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I was just doing the same thing.

Rare Exports is excellent.

Just watched that this past summer! Now everytime I walk by my neighbors who have a large cricket/lawn decoration, it makes me chuckle.

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.

NEWS: Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Quietly Removed From Government Website This is a major story that more media sites need to cover.

NEWS: Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Quietly Removed From Government Website
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A view looking into the LSST Camera's huge opening. The camera opening is a large black donut shape, with reflections of ceiling light revealing the presence of glass lenses. In the center of the opening is the camera's focal plane detector, which is made of 189 square CCD chips arranged in a roughly square shape. The camera is suspended on a white metal frame with white handrails. The completely white room gives the image an overall sterile feel.

‼️We're just TWO DAYS from Rubin's first images! #RubinFirstLook‼️ So let's talk images📷

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera — the largest digital camera ever built — produces 3200-megapixel images... 🔭🧪

But what does that mean, exactly? 🤨

📷: J. Orrell/SLAC Lab

Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request Proposal would end nearly all new major science missions

Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Listen through to the end of this interview. I think this is the best way to break through to people on this issue.

For every piece of racist anti-immigrant propaganda, we need stories like this that center on humanity and empathy

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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That is exactly true.

Stand up for Science A rally across the nation to protest the attacks on science and scientists

IMPORTANT: Are you ready to Stand Up For Science?

I am, and here's what I have to say about it:

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This is the actual supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (Saggitrarius A*), observed by JWST (NIRCam) for over 9 hours.
The flickers you see are solar flares on a mind-boggling scale, bright enough to shine across 26,000 light-years of space.
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A screenshot of a text excerpt from a court proceeding, showing a conversation between Judge Reyes and Jason C. Lynch about an executive order that defines “sex” strictly as male or female. Judge Reyes challenges this definition, noting that there are roughly 30 different intersex variations and citing examples such as XXX chromosomes, androgen insensitivity, and five-alpha reductase deficiency. Judge Reyes emphasizes that not everyone fits neatly into an XX or XY pattern, concluding that the executive order’s premise—that there are only two sexes—is biologically incorrect.

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

📣 DC friends - please consider supporting this rally on Wednesday, February 19th!

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Fight ALL the fights We have nothing left to lose — let’s f**king act like it!

If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/

The Cowardice of Senate Republicans In 2021, ten of my Republican colleagues in the House joined me in voting to impeach Donald Trump after he incited an attack on our democracy.

Sure, there are occasional moments of resistance from senators not facing reelection, but they are fleeting and ultimately meaningless if those same individuals fold when the stakes are high. My latest

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Because of course. This is Elon's government now.

Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of...

Docs & interviews reveal the now-disgraced firm Cambridge Analytica targeted voters with confidential personal data secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers, others by the National Shooting Sports Foundation(NSSF) via @propublica.org
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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

USDA Scrubs Climate Change Content From Websites USDA Removes Climate Change References From Public WebsitesUrgent directive to web managers sparks concerns about climate-smart agriculture initiatives.On January…

Me in AgriPulse on USDA removing their climate-smart conservation web page: "Taking down the page makes it really hard for farmers to even know what to do on their farms for mitigation." evrimagaci.org/tpg/usda-scr...

This. This is what overthrew the elite enslavers in the 1859s and the robber barons in the 1890s. We need these new papers everywhere.

Male and Female Only YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

You can’t just sign an executive order decreeing people you don’t like no longer exist…
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Finally a clear night to take the telescope outside (unistellar equinox 2). NGC 0891, NGC 1023 and Jupiter.

Love the shirt! I always tell my intro students about Tycho. Excuse me while I browse your bookshelf looking for books I may not have read after seeing the expanse books!

New Jersey just banned book bans with Freedom to Read Act Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law the Freedom to Read Act, which prohibits public institutions from removing books based on the "origin, background, or views of the material or of its author...

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