Sophia Loren: ‘The body changes. The mind does not’ | Sophia Loren | The Guardian

Sophia Loren, photographed by her son Edoardo Ponti, in her house in Geneva in 2020

Loren has always defined herself as a Neapolitan first and an Italian second. I ask what the difference is and she laughs at my ignorance and says it would take too long to explain. “Naples is so strong, so vital. It’s about music and dance. Books and books of history. Read all the books first and then we can talk.”

The evidence suggests that she made the right choice. Europe provided more fertile ground for her skills. In 1962, she won the best actress Oscar for her turn in the potent wartime drama La Ciociara (Two Women), shot in 1960 by the neorealist director Vittorio De Sica. Loren played Cesira: widowed shopkeeper, embattled mother, a symbol of Italian fortitude and resilience. It is the film that, six decades on, she still considers her favourite, the one that mapped out the ground and pointed the way forward.

She is decisive, imperious, a natural-born thoroughbred with her eye on the prize. While The Life Ahead is Loren’s first feature film in a decade, she bridles at the notion that it might be described as a comeback, or a curtain call. She says acting is her life, is all that she knows, and that therefore she sees no particular reason to quit. “Sophia for ever,” she says with a smile.

I ask if she has ever felt lost, or beset by self-doubt, and she considers the question for all of two seconds. “Yes, well, maybe sometimes. But then I say to myself: ‘Shut up. Be strong. Just keep going and try. Sometimes you make mistakes and sometimes you win.’ I made some mistakes,” she shrugs. “But still I won.”

Source: Sophia Loren: ‘The body changes. The mind does not’ | Sophia Loren | The Guardian

How young, Black voters lifted Biden’s bid for the White House | US elections 2020 | The Guardian

Bowen insisted young voters eventually backed Biden as “a down payment toward a bigger goal in the future”.

“A lot of people see Biden as the doorway, not the destination,” he said. “We’re not going to see it in one election cycle, or through one level of government, but there’s this understanding that we’re on a trajectory toward attaining the justice we want to see.”

Source: How young, Black voters lifted Biden’s bid for the White House | US elections 2020 | The Guardian

‘A backlash against a patriarchal culture’: How Polish protests go beyond abortion rights | Poland | The Guardian

Protesters holding anti-PiS signs.

“It certainly feels different,” said Adam Mrozowicki, a sociologist at the University of Wrocław. “We need to study it properly, but the heart of this does seem to be young people. Anecdotally, I’ve never seen this level of engagement among my students – in my faculty, maybe 70-80% of students have taken part in some kind of protest.”

The scale and nature of the protests was new, Mrozowicki said: “They are led by young women. This is decentralised, locally based, grassroots. And personally, in 20 years, I’ve never seen anything like these numbers. To have 65,000 people on the streets of Wrocław …”

Ben Stanley, a political scientist at the SWPS university in Warsaw, said the protests felt “qualitatively different”. Previous anti-PiS demonstrations over the rule of law mainly drew “Solidarność-era protesters, people in their 50s and 60s. It wasn’t an issue that resonated so much with young people.”

 

Source: ‘A backlash against a patriarchal culture’: How Polish protests go beyond abortion rights | Poland | The Guardian

Donald Trump’s baseless vote fraud claim opens cracks in Republican ranks | US news | The Guardian

The Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger tweeted that the president’s lying “is getting insane” and pleaded with his party to “STOP Spreading debunked misinformation”.

Meanwhile, the Texas congressman Will Hurd tweeted: “Every American should have his or her vote counted.”

“A sitting president undermining our political process & questioning the legality of the voices of countless Americans without evidence is not only dangerous & wrong, it undermines the very foundation this nation was built upon,” he wrote.

GOP strategist Karl Rove, who on Wednesday morning said the mass fraud that Trump is alleging “isn’t going to happen” in America.

“Some hanky-panky always goes on, and there are already reports of poll watchers in Philadelphia not being allowed to do their jobs,” Rove said. “But stealing hundreds of thousands of votes would require a conspiracy on the scale of a James Bond movie. That isn’t going to happen. Let’s repeat that: that isn’t going to happen.”

Stuart Foster, a top state Republican official who trained ballot challengers in Michigan… “I’ll get myself into trouble here. I basically made the comment like, so if fraud was so prevalent, then did the Democrats forget to do it in 2016? They just forgot to do it?” he said. “I mean, Trump … barely won. And it’s not because he didn’t win. [Democrats] just didn’t show up. Did they just forget? Fraud was so prevalent, but they just forgot to do it?”

 

 

 

Source: Donald Trump’s baseless vote fraud claim opens cracks in Republican ranks | US news | The Guardian

COVID-19 Scan for Nov 06, 2020 | CIDRAP

  • The researchers found that Asian people were overrepresented—nearly 1 in 5—in the COVID-19 stroke group (18.8% vs 6.7%, < 0.0002). “Our study suggests that COVID-19 has had more impact on strokes in the Asian community than in other ethnic groups,” Perry said in the UCL release. “We cannot say from our data whether this is because people of Asian descent are more likely to catch COVID-19, or whether Asian patients with COVID-19 are more likely to have ischaemic strokes, or both.”

 

Source: COVID-19 Scan for Nov 06, 2020 | CIDRAP

Police arrest two in alleged plot to attack Philly voting center: What we know

Members of the Pennsylvania National Guard stand guard across the street from City Hall in Philadelphia on November 2. | Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

The men were arrested outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where vote counting is taking place.

Police in Philadelphia are probing an alleged plot to attack the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Thursday night after receiving a tip that a group traveling north from Virginia in a Hummer planned to storm the location of vote-counting efforts.

No one was harmed; the police arrested two men in connection with the alleged plot, and no attack or other violence was carried out.

Photographs taken by Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jessica Griffin and Hamilton Nolan of In These Times Magazine show that the Hummer in question had decals linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory.

QAnon decals on back window of Hummer parked near Pa. Convention Center and under investigation after police got a tip that occupants were armed and targeting the Convention Center where vote-counting in presidential election is underway. pic.twitter.com/SKAUhcmBvQ

— Robert Moran (@RobertMoran215) November 6, 2020

The arrests come hours after President Trump alleged the ongoing count in Pennsylvania and other states was illegal and his son called for “total war,” but it’s important to be clear that the men’s motivations for the alleged plot remain unknown.

Here’s what we do and don’t know about the situation:

What we know

  • Two men were taken into custody in Philadelphia on Thursday night, according to CNN and Philadelphia’s Action News.
  • The individuals drove a Hummer from Virginia to Pennsylvania, according to multiple sources. The Philadelphia radio station KYW and a journalist for In These Times Magazine reported the vehicle sported a sticker supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory.
  • Action News and KYW report the arrests were made Thursday night after police were alerted to a potential plot to attack the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where vote counting is taking place. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, police were alerted to be on the lookout for multiple people coming to Philadelphia from Virginia Beach to “straighten things out” at polling places.
  • According to Philadelphia’s Fox 29, several weapons, including an AR-15, were found in the men’s vehicle.

What we don’t know

  • Exactly how many people were in the vehicle
  • The individuals’ motivations or planned activities

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