🇺🇦 Ukrainian activists fear fatigue | Morning Newsletter
And a surge of voter registrations post-Roe v. Wade.
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In today’s newsletter:
🗳️ A surge in voter registrations: Women in Pennsylvania flocked to register after the Roe v. Wade reversal.
🇺🇦 Ukraine solidarity: Six months after the Russian invasion, Philly activists are still pushing forward.
⚽ The oldest soccer club: A new FX documentary series will document Rob McElhenney’s early days of becoming an owner of Wrexham AFC.
— Taylor Allen (@TayImanAllen, morningnewsletter@inquirer.com)
It’s been six months since Russia invaded Ukraine.
There have been some headlines still popping up about the small country — such as President Volodymyr Zelensky getting the Liberty Medal — but it’s nowhere near the amount of coverage earlier this year.
Activists defending Ukraine feel the attention on the war losing steam. Time moved on and people are preoccupied with other headline-grabbing news, such as rising food costs and supply-chain failures that create shortages of everything from cars to baby formula.
“My husband came home from work, and somebody had asked him, ‘Is the war over?’ Because he hadn’t heard anything about it,” said Olha Dishchuk, a Huntingdon Valley nurse who volunteers in Ukrainian causes. “That really hurt.”
The war was expected to end quickly but has dragged on. Some call it Ukraine fatigue, or the drain of navigating an era in which a stream of tumultuous historic events can make a war in Europe feel like just one of the day’s news stories.
Reporter Jeff Gammage interviews advocates on what’s next to reignite interest.
What you should know today
A former Philadelphia restaurant server was ordered to pay $84 million to four citizens of Liberia for leading a massacre that resulted in 600 civilian deaths during the country’s first civil war.
Philadelphia should get more than 16,000 additional doses of the monkeypox vaccine by the end of September.
Actor Gary Busey allegedly groped three people at a Cherry Hill convention and then tried to persuade police officers to tell victims not to report what happened.
Expect delays as alternating directions of I-76 will close overnight on the Schuylkill Expressway in Center City.
Developer Iron Stone Real Estate Partners is proposing to build more than 1,200 apartments in West Philly.
Anthony Fauci announced he will leave the federal government in December after five decades.
Local coronavirus numbers: Here’s your daily look at the latest COVID-19 data.
Thousands of women across Pennsylvania and the country registered to vote since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Important numbers:
Women outpaced men by about 12 percentage points in new registrations since June.
Of the women who registered since June, 62% registered as Democrats and 15% as Republicans.
More than half of these women are younger than 25.
That may sound like good news for Democrats, but the tens of thousands of new voters will make up a small percentage of the state’s nearly 8.8 million registered voters. Also, registration numbers alone can be misleading because Democrats have held a significant margin over Republicans in voter registrations for a while.
The state is more evenly split when it comes time to actually vote.
Reporters Julia Terruso and Jonathan Lai uncover what the surge of enthusiasm could mean for the upcoming November elections.
🧠 Philly Trivia Time 🧠
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney bought the world’s oldest soccer club, Wrexham AFC in February of last year. The new FX documentary series Welcome to Wrexham documents his early days as team owner.
Question: Whom did McElhenney buy the team with?
A. Ryan Reynolds
B. Charlie Day
C. Kaitlin Olson
D. None of the above
Find out if you know the answer.
What We’re …
📰 Reading: This revelation that some people actually feel bad for lanternflies. Couldn’t be me.
📺 Watching: House of the Dragon. I saw the first episode Sunday evening and as a former Game of Thrones fan … I’m skeptical of the storytelling (so far). I will give it points for an entertaining pilot.
❗ Sharing: A quick tip. Throw out that Peco notification saying your bill is overdue. It was a mistake.
🧩 Unscramble the Anagram 🧩
Hint: Philly’s lifeguard grandma
LONNARD ROOBBIE
Think you know? Send your guess our way at morningnewsletter@inquirer.com. We’ll give a shout-out to a reader at random who answers correctly. Today’s shout-out goes to Rick Brasch from Somerton who correctly guessed Somebody Feed Phil as Monday’s answer.
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Well, that’s your Tuesday. I’m off to eat a simple breakfast: toast, butter and jelly 🍞. As always, thank you for starting your day with The Inquirer.