Isabel Wright
@isabelwright.bsky.social
She / Her / Elle Posts = my own Mild alarmist --> Quickly moving towards full alarmist. Rural 🔵 in a 🔴 State + SCIENCE + Bees + Vaccinated + Libraries + 🇺🇦 + 🇨🇦 + 🇬🇱 + 🇧🇪 #covidAware #N95 #KN95 DM 🟰 Blocked
Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...
Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.
cbs12.com
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
open.substack.com
El-Sayed: "Mike, I'm gonna say it right now, I know you're gonna say no because you're a coward: Five debates, alright? ... By the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you back to Florida"
Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
Dr. Laurie Leshin became the first female director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech in 2022. A geochemist & planetary scientist, she is the University Professor for Space Futures at Arizona State University. She was born #OTD in 1966. #WomenInSTEM #geochemistry
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
On current performance, it seems doubtful that this administration has the necessary expertise to negotiate a New START follow-on, even if it wanted to.
atomicbell@atomicbell.bsky.social · 7h agoNew START, the last US-Russia nuclear reduction treaty, expired 6 months ago today. It appears that absolutely nothing has been done to put guardrails back around the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world. Washington and Moscow's dereliction of duty threatens the entire planet.
These Republican amendments went down in flames. WE WON!
Computer scientist Frances Allen was a pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. + 1st woman to win the Turing Award + Her research directly shaped compiler design, code optimization & automatic parallel processing Born #OTD in 1932 & died #OTD in 2020. #WomenInSTEM #CompSci
A MaineHealth registered nurse who works at Maine Med in Portland has been abducted by ICE! She is an asylum seeker who is legally authorized to work in the US until 2030. She is currently being held in Boston but we fear she may soon be transferred to Louisiana or Texas.
Cyclospora in produce, salmonella in Chipotle's jalapeños, salmonella in eggs. Three outbreaks, 6,915 sickened, running at once. The agency meant to catch it is missing 80 percent of its senior staff and has no confirmed director. Eat at your own risk.
NEWS: Former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has endorsed Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for re-election Flake: “I’m still a conservative Republican. But character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution.”
Last week, the Michigan Supreme Court delivered a blow to the future of the Line 5 pipeline by striking down a key permit needed to construct an oil tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac. A major victory for Tribal Nations and allies who have worked to stop the dangerous Line 5 tunnel project!
The Line 5 Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes — But We Just Got a Big Win Against It
The pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. A court just dealt a stunning blow to one company’s dangerous plans to keep the oil flowing.
earthjustice.org
🚨 Croatian virologist Beata Halassy used viruses from her own lab to shrink her recurrent breast cancer by over 60% The result: Her tumor shrank by over 60%, was successfully removed, and she has remained in long-term remission
Northeast Ohio deserves a representative who will always fight for working families. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/poindexter_web?refcode=beatmaxmiller84
Help Send a Worker to Congress
Brian Poindexter is running to defeat Max Miller and bring working-class values to Ohio’s 7th District. Chip in to power a campaign built by and for working families.
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I’m old enough to remember when lying about adultery was worthy of impeachment. Feels quaint at this point.
I delivered all 3 of my kids at hospitals that no longer provide labor and delivery care. Maine has lost 10 birthing units in just the past decade. While I appreciate the challenges hospitals like Lincoln face, closing this unit would be devastating for patients, workers, and Midcoast communities.
Dozens rally in Portland ahead of MaineHealth board vote on closure of birthing unit in Damariscotta
MaineHealth says it's considering the closure because of staffing challenges and low birth rates.
mainepublic.org
After the 2025 US aid cuts, the International Rescue Committee cut its Ebola operations in Ituri Province from five health zones to two. Ituri is now the epicenter of the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record. The US dissolved USAID and left the WHO. The response infrastructure is gone.
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." ― Margaret Atwood
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) tells MeidasTouch that Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) should resign
GOP Senator Calls on Rep. Max Miller to Resign
Roger Marshall states the the Ohio lawmaker should step down
meidasnews.com
this country is against the sexualization of children, why is child marriage still legal in 37 states? A federal bill to end it, sponsored by Durbin, Schatz, and Gillibrand, sits in Congress unpassed. The outrage runs hot at drag shows and cold at the actual marrying of children
Historian of science Margaret Rossiter (d #OTD in 2025) coined the term #MatildaEffect (1993). Named after suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, the Matilda Effect describes a systemic bias where women's scientific achievements are ignored, minimized, or directly attributed to their male colleagues. 1/3
We had a great time marching in the Olmsted Falls Heritage Days Parade and being part of its return after a seven-year absence! We loved seeing the community come together, with all the young families and community members lining the route.
REPUBLICANS POKED THE BEAR They used gerrymandering to weaken Black voting power. New data shows they helped drive higher Black voter turnout in parts of the South instead. 📌 Alabama saw one of the biggest increase in Black voter mobilization. That will matter in @dougjones.bsky.social gov race.
Photojournalist Gerda Taro was the first female war photographer to be killed covering the front lines of combat. Her work documenting the Spanish Civil War fundamentally altered the standards of modern war photojournalism. Born #OTD in 1910. Her legacy was largely erased by history until... 1/2🧵
energiesmedia.com/solar-panels...
American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity
Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.
energiesmedia.com
