callacofield

Science writer specializing in physics and space. Previously at Tweets my own.

[ARCHIVED - NASA Voyager @NASAVoyager]

How do you say goodbye to someone who helped make your destiny possible?

Thank you, Ed, for opening the door for our celestial exploration. You will forever be remembered as your legacy lives on beyond the heliosphere. 🖖

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[Ad Astra]

[Nate Fernald @natefernald]

There is one week left of The Late Late Show. Here is a THREAD of some of my favorite things I've written here.

[callacofield @callacofield]

@mirikramer Evergreen tweet.

[Dave McKenna @djmckenna00]

Poison a person, go to jail, they call you a felon for life. Poison a city resulting in dozens of deaths and thousands with brain damage, get a teaching fellowship at Harvard, they call you ex-Gov of Michigan Rick Snyder. Same with much corporate poisoning. 13/

[High Country News @highcountrynews]

Imagine watching as bulldozers tear through Arlington Cemetery and feeling the ground shake inside the National Cathedral as crews blast the earth. Hear the commotion, the destruction and the pain. #Opinion https://t.co/kXqcGHGa0O

[Ben Wikler @benwikler]

There's a lot of totally correct talk about how @StaceyAbrams was pivotal to winning Georgia. Folks: Stacey & her team were pivotal to flipping Wisconsin too. And every other battleground. They worked with us to build massive, supercharged voter protection teams—starting *early.*

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

So many deserve credit for 10yrs to new Georgia: @gwlauren @fairfightaction @nseufot @NewGAProject @AAAJ_Atlanta @GALEOorg @BlackVotersMtr Helen Butler @GeorgiaDemocrat @RebeccaDeHart DuBose Porter @DPGChair. Always John Lewis. Charge any omissions to my head. My heart is full.💙

[Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen]

“We’re shaken. We are tattered. We’re torn,” he said. “There are people that did not vote today because the police released tear gas and pepper spray.”

One man was taken into custody after an officer told him to move off the sidewalk.

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

A black woman inadvertently drove into a protest scene. Philly cops pulled her from her car and beat her in front of her toddler. America’s largest police union then posted a photo of the boy and claimed his mother had abandoned him on the street.

https://t.co/NhnyJri0Pj

[callacofield @callacofield]

@brookeborel @undarkmag Blanket congrats on all these things!

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

People should stop saying how many people police kill each year. Or, if you want to throw out a number, preface it with “at least” because, the truth is, no one knows.

What’s crazier is how many AREN’T counted

(A thread)

Take Breonna Taylor, for instance.

[African American Policy Forum @AAPolicyForum]

Today would be Korryn Gaines' 28th birthday. But she was murdered by Baltimore police in 2016. Officer Royce Ruby shot and killed Korryn when she was in her own home, protecting her children. #SayHerName

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Joe Biden should announce that the first bill he’ll introduce as President is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2021, a law that would guarantee every American the right to vote and the right to equal representation.

It would restore the Voting Rights Act, but also ensure:

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Deputy Secretary of DHS Ken Cuccinelli tells NPR not only are they not stopping the Portland tactics they're going to take them nationwide. https://t.co/TJgZzN6two via @TPM

[Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP @gradydoctor]

In case you missed this beautiful poem penned by Dr. Marvin E. Dingle in the most recent issue of @NEJM, please stop what you're doing and drink it in.

Friends? Please stay with us. And, as Dr. Dingle charges so eloquently, march on.

#BLM #dothework

https://t.co/mrmwJgOFh4

[Charles Booker @Booker4KY]

Breonna Taylor can’t celebrate her inalienable rights today.

[callacofield @callacofield]

@TheWolfman That’s what I’m sayin.