Robin Cochran Dirksen

Secondary Sci Educator TVCHS, Adjunct Faculty LSSC, Curriculum Writer, Lover of Clean Water (I do not follow students, views are my own)

[TED-Ed @TED_ED]

“Fear is the province of one. It feeds on isolation. […] Fearlessness takes two. It only works if and when we show up for each other. Show up so that your neighbor, your colleague, your friend has courage. And they will do the same for you.” https://t.co/JrFVjlI8RM

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is the PSA from some of the Epstein Survivors and this needs to be played repeatedly so everyone can hear their stories! These women are extremely brave for doing this and fighting for accountability! 👇👇👇

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Same mistakes. Same arrogance. Same risks. We know where this road leads.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Newly released transcripts and videos show that former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers that the Jan. 6 riot, "does not happen without President Trump." That's from a closed-door hearing earlier this month with the House Judiciary Committee, where lawmakers grilled Smith for eight hours over two criminal investigations he launched into Trump.

One focused on the president's role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, while the other related to classified documents after Trump's first term ended.

Smith said the choice to bring criminal charges against Trump was his alone, but added, "The basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions."

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Here’s the incomparable Kenneth Williams discussing accents. Absolutely glorious.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Close your eyes for 3 minutes and listen to this. 👇

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

The world-famous Christmas carol – amidst concrete, metal, and destroyed equipment. Deeply moving.

The Ukrainian choir sang "Shchedryk" in the engine room of the DTEK power plant, destroyed by Russian attacks.

It's enough to bring tears to your eyes.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Trump is obsessed with the term "groceries," but does he even know what they are?

[United Nations @UN]

She is life.
Our future.
Our responsibility.

She is our ocean. 🌊
And though she faces growing threats, we still have the power to protect her. But we must #ActNow. Our voices and choices matter.

Sunday is UN World Oceans Day. https://t.co/wmZGFf0mPc

#SaveOurOcean

[Robin Cochran Dirksen @RobinCochranD]

@exRAF_Al @theAliceRoberts So are you saying that it isn’t happening? Or is your comment somehow justifying the carnage?

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

When Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, is set to pay the same amount in taxes for Social Security as your neighborhood dentist, we’ve got a problem.

I'm fighting to get the wealthy to pay their fair share into Social Security so we can increase benefits.

[Audubon Society @audubonsociety]

Supporting 400+ bird species & providing water to 7 states & dozens of Tribes, the Colorado River is a vital resource. Thank you, @RepJohnCurtis & @SenatorBennet for introducing the Colorado River Salinity Control Fix Act & Congress for passing it. https://t.co/8xmy20AgVU

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law.

I would know because I wrote the law.

Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement.

This is what illegal corruption looks like. https://t.co/JJjJ59DgB5

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Imagine you’re standing in the frozen food aisle, staring at a pint of ice cream. The price tag isn’t printed on paper, like usual—now it’s a digital display. With a camera pointed right at you. 🧵

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

This is what climate activists need to be doing rather than throwing tomato soup at paintings

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

We are witnessing, in real time, one of the biggest failures of curiosity in the history of journalism.

Katy Tur, squatting in the same building as trump at the RNC, is practicing her best tone of respectful reverence and fangirling as she looks at the mattress-sized gauze on the side of trump's head, and it doesn't occur to her to inquire what he was treated for.

Did he get stitches? If so, how many? Why is the bandage so insanely huge? The photographs didn't appear to show any discernible wound whatsoever.

No, these jackasses are reserving their most harsh interrogations for President Biden, demanding to know if he watched the entire debate from 14 fucking days ago, and who is he listening to, and for the 100th time, is he sure he doesn't want to drop out.

In fact, President Biden has politely attempted to steer the press' focus back to doing their jobs, asking Lester Holt why nobody's asking trump about the 28 lies he told during that debate.

It's outrageous. If you're going to subject one candidate to a body cavity-exam level of scrutiny, subject BOTH candidates to it.

Come on, you can't adequately or honestly "both sides" anything if you're only scrutinizing one side.

Nobody has even asked trump about the discrepancy of denying his involvement with Project 2025 and the fact that he knows many of its planners, and it mentions his name hundreds of times. FAILURE OF CURIOSITY.

Where are the questions about his weird fixation on Hannibal Lecter, or sharks, or any of the other batshit things he gets away with saying at all times?

How about asking him why he admitted to a discussion with Putin BEFORE the Ukraine invasion, or why he said Putin would release hostages to him, and not President Biden?

What about asking him why he was tooling around with the authoritarian leader of Hungary?

It does seem like, even prior to the shooting this weekend, the press has wrapped trump in a protective gauze as ridiculously oversized as his ear mattress.

He's not even the sitting President, but many members of the press have granted him immunity from asking him any fucking questions.

They're even allowing non-doctors to accuse President Biden of having dementia, while saying that trump DOES NOT -- and not an iota of pushback.

Once again, it's a disgraceful display of burying Biden under an avalanche of insipid inquiries and bullshit while extending utmost deference to a would-be dictator who plans to lock many of them up if he wins.

And they are shamelessly helping him.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

I love receipts. Never leave home without them. But let’s “use” yours.

You said: “You see, during Jim Crow the Black Family was together.”

My thoughts- What the hell does “Jim Crow” have to do with Black families being together. During Joe Crow Black families had to be together just to survive because simply stepping out your home, looking at a white person, trying to vote and even wearing a military uniform could become a death sentence. There was not a damn thing good or positive for Black families that came out of Jim Crow. Nothing.

But in your receipts, you continued and then said: “And then H.E.W., Lyndon Johnson- you go down that road, and now we are where we are.”

My thoughts- This is the really interesting part of your little talk. In essence, you seem to be comparing the Jim Crow era (policies) to the era of Johnson’s Great Society.

Jim Crow laws:
*Mandated segregation
*Black disenfranchisement
*Black lynchings & assaults
*Rampant racism

Johnson’s Great Society saw some of the largest advancements in civil rights for African Americans :
* Civil Rights Act of ‘64- banned discrimination in employment & accommodations; desegregation of schools
*24th amendment- prohibiting poll taxes
* Voting Rights Act of 1965- prohibited states from discriminating against voters based on race; ended literacy tests
* Civil Rights Act of ‘68- prohibited discrimination in housing

I know history is iffy for you and DeSantis down there in FL… but it is time to brush up. Y’all don’t do much in that GOP House anyway, so maybe walk over to the Library of Congress. They have a lot of comprehensive history books.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Georgia Clooney owning MAGA for your pleasure

https://t.co/eXjbTOBWin

[Robin Cochran Dirksen @RobinCochranD]

@sydszeide @FoodNetwork I can’t see any of my recipes.

[Robin Cochran Dirksen @RobinCochranD]

@FoodNetwork I can’t believe you got rid of the recipe app!!! Years of collecting gone (no you cannot get your recipes back using the website as stated)!