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Column: On immigration, no GOP contender can look cruel than Trump – Los Angeles Times

Chris Christie, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis at lecterns on a debate stage

At last week’s debate, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis angled to sound toughest on immigration.
(Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images)
…Trump has vowed to launch the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. He’s planning huge internment camps for immigrants, including people who’ve lived here for decades. His operation would separate millions of mixed-status families across the country and leave countless U.S. citizen children, including babies, without their parents. It would make his family separation policy, which focused on recent arrivals at the border and was halted by a national outcry, look restrained…

Source: Column: On immigration, no GOP contender can look cruel than Trump – Los Angeles Times

‘Take It Down and They’ll Return’: The Stunning Revival of the Penobscot River

A stereograph from the 1870s shows the view from Ripogenus Falls on the Penobscot River. A stereograph from the 1870s shows the view from Ripogenus Falls on the Penobscot River. Credit: A.L. Hinds / Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library

…The river had been sick for generations. Butch Phillips, a Penobscot Nation elder, recalls growing up on Indian Island, the Penobscot tribe reservation located near Old Town on the river, in the 1950s. By that time, the Penobscot was unrecognizable to the body of water it had once been, with drifting logs so gridlocked at times on the eastern side of the island that the river was impassable for boats and people alike. This posed an ongoing dilemma for the Penobscot people who, prior to the construction of a bridge in 1950, used canoes to travel to and from the mainland…

Source: ‘Take It Down and They’ll Return’: The Stunning Revival of the Penobscot River

Cultural Blindness – NeuroLogica Blog

One of the core tenets of scientific skepticism is what I call neuropsychological humility – the recognition that while the human brain is a powerful information processing machine, it also has many frailties. One of those frailties is perception – we do not perceive the world in a neutral or objective way. Our perception of the world is constructed from multiple sensory streams processed together and filtered through internal systems that include our memories, expectations, biases, assumptions and (critically) attention. In many ways, we see what we know, what we are looking for, and what we expect to see. Perhaps the most internet-famous example of this is the invisible gorilla, a dramatic example of inattentional blindness…

Source: Cultural Blindness – NeuroLogica Blog

Bem que se faz – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Transforme o seu sofrimento em algo que possa ajudar o outro. Todas às vezes que você faz isso, estará ajudando a si mesmo. Lembre-se: Bem que se faz, é bem que se recebe.

 

Marii Freire. Bem que se faz

 

Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 11 de dezembro de 2023

 

Source: Bem que se faz – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!