GOP Senators again make a mockery of the Constitution's provision of "advise and consent". Former aide to Kavanaugh is overseeing review of documents related to Kavanaugh. GOP wanted wide ranging documents for Obama appointees, when they even considered them, and now want to rush the process with partial information.
this oneâs a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry
itâs  just 9 pages, and about some rats⊠itâs more symbolic than anything really
(itâs completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with âpuzzleboyâ)
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My dad told me recently that the most important public health workers are garbage collectors and janitors. So much of our health relies on a clean environment. These people do some of the most important work in society. If we learned in dirty public environments full of garbage, weâd all be sick. I cannot thank these people enough for the valuable work that they do.
Hot take: Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism are sufficiently different that they should be treated as separate religions. If we applied the same framework to Abrahamic religions that we do to Buddhism (and Dharmic religions in general) weâd treat Islam, Christianity, and Judaism as a single religion.
Itâs no secret that Easter, a Christian holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, has deep pagan roots. The fact that the holiday isnât tied to a specific date, and is instead governed by the phases of the moon, is strong evidence of its pagan origins.
And hot cross buns, the classic Easter treat, is a perfect example of how traditional foods can be repurposed to support new ideas and beliefs.
Traditional hot cross buns â a sweetly spiced bread, studded with dried fruit and decorated with a cross made of dough or icing â have historically been served on Good Friday. In 1592, Queen Elizabeth I decided that crossed buns would only be sold on Good Friday, Christmas and at burials. Whether her decree was due to superstition or politics, it eventually turned hot cross buns into the Good Friday treat we enjoy today.
But long before that, this popular Christian Easter treat got its start as a pagan spring custom.
Hot Agnostic Buns: A Proposal For A Pagan-Christian-Secular Easter Treat
Three days after the attack on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan, Pakistan, classical dancer Sheema Kermani participates in dhamal at the shrine. This is what defiance in the face of terror looks like.
Added context: On Thursday 16th February, 2017, the shrine of the great sufi Lal Shahbaz Qalandar was bombed in an attack claimed by ISIS in which over 85 people were killed. Sufi shrines and the culture that surrounds them in Pakistan are considered âun-Islamicâ by the religious right-wing extremists, but for the majority of the country they are a place of love, devotion, and some of the last vestiges of hope in country wrecked by violence.Â
Dhamal is a form of worship at shrines that combines music, poetry, chants, and dance and is one of the reasons religious extremists consider shrines to be un-Islamic. This picture of dhamal being performed at the site of the attack, by a woman no less, has quickly become iconic; a small glimmer of painful hope in a week of only death and loss.
Brown Asians are still clamoring for representation.
On Thursday, the New York Times published a video about the racism that Asian-Americans face every day, a compilation of stories gathered from the hashtag #ThisIs2016.
The video was a follow-up to an earlier Times article from editor Michael Luo, in which he responded to a person on the street who told him to âgo back to China.â
Unfortunately, according to some Asian-Americans, the video erased the complex reality of the United Statesâ Asian population by featuring people of East Asian descent almost exclusively, with one self-identified Filipino American represented and no South Asians.
Several Asian Americans penned open letter, published on the Huffington Post, which reads:
Your video told us, âYouâre still invisible!â
You did this during Filipino American History Month ? the month when we are supposed to be most proud of our brown presence in the U.S.
And you did this during election season ? when xenophobia against South Asians is on the rise and Islamophobia is so overt that Muslim Americans (and South Asian Americans who are presumed to be Muslim) expect to be discriminated in their everyday lives.
Dr. Kevin Nadal, a trustee of the Filipino American National Historical Society and author of Filipino American Psychology, co-signed the open letter. He said he was âshockedâ when he watched the video.
âI saw one East Asian face after the other, until one woman appeared and disclosed she was Filipina,â Nadal said in an interview. âAnd when I finished I was shocked. No South Asians at all? How the hell were they not included.â
This is not the first time the Times has left Filipinos and South Asians out of the equation. The Times produced a roundtable video earlier in April entitled âA Conversation With Asians on Race,â and among the 37 participants in the two videos, only one was Filipina and five were South Asian.
The video did not accurately show how these groups are represented in society, as Filipinos are 19% of the U.S. Asian population and South Asians represent 18% of all Asian-Americans.
Anthony Ocampo, assistant professor of sociology at California State Polytechnic University and author of The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race, created a graph comparing the demographics of Asian-Americans versus how often the Times represents them in coverage.
Discovery of genetic differences, using DNA analysis, could boost efforts to save declining populations
Why does the classification of giraffes into four species matter? It reduces the number in each species and thus raises their status on the endangered species list, triggering more attention, resources, and protections. Giraffe populations have declined by 1/3 over the past 3 decades.
As a child, I found my father's love of the national anthem utterly bewildering. His was the generation of men born free but shackled by bigotry. So why did he sound so proud, singing that song?
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