Pat Colsher

Mass Deportations - A Dark History Returns There have been two "Mass Deportations" of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent that have happened before in the United States. You don’t know about it because this history isn’t taught.

There have been two mass deportations of Mexicans in US history.

Both swept up hundreds of thousands of US citizens in the process - many of them children. open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

The Law Must Respond When Science Changes What was once fair under the law may become unfair when science changes. The law must react to uphold due process

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “a genuine catastrophe.” As Secretary of Health and Human Services, the “damage he could do is near infinite.”

Public health experts and scientists say RFK could do "infinite" damage if he's appointed to lead HHS. It's not just vaccines or fluoride: it's Medicaid and Medicare funding, drug development, cancer research, funding for Indian Health Service... it's endless. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As Nazis took power, Germany experienced a brain drain among their scientists and other scholars. Perhaps the most famous was Einstein, but many others also fled (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...). Don't think for a second that other countries won't offer safe haven to our best and brightest.

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A Doge was a ruler in Venice who was elected (by ruling families) for life and who wielded considerable power that was largely used to protect the wealthiest families. There is virtually no chance that Musk is unaware of that and what it implies to be in charge of it.

a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf ALT: a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.

He is deliberately picking people that will cause the most damage. It's the behavior of a "developer" who buys up property where people with low incomes live and tears it all down to build a palatial high rise branded with his name that only he and his cronies can afford. Except its our country.

Trump’s Team Is Already Sick of Elon Musk Donald Trump’s transition team is getting frustrated with Elon Musk’s level of involvement.

I’m shocked! newrepublic.com/post/188274/...

Lovely work!

I'm not going to despair over every appointment Dribbling Don makes. We all know it's going to be a shit show filled with christofascists and white nationalists. I will, however, be mocking, since, if it's OK for him, surely it is OK for me. "When they go low we go high" isn't working for me.

I truly cannot recall what my first FB post was, but I do recall playing lots of Farmville. Those were the days.

Any other blue dots in WV?

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