Gavin

It’s the past that tells us who we are. Without it, we lose our identity. ~ Stephen Hawking

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

This is a message everyone needs to hear. We've been warning that history is repeating itself—does any of this sound familiar? Now is the moment to stand up. If not now, it might be too late later. #DemsUnited

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

He is not saying to ignore everything; the point is not to be consumed or paralyzed by trauma that you can’t control. We know how bad people can be; now it's time to push the fascists back into their holes. #DemsUnited

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Great thread. Imprisoning hundreds of South Koreans technicians, engineers, and managers who were in the U.S. temporarily to help set up a factory that would employ thousands of Americans is one of the dumbest things the Trump administration has done - which is saying a lot.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The CDC deals with public health and science

RFK Jr deals in pseudoscience and quackery

A clash was inevitable

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Trump ordered the border wall painted black to absorb the sun's heat and make climbing harder.

Mexicans responded by painting beautiful murals on their side.

[Quinn @quinneverett]

UnitedHealthcare has dropped Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from its network, leaving 20,000 cancer patients (including me) without access to our doctors and life-saving treatment starting July 1.

Cancer patients cannot simply “go elsewhere.” Finding new specialists takes time many of us don’t have. This reckless decision will overload other hospitals, delay care, and endanger lives.

What kind of company knowingly disrupts cancer treatment for thousands of people? Shame on you, @UHC.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

These people don’t like you.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I prosecuted sex predators. Trump is one.
I shut down for-profit scam colleges. He ran one.
I held big banks accountable. He's owned by them.

I'm not just prepared to take on Trump, I'm prepared to beat him.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

1/Loper Bright v. Raimondo, handed down on Friday by SCOTUS, will have a direct impact on all of our lives. It will upend agency regulations that are used to implement federal law. That sounds dry and far away from our daily lives. But it’s not.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Understanding the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright, which will have a lot more impact on your life than you might think https://t.co/ekpFS6sp5Q

[Shilpa Ghatnekar @ShilpaGhatnekar]

@AlanMCole While we’re on the topic, what is the purpose of sharepoint, one drive, and teams?! Is everyone else confused or am I getting old?

[Michael McDonald @ElectProject]

A hedge fund bought the company, sold off all the land Red Lobster restaurants are located on, leased the land back to Red Lobster, and jacked the rent. Just so you know what is really going on here

[Center for Environment and Welfare @EnviroWelfare]

Despite its name, the Humane Society of the United States operates 0 pet shelters and is unaffiliated with local humane societies. Here's how much their executives make:

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Imagine that the universe is a cake. A very big cake, with many layers and flavors. The cake is expanding, because it is being baked in an oven that keeps getting hotter. Now, the part of the cake that we can see and taste is made of ordinary ingredients, like flour, sugar, eggs, butter, etc. This is what we call normal matter, and it makes up only about 5% of the cake. The rest of the cake is made of something else, something that we can't see or taste, but we know it's there because it affects how the cake rises and expands.

One of these invisible ingredients is dark matter. Dark matter is like a glue that holds the cake together. It has gravity, but it doesn't interact with light or normal matter. It makes up about 25% of the cake. Without dark matter, the cake would fall apart, because the normal matter would not have enough gravity to stick together. Dark matter helps to form the structure of the cake, like the layers and swirls.

Another invisible ingredient is dark energy. Dark energy is like a gas that fills the spaces between the cake. It has negative pressure, which means it pushes things away from each other. It makes up about 70% of the cake. Dark energy is the reason why the cake is expanding faster and faster, because it overcomes the gravity of dark matter and normal matter. Dark energy makes the cake fluffy and airy, but also unpredictable and unstable.

📷 Image credit: © AMNH

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

Katie Britt’s response was disastrous because it felt like being trapped in a horror movie

We’re fortunate the GOP is so off-putting and weird right now. It makes them vulnerable. But like all authoritarian movements, the weirdness can soon become normal

https://t.co/LCQopZhL6E

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Holy sh*t. Jack Posobiec just said at CPAC, "Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.” They are telling us exactly what they will do. Believe them. Vote against them.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

The growing crisis kicked off by Greg Abbott’s refusal to accept the Supreme Court’s ruling is about more than immigration.

It’s meant to bring the federal government to its knees and transforming it into an authoritarian machine. Or else destroying it.

https://t.co/oa457KDzYi

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Very well said.