Monthly Archives: August 2023
Havana day-by-day – Havana Veja by street (Day 8)
☘ Peanuts Strip – 10°-08-’23
Florida Schools Try to Adapt to New Rules on Gender, Bathrooms and Pronouns – The New York Times
As schools start, it’s been more paperwork, a culling of reading lists, as well as new regulations about bathrooms.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/florida-schools-rules-transgender-pronouns.html
Galveston County trial probes efforts to undo Black and Latino voting power | The Texas Tribune
The coastal county faces a drawn-out trial over claims of intentional discrimination in its 2021 redistricting of commissioners court precincts. The only district in which Black and Latino voters could meaningfully influence elections was dismantled.
— Read on www.texastribune.org/2023/08/10/galveston-voting-rights-trial-redistricting/
Data shows Texas troopers routinely stopping people of color in Austin | The Texas Tribune
More than 8 in 10 people charged by state troopers since they began helping Austin police have been people of color. In Southeast Austin, a neighborhood president calls it “outright racial profiling.”
— Read on www.texastribune.org/2023/08/10/texas-austin-dps-state-troopers-police-communities-color/
Serbian ruling party troll farm leak revealed identities of over 14,500 ‘bots’ · Global Voices
Vidaković stated that he paid EUR 15,000 (approximately USD 16,540) for the list, with money collected from the Serbian diaspora.
— Read on globalvoices.org/2023/08/10/serbian-ruling-party-troll-farm-leak-revealed-identities-of-over-14500-bots/
Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD) | Open Culture
It isn’t easy to say which book is the oldest in the world, because the answer depends on what, exactly qualifies as a book. Open Culture, openculture.com
— Read on www.openculture.com/2023/08/discover-the-buddhist-diamond-sutra-the-worlds-oldest-surviving-complete-printed-book-868-ad.html
Florida’s Black history standards, explained – Vox
Even after receiving backlash from fellow Republicans,Ron DeSantis is tripling down on the state’s new controversial Black history standards.
— Read on www.vox.com/politics/2023/8/10/23825778/florida-black-history-standards-ron-desantis
Hawaii fires: At least 36 killed as flames tear through Maui island – BBC News
Thousands of people have evacuated their homes and a state of emergency has been declared.
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66460401
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