कांटे / Thorns  – Kaushal Kishore

 

उलझे रहते हैं, 

कांटे अपने कांटों में ही,

लेकिन एक फूल जब 

आ जाता है उनके बीच,

तो कांटें भी निखर उठते हैं…

🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹

Thorns remain

entangled in the thorns,

but when

a flower joins them,

they too embrace beauty…

*

–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: कांटे / Thorns  – Kaushal Kishore

Tories warn Rishi Sunak that his Rwanda plan ‘will never be law’ | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

Senior Tories from across the party are warning that Rishi Sunak’s emergency Rwanda plan will never become law in its current form, ahead of the most critical vote of his premiership.

Liberal Tories confirmed last night that, despite their desire to back the PM against the right, “serious concerns” remain about the plan and more reassurances will be required. Meanwhile, a self-styled “star chamber” of legal figures examining the proposals for the Tory right is understood to have found problems that are “extremely difficult to resolve”.

It means that, despite Tory whips believing they will have enough support to win the first vote over the proposals on Tuesday, there is nervousness among moderate Tories that Sunak is set on a course that has united his opponents and will ultimately imperil his leadership. “This is a bit like Brexit in the sense that it will have the effect of drawing the whole of the right together,” one influential figure on the right said. “It is the uniting of the right.”…

Source: Tories warn Rishi Sunak that his Rwanda plan ‘will never be law’ | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

A Tale Of Two States | Filosofa’s Word

Back in 1980, Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich told a group of Republicans working on the Reagan campaign …

“Now many of our Christians have what I call the ‘goo-goo syndrome.’ Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Today, it seems that many, especially in the Republican Party, live by his creed of reducing the number of voters to leverage elections, and they have pulled many a stunt toward that end, such as gerrymandering; strict voter ID laws; shuttering polling places in predominantly Black, Hispanic and poor neighborhoods; disallowing postal voting in some states; and other laws that make it harder for people to register and to vote…

Source: A Tale Of Two States | Filosofa’s Word

(Wisconsin and Michigan)