Barton Stanley

Barton Stanley

@bartonstanley.org

fan of the natural world, reason, and compassion

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Barton Stanley
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Ted Lasso should do an Easter egg for this. spacedaily.com/b-a-fifth-gr...

spacedaily.comA fifth-grader in Kansas City clicked ball-and-stick atoms together in science class and asked her teacher if she'd made a real molecule — he photographed it, sent it to a chemistry professor, and at ...A ten-year-old's casual question about her chemistry model kit led to a published paper describing a molecular structure that had eluded professional scientists for decades.
Barton Stanley
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Hey all you corporations, institutions and individuals who practiced anticipatory obedience: When you stand up to Trump, you come out ahead. This is the way.

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social

Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comGladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technologyShe made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
Barton Stanley
@bartonstanley.org

For all those people saying "how can there be global warning when it is so cold?', it is *hotter than normal* north of the US.

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com

A major winter storm is impacting a large portion of the contiguous United States today. Temperatures are dropping more than 25°F below average on the backside of it down into Texas. To the north, temperatures are warmer than average in the Canadian Arctic. Graphic: www.karstenhaustein.com/climate

Barton Stanley
@bartonstanley.org

Last night arounds 7pm we moved our political signs from our yard to the nearby the polling place. This morning around 8pm, I saw one of theses signs sandwiched by the opponent's signs. The other side needs to run grown-ups. #opks

Barton Stanley
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Trump is the butt of the world's jokes.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

Barton Stanley
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse@whitehouse.senate.gov

“Health care for illegal aliens” is the new “immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield.” The Republican playbook is simple: make up a baseless lie, repeat it every chance you get, hope and pray that everyone blames Democrats for the crises you created.

Barton Stanley
@bartonstanley.org

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. 5/6

Barton Stanley
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He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. 3/6

Barton Stanley
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Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. 4/6

Barton Stanley
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This is from an editorial by President Teddy Roosevelt published in the Kansas City Star on May 7, 1918 entitled "Sedition, a Free Press, and Personal Rule" Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where the people are themselves free. 1/6

Barton Stanley
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Our Government is the servant of the people, whereas in Germany it is the master of the people. This is because the American people are free and the German are not free. The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. 2/6

Barton Stanley
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"Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed." --Justce Sotomayor 9/16/2025, multiple sources

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

ML@mlpoole.bsky.social

Barton Stanley
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"We've taken care of everything The words you read and the songs you sing The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes..." "We are the priests Of the Temples of Syrinx Our great computers Fill the hallowed halls..." Wow, Neil Peart nailed it! Wish I'd known it was going to happen 87 years sooner!

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social

Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important. @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/the...

npr.orgWhen The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High SchoolersIn 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.