Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."
He synthesized the medicine that stopped arthritis pain for millions, so they threw explosives through his window.
In 1950, Dr. Percy Julian, a pioneering chemist who synthesized steroids, bought a home in Oak Park, Illinois. He was fifty-one. He was also a Black man moving into an all-white suburb. The local water company refused to turn on his service. The town wanted him out.
Julian didn't leave. He went to work. At his laboratory in Chicago, he studied plant sterols. At the time, cortisone was extracted from the bile of slaughtered oxen. It cost hundreds of dollars. Only the rich could afford to stop hurting.
Julian changed the math. He figured out how to mass-produce cortisone using cheap soybeans.
But a brilliant mind couldn't buy him peace at home. On Thanksgiving Eve in 1950, before the family even unpacked, attackers threw a firebomb onto their property. Eight months later, dynamite exploded under his children's bedroom window.
The police chief advised him to move to a different town.
According to historical records from the Oak Park police, Julian instead climbed into a tree in his front yard with a shotgun. He sat in the dark branches. He guarded his own front door.
He held more than 130 chemical patents. U.S. Patent No. 2,752,339 details the exact process that brought affordable steroids to pharmacy shelves worldwide.
He stayed in Oak Park until his death in 1975. Genius rarely gets a quiet neighborhood. Today, millions of people swallow a daily pill that stops their joints from aching. They do not know his name. The house on East Chicago Avenue is still standing.
Percy Julian: the man who synthesized relief.
Source: PBS NOVA "Forgotten Genius" Historical Archive.
Verified via: Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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MIKE JOHNSON: “If we lose the midterms, the Dems will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends.”
This is actually the best case I’ve heard for voting Democrat.
Mientras tanto en gringolandia
Así trató la policía estadounidense a Carolyn Folin, profesora de economía estadounidense en la Universidad Emory de Atlanta, Georgia, cuando protestó contra la guerra de exterminio y genocida en Gaza
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Do you think it’s time to scrap the cap?
Jon Ossoff: “They worked harder burying the Epstein Files than they ever worked to lower your grocery bill. And while you pay more for everything, the Trumps are raking in billions. Illegal tariffs, failed war, healthcare cuts, and unmatched corruption. 34% approval and a presidential legacy cemented in disgrace”
Maybe Vance doesn't know this history because it's in one of the books his administration banned.
The difference between Watergate and now is that back then, Republicans actually did something about a law-breaking president. Today, they only roll over for their cult leader.
🚨 NO, no es Rusia ni Irán, esto fue en Estados Unidos
En donde una policía en Arizona golpeó y lesionó a una mujer embarasada de 9 meses que estaba esposada al arrestarla porque supuestamente estaba manejando mal.
Y ese es el país que se presume ante el mundo como ejemplo en los Derechos Humanos...
Biden COOKED Trump “Tearing down the East Wing of the White House, making room for his ballroom, putting his name on the Kennedy Center, building an arch in his own honor, or even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. What a loser!”
The City of Boston has a 10-foot tall bronze sculpture in the South End depicting Harriet Tubman leading a group of people up North to freedom, the first memorial erected in Boston to a woman on city-owned property.
🔥 @dossdiscourse: “If you don’t want people to be curious about socialism capitalism has to work a lot better… Trump says we’ll never be a socialist country, yet he just asked for $11 BILLION for farmers because his ‘capitalism’ is killing our agriculture.”
We need to call what happened to @PeteButtigieg’s family what it is: poltical violence. Someone could’ve been seriously hurt or worse, and there’s no justification for it.
Gabby and I are thankful everyone is safe, and we hope those behind the false report are held responsible.
I’m so sick & fucking tired of watching videos of Trump colon-dwelling sycophants lying about whatever the fuck, while the droopy-faced fuckmuppet is fast asleep below them, slouched in his fucking chair. What a fucking clown show. Please make it stop.
North Las Vegas Black deaf mom Andrea “Dre” Hollingsworth was violently yanked from her car and slammed to the ground by a cop in front of her twin daughters all because she “wasn’t listening” even after she tried signing and showing she was deaf.
After a 4+ year fight, she won a $1.2 million settlement.