Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

I loved the book! Movie isn’t bad either.

Looking forward to this one. I first saw it at a theater in College Station, TX, when I was in the Texas A&M Ph.D program with @phdrachel.bsky.social. I also read Andy Weir's novel afterwards.

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’ Zelda Williams tells fans not to send her AI recreations of father Robin Williams, calling them "gross."

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”
A perfect distillation of why I hate AI.

What a mild way to say "this is against the law and has been anathema since the founding of this country."

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“The willingness to acquiesce to a public official’s editorial demands and have conversations with her about the direction of our coverage is a betrayal not just of the journalists who work for Carpenter Media, but of the company’s integrity as a purveyor of news.”

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION STATE OF ILLINOIS, a sovereign state; CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois municipal corporation,

just noticed this little detail in Illinois's complaint

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

"Do you have sheet music on this stuff?"

"Not for another 30 years or so."

#HATM

And here is in my opinion where Jake’s arc is complete. He’s looking around and seeing everyone have a good time and realizes that this is what he was fighting for all along in World War II #HATM

We have integrated dancing at the end signaling how forward thinking everyone is now... #HATM.

Ryan Gosling used the 'Dirty Dancing' move in real life and other 'Crazy, Stupid Love' secrets Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and writer Dan Fogelman tell behind-the-scenes stories from the rom-com.

This is great, but so is the version of this lift in Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Can someone please recut that film without the creepy babysitter lusting after the grown man line? Because otherwise that is a perfect movie. #HATM ew.com/movies/2019/...

The cheering section at the back of the room makes this final dance scene. #HATM.

You're very welcome. See the caption on the video for the full cite and transcripts too! #HATM

Yeah all those innocent people traumatized by the Depression and the war clinging to the warm hearth in the Cold War... #HATM

a cartoon of stitch covering his eyes with his hands and the words uggg !! below him . Alt: a cartoon of stitch covering his eyes with his hands and the words uggg !! below him .

SNEH after much groaning and complaining: This song is killing me. #HATM

YouTube video by Noel Diotte The Roots of Social Security - Frances Perkins (1962)

I clipped it from the longer video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Uc... #HATM
It says "Delivered at Social Security Administration Headquarters--Baltimore, Maryland
October 23, 1962." #HATM 🗃️

My parents learned early not to forbid us from dating a person because... they were forbidden to date. They were high school sweethearts but he was in a band with long hair and my maternal grandfather was not having it. They were married 47 years when dad passed in 2022. #HATM

Red male Doberman falling asleep while sitting up on the couch

Thor the Doberman fell asleep, woke up, and then kinda fell asleep while sitting up again. #HATM

Here is Frances Perkins explaining how Justice Stone told her how to make social security withstand constitutional challenges and how she kept the secret for years, as it was inappropriate for him to advise her like that. #HATM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ac...

Baby’s namesake got a monument in 2024. The Frances Perkins National Monument is in Newcastle, Maine! It’s a gorgeous area of Midcoast Maine. #hatm

A solid union job after WWII is nothing to laugh at. #HATM

Named after Frances Perkins, who was in Washington Square Park the day of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire watching the women & child laborers jump from the burning building to their deaths. She said the New Deal started that day. She went on to be FDR's Sec of Labor & developed social security.
#HATM

#1 in the WORLD. Y’all are amazing. Or crazy. Probably both. #HATM

two men are dancing on a stage in front of a sign that says `` chippendale '' . ALT: two men are dancing on a stage in front of a sign that says `` chippendale '' .

We always enjoy a shirtless Swayze! #hatm

What's Your Number? (2011) ⭐ 6.1 | Comedy, Romance 1h 46m | R

"Have you had many women"
Ok, one of my fav romantic comedies is "What's your number?" #HATM www.imdb.com/title/tt0770...