Tracy Zollinger Turner

This is hilarious. 😅

This Republican is a straight shooter, with Old Tennessee sayings to boot.

Watch as he talks about their attempt to ban Congressional Stock Trading.

He includes: Fonzi quotes. Admiration for swamps (beauty in Mother Nature). TN idioms. And the words "daggommit" & "damgum." 🤣😂

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Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

#NoKings

Sad News Alert: Eating Cheese Can Give You Nightmares

Sad cheese news.

A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

fortunately our corporations are rising to the moment

Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939) There have been many times in American history when celebrations of the country’s multi-ethnic, ever-changing demography served as powerful counterweights to narrow, exclusionary, nationalisms.

Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939)

Yes

London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside Foxes have been known to live everywhere in London from back gardens to the top of the Shard

Fantastic

Another regular reminder to parents whose kids have an IEP, 504, or any type of disability or accommodation… republicans think your kids don’t deserve to have access to an education. The DOE was the entity protecting those kids.

Every time I see conservative fearmongering about how dangerous the NYC subway is, I feel the need to defend it. I grew up in Ohio. It’s cars that are dangerous. It’s car accidents that are terrifyingly common. I’m not being dramatic when I say the subway is one of the best parts of my life now.

Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:

no one wants to hold a heart real gentle anymore

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

<Sob laugh>

Ruckus!

Zoom into the Pillars of Creations with a combination of ground based telescopes and Hubble.

These columns of gas and dust that span roughly 4 to 5 light-years are sculpted and eroded by stellar winds from the nearby massive stars.

Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

Extensive Propublica story about grant terminations

Sharing specifics and putting faces on the research…

Definitely worth a read

projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

jeeves, is this true

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

When I worked my 1st job as a reporter for a chain of small newspapers at 22, a United Way rep asked me out to breakfast to talk about local programs. They grabbed the check before I could.

My colleagues made me feel so bad and corrupt for accepting that $3 fruit salad.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams

Watch the whole thing

youtu.be/6ZHWIYHlXOs?...

We Trash Cat's gotta keep y'all guessing 🦝💜

Same

Me too! Love this series.

The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

In short, were the university to choose to defend itself, some simple arithmetic suggests that — at least financially — it could. Easily.

It’s not too bold to predict that every university president will face a similar choice in the coming months.