Poland Protests and Fungie the Dolphin

Different Things Can Be Sad

How was your Halloween? Spooky? Socially distanced? Good! If your November is looking less so (read: a lot more stressful) channel your energy into learning about the current protests in Poland or aquatic mystery n Ireland.

Reading

• Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (to skip this discussion, go to: 8:15)
• All Adults Here by Emma Straub

Watching

• Deaf U (Netflix)
• Dream Home Makeover (Netflix)
• Selling Sunset (Netflix)
• The Bachelorette (every Tuesday!)

Listening

• Resistance (podcast)
• Two Chatty Broads (podcast)

Politics

• Wikipedia article (useful in that it translates Polish sources): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2020_Polish_protests
• Human Rights Watch:https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/14/poland-reject-new-curbs-abortion-sex-ed
• NYTimes 2020 election: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/world/europe/poland-election-court-challenge.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
• NYTimes Poland in 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/world/europe/poland-european-union.html
• Politico on the Protests: https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-abortion-protests-shake-government-retreat/

Pop Culture

• About Fungie: https://www.ireland.com/en-us/articles/dingle-dolphin-fungie/
• More about Fungie: https://dingle-peninsula.ie/attractions-on-the-dingle-peninsula-co-kerry/family-friendly-activities-on-the-dingle-peninsula/28-attractions-on-the-dingle-peninsula/family-friendly-activities-on-the-dingle-peninsula/122-fungi-the-dingle-dolphin.html
• Reporting on his disappearance: https://www.baltimoresun.com/pets/sns-nyt-ireland-missing-dolphin-fungie-20201031-4h6s3i3mgradpd6n3bj7s4paoq-story.html
• Migration theory: https://www.irishpost.com/news/could-fungie-have-simply-moved-new-research-suggests-missing-dingle-dolphin-has-migrated-not-died-196503
• Fungie conspiracy: https://www.irishpost.com/news/worlds-longest-living-wild-dolphin-fraud-169542
• Bryce Dallas Howard on The Graham Norton Show: https://www.dailyedge.ie/bryce-dallas-howard-ireland-4036269-May2018/