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Found in the bowels of the Battleship New Jersey yesterday. Seems like something worth keeping in mind...

Gosh, why would that be? Trump at closed event: 'not possible' to pay for Medicaid, Medicare, day care share.google/QO11QHtZXLWZdJ…

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

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today: “Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.” The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible. James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion. The First Amendment’s opening words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” They put it first.

Tom Nichols spent months reading Washington’s letters and walking the halls at Mount Vernon. The article is long. The argument lands in one sentence he almost buries at the end. “Washington personally took up arms to stop a rebellion against the United States. Trump encouraged one.” The specifics behind that sentence: In 1794, armed farmers in western Pennsylvania refused to accept federal law. Washington issued a proclamation calling it treasonable opposition, raised a militia of more than 12,000 men, and personally led them toward the rebellion. He was the only sitting president ever to lead troops in the field. The rebellion dissolved. He pardoned two convicted insurgents after the legal process completed — not before. In his Farewell Address, Washington warned the republic that “sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction” would manipulate public emotion for “his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.” He wrote that sentence in 1796. He could not name the man. Nichols named him. John Kelly stood at Mount Vernon two years ago and summarized Washington’s greatest contribution to American democracy in three words. “He went home.” Every president since has understood that sentence. Every president but one.

GOP Rep. Mary Franson says she's not worried about climate change because it's not in the Bible: "If you've read the Good Book, you know how it ends, and it's not with climate change." How can we expect Republicans to do serious work when they're so proud about ignoring science?

The most amazing story isn’t just that Democrats flipped a Trump +12 seat from red to blue — it’s that Trump literally voted by mail in this election while arguing mail in voting should be illegal for everyone else.

No one bets $1.5 billion unless they are sure and have insider information. This isn’t the first time either. There should be an outcry in the USA about this. Also unnoticed by many, SEC Enforcement Division Director Margaret Ryan resigned last Monday after just over six months on the job, after clashing with her bosses over investigating Trump family trades.

Trump's team has spent more than $5 million having images of him with Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs bleached from the internet Would be very terrible if this went viral!

Donald Trump called mail-in voting “mail-in cheating” on Monday. That same day, news broke that he just voted by mail in a Florida special election. His polling place is a 15-minute drive from Mar-a-Lago. He spent the last two weekends there. He mailed it anyway. He is now holding the entire country hostage to pass a bill making it harder for you to vote the way he just voted. Shameless hypocrisy. nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/…

Tweet of the year?

Operation Epstein Fury continues apace. Because it wasn’t enough for the trump regime to break the law by hiding, redacting, & deleting files that prove that Donald trump is a child-raping pedophile. They had to change the subject. And what better way to do that than start a war.

🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu says the full Epstein files contain information that Donald Trump RAPED minors. So he started a war to distract us from his crimes. Never stop speaking about Epstein.

Hillary Clinton: You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, despite espousing the need for transparency. You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files. And when you did, not a single Republican member showed up for Les Wexner's deposition. This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than to seek truth and justice for the victims and survivors.

The people who didn't know that Puerto Rico is a part of the US are suddenly experts on the Middle East.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled: Voters as “Votors” Emergency as "Emeregency" United States as "United Staes" And, it included a non-party in the caption. These are the people who want access to your voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, the exact order you get has almost certainly never existed before in human history and never will again. The number of possible arrangements of 52 cards is 52 factorial, which works out to a number so large that it has 68 digits. To put it in perspective: even if every person who ever lived shuffled a deck once per second since the beginning of the universe, you would still barely scratch the surface of all possible arrangements. So every time you shuffle a deck, you are most likely holding a sequence that is completely unique in the history of the universe.

@grok @vSchuylenburch @mjfree Based on what is contained in the released files, what is the likelihood that there is grounds for more serious allegations against Trump in the unreleased files?

Based on DOJ statements and reports from CNN, The Guardian, and Forbes (verified Jan 2026), over 2 million Epstein files remain unreleased past the Dec 2025 deadline, including potential videos and audio. The Trump admin's DOJ cites ongoing reviews for redactions. Exact contents are unknown until released, with more expected soon.

BREAKING: Epstein victim says there are tapes of Donald Trump that will force him to resign from the presidency — @grok whatcha got on the above?

I don’t know about you, but—during this 250th anniversary year—I’m not going to stay quiet while Trump and his regime lies, steals, cheats, abuses, commits crimes, ignores the needs of everyone but the richest among us, trashes our Constitution and imagines their cruelty and hate in any way represent America. This is the year to stand up for American principles and values. I’m betting millions and millions feel the same.

Trump says he has the power to seize ballots — and now his spy chief is joining FBI raids of election offices. But guess what? I co-wrote the order he’s talking about. He’s lying. And a crime might be in progress. defiance.news/p/why-we-shoul…