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Great to join Anshe Emes Synagogue for Passover preparations yesterday. Wishing a meaningful Seder to all those in LA and around the world celebrating the first night of Passover tonight! Chag Pesach Sameach!

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Happy Passover from Asheville!

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Welcome to our everyday hell, fund managers.

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One of the greatest ongoing scandals of today is that our elected officials — Democrats included — continue to refuse to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

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NEW from Abrego Garcia's attorneys: "The Government continues to delay, obfuscate, and flout court orders, while a man’s life and safety is at risk. Its request for an extension ... is another stunning display of arrogance and cruelty." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Paying an extortionist -- where do you think it ends? Do you think he honors his side of the supposed "deal"? Really? Meanwhile, as Big Law ill-advisedly pays the protection racket, there's a huge need for lawyers to help regular people Trump is illegally targeting: www.cm-life.com/article/2025...

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A nice write up of a new result by my collaborator (and former student) Yuanming Wang. An extremely "slow" pulsar, that rotates every 41 seconds, discovered with the ASKAP telescope. #RadioAstronomy #AstroSci

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Telescopic view of tonight's superb almost full Moon! Waxing at 98.9% illuminated.#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social

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Amara Nwuneli plans to put her prize money toward building three more parks in Nigeria to help combat extreme heat and flooding.

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Democratic lawmakers are calling for federal agencies and state attorneys general to investigate whether President Donald Trump, members of his administration, or any of his associates manipulated markets or helped enrich allies in connection with Trump’s sudden reversal on tariff polices.

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The nonprofit provider that since late 2021 has operated the city of Portland’s tiny pod village in Multnomah Village is getting the boot.

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🧪Scientists don’t want to attend meetings in the US anymore. After the poor treatment of a French researcher Texas in March, I do not blame this reaction. This is a valid sentiment. This is how we appear to the world. Likely more to follow suit.

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These huge proposed cuts to the NASA budget would cancel all but two astrophysics missions, kill spacecraft going to Mars & Venus, close NASA Goddard, and much more. They would devastate space science, not just in the US but globally. 🔭🧪 arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

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🌍🌲 Where trees help most Planting forests can fight climate change – but where you plant really matters. Targeted forestation could remove up to 69 billion tonnes of CO₂ by 2100, if we factor in wildfires and how forests affect sunlight. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... #ClimateAction #SciComm 🧪

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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Shiny thing NASA Mars2020 Perseverance rover at Jezero crater, Mars Sol-1461 (30-March-2025) MastCamZ (Right) from ZCAM09536 Site 71, Drive 1018 📷 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Martian-Observer

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Some new paintings from this week: a couple of dreamy ink brains on yupo #sciart 🧪🧠 artologica.etsy.com

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The Trump regime is working to deter dissent. Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list. This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts. It's straight out of the fascist playbook.

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How does this happen? We cannot accept this as ok. I know there is a lot of Trump bullshit out there to cause anger but this strikes at the heart of who we are as a nation.

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The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.

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Thoughts and prayers.

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Massachusetts Space Week starts on 21 April, and our CEO, Bill Diamond, will attend alongside Dr. Simon Steel, the Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center. They will participate in various events, including panels, movie screenings, and the career fair. Full schedule: buff.ly/ld4sKg0 🧪 🔭

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Go be lovely in a shitty world.

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@benwikler.bsky.social has been an absolute powerhouse for the @wisdems.bsky.social and his leadership will be missed. I hope his replacement will be in the image of Ben Wikler. apnews.com/article/wisc...

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During a speech earlier this week, Trump's Secretary of Education Linda McMahon kept referring to "artificial intelligence" as "A1" — like the steak sauce. Maybe she shouldn't be in charge of the Department of Education...

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Here’s a reminder of what bravery looks like. Bonus: Reuters interview of the brave woman, Ahn Gwi-ryeong, 35, a former TV anchor who serves as spokesperson for the opposition Dem party, who grappled with a soldier, trying to take what looks like a semiautomatic rifle. youtu.be/kbzIULf6Im8?...

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I had no idea there were so many people who think martial law is spelled marshall.

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Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate": "While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..." www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

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The American Astronomical Society — the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country — has put out a statment about Trump's proposed fatal cuts to NASA science. aas.org/press/aas-st...

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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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Geraldo is a moron.

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The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

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“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

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Bring back jobs by investing in national high speed rail.

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Any one else notice this morning (EST) that the Dow was pretty flat; it seemed obvious that they knew something or they expected something or clearly the market would have been falling. So the 90 day suspension was no surprise!

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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On again, off again. Up, or down? I can't imagine adjusting my business plan frequently, on the whims of one man. Is he saying every country is back to 10%? What about steel and aluminum? Keep them guessing! He speaks of "currency manipulation", while practicing "market manipulation"? #tariff

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#USPolitics

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Off the phone with Chris Luxon. The EU–New Zealand partnership is growing stronger as we near the 1st anniversary of our free trade agreement in May. Clear, predictable trading conditions are key. I look forward to deepening ties with New Zealand and the wider region. → europa.eu/!PpHpgN

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

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