Ann Marie Gamble

My brain doesn’t know how to process watching the USA women hockey players singing the national anthem wearing their gold medals while Republicans in Washington are trying to take away their right to vote.

Someone told me, "Trump is both a symptom and a cause," which also applies with Hitler

Olympic athletes, some of whom are teenagers, are held to a higher level of expected maturity than the most powerful man in the world.

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America

or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

Many hugs

All the "don't say gay" crap in schools is always billed as inappropriate for small children, so now that the 10 commandments are mandated in Texas K-12, I'm over here 🍿 🍿 waiting for folks having to explain adultery and fornication. (With apologies to teachers, I know it sucks for you)

Yeah, US Olympians are woke. Deal with it. Sports have always been political — it's just a question of who's speaking out.

'At a moment when your government is rounding people up and building camps to concentrate them — and you know *everyone in the world knows it* — some ambivalence when you’re at an international competition is not just understandable but unavoidable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

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This country needs a Revolution not the Book of Revelation.

i made a joke recently that i was wary about teaching another british history seminar again because the last time i did, the queen died & there were 8 million prime ministers

so maybe it is me?

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Tired: America’s 250th birthday of declaring independence from England’s King and Great Britain

Wired: British King’s disgraced brother could take down America’s president and global elites by telling the truth about a pedophile ring

Whew

I've been seeing a lot of people disparaging democracy as a failure. It has not failed us. We however as a nation have been failing it.

For it to succeed, it needs an engaged and informed populace. Which is why those who want power but not responsibility, attack Free speech and public education

Also on this day in the year 1600, Giordano Bruno was burned alive at the stake for voicing his belief that not only was the Sun at the center of the Universe, but that the stars were also distant suns surrounded by their own planets.

426 years later, science remains under attack by ignorant men.

“He shined a light on jobs increasingly performed by minority and immigrant workers—janitors, hospital orderlies, home care workers—who were not yet on the nation’s radar during his presidential campaigns.”

GOP: “We won all the swing states and all three branches of government in 2024!!”

Also GOP: “Elections are RIGGED and Election FRAUD is rampant!!”

🤦‍♀️

A big thanks to every one of these groups

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Today I'm remembering the courage of Jesse Jackson across his life, including the 1984 DNC when he called for the Party to support the inclusion of queer people in their coalition at a time both parties and the public were indifferent to our suffering and opposed to our equality.

Changes to Ohio's absentee voting rules mean getting your ballot in early is really important. The good news? You can request your absentee ballot for the spring primary now before Ohio's early voting period starts on April 7.
📲Start by going to ohiosos.gov or your county Board of Election’s site

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Someone should remind Bondi that Nixon didn't go to prison, but his AG did.

My next book? 😆

back in my day politics wasn't about being nasty it was about being a Policy Wonk and trying not to sound too much like the Orson Welles ferris wheel speech from The Third Man when describing the societal role of government

For fucks sake, if you don't think there'll be elections, then no one ll show, except for the MAGAites. Stop scaring people. GET OUT N VOTE. Last time I checked, the PEOPLE have the ultimate say. If we all show up, we can overcome the bullshit.

However, I can also confirm that knocking some stuff off your list is fabulously lightening 🤗

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The Dolphin Head nebula in Canis Major constellation, photographed from my terrace

1/ The Dolphin Head (Sh2-308) is an emission nebula in the Canis Major region: a huge bubble created by material expelled by the star WR6, swept by its powerful stellar wind.
It’s also a target that drove me crazy for four years before I finally started to get a grip on it. ➡️

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#Astrophotography