Laura Blair

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

February 28th blackout plan.

We asked and you didn’t disappoint! Here is the music that’s helping our movement get through this dangerous moment (there’s something for everyone). 👇

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

Costco is definitely the place to shop. Pass it on.

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Any chance it could get here sooner??

YR4: the asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

UN monitors asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

THIS! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Members of Congress were just denied entry to the Department of Treasury. This is a 5 alarm fire.

Mississippi again turns down millions of dollars to feed low-income kids during summer months - NewsBreak The program provides each eligible child $40 a month in grocery assistance. It was estimated the program would have brought in $38 million to the state la

More proof that they’re only “pro life” up until birth.

I'm pretty sure this cup makes coffee taste even better

Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Oh look. A President, a Governor, a Mayor - all at the crash site at the Chesapeake Bay with first responders. Not swimming. Showing empathy and leadership.

Oceanfront in black & white, the suns rays hitting the waves.

I know today was difficult.

I understand you’re tired baby.
So tired.

You’ve said wtf more times in 24 hrs than you’ve said your whole life. 😮‍💨

But you can’t quit now. People need your help. You can’t accept this chaos & hatred as normal.

Sit beside me, rest & get your energy back.

My dreams are still bigger than my fears…

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Library Path Post

Auschwitz is liberated | January 27, 1945 | HISTORY The Soviet Red Army enters Auschwitz, Poland, and liberates the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
www.history.com/this-day-in-...

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

Yep! Research CEOS/donations & Owners FIRST before buying - Costco so far seems to be the only 1 thats absolutely standing strong No big purchases especially for the next 4 years ppl

If you can participate excellent if not please don’t air why you cant (it doesn’t help) ppl are trying to organize

One of the most blatant forms of Christian hypocrisy in our time is Christians holding all the ordinary people we share this country with accountable to the most rigid moral standards while simultaneously holding their preferred politicians accountable to no standards at all.

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.