Rose Rudd @roseannerudd@qoto.org

“The offensive isn’t going very fast because we’re trying to save the troops, it takes some time to prepare the ground. We need to destroy as much as possible before sending the troops in,” A Ukrainian soldier's explanation of the recent fighting. https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-hits-russian-defenses-from-a-distance-before-risking-troops-26cd2502

Another killer interview from @ikhurshudyan: “Ukraine’s top general wants shells, planes, and patience.” He says it “pisses him off” to hear complaints about the counteroffensive’s progress. This ain’t TV, and the West would never counterattack without air superiority.… https://t.co/aYFvT7p8dh

This is a statement the world should pay attention to. War is not an instant gratification scenario. War is won by courage, resolve,
pain, and sacrifice. Freedom isn't free. #StandWtihkraine

FROM FORMER FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA:

“I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:”

#Mastodon #BlackMastodon #SCOTUS

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish by flying him by private jet to a fancy fishing resort, you lock in a supreme court vote whenever you need one.

“Judge Clarence Thomas, who came to prominence as a fierce black critic of racial preference programs, was admitted to Yale Law School under an explicit affirmative action plan with the goal of having blacks and other minority members make up about 10 percent of the entering class, university officials said.

I'm thinking of the school district I grew up in.

The wealthiest, whitest neighborhood had a brand new middle school with a pool. The poorest, most Latino neighborhood had the oldest school building in the district, and used hand-me-down textbooks from other schools.

You think individual experiences have nothing to do with race? Fuck off, Roberts.

A bunch of racist shitstains got together and said "racism is great and there's no reason to compensate for centuries of it"

@w7voa So many thanks for always covering these things.

Taking a broader view of #FairvHarvard, the majority opinion and the concurrences fit the #Lochner paradigm. As in #Dobbs and #Bruen, Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett all stake out a position divorced from the reality of American life and arrived at by radical, formalist reasoning. Ultimately, dissatisfaction with this sort of decisionmaking led to the New Deal legal revolution. Dissatisfaction with it may yet birth another sea change in US law. 10/10 #LawFedi

Decided to take my “Government Ethics -The Essentials” course today, for no special reason. Let’s see what rules I and other non-#SCOTUS employees are held to, under threat of firing and criminal prosecution…

The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy #OTD in 1633.

He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. During this time, he wrote Two New Sciences (1638), primarily concerning kinematics and the strength of materials, summarizing work he had done around forty years earlier.

Galileo Galilei @ PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014

#books #literature #science

As the world turns its attention to the missing Titanic submersible, don't look away from the crisis off the Greek coast.

More than 500 refugees are presumed to have drowned, in what is likely one of the worst refugee and migrant shipwrecks on record. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/21/titanic-submersible-greece-migrant-ship-pakistan/

#June is #Alzheimer's and #Brain Health Awareness Month. #JohnsHopkins is offering, through July 21, 30% off on books about #dementia (#diagnosis, #caregiving, #science of #neurology, #narrative #medicine) with this discount code: HDEM23, including the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #BruceMiller at #UCSF's extraordinary #MemoryandAgingCenter in #SF. Sending strength to all whose lives have been affected by this #disease. #EndAlz

Gas explosion reported in 5th arrondissement of Paris; several buildings on fire. https://www.bfmtv.com/en-direct/ #France

Dr. Peter Hotez, professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine has been attacked all weekend by Musk and Rogan on the bird site. Dr Hotez is a vaccine scientist and a threat to disinformation con artists like the two twits mentioned above. He will have a new book out soon and it is important to spread his book title message far and wide.
#FactsMatter #DisinformationKills #VaccinesWork #Science #Medicine #Canada #USA

Ancient Britons built Stonehenge – then vanished. Is science closing in on their killers? Jonathan Kennedy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/19/ancient-britons-stonehenge-killers-plague-britain-migration

Rock slide narrowly misses Swiss village of Brienz, so far. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65926381

#ClimateDiary

Etched glass mask being cut out. Anthemions, scrolls, butterflies and designs taken from the cornicing in the clients home. #stainedglass #Glasgow #Scotland #etchedglass