Here’s a dry statistic: according to numbers provided by human rights group Ir Amim, a record high 140 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem lost their homes in 2020. In 2019, 72 Palestinian families from Jerusalem saw their homes demolished, while in 2018 the number was 59. Most of these people, who watched as bulldozers rammed through the walls of their homes, are invisible in the eyes of the Israeli public. They become a statistic. But every demolished home brings with it a total upheaval for the family with repercussions that last years — far beyond the demolition itself. Source: ‘They tossed us out like garbage’: The Palestinians who lost their Jerusalem homes – +972 Magazine
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Scouring billions of links for 6 years showed us the web is both expanding and shrinking
We analysed more than six billion user comments from the social media website Reddit dating back to 2006, as well as 11.8 billion Twitter posts from as far back as 2011. In total, our research used a massive 5.6Tb trove of data from more than a decade of global activity.

In fact, between 60—70% of all attention on key social media platforms is focused towards just ten popular domains.
Beyond social media platforms, we also studied linkage patterns across the web, looking at almost 20 billion links over three years. These results reinforced the “rich are getting richer” online.
The authority, influence and visibility of the top 1,000 global websites (as measured by network centrality or PageRank) is growing every month, at the expense of all other sites.
Source: Scouring billions of links for 6 years showed us the web is both expanding and shrinking
Why You Should Get Vaccinated Even Though You Had COVID – VAXOPEDIA
Alphabet soup for the soul – “R”
R is for Remembering
“Can you remeber who you were, before the world told you who you should be”
-Charles Bukowski-
Babies and toddlers innately know what to do? They do not have to be taught or learn, they just know. It also helps that they believe in themselves, have a faith in themselves and desire that is unwavering. Conversley and most importantly they do not doubt themselves.
Have you ever seen a toddler learning to walk? How many times do they fall down?
Not only do they get back up every single time but they eventually reach their end goal. This single metaphor tackles many areas inherent to success, such as;
- Always get back up
2. Do not ever stop trying to reach your goal
3. Do not entertain “no” or “impossible as an option
A toddler will learn how to walk because they never entertain the idea that…
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PF summons indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara to give testimony because of criticism of the government – Mágica Mistura✨
PF urges indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara to give testimony because of criticism of the government.
The Federal Police summoned the indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara to give testimony because of criticism of the federal government for the lack of support for the Indians.
The complaints are spread over the eight episodes that are part of the documentary “Maracá”. The series launched last year is produced by the Brazilian Association of Indigenous Peoples, Apib, which has leader Sonia Guajajara as one of the leaders.
Filosofa Takes on Mitch
Amen – word!
Mitch McConnell has found a permanent home on my radar, it would seem. Every day he says or does something to spark my temper and this week he’s been on a veritable roll.
Mitch McConnell, aka Moscow Mitch, says we don’t matter!
I have never been a fan of the ignoble, inglorious Mitch McConnell, but now he has crossed my red line. Referring to President Biden’s plan to increase taxes on corporations and on the wealthy (such as Mitch himself), McConnell claimed he would not support Biden’s infrastructure plan because of the “massive tax increases on all the productive parts of our economy.” Think about that one for a minute, friends. “All the productive parts of our economy” in Mitch’s mind, are the wealthy like himself. We, the people who have worked 40+ hours per week every week of our adult lives, the people who built the cars, mined…
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Philadelphia school district, CCP degree program gives students a headstart on college | Local News | phillytrib.com
Elijah Robinson, said what drew him in was graduating with a high school diploma and an associate degree. “It was a no-brainer. My experience at Parkway was probably the greatest high school experience. My teachers were supportive,” he said. Parkway Center City Middle College, the first-of-its-kind in the state, is a program that offers many first-generation college-bound students the opportunity to earn an associate degree in liberal arts from the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), while also earning their high school diploma. Donald “Guy” Generals, president of CCP, praised the partnership. “This is a national model to show that level of resource support for education and for higher education, post-secondary education and a way to further advance this idea that education needs to go beyond the 12th grade,” he said. Students at the school can end up graduating high school and go right into their junior year of college, if they choose to pursue a higher education.
How Politics Saves Lives – The New York Times
On a Sunday in July 2014, a man boarded a plane in Monrovia, Liberia, and flew to Lagos, Nigeria. He felt sick with a fever when the trip began and was in worse shape by the time he landed. The Nigerian authorities took him to a hospital, where doctors eventually diagnosed Ebola.
From that first patient, infections soon began to spread in Lagos, which is Africa’s most densely populated city. It was the most terrifying period during any Ebola outbreak, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said.
But two months later, the crisis was over. Nigeria had no more Ebola cases, and fewer than 10 people, including the man from Liberia, had died. How did Nigeria prevent an epidemic? It wasn’t science, or at least not science as people typically define it. It was more basic than that.
Le fate del bosco

Anche quell’anno in primavera
le fate del bosco fecero fiorire
le primule che si trovarono, così,
abbracciate alle odorose verbene
ed all’edera sfrontata e vigorosa.
E quello stesso giorno il sole
riprese a vegliare su di te e raccolse
nella sua luce il tuo sconforto.
Lo trasportò lontano oltre
le terre infuocate, attraversando
la barriera di quelle ombre bizzarre
che si accatastavano scomposte
lungo i pontili scardinati di quel
maleodorante ed ombreggiato porto.
E fu un’aurora ardente
quella che capovolse il sole
ed albeggiò inebetita e luminosa
circondando ed intrecciando,
con puntiglio, la tua chioma
morbida e scontrosa.
Dread No More
Dread no more the darkling sky,
Nay, the thousand vicious blows;
For the gloom is brief and so shall die
Like weird feeling that daily goes.
And again shall shine the golden sun,
And soon shall flow the tender breeze;
And play the kids, do leap and run
In the fair meadows with charming trees.
And again shall rush in human breast
The endless streams of tranquil words,
And soon shall sing the beaming chests
With the sweet rhythms of warbling birds.
So lose not hope in the stygian cage
But recall rather by wiping tears,
Those heroic stories of bygone age
Heard and praised in the yesteryears.
And recall rather, do wake and take
Those sterling features of thy own race;
Recall how they for others’ sake
Had fought and died with a smile on face.
And recall how they had faced such days
With aches in heart and…
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