@doublewhammied
Everything was going great until this whole breast cancer thing.
- You don't have to live in a world where @roncharles.bsky.social doesn't have a book column cuz a creepy bald billionaire doesn't want to pay his taxes. You can read him right here: 👇👇👇👇 #booksky roncharles.substack.com?r=l9hbm&utm_...
- Spread the word about this wonderful woman ... #teamgladys
- No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Good to know!
- The AP has a whole series on the front page today about PFAs (forever chemicals) and all the damage they're doing to humans. Among other sources, Scotchgard and its competitors on carpets contaminating the water in all the areas surrounding the factories that make it. 🧵 apnews.com/projects/pfa...
- Today in #history: In 1919, a general strike begins in #Seattle w/65K laborers walking off the job. Initially, the strike demonstrates the power of union solidarity 💪but it soon fizzles 😢 as the objectives remain unclear other than better shipyard wages. Some 40K other workers ... 1/2
- ... are idle, either because their employers see no use in opening or because they depend on streetcars 2 get 2 work. The strike sputters along until Feb. 11, when only shipyard workers remain off the job. 2/2 Via @historylink.bsky.social #Seattle #history
- LOVE 💖LOVE 💖LOVE 💖LOVE 💖LOVE 💖
- Your (more than a) moment of Zen.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Today in #history: Talking pictures arrive at the Issaquah Theatre in 1930, 2 yrs aftr #Seattle’s Green Lake Theater makes the huge leap in movie tech. 🎦The owner pays $6K to renovate Issaquah Theatre 4 “talkies” & raises prices to 15 cents 4 kids & 35 cents 👀 4 adults. Via @historylink.bsky.social
- Yep.
- Some good news for democracy!
- www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new congressional map that voters approved, delivering a major victory for Democrats ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
- Fascinating insight into the "people" (?) who work for "that 3-letter agency that rhymes with lice." #iceout
