Midwest Moderate trying to survive in the plains....

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

I've started to realize that Anne Frank and her family wouldn't have been safe around a lot of people I know and loved and once respected.

That's not something you get over.

This is the Children’s Hospital that they wave at the end of the first quarter of football games. Those kids get hurt by this.

This.

There is no drug that can make you hate women, or say horrible things about Black people, or really change your foundational behavior in any way. That’s why addiction is a disease and racism, sexism, and bigotry are not.

MLK Day 2025 summarized in one picture

Trying to stay engaged and not let this country slip away... What are you doing to prepare for battle (not including wiskey/bourbon)?