Jessy Blackburn similing broadly, wearing a patterned 1920s/30s frock trimmed with white lace in B&W headshot photo #WomenInSTEM
Jessy Blackburn aviation pioneer 1 of 1st women to fly in British monoplane. Founded Blackburn Aircraft w' husband using her inheritance. Key in sales & marketing, hosted RAF officials politicians media & aviators in Leeds home. Flew in 1922/28 King's Cup Air Races b. #OTD 20 Apr 1894 bit.ly/3fEqXYq
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Dismantling Voice of America was one of the most devastating things I’ve witnessed. VOA wasn’t propaganda, it was proof that free press could criticize its own leaders and still survive. And now we’re throwing away one of our greatest tools of freedom.
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news.
But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials.
Keep funding science!
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Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
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States with really good cheese
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I don’t care what any influencer tells you. No you cannot work a 9-5, walk 10K steps, read 8 books a week, cook every night, maintain friendships, care for your family, nurture hobbies and be fully productive every single day. This isn’t realistic — just do your best ok? ❤️
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Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
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Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.
Deliberate destruction of culture was the subject of an episode of my podcast, Autocracy in America
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
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I'm currently reading The Black Fantastic, an anthology of Afrofuturist speculative short fiction edited by André M. Carrington. It's superb; just filled with vibrant, innovative stories that make you think and feel. It's all good and truly worthy of its Locus award nomination.
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“Be still and the earth will speak to you.”
~ Hopi
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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison
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This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇
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My painting LAKESHORE
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The orange felon isn’t just simply “whitewashing” January 6, he and MAGA lunatic drunkard Jeanine Pirro are actively engaging in a treasonous coverup by choosing to vacate all of the remaining seditious conspiracy convictions against his January 6 terrorists. They belong in jail.
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Physician May Chinn was born 130 years ago today. In 1926 she was the 1st Black woman to graduate from Bellevue, but then spent 14 years looking for a hospital that would allow her full practicing privileges on account of her race, practicing privately until she found a cancer research position.
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There is no justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth at the very top. It’s distorting our politics, rigging our markets and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
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MeidasTouch host Katie Phang testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the proposed merger of Paramount-Skydance and Warner Bros.:
"Democracy cannot survive if powerful people get to decide which facts are allowed to exist and what version of the truth they want to peddle for profit."
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🔥 🇭🇺 MAGYAR: “It feels good to be here — this factory of lies will be put to an end.”
Hungary’s prime minister-elect Péter Magyar vows to shut down the country’s state broadcaster M1 (Hungary’s Fox News) after his landslide election victory over Orbán.
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He didn’t help ‘Save America’, his strategy was to overthrow the government. John Eastman has officially been disbarred.
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Cover of George Takei's autobiographical graphic novel They Called Us Enemy showing a line of people entering an internment camp as a young George looks back, breaking the fourth wall.
Friends of the Sacramento Library is offering these free for AAPI month
I have read so much work like this, but this might be the single most painful one because, well, everything is local.
I drive through Florin often (It's now South Sacramento), SF is where my mom lives, his dad was my age when
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MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol?
These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes
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A truly great President. We miss you Joe.
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The image features the main character from the 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey.
Number one super guy
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WE CAN ALWAYS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE FUTURE
The future is not a force of nature. It is a design project – and that means someone is always setting the brief. What are its unquestioned assumptions?
A fantastic article by my friend Monika Bielskyte (@monikabielskyte.bsky.social). I'd highly recommend subscribing to her newsletter, which is brand new. :-) XO
monikabielskyte.substack.com/p/we-can-alw...
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