My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.

When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

Since 1975 (the past fifty years) global vaccination efforts have saved the lives of 154 million people, especially reducing infant deaths — by 40%.

That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany.

#ScienceMatters

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.

Yes, I'm pissed about the jumbo jet too. But this is actually the most important story today.

yee haw 🤘

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"People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people"

-V, (Alan Moore, 1989)

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

To preserve our humanity, I think it's important to be offline more. The truth is we can get all the news we need in one or two sittings a day, and then decide what to do about it, one day at a time. Platforms like this one can be helpful, but like everything else in life, dosage matters!

Written in 1820. Feeling awfully contemporary.

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy.

All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

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I played this song and my partner asked "what song is that?" I said that's the song i worked on today." There was a payse. She said "I thought a professional wrote it."

I'll take that as a compliment 😏
#briansgore #songwriter #desert #cowboysongs

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Pretty funny display of just how sensitive and sad the anti-woke crusaders are.

Beans in chili are woke. What a great bit

“Shot in the Arm”

A scientifically informed, yet compassionate Documentary on the curious and costly phenomenon of Vaccine Hesitancy

Now streaming (free) on PBS
[Video; 90 mins]
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...

Looking at this is still not looking at a blue sky, but I can check if the air's a little more clear than elsewhere.