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Trying to get the word out to colleagues in SC - still need a leader! I'm going to #standupforscience2025 in DC on March 7 because science helps everyone, regardless of their political views.

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This is the future the GOP wants.

Donkey skyline today.

DAY TO DAY TRACK MAINTENANCE PART 1 - PLAIN LINE (1952)

Inaniloquent [IHN-an-il-ih-kwent] (adj.) - Full of empty or idle talk. Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. Used in a sentence: “Uncle Gregory is off on another of his inaniloquent ramblings again, I’ll have to call you back in a few hours when he finally runs out of steam.”

either is fine. or neither, it's bleak out there for all of us

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“From focusing on 2,000-year-old finds from 42 diff. sites across the national borders of present-day …Norway, Finland, & Sweden, our study reveals advanced iron and steel production contemporaneous with Roman steel production within the hitherto unthinkable cultural context of hunter-gatherers.” 😮

My first daffodils of the year #TinyJoys

ah, Ye Olde "blame the victim for the pain I inflict upon them" tactic. If you don't want art that's critical and you don't want to fund it, you don't want art, you just want free party propaganda.

At which point can government be held accountable for the mental health crisis they're inflicting upon staff and students through their non-intervention?

The search for Nigel Farage in Clacton enters its 32nd week.

This is terrifying.

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#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!" More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

Elon Musk fancies himself some kind of maverick technologist superhero. But he’s no Tony Stark. He’s PHONY Stark. He’s the one the Avengers defeat at the end of the movie.

Fash Patel gives VERY strong abuser vibee

If you're a cis woman, stop for a moment and imagine how you would feel if you were incarcerated and they decided to put you into a male prison. How absolutely terrified would you be? You know it's going to happen. So why don't you show some compassion and fight for your trans sisters...

Traditional, Tanzanian pilipili. Made using a friend’s family recipe, a regional version from Moshi just south of Kilimanjaro.

📅#OTD 1649, to discourage the #Levellers, the New Model Army's Council of Officers forbids the presentation of petitions from ordinary soldiers. They must come via their officers instead. #WarsoftheThreeKingdoms

I agree with Bill. Time to eat the rich! The 1% have gotten too big for their britches.

How come everyone smiles when they offer two fingers?

I'm just saying...

#Krasnov

Applebaum: When Putin invaded Ukraine: “international financial institutions froze $300 b of Russian assets -There are sound legal & moral arguments for seizing these assets & giving them to Ukraine” to allow them to continue defending themselves & to rebuild www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

#OtD 21 Feb 1973 law students in Athens went on strike and barricaded themselves inside the University in protest at the military dictatorship. Police violently repressed the students, but it was a key event leading to the student uprising of November stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

Via the House Science Committee (Democrats) - Committee Leaders Unsatisfied with NASA Response Regarding DOGE Access, Demand More Information democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services. This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.