Angela Collier

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Theoretical Physicist.
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From Eastern KY.

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This should horrify every decent American. Remember they mean deporting millions of Dreamers, farmworkers, long-settled immigrants who have contributed to our nation for decades. Businesses will suffer and families would be separated from coast to coast. Our neighbors, our coworkers, our loved ones.

I forgot to post my video

This video by @acollierastro.bsky.social is important and timely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h7...

STEAM Education: Putting an A in your STEMwww.youtube.com Education Week Project 2025 post: https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/project-2025-and-the-gop-platform-what-each-says-about-k-12-in-a-2nd-trump-term/2024/07

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Well-behaved Yale professors seldom make history

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It shouldn't have required AOC to open articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito for him to endorse these changes but I'm glad he finally is. These changes are long overdue.

JUST IN: Bombshell Report Reveals Biden Prepping to Endorse Sweeping Changes to Supreme Courtwww.mediaite.com Biden is working on pushing sweeping changes to the Supreme Court, including establishing term limits and an "enforceable code of ethics," reported the Washington Post

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Call your reps today to tell them you support this and expect them to vocally support these efforts as well as AOC’s articles of impeachment for the compromised justices. It only takes 5 minutes, and you often don’t even have to speak to a real human! (Negative/doomer replies will be blocked)

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Another day, another massacre 😔

Gaza: Multiple strikes kill dozens near UN aid hub as thousands flee fightingnews.un.org Multiple strikes have killed dozens of people in central Gaza, landing just 100 metres from a humanitarian hub, UN agencies said on Tuesday, as thousands continue to face displacement amid the ongoing...

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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like I literally DIED last time I got pregnant, my heart stopped, I was resuscitated now imagine that but with hours long treatment delays because the hospital is trying to decide if they’ll get in trouble for saving my life

an emergency D&C saved my life 2 years ago, mere weeks before Roe was overturned, and if Project 2025 happens, next time I will simply bleed to death while the hospital lawyers decide whether or not they can legally save my life

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If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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Counterpoint: it is though.

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Books that feel like the Twilight Zone youtu.be/pK3au7irlt8?... by @acollierastro.bsky.social

Books that feel like the Twilight Zoneyoutu.be #booktube Books mentioned:A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. PeckThe Mustache by Emmanuel CarrèreThe Factory by Hiroko OyamadaThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlott...

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

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the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me

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truthout.org/articles/ida...

Idaho Law Criminalizes Librarians Who Allow LGBTQ Books to Stay on Their Shelvestruthout.org An informal survey suggests that more than half of the librarians in Idaho are considering leaving their jobs.

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www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/.... - Just fucking horrific.

At least 90 killed in Israeli attack on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ in south Gazawww.aljazeera.com Al-Mawasi, where thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering, has been targeted numerous times since October.

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"died after an early-morning encounter with deputies" Cops shot her to death.

Illinois woman who called police over possible intruder killed by deputies, attorney sayswww.nbcnews.com Sonya Massey, 36, died after an early-morning encounter with deputies from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office on July 6, authorities said.

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Tom Homan, Trump’s acting ICE director, is listed as a Project 2025 contributor and said this past week he’s eager to return “and run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.” “They ain’t seen shit yet,” he said at the fringe National Conservatism conference. “Wait until 2025.”

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a radical plan geared for a potential second Trump admin. Frighteningly expansive, Project 2025 targets immigrants—and anyone perceived to be one. More from @joesudbay.bsky.social and @tusk81.bsky.social ⬇️ zacharymueller.substack.com/p/project-20...

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libraries matter

Pick Up a Free James Baldwin Title in Celebration of His 100th Birthday | The New York Public Librarywww.nypl.org The New York Public Library is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Baldwin one of our largest adult book giveaways!

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Idahoan here. ID's lost nearly 25% of our OBGYNs, mostly rural practitioners. Life flight insurance is common (and relatively cheap) since this gigantic state has few full medical centers outside the Boise metro. It's horrific. You can help: donate to Northwest Abortion Action Fund.

I'm sad! lol.

I love how the days get shorter. It should just keep doing that until time stops and we can be free.

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This is now: Rape victims are being denied emergency contraception in medical centers and hospital emergency rooms. jessica.substack.com/p/idaho-wome...

Idaho Women Flown Out Weekly for Emergency Abortionsjessica.substack.com 7.12.24

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It remains wild to me how much better AOC is at “doing politics” than something like 98 percent of Democrats. The Supreme Court is historically popular and insanely corrupt! Holding them accountable is good policy AND good politics! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This Is How Democrats Should Be Treating the Supreme Courtballsandstrikes.org AOC's decision to file of articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito is how Democrats should be engaging with a corrupt Supreme Court.

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"Fascists are carrying out armed attacks on reading groups at libraries."

This headline needed to be more forceful. Some of the protestors were fucking armed. www.vtcng.com/news_and_cit...

Drag Story Hour draws crowds, protestswww.vtcng.com As Justin Marsh was reading the children’s book “The Bad Seed” in character as Emoji Nightmare to a crowd of children and parents at the Craftsbury Public Library on Sunday,

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sure, a reporter could definitely try to use an LLM to help them understand ~ scientific jargon ~ or, and hear me out: they could do some reporting, maybe talk to some experts, maybe dig around to see what all already exists on a given subject??? i'm sure there's a word for that

Making sense of science: Using LLMs to help reporters understand complex researchwww.niemanlab.org Can AI models save reporters time in figuring out an unfamiliar field's jargon?

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with all due respect, 'techlash' comes from years of shitty tech systematically forced into people's lives with no option to opt out, disenfranchising the most marginalised, turning public spaces into a surveillance nightmare, and now genAI destroying the earth, all to make a handful men richer

It's like you went to B&N with your high schooler's reading list and then decided to pose for a little pic before passing them off to your kid.

White boy summer

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Convicted felon Donald Trump was supposed to be sentenced today, before the Gang of Six on the stolen supreme court re-wrote the rules for him. There's no rule of law in the United States while the courts remain captured.

It's computational physics all the way down!

I've been waiting for this paper since last summer's ICVM presentation! Congrats to the Nyakatura lab. Interesting work about artiodactyl vertebrate load bearing. 🧪 doi.org/10.1002/jmor...

Comparative finite element analysis of the first thoracic vertebra in artiodactylsdoi.org The Journal of Morphology publishes research in cytology, protozoology, embryology, and general animal morphology in vertebrates and invertebrates.

I think there is an element of sexism here as well. If Melinda Gates purchased a fully functioning, already in existence, rocket company no one would say "At least she makes rockets" People literally think Elon Musk knows rocket science. It is wild.

Astronomers knew Elon Musk was a dumb dumb in like 2007. I don't understand how this is still happening in 2024. On my last video I compared him to Elizabeth Holmes and a got a bunch of comments like "But at least he makes rockets." (He does not make rockets.)