Pete Schwartz
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“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb
"...Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s stark dissent (says) that this decision “threatens the very essence of public education.”
#AmericanAtheists #Education #Atheism #Religion #SCOTUS
#AmericanAtheists #Education #Atheism #Religion #SCOTUS
American Atheists warns Mahmoud v. Taylor ruling undermines public education, pluralism
Washington, D.C. – American Atheists, a national civil rights organization, condemns today’s Supreme Court decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, agreeing with Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s stark dissent that thi...
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February 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
"...Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s stark dissent (says) that this decision “threatens the very essence of public education.”
#AmericanAtheists #Education #Atheism #Religion #SCOTUS
#AmericanAtheists #Education #Atheism #Religion #SCOTUS
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Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition.
This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.
This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.
February 8, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition.
This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.
This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.
From the kindness community on Reddit: NEW: Native dancers held a #JingleDress Healing Ceremony at the memorials of #AlexPretti and #ReneeGood in #Minneapolis - #Prayer, #Culture, and #Solidarity.
From the kindness community on Reddit: NEW: Native dancers held a jingle dress healing ceremony at the memorials of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis — prayer, culture, and solidarity. This is...
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February 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
From the kindness community on Reddit: NEW: Native dancers held a #JingleDress Healing Ceremony at the memorials of #AlexPretti and #ReneeGood in #Minneapolis - #Prayer, #Culture, and #Solidarity.
If you’re curious what the inside of the #Whipple building is like… #ICE. #Minnesota. #Immigration. #Humanity
From the WeThePeopleAtWhipple community on Reddit: If you’re curious what the inside of the Whipple building is like…
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February 7, 2026 at 9:50 PM
If you’re curious what the inside of the #Whipple building is like… #ICE. #Minnesota. #Immigration. #Humanity
I'm attending North Carolina Association of Educators's event, “Kids Over Corporations Mass Meeting” - sign up now to join me! #NCAE #NCPol. #NorthCarolina #EduSky. #PubicEducation
Kids Over Corporations Mass Meeting · North Carolina Association of Educators
Learn more about our statewide campaign, action plans, and how we win for our kids and schools!
The buck stops here! North Carolina's public schools are already stretched to the limit. Every new doll...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I'm attending North Carolina Association of Educators's event, “Kids Over Corporations Mass Meeting” - sign up now to join me! #NCAE #NCPol. #NorthCarolina #EduSky. #PubicEducation
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NO KINGS: Eyes on ICE: Document and Record
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February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Happening live right now!
Donald #Trump is going to try and steal the US #elections, and this is how he’s going to do it. #Georgia. #Minnesota #Midterms
From the ProgressiveHQ community on Reddit: Donald Trump is going to try and steal the US elections, and this is how he’s going to do it
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February 5, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Donald #Trump is going to try and steal the US #elections, and this is how he’s going to do it. #Georgia. #Minnesota #Midterms
On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County, Georgia Elections Operations Center and seized ballots and other materials from the 2020 presidential election.
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Federal Seizure of Ballots Demands Immediate Oversight
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February 4, 2026 at 11:55 PM
On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County, Georgia Elections Operations Center and seized ballots and other materials from the 2020 presidential election.
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(2) ...the fact that meat consumption contributes **massively** to climate change. 🌎
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February 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
(2) ...the fact that meat consumption contributes **massively** to climate change. 🌎
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#LoisGibbs is an #Environmental Health activist who discovered that her neighborhood in #LoveCanal, #NewYork, was built on top of a toxic chemical dump. When people in her community began getting sick, Gibbs organized local families to demand answers. #WomenInSTEM
Lois Gibbs: 1990 Goldman Prize winner, USA
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February 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
#LoisGibbs is an #Environmental Health activist who discovered that her neighborhood in #LoveCanal, #NewYork, was built on top of a toxic chemical dump. When people in her community began getting sick, Gibbs organized local families to demand answers. #WomenInSTEM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings
On 1/24/26, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in ...
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January 31, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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I can admit that there are some things #Trump has done with which I support. #Nuance not #dogmatism is my goal. However, the cruelty and lawlessness far outweighs any of that. I can't sit down with you at this point if you support him. #ICE is Trump's army. What more need you see?!
#Resist
#Resist
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I can admit that there are some things #Trump has done with which I support. #Nuance not #dogmatism is my goal. However, the cruelty and lawlessness far outweighs any of that. I can't sit down with you at this point if you support him. #ICE is Trump's army. What more need you see?!
#Resist
#Resist
Children and nursing mothers are apparently being fed putrid water. This is beyond unacceptable. #ICE. #CBP. #Immigration. #Minnesota. #Resist
From the FreeFolkNation community on Reddit: From the Dilley Family Detention Center in Texas, where many Minnesotans are currently being held
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January 28, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Children and nursing mothers are apparently being fed putrid water. This is beyond unacceptable. #ICE. #CBP. #Immigration. #Minnesota. #Resist
"The streets were blockaded by police, she said. People were walking all around her. "They were so calm and so peaceful, and my fear melted away because they're not going there to be violent," Zielinski said. "They're going there to be a voice.""
Alex Pretti's life and death in Minneapolis. 'A genuine person'
->AOL | #pretti #ice fascism #ice murder #minneapolis | More on "Alex Pretti Minneapolis VA nurse" at BigEarthData.ai
->AOL | #pretti #ice fascism #ice murder #minneapolis | More on "Alex Pretti Minneapolis VA nurse" at BigEarthData.ai
Alex Pretti's life and death in Minneapolis. 'A genuine person'
Ray Trebus Sr., a Vietnam War veteran, was in the throes of metastatic prostate cancer when his family first met Alex Pretti. Trebus was admitted to the Minneapolis VA Medical Center on Dec. 8, 2023, and Pretti became his nurse...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:46 PM
"The streets were blockaded by police, she said. People were walking all around her. "They were so calm and so peaceful, and my fear melted away because they're not going there to be violent," Zielinski said. "They're going there to be a voice.""
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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National Walkout Day: Chapel Hill · Mobilize
Please join Engaged Defenders for Democracy for National Walkout Day on Tuesday January 20th from 2-3pm at Peace & Justice Plaza. 179 E. Franklin St in Chapel Hill.
One year into Trump’s second regim...
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January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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"These #tariffs are not tied to any economic emergency. They are explicitly being used as political coercion to force sovereign nations to comply with the #Trump regime’s demands. Tariffs ...would raise prices in the United States while damaging relationships with #allies."
#Greenland #Annexation
#Greenland #Annexation
Stop Tariffs and Threats of Annexation Against Greenland
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January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
"These #tariffs are not tied to any economic emergency. They are explicitly being used as political coercion to force sovereign nations to comply with the #Trump regime’s demands. Tariffs ...would raise prices in the United States while damaging relationships with #allies."
#Greenland #Annexation
#Greenland #Annexation
"It might seem obvious that differences in each person’s immune system can affect how well they fight off pathogens. But uncovering the specific causes of this variation has enabled researchers to find ways to treat and even prevent severe infections that used to seem like random cases of bad luck"
Why do some people become severely ill from infections that leave others unscathed? 🧪
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go.nature.com/4sAcsrI
The infection enigma: why some people die from typically harmless germs
Nature - Millions of people worldwide carry genetic mutations that weaken their immune system.
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January 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
"It might seem obvious that differences in each person’s immune system can affect how well they fight off pathogens. But uncovering the specific causes of this variation has enabled researchers to find ways to treat and even prevent severe infections that used to seem like random cases of bad luck"
Urge #Congress to use its constitutional and statutory authority to enforce the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct and to ensure that no executive agency is permitted to place itself beyond oversight, #JudicialReview, or the #RuleOfLaw.
DOJ Obstruction of Epstein Files Disclosure
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January 18, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Urge #Congress to use its constitutional and statutory authority to enforce the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct and to ensure that no executive agency is permitted to place itself beyond oversight, #JudicialReview, or the #RuleOfLaw.
"Neuronal activity in dreaming rats suggests they dream about specific places – for example, mazes they’ve explored while awake. And not only that, they might even walk those routes in reverse and imagine new routes in their dreams, too."
Rats have amazingly vivid dreams - and scientists now know what they're about
->Discover Wildlife | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->Discover Wildlife | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Rats have amazingly vivid dreams - and scientists now know what they're about
Sleep is a mysterious thing. For a long time, we weren’t sure why we do it. Now we know that sleep has evolved for multiple reasons – to allow the body to heal and to clean our brains of toxins,...
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January 17, 2026 at 11:23 PM
"Neuronal activity in dreaming rats suggests they dream about specific places – for example, mazes they’ve explored while awake. And not only that, they might even walk those routes in reverse and imagine new routes in their dreams, too."
Ellen Ochoa is an engineer, scientist, and astronaut who became the first Hispanic woman to travel into space. She worked on developing ways for computers to process images. She spent nearly 1,000 hours in space on 4 missions. Ochoa became the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. #WomenInSTEM
Ellen Ochoa: The First Female Hispanic Astronaut
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January 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Ellen Ochoa is an engineer, scientist, and astronaut who became the first Hispanic woman to travel into space. She worked on developing ways for computers to process images. She spent nearly 1,000 hours in space on 4 missions. Ochoa became the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. #WomenInSTEM
Each of us has been told not to push back because “people would lose their jobs.” Refrains heard in the hallways include: “What I’m being asked to do feels wrong, but I need my health insurance” and “we have to keep our heads down and avoid putting a target on our backs.” #NIH #Science #Trump #DEI
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
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January 11, 2026 at 3:20 PM
“It’s shooting ourselves in the foot that we’re not going to be able to influence the policy implications,” she said. “So this idea that the U.S. is somehow better off not even being part of the international community on this is clearly just not true on the face of it.”
#science #IPCC #Climate
#science #IPCC #Climate
Via Lee Hedgepeth & Inside Climate News: Many climate scientists say that the Trump administration’s plan to leave the IPCC and withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change damages the scientific community and the United States’ reputation. https://ow.ly/HBW250XU4ze
January 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Does anybody subscribe to a monthly service to an #HVAC, #electrical, and/or #plumbing service? I have for several years but the company I've used for all 3 raised their yearly rate from about $100/yr. to $360/yr. They give 10% discount on work and a regular check-ups of systems.
January 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Does anybody subscribe to a monthly service to an #HVAC, #electrical, and/or #plumbing service? I have for several years but the company I've used for all 3 raised their yearly rate from about $100/yr. to $360/yr. They give 10% discount on work and a regular check-ups of systems.