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Laura Sasso
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Looking forward to joining this stream tomorrow. Thank you, Brandi. 🌈
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
September 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

Thank you💚
Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Pretty much sums IT up. Thomas Nast 1871.
August 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Maybe it is time to for Colman Domingo to run for president. He describes exactly the set of skills we need to make a brilliant turn around in this country. Colman if you see this please think about taking your unique gifts and elevating what it means to be president.
June 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Live Updates: Senator Is Forced to Floor and Handcuffed After Confronting Noem in L.A. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Live Updates: Senator Is Forced to Floor and Handcuffed After Confronting Noem in L.A.
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“… I think he's realizing the original talking points that he wheeled out are no longer as effective. & so he's testing out something new ultimately towards the same objective.
… When he testified that time, I think I texted him, you're lying. & he goes, how do you know?
I go, your mouth is moving.”
Sam Altman, OpenAI and the Future of Artificial (General) Intelligence
Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 05/22/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Inside the “cover-up” of President Biden’s decline.

“Jake Tapper's book, Original Sin, co-authored by Alex Thompson, describes a president who struggled to function . . .”
Inside The
Podcast Episode · Fresh Air · 05/20/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NYT: “The Trump administration on Thursday fired nearly 600 employees at Voice of America, a federally funded news network that provides independent reporting on countries with limited press freedoms.”
May 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
James Baldwin: “There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you break faith with what you know, that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that's enough.
May 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Recommend listen. “the way it has stipulated . . . there's an immutable, unchangeable difference between the two sexes, that comes straight from the Vatican. And so the federal government is citing the Vatican actually against science in the name of biological truth. And that's worrisome.”
Judith Butler on Why Gender Is in Trump’s Crosshairs
Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 04/24/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Reposted by Laura Sasso
There goes the study of 51% of our population. Because so many white American women vote like their husbands.
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Dear Elephants, Thanks for reminding me what humanity could look like. Imagine if we worked together, protected each other (family unit, chosen family, or otherwise.) in times of threat. Alert circles are a simple, profound strategy we should all practice in our own way. #elephants #humanity
San Diego elephants form ‘alert circle’ during earthquake
YouTube video by KPBS Public Media
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Exploring new forms and textures. Definitely some ideas I will take with me to the next round of work. Please share your feedback. Blue black glaze with white (appears red) overglaze. #potterystudio #ceramicstudio
April 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A victory we need to take a moment to celebrate. Thank you Susan Crawford and all that helped her succeed. Good luck to you. We need you. We see you.

Now back to the good fight. More like this please!
Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Despite Elon Musk’s Millions
Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
“In these relationships, we transform alongside what we perceive. And this capacity for transformation is what makes it possible for us to experience anything. Comprehending something means transforming. Learning means becoming something or someone else.”. Matter & Desire, Andreas Mann
March 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“But there never can be such a thing as that ego of the fearful dreamers, because all life is a creative process in which a sensitive identity can only develop by opening itself constantly to new things and thereby continuously giving up a little part of itself.” Matter & Desire, Andreas Weber
March 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“. . . we too will only be enlivened when, in the face of terrors that this life holds in store, we discard our illusions, break open the emotional armor that supposedly protects us against fear but in truth simply causes our souls to harden into prisons.” Matter & Desire, Andreas Weber
March 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“The idea that the ability to pollute was in the national interest was also hard to buy, he said.”

How about it is without a doubt not in the national interest, nor human interest nor in the interest of the biomes we inhabit. It is a loose, loose, loose strategy. Period.
E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email
Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A simple reminder that there is beauty in this world bursting with inhumane chaos, greed and self interest.

Never let them take away and never forget what makes us human.
March 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Laura Sasso
The Netherlands has tightened its travel advice to the United States for LGBTQ+ people, highlighting an unease among European nations about Washington’s policies toward sexual minorities.
Netherlands tightens US travel advice for LGBTQ+ people
German and Finnish authorities have taken similar steps, and Belgium is planning to do the same, as the Trump administration removes some protections for sexual minorities.
www.politico.eu
March 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM