Emily Stutz

Clinical Social Worker. Writer of Memoir, Poetry & Essay. Lover of Animals & Ethics. Survivor of the Bible Belt. Permanent Resident of New Zealand. Antifascist.

[Emily Stutz @SputzieBird]

The AR-15, favorite weapon of White Republican Gun Terrorists, coming soon to a school/church/synagogue/mosque near you, and only in America because the rest of the world has gun laws.

This is insanity. #VoteThemAllOut2018

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

A poem from Charles Bukowski's "On Cats", published posthumously, 21 years after his passing in 1994.⁣⁣
⁣⁣
My Cats⁣⁣
⁣⁣
I know. I know. ⁣⁣
they are limited, have different ⁣⁣
needs and ⁣⁣
concerns. ⁣⁣
⁣⁣
but I watch and learn from them. ⁣⁣
I like the little they know, ⁣⁣
which is so ⁣⁣
much. ⁣⁣
⁣⁣
they complain but never ⁣⁣
worry, ⁣⁣
they walk with a surprising dignity. ⁣⁣
they sleep with a direct simplicity that ⁣⁣
humans just can't ⁣⁣
understand. ⁣⁣
⁣⁣
their eyes are more ⁣⁣
beautiful than our eyes. ⁣⁣
and they can sleep 20 hours ⁣⁣
a day ⁣⁣
without ⁣⁣
hesitation or ⁣⁣
remorse. ⁣⁣
⁣⁣
when I am feeling ⁣⁣
low ⁣⁣
all I have to do is ⁣⁣
watch my cats ⁣⁣
and my ⁣⁣
courage ⁣⁣
returns. ⁣⁣
⁣⁣
I study these ⁣⁣
creatures. ⁣⁣
⁣⁣
they are my ⁣⁣
teachers.⁣
⁣
#drthehistories

[Ivan 🇺🇸 🦅 @PepSageInAlaska]

@OurShallowState We have that piece of shit @SenMcConnell to thank for all the shit @realDonaldTrump is doing to America

[Nanci@Nanci 🇺🇦 @NanciNanci7]

@OurShallowState @realDonaldTrump

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

He's an adjudicated rapist, and SCOTUS knows it. He fomented an insurrection, and Jack Smith knows it. He botched a pandemic, and Dr Fauci knows it. He has committed every type of fraud known to man, and all men know it. He protects pedophiles. He lies as he breathes. He monetizes the presidency and weaponizes justice. He's lawless. He obstructs at every turn. He's an idiot - useful and otherwise. He's narcissistic. He's psychopathic. He's paranoid. He's sadistic. I can go on.
YET - no matter how bad we know he is, and no matter how bad the things we know he did are, remember this:
Some of the things we don't yet know, are even worse.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨 HOLY HELL: Corrupt Clarence Thomas was just caught sneaking out of speaker Mike Johnson’s office.

A Supreme Court justice should not have a private meeting with the speaker of the house.

What were they talking about?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Netanyahu has said he will go to New York even though Zohran Mamdani said he would arrest him if he does.

Like if you want to see Netanyahu arrested.
RT if you'd personally turn up to make sure it happened.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Everyone told her to throw it away. She tested it anyway—and saved 3,000 lives...

In July 1965, DuPont Laboratory, Wilmington, Delaware. Stephanie Kwolek held a beaker toward the light and frowned. The liquid inside didn't look right. It was cloudy, thin, and watery. Every polymer she had ever created was thick, smooth, and clear like honey. This one looked contaminated.

Her supervisor looked at it for a moment.

"Discard it and start over."

It was standard procedure. Sensible advice. Almost any other chemist would have poured it straight down the drain without a second thought.

But something inside Stephanie quietly asked one question.

What if?

"I'd like to test it anyway," she said.

That quiet decision would change thousands of lives forever.

Stephanie had never planned to save people through chemistry. Her dream had always been to become a doctor and care for patients. But in the 1940s, medical school was simply too expensive for the daughter of hardworking Polish immigrants.

So she accepted what she believed would be a temporary job at DuPont in 1946, planning to stay only long enough to earn enough money for medical school.

The temporary job became a forty-year career.

Her father, who passed away when she was just ten years old, had taught her to observe carefully, stay curious, and always ask questions. Her mother, a skilled seamstress, taught her patience, precision, and attention to every small detail.

Those lessons made Stephanie an extraordinary chemist.

By 1965, she had spent nearly twenty years researching strong, lightweight fibers that could improve automobile tires. It wasn't glamorous work, but she approached every experiment with determination and curiosity.

That strange cloudy liquid refused to make sense.

The chemical structure looked correct.

So why did it look completely wrong?

Stephanie wanted to spin it into fiber using a delicate spinneret machine. The technician warned her not to do it.

"That liquid will clog the equipment and ruin the machine."

But Stephanie insisted.

Finally, he agreed.

They ran the experiment.

And discovered something extraordinary.

The fiber that emerged was unlike anything DuPont had ever seen.

When they measured its strength, they checked the results again and again, convinced there had been a mistake.

There wasn't.

Weight for weight, the new fiber was five times stronger than steel. It was incredibly light, highly heat-resistant, remarkably tough, and almost impossible to break.

Stephanie had just invented Kevlar.

It was first used in tires.

Soon, researchers realized it could do much more.

Police officers received Kevlar body armor. Soldiers gained stronger protection in combat. Firefighters wore heat-resistant suits made from the same remarkable material.

By the time Stephanie passed away in 2014 at the age of ninety, more than one million Kevlar vests had been produced.

Conservative estimates credit the invention with saving over 3,000 lives, and many believe the true number is far higher.

Stephanie Kwolek never became a doctor.

Yet she saved more lives than most doctors ever will—simply because she refused to throw away a cloudy beaker and chose to trust her curiosity instead.

© Women In World History

#archaeohistories

[Commentary Donald J. Trump @DonaldTrumpVois]

Epstein victim Sarah Ransome says she has tapes of Donald Trump doing things that will force him to resign from the presidency.

What’s your reaction?

[Michael Olesen 💉😷🇺🇸🇺🇦 @maolesen]

By the time it's over, he will likely have caused the deaths of more people than Hitler.

https://t.co/u2qHlljEng

[Sapphire @MsSapph]

Bill Madden: “Trump isn't just "flawed." He is a P*DOPHILE and sexual predator whose behavior with minors has been credibly alleged multiple times, protected by power, money, threats, and a cult of denial.”

[BlackBird444🇺🇸 @BlkBird444]

🖤 🇺🇸

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

KNOXVILLE: “The University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees approved a settlement with ex assistant professor Tamar Shirinian, agreeing to pay $1.9 million (after firing her for a Charlie Kirk comment) .” https://t.co/cAsm30uhsv

[Lance Cooper @lmauricecpr]

Black people don’t hang themselves on campus at a Job Corps center where students have reported experiencing racism in a state that ranks second in lynchings after dislocating their shoulder the same day. Justice Kai James was lynched.

[Emily Stutz @SputzieBird]

@Martina A drunken kangaroo.

[Rev. Justin Berkobien @JustinBerkobien]

If you owe a woman 5 million dollars for sexual assault you also owe the country your resignation.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

No, Donald, this was not a case "against the United States of America and all it stands for." It was a case against you. And a jury of your peers found you liable for rape and defamation. You lost. Again.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Elon Musk asked for names then went silent when his own AI provided them.
Imagine being so oblivious to the pain and suffering you cause that you have to pretend the lies you tell are the truth. That speaks volumes on how evil he really is.

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

Zero.
I read it three times to be sure.
For five straight years, not one young woman in England has died of cervical cancer. 🧵

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Trump sued the BBC to prove he DIDN'T send the mob to the Capitol.

To win, he has to hand over his Jan 6 phone logs and diaries.

You see the problem.
https://t.co/VIJAkLX9jx

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

In January, our administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit — a fiscal crisis greater than the Great Recession. 

Today I am proud to announce that our balanced budget has cleared the final step and passed the New York City Council. 

We balanced the budget by taxing the rich and making government more efficient. We did not balance this budget on the backs of working people, and we never will. 

Every year that follows will build on these principles: Honest budgeting. Fiscal discipline. Transparent government. And an unwavering belief that working people deserve a government that delivers for them every day.