John B
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In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. 🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today I’m going to post something different. It’s not necessarily ART, but it’s ACTIVISM
🪶💪🏽 INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM =
🪶🎨 INDIGENOUS ART
Today I’m going to post something different. It’s not necessarily ART, but it’s ACTIVISM
🪶💪🏽 INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM =
🪶🎨 INDIGENOUS ART
Reposted by John B
Sending gratitude to Native veterans on Veterans Day.
One of my most popular characters is Grampa Halfmoon, a U.S. Army veteran from a Cherokee-Seminole family, who appears in INDIAN SHOES and ON A WING AND A TEAR (both from Heartdrum). #VeteransDay
One of my most popular characters is Grampa Halfmoon, a U.S. Army veteran from a Cherokee-Seminole family, who appears in INDIAN SHOES and ON A WING AND A TEAR (both from Heartdrum). #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Sending gratitude to Native veterans on Veterans Day.
One of my most popular characters is Grampa Halfmoon, a U.S. Army veteran from a Cherokee-Seminole family, who appears in INDIAN SHOES and ON A WING AND A TEAR (both from Heartdrum). #VeteransDay
One of my most popular characters is Grampa Halfmoon, a U.S. Army veteran from a Cherokee-Seminole family, who appears in INDIAN SHOES and ON A WING AND A TEAR (both from Heartdrum). #VeteransDay
Reposted by John B
A profound analysis of DNA co-discoverer Jim Watson. Best piece of science writing I've seen in a long time.
"To remain on the stage and keep receiving what he viewed as his due, he therefore needed a new act."
By the late Sharon Begley @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
"To remain on the stage and keep receiving what he viewed as his due, he therefore needed a new act."
By the late Sharon Begley @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A profound analysis of DNA co-discoverer Jim Watson. Best piece of science writing I've seen in a long time.
"To remain on the stage and keep receiving what he viewed as his due, he therefore needed a new act."
By the late Sharon Begley @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
"To remain on the stage and keep receiving what he viewed as his due, he therefore needed a new act."
By the late Sharon Begley @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
Read 🧵…all of it, because it’s what I’m seeing at my institution too, and I’m sure everyone else is as well. Indigenous mentors are so important right now.
I had student meetings yesterday for my class. It was a writing class so most meetings started with my comments on their papers, but I told them they could ask about anything. Some asked for advice for gap years, how to choose the next career step, even audio books :) my favorite question was...🧵
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Read 🧵…all of it, because it’s what I’m seeing at my institution too, and I’m sure everyone else is as well. Indigenous mentors are so important right now.
If you're not Indigenous, then stop doing Indigenous cosplay.
And if you still want to do Indigenous cosplay, at least don't do it during #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth.
Oh, you didn't know that it was Native American Heritage Month?!?!
#NAHM #notyourmascot #mvskoke #muscogee #ironarrowhonorsociety
And if you still want to do Indigenous cosplay, at least don't do it during #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth.
Oh, you didn't know that it was Native American Heritage Month?!?!
#NAHM #notyourmascot #mvskoke #muscogee #ironarrowhonorsociety
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
If you're not Indigenous, then stop doing Indigenous cosplay.
And if you still want to do Indigenous cosplay, at least don't do it during #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth.
Oh, you didn't know that it was Native American Heritage Month?!?!
#NAHM #notyourmascot #mvskoke #muscogee #ironarrowhonorsociety
And if you still want to do Indigenous cosplay, at least don't do it during #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth.
Oh, you didn't know that it was Native American Heritage Month?!?!
#NAHM #notyourmascot #mvskoke #muscogee #ironarrowhonorsociety
Reposted by John B
Lydia Jennings, PhD, is a soil microbiologist and environmental scientist. Her research focuses on soil health, cleaning up mining waste, and restoring ecosystems.
https://awis.org/historical-women/lydia-jennings-phd/
#WomenInScience #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth Lydia Jennings, PhD
https://awis.org/historical-women/lydia-jennings-phd/
#WomenInScience #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth Lydia Jennings, PhD
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Lydia Jennings, PhD, is a soil microbiologist and environmental scientist. Her research focuses on soil health, cleaning up mining waste, and restoring ecosystems.
https://awis.org/historical-women/lydia-jennings-phd/
#WomenInScience #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth Lydia Jennings, PhD
https://awis.org/historical-women/lydia-jennings-phd/
#WomenInScience #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth Lydia Jennings, PhD
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. 🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today I’m going to post something different. It’s not necessarily ART, but it’s ACTIVISM
🪶💪🏽 INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM =
🪶🎨 INDIGENOUS ART
Today I’m going to post something different. It’s not necessarily ART, but it’s ACTIVISM
🪶💪🏽 INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM =
🪶🎨 INDIGENOUS ART
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. 🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today I’m going to post something different. It’s not necessarily ART, but it’s ACTIVISM
🪶💪🏽 INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM =
🪶🎨 INDIGENOUS ART
Today I’m going to post something different. It’s not necessarily ART, but it’s ACTIVISM
🪶💪🏽 INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM =
🪶🎨 INDIGENOUS ART
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. 🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today, we recognize guitarist 🎸 Jesse Ed Davis (1944-1988).
Today, we recognize guitarist 🎸 Jesse Ed Davis (1944-1988).
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. 🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today, we recognize guitarist 🎸 Jesse Ed Davis (1944-1988).
Today, we recognize guitarist 🎸 Jesse Ed Davis (1944-1988).
Reposted by John B
The assault took place on Friday October 31, 2025.
The footage is credited to Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune.
The full story is below 👇
The footage is credited to Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune.
The full story is below 👇
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The assault took place on Friday October 31, 2025.
The footage is credited to Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune.
The full story is below 👇
The footage is credited to Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune.
The full story is below 👇
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. 🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today, we recognize Wes Studi (Cherokee Nation).
Today, we recognize Wes Studi (Cherokee Nation).
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. 🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today, we recognize Wes Studi (Cherokee Nation).
Today, we recognize Wes Studi (Cherokee Nation).
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes.🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today, we recognize N. Scott Momaday (1934-2024). He was a writer of poetry, short-stories, essays, and novels 📚.
Today, we recognize N. Scott Momaday (1934-2024). He was a writer of poetry, short-stories, essays, and novels 📚.
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight some Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes.🎨🎸🎼🎭🩰🎬📽📖
Today, we recognize N. Scott Momaday (1934-2024). He was a writer of poetry, short-stories, essays, and novels 📚.
Today, we recognize N. Scott Momaday (1934-2024). He was a writer of poetry, short-stories, essays, and novels 📚.
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. Today, we recognize Joy Harjo (Muscogee Nation). She is an internationally renowned performer 🎷 and writer 📚.
#JoyHarjo #MuscogeeNation
#JoyHarjo #MuscogeeNation
November 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we will highlight Indigenous artists who inspire us. We celebrate these artists and their nations and tribes. Today, we recognize Joy Harjo (Muscogee Nation). She is an internationally renowned performer 🎷 and writer 📚.
#JoyHarjo #MuscogeeNation
#JoyHarjo #MuscogeeNation
The research that is credited for the Nobel Prize in physics was done in Berkeley during the 1980s.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The research that is credited for the Nobel Prize in physics was done in Berkeley during the 1980s.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
“…then they start showing things like okapi, platypus, aardvark…I mean, only a stable-genius could get aardvark correct. Low-IQ people would get aardvark mixed up with armadillo, but not me. And okapi. That’s a really tough one. It’s like a zebra and a giraffe had a baby! You wouldn’t believe it.”
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“…then they start showing things like okapi, platypus, aardvark…I mean, only a stable-genius could get aardvark correct. Low-IQ people would get aardvark mixed up with armadillo, but not me. And okapi. That’s a really tough one. It’s like a zebra and a giraffe had a baby! You wouldn’t believe it.”
As a card-carrying member of the Russ Fan Club, this only makes me like Russell Westbrook more. #WhyNot
www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/n...
www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/n...
How Will Smith Split LeBron and Russell Westbrook for Good
How one bad trade, one fake smile, and one celebrity cameo turned the 2022 Lakers’ season upside down
www.theringer.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
As a card-carrying member of the Russ Fan Club, this only makes me like Russell Westbrook more. #WhyNot
www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/n...
www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/n...
he’s truly unbothered by the no kings stuff. he’s not thinking about it at all and he’s definitely not mad.
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
October 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The Lowdown is sooo good. 🤌💯
It started great and keeps getting better. Episode 4 was the best one so far, IMO.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It started great and keeps getting better. Episode 4 was the best one so far, IMO.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Sterlin Harjo’s new series, starring Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist determined to expose the crimes of the élite, is at once rollicking and timely.
www.newyorker.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Lowdown is sooo good. 🤌💯
It started great and keeps getting better. Episode 4 was the best one so far, IMO.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It started great and keeps getting better. Episode 4 was the best one so far, IMO.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Projection
October 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Projection
This is not OK
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This is not OK
This is not OK
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
September 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This is not OK
Reposted by John B
Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg.
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg.
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
Science vs. Superstition
Facts vs. Feelings
Nobel laureates vs. RFK Jr.
Facts vs. Feelings
Nobel laureates vs. RFK Jr.
September 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Science vs. Superstition
Facts vs. Feelings
Nobel laureates vs. RFK Jr.
Facts vs. Feelings
Nobel laureates vs. RFK Jr.
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“I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. The stakes are not theoretical — we have already seen the largest [US] measles outbreak in more than 30 years, which claimed the lives of two children.”
go.nature.com/46rhA7s
go.nature.com/46rhA7s
Three ways ex-CDC chief says that Trump team is sidelining science
Susan Monarez testifies at tense Senate hearing that scientific integrity is being quashed at US health agency.
go.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. The stakes are not theoretical — we have already seen the largest [US] measles outbreak in more than 30 years, which claimed the lives of two children.”
go.nature.com/46rhA7s
go.nature.com/46rhA7s
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NEW: Per multiple sources, NIH staff have been told that "DOJ has advised" that they "should NOT" attend the American Public Health Association annual meeting, which is taking place in far-off, uh, Washington DC November 2-5.
September 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NEW: Per multiple sources, NIH staff have been told that "DOJ has advised" that they "should NOT" attend the American Public Health Association annual meeting, which is taking place in far-off, uh, Washington DC November 2-5.