Hundreds of students criticized the appointment of the new rector due to his close ties with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party.
Daily Archives: January 4, 2021
Kelly Loeffler’s new Facebook ad darkens skin of Raphael Warnock, her Black opponent | Salon.com
Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., ran a paid Facebook ad last week that artificially darkened the skin color of her Democratic opponent, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is Black. In fact, the campaign used two of the same clips in their original form for another Facebook ad that ran the same day, but spent 10 times as much money boosting the version in which Warnock appeared darker. Source: Kelly Loeffler’s new Facebook ad darkens skin of Raphael Warnock, her Black opponent | Salon.com
Coronavirus tracker: California reported 22,141 new cases, 93 new deaths on Jan. 3 – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
California now has more than 22,000 people who have been hospitalized by the coronavirus.
What Kind of Feminist?

For a million dollars today, I couldn’t tell you what day it was. At least for the first hour or so.
I woke up thinking it’s Sunday. I should spend time in bed, reading. Slowly, tracing the happenings of the world, I realized it’s Monday. I should get up and check my work email. Get coffee ASAP.
I would’ve preferred reading. I love work, it keeps me centered, but there is this book I’ve started on. A far cry from my usual (mysteries and thrillers). This is a collection of essays by Roxane Gay titled, Bad Feminist.
Before I say more, I need to mention Roxane Gay’s biography, Huger, where she details some deep ways one can hunger – be it for food, love, acceptance, more love. How hungering is so dangerous, so painful – literally. How hungering, in all its forms, destroys, rebuilds, and destroys some…
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Too Insignificant
Obscured from the universe,
I’m holding up my fears,
Letting out cries
That no one will hear
My tear, just a drop
In the big, boundless sea
Flowing where it takes it
Until it’s unseen
Nobody can feel
What I feel deep down
Even the loudest of screams
Don’t seem to make a sound
They travel their way
Into the empty air
Till they go unheard,
Landing somewhere
Waking each day
Feeling all the same
Was the world this terrifying
Even before I came?
Would it even matter
If I faded away
The sun would still shine
To start off yet another day
In a cold infinite world
My tiny world is unseen
Where my quivering pain
Is only for me to feel…
This poem deals with existential dread- the fear that you are too small and too insignificant in an empty, cold and vast universe to be able to…
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Of Shooting Sunbeams
I watch sunbeams dance on a turquoise sea Alabaster clouds swirl round the golden sun The sunlight warms and invigorates me Watching tasseled shadows is so much fun. Alabaster clouds swirl round the golden sun Melting azure waves stretch out on the shore Meandering warm sands, naked toes burn On varnished sea shells, tales of ocean lore. Melting azure waves stretch out on the shore Lavender skies arch over beaming waves On zephyr's back sunning themselves birds soar In sun-lit sparkling seas fishes play. Lavender skies arch over beaming waves The sunlight warms and invigorates me In sun-lit sparkling seas fishes play I watch sunbeams dance on a turquoise sea. #Pantoum The pantoum is a poetic form derived from the pantun, a Malay form:specifically from the pantun berkait, a series of interwoven quartains.
CDC says Arizona has US’s highest rate of new COVID-19 infections | TheHill
Arizona is one of a handful of states that have been resistant to employ strict measures to control the virus. It does not have a mask mandate and remains largely devoid of restrictions on indoor dining, bars and nightclub activities that other states implemented months ago to slow COVID-19’s spread.
The state hit a record number of hospitalizations resulting from the virus last month, with more than 4,300 hospitalized across the state with coronavirus. Gov. Doug Ducey (R), briefly instituted stay-at-home measures last spring but declared as early as May that the state was “clearly on the other side of this pandemic” and relaxed those measures
Source: CDC says Arizona has US’s highest rate of new COVID-19 infections | TheHill
Peer-reviewed data show high protection for leading COVID vaccines | CIDRAP
The peer-reviewed data on both the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccines are in, demonstrating 94% to 95% protection from the disease. Source: Peer-reviewed data show high protection for leading COVID vaccines | CIDRAP
Lukashenko plotted to kill Sheremet yet Ukraine has charged people with no motive for his murder
Ukraine’s police have admitted that they knew of a taped conversation potentially linking the violent killing of Pavel Sheremet with the Belarusian KGB back in December 2020,
DeWine signs ‘stand your ground’ gun bill into law (Fool finds another way to kill needlessly)
(Someone you don’t know is jogging toward you and pulls a phone out to talk to his son or daughter… you think he may have pulled out a weapon, so you pull out your pistol; fire and kill him. DeWine is saying: “that’s ok” you killed him – because you claim that you thought your life was in danger)