ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
Today, I had the honor of being sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives — a moment I don’t take lightly.
To the people of NJ-11, thank you.
Maryland has, for now, stopped ICE from converting a warehouse designed to hold commercial products into a warehouse used to hold people.
Similar lawsuits have been filed against ICE's warehouse detention camp plans in New Jersey and Michigan.
Two people working on a computer in a lab.
Learn how our researchers & colleagues from the Berkeley Lab Energy Geosciences Division developed an open-source platform for accurate, reliable, & real-time distributed fiber sensing used in #ParticleAccelerators & beyond.
Department of Energy - Earth and Environmental Sciences at Berkeley Lab
MODIS-Aqua image of northern Patagonia with some dust plumes
Same MODIS image zoomed in
GOES image in northern Patagonia at local sunset
🛰️🌬️
#highlatitudedust activity in norhtern Patagonia last Saturday as seen by MODIS and GOES
attn @sheffielddust.bsky.social
The attacks on science by this administration have been relentless.
We are moving towards a fascist system where scientists now have political minders who are appointed to deny science which does not fit this administration’s political ideology.
"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail"
"About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"
Largest renewable project in U.S. history - 3.5 GW of wind in New Mexico - begins delivering power to California and Arizona.
@CaliforniaISO has taken operational control - will count as in-state wind
Will speed up California's push for 100% WindWaterSolar
www.eenews.net/articles/lar...
Mountain cedar forest with a dry cedar littered forest floor with an almost perfect round pit full of water.
This is why we don't go off trail or let dogs run off leash in areas that have a long underground mining history.
Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."
Initial conditions:
m1=43.2 m2=114.2 m3=139.4 (solar masses)
v1x=2.256 v1y=-2.048 v2x=0.934 v2y=-2.468 v3x=0.345 v3y=-4.544 (km/s)
x1=-1.0 y1=-29.0 x2=-33.0 y2=29.0 x3=13.0 y3=8.0 (AU from center)
Music: Prelude in C-Sharp Minor – Rachmaninoff
下関市民会館(2)
階段などの手すり部分にイラン産のシェルベージュが使われていました。名前の通り小さな貝化石がたくさん入っています。かまぼこ型は小さいウニかな？他にも石灰藻とかサンゴとか
（Shimonoseki, Japan）
#街の中で見つかるすごい石
#石材と街化石
"Life During Wartime" lyrics seem far more prescient than we knew in the early 1980s.
The last minute of this Coachella performance takes place against a backdrop of last summer's ICE raids and anti ICE protests/stand-offs with police in: Chicago, L.A., NYC, and Ventura County, CA.
NGC 6164
Dragon's Egg Nebula or NGC 6164
The star at the center is said to be similar to our sun... Just 40 times bigger.
#astrophotography #sydney #australia
Upper left the Moon at waxing crescent phase the Pleiades star cluster at lower right.
Waxing Crescent Moon and the Pleiades. 2034UT 19 April 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
Wow! Looks amazing. 🤩
Little tour of all the completed stencils on Celeris, named for the foal of Pegasus and Equleus constellation and themed after the work of Greek astronomer and mathematician Hipparchus who named said constellation. Now just to finish the color on the rest of the body :) #SciArt #SkyhorseCarousel
Higher education is experiencing a feedback loop that is forcing it to circle the drain. Imo, it primarily starts with a lack of funding.
State appropriations have steadily declined over the years. For example, the state currently funds just 25.7% of my university’s budget, down from 52.5% in 2007.
We appreciate your hard work!!!
I am working so incredibly hard with other people to try and stabilize things in science and government while there are vandals tearing it all apart for selfish reasons of profit and ideological beliefs that are incompatible with healthy, safe, and informed society.
I’m exhausted.
Need to sleep.
President Reagan ordered NASA to augment/replace the Shuttle before the January 1986 Challenger accident. NASA proposed "Shuttle II" designs but Reagan didn't mean it.
You know how that turned out.
Anyway, here's my favorite Shuttle II design.
spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/nasa...
下関駅から徒歩5分の下関市民会館。１階ホワイエの床はイタリア産のロッソマニャボスキ。端っこのほうにアンモナイトとベレムナイトがいました。床全面のロッソマニャボスキは珍しいかも
（Shimonoseki, Japan）
#街の中で見つかるすごい石
#石材と街化石
Image of Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS). The head of the comet is in the lower left corner and the tail extends upwards to the right.
Image of Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS). The head of the comet is in the lower left corner and the tail extends upwards to the right. This an inverted (negative) black-and-white image of the comet.
Another set of images from Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) taken on 15 April 2026.
#astrophotography #comet
This week, my state of Maryland became the first U.S. State to get an official state shark!
I wrote about why Megalodon is awesome, how we know that it's extinct, and what having a state shark means for modern-day shark science and conservation
I'm fine, everything is fine. 🧪🌍🦑🦈
A blacktip shark restrained with a water pump in its mouth
Drawing blood from a blacktip shark
Overhead view showing the shark
Here I am helping to secure a beautiful blacktip shark for a research workup during my recent field research skills course. We're running it again this fall if you're interested! 🧪🌍🦑🦈
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/bi...
A new NBC News Decision Desk poll shows that 75% of all Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis.
It also shows that 74% of all of Gen Z, total, sympathizes more with Palestinians than with the Israelis.
Pasque Flowers, Pulsatilla vulgaris, on the Devil's Ditch, Newmarket, contrasting with the Oil-seed Rape field behind. #WildflowerHour
The US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, Data Warriors Lab, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, all under the Indigenous Data Alliance and their conference was a rousing success. Listen to just a taste of Indigenous Revival with Sierra and WariNkwi! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
ISS transiting the Sun here in Hokkaido a few hours ago. Pretty happy with this considering I used a telescope I made with mostly junk and cheap AliExpress parts and an iPhone held up to the eyepiece. 114mm Newtonian Dobsonian. Couldn’t have done it without transit-finder.com. 🔭 ☀️
