NASA could spend 1.5 trillion dollars on rockets going up into space and down again for a year and I'd consider that a more meaningful and worthwhile investment than whatever we're doing in the Middle East.
I don’t think we need to have Misty Copeland in even the same **conversation** as the discourse on ballet and opera this past week. a league of her own even at 15.
— a 15–year-old misty copeland performing to ludwig minkus’s “don quioxte” at an arts competition: ‘music center spotlight awards’ in southern california, 1997. 🌹🦢🩰🪭 she’d only been dancing for two years before this & won. she was offered scholarships the following year!
Framing this as being a jab at him and not an acknowledgment of her contributions to the history of Black art Sinners is meant to celebrate doesn’t sit right with me at all actually.
everyone is talking about how poor people shouldn’t be allowed to buy junk food with food stamps… i don’t think billionaires should be able to buy 14 year olds on a private island
In 2025 almost 70 thousand people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just in America. The 5-year survival rate is 13%.
It’s incomprehensible to me that we could have a cure to the deadliest form of cancer and yet the man who discovered the cure has to go on tv to beg for funding. The funds should have been given the second he went public with his discovery.
30M€ is equal to $35 million. Elon Musk makes $698 million a day. Jeff Bezos makes $78 million a day. Mark Zuckerberg makes $230 million a day.
There are almost 3 thousand billionaires in the world right now. The money required to fund Barbacid’s clinical trial is pocket change to them. They could fund the trial in seconds and save millions of lives.
I can’t imagine having so much money that you could change the world for the better, and choosing not to.
Your daily reminder that the Trump administration was required by a veto-proof law it signed to release all of the Epstein Files last month, and so far has released just zero point six percent (0.6%) of those files.