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

Trump dangerously misunderstands how voters feel about abortion access – Los Angeles Times

To say this year’s Republican presidential ticket does not know how to talk to or about women, or figure out what matters to them, would be the understatement of the century. And I sure hope they keep it up.

It’s all mind-boggling, from nominee Donald Trump’s racist, sexist ramblings about Vice President Kamala Harris to the, ah, unusual views of his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, on parenthood. Now the hapless pair are digging in deeper as they try to cope with the post-Roe vs. Wade world — the one brought about by Trump’s Supreme Court appointees and celebrated by Vance…

 

Source: Trump dangerously misunderstands how voters feel about abortion access – Los Angeles Times

“A Cry for Help” on Masticadores USA | Dawn Pisturino’s Blog

“A Cry for Help” on Masticadores USA

 ON AUGUST 19, 2024

(Photo by Jonathan Cooper on Unsplash)

[This poem addresses the subject of suicide and despair. If this topic triggers you, please do not read this post.]

I’m proud to share that my poem, “A Cry for Help,” has been published today on Masticadores USA. Thank you, Barbara Harris Leonhard, for publishing it! Please visit Masticadores and show them your support. Thank you!

This poem is dedicated to all the men and women who suffer from depression, loneliness, and despair. In the U.S., call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 to get help from a trained mental health professional. People in imminent danger of self-harm can also call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room for help.

by Dawn Pisturino

A crimson line across her wrist.

A bracelet of blood.

A visible cry for help,

But nobody comes.

She’s all alone again

To face the ordeal of life:

The challenges, the pain,

The turmoil in her brain.

Death seems like a safe escape,

But her body wants to live!

She picks up the phone

And calls the hotline — her lifeline. . .

~

Please click HERE to read the rest of the poem. Thank you!

Source: “A Cry for Help” on Masticadores USA | Dawn Pisturino’s Blog

Right-Wingers Claim Tim Walz Was Not Really a Coach; GOP Investigates Whether He Is a Spy for China | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Fact-checking questions about Walz’s role as a coach

A surprising argument has emerged from some right-wing circles: that Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota was not a high school football coach because he was his team’s defensive coordinator, not the head coach. I asked my colleague Alan Blinder, a font of football knowledge who wrote about Walz’s coaching career *and* answers my questions about sports whenever I have them, to explain what’s what.

Setting aside that assertion’s spuriousness for the moment, our reporting last week on Tim Walz as Coach Walz suggests just how comfortable he is with not being the top dog.

Rocky Almond, who coached basketball with Walz in Nebraska in the early 1990s, said that Walz had “been the supporting actor for his whole life,” recalling a trip to China that the future vice-presidential pick organized. Even though Walz was the group’s veteran Asia hand, Almond remembered a coach who never tried to seize command.

“He just was always in the background,” said Almond, who thought the vice presidency was “the perfect role” for his old colleague’s temperament.

“I think he had the intensity, but it was a positive energy,” said Jeff Tomlin, the Nebraska high school head football coach who brought Walz aboard to coach linebackers. “He was a very good assistant that way. As the head coach, you sometimes have to be an enforcer and really guard your culture and make hard decisions. As assistant, you want to be loyal to your head coach and back up your head coach, and he was all of those things.”

And as for that question of whether Walz should count as a coach at all? Some players on his Minnesota title-winning team still refer to him as “Coach Walz,” and football staffs are filled with specialty coaches who are, in fact, coaches with headsets and playbooks.

“Defensive coordinator is arguably the most important position on a coaching staff other than the head coach,” the ESPN commentator Paul Finebaum mused to me today. “You can’t win a game, let alone a state championship, without being able to stop someone.”

— Alan Blinder

Source: Right-Wingers Claim Tim Walz Was Not Really a Coach; GOP Investigates Whether He Is a Spy for China | Diane Ravitch’s blog

समाधान / Solution  – Kaushal Kishore

 

जीवन में समस्याएं, अनगिनत खड़ी हैं,

कोई समाधान नहीं, कुछ इतनी बड़ी है…

लेकिन इन उलझनो से भला क्यों भागे,

मुस्कुरा देता हूं, और बढ़ जाता हूं आगे…

🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Countless troubles linger, and many are left behind,  

But dwelling on them, doesn’t bring peace to my mind…

So I wear a smile, let the worries drift away,

Embracing joy, and keeping all doubts at bay…

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–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: समाधान / Solution  – Kaushal Kishore