🇺🇦Christine Landerholm-Miller

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

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[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

The muscular tension of the boxers in George Bellows's 'Club Night,' gives it an unexpected modernity, painted as it was in 1907, six years before the famous Armory Show which brought cubism and post-impressionism to a bewildered New York public.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Brooklyn, 1952. Judith Love Cohen, 19, asks her high school counselor about math classes.
The counselor smiles like she’s talking to a child. “Honey, nice girls go to finishing school. Learn to pour tea.”

Judith enrolls in Brooklyn College. Engineering.
Hundreds in the lecture hall. Women: one. Her.
“Boys laughed when I raised my hand,” she said. “So I raised it higher.”

She transfers to USC. Finishes bachelor’s + master’s. Never sees another female engineering student.
Graduates 1957. Class of 800. Women: 8.
America’s engineers: 0.05% women. She’s one of them.

Then NASA calls.

1960s. Apollo needs brains. Gender? Secondary. Competence? Everything.

Judith joins the team building the Abort-Guidance System for the Lunar Module. The AGS. The “oh crap” button. If the main computer dies, this box flies you home. Or you don’t come home.

“It had to work,” she said. “Because if you needed it, you were already dying.”

Orbital mechanics. Electrical chaos. Code that can’t glitch. She lives in equations for months.

August 1968. Nine months pregnant. Still at her desk.
Coworkers: “Go home, Judith.”
Judith: “The math isn’t due. I am.”

Morning contractions start. She grabs her printouts — pages of trajectories, circuits, logic — and drives to work.
Contractions get real. Team: “HOSPITAL. NOW.”
Judith: “Fine.” Takes the printouts.

Hospital bed. Nurses walk in. She’s between contractions, scribbling on computer sheets. “Ma’am, you’re in labor.”
“I’m in math,” she says.

Then it clicks. The final bug in the AGS. Solved.
Then she pushes. Baby boy: Thomas Jacob. You know him as Jack Black.

Next day she calls her boss. “I fixed the guidance problem.” Pause. “Oh. And the baby came too.”

April 13, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth. BOOM.

Apollo 13. Oxygen tank explodes. Command Module dying. Three men crawl into the Lunar Module — built for 2 people, 1 day. They need it for 3 people, 4 days.

Primary computer stutters.
Backup comes alive.
Judith’s AGS.

It holds. Calculates burns. Aligns spacecraft. Verifies they’re not flying into deep space forever. “Without AGS, we don’t come home,” said Jim Lovell later.

April 17, 1970. Splashdown. Alive.
The world cheers the astronauts.
Inside NASA, engineers hug. “The backup worked.”
Judith’s backup.

Apollo 13 crew visits TRW to say thanks. Judith shakes their hands. No speech. Back to work.

She keeps going.

Hubble Space Telescope systems. TDRS satellites — ran 40 years. Papers. Patents. Mentors girls. Writes kids’ books: You Can Be a Woman Engineer. “Girls need to see it to be it,” she said. “TV gave them lawyers. I’ll give them astronauts.”

Raised four kids. Danced ballet with the Met Opera while doing engineering school. “My first loves,” her son Neil wrote, “were dancing and equations.”

July 25, 2016. Age 82. She’s gone.
Son Jack Black posts 2019: Photo of Mom, 1959, next to a Pioneer spacecraft. “My mom literally helped save Apollo 13. Finished the problem IN LABOR WITH ME. How do you top that?”

The counselor said “finishing school.”
Judith chose “finishing equations.”
Three astronauts owe their lives to that choice.

“They said I didn’t belong,” Judith said once. “So I built something that belonged in space. And brought them home.”

She never flew. But she made sure others could.
From a hospital bed. Between contractions. With a pencil.

[Herdwicks of Highfields Farm @highfieldsherdy]

We've had a little surprise this evening. The ram's got in with the flock around 5 months ago by mistake. On the rounds 'Snowdrop' was away from the main flock. At the grand age of 14, she's given birth to a very strong herdy boy. Such a good mum, and I get my lamb cuddles 💕

[Herdwicks of Highfields Farm @highfieldsherdy]

Ooh dear Hetty, sometimes life can make you feel like hetty looks all you can do is dust yourself off, try & pick yourself up, and find a way through the craziness that life can throw at you sometimes 💙
#herdwicks #believeinyourself #bekind #staystrong #youvegotthis

[Joe Kennedy III @joekennedy]

President John F. Kennedy believed that one day this country would live up to its promise of justice and equal rights for all. For those beliefs and for his sacrifice, Congress voted to make The Kennedy Center a living memorial to him, as a place built by the people for the people to celebrate what connects us. 

While this trespass on the People’s will is painful, President Kennedy would remind us that it is not buildings that define the greatness of a nation. It is the actions of its people and its leaders. 

So, do not be distracted from what this Administration is actually trying to erase: our connection, our community, and our commitment to the rights of all.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump hosted a Great Gatsby party while SNAP benefits were about to disappear for 42 million Americans.

He does not give a damn about you.

[🇺🇦Christine Landerholm-Miller @catmartini8]

The Times They Are A-Changin’ | The Official Bob Dylan Site https://t.co/WdtkJ6vF8k

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

Tina Smith D-MN on her talk to Mike Lee R-UT: "I think that he honestly, he seemed a little surprised to be confronted."

[🇺🇦Christine Landerholm-Miller @catmartini8]

Justice Jackson says the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump - Vox https://t.co/0Fq6LFxCTS

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"It gets somewhat lost in all the other high octane dimensions of this story that a raid on a Home Depot is literally an effort to arrest people who are eager to work & whose labor is in demand. It’s about as far as you can get from going after bad guys." https://t.co/l4RXBzHFaR

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Thanks to the advocacy of Black Alabamians and organizations like @allontheline, Black voters in Alabama will continue voting in fair congressional districts that allow them to elect candidates of their choice. This is a win for Alabama, and proof that progress is possible.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Pam Bondi is a criminal. In 2016, she solicited and accepted a $25,000 bribe masked as a donation to not investigate Trump U in Florida where Trump defrauded several people. She went to work with Qatar on “human trafficking.” She belongs in prison not in office

[Mike Harvey @MikeHarvey4You]

@Martina The first executive in history that the country has ever needed protection from. He is the domestic enemy that I and many others swore an oath to protect from.

Where are the current elected Democrats and Republicans? The people who are currently tasked with that responsibility.

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Donald Trump’s nominee to run the IRS, Representative Billy Long, just had a six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors, all of whom happen to have tax issues with the IRS. https://t.co/mb2Vcz6Rap

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

Now economists know how scientists felt when he said “inject bleach”

[Alison O’Neill ~ Shepherdess @woolismybread]

Mothering ❤️