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Thursday, July 22, 2021

In The News: July 22

Why People Are So Awful Online Online is where I found a community beyond my graduate school peers. I followed and met other emerging writers, many of whom remain my truest friends. ....... and partake in the collective effervescence of watching awards shows with thousands of strangers. .......... online engagement is fueled by the hopelessness many people feel when we consider the state of the world and the challenges we deal with in our day-to-day lives ........ Online spaces offer the hopeful fiction of a tangible cause and effect — an injustice answered by an immediate consequence. On Twitter, we can wield a small measure of power, avenge wrongs, punish villains, exalt the pure of heart. .......... we have lost all sense of proportion and scale. We hold in equal contempt a war criminal and a fiction writer who too transparently borrows details from someone else’s life. It’s hard to calibrate how we engage or argue. ........... In real life, we are fearful Davids staring down seemingly omnipotent Goliaths: a Supreme Court poised to undermine abortion and civil rights; a patch of sea on fire from a gas leak; an incoherent but surprisingly effective attack on teaching children America’s real history; the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act; a man whom dozens of women have accused of sexual assault walking free on a technicality.

At least online, we can tell ourselves that the power imbalances between us flatten. Suddenly, we are all Goliaths in the Valley of Elah.

.............. My online following came slowly, and then all at once......... Then I wrote a couple of books, and blinked, and suddenly hundreds of thousands of people were seeing my tweets. ......... there are those who harass me for all kinds of reasons — some aspect of my identity or my work or my presence in the world troubles their emotional waters. .......... After being on the receiving end of enough aggression, everything starts to feel like an attack. Your skin thins until you have no defenses left. .......... It becomes harder and harder to distinguish good-faith criticism from pettiness or cruelty. It becomes harder to disinvest from pointless arguments that have nothing at all to do with you. An experience that was once charming and fun becomes stressful and largely unpleasant. .........

We have all become hammers in search of nails.

.......... There is another category entirely of racists, homophobes, transphobes, xenophobes and other bigots who target the subjects of their ire relentlessly and are largely unchecked by the platforms enabling them. And then, of course, there are the straight-up trolls, gleefully wreaking havoc. ............ Lately, I’ve been thinking that what drives so much of the anger and antagonism online is our helplessness offline. Online we want to be good, to do good, but despite these lofty moral aspirations, there is little generosity or patience, let alone human kindness. There is a desperate yearning for emotional safety. There is a desperate hope that if we all become perfect enough and demand the same perfection from others, there will be no more harm or suffering. ................

Some days, as I am reading the news, I feel as if I am drowning.

......... I have a wife, a busy career, aging parents and a large family. I have more physical mobility and, in turn, more interest in being active and out in the world. I now spend most of my time with people who are not Very Online.







The Legacy of Toni Morrison There is a blossoming of black women writers who are following in her footsteps and making their own impact. ....... She said she appreciated her ability to “say more and write less,” and her “desire to give the reader space.” ......... Everything I am and ever will be as a black woman who writes begins with the work of Toni Morrison. .......... When I read each of Ms. Morrison’s novels for the first time, I saw far more than a reflection of what it means to live in a black woman’s body. I saw majesty and infinite possibility. I saw a writer wielding her craft masterfully, being bold and audacious, avoiding the facile choices despite the risks in doing so. ......... “I can accept the labels because being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it. It’s richer than being a white male writer because I know more and I’ve experienced more.” ..........

Ms. Morrison taught me and an entire generation of black writers to recognize that we are rich places to write from. She showed us that we must matter first to ourselves if we hope to matter to anyone else. She demonstrated that there is no shame in writing that is both work and a necessary political act.

.......... She was of us and wrote for us nuanced, complicated, authentic and honest representations of our culture, our lives, our triumphs, our sufferings, our failures. She demonstrated the importance of raising our voices and challenging power structures that harm vulnerable peoples. ......... She wrote impeccable sentences. She imparted wisdom in ways that seemed effortless. She commanded attention and demanded respect. She told incredible, passionate, resonant stories. .............

the very real life she lived, how hard she worked and how often she had to break through glass ceilings so that others could follow.

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how Morrison wrote her debut novel, “The Bluest Eye,” in stolen moments, while working full-time as an editor and raising her two sons as a single mother.

.......... she actively put in the work of being a writer, even in circumstances that would have stifled lesser people



A 5-year-old with COVID-19 died in an extremely rare case in Georgia Wyatt Gibson, who died Friday, had no underlying conditions before he got get sick ...... He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 as well as strep throat and a staph infection ....... Six percent of COVID-19 cases in Georgia have been reported in children under 11, and just five children have died with the virus ....... Wyatt had "barely had more than the sniffle" before getting COVID-19........ "No appetite, a little vomiting, a bit lethargic," Mitchell said. "He'd barely had more than the sniffle or two as prior illnesses go. Then the white tongue. Alarmed, he was hustled off to the local hospital." ...... Wyatt's father and baby sister have also tested positive for COVID-19 ....... Several US states have reported a slight rise in hospitalizations of children with COVID-19, highlighting the importance of adults getting vaccinated to protect them .........

"the most important thing to realize is that while children may be at low risk, they are not at no risk."





‘I’m sorry, but it’s too late’: Alabama doctor talks about treating unvaccinated COVID patients, says they ‘beg’ for vaccine The state, like the rest of the US, is seeing a surge in cases and hospitalizations due to rise of the more contagious Delta variant, which is attacking more aggressively in younger age groups compared to previous virus strains. ........ State officials in Alabama reported that 94 percent COVID hospital patients that have died from the virus since April were unvaccinated. ........ Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have proven effective in preventing against the Delta variant, while the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has proven less effective ...... “What we saw in December 2020, and January 2021, that was the absolute peak, the height of the pandemic, where I was signing 10 death certificates a day,” she said. “Now, it’s certainly not like that, but it’s very reminiscent of probably October, November of 2020, where we know there’s a lot of big things coming up.” .......... Cobia worries the upcoming school year will bring about a similar surge. ...... “All these kids are about to go back to school. No mask mandates are in place at all, 70% of Alabama is unvaccinated. Of course, no kids are vaccinated for the most part because they can’t be,” Cobia said. “So it feels like impending doom, basically.” ...... “And the one question that I always ask them is, did you make an appointment with your primary care doctor and ask them for their opinion on whether or not you should receive the vaccine? And so far, nobody has answered yes to that question.”



Why NYC is still No. 1

Brazil's scandal-plagued President may face a reckoning as lawmakers consider impeachment The President said he's now feeling "100% well" after his recent health scare, a consequence he says of a failed assassination attempt in 2018 ........ 54% of Brazilians support a proposed move by lawmakers to open impeachment proceedings against Bolsonaro. The July poll also found 51% of Brazilians considered the Bolsonaro presidency "bad" or "awful." ....... Bolsonaro has been at the center of the storm, having downplayed the gravity of the virus from the beginning. This week, the President criticized governors for taking restrictive measures to contain the spread......... "Many governors have closed everything. They have destroyed jobs, especially informal ones. We have around 38 million people in Brazil who live from day to day, who work in the morning to eat at night," he said. "They have lost everything. If there wasn't emergency aid by the federal government, these people would be condemned to starvation." .....

"Trump of the tropics"

........ "They want to accuse me of genocide. Now, tell me in what country people have not died? This CPI has no credibility," Bolsonaro said. The President added he is "sorry about the dead, but people who were healthy had little chance of dying." ......... a "difficult scenario" for Bolsonaro in the run-up to the October 2022 presidential election, with Datafolha polling showing him trailing likely rival and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. ....... Da Silva has hinted at a presidential run in 2022 after his convictions for corruption and money laundering were annulled in March, effectively restoring his right to run for office. .............. Bolsonaro's eldest son, Sen. Flรกvio Bolsonaro, tweeted about his father's recent hospital stay, "President @jairbolsonaro evolved for the better, he woke up in a good mood and, if he continues like this, he won't need to undergo surgery! Thank you all for your prayers! #WhoOrderedTheBolsonaroAssassination." ........... "May God bless us and continue to enlighten our nation. A big hug! -- Brazil above all; God above all!"



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More than two thirds of India may have Covid antibodies, new survey shows evidence the virus may have spread far more widely than official figures suggest. ........ Our immune systems develop antibodies either induced by vaccination, or in response to infection. The majority of survey participants, 62%, had not received a vaccine ......... "More than half of the children (6 to 17 years old) were sero-positive, and sero-prevalence was similar in rural and urban areas," he said -- but "states, districts and areas without antibodies run the risk of infection waves," meaning about 400 million people will still be vulnerable if a third wave hits. .......... Active immunity, meaning protection against a disease, is often measured by the presence of antibodies -- proteins in the blood, made by the immune system to help fight infections, acquired either through prior infection or vaccination. ........ only 6.35% of India's 1.38 billion population has been fully vaccinated ........ "I would like to emphasize today that at hill stations and in markets, the large crowds who are not wearing masks or following protocols is an issue of great concern," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, after photos emerged of tourists flouting Covid protocols in vacation destination towns. "This is not right." ............... the real toll of cases and deaths are likely much higher than reported, pointing to the discrepancy between official figures and the sero-surveys. .......... So far, India has reported about 31.2 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University -- less than 3% of its total population, and drastically lower than the proportion of survey respondents showing antibodies. ..........

the number of excess deaths reported during India's pandemic could be up to ten times the official death toll

........... Between 3.4 and 4.9 million estimated excess deaths were reported in India between January 2020 and June 2021 ..... compared to the Indian health ministry's reported death toll of approximately 400,000. ............. the first wave of the pandemic was "more lethal than is popularly believed," and that their estimates show a higher number of excess deaths reported during the first wave than the second. ........

"True deaths are likely to be in the several millions not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India's worst human tragedy since partition and independence."





Amateur Astronomer Discovers New Moon Orbiting Jupiter “I’m proud to say that this is the first planetary moon discovered by an amateur astronomer!”

The Expanded Child Tax Credit Is Here. Here's What You Need To Know The expanded child tax credit is only for 2021. A budget deal announced by the Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday would extend it. President Biden has also proposed an extension under his American Families Plan but faces opposition in Congress. Not a single Republican voted for the American Rescue Plan, and some have criticized the expanded child tax credit........ "What I am hopeful for is that the power and the magnitude of what these checks mean for so many Americans is going to force the hand of politicians to make this permanent"



Will ‘the Great Wealth Transfer’ Trigger a Millennial Civil War? As this younger generation ages into its prime voting years — and boomers steadily age out of the electorate — the intergenerational “balance of power” will shift. ........ “such a shift in the balance of power could include a harsher inheritance tax regime, less income protection for pensioners, more property taxes, along with greater income and corporates taxes … and all-round more redistributive policies.” ......... over the next quarter century, roughly 45 million U.S. households will collectively bequeath $68.4 trillion to their heirs. This transfer will constitute the largest redistribution of wealth in human history. Generation X stands to inherit 57 percent of that $68.4 trillion; millennials will collect the bulk of the rest. ......... millennials are “questioning” individuals who value “experience,” while zoomers are “communaholics” who prize “uniqueness” ......... A person born in the late 1980s was raised on distinct media, cultural products, and economic assumptions from someone born in the early 1950s. ..........

Millennials gave Joe Biden about 60 percent of their ballots in 2020, while voters over 45 gave him only 48 percent.

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Poor, proto-socialist, tenuously housed — this is the generation that Deutsche Bank fears. It is also the one whose ascent the left eagerly awaits.

............ Our country’s exceptionally cruel brand of capitalism lived on bought-off boomers. It would not survive the rise of a debt-ridden generation with little taste for Fox News. ......... the boomers can’t take their appreciated assets with them, and capital is already trickling down family trees.

By the time AOC turns 50, millennials will be “the richest generation in human history.”

............. more than half of the estates bequeathed over the next three decades will go to low or middle-income households ......... it raises the possibility that intergenerational warfare will give way to intragenerational class conflict. ............ About half of millennials are invested in the stock market. Those with significant savings have seen their wealth multiply over the past three years: the S&P 500 advanced 31.5 percent in 2019, 18.4 percent in 2020, and about 17.8 percent through the first five and a half months of 2021. ............ the racial divide in millennial wealth is singularly gaping. White millennials lag white boomers in wealth accumulation by just 5 percent. Black millennials, meanwhile, own 52 percent less wealth than previous generations of Black Americans had accrued by their age......... Wealthy, white millennials will claim a massively disproportionate share of the impending inheritances and intergenerational gifts. And as familial wealth is transferred, and millennials’ “earned” assets appreciate, the generation’s internal class divisions are liable to become more invidious than those of its predecessors. ............ Advances in automation are expected to increase returns to capital and lower labor’s share of income. ................. Climate change also threatens to bring routine water shortages to many parts of the country, thereby periodically condemning ordinary millennials to a nigh-preindustrial living standard ......... Of course, it is possible that policy changes will avert our descent into a neo-feudal dystopia. ........ a manufactured housing shortage: There are 3.8 million more willing buyers than available homes in the U.S. today. .........

a house bought in 2021 won’t be a sound store of wealth unless U.S. home prices remain exorbitant in perpetuity

........... zoning restrictions that have kept housing artificially scarce ....... some other “angry millennial” renters have organized campaigns to eliminate exclusionary zoning and promote housing abundance. ............... it is also plausible that the twilight of the boomers will bring a new dawn for class politics, as the hegemony of social liberalism among the millennial generation lowers the salience of cultural issues, while the ever-compounding wealth gap forces questions of capital ownership back onto the American political agenda, for the first time in more than a century.



In Nearly All Other Democracies, This Is Not Normal the Constitution’s requirement that House members serve for only two-year terms. ....... The two-year House term has profound consequences for how effectively American government can perform — and too many of them are negative. A longer, four-year term would facilitate Congress’s ability to once again effectively address major issues that Americans care most about. ......... In nearly all other democracies, parliaments are in power for four to five years. ......... in most democracies, candidates do not have to fund-raise all the time to run; governments typically provide public financing to the political parties.

The two-year term, combined with primary elections and the constant need to raise funds individually, generates exceptional turbulence and short-term focus in our politics.

.......... The Federalist Papers then had to devote a good deal of energy fending off the demand for annual elections. .......... If you think American politics is not chaotic enough, imagine if the Constitution had adopted annual House elections.



America Needs to Break Up Its Biggest States From its beginning, the United States was built to expand. Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create states. Starting with the Vermont Republic in 1791, as America grew, the country’s roster of states expanded as well. ........ But since the addition of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959, America hasn’t increased the number of states, and unless some future president winds up buying Greenland, the United States is unlikely to expand territorially. ........... Since 1960, the country has added over 150 million people through a combination of immigration and natural population increase. Yet we haven’t upped our state count. .......... America needs new states to improve the internal governance of the states and the country. We need new states — and the place to start is to carve them out of the largest states that already exist........... on its own, Los Angeles County would be the 10th-largest state in the union. The four largest states by population now make up roughly one-third of the population of the entire United States — more than the smallest 34 put together. ...........

Those four largest states have only eight senators, while the 34 smallest states have a supermajority of 68.

.............. On issues like environmental regulation and education policy, these behemoths can shape or frustrate national policy by their unilateral actions in ways that smaller states cannot easily dissent from. Their key industries and interest groups, meanwhile, wield disproportionate influence in the national and state capitals. ..............

Kentucky was created out of territory that originally belonged to Virginia, as was Tennessee from North Carolina territory and Maine from the territory of Massachusetts.

.......... creating states from a state that already exists would merely require the state legislature to vote to split up and for Congress to assent. ...........

carving the four megastates into three or more states each

............ If, as part of a larger national reorganization, New York City were to become a city-state — as Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen are in Germany ......... Inasmuch as New York City needs partners to coordinate with, the most important ones are in New Jersey and Connecticut, not in Buffalo and Rochester — so splitting up New York State could give new momentum to proposals for regional governance across state lines. ......... California could even plausibly be broken into as many as five states, if the Bay Area and Los Angeles were hived off to become city-states, which they are certainly populous enough to be. ............. Maine and Missouri were admitted in 1820 and 1821 to preserve the national balance between free and slave states. .......... it could be powerfully symbolic if, for example, members of the Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk and other nations of the old Iroquois Confederacy played a central public role in defining a state covering their old territory. ....... The genius of our federal system is that it provides a framework for a multiplicity of communities, with different interests and values, to live together as part of a single country. .......... Breaking up can be hard to do, but sometimes, it’s the best way to ultimately come together.



Snap Out of It, America! The country expanded its borders, abolished slavery, broadened the franchise; waves of immigrants reshaped and revised America’s character; the government added and dropped functions, amending the Constitution to fit the times. It was a restless experiment. ........... For more than 150 years, the United States had no official national anthem. “The Star-Spangled Banner” shuffled among “Hail, Columbia” and “America (My Country, ’Tis of Thee)”; the design of the flag shifted with the states and with fashion. ........... The country that passed Prohibition and created Social Security now spends decades dithering over how large a role the government should play in health care.

The country that went to the moon shrinks at the challenges presented by climate change.

.......... hard partisanship makes it difficult to create coalitions for sweeping changes. Wars, which once smashed through gridlock, no longer lead to collective action.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

เคช्เคฐเคถांเคค เค•िเคถोเคฐ เค•ो เค–ुเคฆ เค†เค—े เค†เคจा เคนोเค—ा

เคชเคถ्เคšिเคฎ เคฌंเค—ाเคฒ เคšुเคจाเคต เคธे เคชเคนเคฒे เคช्เคฐเคถांเคค เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคिเค• เค•ंเคธเคฒ्เคŸिंเค— เค›ोเฅœ เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคि เคฎे เค† เค—เค เคฅे। เคจीเคคिเคถ เค•े เค˜ोเคทिเคค เค‰เคค्เคคเคฐाเคงिเค•ाเคฐी เคฌเคจ เค—เค เคฅे। เคซिเคฐ เคจीเคคिเคถ เคจे เคชाเคฐ्เคŸी เคธे เคจिเค•ाเคฒ เคฆिเคฏा। เคฌीเคœेเคชी เค•े เคธाเคฅ เคฎिเคฒ เค•े เคธเคฐเค•ाเคฐ เคšเคฒा เคฐเคนे เคนैं เค”เคฐ เคชाเคฐ्เคŸी เค•े เค‰เคชाเคง्เคฏเค•्เคท เคฌीเคœेเคชी เค•े เคตिเคชเค•्เคท เคฎें เคฌोเคฒे เคชเคฐ เคฌोเคฒे เคœा เคฐเคนे เคนैं। เคคो เคตो เคซिเคฐ เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคिเค• เค•ंเคธเคฒ्เคŸिंเค— เค•เคฐเคจे เค† เค—เค। เคชเคถ्เคšिเคฎ เคฌंเค—ाเคฒ เคฎें เคฎाเคฐा เคคเคฎाเคšा เคฌीเคœेเคชी เค•ो เค•เคธ เค•े। เคชเคถ्เคšिเคฎ เคฌंเค—ाเคฒ เคšुเคจाเคต เคชเคฐाเคœเคฏ เค•ा เคฐाเคท्เคŸ्เคฐिเคฏ เคฎเคนเคค्เคต เคนै। 

เค‰เคธเค•े เคฌाเคฆ เคซिเคฐ เค‰เคจ्เคนोंเคจे เค˜ोเคทเคฃा เค•िเคฏा เค•ि เค›ोเฅœ เคฆिเคฏा เคฏे เคธเคฌ। เค…เคฌ เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคिเค• เค•ंเคธเคฒ्เคŸिंเค— เคจเคนीं เค•เคฐेंเค—े। เค…เคฌ เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคि เค•เคฐेंเค—े। เคฎुเคे เคฌเคนुเคค เค…เคš्เค›ा เคฒเค—ा। เค‡เคคเคจा เคช्เคฐเคคिเคญाเคถाเคฒी เค†เคฆเคฎी। เคฆुเคธเคฐो เค•ो เค•เคฌ เคคเค• เคœिเคคाเคคे เคฐเคนिเคเค—ा? เค–ुเคฆ เคœिเคคเคจे เค•ी เคธोเคšिเค। เคคो เคซिเคฐ เคฎुเคฎ्เคฌเค‡ เค—เค เคฌुเคฒाเค เคฎेเคนเคฎाเคจ เค•े เคคเคฐเคน। เคฒंเคš เคชเคฐ เค•्เคฏा เค–ाเคฏा เคตो เคฌाเคค เคคो เคฌाเคนเคฐ เคจเคนीं เค†เคฏी। เคฒेเค•िเคจ เคฆेเคถ เค•ी เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคि เค—เคฐ्เคฎा เค—เคฏी। 

เคฅเคฐ्เคก เคซ्เคฐंเคŸ, เคซोเคฐ्เคฅ เคซ्เคฐंเคŸ, เฅžेเคกเคฐเคฒ เคซ्เคฐंเคŸ, เคฒेเคซ्เคŸ เคซ्เคฐंเคŸ, เคฏเคนाँ เคคเค• เค•ि เคฏुเคชीเค เคธเคฌ เค˜िเคธीเคชिเคŸी เค†เคˆเคกिเคฏा। เฅจเฅฆเฅจเฅช เคฎें เค…เค—เคฐ เคฎोเคฆी เค•ो เคšैเคฒेंเคœ เค•เคฐเคจा เคนै เคคो เค•ुเค› เคจเคฏा เค•เคฐเคจा เคนोเค—ा। เคฎेเคฐे เคธाเคฎเคจे เคšेเคนเคฐा เค†เคฏा เค•ेเคœเคฐीเคตाเคฒ เค•ा। เคฒेเค•िเคจ เค…เคฌ เค•ुเค› เคฆिเคจ เคฌाเคฆ  เคธोंเคš เคฐเคนा เคนुँ เคช्เคฐเคถांเคค เค•िเคถोเคฐ เค•ो เคนी เค†เค—े เค†เคจा เคนोเค—ा। 

เคชเคถ्เคšिเคฎ เคฌंเค—ाเคฒ เคšुเคจाเคต เคธे เคชเคนเคฒे เคนी เค‰เคจ्เคนोंเคจे เค˜ोเคทเคฃा เค•िเคฏा เคฅा เค•ि เคฌिเคนाเคฐ เคฎें เคฌीเคœेเคชी เฅฏเฅจ เคฒाเค– เค•ी เคฌाเคค เค•เคฐเคคी เคนै, เค‰เคจเค•े เคชाเคธ เค…เคญी เคธे เคเค• เค•เคฐोเฅœ เคฌिเคนाเคฐी เคœुเฅœ เคšुเค•े เคนैं। เค…เคฐ्เคฅाเคค เคเค• เคจเคฏी เคชाเคฐ्เคŸी। เคคो เคเค• เคเคธी เคชाเคฐ्เคŸी เคฒांเคš เค•เคฐिเค เคœो เคเค• เคธाเคฅ เคชुเคฐे เคนिंเคฆी เคฌेเคฒ्เคŸ เค•ो เคธ्เคตीเคช เค•เคฐे เฅจเฅฆเฅจเฅช เคฎें। เคจเคนीं เคคो เค•เคฎเคธेเค•เคฎ เคฌिเคนाเคฐ เค”เคฐ เค‰เคค्เคคเคฐ เคช्เคฐเคฆेเคถ เค•ो เคคो เคธ्เคตीเคช เค•เคฐे เคนी। เคฒोเค• เคธเคญा เคšเคฒिเค। เคฌिเคนाเคฐ เค•े เค†เคฐ्เคฅिเค• เคช्เคฐเค—เคคि เค•े เคฒिเค เคœो เค•ाเคฎ เค•ेंเคฆ्เคฐ เคธे เคฆिเคฒ्เคฒी เคธे เค•เคฐ เคธเค•เคคे เคนैं เคตो เคชเคŸเคจा เคธे เคธंเคญเคต เคนी เคจเคนीं। 

เค•ोเค‡ เคเคธा เคจाเคฎ เคœिเคธ เคฎें เคฆเคฒ เคฏा เคชाเคฐ्เคŸी เคถเคฌ्เคฆ เคนी เคจा เคนो। เคจเคฏी เคฆिเคถा? เคเคฎाเคจुเคเคฒ เคฎेเค•्เคฐोเคจ เคเค• เคนी เคฌाเคฐ เคฎें เคธเคค्เคคा เคฎें เคชเคนुँเคš เค—เค। เคช्เคฐเคถांเคค เค•िเคถोเคฐ เค…เค•ेเคฒे เคตो เคธเค•्เคท เคนैं เคœो เคตो เคฌाเคค เคญाเคฐเคค เคฎें เค•เคฐ เคธเค•เคคे เคนैं। เคชाเคฐ्เคŸी เค•ा เคจाเคฎ เคจเคฏी เคฆिเคถा, เคฎोเคฐ्เคšे เค•ा เคจाเคฎ เคจเคฏा เคฎोเคฐ्เคšा। 





Prashant Kishor slammed by JD(U) chief: ‘Democracy not like running a company’ Janata Dal (United) chief RCP Singh said that Prashant Kishor has no base in Bihar. He also said that Kishor has shown prime ministerial dreams to many politicians, according to Live Hindustan. ........ He also said that the election victories in Bihar, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu were due to the voters and not any person ........ Kishor also handled the poll strategy of DMK in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections this year. He had also been a poll strategist for the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) alliance in the 2015 Bihar assembly polls. He was also roped in by the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party for the campaign in the run-up to the Delhi assembly elections. ......... Kishor was sacked from the JD(U) in January last year by Nitish Kumar who was the party chief at that time for his stand against the citizenship law that enables the government to fast-track citizenship for non-Muslims from three neighbouring Muslim-majority countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Kishor had said that he will continue to be politically involved in his home state of Bihar.





Shah Rukh Khan Finds His ‘Hero’ In Prashant Kishore For Web Series As The Duo To Meet At Mannat? Prashant Kishore has previously met Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai, and the meeting went for nearly three hours. ......... political strategist Prashant Kishore will meet Shah Rukh Khan at his residence Mannat and discuss the web series project. While there are no details about the project but report claim that it will produce by Khan’s Red Chillies production.



Poll strategist Prashant Kishor bows out on a high Kishor is basking in the glory of the victories of TMC in WB and DMK in Tamil Nadu ......... Kishor, when asked why he wanted to quit strategising for political parties, said he has had enough of it. However, the strategist has so far had a remarkable rate of success as he has designed campaigns for some of the most prominent politicians in the country, and the Trinamool's success in what has been widely recognised as an extremely tough election, has only boosted his stock as a political tactician. ........... A former UN official who has worked in the area of social policy and strategic planning, and a public health expert by training, Kishor's first big political stint was helping Narendra Modi win his third term as chief minister of Gujarat in 2013. ..........

He emerged as Modi's key strategist for all election-related work in 2013, and he and his brainchild Citizens for Accountable Governance helped design an extremely effective campaign for Modi for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014, a highlight of which was the 'Chai Pe Charcha' gatherings.

........... his magic did not work for the Congress in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in 2017. .........

The political pandit believes that there can be no war without a general, and insists on the campaign having a face.

His critics, on the other hand, claim that he has been choosing to work with parties that are in any case expected to win.

เคช्เคฐเคถांเคค เค•िเคถोเคฐ เค•्เคฏा เคฌिเคนाเคฐ เค•ो เฅจเฅฆ% เค†เคฐ्เคฅिเค• เคตृเคฆ्เคงि เคฆเคฐ เฅจเฅฆ เคธाเคฒ เค•े เคฒिเค เคฆे เคธเค•เคคे เคนैं?

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Sunday, June 06, 2021

เคช्เคฐเคถांเคค เค•िเคถोเคฐ เค•्เคฏा เคฌिเคนाเคฐ เค•ो เฅจเฅฆ% เค†เคฐ्เคฅिเค• เคตृเคฆ्เคงि เคฆเคฐ เฅจเฅฆ เคธाเคฒ เค•े เคฒिเค เคฆे เคธเค•เคคे เคนैं?




เคช्เคฐเคถांเคค เค•िเคถोเคฐ เค…เคฌ เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคि เคฎें เค†เค เคนैं। เคฌिเคนाเคฐ เค‰เคจเค•ी เคญुเคฎि เคนै। เค‰เคจเค•ो เคจเคฏी เคชाเคฐ्เคŸी เค–ोเคฒเคจी เคนोเค—ी। เค–ुเคฆ เค…เคง्เคฏเค•्เคทเคคा เค•เคฐเคจा เคนोเค—ा। เคšुเคจाเคต เคคो เคตो เคœिเคค เคธเค•เคคे เคนैं। เคฒेเค•िเคจ เค•्เคฏा เคตो เคธเคฐเค•ाเคฐ เคšเคฒा เคธเค•เคคे เคนैं? เค‰เคจ्เคนोंเคจे เฅจเฅฆเฅงเฅช เค•े เคฌाเคฆ เคฒैเคŸเคฐเคฒ เค‡ंเคŸ्เคฐी เค•ी เคฌाเคค เค•ी เคฅी। เค‰เคธ เคตिเคšाเคฐ เค•ो เคต्เคฏเคตเคนाเคฐ เคฌเคจเคจे เคจเคนीं เคฆिเคฏा เค—เคฏा। เคฆुเคธเคฐो เค•ो เคšुเคจाเคต เคœिเคคाเคคे เคฐเคนे। เค…เคฌ เค–ुเคฆ เคœिเคค เค•े เคฆिเค–ाเคฌे। 

เคชाเคฐ्เคŸी เคฒॉเคจ्เคš เค•เคฐ เค•े เคชเคนเคฒी เคนी เคšुเคจाเคต เคฎें เคตो เค•्เคฏा เคธ्เคตीเคช เค•เคฐ เค•े เคธเคค्เคคा เคฎें เค† เคธเค•เคคे เคนैं? เค•เคฐ เค•े เคฆिเค–ाเคจा เคนोเค—ा। เคธंเคญเคต เคคो เคนै। เค•ेเคœเคฐीเคตाเคฒ เคจे เคฆिเคฒ्เคฒी เคฎें เค•िเคฏा เคฅा। 












How Nitish Lost Momentum
Bihar@2025 = $240 Billion
Bihar: The NDA's Turn To Crack?
เฅงเฅซ% เค”เคฐ เฅงเฅฆ% เคฎें เคซเคฐ्เค•
All Of Bihar Is One Big City
Bihar@2025
India: A 15% Growth Rate Is Possible

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Thursday, May 27, 2021

Congress Must Spend $50 Billion And Take The Covid-19 Vaccine To Every Human Being



$50 Billion Spent On Global Vaccinations Will Save Trillions
Biden Should Buy Vaccines For India

PlayList: 50 Billion To End The Global Pandemic

ANTA (Association of Nepali Teraian in America)
MAA (Madhesi Association in America)
BJANA (Bihar Jharkhand Association in North America)

  1. Reach out to everyone you know in Nepal and India and emphasize the basic message of masking, social distancing, and handwashing repeatedly for as long as the pandemic is not over.
  2. Lobby Congress to fund the IMF proposal to spend $50 billion to take the vaccine to every human being and end the global pandemic.
  3. Fundraise for emergency medical attention.
Nepal Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathy Appeals To The Diaspora (An ANTA Event)
$50 Billion Spent On Global Vaccinations Will Save Trillions
Masking, Social Distancing, Handwashing
Third Wave: October/November/December เคคेเคธ्เคฐो เคฒเคนเคฐ: เค…เค•्เคŸोเคฌเคฐ/เคจोเคญेเคฎ्เคฌเคฐ/เคกिเคธेเคฎ्เคฌเคฐ: เคฌाเคฒเคฌाเคฒिเค•ा เคฌเคขी เคช्เคฐเคญाเคตिเคค เคนुเคจे

Indian Organizations

Indian cultural associations in America
All Indian Associations
Indian Associations, Organisation & Communities in USA
Indian Associations
List of Indian American organizations given tickets to attend Narendra Modi’s reception at Madison Square Garden in New York

How to Contact Your Elected Officials
Find Your Representative
Contacting U.S. Senators
Contact Your U.S. Senators and Representatives
Contact Your Representative: Take Action

US Congress On Twitter

#nepal #india #pandemic #covid19 #vaccine #imf #whitehouse #congress



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Friday, May 21, 2021

$50 Billion Spent On Global Vaccinations Will Save Trillions

เค•ोเคฐोเคจा เคตाเคฏเคฐเคธ เคฎเคนाเคฎाเคฐी เฅจเฅฆเฅจเฅฆ (Coronavirus Pandemic 2020)
Say Hello
เคฎเคนाเคฎाเคฐी เค•ो เคฆोเคท: เคจेเคคा เค•ो เค•ि เคœเคจเคคा เค•ो?
Video Blogging The Pandemic
Biden Should Buy Vaccines For India
"Biden Supports Waiver Of Patent Protections For Covid Vaccines"



The ROI (Return On Investment) is just astounding. Minus that the global economy goes off the rails. The recovery will be long and arduous. Deaths will be many.



เค•ोเคญिเคก เคญाเคฐเคค: เค–ोเคช เคฒเค—ाเค‡เคธเค•ेเค•ा เคฎाเคจिเคธเคฎा เคซेเคฐि เค•ोเคฐोเคจा เคญाเค‡เคฐเคธ เคธเค™्เค•्เคฐเคฎเคฃ เคนुเคจुเค•ो เค…เคฐ्เคฅ เค•े เคนो
เค•ोเคญिเคก เคจेเคชाเคฒः เค•ोเคฐोเคจा เคญाเค‡เคฐเคธ เคนुँเคฆा เคฌिเคฐाเคฎीเค•ा เค†ँเค–ा เคฌिเค—ाเคฐ्เคจे เค˜ाเคคเค• เค•ाเคฒो เคขुเคธीเค•ो เคธเค™्เค•्เคฐเคฎเคฃ เคฆेเค–ा เคชเคฐ्เคจ เคฅाเคฒ्เคฏो, เค•เคธเคฐी เคœोเค—िเคจे

เค•ोเคญिเคก เค–ोเคช เค–เคฐिเคฆเคฎा เฅฉเฅจ เค•เคฐोเคก เค•เคฎिเคธเคจเค•ो เค–ेเคฒ เคเค• เคกोเคœเคฎै เฅจเฅฉเฅช เคฐुเคชैเคฏाँ เคฌเคขी เคชเคฐ्เคจे
เคœเคธเคชाเคฎा เคตिเค—्เคฐเคนเคฌीเคš เคช्เคฐเคคिเค—เคฎเคจ เคฐ เคธเคนเค•ाเคฐ्เคฏเค•ो เคตिเคฎเคฐ्เคถ เคฎเคงेเคธी เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคिเคฎा เคช्เคฐเคคिเค—เคฎเคจเค•ो เคงुเคจ เคฐ เคธเคนเค•ाเคฐ्เคฏเค•ो เคฐाเค—เคฌीเคš เคจेเคคाเคนเคฐूเคฌीเคšเค•ो เคชเคตिเคค्เคฐ–เค…เคชเคตिเคค्เคฐ เคธเคฎ्เคฌเคจ्เคงเค•ा เคตिเคญिเคจ्เคจ เคชाเคŸा เค›ुเคŸ्เคŸเคฏाเคเคฐ เคฌुเค्เคจुเคชเคฐ्เคจे เคนुเคจ्เค› । เคธเคค्เคคाเค•ो เคฐाเคœเคจीเคคि เคญाเคตเคจाเคค्เคฎเค• เค–ेเคฒ เคนोเค‡เคจ, เคฏเคธเคฎा เคค เคจाเคซा–เคจोเค•्เคธाเคจเค•ो เคตिเคถुเคฆ्เคง เคธौเคฆाเคฌाเคœी เคนुँเคฆो เคฐเคนेเค› ।

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Saturday, May 01, 2021

Biden Should Buy Vaccines For India

The rich countries are being unjust, selfish, and myopic. The variants now mutating in India will circle back to the US and Europe. 

Biden just launched a $4 trillion plan on top of his earlier $2 trillion plan. The only reason the US is able to "borrow" all that money is because the world accepts the dollar as the de facto global currency. 

The US could spend $6 billion from that pot and buy vaccines for everybody on the planet. Or it could spend $12 billion to do research to fight the triple mutant variants next year.

เคฒाเคธ्เคธाเคฎा เคธुเคจ เค›, เค•ाเคจ เคฎेเคฐा เคฌुเคš्เคšै। For Nepal relying on vaccines to save the population from COVID-19 in short-term,...

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Monday, February 08, 2021

In The News (19)

Please, Biden, Try for 2 Million Shots a Day The administration’s vaccine plan isn’t ambitious enough. ............ the United States could get to 150 million shots in 100 days. ......... Now, like millions and millions of others, I watch the administration with a frantic eye to my own family’s survival. ......... Pfizer and Moderna, makers of the two vaccines that have been authorized for emergency use, have promised 200 million doses, enough for 100 million people, by the end of March.  


The Coronavirus Is a Master of Mixing Its Genome, Worrying Scientists New studies underscore how coronaviruses frequently mix their genetic components — which could contribute to the rise of dangerous variants. ............ The novel coronavirus has a propensity to mix large chunks of its genome when it makes copies of itself. Unlike small mutations, which are like typos in the sequence, a phenomenon called recombination resembles a major copy-and-paste error in which the second half of a sentence is completely overwritten with a slightly different version. ............... recombination may allow the virus to shapeshift in dangerous ways .............. related coronaviruses are quite promiscuous in terms of recombining with each other. There were also many sequences that cropped up in the coronaviruses that seemed to come out of nowhere. ............ Scientists have limited knowledge about whether recombination could give rise to new pandemic coronaviruses  

The Task Ahead for Biden on Climate The new president has shown a welcome interest in combating climate change. But more will need to be done. ..........  Put simply, the richest and most powerful nation in the world is back in the fight to rescue the planet from the fires, floods, famines, rising sea levels, human dislocations and other consequences of a warming globe. ................  In part because of Mr. Trump’s intransigence, the United States has struggled to meet its commitment in Paris to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025; with the help of the coronavirus pandemic, which disrupted the economy, emissions have dropped by 20 percent ........... What might cut it is major new climate legislation that encourages serious investment dollars — in millions of emissions-free vehicles, in hundreds of thousands of new charging stations to service those vehicles, in a reimagined electric grid carrying power from plants that rely not on fossil fuels but on rapidly growing renewable sources, in a cleaner public transportation system and in millions and millions of weatherized homes. ................... If America’s legislators cannot deal with a present emergency, how likely is it that they can be persuaded to address a more remote one?  

Aleksei Navalny Is Resisting Putin, and Winning The opposition leader was sentenced to prison, but he has mobilized a vast movement that’s not done growing. .............. “Hundreds of thousands cannot be locked up,” Mr. Navalny declared from court to his millions of followers on social media. “More and more people will recognize this. And when they recognize this — and that moment will come — all of this will fall apart, because you cannot lock up the whole country.” ............ The opposition now has 40 offices across Russia, and most of its millions of followers are young people who have not challenged the Kremlin before. Among people ages 18 to 24, Mr. Putin’s popularity has slid from 36 percent in December 2019 to 20 percent.  



Putin Isn’t as Strong as He Looks For the first time in a long while, the Russian president isn’t holding all the cards. ............... On Sunday, over 5,000 people were detained — the most ever on a single day in Russia — including 1,600 in Moscow alone. ............. The odds seem stacked against the protesters, who remain a tiny fraction of the population. Though his approval ratings have declined from previous highs, Mr. Putin still commands substantial popular support. There is little sign of rifts within the Russian elite, and the government has a formidable repressive apparatus at its disposal. The Kremlin also has a firm grip on the political system: United Russia holds 335 out of 450 seats in the State Duma, and the rest are mostly held by parties that back the government. ................ It’s an “imitation democracy,” as the Russian political scientist Dmitri Furman termed it. However autocratic Mr. Putin may wish to be, he still requires a facade of legality and regular elections. .............. United Russia is polling at about 30 percent and will be looking nervously over its shoulder: Elections to the national parliament are due in September. ............. A generation that has grown up entirely under Mr. Putin’s rule is more willing than its elders to take to the streets and reject it. ............ In other countries of the former Soviet Union — such as Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia — contested elections have set off movements that resulted in transfers of power. ............ There is a long way to go before Russia can turn its “imitation democracy” regime into a living, breathing one.

Becoming Teammates in Life and Business Erin Higgins Coles and Drew Coles, who own a wedding band company, admit that learning to fight fair and communicate during arguments was a challenge. ......... Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. ............. He dives right in; I’m risk-averse. We rarely see eye to eye. ......... We are competitive and stubborn. Because we work together, we lost who we were as a couple. Now we set aside time for ourselves individually and as a couple. We do dinner dates, take walks, ask each other questions about our lives, and share things we might not know about the other person. It’s a deeper level of talking than we normally do. And we don’t talk about work. We’ve matured in this relationship. ............  He’s learned to loosen up and enjoy the little things in life. He’s gotten better at showing his emotions. He had a wall up getting close to my family. He had a really difficult childhood and was raised by his grandparents. He’s learned how important family is. ............ Being together every moment of every day last year helped us learn to live with each other in a way we hadn’t been able to do before. Covid slowed us down and got us on the same page. ............ Erin is loving and has made me a stronger communicator. She’s helped me interpret who and what I am. She taught me the importance of family, what family really is and what family could be. Mine wasn’t as open, welcoming and outwardly loving as hers is.  I’ve learned what to take from my past and what I want to bring into my future and the kind of father I want to be. Now that we have worked out some of our issues, enough to see what we are bringing to this marriage, this relationship and what kind of parents we will be, we’re working on starting a family. ............... We’ve had dark times in our relationship, which made it hard to know where we would end up. Marriage takes work and a lot of self-reflection. The hard work is asking, “Is this worth the fight?” And “Why am I bringing friction to the relationship?” ............... We have learned to be less selfish. To be kinder to each other in the argument. You have to fight hard when it doesn’t seem easy to give the other person a smile, but you do because they need it. We are learning to stop and appreciate each other even in the worst of times.



The UAE is now offering citizenship to foreigners, and the economic gains could be ‘transformative’  Nearly 90% of the UAE’s roughly 10 million inhabitants are foreign nationals. ......... A major step forward in domestic policy, the move follows several months of historic reforms and diplomatic breakthroughs for the Middle Eastern trading and business hub. In August, the UAE became the first Gulf country to normalize relations and open direct flights with Israel. In the following months, the officially Muslim country introduced reforms legalizing cohabitation, allowing alcohol buying without a license, and permitting 100% foreign business ownership, compared with previous requirements of 51% local ownership when based outside of a free zone. .............. UAE citizens currently receive very attractive advantages: a high tax-free income; subsidized education, health care and fuel; incentive packages for buying houses and land; and pensions and retirement benefits from the age of 49. 

President Biden pledges to fix the racial wealth gap. Here are his plans  The median wealth for a white family was $188,200, compared to $24,100 for Black families and $36,100 for Hispanic families ........... In addition to proposing some sort of student debt forgiveness, Biden also advocated making public colleges and universities tuition-free for all families with incomes below $125,000. He also wants to nix tuition at two-year community colleges. Nearly 85% of Black bachelor’s degree recipients carry student debt, compared with 69% of white bachelor’s degree recipients ............ Biden also wants to expand access to $100 billion in low-interest business loans by funding state, local, tribal and non-profit lending programs in Black and Brown communities. He proposes expanding the role of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in underserved communities.  

'The Democratic version of John McCain' As the critical swing vote in a 50-50 Senate, Joe Manchin has emerged as the most powerful man in Washington. ........ The West Virginia senator has become the central character in Democrats’ control of Washington, a conservative throwback who speaks his mind and is maddeningly frustrating to liberals. He sided with his party to give them a critical vote toward approving President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus plan, but is already vowing to cut back Democrats’ dreams of a $15 minimum wage and limit who gets direct checks.  ............ Manchin often publicly discusses how he’s struggling with issues or tough votes. In a nod to his state, he lives on a boat while in D.C. named “Almost Heaven.” ............ he has found mostly frustration during his 10 years as a senator, eventually declaring of the hallowed chamber: “This place sucks.” ............ The United States doesn’t have royalty, but Manchin is pretty close to the lord of the Senate at this moment now that he’s the deciding vote.  

The Supreme Court’s new, deeply fractured decision on churches and the pandemic, explained Amy Coney Barrett just handed down her first Supreme Court opinion, and it’s surprisingly revealing ........ the state bans indoor singing and chanting because, in the words of one of the state’s expert witnesses, “most scientists believe that group singing, particularly when engaged in while in close proximity to others in an enclosed space, carries a high risk of spreading the COVID-19 virus through the emission of infected droplets.”  


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Through Genetics, Luck or ‘Prehab,’ Tom Brady Endures at 43 The mother of the opposing Super Bowl quarterback was a year old when Brady was born. What’s he still doing here? ........... Old quarterbacks hobble around the field, propped on stiff hips and achy knees, their arms ragged and their faces craggy. They look like survivors, elevated in myth but diminished in stature. ............ Rigid and worn, older quarterbacks usually move as if they might be unable to tie the laces on their cleats. ........... Then there is Brady, a cyborg. He is 43. Does he have a wrinkle on his face? Is his arm bionic? Are his joints made of rubber? He probably can tie his own laces while doing downward dog. ........... will be the oldest player to participate in a Super Bowl, at any position. He is the only quarterback to start a Super Bowl after age 40, and he is about to do it for the third time. ........... This will be his 10th Super Bowl. He has won six of them and earned the game’s Most Valuable Player Award four times. .......... this season Brady threw 40 touchdowns, the second-highest total of his career. Still mobile in the pocket, he was sacked at a lower rate than his career average .......... Brady talks of playing to 45, maybe beyond. .......... and explained it in a 2017 book espousing muscle “pliability.” The goal is a spongy elasticity that can absorb all that life throws at a body ..........  Brady’s diet is mostly plant-based ........... He fills his body with protein shakes, TB12-branded electrolytes and lots of water — “Drink at least one-half of your body weight in ounces of water daily” ................. “Replacing injury and rehab with pliability and prehab” is a catchphrase. Sleep and mindfulness are also promoted ............ he has found the optimal blend of diet, exercise and sleep.   

The Working Mother And The Pandemic

A YouTuber Shoots to Literary Fame in France, Ruffling  Feathers The social media star known as Lรฉna Situations, 23, had a pretty eventful 2020. She racked up millions of followers, became a best-selling author — and attracted criticism from the Paris book world.  .......... On her desk stood a nameplate saying “I am not bossy, I am the boss.” ..........  She is quick to laugh and talks with big, enthusiastic gestures, marveling on a recent morning at the large snowflakes falling outside her window. ............ She started sharing low-price fashion advice and makeup tutorials on her YouTube channel five years ago, as she was juggling several odd jobs to pay for her studies in a fashion marketing school. ...........  Her videos are often low-key and feature family and friends. In one, her father, a puppeteer who performed at schools and is currently unemployed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, makes jokes about his unfashionable clothes ............. how naturally curly hair should be acceptable even if artists like Beyoncรฉ and Rihanna have straightened theirs. ........  “One positive aspect of social media is that it gives minorities a space,” Ms. Mahfouf said. “I hope that this dynamic will take off from social media to real life.” ........ in a country where French people of North African origin still suffer from stigmatization and discrimination. .......... With a few exceptions, like the young Moroccan-born novelist Leรฏla Slimani, voices like Ms. Mahfouf’s are rarely heard in the very closed French world of publishing, which is dominated by white men. ............ Unlike some YouTubers who hire camera operators and editors, Ms. Mahfouf spends days writing, filming and editing her videos herself. ............ “Social networks are my No. 1 priority, where I am the freest and the happiest,” she said. “And the internet won’t disappear anytime soon.”  


QAnon Believers Are Obsessed With Hillary Clinton. She Has Thoughts. The mass execution cult has roots in three decades of demonization. .......... The lurid fantasy of Frazzledrip refers to an imaginary video said to show Hillary Clinton and her former aide, Huma Abedin, assaulting and disfiguring a young girl, and drinking her blood. It holds that several cops saw the video, and Clinton had them killed. ............ Trump himself called Clinton “the Devil.” .........  “This is a Salem Witch Trials line of argument against independent, outspoken, pushy women. And it began to metastasize around me.” .......... “I don’t have one iota of sympathy for someone like her, but the algorithms, we are now understanding more than ever we could have, truly are addictive. And whatever it is in our brains for people who go down those rabbit holes, and begin to inhabit this alternative reality, they are, in effect, made to believe.” ............ Clinton now thinks that the creation and promotion of this alternative reality, enabled and incentivized by the tech platforms, is, as she put it, “the primary event of our time.”  

The First Post-Reagan Presidency So far, Joe Biden has been surprisingly progressive. .......... Franklin Delano Roosevelt was such a figure. For decades following his presidency, Republicans and Democrats alike accepted many of the basic assumptions of the New Deal. Ronald Reagan was another. After him, even Democrats like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama feared deficit spending, inflation and anything that smacked of “big government.” ............. Trump was a “late regime affiliate” — a category that includes Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover. ......... if Trump represented the last gasps of Reaganism instead of the birth of something new, then after him, Skowronek suggests, a fresh regime could begin. ........... a time when what was once conventional wisdom about deficits, inflation and the proper size of government has fallen apart ............. government, by getting the shots in every person’s arm of the vaccines, and building infrastructure, and helping working families, is going to be a force for good ......... His administration is working on a child tax credit that would send monthly payments to most American parents. ........ “Every major economist thinks we should be investing in deficit spending in order to generate economic growth.” ........ It’s not just that the Democratic Party has moved left — the old Reaganite consensus in the Republican Party has collapsed. ............ he has at least the potential to be the grandfather of a more socially democratic America. ........... both Abraham Lincoln and Roosevelt were “viciously” attacked from the left ........ “Moderation can stand as an asset if it’s firmly grounded in a repudiation of the manifest failure and bankruptcy of the old order. In that sense, moderation is not a compromise or a middle ground. It’s the establishment of a new common sense.”  


It’s Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Party Now She embarrasses some Republicans, but she’s no outlier. ........ By now, you’ve surely heard her theory that California wildfires might have been caused by a space laser controlled by Jewish bankers. That wasn’t Greene’s first foray into anti-Semitism; in 2018 she shared a notorious white nationalist video in which a Holocaust denier claimed that “Zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation.”  ........... She described the results of the 2018 midterms as “an Islamic invasion of our government.” ......... and several agreed that Democrats are controlled by Satan ............  The Texas Republican Party has adopted the QAnon slogan “We are the storm” as its motto, though it insists there’s no connection. The chairman of Wyoming’s Republican Party, who attended Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, said he might be open to secession. ..............  Senator Mitch McConnell floated openness to convicting Trump in a Senate trial, but ended up voting that such a trial was unconstitutional. Fox News, finger to the wind, purged many of its real journalists and gave the conspiracy theorist Maria Bartiromo a prime-time tryout. 

GOP's Future  a majority of House Republicans voted to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election ............ Histories of the modern Republican Party often place Ronald Reagan at their center. That is, in Levin’s view, a mistake, and one that obscures the true nature of the coalition’s tensions. “I think Reagan is better understood as a detour from a history that is otherwise a story of a constant struggle between populism and conservatism,” he said. Donald Trump was an inheritor of a tradition that stretches long before him — Pat Buchanan’s tradition, and Strom Thurmond’s tradition. He didn’t form a new Republican Party; he allowed a long-existing part to express itself. .................  The core institutions of American media, the academy, culture are abjectly left-leaning institutions. ............. I think that when conservatives think about universities now, they’re more inclined to think that there is no saving these institutions — we have to attack these institutions. ............. the culture of the right has become much more hostile to the establishment. .............. I don’t think conservatism can do its job in a free society in opposition to the institutions of that society. I think it can only function in defense of them. And a conservatism that becomes anti-institutional looks like a mob attacking the Capitol — which I don’t think is where anybody wants to end up. .................  conservatives need their own New York Times — a place that goes out and does reporting and is not completely bought into the movement’s incentives. ............ whether we can move a little more in the direction of a politics of ‘What does government do?’ and less of a politics of ‘Who rules?’ ............. I’d like to see a more democratized, majoritarian system. Levin would, among other things, add a filibuster to the House. .............. the filibuster plus the weird structural imbalances in our electoral system plus the system’s other veto points have created such a slow-moving form of government that symbolic politics can take over. .............. a functional republic, to be stable, has to not only enable enduring majorities to have their way but also protect durable minorities — large ones. .......... there are all kinds of structures in the system that compel accommodation, that require differing factions to work together if they’re going to achieve anything. ........... Congress was not intended to be like a European Parliament, where the majority rules for as long as the public will let it. .............. I would create a filibuster in the House before I would get rid of the one in the Senate. ................ the filibuster was not an idea of the founding fathers. They did not want a supermajority requirement in Congress. They thought about that and rejected it. ............. We have more filibusters than ever and more polarized politics than ever. More party line votes than ever. Less cooperation than ever. ............... how to fix American politics — how to recenter it on policy that changes people’s lives, rather than symbolic clashes that harden our hearts.

Liz Cheney’s Courage A reader praises her vote to impeach Donald Trump. Also: Renaming San Francisco schools; discrimination against Black girls; food pop-ups and safety. ........  her statement preceding her vote was one of the most powerful any politician has ever delivered, paving the way for the most bipartisan vote to impeach a president in our nation’s history. 

Fighting Covid Is Like Fighting a War Why Biden needs to go big and ignore the worries. .........  What we’re dealing with is more like a natural disaster than a normal recession, and the appropriate policy response is mainly a kind of disaster relief. ........... You spend what you need to spend to win the war. ............. Winning, in this case, means providing the resources for a huge vaccination program and for reopening schools safely, while limiting the economic misery of families whose breadwinners can’t work and avoiding gratuitous cuts in public services provided by fiscally constrained state and local governments.  ..............  Emergency spending may not be intended as stimulus, but it nonetheless has a stimulative effect. And wartime surges in spending have often been accompanied by bursts of inflation, because they can lead to an overheated economy. ................ the only way to find out what we’re capable of is to test our limits .............. every major element in the Biden plan has strong public approval. But support for stimulus checks is through the roof. ......... If you want effective policy on infrastructure, on the environment, on children and more, Biden has to deliver big, tangible benefits with his rescue plan. Otherwise he’ll squander political capital, and probably lose any chance to do significantly more.


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