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@lodesl

Open-minded learner. Ally. Hope sustains me. I speak only for myself, as one should. Food is life and love. Becoming a better human IRL everyday, but not here.

Chicagoland, USA Katılım Kasım 2009
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@UberFacts The best part of my day is when I get into bed at night with the hub and we cuddle with gratitude for another day spent with one another. For real.
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The Tennessee Holler
The Tennessee Holler@TheTNHoller·
CAMPAIGN TRUMP: “Child care is child care. You have to have it. We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people. America first.” PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We can’t take care of daycare. Just military.” 🤔 🤷🏼 #StopTheWar
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Sammi🦋
Sammi🦋@PatriotSammi·
A Marine spends 13 weeks at Parris Island. No phone. No family. No contact. Graduation day is the one day that changes. This week, ICE showed up to screen his family at the gate. The Marine Corps put it in writing on their official website. DHS called it FAKE NEWS. Then the Marine Corps quietly deleted it from their site. But the families already saw it. Now some of them aren’t coming. A Marine is going to stand at that graduation alone. What do you call a government that does that to its own troops? #DemsUnited
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Michael Scherer
Michael Scherer@michaelscherer·
NEW: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy transferred $1 million to a super PAC for his son-in-law. Months later, one of the nation's biggest GOP donors, whose company is regulated by DoT, matched the donation. My dive into the new ethics of DC. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
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Citizens for Ethics
Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew·
This is a big deal and it’s flying below the radar—Trump’s DOJ just gave him a huge gift in the form of a legal opinion declaring that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. Let’s be clear: that’s nonsense. We’ll break it down 🧵
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Hegseth "firing" the Army Chief of Staff makes Project 25 more of a possibility for our future military. Can a 4 star general be forced to retire? Seems so. No worries, the pres nominated Hegseth's former military aide as Acting Army CoS (he's surprisingly qualified).
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In wartime. “Hegseth asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down & take immediate retirement…One of the sources said Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement President Trump and Hegseth's vision for the Army.” cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-o…

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Hegseth "firing" the Army Chief of Staff makes Project 25 more of a possibility for our future military. Can a 4 star general be forced to retire? Seems so. No worries, the pres nominated Hegseth's former military aide as Acting Army CoS (he's surprisingly qualified).
Joyce Alene@JoyceWhiteVance

In wartime. “Hegseth asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down & take immediate retirement…One of the sources said Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement President Trump and Hegseth's vision for the Army.” cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-o…

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anyone_want_chips
anyone_want_chips@anyonewantchips·
Anita Hill warned us about Clarence Thomas. Hillary Clinton warned us about Samuel Alito. Christine Blasey Ford warned us about Brett Kavanaugh. E Jean Carroll warned us about Trump. If only their warnings were taken seriously.
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Simon Maechling
Simon Maechling@simonmaechling·
All joking aside…It’s insane how people trust idiots over scientists. I can’t be the only one who feels this?
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Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth@SenDuckworth·
Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.
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Mark Lynch for U.S. Senate
Arrest the Epstein class. Liquidate their wealth. Nationalize it. We’re going to need it.
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Amazon is not helpful to small business entrepreneurs.
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@ZacksJerryRig Fun fact that SUCKS about Amazon. The raise our costs to sell. But will NOT allow us to raise prices in many cases. Amazon controls the sale price through a manipulation tactic. If I raise my prices, they make my listing not show up in a search. Then my sales drop 70 to 80%.

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Dr. M.F. Khan
Dr. M.F. Khan@Dr_TheHistories·
In 1930, rural Virginia, a Black girl born into sharecropping poverty wasn't supposed to leave the tobacco fields. But Gladys Mae Brown had other plans.... Her hands picked crops. Her mind solved equations no one asked her to solve. Her parents, despite barely scraping by, made a choice that defied every expectation placed on them. They kept her in school. She became valedictorian at a segregated high school with torn textbooks and broken windows. She earned a scholarship to Virginia State College in an era when being Black, female, and intellectually brilliant meant the world tried to crush you three different ways. In 1956, she walked through the doors of the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren as the second Black woman they'd ever hired. Four Black employees. Hundreds of white men. Most didn't think she'd survive the week. They were catastrophically wrong. Gladys calculated weapons trajectories by hand. Complex differential equations that consumed hours of meticulous work. Her accuracy became legendary. When computers arrived, she didn't resist the future. She learned Fortran. She mastered programming languages. She transformed weeks of calculations into hours. Then came Seasat in the 1970s. The first satellite studying Earth's oceans from orbit. She became project manager. But her true contribution remained hidden in the mathematics. For GPS to function, you need Earth's exact shape. Not close. Exact. Earth isn't a smooth sphere. It's an asymmetrical, gravity-distorted, irregular mass of mountains and ocean trenches. Gladys spent years constructing mathematical models describing every deviation, every curve, every gravitational anomaly of our planet's true form. She analyzed satellite data. She built geoid models. Tedious, invisible, revolutionary work. That mathematics became the foundation of GPS. Every navigation app. Every emergency rescue. Every autonomous vehicle. Every precision farming system. Her equations make it possible. Forty-two years at Dahlgren. Retirement in 1998. GPS fully operational worldwide. Billions of users. Almost nobody knew her name. She raised three children. Earned her PhD at seventy after surviving a stroke. Lived quietly. Until 2018, when someone at a sorority event read her biography aloud. The room went silent. The story exploded. At eighty-eight, Gladys West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. The world finally learned her name. She mapped the entire planet. Then everyone forgot. Until they remembered. Gladys West worked alongside her husband Ira West, who was also a mathematician at the Naval Proving Ground. They met at Dahlgren and built both a family and parallel careers in an environment that actively discriminated against them. After retirement, she didn't stop. She earned her PhD from Virginia Tech at age 70, proving that intellectual curiosity doesn't have an expiration date. The GPS system relies on something called the geoid, a mathematical model of Earth's shape that accounts for gravitational variations. Gladys West's calculations helped create these models by analyzing millions of data points from satellite altimetry. Without accurate geoid models, GPS coordinates would be off by hundreds of meters, making the technology essentially useless. Her story remained hidden partly because classified military work doesn't generate headlines. Many pioneers of satellite and navigation technology worked in obscurity for national security reasons. The sorority member who recognized her contribution was reading through Alpha Kappa Alpha biographies when she noticed the GPS connection and brought it to public attention. © Women Stories #drthehistories
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