Rebecca Simpson

PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students  hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

"Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." ~ Thomas Jefferson

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

This feels so relevant right now.

Conservative Shopping Guide The Conservative’s Guide for Where to Spend Your Money Some companies invest to oppose your values. But there are plenty of other places to shop who support conservative values. Check out our naughty ...

okcrwc.org/conservative.... I mean, you just can’t make this stuff up. They are against (checks notes) Chick-fil-A and Fox News. Also, Home Depot.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0

Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Great point.

Thank you!! A federal judge in New York has granted a temporary restraining order in favor of the states suing over DOGE.

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.

I’m sure “DOGE” will be all over this..

truthout.org/articles/tes...

#uspol #rant in my biased opinion they want to get rid of DoE;
* to ensure kids they value are homeschooled or attend private schools where they can be inndoctrinated
* to ensure kids they don’t value mostly become a servant class
* to hurt poor and especially Black people

A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”

The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order (Gift Article) The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

This is so deeply, deeply, deeply fucked up.

“The trial was shutting down. A silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away. … The stop-work order was so immediate and sweeping that the research staff would be violating it if they helped the women remove the rings.”

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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I’m in Arkansas. All of my Congressmen are GOP. Getting ready to contact daily asking exactly what they think they are doing letting Musk run amok with federal programs and stop the disbursement of funds they’ve allocated and approved.

Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995) Image by Kenneth Zirkel, via Wikimedia Commons There have been many theories of how human history works. Some, like German thinker G.W.F.

Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition www.openculture.com/2025/02/carl...

I love her. Total girl crush.

I downloaded Bluesky when it became apparent TikTok was going away. So far, this seems like a much more pleasant version of Twitter and more user friendly than Threads.

The internet

120+ Indigenous tribal leaders have sent a letter asking for Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier

“A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse”

ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l...

@ndncollective.bsky.social

Trust me on this one: construction will come to a halt if Missouri deports undocumented labor. Meat packing plants will shutter. Concrete work will cease. Roofs will not be replaced. Hotels will run short-staffed. Landscaping and mowing services will go under.

We need undocumented labor.

Xx

While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.

Oh good grief.

This ~ 💯%