Pretty obvious why the gop ghouls want a return to child labor and the destruction of the department of education. To keep people wanting all of their lives. Never letting anyone rise above the basement level as the oligarch class waves a golden carrot in the face of a few that they know will fall into line to push the others into that same line. A piece of bread gets expensive when it costs you a pound of flesh.

This garbage isn’t new. Autocratic kings did that for centuries.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/michigan-state-university-lab-makes-big-dna-discovery
#Michigan State University makes a big DNA discovery
WXYZ
#news #science
Go Green!

IMO: People should be allowed to reach for the stratosphere in life. An education is something the GOP will never be able to take away.

They're forcing people to give birth, but haven't done a damn thing to support the increase in number of kids.

Texas isn’t ready to support more parents and kids in a post-Roe world, advocates warn
More than a quarter of women of childbearing age are uninsured in Texas, the highest rate in the nation, and the state has chosen to cap Medicaid benefits for new moms earlier than other states.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/09/texas-abortion-law-medicaid-contraception/

#CoSoTips

More for all the new folks.

Who to follow ??
Just use the Community Firehose, and pick from there.

May I invite you to check out the hashtag,

#MeetTheNauts

It is a way we introduce ourselves around here.
Please feel free to make one of your own.
And "pin" it to your profile.

Mine is on my profile.

Or here:

https://counter.social/@corlin/103053748153667088

With another train derailment story getting attention it’s important to remember that this problem is not at all new.

In 2022 there were 1164 train derailments in the US, roughly 3 per day. This has been a problem for a long time, it’s just that Ohio suddenly brought them out of the local news and onto the national stage.

Yes it is due to corporate greed & if you wonder why BNSF employees wanted to strike, and why they felt betrayed by Biden for stopping it, this is a tiny glimpse into why

I'm old enough to remember having to have my father or my husband sign off on me being able to do anything "legally" when I first became an adult

I use to get so angry about it

I never want that for my granddaughters

A train derailed in West Virginia on Wednesday, spilling an "unknown" amount of diesel fuel and oil into a 65-million-year-old river that's part of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. https://cbsn.ws/3J0WmBD

Former Ohio House speaker convicted in $60M bribery scheme

He & the and former Ohio Republican Party Chair were convicted in what federal prosecutors have called the largest corruption case in state history.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-ohio-house-speaker-convicted-60m-bribery-scheme-rcna74227

this is why the right is enraged by history:
"Think about what would happen if students opened a textbook & found that in 1860, nearly 4 million enslaved people of African descent were worth $3.5 billion — more than the nation's railroads & manufacturing combined, & the most valuable single asset in America. Banks, corporations & universities profited from slavery, providing inherited wealth for whites, with centuries of unpaid wages for black labor, helping explain today's racial wealth gap."

Some 'adults' really piss me off!
😡 😠 😡 😠 😡

𝘼𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬'𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣

In Florida, Indiana, Kansas and Pennsylvania plays and musicals have been challenged or canceled recently. Parents or school officials have complained that the content isn't family friendly.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1160731547/spelling-bee-high-school-theater

The link between symptoms of COVID-19 and physical inactivity is increasingly evident. COVID-19 survivors with at least one persistent symptom of the disease were 57% more likely to be sedentary, and the presence of five or more post-acute sequelae of infection odds of physical inactivity by 138%.

Comorbidities were also significant: 37% were smokers, 58% had high blood pressure, 35% had diabetes and 17% were obese. "These are risk factors for severe COVID-19.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230308/Study-shows-correlations-between-symptoms-of-long-COVID-and-physical-inactivity.aspx

A small ray of sunshine in an otherwise sea of darkness…

So she lied. Work for trump and lose everything.

“As part of an agreement in the case, Ellis admits that multiple statements she made in late 2020 about the presidential election being stolen were ‘misrepresentations.’”
https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/former-trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-censured-in-colorado-for-false-election-claims/

The DOJ faulted the Louisville Metro Police Department for widespread unconstitutional practices in a review launched after the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor and said it would probe the role of special police units following the deadly January beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-finds-illegal-police-practices-in-probe-begun-after-breonna-taylors-death-c16e91dd via @WSJ

Mitch McConnell fell down and had to go to the hospital, but don’t worry, he’s rich and has amazing health benefits, so he’ll get the best possible care, and won’t go broke, or have rush back to work before he’s fully healed.

As a #trans woman, I have a degree of caution in entering women's spaces. Many of them are, sadly, not friendly to trans people, or at least, not trans women. (See also the construct of "women and trans and non-binary people," which is generally understood to mean "AFAB people only.")

I was delighted, then, to get a very warm reception from the Network of Women at my company when I was invited to one of their events. Indeed, one said they were excited to see me as I'm "a legendary sister." ❤️

Today is a great day to:

#GoPro ☘️ #GoPro ☘️ #GoPro ☘️ #GoPro

#Harvard #HigherEducation #HBCU #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DigitizingProjects

'On Wednesday, the HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Library announced a project to sustain and deepen capacity for the digitization, discovery, and preservation of African American history collections held in HBCU libraries and archives across the U.S.'

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/hbcu-library-alliance-and-harvard-team-up-to-expand-access-to-black-history/