The overwhelming majority of the Senate Democratic caucus supported carving out the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation in January 2022, but the proposed rules change failed after then-Democratic centrist Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) — both of whom later left the […]

"I was reading a magazine article on the Gemini astronauts. I was probably nine years old, and I thought that's the coolest thing. That's what I want to do," she says. "Of course, there were no women astronauts back then. But I just thought, I'll be a lady astronaut." […]

An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride in most states. More than two dozen have already been enacted or adopted. They are part of an organized, politically savvy effort that […]

On the Take Back Tesla website, the group calls the outsized package "outrageous," in part because Musk's "political activities have damaged Tesla's brand and distracted him from leadership at Tesla." The site says the plan doesn't require Musk to focus more on the automaker than his political […]

The move, which was posted in congressional records Monday, is the latest in a series of surprise and unexplained firings, reassignments and promotions that have been transforming the senior ranks of the military under Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Officials in the Army and […]

Ohio voted for Trump a 3rd time to devastate the environment. Welp. Enjoy your own voting https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/deer-diseases-rural-economies

In 2024, Sivanandan became the youngest person ever to represent England internationally in any sport. https://people.com/10-year-old-girl-wonder-chess-prodigy-plays-near-perfect-game-to-defeat-former-grandmaster-11834476

Telling the truth about Trump and Epstein is costing Elon billions https://www.pcmag.com/news/nasa-reopens-lunar-lander-contract-and-elon-musk-is-big-mad

While Trump told Arab and Muslim leaders several weeks ago he will not allow Israel to annex parts of the West Bank, it was not part of his 20-point peace plan for ending the war in Gaza. ... The letter was a rare instance where almost all the Democratic senators expressed support for one of […]

"The appeal of turning to the crypto lobby is understandable. Crypto lobby groups broke campaign funding records in the 2024 elections and made digital asset regulation a top priority for lawmakers in Washington. The Winklevoss twins, whose donations to crypto industry lobby groups have […]

Welcome in the Caribbean, but would cause white people to riot in the US https://ddnews.gov.in/en/trinidad-and-tobago-embraces-plan-for-ram-mandir-as-hindu-heritage-gains-momentum/

The US is on this list, but China isn't https://www.statista.com/statistics/266892/military-expenditure-as-percentage-of-gdp-in-highest-spending-countries/

“U.S. COVID-19 school closure was not cost-effective, but other measures were,” the study stated. https://mynorthwest.com/money/covid-19-school-closures/4145192

"Americans view the Republican Party as the party more capable of protecting the U.S. and keeping it prosperous, but fewer people hold this view since last year, according to a Gallup survey released on Tuesday. The poll found that 48 percent of Americans believe the GOP is more likely to keep […]

There was no job announcement, no search committee to identify top candidates, no interviews or reference checks. The position to lead the nation’s premier environmental health research institute wasn’t even open […]

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else If the administration succeeds, almost all people admitted to the U.S. as refugees — as many as 7,000 from a maximum potential pool of 7,500 — could be Afrikaners, a group not traditionally eligible for the program but one […]

Well before those messages surfaced publicly, Mr. Ingrassia was a vocal supporter of extremists like Nick Fuentes, a former dinner companion of Mr. Trump’s who has questioned the death toll of the Holocaust. Mr. Ingrassia has represented the self-described misogynist Andrew Tate, an influencer […]

“It turns out there’s a lot of hidden number theory in the planets’ very motion, for example, in the structure of the rings around Saturn,” explained DeMarco, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and a professor of mathematics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences […]

When Lernik Asserian thinks about designing a new math course, she doesn’t start with textbooks or syllabi. Instead, she asks: what would I have wanted as a student? https://stanforddaily.com/2025/10/15/lernik-asserian-math-edu-at-stanford/

Now, interviews and a cache of internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots. Amazon’s U.S. work force has more than tripled since […]

The GOP's murderous hatred toward Hakeem Jeffries is significantly shared among Democrats with ties to Republicans: https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/21/christopher-moynihan-pardoned-jan-6-capitol-rioter-arrested-for-threatening-to-kill-ny-rep-hakeem-jeffries/

Charlie Kirk boasted that he brought hundreds of rioters on Jan 6th. Kirk responded to the murder of MLK by trashing MLK's character. Kirk responded in exactly the same way to the murders of George Floyd and many other people. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq0929eyg5o

Since Dobbs overturned Roe, Trump's majority support among white women has stayed strong and steady. Trump has actually gained big support among non-black women of color. Suicidally racist women in very large numbers continue to surrender ownership & control of their own vaginas to stupid […]

This is why Trump did so well among young voters https://www.the74million.org/article/many-young-adults-barely-literate-yet-earned-a-high-school-diploma/

After waging a thirteen-year revolution against slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, the island’s Black freedom fighters declared their independence on January 1, 1804. In the country’s first constitution, issued one year later, the newly renamed Haiti subsequently became the first […]

Trump won young white voters, and did very well among young non-black voters of color. He did horribly among black voters, but his best age group was young Black voters. Now he's repaying young voters for their support […]

But there’s a huge catch: The DSA remains tiny and fractured internally. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/politics/democratic-socialists-zohran-mamdani-movement

Suicidally bigoted GOP voters are crushing cancer research, AI, quantum computers and American scientific leadership in general. That's what they do. That's why they most prolife states have the lowest life expectancies. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/

Good riddance indeed. Now who wants to run for office in Vermont? ttps://www.commondreams.org/news/sam-douglass-resigns

Trump has put tariffs on necessities and used our money to pay off Argentina and his wealthy backers. People cannot afford their car payments. Putting food purchases on credit cards. But, he has gutted all our federal safeguards.

He has people working without pay during a government shutdown while he bulldozes the White House.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@drchellem/115409689617868780 Money for warfare across my native Caribbean region.

The first revolution we fought like hell to save our nation. Now the confederates march through our streets. They flew their flag in our capitol and smeared shit on the walls. They are tearing down our White House to build a ballroom with the money they stole from food programs intended to keep […]

He was 36. A cause of death has not been released. An autopsy will be conducted, the Alameda County Coroner’s Office said. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/sport/football-nfl-doug-martin-died-while-being-detained-per-police

A massacre of African World War II riflemen demanding pay for fighting for France in 1944 was premeditated, covered up and its death toll vastly underestimated, according to a paper submitted to the Senegalese president and seen by the news agency AFP […]

Musician Kenny Loggins demanded that President Trump remove his song from an AI-generated video of the president dumping feces from a fighter jet on protesters at No Kings events. https://www.axios.com/2025/10/20/trump-no-kings-ai-kenny-loggins-song

North Carolina – a purple state that chose Trump for president and a Democrat for governor in 2024 – elected an evenly split 7-7 congressional delegation as recently as 2022. But after the new GOP-majority North Carolina Supreme Court legalized partisan gerrymandering in 2023, the delegation is […]

Trump appeared to not recognise Rudd at the table - but once he identified himself, Trump quickly made his views known. "I don't like you and I probably never will," he said. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c3971w1mxdlo

”I would be deeply concerned if the Democrats had a bare majority in the Senate right now, Marxist ideology taking over the Democrat Party. Do I want them to have no safegaurds and no stumbling blocks or hurdles at all in the way of turning us into a communist country? I don’t think that’s a […]

No reason was immediately given for Trinidad and Tobago’s decision to reserve its position on these matters. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has not commented on the latest development, or the deaths of the two Trinidadians in the US strike. In a brief statement on Saturday, Opposition […]

Someone against abortion but in favor of death penalty ‘is not really pro-life,’ Pope Leo https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hegseth-seeks-authorization-for-military-execution/ar-AA1OMbnS?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=5c51d911bdf34d3da1b4ef30b5bdee62&ei=24

Takaichi, an ultraconservative star of her male-dominated party, is among those who have stonewalled measures for women’s advancement. Takaichi supports the imperial family’s male-only succession, opposes same-sex marriage and a revision to the civil law allowing separate last names for married […]

“Everything we’re seeing is setting off alarm bells,” said Brian Finucane, a national security lawyer with the International Crisis Group, an organization focused on conflict resolution. “The military buildup in the Caribbean, these lawless strikes on vessels there … the administration talking […]

But the multi-talented athlete was excluded from high school basketball tryouts last Tuesday because of a clerical error on his original birth certificate. His mother, Becky Jackson, says there was a mix-up at the hospital the day he was born. “I give them the birth certificate, and they’re […]

In the US, the most prolife states have the lowest life expectancies https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-countries-with-the-most-years-in-poor-health/

The most prolife states have the lowest life expectancies and highest maternal mortality https://www.axios.com/2025/10/20/maternal-mortality-states-countries

Isiah Thomas played in an NBA era dominated by Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. However, none of those guys gave him the toughest challenge of his NBA career. According to Thomas, the player who deserves that label is his fellow Hall of Fame point guard, Maurice Cheeks […]

These universities were MUCH cheaper until Civil Rights. Racist voters cut taxes on billionaires and jacked up tuition to economically segregate higher education https://www.visualcapitalist.com/from-harvard-to-stanford-the-tuition-costs-of-the-top-10-colleges/

The C.N. Yang-Deng Wei Endowed Chair in Physics and Astronomy is held by and was central to Stony Brook’s recruitment of YITP Professor Zamolodchikov. His 2017 investiture ceremony in Beijing drew more than 100 people from China, including Yang. As Professor Zamolodchikov remarked at the […]

Important information is missing, as usual. Did the wife and daughters ever vote GOP? https://abcnews.go.com/US/mexican-father-reflecting-trend-leaves-family-19-years/story?id=126618973