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Latin America’s Pink Partnership

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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 02:18

The American Prospect See article on original site Last summer, Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a warning from the Senate floor. “Already,” Cruz said, “nine governments across South America, Central America, and the Caribbean are controlled by socialists.” Since then, Gustavo Petro has formed the first left-wing government in the history of […]

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UMass Center for Philosophy and Children Wins Grant

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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 02:08
Last year, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, created a Center for Philosophy and Children (see this post). Now the Center has won a $250,000 grant to support its programs. The grant will support the Center for Philosophy and Children’s residential summer philosophy program for high school students. The program includes scholarships for all of the participants that covers tuition, room and board, and transportation. The Center also provides assistance to summer program participants during the school year to help them with the college application process. Besides the summer program, the Center facilitates the Philosophy in Public Schools program, which sends undergraduates, graduate students, and professors into public schools in Western Massachusetts to explore philosophical concepts with children. It also has plans to train school teachers to bring philosophy programs into the classroom. The grant is from the “Knowledge for Freedom” program of the Teagle Foundation. The Center for Philosophy and Children is co-directed by Julia Jorati and Ned Markosian. You can learn more about it here.

BIG FINISH: Tom Baker revives two lost Fourth Doctor stories

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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 02:00

Cover artwork and full story details are today revealed for two exciting box sets bringing first drafts of classic Doctor Who TV stories to life on audio, due for release in May and June 2023 by Big Finish Productions. In these Lost Stories audio adaptations, revisiting beloved 1975 Fourth Doctor stories, Tom Baker stars alongside […]

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Global Supply Chain Pressure Index: The China Factor

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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 02:00
In a January 2022 post, we first presented the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI), a parsimonious global measure designed to capture supply chain disruptions using a range of indicators. In this post, we review GSCPI readings through December 2022, and then briefly discuss the drivers of recent moves in the index. While supply chain disruptions have significantly diminished over the course of 2022, the reversion of the index toward a normal historical range has paused over the past three months. Our analysis attributes the recent pause largely to the pandemic in China amid an easing of “Zero COVID” policies.

Fight the Cost of Living Crisis With Free School Meals

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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 01:22

Child poverty backdrops this latest capitalist crisis, in recent years ushering in a damning rise in infant mortality. In adulthood, people are facing shorter lives. These unprecedented changes in the state of public health are unacceptable, and urgent action is needed to reverse them and end the inequalities they represent. One often-overlooked element of public […]

Punk rock with guns

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/06/punk-rock-with-guns/
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 01:00
Insurrection Caucus knocks J6 anniversary off front pages Leaders of the GOP’s House Insurrection Caucus are heavily invested in screen time. Not on their smart phones. On your television and social media feeds. Governing is not what they are in Washington, D.C. to do. Accruing power is. Interviews on Fox News and other outlets (even MSNBC these days) builds a national profile, grows online followers, and expands fundraising opportunities. Personal fame, acquired through political performance, is a more rapid, more certain path to power than the drudge work of crafting sound legislation and shepherding it through Congress. The Insurrection Caucus came to be influencers, not legislators. Donald Trump brought celebrity with him to the job of politics. But the 2020 loser is sidelined in Mar-a-Lago awaiting indictments. Republicans lacking his preternatural skills at self-promotion have discovered that keeping the press focused on themselves involves being destructively and performatively anti-establishment. Sex and drugs and rock and roll was for liberals. Trashing hotel rooms does not get press coverage. Trashing Congress does.

Schlapped

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2023/01/schlapped.html
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 01:00
The great Simon Maloy died a few years ago. I didn't know him well IRL, but I did meet him a couple times. His legacy is bigger than one great tweet, but he did have one great tweet. He should have been here for this (and many other things).
A staffer for Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign has alleged to The Daily Beast that longtime Republican activist Matt Schlapp made “sustained and unwanted and unsolicited” sexual contact with him while the staffer was driving Schlapp back from an Atlanta bar this October.

Bannon: “we’re not going to raise the debt ceiling one penny”

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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 00:47


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Your Congressional Intern Really Appreciates This Indefinite Extension on Her House Committee Reports

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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 00:00

Dear Republican Members-Elect of the House of Representatives,

Thanks so much for this extension on all the reports I was supposed to prepare for members of the House to start reviewing this week as part of their new committee assignments. I really appreciate it.

I was getting super stressed juggling everything—trying to figure out when or if I’ll ever have to pay back my student loans, waiting on hold with Southwest Airlines, traveling over state lines to get safe prenatal care, and helping my neighbors escape from cars stranded in the snow. Modern life is a lot, you know? Adulting. It’s a lot. And then, on top of everything, I got the triple whammy—COVID, RSV, and the flu. By the way, if you saw me in the building today, you might want to wear a mask for a while, unless your constituents would think that makes you one of the sheeple. No judgment.

Spying on Citizens

https://robertskidelsky.com/2023/01/06/spying-on-citizens/
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Fri, 06/01/2023 - 23:17
Sir, Your leading article (“Digital Danger”, Jan 2) warns of the use of Chinese-made surveillance systems to track people in the UK. But neither your editorial nor the surveillance watchdog, Fraser Sampson, seems to have any qualms about British-made equipment being used for the same purpose. In 1786 Jeremy Bentham designed the Panopticon, in which … Continue reading Spying on Citizens