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Trial Over Black Student’s Dreadlocks to Be Held in February – theroot.com

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Photo: Juan A. Lozano /AP (AP)

It’s been one hell of a school year for Darryl George. Thinking the fall of 2023 would just be the first of a couple of more semesters before he graduated high school, it turned out to be a semester filled with roadblocks and struggles — all because of his hairstyle…

Source: Trial Over Black Student’s Dreadlocks to Be Held in February

‘Keep your socks on your feet’ What to know about Russian rapper Vacio, who was jailed and then drafted into the military after attending the ‘almost naked’ party in nothing but a sock — Meduza

Russian rapper Vacio (Nikolay Vasilev) attended TV presenter Nastya Ivleeva’s now-infamous “almost naked” party in Moscow. His costume? A single Balenciaga sock covering his penis. This became somewhat of a symbol for the whole debacle, and the authorities decided to make an example of him. At first, he was jailed for 15 days and fined 200,000 rubles (around $2,250) for “LGBT propaganda.” Then, as he was leaving the police station, he was stopped and thrown back in jail for another 10 days — this time, allegedly, for swearing. That same day, the rapper was taken to a military recruitment center and handed a military summons, according to social media. Rumor has it that he’ll be serving in the military orchestra. In light of the fallout from the “almost naked” party, music critic Denis Boyarinov re-examines Vacio’s music. Meduza in English is publishing an abridged translation…

Source: ‘Keep your socks on your feet’ What to know about Russian rapper Vacio, who was jailed and then drafted into the military after attending the ‘almost naked’ party in nothing but a sock — Meduza

Humza Yousaf ‘deeply frustrated’ by Boris Johnson’s government during Covid | openDemocracy

First minister Humza Yousaf arrives at the Covid inquiry in Edinburgh/Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images 

Humza Yousaf said he was “deeply frustrated” by the Boris Johnson government’s failure to collaborate with the Scottish government during the pandemic.

Scotland’s first minister, who served as both justice secretary and health secretary in the devolved government during the pandemic, told the Covid inquiry information was often arriving “at the absolute last minute before a meeting”.

“Five, ten minutes before the meeting was to start,” he explained. “Or we were reading about an announcement of a decision already been made by the UK government.”

Source: Humza Yousaf ‘deeply frustrated’ by Boris Johnson’s government during Covid | openDemocracy

Helping each other – Frits Ahlefeldt: Art, stories & hiking

drawing one helping story shelters hiking by frits ahlefeldt

Not wanting help feels like an instinct, I think both to me, and to the hikers by the shelter, not to need help, not to ask, or accept it, if we can avoid it. I can both see why, and I can see the problem in it.

Still amazed and thankful for all the help I got I found a pencil in my backpack and some paper, to see if I could somehow sketch up the story, here it is:

Source: Helping each other – Frits Ahlefeldt: Art, stories & hiking

Lula’s ambitious green agenda runs up against Congress’s agribusiness might

Nilto Tatto, coordinator of the environmentalist caucus in the Chamber and a Lula ally, has been facing the agribusiness power firsthand and says that Lula’s administration is weak and has no power to stop environmental setbacks. Image courtesy of Zeca Ribeiro/Chamber of Deputies.Nilto Tatto, coordinator of the environmentalist caucus in the Chamber and a Lula ally, has been facing the agribusiness power firsthand and says that Lula’s administration is weak and has no power to stop environmental setbacks. Image courtesy of Zeca Ribeiro/Chamber of Deputies.Source: Lula’s ambitious green agenda runs up against Congress’s agribusiness might

Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Vez ou outra, a vida nos lembra que tudo é um processo de transformação. Primeiro, a lagarta, depois a borboleta. E finalmente, o voo finito, até que se tome o fio da vida novamente, por meio de outras asas…”

 

Marii Freire.

https://Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 25 de janeiro de 2024

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