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U.S. Could Have Had Many More Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine This Year – The New York Times (Me: headlines designed to inflame do not help or inform people well)

The government is now distributing about 1.1 million doses

We can Do Better Wednesdays, & Taking My Courage in Both Hands… — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Here’s a saying from the French “Prendre le couage de/dans mes deux mains…” or as we might have said a few years ago, to “take my courage in hand” and do something scary, like sending the Project Do Better book link to folks like ONE DC, or Yuval N. Harari.     I […]

We can Do Better Wednesdays, & Taking My Courage in Both Hands… — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Brás Cubas — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Não tive filhos, não transmiti a nenhuma criatura o legado de nossa miséria. Brás Cubas/ personagens de Machado de Assis. Literatura brasileira em diálogo com outras literaturas e outras linguagens. 5 ed. reform. Atual Editora. São Paulo, 2013 Marii Freire https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo! Imagem ( crédito: Arquivo Pessoal) Santarém, Pá 3 de agosto de 2022

Brás Cubas — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Carlos Drummond de Andrade — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Ardiloso sorriso alonga-se em silêncio para contemporâneos e pósteros ansiosos, em vão, por decifrá-lo. Não há decifração. Há o sorriso. Carlos Drummond de Andrade “Gioconda ( Da Vinci)” ( Em Farewell. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1996) Literatura brasileira em diálogo com outras literaturas e outras linguagens. William Cereja e Thereza Cochar. Atual Editora. 5 ed […]

Carlos Drummond de Andrade — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Viva o agora — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

O que você tem feito de extraordinário agora? O que você feito de bom para viver o presente? A vida é essencialmente composta de momentos. O que tem feito hoje para aproveitar o momento presente? O nosso caminhar é a grande estratégia de conquista. A inquietação terrível, ou o desejo de voltar às coisas passadas, […]

Viva o agora — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Will He Or Won’t He? Should He Or Shouldn’t He?

Filosofa's Word

The great debate these days seems to be over whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will, or should, charge Donald Trump for crimes committed while in office.  You all know my opinion:  charge him, convict him, put him in a cell and throw away the key!  But, there is more to consider and political author/journalist Bill Press assesses it in his latest column …


To charge or not to charge?

Bill Press, 28 July, 2022

To charge or not to charge?

For months in Washington – whether over breakfast at the Four Seasons, lunch at The Palm, or dinner at Café Milano – the only topic of conversation has been: What’s Merrick Garland up to? Is the Justice Department conducting its own investigation of possible criminal activity related to Jan. 6? And, if so, how high would it go? All the way to Trump? Why hasn’t he already filed charges? Or…

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Sunak’s plan to criminalise ‘hating Britain’ is a throwback to empire | openDemocracy

Now Sunak wants to extend the reach of Prevent even further. Of course, subjecting everyone who speaks ill of Britain to a ‘deradicalisation’ programme is entirely unworkable. Social media is awash with people expressing their rage at ‘rainy fascist island’. As Andrew Neil’s recent diatribe in the Daily Mail points out, some of them even publish in The New York Times.

The idea may be unenforceable, but perhaps enforcement is not the point. While the immediate purpose is to give Sunak a push in the polls by flinging some red meat to party members, the larger game here is to feed the culture wars by any means necessary. For all of the talk of freedom of speech, this government operates only through scripted set pieces. Sunak’s latest announcement is one such attempt to stage a culture war spectacle, but these rhetorical games have real consequences.

Even if this rebooted sedition law never makes it into the statute books, the very fact of resuscitating this idea will draw even more people into the orbit of Prevent. After all, Prevent does not work on the basis of intervening in genuine threats – there is already plenty of legislation that can be used to prosecute conspiracy. Instead, it relies on prejudice, paranoia, and rumour. If speaking against the nation becomes associated with extremism, more referrals will follow, using even more spurious ‘evidence’, even if the law itself remains unaltered.

Source: Sunak’s plan to criminalise ‘hating Britain’ is a throwback to empire | openDemocracy