A vivid digital artwork of a planetary nebula resembling a glowing cosmic eye, with a bright central star surrounded by concentric rings of blue, gold, and white gas. Wispy, luminous filaments radiate outward into a dark star-filled background, creating a dramatic, swirling halo effect.

The void blinked, and in the gap between darkness and forever, an iris of azure flame and gilded interstellar dust unfolds. Tendrils of dying starlight comb the black for a last embrace—a universe-wide sigh dressed in a halo of final, radiant breath.

Japanese anti-war group starts new campaign at Shinjuku Station, Tokyo.

”We want world peace! Fuck Trump!"

Witness breathtaking drone footage capturing the fiery heart of a volcanic eruption. A new era of vulcanology is here, revealing nature's power like never before.

State Department Tells Human Rights Watchdog to Ignore Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “lacks the competence” to review Trump’s campaign of deadly boat strikes, a State Department spokesperson said.

State Department Tells Human Rights Watchdog to Ignore Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings
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Awful things are still happening to immigrants here in the US--

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

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I did not know this!

🎞️ Every noir filmmaker must have gone to this school ... classic and quite creepy! 💙

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Someone made a cartoon about me!

DOGE’s secret voter data deal was ‘alarming,’ court finds Read more here.

NEW: A case challenging DOGE’s access to Social Security data has been sent back to a lower court after "alarming" new evidence revealed personnel of the faux-agency may have worked with an outside political group challenging election results — a fact not disclosed during earlier proceedings.

NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate. Great

A tweet by Joe Walsh criticizing the role of the Attorney General, arguing the AG should serve the American people, not the president. It includes a quoted clip of Acting AG Todd Blanche speaking at a Justice Department podium about executing the president’s agenda.

He said the quiet part out loud. You work for us, not him, Blanche.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Donald Trump's instability is more clear and dangerous than ever. If the Cabinet is not willing to invoke the 25th Amendment and restore sanity, Republicans must reconvene the Congress to end this war.

Nancy Pelosi weighs in, which is no small matter.

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Rally at the White House tonight

I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait. Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world.

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We could be looking at one of the worst humanitarian crises in history tonight.

We won't last 33 more months of this.

This must stop.

We must make it stop.

Two chained women are inspected before being loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP.

Empty shackles, returning from El Paso, will be brought to Whipple.

The number of people loaded here this week, 67, is the highest since Feb 7-13, when Homan announced the end of Metro Surge.

Camp East Montana in El Paso Texas represents Trump's first effort to stand up a massive immigrant prison to hold people without trial. It's a tent city handily located at the site of a Japanese Internment site from World War Two:

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Long Covid just sucks--hang in there

Thank you for this gift article!

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation:
"When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

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Alex Carrigan's poem, "Ars Poetica with Tulips"

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Gorgeous work!

my bet is on the turkey!