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Useful news for all to advance knowledge of the world and how it works

Joe Biden lays out new student debt relief plan after supreme court ruling | Joe Biden | The Guardian

Source: Joe Biden lays out new student debt relief plan after supreme court ruling | Joe Biden | The Guardian

COVID vaccine may boost antibody response to MERS, other coronaviruses | CIDRAP

A small Qatar University–led study published today in JAMA Network Open suggests that COVID-19 vaccination might enhance immunity against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and, to a lesser degree, other human coronaviruses. Source: COVID vaccine may boost antibody response to MERS, other coronaviruses | CIDRAP

Black Politicians Speak Out on Affirmative Action Decision Fallout

With the stroke of a pen, on Thursday, the Supreme Court rolled back decades of work pushing equity in higher education. The court ruled that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s race-conscious admissions policy were unconstitutional. In doing so, they severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions. Source: Black Politicians Speak Out on Affirmative Action Decision Fallout

Free Quote Looking for A Home: How Would You…

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

    … use this quote in a poem, song, story, or book?

“A cough reeking of smoke, vodka, and tears.”
From Thursday the 25th of July 2013 my ideas notebook.  I have no idea what to do with this quote, which hit me both visually and in near-audio, if that makes sense, and so the idea has been sitting there needing something, some story, or some poem, or a drawing, even, to form around it, but I have wanted to forget that context for so long that now I am merely exhausted.  So, I offer it to someone else in the hope that it will find a good home, and that some good may yet come of it.

Shira

Action Items:

1.) Share your thoughts on the writing process, please, and on how you deal with random bits of ideas that will not leave you in peace.

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Submissão feminina

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” A submissão impede que a mulher exerça de forma plena, o seu papel na sociedade. “

Marii Freire.

O tema submissão que vou tratar no texto, na verdade, é uma proposta leve, sobretudo que faz- nos refletir sobre questões atreladas a comportamentos e atitudes. Claro que, a submissão ao longo dos séculos sempre trouxe resultados negativos, e prevaleceu, como ainda prevalece, principalmente, no tange a situações ligadas à pressões sociais culturais e religiosas. Mesmo tendo avançado em tantas questões, ainda vemos resquícios da submissão feminina em nosso cotidiano, situações que restringe não só os passos, mas estabelece como a mulher deve ser e se comportar.

A submissão feminina traz à mulher, consequências negativas. Há quem olhe muito para a questão patriarcal, digo ” o peso que esta exerceu na formação da identidade da mulher. Mas não vou me atrelar de fato, a essa questão. Nem vou procurar buscar exemplos…

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Activist SCOTUS Licenses Discrimination Against LGBTQI+ America – O-blog-dee-o-blog-da

America’s women, LGBTI+ community and Black community have been slammed with regressive rulings that have robbed us all of basic rights. We are still reeling from the voiding of reproductive rights through the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Yesterday SCOTUS ruled against affirmative action. Today SCOTUS ruled that a web designer can refuse to provide services to LGBTI+ people. Source: Activist SCOTUS Licenses Discrimination Against LGBTQI+ America – O-blog-dee-o-blog-da

Opinion: With its 303 Creative decision, Supreme Court opens door to discrimination – Los Angeles Times

For the first time in U.S. history, the Supreme Court granted a business open to the public the constitutional right to discriminate against would-be customers
— Read on www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-30/supreme-court-303-creative-gay-rights-first-amendment-lorie-smith-neil-gorsuch-sonia-sotomayor

(want to discriminate? Just claim serving someone for any hateful reason is against your religious belief!)