(@SCOTUS) “is a court that is “consolidating its power, systematically undercutting any branch of government, federal or state, that might threaten that power, while at the same time undercutting individual rights.”… 1/3 nytimes.com/2022/12/07/opi… …’This, I think, is a useful way of thinking about the current Supreme Court’s aggressive disregard for its own rules & tradition regarding case selection, methodology & precedent. The conservative majority is working to make the court the leading institution in American…

@GeosInstitute @CivilEats “...fonio had been cultivated for more than 5,000 years,” Thiam says. “I became more interested in this grain that was deemed worth taking to the afterlife by early Egyptians.” @GeosInstitute @CivilEats “We’re working with about 1,500 farmers [in West Africa]...In most cases, the families have been growing fonio for themselves. What we’re doing differently is asking them to grow for us, not as a feed-the-family crop only, but also as a way to get some income.”

“On January 20, 2020 the US & South Korea both discovered their first cases of COVID-19. “However, nine months later, the novel Coronavirus has claimed the lives of over 200,000 Americans and caused staggering economic damage... latimes.com/entertainment-… “...while in South Korea, there were no significant lockdowns and, in an urbanized population of 51 million, only 344 lives have been lost. Where did we go wrong?”

“In my six decades in public service, I’ve seen many changes..,Yet the most profound change...is also the saddest. It is the complete collapse in respect for virtually every institution of government and an unprecedented cynicism about the nobility of public service itself.”

https://twitter.com/ravenclawhaha/status/1307368383655018496

“155 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and less than two years after our first African American president left office, racism still remains a part of our national life...let’s imagine the American system we might have if the better angels of our nature were to prevail.”

@SecPompeo History will judge the U.S. government and the @WorldBank's unjust intervention to deny 110 million Ethiopians an “equitable and reasonable” share of the Nile River for their development needs. @RPCoalition 1

https://twitter.com/NGezahagne/status/1304721500637933569

@SecPompeo This is nothing short of condemning a black African nation and her population to abject and perpetual poverty. No one should condemn Egypt to suffer unduly, considering that 97% of its population depends on the Nile River. @RPCoalition 2

Gadseel and Jose Quiñonez are among dozens of people who county prosecutors say were falsely labeled as gang members or associates by Officers Braxton Shaw, Michael Coblentz & Nicolas Martinez. All 3 are with the LAPD’s elite Metropolitan Division. ⁦ latimes.com/california/sto… When Gadseel asked why they had been stopped, @lapdmetro said they LOOKED like gang members and that they’d HEARD rumors he was carrying a weapon, he recalled. Eventually, his boss at the recycling plant came out and spoke with the officers. They let the brothers go.

...she halted in the middle of the street at about 1:45 a.m. She stood calmly, a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overpowering force that has been criticized nationally by civil rights advocates... latimes.com/world-nation/s… Before it was over, she struck ballet poses and reclined on the street. She also sat on the asphalt in a yoga-like position, facing officers, before they left...