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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont wrote a strong opinion piece endorsing President Joe Biden’s campaign for the Presidency. Under normal circumstances, this would not be news. A Democratic Senator endorsing an incumbent Democratic President who has already won all the primary elections. But Biden performed horribly in his debate with Trump, and the media has demanded nonstop that he drop out of the race.
Bernie Sanders says that President Biden is the right man for the job. As I think I have made clear, I agree with Senator Sanders.
He writes:
I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected. Why? Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump — a demagogue and pathological liar. It’s time to learn a lesson from the progressive and centrist forces in France who, despite profound political differences, came togetherthis week to soundly defeat right-wing extremism.
I strongly disagree with Mr. Biden on the question of U.S. support for Israel’s horrific war against the Palestinian people. The United States should not provide Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government with another nickel as it continues to create one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history.
I strongly disagree with the president’s belief that the Affordable Care Act, as useful as it has been, will ever address America’s health care crisis. Our health care system is broken, dysfunctional and wildly expensive and needs to be replaced with a “Medicare for all” single-payer system. Health care is a human right.
And those are not my only disagreements with Mr. Biden.
But for over two weeks now, the corporate media has obsessively focused on the June presidential debate and the cognitive capabilities of a man who has, perhaps, the most difficult and stressful job in the world. The media has frantically searched for every living human being who no longer supports the president or any neurologist who wants to appear on TV. Unfortunately, too many Democrats have joined that circular firing squad.
Yes. I know: Mr. Biden is old, is prone to gaffes, walks stiffly and had a disastrous debate with Mr. Trump. But this I also know: A presidential election is not an entertainment contest. It does not begin or end with a 90-minute debate.
Enough! Mr. Biden may not be the ideal candidate, but he will be the candidate and should be the candidate. And with an effective campaign that speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly. It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.
I understand that some Democrats get nervous about having to explain the president’s gaffes and misspeaking names. But unlike the Republicans, they do not have to explain away a candidate who now has 34 felony convictions and faces charges that could lead to dozens of additional convictions, who has been hit with a $5 million judgment after he was found liable in a sexual abuse case, who has been involved in more than 4,000 lawsuits, who has repeatedly gone bankrupt and who has told thousands of documented lies and falsehoods.
Supporters of Mr. Biden can speak proudly about a good and decent Democratic president with a record of real accomplishment. The Biden administration, as a result of the American Rescue Plan, helped rebuild the economy during the pandemic far faster than economists thought possible. At a time when people were terrified about the future, the president and those of us who supported him in Congress put Americans back to work, provided cash benefits to desperate parents and protected small businesses, hospitals, schools and child care centers.
After decades of talk about our crumbling roads, bridges and water systems, we put more money into rebuilding America’s infrastructure than ever before — which is projected to create millions of well-paying jobs. And we did not stop there. We made the largest-ever investment in climate action to save the planet. We canceled student debt for nearly five million financially strapped Americans. We cut prices for insulin and asthma inhalers, capped out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and got free vaccines to the American people. We battled to defend women’s rights in the face of moves by Trump-appointed jurists to roll back reproductive freedom and deny women the right to control their own bodies.
So, yes, Mr. Biden has a record to run on. A strong record. But he and his supporters should never suggest that what’s been accomplished is sufficient. To win the election, the president must do more than just defend his excellent record. He needs to propose and fight for a bold agenda that speaks to the needs of the vast majority of our people — the working families of this country, the people who have been left behind for far too long.
At a time when the billionaires have never had it so good and when the United States is experiencing virtually unprecedented income and wealth inequality, over 60 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, real weekly wages for the average worker have not risen in over 50 years, 25 percent of seniors live each year on $15,000 or less, we have a higher rate of childhood poverty than almost any other major country, and housing is becoming more and more unaffordable — among other crises.
This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We can do better. We must do better. Joe Biden knows that. Donald Trump does not. Joe Biden wants to tax the rich so that we can fund the needs of working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. Donald Trump wants to cut taxes for the billionaire class. Joe Biden wants to expand Social Security benefits. Donald Trump and his friends want to weaken Social Security. Joe Biden wants to make it easier for workers to form unions and collectively bargain for better wages and benefits. Donald Trump wants to let multinational corporations get away with exploiting workers and ripping off consumers. Joe Biden respects democracy. Donald Trump attacks it.
This election offers a stark choice on issue after issue. If Mr. Biden and his supporters focus on these issues — and refuse to be divided and distracted — the president will rally working families to his side in the industrial Midwest swing states and elsewhere and win the November election. And let me say this as emphatically as I can: For the sake of our kids and future generations, he must win.
Source: Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for President! | Diane Ravitch’s blog


खयाल मुझे तुम्हारा आता रहा बड़ी देर तक,
जो मेरे दिल को धड़काता रहा बड़ी देर तक…
जाने कब घुस आई तुम मेरे घर के बीचोबीच,
एहसास तुम्हारा घर को महकाता रहा बड़ी देर तक…
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Memories of you lingered by my side for a long time,
My heart raced fast, my spirit couldn’t hide for a long time…
I’m not sure when you slipped into my living space,
To retain fragrance of your presence I tried for a long time…
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–Kaushal Kishore

Recently, I attended a dinner at a friend’s house in Varanasi. While we were eating, I noticed a friend discarding two puris*, saying they had absorbed too much oil. Curious, I asked what would happen to those puris. The person who had picked them up said he would throw them in the dustbin. I took the puris from him and began eating them. Though the person who discarded them gave me a disdainful look, I didn’t mind; I just didn’t want to waste them.
With so many people still going hungry in various parts of the world, I consider such food wastage a crime.
But this is not the first case. I recall when I was a student at Banaras Hindu University and went on a geological excursion to Jabalpur. One day, we visited a restaurant offering a full meal at a fixed price. Some of my friends mischievously took more food than they could eat, leaving substantial leftovers.
The restaurant owner objected and demanded extra money, arguing that he could provide as much food as they could eat but not to waste. However, my friends refused to pay, and the situation escalated into a physical altercation. I calmly asked the restaurateur for the cost, paid him, and had the leftover food packed and given to the beggars outside.
We view food as offerings from Goddess Annapurna, and wasting these offerings is unacceptable, even if you have the financial means to do so. Wasting food is, after all, a waste of national resources.
Moreover, think about the journey food takes from the farm to your plate. The time and effort invested by many people along the way should not be disregarded. Wasting food shows disrespect for their labour.
Food wastage has become a major global issue, causing environmental damage, economic losses, and hunger. Every year, millions of tons of edible food are thrown away, putting more pressure on natural resources and increasing greenhouse gas emissions from decomposing organic matter in landfills.
To combat food wastage, strategies such as improving food storage and transportation to extend shelf life, encouraging better meal planning and portion control to reduce household waste, and promoting food recovery initiatives to redirect surplus food to those in need can be implemented at a macro level.
Additionally, raising awareness about the environmental and social impacts of food waste at the individual level is crucial for fostering more responsible consumption and waste management practices.
*P.S. Puri or poori, is a type of deep-fried bread, made from unleavened whole-wheat flour.
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–Kaushal Kishore
Source: Two Puris – Kaushal Kishore
Genetic genealogist Diahan Southard recently asked a number of people involved in this field over the last 25 years to write about their recollections and thoughts for a book she was compiling, So Far: Genetic Genealogy, The first 25 years, 1999–2024. As an early adopter, I was surprised how many memories came flooding back, and struggled to get down to the requested word count, so I’m sharing a less-streamlined version here (with Diahan’s blessing).
free, downloadable book about the first 25 years of genetic genealogy
Source: Genetic Genealogy’s First Decade: The Pioneering Days of 1999–2009 – Megan Smolenyak
Judge Aileen Cannon’s stunning ruling dismissing the federal indictment against Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents is just wrong as a matter of constitutional law, but it can be easily overcome.
Cannon held that it is unconstitutional to have a special counsel appointed by the attorney general to handle a prosecution unless there is a specific law authorizing it. The simple solution is for Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland to treat the classified documents case as a crime like any other, one that doesn’t require a special counsel. He can direct a United States attorney to immediately refile the case in federal court, and under Cannon’s reasoning there would be no constitutional problems.
From the outset, Cannon, who was appointed to the federal district court bench by Trump, has handled the case in a way that seemed designed to protect him. For example, earlier she ruled that a higher standard had to be met to justify a search warrant for a former president. The federal court of appeals reversed this and said that the same standards apply under the 4th Amendment to everyone.
Source: Opinion: Judge Aileen Cannon is flat-out wrong, again – Los Angeles Times
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a simple message for an unnamed senior Democrat who reportedly said the party had “resigned ourselves” to a second Trump presidency: “Retire.”
The anonymous Democrat was quoted by Axios on Sunday, the day after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.
“We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency,” the source reportedly said, adding that the Trump shooting had taken focus away from calls to replace Joe Biden as Democrats’ nominee for president because of concerns about his age and fitness for office, because it would be “bad form to make any statements against” him now.
“If you’re a ‘senior Democrat’ that feels this way you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.
“This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire.”
Ocasio-Cortez earlier addressed the assassination attempt in which Trump was hit in the ear, one rally-goer was killed and two injured.
“There is no place for political violence, including the horrific incident we just witnessed in Pennsylvania,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It is absolutely unacceptable and must be denounced in the strongest terms.
“My heart goes out to all the victims and I wish the former president a speedy recovery.”

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