Laura M Williams

Your skirt is amazing. Your whole outfit is great!

For reference, the DoD cut $15M in pancreatic cancer research funding last year.

I took my eight year old daughter to a protest on Saturday and my heart could hardly take it.

"The children are always ours, all over the globe, every single one of them. And I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this is incapable of morality." -James Baldwin

Dairy farmer with major side hustle as superintendent of highways/mechanic/snowplow driver for his town. High school business teacher.

A good view helps.

$1B per day is about $42 million per hour. About 30 min worth of that spending can fund my lab for my ENTIRE career (~20 3-year NSFs or ~10 5-year R01s). Please wrap your head around that.

Inside Tycoon2FA: How a leading AiTM phishing kit operated at scale | Microsoft Security Blog Tycoon2FA has become a leading phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms, enabling campaigns that reach over 500,000 organizations monthly, prompting Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) to work with Europol and industry partners to facilitate a disruption of Tycoon2FA’s infrastructure and operations.

The phishing-as-a-service platform Tycoon2FA enabled campaigns responsible for millions of phishing messages reaching >500K orgs monthly. Developed and advertised by Storm-1747, Tycoon2FA allowed threat actors to conduct account compromise at scale. msft.it/63324Q5rJq

English majors need to at least do a semester of Chaucer. My Chaucer gets me through the 1300 passage. My Medievalist husband (now working in tech) can read it all, but laments the rustiness of his Old English.

James Talarico: I frankly am tired of the "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric from our leaders here in Texas and in our nation's capital.

I believe in the power of prayer. But there is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves.

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A reminder this happened earlier this week at Trump’s massive concentration camp in El Paso:

“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“

this sucks so much

Hope you got some help and things are better when you read this.

This is chef’s kiss New Jersey. Perfection.

PAPA LEONE YES

good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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What a contrast:

England investigates and arrests a member of the Royal Family.

Meanwhile, the US protects a president and refuses to investigate allegations of sex with a 14 year old, or any of the other 5,300 Epstein files with references to Trump.

It’s maybe more they’re scared of losing Texas?

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Like this. bsky.app/profile/joey...

Absolute HERO

If the Seahawks SuperBowl parade could turn into the world’s largest Ice Out rally, that would do wonders for my mood. I’m already seeing some crowd signs.

I guess we’ll all need to lean into crowd size even harder. thehill.com/homenews/med...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Darnit

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous