JCPD
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JCPD
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Fact checking. Against disinformation and misinformation. No left or right, but center. Views expressed are my own. 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
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'Mind-blowing' El Niño stuns scientists. Why are they so concerned?
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Puerto Rico independence has to be one of the movements with the largest ratio between media prominence and actual support
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🇵🇷 “For 128 years of U.S. rule, Puerto Rico has been a colony” Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s 13th District, marked the 128th anniversary of the July 25, 1898 U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico by calling for an end to American colonial rule and declaring her support for the island’s independence. U.S. troops landed at Guánica during the Spanish-American War, and Spain ceded the island under the Treaty of Paris without any input from Puerto Ricans. In 1900 the Foraker Act established that Puerto Rico “belongs to the United States, but is not the United States, nor a part of the United States,” a formula that has defined its status ever since. Congress imposed U.S. citizenship in 1917, months before Puerto Ricans were drafted into World War I, yet residents still cannot vote for president and have no voting representation in Congress. Avila Chevalier pointed to widespread poverty, recurring blackouts, the federal response to Hurricane Maria and the unelected fiscal oversight board known as La Junta, which was imposed by Congress in 2016 to restructure the island’s debt and holds power over its budget above the elected government. “I also support independence for the Puerto Rican people,” she said. “Because after 128 years, it’s the least the people on the island deserve.” 🎥 @DarializaforNY (via Instagram)
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A animation showing Radioactive cloud from the Chernobyl disaster
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Donald Trump promised to slash electricity bills in half within 18 months of returning to the White House.
Instead, they've risen by almost 20 percent: reason.pub/4wWGeZ5
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Strawberry seeds can sprout while still on the fruit
In a rare phenomenon called vivipary, the tiny seeds on the surface of a strawberry can begin germinating before leaving the fruit, causing green shoots to sprout directly from the strawberry
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Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Ceaușescu’s colossal “People’s House” remains the heaviest building in the world.
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On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, members of the Buton community are known for a rare genetic trait that gives some individuals vivid, electric-blue eyes
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On 23 August 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to leave the Soviet Union.
More brilliant historical photos: bit.ly/3vlLOd6
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Moe Howard was asked what his favorite Three Stooges short was. Without hesitating he said You Nazty Spy! 1940 making fun of Hitler and the Nazis at a time when the US government strictly forbid any Studio making a political satire of the Germans.
Moe was insistent.
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Detienen en Chile a condenado por el asesinato del cantautor Víctor Jara que estuvo prófugo por años bbc.in/45nkY2R
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Milanesa a la Napolitana at Benito Nazar
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷
Taste Argentina: tasteatlas.com/argentina
Born in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, milanesa a la napolitana is an Argentine classic: a pounded, breaded meat cutlet fried until golden, then topped with ham, tomato sauce, and a thick blanket of melted mozzarella.
In traditional neighborhood bodegones, portions are serious business. This XXL version measures nearly 40 cm and weighs almost 2 kilograms—a massive plate built strictly for sharing.
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% of the population that speaks fluent English:
🇨🇳 China - 0.9%
🇧🇷 Brazil - 5%
🇷🇺 Russia - 5%
🇮🇳 India - 10.5%
🇲🇽 Mexico - 12.9%
🇮🇹 Italy - 13.74%
🇹🇷 Turkey - 17%
🇪🇸 Spain - 22%
🇮🇩 Indonesia - 30.8%
🇿🇦 South Africa - 31%
🇷🇴 Romania - 31%
🇪🇬 Egypt - 39.9%
🇵🇱 Poland - 49.1%
🇵🇰 Pakistan - 49~58%
🇬🇷 Greece - 51%
🇳🇬 Nigeria - 51~57%
🇩🇪 Germany - 56%
🇫🇷 France - 57.2%
🇵🇭 Philippines - 58.2%
🇧🇪 Belgium - 60%
🇦🇹 Austria - 73%
🇫🇮 Finland - 75%
🇨🇦 Canada - 83%
🇩🇰 Denmark - 86%
🇸🇪 Sweden - 89%
🇳🇴 Norway - 90%
🇳🇱 Netherlands - 90.9%
🇦🇺 Australia - 92.8%
🇺🇸 USA - 95.5%
🇸🇬 Singapore - 96.4%
🇳🇿 New Zealand - 97.8%
🇬🇧 UK - 98.3%
🇮🇪 Ireland - 98.37%
🇬🇮 Gibraltar - 100%
According to Census, Crystal, Euromonitor, Eurobarometer, and other local sources
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Democrats have a union problem. They have tied their political fortunes to unions, public and private, in ways that exacerbate intraparty conflict while stymieing both progressive and moderate goals.
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Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa Gorbacheva, vacationing in Nice in 1977. The trip was officially described as an “international assignment” to meet members of the French Communist Party, years before Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union.
More brilliant historical photos: bit.ly/3vlLOd6
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