The current US administration has requested $200 billion in additional money to fund the war in Iran. 3 weeks into this war and Trump already needs more money for this war, which btw. exceeds the help the previous Biden administration has given to fund the Ukrainian defense, by far.
🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action
So I've been to Iceland 7 times in the past two years for work and have never seen the Northern Lights... I guess the Icelandic trolls decide to make it up to me because this trip I saw this...
Moon, cloud, sky
Goodnight, skyline, from this Christmas moon.
The constellation Orion in the night sky
it’s been cloudy for while, so i haven’t seen the stars. i missed orion so much 🥹🌌
such a cringe title
so, weapon and aid packages for faraway countries are fine… but support for our own hardworking and vulnerable people aren’t? unacceptable to republicans, and even to some democrats, especially those not seeking reelection. schumer’s leadership has failed
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
The idea that depression stems primarily from a lack of serotonin has lost much of its support. Scientists are rethinking the causes — and definition — of the illness.
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The Supreme Court Enabled Revenge Prosecutions
Chief Justice John Roberts said sweeping immunity was necessary to avoid a president who would “prosecute his predecessors."
In the year since, rather than preventing the weaponization of prosecutions, the court has unleashed it.
Gift Article
i’m voting for you in spirit ☺️ (not an NYC resident but i’d vote for you if i was eligible to)
our leaders are complicit in the genocide in their refusal to enact some basic, common sense embargoes and sanctions
he was someone whose life mattered because every life matters.
we can debate his ideas until the end of time, that’s the american way. but we cannot, and must not, ever justify or excuse political violence. to do so is to abandon everything this nation was built upon.
i may not have agreed with much, if any, of charlie’s political beliefs, and at times i even found him repulsive, but i remain firmly convinced that he died a patriot. let’s drop the sloganeering. charlie wasn’t a “fascist” or a “nazi.” charlie was a man, a father, and a son, who loved his country.
The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
At 26, during the Reign of Terror in France, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier narrowly avoided the guillotine. A decade later, he made a discovery that changed mathematics forever. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports:
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.
Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.
Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
i don’t have the necessary language skills to describe the horrors i have witnessed… to describe this scale of violence… this banality of evil…
i am so ashamed to have ever believed we had the so-called “human rights.”
if our leaders cannot stand against the most live-streamed genocide in all of history, then what can they stand for? how can our leaders stand for anything, let alone human rights, when they cannot even stand for basic principles of decency? how have they rationalized this?
little children asking themselves… if there is food in heaven, folks… asking themselves why they didn’t die with their parents… why!? why must little ones ponder such things? why must they ponder this theology born of starvation and death?
we’ve failed… we’ve failed the little ones of palestine
“never again” seems to have devolved into this unending salvo of again, and again, and—that’s right—again. but did we not say “never again,” folks? did we not stand over the graves and told ourselves never again?
was that hollow rhetoric?
truly, i am embarrassed and ashamed to be alive
Israel murdered 4 journalists and a dozen civilians by bombing a hospital, then they massacred the first responders with a double tap drone strike. Now they’re like TEHEHE OOPS! And that’ll be that. They’ll do it again tomorrow and get away with it. Demon state.
an unsurprising revelation. every camera lens they shatter, every reporter they bury, is one less voice to call their actions what they are. their attempts to silence truth are attempts to make their atrocities vanish into the realm of “statistics” and “disputed claims.”
A devastating new milestone: key indicators confirm that conditions have officially reached famine levels in the #GazaStrip.
Our colleagues are on the ground doing everything possible to deliver for children in #Gaza, despite the immense challenges. Follow us for humanitarian updates. #promoted
