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COVID Is Spiking in Florida and Mississippi. Their GOP Governors Are Waging War Against Masks. – Mother Jones

On Saturday, Florida recorded 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, breaking its one-day record for new cases. But even as the state swells with fresh infections, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis remains hellbent on his war against mask mandates. He even recently barred school districts from instituting mask mandates when classes reconvene in August.

DeSantis feels so good about his war on masks, he’s even laughing about it. “Did you not get the CDC’s memo?” DeSantis joked to a largely maskless crowd at a conference for the American Legislative Exchange Council in Utah last week, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated guidelines recommending mask-wearing amid the surge of the Delta variant. “I don’t see you complying.”

He continued, prompting applause, “I think it’s very important that we say unequivocally, ‘No to lockdowns, no to school closures, no to restrictions, and no mandates.’ Floridians are free to choose and all Americans should be free to choose how they govern their affairs, how they take care of themselves and our families.”

 

Source: COVID Is Spiking in Florida and Mississippi. Their GOP Governors Are Waging War Against Masks. – Mother Jones

Puppies and Dragons #raising a dragon in the 21st century — Dragon Tails and Scales

penned in moon dust

“Mommy, mommy I saw the cutest puppy when I was visiting Cheria today.” “I love puppies. Did Cheria get a new puppy?” “No. They got an adult dog at the rescue place. The people there were excited when I signed up to take a puppy home. Did I mention he really needs a home?” “Emily, […]

Puppies and Dragons #raising a dragon in the 21st century — Dragon Tails and Scales

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Preocupan las generaciones de la hora contemporánea

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Entristece y preocupa que las generaciones de la hora contemporánea -niños, adolescentes y jóvenes, específicamente- coexistan en un ambiente intoxicado, con exceso de maldad y de violencia, ausente de bien y de sentimientos nobles, entre la irracionalidad, el miedo, la intolerancia, la superficialidad, las enfermedades y la mediocridad, con listas de ausencias por las muertes que interrumpen vidas, proyectos, alegrías. Mortifica que se acostumbren al mal y no al bien, a la enfermedad y no a la salud, a los barrotes y a las cadenas y no a las alas y a los aires de la libertad, a la agresividad y al odio y no al amor, al antagonismo entre opuestos y no a la armonía y al respeto, a las tristezas y no a la felicidad, a la guerra y no a la paz, a las carencias y…

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Anger as Poland plans law that will stop Jews reclaiming wartime homes | Holocaust | The Guardian

In the coming weeks, a new law is expected to pass its final stages in the Polish parliament that will set a 30-year time limit on legal challenges over confiscated properties, in effect axing thousnds of claims.

The Polish government has said the new regulations are aimed at preventing fraud and “irregularities”. It has also said it is “not responsible for the Holocaust, an atrocity committed by the German [occupiers]”. But many other countries – including the UK, Israel and the US – have sharply criticised the move.

Israel’s foreign ministry said: “This is not a historical debate about responsibility for the Holocaust but a moral debt of Poland to those who were its citizens and whose property was looted during the Holocaust and under the communist regime.”

Last week, the US said the legislation “would cause irreparable harm to both Jews and non-Jews by effectively extinguishing claims for restitution and compensation of property taken during the Holocaust that was subsequently nationalised during the communist period”.

Source: Anger as Poland plans law that will stop Jews reclaiming wartime homes | Holocaust | The Guardian