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Who else AGREES with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?! 🤚 She’s right, isn’t she?! 👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Say it with me. RFK Jr. is killing children.

submitted 1 day ago • 519 comments

Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find. Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪 ➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

De rancuneuze symboliek mag wat kosten. www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/noo...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Compact Binary Formation in Open Star Clusters III: Probability of Binary Black Holes Hidden Inside of Gaia Black Hole Binary" by Ataru Tanikawa (Fukui Prefectural University), and five others in Japan, China & Denmark doi.org/10.33232/001...

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My mind is absolutely blown by these stellar halos nearby NGC 4364! Left: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (DR10) Right: Newly released @vrubinobs.bsky.social imaging!!! #AstroSci 🧪🔭

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Dus: - Een knokploeg die in het donker bij de grens op jacht gaat naar 'zwartjes' zijn 'burgers'. - Een knokploeg die een groep klimaatactivisten aanvalt zijn 'jongeren'. En dit is niet de newspeak van Wilders, maar zoals de gemiddelde NLse journalist verslag doet. Ok dan.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 15 days ago • 228 comments

I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand. This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

submitted 18 days ago • 146 comments

When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 21 days ago • 313 comments

Voor Mauk Bresser, voorzitter van de JOVD, is één ding duidelijk: met Wilders regeren is geen optie meer. De VVD moet zich gaan richten op de échte problemen, vindt hij. „Asiel is belangrijk, maar andere kwesties zijn op dit moment nóg urgenter. De wereld staat in de fik.” buff.ly/58LiP3k

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Next to Trump and Musk, Shatner and I look like adoring newlyweds.

submitted 23 days ago • 630 comments

Yesilgöz wijst samenwerking met het centrumlinkse, democratische GL-PvdA duidelijker af dan (opnieuw) met de PVV, die keer op keer liberaal democratische normen overschrijdt en zich "super onverantwoord" toonde. Dat zegt iets over de huidige Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie.

submitted 25 days ago • 50 comments

"But how will this affect the aristocracy?" is one of the funniest angles on this situation that you could possibly take

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

Amazing show from @stevenwilsonhq.bsky.social tonight in Amsterdam #TheOverview. Go see it if you can. Get the album. Almost got to say hi to Steven after show too, but it was not to be 🥲

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Updated this piece about how the Trump admin removed images of women and persons of color from websites. The good news is that the webpage about a NASA employee overcoming adversity was restored after she posted about it. The bad news? NASA then fired her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

submitted 41 days ago • 36 comments

If only we had a safe and effective vaccine that could help keep people healthy. I’m sure our government would fund and support the hell out of that.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Destroying capacity at the NSF, NIH, NASA, DOE, etc. in the name of “efficiency” is like burning all of your money because you have a nice house & car & are healthy. Our science agencies have provided tremendous benefits for society and we need them at top strength to continue to do so.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

This seems like an escalation. And no, we can't just say "Harvard is rich they'll be fine". The admin is trying to make an example out of the biggest and most powerful institutions in order to force institutions with fewer resources and connections to fall in line.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 45 days ago • 608 comments

Raken we al afgestompt? Een bibliothecaris ontslagen omdat ze de 'verkeerde boeken' in de bibliotheek zette volgens de huidige politieke wind.

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

Moderne heksenjacht 😢

submitted 51 days ago • 20 comments

Het plan van Israël om de bezetting van Gaza te intensiveren, is het zoveelste bewijs van genocide. Palestijnen hebben geen eten, geen veiligheid, geen medische zorg, geen toekomst. Er is veel te lang gewacht. Er moet NU worden ingegrepen. Doe mee met onze actie: www.amnesty.nl/agenda/demon...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 52 days ago • 2311 comments

A reminder that those running the Trump admin at an intellectual and operational level don't believe in the constitutional order, they believe we're already in a post-constitutional era and that it's their job to institute their preferred structure by any means they deem possible.

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 59 days ago • 46 comments

De voorspelling voor hier in de stad is inmiddels dat het morgen 27 graden wordt. Op 1 mei! 🥵

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

Lees deze draad #schaduwoorlog

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

A lot of Democrats are afraid of engaging with this. A lot are unwilling to do the heavy lifting. And a lot are the political equivalent of terminally online, thinking that the general public has a much deeper familiarity with politics and current events than is actually the case.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

No Washington tradition is more time-honored than doing something not when it could have mattered but rather when it might sell more books

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

This is Charlie Brown had hoes from the government.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Cuts to #Dutch education and research, limitation for international students, universities butchering departments but also “hey, here some money to attract top researchers from US, universities should also add some” because “we don’t care about your passport”. #FacePalm #AcademicSky

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

Ze hebben het -net als Bontenbal overigens- bij het verkeerde eind. Politici denken dat ambtenaren dienaren zijn van de politiek. Heel tekenend. Maar absoluut abuis. Ambtenaren zweren trouw aan de grondwet en de publieke zaak.

submitted 65 days ago • 4 comments

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

submitted 67 days ago • 551 comments

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 66 days ago • 282 comments

"Never again is now.” 🧵

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

submitted 66 days ago • 512 comments

Me glancing at the title: ahh, he’s going for a confiscatory inheritance tax. Bold and unexpected but probably just. Me reading the text: ahh, resegregation, that actually makes much more sense.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Fokke & Sukke zijn blij dat het kabinet eindelijk een standpunt inneemt

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Pete B. destroys Pete H.

submitted 68 days ago • 45 comments

We cannot let the Wayback Machine get deep-sixed, as it may be the only place we can find some govt docs/sites that this regime alters or "disappears." NPR article: is.gd/BsVRpI Donate: archive.org/donate FAQ: help.archive.org/help/categor... (The Internet Archive is a US 501c3 non-profit org.)

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments