Name goes here 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Oh, and MAGA nota bene on the benefit of the doubt tip: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[Name goes here 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @supersteverino]

Found in the bowels of the Battleship New Jersey yesterday. Seems like something worth keeping in mind...

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Men posed as ICE agents and detained and assaulted a woman… and Tom Homan is telling everyone that they just have to comply with this.

A woman was driving on Highway 211, in Oregon, when a vehicle with flashing red and blue lights pulled behind her.

Believing she was being stopped by law enforcement, she pulled over.

Two men approached her vehicle, one was carrying a rifle, and they claimed to be ICE agents and told her she was being detained.

They pulled her out of her car, searched her, and put her in the back of their vehicle.

Then, a third man… who remained inside the vehicle… assaulted her.

He told her he was the “guard.”

The men were wearing tactical vests labeled “POLICE,” carrying fake badges, and wore face coverings.

They held her for nearly 20 minutes before telling her she was free to go… and then she drove herself to the hospital.

And while she was there, she reported that she started receiving text messages from someone claiming to be a law firm offering legal representation for her detention.

Federal authorities later confirmed this was NOT an official ICE operation… These were people pretending to be federal agents.

And this is exactly why Tom Homan telling people to “comply” with anyone claiming to be ICE is so incredibly dangerous.

Because what is a person supposed to do when someone in a tactical vest, carrying a gun, pulls them over with flashing lights and says they are federal agents?

Just trust them?

This is not about telling people to resist legitimate law enforcement.

This is about the government normalizing a system where anyone can look like an armed federal agent, claim to have authority over you, and expect you to obey without being able to verify who they are.

That doesn’t make people safer.

It makes everyone more vulnerable to being kidnapped, assaulted, or killed by criminals who know they can pretend to be ICE.

[Rick ☆ @RickChapterTwo]

Geez! This is incredible and AOC is brilliant in the way she presents this.

It also scares the hell out of me that this is possible.

[Name goes here 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @supersteverino]

As the island of knowledge expands, so does the shoreline of ignorance. -- John Wheeler

[WIRED @WIRED]

A statement from WIRED leadership.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting.

We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

[WIRED @WIRED]

This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read: https://t.co/I8BO4q4vpL

[WIRED @WIRED]

In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free. https://t.co/7MDXrwIyjy

[The Fuck You Lady @TheFuckYouLady]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🥰

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

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[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Chemtrails don't exist

Turbo cancer doesn't exist

Covid does exist

Covid vaccines worked

Ivermectin doesn't work for Covid

Ivermectin doesn't work for cancer

Vaccines eradicated smallpox

Vaccines don't cause autism

Thanks and have a wonderful day

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

5 billion..yes BILLION people have had a Covid vaccine

If they were anywhere NEAR as unsafe as antivaxxers would have you believe, we should have had a mass global population die off by now

We have not

They are lying

Have a lovely day

[deb saslaw @butlikesrsly]

howard dean yelled a little too loud at the 2004 Iowa caucus and was deemed too unhinged to be president just thinking about that for no reason today

[Marci Shore @marci_shore]

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

[Name goes here 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @supersteverino]

Gosh, why would that be? Trump at closed event: 'not possible' to pay for Medicaid, Medicare, day care https://t.co/0kqjtSnPOO

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1930, rural Virginia, a Black girl born into sharecropping poverty wasn't supposed to leave the tobacco fields.

But Gladys Mae Brown had other plans....

Her hands picked crops. Her mind solved equations no one asked her to solve. Her parents, despite barely scraping by, made a choice that defied every expectation placed on them. They kept her in school.

She became valedictorian at a segregated high school with torn textbooks and broken windows. She earned a scholarship to Virginia State College in an era when being Black, female, and intellectually brilliant meant the world tried to crush you three different ways.

In 1956, she walked through the doors of the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren as the second Black woman they'd ever hired. Four Black employees. Hundreds of white men. Most didn't think she'd survive the week.

They were catastrophically wrong.

Gladys calculated weapons trajectories by hand. Complex differential equations that consumed hours of meticulous work. Her accuracy became legendary. When computers arrived, she didn't resist the future. She learned Fortran. She mastered programming languages. She transformed weeks of calculations into hours.

Then came Seasat in the 1970s. The first satellite studying Earth's oceans from orbit. She became project manager. But her true contribution remained hidden in the mathematics.

For GPS to function, you need Earth's exact shape. Not close. Exact. Earth isn't a smooth sphere. It's an asymmetrical, gravity-distorted, irregular mass of mountains and ocean trenches.

Gladys spent years constructing mathematical models describing every deviation, every curve, every gravitational anomaly of our planet's true form. She analyzed satellite data. She built geoid models. Tedious, invisible, revolutionary work.

That mathematics became the foundation of GPS.

Every navigation app. Every emergency rescue. Every autonomous vehicle. Every precision farming system. Her equations make it possible.

Forty-two years at Dahlgren. Retirement in 1998. GPS fully operational worldwide. Billions of users. Almost nobody knew her name.

She raised three children. Earned her PhD at seventy after surviving a stroke. Lived quietly.

Until 2018, when someone at a sorority event read her biography aloud. The room went silent. The story exploded.

At eighty-eight, Gladys West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. The world finally learned her name.

She mapped the entire planet. Then everyone forgot. Until they remembered.

Gladys West worked alongside her husband Ira West, who was also a mathematician at the Naval Proving Ground. They met at Dahlgren and built both a family and parallel careers in an environment that actively discriminated against them. After retirement, she didn't stop. She earned her PhD from Virginia Tech at age 70, proving that intellectual curiosity doesn't have an expiration date.

The GPS system relies on something called the geoid, a mathematical model of Earth's shape that accounts for gravitational variations. Gladys West's calculations helped create these models by analyzing millions of data points from satellite altimetry. Without accurate geoid models, GPS coordinates would be off by hundreds of meters, making the technology essentially useless.

Her story remained hidden partly because classified military work doesn't generate headlines. Many pioneers of satellite and navigation technology worked in obscurity for national security reasons. The sorority member who recognized her contribution was reading through Alpha Kappa Alpha biographies when she noticed the GPS connection and brought it to public attention.

© Women Stories

#drthehistories

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today:

“Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.”

The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate:

“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible.

James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion.

The First Amendment’s opening words:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

They put it first.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Tom Nichols spent months reading Washington’s letters and walking the halls at Mount Vernon. The article is long. The argument lands in one sentence he almost buries at the end.

“Washington personally took up arms to stop a rebellion against the United States. Trump encouraged one.”

The specifics behind that sentence: In 1794, armed farmers in western Pennsylvania refused to accept federal law. Washington issued a proclamation calling it treasonable opposition, raised a militia of more than 12,000 men, and personally led them toward the rebellion. He was the only sitting president ever to lead troops in the field. The rebellion dissolved. He pardoned two convicted insurgents after the legal process completed — not before.

In his Farewell Address, Washington warned the republic that “sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction” would manipulate public emotion for “his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.” He wrote that sentence in 1796. He could not name the man. Nichols named him.

John Kelly stood at Mount Vernon two years ago and summarized Washington’s greatest contribution to American democracy in three words. “He went home.” Every president since has understood that sentence. Every president but one.

[Minnesota House DFL @mnhouseDFL]

GOP Rep. Mary Franson says she's not worried about climate change because it's not in the Bible: "If you've read the Good Book, you know how it ends, and it's not with climate change."

How can we expect Republicans to do serious work when they're so proud about ignoring science?

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

The most amazing story isn’t just that Democrats flipped a Trump +12 seat from red to blue — it’s that Trump literally voted by mail in this election while arguing mail in voting should be illegal for everyone else.