“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Minerva Research Initiative research: minerva.defense.gov/Minerva-News...

again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world

find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you

do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again

show the human cost

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

All the beautiful books I have read that helped educate me about African American history. Every title recommended. #Blacksky