Gail Marsella

YouTube video by American Historical Association AHA Congressional Briefing: History of Vaccines

Two weeks ago, three prominent historians gave a Congressional Briefing on vaccines, organized by @historians.org. A must watch as Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means dodges so many important questions about vaccines. @bachynski.bsky.social

Massie goes full beast mode today.

Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

France ups the ante in the spat with US ambassador, says ministers will no longer meet him France's spat with the U.S. ambassador to Paris has taken another turn with the French foreign minister now saying the top U.S. diplomat in France must explain himself after ignoring a French summons.

France's spat with the U.S. ambassador to Paris has taken another turn with the French foreign minister now saying the top U.S. diplomat in France must explain himself after ignoring a French summons. n.pr/4kS5if3

Oh don’t come at me about Tourette’s. You forgot, my mother was a doctor & so are two other members of my family. I had a Tourette’s Syndrome intern & asked them what to expect. They say inappropriate things but I never heard one slur. Make of that what you will.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Thank you, Mr. President.
No surprise that this statement, the best and most cogent advice I've heard in a while, comes from you.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED........

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting.

She had some things she needed to get off her chest

I guarantee that sometimes the answer is NOT to get more dogs

Fading Light from the Kayak

#sunset #photography #landscapephotography #lake #canada #manitoba #nature #naturephotography

I’ll just be blocking all the “You’d better be nice to me or I’m not gonna vote” people. The privilege necessary to hold your vote hostage is astounding, and I don’t have time for it.

If I were to look at my writing from high school I'd be probably be so embarrassed and ashamed to have thought that way once upon a time. Like it would almost be cruel to show it to me now.

I guess I can give myself a break for not knowing what I do now. It's not like any of us are born complete.

"Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass"

from my current read (T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925)

🎯🎯🎯

A large hall is filled with round tables surrounded by seated people watching a video presentation on a stage at the far end.

Around 150 people showed up for today's ICE Readiness Workshop with @handsoffnyc.bsky.social here on the Upper West Side to review the political situation, hear live from someone in Minneapolis, learn how to recognize ICE, and discuss how we can respond to protect our neighborhood.

😕

only the Democratic Party surpasses the NBA's ideological commitment to byzantine refracted incentive-wizardry over ever actually just dealing directly with a problem

🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social to @laurenboebert: “Y'all warned us about government overreach. You warned us government would cancel free speech. You warned us about government usurping the role of the church… All that is now happening and your party is enabling it.”

Dayum. Just heard a minister say, as perhaps only Black ministers can, “We will fight until hell freezes over, and then we will fight on the ice.”
I’m stealing that!!

A president can be removed for misuse of the public treasury. That's fraud and thievery and has nothing to do with his job of serving the American People. He only has immunity for actions done in the service of the people. Any state should be able to bring criminal charges against him for misuse of public funds, paid into the treasury by that state, and charge him with misconduct, and fraud of that state's taxpayers.

Far Side

YouTube video by JonBatisteVEVO Jon Batiste - FREEDOM

The groove continues because of this.

First Light Blues #photography #sunrise #TwinLakes #nature #clouds #EastCoastKin #Iphonephotography #trailrun #landscape

OK, Gavin Newsom's memoir just turned up in the mail. I didn't order it. Anyone else get one?

As the world reels from the president's rant and threats of additional tariff chaos, I'd just like to remind the UK that they recently arrested someone who could probably bring down this entire house of cards with very little incentive.

So DO SOMETHING!

Jeffries and Schumer just keep talking about the rise of American Fascisim, but don’t have the courage to do anything beyond going on TV to say it’s bad.