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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I just watched a Unicorn 🦄 do a poll dance in front of Ice Agents on a stop 🛑 sign in Portland and I hope a documentary is made about all of this 🤣

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

"In unison." Amen. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday Do it scared, say it even if your voice shakes, just don't give up. Courage isn’t loud; it’s the act of not giving up.

“Operation Inflation” the community in Portland has come together to buy inflatable costumes for everyone 💕

“…heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. … it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

NEW: President Biden has commuted 1500 sentences and pardoned 39 individuals; the largest grant of clemency by an American president in a single day. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

Happy Sunday!

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Props to President Biden for pardoning his son. Why stop there? Why not go ahead and grant all federal clemency petitions and pardon everyone facing the death penalty? That’ll really get MAGA folks and give pundits something to talk about. And also it would be a morally decent thing to do.

I was in Texas in Trump's 1st term when he put immigrants in detention centers. Local news carried more stories about it than did national news. It was horrible. Elementary age children were made to take care of toddlers/babies because there were no adults there. We cannot let this happen again.

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

thought of the dayyy🤔