A lesson I wish I had learned earlier in life – Anita Bacha

Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

To trust myself

Source: A lesson I wish I had learned earlier in life – Anita Bacha

Jamelle Bouie: JD Vance Should Resign in Shame! | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Despite the debunking of the story about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, despite the story becoming a national joke, JD Vance continues to peddle it. Vance is a senator from Ohio, meaning that he is hurling insults at people he supposedly represents.

Jamelle Bouie is a regular columnist for the New York Times.

If Senator JD Vance of Ohio had a moral compass, a shred of decency or a belief in anything other than his own ambition and will-to-power, he would resign his Senate seat effective immediately, leave the presidential race and retire from public life, following a mournful apology for his ethical transgressions.

As it stands, Vance has done none of the above, which is why he is still, as of today, using his position in the United States Senate and on the Republican Party presidential ticket to spread lies and smears against his own constituents in Springfield — Haitian immigrants who have settled there to make a new life for themselves.

The main impact of those lies and smears — which began Monday when Vance told his followers on X that “reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country,” and continued Tuesday when Donald Trump told an audience of 67 million people that “they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats” — has been to terrorize the entire Springfield community.

On Thursday, bomb threats led to the evacuation of two elementary schools, city hall and the state motor vehicle agency’s local facility. The mayor has received threats to his office, and local families fear for the safety of their children. Several Springfield residents, including Nathan Clark — father of Aiden Clark, the 11-year-old killed when his school bus was struck by a minivan driven by a Haitian immigrant — have pleaded with Trump and Vance to end their attacks and leave the community in peace…

Source: Jamelle Bouie: JD Vance Should Resign in Shame! | Diane Ravitch’s blog

La crisis climática acelera el deshielo en Groenlandia: en 2019 se fundió el equivalente a 224 millones de piscinas olímpicas

La crisis climática está acelerando el deshielo en Groenlandia de forma alarmante y solo en 2019 se fundieron 560 gigatoneladas de hielo, lo que …

La crisis climática acelera el deshielo en Groenlandia: en 2019 se fundió el equivalente a 224 millones de piscinas olímpicas