…What do you make of Mitt Romney’s announcement? I hope the people of Utah elect someone like him in 2025. We need Republicans with the courage to stand up to the MAGA side of the party….
… Did you see the piece in the NYT about Bayard Rustin (BR) celebrating his “intellectual fearlessness” & “resistance to party dogma?” I was thrilled to see BR’s quote about his “stand against injustice” & how it came from his “Quaker upbringing”…
…My experience with the UAW when our graduate students struck last fall as Department Chair, when I tried to calm the nerves of my rattled colleagues, makes me think we need to buckle our seat belts. This could be a bumpy flight….
…It was kind of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (NPT) to say, “you have nary aged a day & I would say you look even better than before,” but please do not be flattered into selling weapons to Vietnam….
…“Rakhine, for all its poverty, is potentially rich given its natural resources, position as a transit route for trade & fuel...(Its access to) the Indian Ocean (is a) doorway to China….
…I am perturbed this AM after reading about mine clearing efforts in Burma. At great risk to their own lives & limbs, men from the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) go in the fields with rakes, hoes & pliers to clear unexploded ordnances so farmers can use the land…
…“Hurricane Idalia’s rapid intensification is becoming the norm for gulf storms.” Weirdly, storms move slower now so they intensify quickly going from being Cat 1 to Cat 4 in 24 hours. …
How much of yesterday’s conversation with Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves Robles was about Intel’s semiconductor assembly plant in Heredia? It’s hard to tell because the articles about the meeting in my news sources are short & focus on immigration.
