quote [ "Those memories of watermelon dripping down your chin and spitting out the seeds really helped overcome any negativity issues for us." ]

quote [ France has been roiled by protests over President Emmanuel Macron?s proposal to raise the retirement age. On both January 19 and 31, over a million people across the country took part in demonstrations, and last week, workers with the CGT union took a more radical approach: they provided free energy as part of so-called ?Robin Hood? operations. Many members of the CGT, one of France?s largest labor unions, work in key energy sectors like oil refineries and power grids. In workers? assemblies in Paris, Marseilles, Lille, and other cities, they unanimously decided to provide free energy for low-income households, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings and services. Workers also cut power for several hours to the office of a lawmaker from Macron?s party, disabled speed cameras, and manipulated electricity and gas meters to reduce bills for small business owners. ]

quote [ However, people are now mad about Pink Floyd?s new social media logo, which commemorates the 50th anniversary, because it has a rainbow in it. ]

quote [ Billionaire Peter Thiel won big in the midterms, buying himself a Senate seat in Ohio. So what does Thiel want? Unfettered corporate power and the destruction of government institutions. This election got him closer than ever. We dug into his plan with @Second Thought. ]

quote [ Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former leftist president, has reclaimed the leadership and vowed to reunify his country ]

quote [ ?tomorrow are the Brazilian elections, which Lula is set to win by a large margin. Four years ago he gave what he thought would be his final speech, right before he was imprisoned on false charges by a corrupt judge. It is worth listening to again now on the eve of his comeback? ]

quote [ Claiming that nurses are continually being expected to go against their own moral compass while on the job, Anaas said that hospital administrators are corporatizing healthcare, in part by advising nurses to use ??cookie cutter patient plans? rather than rely on their own expertise.

On Monday, September 12, around 15,000 nurses in Minnesota walked off the job for a three-day strike, citing staffing and safety concerns as well as ongoing contract disputes at 15 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth metro areas. ]

quote [ It's really an academic bias that assumes that the reason is the thing that has this kind of special unique place in democracy. We think of our ideas about how democracy works are supposed to be founded on the idea that it's possible to have public discourse where reason to some extent prevails. ?I am, kind of, questioning that. ]

quote [ There is speculation the far-right figure was arrested live on air, but there has been no confirmation from law enforcement. ]