On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

1. Cities have a positive value. We ignore and defy this truth at our peril.

http://spacing.ca/national/2022/04/01/why-we-must-stop-the-urbicide-the-killing-of-cities/

2. The Indigenous, Métis and Inuit nations sent delegations to the Vatican regarding the crimes of the Residential Schools. They got a response they hoped for, but didn't quite anticipate coming so quickly or so clearly. More work to be done in the months ahead, yes...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pope-francis-responds-indigenous-delegations-final-meeting-1.6404344

3. Can you do a road trip with an EV? I think we're closer to "yes"...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-electric-vehicle-road-trips-1.6404028

To those of you observing the occasion, Ramadan mubarak!

Speaking of the common good...I'm looking at this:

https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2020/09/usn-tone-deaf-on-religion-again.html

And this:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2020-09-05/navy-cancels-catholic-services-at-area-bases-while-others-continue#null

And I too am wondering - I'm not Catholic or American or a career combat-sailor either and I'm not sure that matters simply because I see fellow humans being neglected - exactly who thought this was a good idea to begin with and why.

...all of you, including those of you observing Pesach starting with today. Take care, okay?

https://religiondispatches.org/dont-let-bigoted-campaigns-sour-you-to-the-revolutionary-idea-of-religious-freedom/

Thanks to twistedchick for passing this linkage along.

Also, happily noting the existence of this organization:

https://www.blitzwatch.org/

If we don't already have the like in Canada, we should.

1. A doctors' office for nerds, cat people (of all orientations and gender identities), and other assorted persons of (many) interest(s):

https://www.boredpanda.com/video-game-family-practice-clinic-therapy-cats/

2. A discussion of religion and Canadian politics on CBC Radio's Sunday Edition:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/religion-and-canadian-elections-1.5317748

3. What if education was declared a right for Canadians? (Admittedly, I don't phrase the question as Vice Canada does.)

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ne89bz/canceling-student-debt-could-help-pay-your-rent-what-if-the-next-pm-did-it

Specifically Avengers: the Childrens' Crusade. There's the mayor of Rio, who's tied to an evangelical outfit based out of Brazil, a friend to the would-be tyrant Jair Bolsonaro...and he decided to pick a fight with a book fair - specifically the 19th International Book Biennial of Rio de Janeiro - over the trade collection of that mini-series, translated into Portuguese. And by going after an Avengers book, Marcelo Crivella has therefore targeted Marvel and Disney.

The biggest newspaper in Brazil decided to throw it right back in the bigots' faces.

Further info in these links. The first of which is from CBC News circa 2016, filed by Matt Kwong. It's included for some historical context.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-evangelical-christianity-prosperity-theology-rio-de-janeiro-1.3706704

https://www.themarysue.com/rio-de-janeiro-mayor-bans-wiccan-and-hulking-kiss/

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/09/09/brazils-biggest-newspaper-puts-marvel-gay-kiss-its-cover-in-defiance-of-brazilian-mayor/

On the subject of Black Panther's premiere in Saudi Arabia: Considering that many of the heroic figures of this movie are depicted as worshipping pre-Abrahamic deities...I wonder how well that will go over in the KSA?

...got another kick in the pants to keep it moving:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/wisconsin-lawmakers-endorse-radical-constitutional-idea

Dominionists on the move, I fear.