He quotes Abraham Lincoln writing in 1848 when he was a first-term congressman - "Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object."
02.03.2026 03:22 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Peace sign
Protest Trump's Illegal War! It's not surprising as this regime attempts to deflect from their disastrous record. If you are upset and angry and want to channel that energy into doing something, come join us for a POP-UP on the corners of Gilbert & Burlington streets at Noon today in Iowa City.
28.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Iowans Oppose HF 2296 - Protect Local Control & Community Safety.
Take Action Now!
Ask members of the House committee and House leadership too remove HF 2296 from debate and to oppose the bill.
MARCH 7th, WASHINGTON D.C. and nationwide! TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY! CHECKLIST: REGISTER TO HOST LOCAL RALLY SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER AT YOUR LOCAL RALLY LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR LOCAL RALLY DONATE TO FUEL THE FIGHT FOR SCIENCE! ALL OF THE ABOVE AND MORE AT: standupforscience.net/march7
SCIENCE FIGHTERS! We need YOU to rally with us on March 7th in Washington D.C. or at your local rally! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to learn more!
#March7
#rally
#standupforscience
#science
#savescience
Noise is key to evolution; entropy is key to metabolism. We have to stop pretending that biology fights against these things rather than relying on them!
18.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 111 🔁 16 💬 9 📌 1
My linocut portrait of Marjorie Rice with 4 groupings of her 4 pentagonal tiling patterns in pale orange, pink, purple and lime. Her shirt is a pattern of orange butterflies and white daisies on a dark green background. The pattern is based on the orange pentagonal tiling. She is shown in green with a background of yellow at her neckline to lime going up with lines and details overprinted in dark green. She is smiling at the viewer.
Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane! 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histart
The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always 🧵
Wonderful to be part of the Singing Resistance against ICE, organized by Iowa Mennonite Action inside Target in Coralville, Iowa! 2/8/26
After about 15min of peacefully making our voices heard we marched out singing Siyahamba, "We are marching in the light of God"
www.kcrg.com/2026/02/09/h...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the “research arm of MAHA” and a “central driver of the MAHA agenda.” Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...
02.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 133 🔁 65 💬 9 📌 1
Phyllis Kerridge was a pioneering chemist and physiologist whose research laid the foundation for the creation of standardised hearing aids. She is also known for her invention of the miniature pH electrode and her work on artificial respiration.
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ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.
For the video, Times Opinion asked some of them if they were willing to share their writing. “I think you should make friends with the world. Love, a Valley View student,” one child concluded.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
We Ride in Unity! 31st January 2026, meet at 1:00pm, 1:30 pm roll Iowa City, Bike Library 1222 S Gilbert Ct
We Ride in Unity!
Ride in Remembrance of Alex Pretti
31st January 2026, meet at 1:00pm, 1:30 pm roll
Iowa City, Bike Library
1222 S Gilbert Ct
Come together for a short, 5-mile ride in unity to remember Alex Pretti.
NYT headline: Domestic Terrorism Has a Legal Definition. The White House Uses Its Own. Suggested edit: replace the last three words with "Lies."
Why is this always so hard, NY Times?
28.01.2026 21:13 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0The defense "Befehl ist befehl" (An order is an order) was rejected at Nuremberg...
28.01.2026 13:55 — 👍 52 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Today in Clive, Iowa
27.01.2026 14:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pretti and Good Prevail Over Ugli and Evil.
Iowa City, 25th January 2026.
#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
Indivisible Iowa Johnson County stand in solidarity with our neighbors in Minnesota on this day of Truth & Freedom!
23.01.2026 12:31 — 👍 151 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 0
It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself. And faced with this logic, there is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety. Well, it won't.
My quote of the day
Mark Carney
Happy 92nd Birthday to the father of BOLD fMRI, Seiji Ogawa.
19.01.2026 18:26 — 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Today 1/15/26
Come to Meeting Room A at the Iowa City Public Library to learn hands-on skills to fight fascism in your community! This is a great opportunity to get connected with like-minded people & learn CONCRETE ways that you can stand up to authoritarianism! We look forward to seeing you there!
Thank you to all the Iowa Citoyens who came to our ICE Out for Good event. May Renee Nicole Good's memory serve to spark a peaceful revolution.
dailyiowan.com/2026/01/11/p...
ICE Out for Good - Iowa City
Sunday 11th Jan, 12-20pm, Iowa Av & N Clinton St
A US citizen was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, & abuse carried out by federal agencies against members of our communities.
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Today in Iowa City
04.01.2026 17:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
No War in Venezuela! Protest Iowa City
2pm Sunday 4th January - N. Clinton St.
No Blood for Oil! No Blood for Greed!
People Stop Trump's Regime!
CONGRESS STAND UP!
no epstein files today but as consolation it seems that they have finally chosen to declassify the infamous "MODIFICATIONS OF THE FLY FOOT FOR HUMAN NEEDS" technical report from the US Army Tank Automotive Command and it's even more salacious than anticipated
apps.dtic.mil/sti/html/tr/...
Go @cdelawalla.bsky.social! Straightforward question that deserved a straightforward answer. Head of NIH does not want to come out and say that vaccines have saved millions of lives 🤯. This is embarrassing 🙈 and irresponsible. Jay: you know better! We expect more from you.
16.12.2025 16:55 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
Take action with us! Impeach RFK Jr. Sign to endorse articles of impeachment. Send your representative a quack-o-gram. Donate and fuel the fight! www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
TAKE ACTION! We're leading the charge to impeach and remove RFK Jr before he puts more lives in danger — and we need your help.
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Just found out I was included in @nature.com's "Ones to Watch 2026" list for @standupforscience.bsky.social. Pretty wild to have my name included on a page with this calibre of scientists...really grateful for my team and the support it took to get here.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
