On my blog: Toots from 04/21 to 04/25 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/25/week.html
This week, we have shared mobility, working around teaching restrictions, Harvard's stand, ending homelessness, Haitian reparations, the fiscal tsunami, chilling college campuses, and Arab American Heritage.
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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell

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#Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

“In a hurried world with infinite content, it’s worth considering that you’re no longer paid by the word when you write. In fact, you should pay for every extra word you use.” — Seth Godin

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‘Might makes right’ defines Israeli, US approach to Gaza

“It’s not about what is right. It’s about might, and Israel and the United States are projecting might through violence, through genocide, through war crimes, and trying to force that even into the agreements they would sign on to.”

Marwan Bishara

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"A senior United States official" is a political appointee over 30. "A senior agency employee" is a midlevel careerocrat looking out a Langley window and dreaming about a book contract. No confidential informant is ever identified as "junior," which would impugn the status of the source.
-- William Safire

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On my blog: Toots from 04/07 to 04/11 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/11/week.html
This week, we have measles, Le Pen, tariffs, Brazil's metalworker strike, information silos, finding fraud, and Arab-American Heritage.
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This week's Terry Pratchett quote:

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.”
― Terry Pratchett

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EDIT: Apparently not a genuine PTerry quote. My apologies. I'll leave it here, though.

“Gaza has always been a small place and the Israelis are making it smaller and smaller every day. We are being strangled with no food and with bombs falling on us.”

Zakia Sami, 60, a mother of six from Gaza City

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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
— Antonio Gramsci

“Whatever outrage there is, and there is appallingly little, hasn’t led to action, and I think this terrible stain on our conscience.”

Martin Griffiths
Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs

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On my blog: Toots from 03/31 to 04/04 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/04/week.html
This week, we have post-revolution Kenya, tree layout, recovering from autocracy, garment workers and the US labor movement, monopoly utilities, Signalgate, and Arab-American Heritage.
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“Israeli politicians have made no secret of that. They are quite open in their plans to ensure there is nothing left for Gazans by the end of this.”

Tahani Mustafa

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“People are treated like pinballs with constant military orders playing with their fate and lives.”

“Where are people supposed to move? Unlike in other conflicts, where populations can find safety, Gaza is being bombarded all across. It is sealed off like a cage with borders shut and basics not allowed in.”

“Two million people, half of them children, live there. How is this allowed, at the world’s watch, with no checks and balances.”

Lazzarini

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"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
– Arnold J. Toynbee

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell

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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are no consequences, it doesn’t matter what the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, the EU or individual countries say about the red lines Israel is crossing. Nothing that happens outside of Israel bothers Netanyahu’s plans.”

Luciano Zaccara

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#Israel
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