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Retired Research Chemist/chemical engineer: alternative fuels, nano-structured materials, crystallographer. Progressive. Doggie mom of Harley & Chunklet, PT writer; avid gamer (FTH!), wild woman. Education, critical thought, advocate. Be resolute and FIGHT
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This year, Rep. Bryce Berry was sworn in as Georgia’s youngest lawmaker and the only active educator serving as a state representative. When he took office, he set an intention to keep himself grounded in what he had learned from history, community organizing and his people.Read more: bit.ly/3ZCq20L

The $3 I spent to sign up for @runicpressgames.com's Patreon was well worth it for gems like this from the patron Discord server. New favorite reaction image. Courtesy of @bjarkethebard.com's voidcat Owlbert.

This alien gave me a misguided understanding of fashion at a sensitive age.

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We know

"Where are the Democratic leaders? We should have been dancing on this (the "We're all going to die!" remarks of Sen. Joni Earnst to her constituents who complained of healthcare cuts) two seconds after she said it!" -Rev. Al Sharpton He's exactly right. Where are they?

Finally, some mainstream press coverage of how woefully behind the entire SpaceX Starship project is. Rich Guy is talking about a Mars transfer orbit in 2026 and a lunar soft landing in 2027... It's May 30, 2025! They have *zero* space-worthy Starships assembled or crew-rated components. Zero.

Lindsey is just a big baby, so there’s that as well.

Joni Ernst is a POS: "Illegals" don't get Medicaid benefits. Medicaid is not money mailed to people. Medicaid PAYS health bills. My mom's memory care was paid for by Medicaid. And it's HARD as HELL to qualify. Undocumented people sometimes pay IN thru taxes. They do NOT get friggin' benefits. Bitch.

upset about no RepTV? absolutely not! our girl finally owns all her original work and that's what she wanted more than anything! i'm beyond happy for her and i'm already blasting Dancing With Our Hands Tied in celebration!

What drugs? 🥴

Leon IS the enemy within.

I can't believe I am saying this but David Brooks wrote a very, very good column that everyone should read, so here is a gift link.

Oingo Boingo Weepy Wino

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The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

We’re sure many of you have heard about the growing controversy in Oklahoma, where parents are pushing back against a new curriculum quietly pushed through by the state’s superintendent.

Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics…

Peony season in full bloom this week in Vancouver. #FlowersOnFriday #nature #NatureTherapy #photography #bloomscrolling

Speak Truth to Power...

“.. If you want sane, stable, even boring, rules-based order and predictable business environment, Europe is the place for you!" the official said. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/eu-...

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Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

“That study was swapped out with a new “systematic overview” authored by psychologist Pim Cuijpers, who told NOTUS via email that MAHA’s new citation is also wrong."

On point

I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

It's all baloney & #TACOs THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS

Imagine it’s 2016 and someone says, “in 2025 there’s a list of thousands and thousands of nonwhites and political agitators, and the US government sends masked agents in plainclothes to kidnap them, detain them without hearings, and then sometimes they send them to a torture prison in El Salvador.”

A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.

Trump has fired Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, calling her “a highly partisan person” and criticizing her support for DEI initiatives as “totally inappropriate.” Sajet has led the museum for over 12 years.

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That night Frog and Toad were both happy when they each turned out the light and went to bed.

BREAKING: the first big spider has appeared on the Franklin Avenue Bridge lampposts, indicating fair weather ahead. It even patiently paused for this pic.

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This will have a very chilling effect on framing crews in Florida. Handcuffed. Rounded up. I mean, are these guys going to El Salvador prisons? Other crews are going to assume so and PTFO.

Doesn't matter how many vulnerable people die as long as they get their tax cuts. More money for them, yay!

TODAY IN HISTORY: YOUR PRESIDENT TACO WAS FOUND GUILTY ON 34 FELONY CHARGES. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!