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#apod 2026-04-18
PanSTARRS and Planets
Image Credit: Luc Perrot
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260418.html

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#apod 2026-04-04
Hello World
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260404.html

'Evening, Killarney.' (1941) Speaking to an art critic in the 1930s, Paul Henry said: 'What always strikes me about the Irish landscape is its otherworldliness. There's an air of mystery about it ... you feel that anything may happen round the corner.'

Warmer and more humid in our CWG.Live forecast tonight into Tuesday. Shower & storm chances arrive tomorrow afternoon and set up shop. Plus, one of two tropical disturbances behind Gabrielle is of interest.

Photo by Daniel Hart Photography via Flickr

"Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose." - Meryl Streep

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#apod 2025-09-11
The Umbra of Earth
Image Credit: Wang Letian
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250911.html

Offered without comment.

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

Exclusive: Thune plans make-or-break weekend votes on "big, beautiful bill" "Right now, everybody's unhappy on both sides, which tells you we're probably close."

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Episode 407: I should be the mayor!! Feat @Zohran Mamdani #podcast #subway #hottakes #subwaytakes #interview #nyc TikTok video by SubwayTakes

Dunno if he’ll end of being NYC mayor but do know that every candidate henceforth should study @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s use of social videos across a wide array of ethnic and other communities/audiences. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjvmM184/

An artist’s rendition of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

in late 2026, nearly 50 years after its launch, voyager 1 will be the first manmade object to reach a distance of one light day from the sun

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Something something "states' rights"

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#apod 2025-05-23
NGC 6366 vs 47 Ophiuchi
Image Credit: Massimo Di Fusco
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250523.html

Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) - W/ Unused Vocal Harmonies YouTube video by SeahorsesJay

Monday zen

Interfaces in STAR WARS, 1977.

Trump signs executive order to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS The president said public funding of the media networks was "outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence."

The Project 2025 presidency continues.

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#apod 2025-04-18
Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN
Image Credit: Dan Bartlett
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250418.html

China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.

"China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets, threatening to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world."

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

The markets are going to crash so bad tomorrow.

“The insurance sector is a canary in the coalmine when it comes to climate impacts.”

people voted for Trump because they thought they could get 2019 back and got 2020 back.

Thank god that the U.S.’s greatest ally, the Taliban, got the best rate for the “Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs” of any country

This week…

Market losses for today —

S&P 500: -4.84%
NASDAQ: -5.97%
Dow: -3.9%

In yesterday's tariff announcement, did the Trump administration officially recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation? 🤔

Pulitzer Winner Quits Washington Post and Slams Bezos Opinion columnist Eugene Robinson blamed Jeff Bezos’ recent edict to have the opinion section on “free market and personal liberties.”

Bezos’s hollowing out of The Washington Post continues.

Eugene Robinson calls it quits, slams the billionaire despot on the way out.
www.thedailybeast.com/pulitzer-win...

Mr. Vice President, welcome to the resistance