Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy 60 Years After the March on Washington – PEW
Shoplifting threatens closure of SE DC grocery store, creating potential food desert – ABC 7
News Blog
Sunday, August 13, 2023
“Picone turned toward two Food Not Bombs volunteers in the audience, Shere Dore and Tilal Ahmed, and smiled widely. Kubosh, who had thought of a verse from Proverbs when taking on the case — “Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court” — later said he felt, at that moment, confirmed in his faith. The two officers who had been called as witnesses to the ticket had already left.”
A volunteer was cited for feeding homeless people. A jury acquitted him. – WaPost
L.A. Housing Department Demands Residential Hotels Stop Renting Rooms to Tourists – Capital & Main
The Uprising in Iran – Frontline
‘Don’t Be Afraid’: How Schoolgirls in Iran Helped Fuel a Protest – excerpt
“Last September, after the death in Iranian police custody of a young woman, Mahsa Zhina Amini, who had been accused of not adhering to the Iranian regime’s strict dress code, 16-year-olds Nika Shakarami and Sarina Esmailzadeh joined protests over the government’s treatment of women and girls that were sweeping across the country.”
Harvard And Discrimination in Admissions: Is The Big Issue Being Ignored? – Eugene Steuerle
“In tracked systems, differences multiply. Following upon the work on relative age effects by Canadian psychologist Roger Barnsley, Malcolm Gladwell discussed in his book Outliers that Canadian children born early in the year were much more likely to become professional hockey players than those born later in the year. At the very early age in which Canadian kids start playing, the former group on average is more mature physically and mentally. That early advantage gives them more playing time and skill development that often adds to their relative advantage in the second year, and so on In the third and succeeding years.
“The Supreme Court provides an extreme example of how tracking plays out along for years to come, with eight out of nine of the current justices having attended Yale or Harvard law school. Amy Coney Barrett was the rare modern exception, though she did come along another track for modern Republican appointments to the Court—association with the Federalist Society. The historical bias wasn’t quite so bad, with law schools like Texas and Berkeley having had one each in their history, compared to 22 for Harvard. Only three law schools have had more than three.”
“Buffett acknowledged his own fortune, having been born into a time and place where his skills align well with a market economy. He humorously contrasted his ability to allocate capital with the practical skills needed for survival on a desert island. But more than anything, he emphasized gratitude for his privileged circumstances…”
Magic lost one lottery, won another.
“West Bank Palestinians are prohibited from defending themselves – their lives, their land or their property – from Jewish attackers. Self-defense against Jews in the West Bank is a criminal offense subject to arrest, trial, imprisonment and heavy fines – or death.”
An anatomy of Israel’s ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine. Read it carefully and double check what she writes.
Why do US lawmakers continue to subsidize a ‘Jim Crow’ system overseas with billions in aid that they publicly decry at home?
‘Freedom Conservatism’ Is Much Ado About Nothing – Oren Cass/American Compass
“Principles are not policy proposals, but to be useful they must acknowledge trade-offs and give some direction when applied. Instead, the signatories deliver lofty paeans that invariably dissolve into vague mumbling. ‘The skyrocketing federal debt . . . is an existential threat to the future prosperity, liberty, and happiness of Americans.’ Freedom conservatives thus ‘commit to building a constructive reform agenda that can restore America’s fiscal sustainability’, without giving the slightest indication of how to approach that task.”
