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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

The thing is about sweets: you won’t eat just one – I’d rather stay home

De dulces va la cosa: no te comerás solo uno Source: The thing is about sweets: you won’t eat just one – I’d rather stay home

Kyiv war diary: waiting for spring | openDemocracy

…Now I am back in Kyiv. My husband and I returned home after leaving my son with his grandparents in Western Ukraine. We’d hoped that Ivano-Frankivsk, my hometown, would be a safe haven, but the Russians have recently been firing cruise missiles at the city’s airport. By now, all Ukrainians understand that there are no safe places left for us any more.

My husband and I are journalists, and we try to keep doing our jobs. But in a city under siege, we also do anything we can – anything that friends or strangers ask for. We give people lifts to the train station, because public transport is virtually defunct. We bring food to bomb shelters. We water plants. We feed fish whose owners have fled. We search for blood pressure pills for elderly neighbours…

 

Source: Kyiv war diary: waiting for spring | openDemocracy

Confirmation Hearing Or Political Circus?

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Who could have seen it coming, eh? Yesterday was day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. She answered questions for the better part of twelve hours … heck, five minutes of talking does me in. I have no doubt that Ms. Jackson wished, on more than one occasion, that she could fire back at some of the questions she was asked, but to her credit, she proceeded with dignity and respect, only letting out the occasional sigh to indicate a bit of frustration.

Barring some dramatic revelation that I cannot foresee, I strongly believe that Ms. Jackson will, indeed, become the next Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. I even think a few of the more … shall we say ‘honest’ Republicans … will vote to confirm her … perhaps Senator Collins of Maine, Senator Murkowski of Alaska, and Senator Romney of Utah…

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