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"Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) on Monday filed a joint resolution to Congress to “direct the removal” of the U.S. armed forces from any involvement in Israel’s war on Iran, and to prevent a unilateral decision by President Donald Trump to enter the war." good. every democrat should back him.

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Alameda Island is not in "central SV"

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

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M13 - The Great Hercules Cluster M13 is a huge globular cluster in the constellation Hercules. It is about 145 light -years in diameter, and contains between 300,000 to over half a million stars!

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Spectrum of Stardust, my award-winning painting, will be available in my next shop update on June 27th! The time has come for me to stop hoarding it 😳 My first nebula in oils tells a story about science and art weaving together 2 JWST images.

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The Cerro del Pueblo formation is not only our first Mexican formation but ALSO NO. 60 IN THIS SERIES!!! I don't know why but despite being way less filled with animals I had some struggled with this piece. Off stream I actually replaced the whole water surface :P

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huge if true

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I've never been quite sure of what to make of the Museum of Ancient Life. It's a nonprofit with strong educational bona fides, impressive fossil prep facilities, and some really important collections (e.g. Jensen's Supersaurus). But... (cont'd)

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I'm more of a rocks kind of guy, but being among these ancient bristlecone pines was a fantastic experience high in California's White Mountains. Many of these trees are 4,000+ years old, and what is considered to be the oldest living tree on earth at nearly 5,000 years of age is within this forest.

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'Gladiator Crab' by Emanuele Biggi - a victorious pose is struck in Trajan's Forum (#Rome) by one of the freshwater crabs who live in the Cloaca Maxima, Rome's ancient sewer system; they're clearly at home in the city though! (📷 Emanuele Biggi) AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

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A California cop shot a photojournalist in the HEAD during a protest—despite him standing alone, wearing a press badge, and filming from a distance. We're past the "bad apple" stage, folks.

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can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

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Sen. Alex Padilla has led a letter — signed by every Senate Democrat — demanding Trump "immediately withdraw all military personnel that have been deployed to Los Angeles." "Respect for our constitution and for our civilian law enforcement demands nothing less." tinyurl.com/3f4kcvfx

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Castellanos, M. Hunting types in North American Eocene–Oligocene carnivores and implications for the ‘cat-gap’. J Mammal Evol 32, 25 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s109...

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Research by Roger M.H. Smith, Frederik P. Wolvaardt, @cisneros.bsky.social et al mentioned on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social! (min 5:33ish) #fossils #Procolophon www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WX2...

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A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

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I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

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Antonov An-225 with Buran from underneath!

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imagine if you were a bird and you looked yourself up on wikipedia and they literally said we don't care about your ass

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🧵 This spectacular image-- obtained by SOFIA-derived magnetic streamlines superposed on ESO, APEX, Chandra, and Spitzer images-- shows the warped magnetic fields of Centaurus A (or Cen A), an active galaxy in Centaurus. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21042... 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #Science

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Shout-out to the person at the community garden who planted red hot poker in support of my hummingbird photography goals

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It's always interesting to compare the numbers to the Tea Party protests and the respective coverage of them.

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This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

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Sarah Jamison-Todd, Philip D. Mannion and Paul Upchurch (2025) The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales Royal Society Open Science 12(6): 250446 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Thousands of Christians are being rounded up and deported by the U.S. government, but they’re not cottagecore tradmoms or their homeschooled goat milk enthusiasts, so these guys are fine with it. Actually, they’re thrilled.

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Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.

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When you think about whaling, you’re probably thinking about 1800s Moby Dick era stuff. But guess when we stopped using whale oil in cars?? 1972. We were using sperm whale oil in transmission fluid until 197freaking2. The NYT even ran an article about how bad the ban was for people’s transmissions🧪🦑

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Watching LAPD officers shoot rubber bullets directly at protesters is like watching the LA city budget get diverted in real time to lawsuit payouts