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Dark skies inspired Tim Peake's space wonder. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Because free speech.

Harvard University will relinquish its ownership of two haunting images of an enslaved father and his daughter after settling a six-year legal battle with a woman who says she is their descendant.

This.

Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.

British prosecutors confirmed today that they have charged far-right influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan with a host of offenses including rape and human trafficking.

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

#photography #macro #bug

Capitol Police chief blasts Jan 6 conspiracy theories: “My folks were here on Jan. 6.. They were assaulted.. Many of them were injured. They know exactly what happened on Jan. 6. For somebody to make up some story that, 'Oh, it wasn't that bad’..it is just not true” www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol...

Looks like summer, doesn’t feel like summer yet (technically it’s spring until June 20th) ⛲️

Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

Tonight a tricky observing challenge. Jupiter with the Moon. Although Jupiter is absolutely enormous won't be easy to spot. Look low to the northwest after 10pm. 🔭 🧪

Good question.

Time for 🛏️ #sunset

Here’s one of the original peloric orchids that started the broad lip craze. I bought it back in 1990. Phalaenopsis World Class ‘Big Foot’ (Phal. Mae Hitch x Phal. Kathy Sagaert) #orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants

dear reader, there are 195 countries in the world

Good Morning Friends.... ☺️🫶☀️

The rain turned the sky gay for a bit...

The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.

"Bouquet Residence... Lady of the house speaking!" It's the voice I hear in my head every time I see wild Hyacinth. 😂 And this one has some real main character energy. 🤩 #photography #nature #hyacinth #wildhyacinth

I'm in the mood to pull out my vinyl copy of Greetings From Asbury Park tonight and listen to a true patriot serenade our home.

🎶Turn me on with your electric feel🎶 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Taylor Swift and her daughter Olivia Benson, so unbothered.😻

#Nature #Birds #PinkRobin 🍃

When they accidentally tell the truth... (Pt. 2) (also try to avoid swimming in sewage)

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President Donald Trump said that India has offered to cut all its tariffs on US goods but downplayed any sense of urgency to reach a trade agreement with the world’s fourth-largest economy

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high. The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.

Dear non-disabled people, If you need to make a total mess of a bathroom stall, please avoid doing so in the accessible stall. Most of us do not have the option to use another stall. That means if you trash the one big stall, we are unable to use the restroom. Signed, Disabled people

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3

Programmable gene insertion in human cells with a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“On the Road to Clovis”. #scape #sunrise #TheRoad #travel #EastCoastKin #photography

Hearing that Rep. LaMonica McIver's DC staff are receiving phone threats. Words of support would mean a lot. (202) 225-3436 Newark Office (973) 645-3213 (Thanks to Sweep NJ for the information)

Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...

Exactly 365 days ago I was capturing a Waxing Gibbous Moon. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The “fluoride removal” bit is a solution in search of a problem. Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school. Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any. No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.

The index of consumer sentiment dropped to 50.8, down from 52.2 in April and hitting its second-lowest reading on record. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

This is a full out attack upon the working poor. Shameful. Wrong. Bad for our country.

Silhouette at Sunset Tony Saprito fishing pier at Harts Landing Sarasota Fl D7100 ISO 100 f24 1/8s 210mm #photography #photohour #beachlife #Bluesky_sunset #saltlife #cannabisculture #shootingsarasota #chasingdaylight #birdsof_bluesky

The birthright citizenship case is a Trojan Horse www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

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LOOK AT TODAY’S BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD!!! 🌌

A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S. The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Great piece on how publication delays negatively impact careers and the pace of science. We just had a reviewer ask us why it's taken us so long to publish our data. It was because 2 other journals dragged review out for months and months only to reject it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When will voters ever learn that the GOP is not the fiscally responsible party?

but seashells!