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They say less is more — celebrating my hubby Bradder's 71st birthday last night at Providence restaurant in L.A. with one candle.

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Balint: And now the United States stands with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and all of our allies in Europe? It’s sick

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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily... Lifting this great piece by Sherrilyn Ifill today. Yes we are doing something and you can too! Also who’s working on a lawsuit to stop Dept of Education takeover and do you need help? I’m in!

There are literally hundreds of research projects here at UIUC being destroyed by the cuts to the NSF, NIH, NIFA, USAID. It’s an incomprehensible waste of scientific progress and human capital.

Another example of what cutting science funding is doing to our leading university research programs in the U.S.: dismantling things like the Soybean Innovation Lab at UIUC, which have made US crop yields dramatically higher.

Today’s Hero

I've spent the weeks since election day stuffing takes into my take gun (like those t-shirt guns they have at NBA games) and so this week on #WITHPod, producer Doni Holloway kindly interviewed *me* on my own podcast so I could fire the take gun into the crowd. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...