion in August.

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