Today, on the 5-year anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting we’re left mourning yet another school shooting. So I again ask my colleagues, how many shootings is enough before Congress takes ACTION? We can and must do better. #EnoughisEnough
Thank goodness!
Sen. Feinstein makes it official: She will retire at the end of her current term
#LATimes #California #Feinstein #Dem #Democrat #Politics #News #Primary
Satanic Temple opens online abortion clinic named after Samuel Alito’s mother
Russia has held at least 6,000 children from Ukraine in camps aimed at re-education in what could constitute a war crime, a US study says https://u.afp.com/imKB
The Atlanta Cheating Scandal Is Not Over - This unjust saga is a significant blemish on Fani Willis. She railroaded teachers which obscured finding the truth. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/02/14/the-atlanta-cheating-scandal-is-not-over/ via @dianeravitch #Education
"The #Wyoming #Republican #Party is seeking to kill a bill working its way through the state Legislature proposing to raise the state's legal marriage age to 16, arguing that putting 'arbitrary' limits on child marriage interferes with parental rights and religious liberty."
I guess it's not being a #pedo or a #groomer if you call it "religious liberty."
https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-ending-child-marriage-sparks-republican-outrage-1780501
#Texas Monthly has an excellent new deep dive into the #GOP plan to dismantle public #education in our state: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/campaign-to-sabotage-texas-public-schools/
Previously from us, Christopher Collins looked at the #Republicans' anti-school agenda: https://www.texasobserver.org/disrupt-deplete-destroy/
and @josephinelee investigated how well-funded right-wingers used #vouchers to bankrupt education in #Arizona: https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/
It would be "extraordinary" — and unprecedented — for a federal judge to ban a drug that was approved by regulators more than 20 years ago, the FDA says.
But anti-choice activists, now turning their attention to the abortion pill mifepristone, are hoping a right-wing ideologue in Texas will do just that. https://www.businessinsider.com/abortion-pill-women-die-mifepristone-banned-democratic-ags-argue-2023-2 #news #politics #abortion
TED LASSO Returns March 15th, and Here’s The Teaser: https://www.blast-o-rama.com/2023/02/14/ted-lasso-returns-march-15th-and-heres-the-teaser/
Michigan State Rep. Says ‘F*ck Your Thoughts and Prayers’ After Mass Shooting
"It goes without saying that these two are great athletes, but in this age of angry, rootless young singles and bizarre incels joining online cults, they are also role models, at ages 24 and 27, of what grounded, mature men should be." https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-super-bowl-taught-us-about-families/
Multiple casualties from a shooting on the campus of Michigan State University. https://www.wlns.com/news/local-news/shots-fired-at-msu-students-instructed-to-hide-run-hide-fight/
There were more toxic chemicals on train that derailed in Ohio than originally reported, data shows - ABC News
"Trove of spices from around the world found on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship"
"A pair of archaeologists with Lund University in Sweden has found "a treasure trove" of plants aboard a sunken 15th-century #Norse ship. Mikael Larsson and Brendan Foley describe their findings in PLOS ONE.
The researchers found spices such as nutmeg, cloves, mustard and dill. They also found samples of other plant material, such as saffron and ginger, peppercorns and almonds. Some of the spices would have come from as far away as Indonesia, suggesting that King Hans had developed an advanced trade network. The researchers also found snack items, such as dried blackberries, raspberries, grapes and flax, each find showing just how rich and powerful Hans had become. The researchers also found one non-edible plant, henbane, which, in the past, was used for medicinal purposes."
@histodons #RespectfortheAncestors #Norway #archeology
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-trove-spices-world-sunken-fifteenth-century.html
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