It’s like asking Colonel Sanders to watch his mouth when he talks about fried chicken. Like asking Steve Kerr to quiet down about basketball so the experts can talk.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course: Astronomers find a pair of super close, supermassive black holes for the first time

What happens when two supermassive black hole collide?

After 23 years of study, a cosmic merge could occur within the century and the emission of low-frequency gravitational waves should tell us when it happens. nautil.us/two-supermas...

Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction Slimak et al. report the discovery of a late Neanderthal individual from Grotte Mandrin in Mediterranean France and its genome. The genome reveals a relatively early divergence at ∼100,000 years ago w...

Thorin, a Neanderthal who lived in the Rhone Valley 42,000 years ago, genes shows that his population was genetically isolated from other Neanderthals for 50,000 years. The genetic evidence mirrors tool evidence showing that population did not adopt new technologies. www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Remember, when news outlets first reported that Kash Patel was spending $75,000 of taxpayer money to fly an FBI Gulfstream jet to Milan so he could watch Olympic hockey, the official spokesasshole for the FBI had this to say:

Photo of a voter outside a library on election day

It's Election Day - again - in Alexandria.

Just cast my ballot in the City Council. Have you voted yet? Polls (Beatley library & Chick Armstrong Rec Center) are open until 7pm.

The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections “If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"

“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted."

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

Rep. Jayapal: Will you turn to the survivors, who are standing right behind you, and apologize for what your Department of Justice has done?

Pam Bondi: *refuses to answer*

Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting YouTube video by CBS Evening News

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Morals, values and leadership.🙌🏾

Yet another Republican criminal running for Congress.

#VoteBlue

A "shutdown" will ONLY impact DHS so bring it on.

#ShutItDown #AbolishICE #ProsecuteICE

‘President of Peace’ Trump Just Blew Up a Major Nuclear Weapons Deal — The Daily Beast This is a dangerous “new start” for the world.

“President of Peace” just let New START die. It kept US and Russian nukes in check for 15 years. Now there are no limits.

This makes the world less safe. It’s recklessness with the entire planet.

#NewSTART #NuclearRisk
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS

The administrators of Columbia, Penn, Brown will do their best one day to gaslight us into believing they did the best they could, but it’s harder when others made different choices.

The best review for this blatantly obvious political bribe that we can all see plainly out in public with our own 2 eyes is...

"If this was played in a plane people would still walk out."

Book jacket, James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain

Reading James Forman taught me to fight, but reading James Baldwin first taught me what to fight for.

And now a message from the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who leads the Republican Party

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
 
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
 
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

Donald Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah for telling jokes at the Grammy Awards. I'm sure the self-declared free speech absolutists will be rushing to Noah's defence at any moment.

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

The ICE shootings are a tipping point Donald Trump's approval on immigration has collapsed 17 points since taking office, and support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement has swung 50 points since Sept. 2024.

Public opinion has shifted dramatically against the White House's approach to immigration enforcement, as captured in the rising % of adults who want to abolish ICE (now +12 among independents, per YouGov). Dems have a lot of leverage to push for reforms rn. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

Perceiving nature in daily life and exercise linked to better mental health Is living in a leafy neighborhood enough to improve your mental health? Not necessarily. What matters most is frequent exposure to nature across different settings, especially while being physically active.

Regular exposure to nature in both daily life and during physical activity is associated with improved mental health, highlighting the importance of accessible green spaces across diverse settings. doi.org/hbm2tf

At least Suozzi has admitted to being stupid and making a mistake. It's still too late but at least he has some remorse, not Cuellar.