After Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt, the company opened up the patent because "it had more value as a free life-saving tool than something to profit from." Learn more: https://t.co/PLag64STS3 pic.twitter.com/xWDgk5nXii
— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) July 6, 2024
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Right-wing extremists want to repeal no fault divorce
Yes, they are coming for no fault divorce. The Center for Renewing America was founded by evangelical extremist Russ Vought, a top leader of Project 2025. 1/ pic.twitter.com/CrLkMSQncW
— JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) June 25, 2024
Dudes online with podcasts—and GOP politicians who want to appeal to those online dudes with podcasts—are waging a war on no-fault divorce. https://t.co/cUHH5cB9uN
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) June 7, 2024
As an attorney for survivors before we had no fault divorce in NY, we often had to persuade judges that behavior was cruel & abusive ENOUGH to divorce, often requiring black eyes or broken bones. We CANNOT go back & pretend to treat women as equal citizens. And that's their point https://t.co/APjTO5PTDq
— Diana Adams (they/them) (@DianaAdamsEsq) June 26, 2024
Tom Cotton and the like aren't hiding their agenda. They are coming after no fault divorce. pic.twitter.com/FjboxkB0uX
— AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 (@ask_aubry) June 28, 2024
Can't leave your terrible husband. Forced to carry to term. Bet you they will try and limit/segregate education and job opportunities in the next decade. A party of regression https://t.co/GCdAa24ab1
— Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor) June 26, 2024
Media cowardice about calling Trump a felon or criminal
He’s a convicted felon. That’s a fact. Say it.
Could someone who works in journalism explain to me why the @washingtonpost needed to add quotes around the phrase convicted criminal when Trump is, in fact, a convicted criminal. pic.twitter.com/LH3aN99nXl
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) June 17, 2024
"Biden Campaign Ad Paints Trump as a Felon"
— Jennifer Schulze (@NewsJennifer) June 17, 2024
It is amazing the lengths legacy media goes to soft- peddle basic facts about Trump. He IS a convicted felon & this new Biden ad clearly says that. The @nytimes headline and story about the ad should say it plainly, too. COME ON. pic.twitter.com/OAOiJZhuae
Looks like @nytpolitics tweaked the paper's headline on the new Biden ad hitting Trump's felon status, after criticism that the paper treated this status as a he-said-she-said matter.
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) June 17, 2024
before/after
(h/t @TPM_dk) pic.twitter.com/BqqnEJvqrS
They didn’t brand him a felon – he IS a felon.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 17, 2024
Right-wing extremists are coming at IVF
We knew they wouldn’t stop with abortion.
Are we going to let an extremist minority decide how we live? https://t.co/R6j2fMkxgJ
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) June 12, 2024
The Senate will vote tomorrow on the Right to IVF Act. Here’s why creating a national right to IVF treatment and making it more affordable is so important. A thread:
— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) June 12, 2024
Republicans are coming for IVF next … pic.twitter.com/MuJEEVJ41b
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 10, 2024
BREAKING: The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, has voted at their annual meeting to oppose IVF. The move may signal the beginning of a broad turn on the right against IVF. https://t.co/zDqj7aMsun
— Megan Messerly (@meganmesserly) June 12, 2024
The Republican Party has decided rapists have more of a right to become a parent than the families desperately trying to have a child through IVF. pic.twitter.com/jDibrokG3H
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 24, 2024
Democrats aren't seeking to tie the IVF conversation to Dobbs. It *is* tied to Dobbs. Dobbs is mentioned 15 times in the Alabama opinion and concurrences! It specifically discusses Dobbs and conceptions of pre-viability fetuses/embryos as "persons." https://t.co/B9Ze3RHVPm pic.twitter.com/bT99lVBbmd
— Joel Wertheimer (@Wertwhile) March 1, 2024
New: Senate conservatives are likely to block a request to unanimously pass Sen. Duckworth's bill tomorrow, which would protect IVF at the federal level
— Ursula Perano (@UrsulaPerano) February 27, 2024
Some Senate Rs saying Dobbs made IVF a states-rights issue
W/ @DaniellaMicaela https://t.co/hHDGASUKkr
Shitheel, you voted against the bill to protect IVF and then ran out to tweet this horseshit the next day. Even by our American standards of grifting, empty political hacks, this is wondrous. https://t.co/QexoSA213K
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 14, 2024
Party Bus, the rodeo bull
His father is Short Bus!
INSANE: A Bull named "Party bus" vaulted into the crowd at a rodeo in Oregon. But he didn't stop there.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) June 10, 2024
As he looked for a to escape, he turned toward a fan wearing a red shirt in the Cowboy Chuckwagon concession area… and flipped them over twice – all while "God Bless the… pic.twitter.com/Hyqp1iG55D
Update: The bull that created havoc at a rodeo last week won’t be euthanized. TMZ reports it’s been returned to its home ranch. Brian Witt, Pres. of Sisters Rodeo, shared the bull, known as “Party Bus,” will undergo addl training at the ranch to avert any future incidents. pic.twitter.com/OzkAcDlFAo
— theJasmineBRAND (@thejasminebrand) June 11, 2024
Solidarity with Party Bus the rodeo bull who made a break for it in Oregon Yesterday. pic.twitter.com/VMgmVidDRG
— Krime (@krime_1) June 11, 2024
Party Bus — named after his father, Short Bus — made national headlines last weekend at his first rodeo when he jumped the fence of a crowded arena in central Oregon and careened through the concessions area, injuring three people. #LiveOnKVALhttps://t.co/Sl1ZzxKUck
— KVAL News (@KVALnews) June 12, 2024
The Trump cult is threatening violence after the verdict
Threats of political violence were skyrocketing before Trump's historic conviction. Now, the climate will only grow more toxic as America's seething right plots revenge.
— Axios (@axios) May 31, 2024
"There will be a chorus of poison likely worse than what we heard before Jan. 6th."https://t.co/oc0NTzqy9J
"On online forums that have previously been linked to mass shootings, people are threatening violence and attempting to publicly identify the 12 New York jurors who on Thursday decided to convict former President Donald Trump," @donie reports https://t.co/iMaZ7nicSM
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 31, 2024
After the guilty verdicts, Trump’s Truth Social platform hosted posts voicing “hope” that “every juror is doxxed and pays for what they have done” & “May God strike them dead. We will on Nov 5th and they will pay!” The only remedy? An overwhelming anti-MAGA turnout & vote this…
— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) June 1, 2024
“We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution,” wrote another user. “This s— is out of control.”…
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 1, 2024
Republicans want to destroy public education
Terrible take by Politico. They only discuss enrollment, not the quality of education. Republicans are trying to destroy public education. They want private and religious schools that promote their right-wing agenda.
They don’t want our kids in their private schools. They show it by raising tuition over the price of a voucher.
— Jess Piper (@piper4missouri) May 25, 2024
These schools are given taxpayer money to discriminate against poor kids. We told you this would happen. https://t.co/zRx4XqXSKp
Notice that many states subsidizing private school tuition for affluent families via ESAs have shamefully high child poverty rates. There are far better uses of your state's general fund than writing checks to the already fortunate. pic.twitter.com/ZzcOWQcFXV
— Jen Jennings, PhD (@eduwonkette_jen) May 30, 2024
Almost 1 in 5 voucher users in Indiana is from a family making $150K+. pic.twitter.com/fZ2hHBnzS5
— Jen Jennings, PhD (@eduwonkette_jen) May 25, 2024
Is your only definition of successful the higher enrollment numbers? Have you looked at the quality of education and how the students are doing? That should be considered too.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) May 29, 2024
Florida’s top education official says public school closures a tradeoff for school choice https://t.co/B0iucDqaNE
— POLITICO (@politico) May 29, 2024
That’s the GOP plan. If they can weaken public education enough, they have made Brown v Board a moot point without having to go to the Supreme Court. 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/o21VbPkdA8
— HubCityOldMan (@coachG61) January 8, 2023
I’ve got to address this common argument that is completely false. It’s not just “their” tax money. If most parents could self-fund quality education, then public schools would not need to exist. But most parents chip in a small amount in taxes that is added together with the… https://t.co/VWsNeGoeq9
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) May 28, 2024
Taxpayer money meant for public education shouldn’t fund private religious schools, for the same reason that taxpayer money meant for public parks shouldn’t fund private pools in a megachurch pastor’s backyard.
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) June 3, 2024
If religious schools want taxpayer money, they should pay taxes. pic.twitter.com/N8xBYsFgn0
I really wish rich, out-of-touch folks who nothing about education would just stop. 1) Read the fine print. THIS IS A GOVT VOUCHER PROGRAM. Voucher programs have not been shown to improve results for poor Black children because most cannot get into high-quality private schools.… https://t.co/EAvAGFuYo1
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 7, 2024
Tweets on the decline of coal
The G7 has agreed to shut down coal plants by 2035, UK minister says, in a climate policy breakthrough. The US declined to comment on the agreement.https://t.co/rVnZENyIt4
— CNN (@CNN) April 29, 2024
The rise and fall of king coal: in 2023, advanced economies got as much energy from coal as they did in 1906. pic.twitter.com/kRIhCv0O01
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) March 1, 2024
Good morning with good news: US coal generation fell 28% during first half of 2023, compared to first 6 months of 2022! Coal generated just 15% of US electricity for January to June 2023. It is dying rapidly now. First coal. Then gas!https://t.co/J3B3zUmw8E pic.twitter.com/ow4csaC6UO
— John Raymond Hanger (@johnrhanger) August 25, 2023
Wind and solar power overtakes coal for the first time ever in the US https://t.co/Qm3TIwtpXM
— Edward Elderman (@edwereddie) June 27, 2023
A glimmer of good news.
A big deal: The coal miners' union just ratcheted up pressure on Manchin to support BBB. This is a seminal moment: The divergence in interests between workers and mine owners who oppose BBB has been exposed. Manchin must choose one or the other. My latest:https://t.co/4t5SzfQqTr
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) January 10, 2022
23 states, multiple coal companies ask Supreme Court to halt Biden rule to restrict pollution https://t.co/2BtUDv4exH
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 20, 2024
News from exactly 112 years ago. pic.twitter.com/sVqFurRPqr
— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) August 14, 2024
Louisiana Republicans criminalize the abortion pill
Terrible extremists
Less than two years out from Dobbs, Louisiana criminalizes the abortion pill—teeing up the surveillance, arrest, and prosecution of individuals who share or possess a medication that's approved by the FDA. https://t.co/DP1YhPflK1
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 23, 2024
This Louisiana bill also creates a registry, on which every single person who is prescribed abortion medication will be listed – truly state monitoring of pregnancies.
— Lauren Hitt (@LaurenHitt) May 23, 2024
Donald Trump did this. https://t.co/DytQ0V04YD
Louisiana is poised to legally reclassify abortion care medication as a dangerous controlled substance punishable with jail time if obtained without a prescription.
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 23, 2024
Story: https://t.co/6JHAtvu3sr pic.twitter.com/Ofax00x18X
Sad! 