Citizens ' United case that made corporations "people" who could give unlimited $ as 'free speech" underpins it all. We need that undone & term limits Congress,Senate and Supreme Court. Just to start. Not having leaders be able to do stock market trading.
Stand Up For Science announces Dr. Michael Rosbash - Professor of Biology at Brandeis University, Nobel Laureate at Harvard University as a speaker at the Boston, MA National Day of Action rally on Saturday, March 7th!
Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find a rally near you!
#March7Boston
HuffPost Launches βVoices Of Disabled Peopleβ As The First National News Section Devoted Entirely To Disability Coverage
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#TrumpJobSlump #TrumpGasCrisis
Trump encourages the 92,000 people who lost jobs last month to apply to join the U.S. military: βBring boots.β
Unlike Hegseth, who appears drunk on performance as he thirsts for death, Trumpβs thoughts on death here are eerily relaxed. such insouciance might not be new when it comes to Americaβs thirst for war.
But carrying it so openly and inelegantly is something else entirely.
So appreciate @bethlhoffman.bsky.social work on public health education through story telling, including popular media (especially, The Pitt): www.acepnow.com/article/dr-j...
I was teaching about this in Global Public Health. Wondering if we will get in on this hot: globalhealth.stanford.edu/seed-grants/...
My kids have measles, there are no jobs, and the country is at war. But at least now I can buy raw milk with my HSA card.
Remember when #Elon #Musk failed to purchase the last #Wisconsin Supreme Court election?
Good times π
Wisconsin⦠Vote!
I remember when Rick Scott said Florida didn't need any more anthropologists. I was writing my dissertation on Hurricane Preparation for families caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia at the time. He is still an ass.
Floridaβs Board of Governors is made up of βpolitical appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.β
My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social
Sociology pulls back the curtain on power - how it's constructed, how it's maintained, and the (il)legitimacy of those in power - and that's why they're so afraid of it.
(It's also why Intro Soc is my favorite class to teach.)
If these warm, spring-like days have you thinking about Pittonkatonk -- they're in need of donations!
One of the philanthropies dropped its support for 2026 -- so the organizers are trying to bridge a $15,000 funding gap.
MAGA is whatever Trump says it is. The amount of contempt these people have for Trump voters far outpaces the invented contempt that "liberal elites" are supposed to have for them.
I remember during "Operation Iraqi Freedom" , a bunch of trucks in my town converted to biofuel... Or used French fry oil. One kid set up a stand where he dispensed used oil and got paid. The county shut him down.
About a month ago, California gas prices β adjusted for inflation β were lower than when Gavin Newsom took office.
Now Trumpβs war with Iran will push them back over $5 a gallon.
Donald Trump on....
* gas prices
"If they rise, they rise."
* U.S. troops
"Some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."
SοΌP 500 down.
Dow tanking.
NASDAQ bleeding.
Gas up 60Β’ in ONE week.
92,000 jobs gone.
This isnβt bad luck β this is the direct result of reckless, chaotic leadership. Your wallet is paying the price.
#TrumpsJobsSlumpββββββββββββββββ
Nepo baby faking being working class β
Obsessive re Israel β
Constellis employee β
Questionable finances β
Known voter for GOP opponent β
Long history of verifiable racist & sexist comments β
Nazi tattoo heβs inconsistent about β
Trained far left SRA paramilitary gun club β
I donβt either. π€·ββοΈ
βA governmentβs overriding duty, said SΓ‘nchez, was to protect and improve the lives of its citizens, not to manipulate or profit from global conflicts.β US politicians need to get much better at this kind of positive articulation of values
Russia is sending election operatives to Hungary to prop up Orban. The dirty tricks to support Putinβs puppet in the EU will be off the chart.
Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:
A budget is a moral document.
This jerk. PA Senato John Fetterman says heβll vote to confirm Markwayne Mullin as new DHS Secretary share.google/aveqQQGLypoW...
Todayβs Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons
