| | | | | | | Presented By Facebook | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen ·Apr 04, 2022 | | Hello, Monday. Today's Smart Brevity™ count: 1,457 words ... 5½ mins. Edited by Zachary Basu. 💰 Happening today: Launch of Axios Crypto, a new daily newsletter by Brady Dale, tracking the rise, role and regulation of virtual money. Sign up here. 🔮 Happening tomorrow: Our debut What's Next Summit — top thinkers and doers on "Electric Everything" + future of cities, work, money, tech. Register to watch. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Haunting satellite view |  | | | Satellite image: ©2022 Maxar Technologies | | | | The haunting scenes from Bucha, Ukraine — reminiscent of the Srebrenica massacre during the 1990s war in Bosnia — have triggered calls for a renewed, no-holds-barred Western response. - The searing images have also sparked fears about the horrors yet to be uncovered in other areas of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces, including the besieged port city of Mariupol, Axios national security reporter Zachary Basu writes.
The satellite view above shows an apparent mass grave on the grounds of a church in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, Maxar Technologies says. - The first signs of excavation were seen on March 10. This view, from last Wednesday, shows a 45-foot-long trench, according to Maxar.
Reuters journalists who visited Bucha on Saturday said a mass grave at a church was still open, with hands and feet poking through red clay heaped on top. - It wasn't clear if this was the same church shown by Maxar, Reuters said.
👀 What to watch: The European Union said it will begin urgently working on a fifth package of sanctions this week. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki demanded an emergency summit to address what he called "a crime of genocide." - French President Emmanuel Macron said there are "very clear indications of war crimes," and backed sanctions on Russia's oil and coal industry.
- Germany's defense minister said cutting off Russian gas — the mother-of-all sanctions — should be on the table, but divisions in Berlin and the re-election of Putin ally Viktor Orbán in Hungary yesterday may make that impossible.
Human Rights Watch released a report yesterday documenting cases of rape, looting and summary executions in Russian-occupied areas of the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions. |     | | | | | | 2. Zelensky to Grammys: "Fill the silence with your music" | | Photo: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images In a pre-recorded video shown at the Grammy Awards last night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Americans from a bunker in Kyiv to "support us in any way you can. Any — but not silence." - Zelensky's speech was powerful and somber, comparing the sound of music to the bitter sounds of war, Axios Media Trends author Sara Fischer writes.
"The war. What is more opposite to music? The silence of ruined cities and killed people. Our children draw swooping rockets, not shooting stars," he told the celebrities at the awards night in Vegas. - "Our musicians wear body armor instead of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded, in hospitals. Even to those who can't hear them. But the music will break through anyway. We defend our freedom. To live, to love. To sound."
- "On our land, we are fighting Russia, which brings horrible silence with its bombs. The dead silence. Fill the silence with your music! Fill it today. To tell our story. Tell the truth about the war on your social networks, on TV."
Zelensky's video was introduced by host Trevor Noah. - Afterward, John Legend sang his ballad "Free," in a performance featuring Ukrainian singer Mika Newton, Ukrainian bandura player Siuzanna Iglidan and Ukrainian poet Lyuba Yakimchuk.
Watch a video. | | | | | | | | 3. Jamie Dimon letter: "Challenges at every turn" | Jamie Dimon talks with Sagid Mohamed (left) and Roshard Hercules at Dunbar High School in D.C. in December, at the launch of The Fellowship Initiative. Photo: Kevin Wolf/AP Images for JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon writes in his annual letter to shareholders, which is closely read on Wall Street, that consequences of the war in Ukraine could affect the world for decades. "America and the rest of the world are facing the confluence of three important and conflicting forces," Dimon writes: - "a strong U.S. economy, which, we hope, has COVID-19 in its rearview mirror."
- "high inflation, which means rising interest rates and, importantly, the reversal of quantitative easing (QE)."
- "the war in Ukraine and the accompanying humanitarian crisis, with its impact on the global economy in the short term, as well as its significant impact on the geopolitics of the future."
"These factors will likely have a meaningful effect on the economy over the next few years and on geopolitics for the next several decades," Dimon continues. - "The war in Ukraine and the sanctions on Russia, at a minimum, will slow the global economy — and it could easily get worse."
The bottom line: "We are facing challenges at every turn: a pandemic, unprecedented government actions, a strong recovery after a sharp and deep global recession, a highly polarized U.S. election, mounting inflation, a war in Ukraine and dramatic economic sanctions against Russia," Dimon adds. | | | | | | | | A message from Facebook | | Facebook has invested $16 billion to keep you safe on our platform | | |  | | | | Facebook invested $16B in safety and security over 6 years. The impact? - Quadrupled safety and security teams.
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Learn what's next. | | | | | | 4. Mapped: Women rule the West |  Reproduced from CAWP. Map: Axios Visuals Axios Local newsletters are featuring this analysis by the Center for American Women and Politics, at Rutgers: - In 2021, in cities with populations of 10,000+, women held 31.5% of municipal offices, including city councils, boards of aldermen, etc.
Interactive version: See the data for your state ... Sign up for an Axios Local newsletter near you. | | | | | | | | 5. Deep read: Activists prepare for post-Roe future |  | | | Cover: The Atlantic | | | | "A sprawling grassroots infrastructure" is springing up across America because of fears the Supreme Court will roll back Roe, Jessica Bruder, author of "Nomadland," writes in "The Abortion Underground," in the May issue of The Atlantic. More than 90 local organizations known as abortion funds raise money to pay for procedures and related expenses. Practical-support groups offer rides to medical facilities, along with housing, child care, and translation services. Clinic escorts guide patients past throngs of angry protesters. Doctors and other abortion providers travel hundreds of miles to work in underserved areas ... Keep reading. | | | | | | | | 6. 🎞️ Axios interview: Ken Burns on tonight's Ben Franklin film | Oil on canvas: Benjamin West, "American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Negotiations with Great Britain," 1783, in the collection of Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, in Delaware. Left to right: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens and William Temple Franklin. A new Ken Burns documentary, "Benjamin Franklin," premieres tonight and tomorrow night at 8/7c on PBS. The two parts run a total of four hours. I interviewed Burns from his farmhouse in Walpole, N.H.: "He's on the hundred-dollar bill for a reason," Burns said. "He has represented to nearly every generation of Americans since our founding a sort of striving — of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, a kind of libertarian view of how you advance in America, this poor kid from Boston who makes it." - "What's missing from that portrait [are] some significant flaws on his part, and his attempt to address those flaws all his life."
"He's the greatest American inventor of the 18th century, and he didn't hold any patents. He felt that these were for the common good." - "He creates this collection of leather-apron guys — kind of middle class, which he thinks is the backbone of America, and they get together for civil discourse about all ranges of questions. He starts the first free lending library. He starts the first philosophical society in the United States. He controls all the social media, right?"
- "And all of it is built on Socratic questions. First to yourself: How do I improve myself? And then to society: How do we make it better?"
"Decades before the revolution," Burns continued, "he understands that there is this new thing that he perceives — a unified, united states. ... No him? No us — no U.S." - "He is an arc. ... And his greatest invention is himself. He's always into self-improvement. He always is measuring himself."
Burns tells that story with, of course, no footage or photographs of his subjects. | | | | | | | | 7. ⛳ 1,000 words | | Photo: Rob Schumacher/USA Today Sports Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods hits balls yesterday at the practice facility at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. - He hasn't decided yet whether to play in the Masters, which begins Thursday — just over 13 months since the car crash that damaged Woods' right leg so badly he said doctors considered amputation.
Why it matters: It would be a comeback unlike any other, AP's Doug Ferguson writes. | | | | | | | | 8. 🏀 Madness ends tonight | | Photo: Ben Solomon/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Destanni Henderson (above), South Carolina's 5-foot-7 point guard, helped bury UConn 64-49 at the women's March Madness championship game in Minneapolis last night. - Henderson finished with a career-high 26 points — helping her Gamecocks end the Huskies' streak in title games. —AP
Behind the scenes with the champions. Graphic: Axios Visuals Five months of basketball culminate tonight in New Orleans: The Tar Heels' six titles rank third behind UCLA (11) and Kentucky (8). A UNC win will match 1985 Villanova as the lowest seed to win it all. - The Jayhawks' three titles are tied with Villanova for seventh-most ever, one behind UConn.
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