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Texas reports most COVID-19 cases in schools in a single week yet | The Texas Tribune
Even as some Texas schools hadn’t yet started the school year, the number of positive COVID-19 student cases statewide reported last week surpassed the peak seen any time last year, state data released Friday shows. Between Aug. 16 and Aug. 22, there were 14,033 positive cases reported among students across the state, 34% more than the week with the most student cases reported last school year, the Department of State Health Services data shows. Last week’s totals also represent a 182% increase from the week ending Aug. 15, though fewer students were in school then. There have been 20,256 reported cases among students since the state agency started tracking data on Aug. 2 for this school year. That’s less than 0.4% of the 5.3 million students enrolled in the state as of January.
Source: Texas reports most COVID-19 cases in schools in a single week yet | The Texas Tribune
Dallas’ Hidden History of Terror – The Texas Observer
“Dallas commands a part of Texas that is much more Southern, with stronger roots in slave culture, than many outsiders realize,” Schutze writes. To make the case, he recounts the 19th-century influx of enslavers to North Texas, where he argues slavery then was likely even crueller than in the Deep South. He reviews post-Civil War federal reports recounting floggings and murders that permeated Dallas, and describes the city in the 1920s as a hotbed of KKK activity. As the Black middle class fitfully grew, he describes how the city used “legal hocus pocus” to vaporize property rights, clear neighborhoods, and push as many Black residents as possible into segregated housing projects. These very pressures, he details, led Black housebuyers to venture into South Dallas, where working-class whites responded with dynamite. Black Dallasites fought back, defending their homes with guns as necessary, but—in Shutze’s telling—the public square stayed rather quiet. Bull Connor sicced his dogs in Birmingham and Watts burned in Los Angeles, but Dallas saw just a few picket lines outside downtown stores. The key player, he says, was the Citizens Council, a coterie of business elites that control
Source: Dallas’ Hidden History of Terror – The Texas Observer
Myanmar’s Shadow Government Plans COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) is planning its coronavirus vaccine rollout for the country’s people, with six million vaccine doses from a United Nations (UN)-backed program on their way. The hope is to cool down the deadly current COVID-19 third wave, as well as to prevent future possible outbreaks. Source: Myanmar’s Shadow Government Plans COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm | Acceptance (65)
Arrogance
Feeling we are better than, instead of equal to, speaks to our insecurity rather than our superiority.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
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Vivaldi translation: We are not born strong, we become.
Mulheres Fortes
” Não nascemos fortes, nos tornamos. “
Marii Freire Pereira
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Santarém, Pá 27 de agosto de 2021
Guns And COVID — Both Murder Weapons
If I owned a retail establishment (a ‘store’, for any Republicans who might be reading), I would be well within my rights to impose and enforce a ban on guns in my business. I would have a sign on all entrances stating my ‘no gun’ policy and anyone caught bringing a gun into my place would be given a lifetime ban. No exceptions. Why? Because guns kill, because guns are dangerous even in the most well-trained hands. Because I don’t want to have to hire a crew to clean the blood stains off of my walls.
Murder, by the way, is against the law here in the U.S. So, if you brought a gun into my establishment, lost your temper with, say somebody who accidentally jostled you, and you shot them … you would go to prison.
Now, the gun rights’ activists will tell me that I’m infringing on…
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Hezbollah accepts third shipment of Iranian fuel to Lebanon – The Jerusalem Post
A third shipment of Iranian fuel to Lebanon has been accepted in order to ease shortages, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Friday.
Source: Hezbollah accepts third shipment of Iranian fuel to Lebanon – The Jerusalem Post
‘Murder Hornets’: Nest of 1,500 eradicated in the US – BBC News
A nest of the giant, invasive insects was the first destroyed in Washington this year.
Source: ‘Murder Hornets’: Nest of 1,500 eradicated in the US – BBC News


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