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Insane. Actually insane. Let’s make his money this year a waste, shall we?

Listen, when I said the tent was big enough for all of us, this is not what the fuck I meant. Thanks for the publicity or whatever, but Neo-nazis need not apply.

These changes are causing quite a bit of stir in the space science community, and many of us have a *lot* of questions. However, the biggest issue with NASA's missions isn't a lack of industry involvement or length of review. It's that NASA lacks the money to fly missions regularly.

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

They’ve already started. They filed a suit today to effectively throw out Alaska’s election results if Dan Sullivan (the incumbent) doesn’t win

so they’d be exercising the duties congress is supposed to perform, namely “investigating someone lawless.” what a concept.

even by normal oppo standards this story is bonkers — basically vivek and co (and acton’s shitty mother) are accusing acton of fabricating horrific stories of child sexual abuse that are clearly documented in court records

suddenly trump’s bitter fixation on new mexico comes into focus

the guy who’s single-handedly funding paxton’s campaign is Big Mad about puppet masters

Sometimes, when you stare into the abyss... the abyss stares back.

WANT TO SNORFLE THE MURDERCAT (🔊 up)

Albanians just set fire to the Supreme Court after it allowed Jared Kushner to buy land in the country against the their will.

PLEASE REPOST FAR AND WIDE SO EVERYONE KNOWS WHERE TRUMP STANDS

Trump and Musk are pressuring Zelensky to hand over territory to Putin so Trump/Musk can resume business as usual in Russia Hard for the UK and rest of NATO to talk about Trump's US as an ally. Zelensky is telling it how it is because he's not much more to lose. This is a dark hour.

Nowhere in that long, rambling word salad would you ever get any inkling, if you didn’t know it, that Putin attacked and invaded Ukraine unprovoked & could end the war at any instant simply by… not doing that anymore.

Zelenskyy: We have lost an ally in America. They have chosen their side. Not ours, not even the middle. Putin's side. They have chosen the wrong side of history. #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory This American stands with Ukraine! Slava Ukraini ✊🏾

This is going to be very appealing to the all-important "After three days, I suddenly noticed that my child was missing" voting demographic.

This is disgusting, but not unexpected. The Trump administration is putting their thumb on the scales for Putin, despite the fact that it’s Russia violating the energy ceasefire. 

Again: don’t get complacent. Polls look great, but polls don’t vote. Ignore this shit and vote like we’re down by 3%

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

We seem to be having some success with hot smart people who are good at television, has anyone thought of trying this before

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Grey on gray. #BirdOfTheDay #eck 📷🌿🪶

Research Cruise AR103 Thread: Views & Critters Yesterday’s Wilson’s storm-petrel extravaganza off the back deck! 🪶🌿🦑

On its way to terrorize some park goers.😂 #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.

One thing I’ve noticed in 6 years of Trump: when he tries to cheat, he bumblefucks it spectacularly. Martial law doesn’t provide a mechanism for cancelling elections. I think it would have the exact opposite effect - turnout is already going to be high, that would send it to the stratosphere.

He could absolutely *try* to declare martial law. It’s been telegraphed so much, and there’s clearly no national emergency. It would be knocked down by a court almost immediately.

Nah, she hates Trump. I guess my favorite 3 Trump accomplishments: 1. More people are paying attention to signs of Dementia than ever before 2. Trump is making math great again - lots of robust debates about his lie about reducing drug prices by 600% 3. He single-handedly revived fact checking

Call me crazy, but it seems like the administrator of Medicare and Medicaid should.... know how fucking insurance works?

Oh, my heart

i mean on the one hand fuck politico but on the other, lmaooo (via @status.news)

Shadows on Saturn.

This isn't the diseased skin of some alien—this is Mars! Taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, this colour scene shows a portion of the planet's high southern latitudes where frost, dust, and sunlight combine to produce these pink and purple tones.

Interesting tidbit from today's briefing at the Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) meeting by NASA planetary leadership: NASA is considering *two* flagships for flight—one to Uranus, the other to orbit and land on Enceladus. Both were Decadal priorities—but in series, not one over the other.

This is the Dragonfly spacecraft, ultimately destined for Titan, photographed in July during early construction at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The mission PI, Zibi Turtle, shared this image at the OPAG meeting today. Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Zibi Turtle

I said I'd do a thread about my new Space Science Reviews paper, so here it is! This is part of a collection of papers arising from a meeting at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in 2024: a workshop to better understand rocky extrasolar planets. A 🧵:

This is a cool mission (literally). Cooled to 4.5 degrees above absolute zero, it'll scan the skies in infrared *starting* at the longest wavelength JWST can see, and going out to 200+ microns.

An incredible auroral display in Beaver, Alaska, filmed in real-time (NOT sped up) and NOT AI (never will post AI aurora content on my pages). This display occured when I was helping with a NASA sounding rocket mission earlier this year.

One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc.