JUST IN: 🇮🇹 Italy rejects proposal from President Trump's envoy to replace Iran at the World Cup.

Chemist Sinah Estelle Kelley was born 110 years ago today. After World War II, she joined the US Dep of Agriculture research team that was working on the mass production of penicillin, and in 1958 she began her career with the Atomic Energy Commission.

#WomenInSTEM #BlackSky #BlackWomenInSTEM ⚛️

I just laughed sooooo hard! 🤣🤣🤣

Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema (1964) LIVE YouTube video by iTubeNL

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Alberta to lower age of self-referrals for breast cancer screening to 40 | CBC News Next year, Alberta will lower the age for breast cancer screening self-referrals to age 40, government officials announced on Wednesday.

Finally Alberta, finally. People as young as 40 can be screened for breast cancer. Life saving.

Black women in particular, please get screened at age 40 or younger. Black women are diagnosed with breast cancer at younger ages and with more aggressive tumours & cancer. 1/

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Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

~Eartha Kitt

"Stop the Arms Trade, War is Terrorism"
Mural seen in Cardiff, Wales

Isn’t that the truth.

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

There seems to be a dispute on this.

President Donald Trump says he ordered the US navy to shoot and kill any boat that is placing mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz, in a post on Truth Social.
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See how this works?

No proof yet, but I truly believe that this is hinting at the truth.

Courtney B. Vance

WTF! Really?

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Madonna of the Cotton Fields by Laura Knight: the painter who turned segregation into sacred iconography

Madonna of the Cotton Fields by Laura Knight: the painter who turned segregation into sacred iconography

"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature."

Orson Welles, 1946.

Failure to govern
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North Carolina Farm Stole H-2A Visa Workers’ Passports: Lawsuit - The American Prospect A new class action lawsuit against Jackson Farming Company of Autryville highlights how agricultural employers abuse immigrant workers. New GOP policies aim to make that more common.

An agribusiness in North Carolina confiscated immigrant workers’ passports and visa documents with the explicit goal of trapping them in their jobs, according to a class action lawsuit filed Friday. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports.
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BREAKING: A GOP-appointed Virginia judge has struck down the Democratic-backed redistricting amendment in full, ruling it unconstitutional and “void from the start.”

AG Jay Jones says he will immediately file an appeal.

🚨 NEW: The BBC and ITV have ordered Labour to tone down its party political broadcast after deeming it too offensive

The ad contained remarks from Reform UK figures including a former council leader who called London a "third world s---hole" run by a "narcissistic Pakistani"

Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, court rules A U.S. appeals court says Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.

Christofascists Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, court rules.

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