@milotha

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There is no argument I'll accept that this somehow is a portrait of an educational institutional working as it should
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/31/florida-hide-books-stop-woke-manatee-county-duval-county-desantis/
Hide your books to avoid felony charges, Fla. schools tell teachers

Unsure of what titles violate new state rules, two school districts told educators to conceal every book for now.

The Washington Post
Wow. So cool! So unnecessary. Still want it

Back in 2021, Boris Johnson said in Parliament that details of all Covid contracts were now “on the record”.

He was wrong.

We've uncovered examples of 29 deals awarded where the contracts still haven’t been made public. 👀 👇
https://glplive.org/fgh

REVEALED: Government fails again to publish Covid contracts worth £248m - Good Law Project

Good Law Project

If one person punches another person in the face and says it's OK because punching is their shared culture, ask the person who's been punched if they agree.

The Taliban thugocracy has responded to the Afghanistan chapter of our new World Report by saying universal human rights are not wanted in Afghanistan.

I’d be willing to bet at least half the population thinks otherwise – the half called women and girls, whom the Taliban treat as sub-human animals.

https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/01/13?story=paragraph-4886

Thugocracy vs Humanity: Daily Brief

The Taliban thugocracy has responded to Human Rights Watch’s new World Report by saying universal human rights are not wanted in Afghanistan. @astroehlein bets at least half the country disagrees…

Human Rights Watch

It’s not a coincidence that the violent assault against democracy in Brazil paralleled the January 6th attack.

If we fail to hold Trump and his co-conspirators fully accountable for inciting the insurrection, we are inviting it to happen again— both at home and across the world.

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer
Why are ethics questions always like:
"is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?"

And not:
"is it ethical to hoard bread when families are starving?"

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1613381074343821317
Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) (@existentialcoms) on X

Why are ethics questions always like: "is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?" And not: "is it ethical to hoard bread when families are starving?"

X (formerly Twitter)
and the brain-genius typed "no one would do anything without a profit motive!" and hit send on a button rendered by an open source front end framework firing off an event handled by an open source programming language that sends a packet in a format conforming to an open specification over a protocol developed at universities with public funding until it reaches a web server running an open source operating system that files the hot take away into an open source database for safe keeping

My cat watching Sandman: The Dream of 1,000 Cats.

#catsofmastodon

BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signs voter suppression bill #HB458 into law. The law puts strict restrictions on the types of acceptable IDs to vote, cuts a day of early voting and places new limitations on absentee voting and drop boxes. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ohio-governor-signs-strict-photo-id-bill-into-law/
Ohio Governor Signs Strict Photo ID Bill Into Law

Read more here.

Democracy Docket