Kim Walker

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

an illustration of a woman holding a chimpanzee with the words " least i can do is speak out " ALT: an illustration of a woman holding a chimpanzee with the words " least i can do is speak out "

"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves"

Rest easy Jane 🫶🏽

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury Rep. Stansbury: History will remember those who stood up for the American people

“Maximize pain” — that is what the White House literally told the GOP their strategy is. Imagine responding to the fight for human dignity with a strategy for maximizing pain.

History will remember those who stood up, spoke out, and did what was right in this moment for the American people.

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

I never thought I’d see the day when America surrendered global leadership on energy security and innovation to China. But that is exactly what happened this week.

"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it."

--Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.

This ⬇️

So why are they protecting pedophiles?

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Robert Redford, Golden Boy of Hollywood, Dies at 89 Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy and Sundance Film Festival founder who starred in such movies as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and All the President’s Men — and who won an Academy Award for directing Ordinary People — has died. He was 89.

Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy and Sundance Film Festival founder who starred in such movies as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and All the President’s Men — and who won an Academy Award for directing Ordinary People — has died. He was 89.

ACOG Continues Recommending COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy This JAMA Medical News article discusses updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Breaking with the CDC, @acog.org reaffirms support for #COVID19 vaccination in pregnant people.

Here’s what to know.

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” —

James Baldwin

Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...

National Nurses United Called For Firing Or Resignation Of RFK Jr

"RFK Jr's tenure at HHS has been one disaster after another, dangerously eroding public trust in the institutions critical for the health and safety of all Americans. Time for him to go.”

www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...

Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”

1.2M immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows Experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation’s labor force.

1.2M immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows trib.al/gkaZMRA

State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

New report says Ernst plans to not seek reelection in 2026 • Iowa Capital Dispatch Candidates running for the seat responded to the story, first reported by CBS News, that U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst will not seek reelection.

#USDemocracy #Iowa #IA #GOP #TACO
Joni Ernst (R-IA):
• May 30: "well, we're all going to die."
• Aug 13: "Bring it on, folks. Because I tell you, at the end of the day, Iowa is going to be red."
• Aug 29: 🌮JACO👇

Would love to see Joni voted out

Amber Speaks Up on X: "🚨🚨 BREAKING: Epstein survivors will hold a press conference on Capitol Hill Sept 3rd, 10:30AM ET. For the first time, many will speak publicly about what happened and demand the release of the Epstein Files. I’ve been on this relentlessly and won’t stop now. I will be live https://t.co/kiKKUBv5m9" / X 🚨🚨 BREAKING: Epstein survivors will hold a press conference on Capitol Hill Sept 3rd, 10:30AM ET. For the first time, many will speak publicly about what happened and demand the release of the Epstein Files. I’ve been on this relentlessly and won’t stop now. I will be live https://t.co/kiKKUBv5m9

x.com/AmberWoods10...

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1952, Rosalind Franklin captured Photo 51 using X-ray crystallography. Image revealed double-helix structure of DNA—blueprint of life

Photo shown to James Watson and Francis Crick w/out her knowledge.

They used to build their famous DNA model and later received Nobel Prize in 1962

stolen valor

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.

(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

"Ghislaine Maxwell remains the only child-rapist in history to receive well-wishes from a president of the United States."

Lawrence O'Donnell

ICE, initially targeting migrants with no criminal record, then extended its reach to the media, undesirable Americans who protested, and finally, to you, America’s descent into fascism.

The 1866 New Orleans Massacre: A Story of Violent Voter Suppression Multiracial celebration interrupted by white domestic terrorism

Today is the anniversary of the 1866 New Orleans Massacre. This is a story of voter suppression, of white domestic terrorism. But the irony is, these events are not discussed in classrooms in Louisiana and throughout the country.

open.substack.com/pub/allyfrom... 🖇️

Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.