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Policing in the US in 2025

You won't see any police organization call this out as unacceptable. You won't see this covered in the media at all. He won't be reprimanded or have his training or suitability for the job questioned.

This is Trump's America now. He'll probably get promoted next week.

5 months ago 63 36 14 7

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

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White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.

The White House on Wednesday abruptly fired a large share of the council members advising the National Endowment for the Humanities, retaining only four appointees of President Donald Trump

No paywall link archive.today/uldxe

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Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective…

You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

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This is a composite of 7 channels of data. From Hubble, we've got wideband blue, mediumband green, and H-alpha, and wideband near-infrared data. From Chandra, we've got low, intermediate, and high energy x-rays.

These Hubble data are, in my opinion, some of the most difficult in the archive to process because the object is within such a densely packed region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. I've processed them once before with interesting results but I wanted to try again to see if I could get it a bit more natural and I also wanted to take the opportunity to include x-ray data available via openFITS.

The colors undoubtedly look very fantastical and unrealistic to you so I will create a metaphor to help you pretend it is actually realistic. If you were a being capable of seeing in x-rays, you might have a different eye on your head for this purpose rather than a single one. If this x-ray eye could see in color, then the x-rays would be just as colorful as the visible light your familiar set of eyes can see. So imagine you are a cool alien with this extra eye in addition to your two normal eyes and what you see might look something like this.

In fact, you could take color x-rays of your own flesh and bones if it were acceptable and useful to bombard your body with three times as much energy as a black and white x-ray requires and then you would be very familiar with color x-rays. It would be more fun to go to the dentist. Anyway...

The dull, reddish haze comprising the ou...

This is a composite of 7 channels of data. From Hubble, we've got wideband blue, mediumband green, and H-alpha, and wideband near-infrared data. From Chandra, we've got low, intermediate, and high energy x-rays. These Hubble data are, in my opinion, some of the most difficult in the archive to process because the object is within such a densely packed region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. I've processed them once before with interesting results but I wanted to try again to see if I could get it a bit more natural and I also wanted to take the opportunity to include x-ray data available via openFITS. The colors undoubtedly look very fantastical and unrealistic to you so I will create a metaphor to help you pretend it is actually realistic. If you were a being capable of seeing in x-rays, you might have a different eye on your head for this purpose rather than a single one. If this x-ray eye could see in color, then the x-rays would be just as colorful as the visible light your familiar set of eyes can see. So imagine you are a cool alien with this extra eye in addition to your two normal eyes and what you see might look something like this. In fact, you could take color x-rays of your own flesh and bones if it were acceptable and useful to bombard your body with three times as much energy as a black and white x-ray requires and then you would be very familiar with color x-rays. It would be more fun to go to the dentist. Anyway... The dull, reddish haze comprising the ou...

N132D X-Ray and Optical Composite - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/nPcFtT

6 months ago 165 25 2 1
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Dean: The president is unhinged

Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him

Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.

Johnson: I didn’t see it.

Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

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The Death of Leonardo - The Bookends Review “It says here that when Leonardo Da Vinci died, he asked forgiveness for not using his art to the fullest of his abilities. That somehow, he had failed God and mankind.”  A lanky man with a thick red ...

My latest short story was published online. “The Death of Leonardo” finds two men discussing Leonardo DaVinci’s death while reflecting upon unfinished affairs in their lives.

thebookendsreview.com/2025/09/16/t...

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Merry Christmas!

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Nationwide manhunts and 1-800 tip lines to protect CEOs.

Thoughts and prayers to protect your children.

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“Bottoms Up”— Pete Hegseth Took Swigs from Champagne Bottle, Plunged Into the Alcoholic Beverage During Fox News Broadcast Hegseth’s kids were present and sampled the dunk tank champagne

After Fox co-workers told media he was often drinking or hungover while at work, Pete Hegseth challenged people to find a single clip showing him drinking on the job. We accepted the challenge. meidasnews.com/news/bottoms...

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Duane M. Engelhardt – Rappahannock Review

My short story “Secrets of the Sea” has been published in the Rappahannock Review.

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Correct Time Cover

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It’s #FridayThe13th AND time for #FridayReads! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I have the perfect read for this weekend: a tale of friendship, revenge, old gods, underwater creatures, and dark magic.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

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A top Kennedy aide has petitioned to revoke the polio vaccine’s approval

What if this aide contracted polio so he had to walk with braces in order to ambulate? This way he could get a small idea of what it is like to live with the effects of the disease. What the fuck is wrong with these people?! 😡🤬🤯

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I agree, three hundred and sixty billion percent.

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Looks like it’s time to start dusting off this ol’ guy again.

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Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

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Whoops! Donald Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know How to Fix Inflation In fact, his most cherished economic policy will almost certainly make things much worse.

A failed businessman who bankrupted casinos doesn’t know how to fix inflation. Who knew?!

newrepublic.com/post/189301/... via @newrepublic.com

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TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Year.’

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We could’ve had a president who reads and supports small business. Sigh…

#booksky #kamalaharris #election2024

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(s/o BookPeople)

1 year ago 318 49 6 1
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Oh, give me a goddamn break, you lying, hypocritical felon.

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Don’t listen to Nate Silver. He’s a fucking idiot.

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Shout out to bill barr for keeping all of this shit to himself so he can stick it in a book for later, regardless of how much it fucked up the entire country.
Fuck you.🖕

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Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, he'll contribute to the global overdepletion of the ocean.
So give him a salad, maybe.

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Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.

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