Sylvia Izzo Hunter

Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates.

Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire.

You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.

Toronto trustees write to ombudsman, ask that province’s appointed supervisor communicate with parents Twenty-two elected trustees say they’re concerned “that decisions are being made by the supervisor behind closed doors.”

Today I learned that the Ford-appointed supervisors with ZERO education experience are making $360,000 a year! Must be nice to be a Ford crony!
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor... #topoli #onpoli #onted

Poor little buddy 💔 I’m sorry you’re scared of the world! I would really like to pet and snuggle you, and will sit over here and mind my business in case you change your mind, but I completely understand if I am just too scary.

I’m so sorry 💔

I believe you. I hate that the world is like this.

Very well put.

We have done this experiment one billion times and it has worked great all one billion times.

If you have ever asked a woman why she didn’t report a rape or sexual assault, or why she chose not to press charges, take a look at the Diddy trial, the Hockey Canada trial, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing … we don’t report because we know how often it goes like that.

BFF has a graduate degree in astrophysics whereas I have a BA in English & French literature, so I am willing to concede that I may be wrong on this one

BFF and I are complaining about the high cost and high discomfort of domestic air travel.

Me: Teleportation when??

BFF: No way!! Haven’t you seen The Fly?

Honestly I really wish I’d had access as a teen to books that portrayed LGBTQIA+ people and relationships as possible things to be and have.

But surely anyone writing a book for teenagers was once a teenager themselves? Idk about you but I remember my teenage years VIVIDLY, including the sex-adjacent bits. Drawing on their own experiences seems more likely than “sexualizing teenagers” to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Did you see the tween in the Weird Al outfit pop up on the screens and go absolutely bananas with excitement? I first experienced Weird Al with my little brother in the 1980s, and that little moment brought me SUCH glee tonight 😁

That is fully unhinged.

Also also he is only 20 years old?! How many girlfriends does he think the average cis dude has gone through by age 20 because I bet it’s not that many

This is at the top of my list, too 😬

Next is perhaps “his general vibe indicated that he wouldn’t believe any of the real reasons and would just keep pushing until she invented a boyfriend.”

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

This week the Lancet published landmark research investigating the death toll of Elon Musk's dismantling of USAID.

14 million lives projected to be lost by 2030.

That's over 2.4 million dead men, women & children a year.

Thanks to one man's venality & cruelty.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

MIND BLOWN.

Wait what!!!!

I spent 6 years working with Americans and none of them ever said anything 😱

A giant Cadillac SUV is parked half across the sidewalk on a suburban street. To the left and right is space on the driveway where it could park instead without blocking the sidewalk.

Hey, car people! Don’t do this!

😬😬

They also have clearly never met a baby who doesn’t WANT to be in the carseat and will inform you of this in excruciating detail at top volume for as long as it takes 😅

Trump administration axes UK university research projects - Research Professional News More than 20 projects at Russell Group institutions halted, freedom of information requests reveal

University research has amazingly positive, real-world impacts around the globe. This cancellation of funding - funding that had been granted - has immediate negative effects. Heart-breaking.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

That seems perfect.

No idea! But I wouldn’t be surprised! The “you’re an idiot if you don’t use the carseat as a carrier” folks seem to have significant overlap with the “N95 masks restrict your oxygen intake” and “Democratic voters are stupidly and ugly” crowd so it might’ve just been reflexive anti-empathy.

APPARENTLY, those bucket carseats are *designed* to be removed from the car and snap into a stroller frame, therefore you must use them that way. I think.

Also if you wear your baby you are teaching them to be clingy and they will never develop independence. Excited to tell my 22yo this 🤣

TIL that taking the baby with you but leaving the carseat in the car is ✨controversial✨ & also that one is not permitted to express an opinion about children if one has only one child, irrespective of other experience with kids. Once again contemplating just deleting my fb account 😂

Why can’t we just write about our silly little characters living their silly little lives happily? 🫠

Plot is hard for me. The hardest.

"Do not be haunted by the Enormity of the world's grief. Do Justly Now. Love Mercy Now. Walk Humbly Now. You are not obligated to Complete the work, but Neither are you free To abandon it. -Picked Avot

And Libby also offers audiobooks in the same interface, if your grandma is into those.