A swirling mas of red, orange, and yellow cloud-like structures, corresponding to increasing quantities of dust. There is a general spiral structure to this protoplanetary disk. The small "twist"-like feature is immediately to the lower right of the image centre. The star itself has been masked.

AB Aurigae is a young star only a few million years old, about 500 lightyears from Earth.

The swirling mass around it is a protoplanetary disk.

And where there's a small "twist", just to the lower right of the centre, is where a giant planet is growing.

The energy we need to send fascism back into hiding.

The Moon! At right is a portion of the surface not visible to us on Earth because the Moon is tidally locked (i.e., it shows the same face to us all the time).

The Artemis II crew is now getting a good look at the Moon—including parts we can't see from Earth!

At the right of the Moon in this view is the Mare Orientale multiring basin, only a portion of which is visible to us normally.

In this photo, the Moon's south pole is to the top.

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video.

“It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?”

This lady’s response is🔥

The allegory is so loud it's giving me a headache.

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms.

You have to listen to this.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.

1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

I think they all need to donate any money from Abigail Wexner too, not just Les.

@booker.senate.gov more training isn’t going to fix it dude

Nothing like wanting to make a phone call, picking up the receiver and hearing neighbors talking.

Party line for my whole road out in the country.

Pink aurora in central Ohio

Aurora in central Ohio

Aurora in central Ohio

#A_NewHope ✊

Andor: The Great Dictator Speech YouTube video by SWFT

Wow.

The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 • Ohio Capital Journal We’re running the full text of the Declaration of Independence as a reminder of the nation’s foundational ideals, and in the hope that it will one day live up to them for every American.

We’re running the full text of the Declaration of Independence as a reminder of the nation’s foundational ideals, and in the hope that it will one day live up to them for every American ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/04/t...

Check out the Declaration’s list of grievances It’s time to recapture our freedoms.

We all can use this Independence Day to rouse our fellow Americans from their stupor, recall for them the offenses of our modern tyrant, and summon them to embrace the spirit of the Declaration (“We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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#HappyPride for the next 335 days, too.