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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”

A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

Bask in the glow of spring window cat

No joke: Every Single Time I need to refill my steroid maintenance inhaler, I have to request the refill, make at least 3 phone calls, and then pay $296 for 80mcg/dose (when I'm supposed to have 220mcg). Online/mail order pharmacies won't even fill it.
Also the new style inhaler SUCKS (blows? 🤣).

Also adults!!! My insurance won't even cover mine, so it's $296 each month. It used to be $30.

Post from user @acnewsitics 'Alex Cole' states, "If boycotting Tesla is making conservatives buy electric vehicles, I think liberals should start boycotting books next and see if MAGA accidentally discovers reading."

It. Could. Work.

So hard to grade midterms when democracy is falling apart. 😕

Hear me out:

We should study the link between organic food consumption and autism.

And again, it's really hard to tell whether this is truth or satire!

#standupforscience Hartford

😭😭😭
I wish we could require anyone voting on this stuff to take and PASS an introductory biology course.

Well said!

Tweet by Pekka Kallioniemi (@PKall ) with the text: 'After 9/11, NATO’s Article 5 was invoked for the first (and only) time ever by the United States. Troops from the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Poland, Norway, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Finland, and many others joined the fight in Afghanistan. More than one thousand of these soldiers paid the ultimate price. JD Vance—Have you said 'thank you' once for their sacrifice?' The post includes a photo of the World Trade Center towers on fire and smoking during the 9/11 attacks, with a blue checkmark indicating a verified account.

Our national shame knows no bounds under the Trumperate of Trump/Musk/Vance.

Yeahhh this is a huge concern. I rely on this for my work, my students rely on this for their learning. Yes there are alternatives, but this is extremely concerning.
It's back now, but...

When you can no longer distinguish truth from fiction....

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

We are heartened by this call to action in Nature, one of the most respected journals in science. It urges the global scientific community to speak out on behalf of those being censored and support research as the US government shifts away from its historic leadership
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

After you place your daily call to your senators and representatives, go spend time in your happy place. Here's mine, just before our next snowstorm.

Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government

See here's how to do a headline.

fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

Black and white photo of Aimee Wilcox and Dr Seward Miller at a microscope in one of CDC's first labs.

July 1, 1946 CDC was created, in the heart of the south, to combat malaria in the US. That year there were ~48,610 US malaria cases. With the help of WHO and others, CDC established case reporting, investigation, and preventative measures. By 1957, endemic malaria had been eradicated in the US.

Thank god for this glorious cat, or I would be completely nonfunctional right now. Getting dressed and going to work is tough when democracy is crumbling 😩

The AP must refuse this but more importantly the rest of the White House Correspondents Association should back them.

Boycott the press briefings until they relent, and if they refuse, walk out. There is no real use to them in any case.

Trump craves attention. Deny him that and he’ll cave.

In one of Elon’s outcries about fraud, he actually ended up cutting funding for cancer research. Despite initially denying it, he was later proven wrong. This incident highlights how little he actually understands about what he’s doing.

Fluffy orange cat sits on a table with a heart patterned table cloth, looking down at valentine cards and stickers

Percy works hard to send love to all he can ❤️❤️❤️

This reminds me of grad school when a friend mailed me an eppendorf filled with glitter 🥰🥰 such useful little containers.

Preventing doom scrolling, one piece at a time.