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

Dos voos da manhã, vibrei com os pousos. – O Outro Lado

Rezei contando as gotas das teias da aranha amarela que tece rosários no quintal.
A vida tem a delicadeza das coisas extraordinárias em algumas manhãs.
O pássaro laranja que voltou e fez lugar no galho do pé de ipê. A imagem cabe na intensidade do dia.

Mariana Gouveia

Source: Dos voos da manhã, vibrei com os pousos. – O Outro Lado

सीख / Learning – Kaushal Kishore

 

पहले किताबो को पढ़ता रहा, 

अब इंटरनेट में भी पढ़ने लगा हूं, 

नई नई जानकारियों को…

सारे ज्ञान फीके लगने लगे मुझे,

जब मैं ने पढ़ लिया एक असहाय

बच्चे की मासूम आंखों को…

👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️

I once found joy in books I’d read,  

Now the web also fills up my head… 

Yet all that knowledge fades away,  

Before gaze of an orphan’s dismay…

His innocent eyes, so pure and wide,

Taught me more than any book inside…

.

–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: सीख / Learning – Kaushal Kishore

First rioter to enter Capitol during Jan. 6 attack is sentenced – Los Angeles Times

A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison.

A police officer who tried to subdue Michael Sparks with pepper spray described him as a catalyst for the Jan. 6 insurrection. The Senate that day recessed less than one minute after Sparks jumped into the building through a broken window. Sparks then joined other rioters in chasing a police officer up flights of stairs…U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who sentenced Sparks to four years and five months, told him that there was nothing patriotic about his prominent role in what was a “national disgrace.”

Source: First rioter to enter Capitol during Jan. 6 attack is sentenced – Los Angeles Times

White House pressured Facebook over COVID-19 content, Zuckerberg says – Los Angeles Times (Me: Asked to stem flow of Russian, Iranian, Chinese and anti-vaxxer disinformation that was hurting war against Covid and spreading lies to disrupt US election! He’s sorry because it cost him $$…)

Source: White House pressured Facebook over COVID-19 content, Zuckerberg says – Los Angeles Times

Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women – Los Angeles Times

…In a milestone breakthrough, more than half of Caltech’s incoming undergraduate class this fall will be women for the first time in its 133-year history. The class of 113 women and 109 men comes 50 years after Caltech graduated its first class of undergraduate women, who were admitted in 1970…

Source: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women – Los Angeles Times