70 years ago yesterday, Dr. Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine. If this happened today, Fox would be spreading disinformation, people would be whining about their freedoms, and GOP like Jim Jordan and MTG would be calling for Salk’s arrest.

Three children and two adults were murdered today in a school shooting in Nashville. Here are the gun laws in Tennessee:

NO state permit required to purchase

NO firearm registration

NO owner license required

NO permit required for concealed carry

NO permit required for open carry

NO background checks for private sales

And the state can preempt local laws.

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@elleci42a I'm seeing all kinds of ideas to help the David statue. 🤔 😆

Republican House passed the Parents Bill of Rights bill. Among other provisions it includes that parents have the right to be notified when a shooter with an AR-15 is turning kids to hamburger at the school. Apropos every f*cking day in ‘Merica. 👀

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165592471/what-a-house-gop-messaging-bill-could-spell-for-2024-culture-war-campaign

Elizabeth Warren announces 2024 re-election campaign

#CoSoNews #news #Politics

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/elizabeth-warren-2024-senate-third-term

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𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿
𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱

#cosomusic
https://youtu.be/zGSxvH5i6XQ

One House Republican not only condemned public libraries, he suggested they be replaced with “church-owned” alternatives. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-rep-suggests-replacing-libraries-church-owned-alternatives-rcna76498 via @msnbc

A small part of the first computer, ENIAC completed in 1945, it used 18,000 vacuum tubes and used up one whole floor of a factory and used 150 kw of power and weighed 30 tons.

There's a great book about designing and building this thing, of course the designers got screwed out of the money, they were U Penn researchers IIRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

Or, in my case, a very sad tree.

I'm opened minded in believing there could be an afterlife. I'm also opened to the possibility that there isn't. Happy Athiest Day to those who partake.

This DeShamtis brand of conservatism is really starting to look like it has some nazi underpinnings.

#politics

Lauren Boebert brings photos of human fetuses to hearing on endangered species

https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-fetuses/

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Florida, Texas, North Dakota, Idaho, Oklahoma, and other states are rushing bills through their state legislatures that, only a few years ago, would have been tossed out by the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional.

They're doing this because the Dobbs decision signaled that the current Court is ready to accommodate extreme right-wing culture war ideologies.

It's not a new thing; this authoritarianism was there all the time, only checked by a SCOTUS that still enforced the Constitution.

This is, indeed, my final form 👾

Now, in Desantis’s ‘Free State of Florida,’ you get fired as a Principal if one of your art teachers shows the class a picture of Michelangelo’s David.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11894493/Tallahassee-principal-fired-parents-complain-Michelangelo-statue-David-pornographic.html