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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

Instant mood enhancer

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

Elon picked a fight with the commander of the International Space Station and now wants to de-orbit the station early out of pettiness. I don't think either of those things is going to be popular.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

For obvious reasons, the lesson—the internet wisdom—behind ‘don’t feed the trolls’ is applicable to random comment board participants but not the president of the United States. The president and his White House staff spending time fantasizing about a monarchy is not wise to ignore.

submitted 7 days ago • 197 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 7 days ago • 925 comments

Works as advertised

submitted 7 days ago • 1209 comments

Ok, starting a thread of these whoops, we accidentally-threw-the engine-overboard moments, send me your faves. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

They’ve indiscriminately fired 10% of NASA employees. I don’t need to remind you that NASA’s budget is less than 1% of the entire federal budget but I will. Here’s what that looks like, it’s pennies. www.popsci.com/real-cost-na...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

This is fucking incredible.

submitted 8 days ago • 135 comments

AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

submitted 9 days ago • 269 comments

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

Shadi, you’re wrong all the time, literally constantly fucking up on matters of basic common sense, but you refuse to shut up and learn from your persistent mistakes, ever. Now you want people who are right to shut up because that’s unproductive? Go walk into the sea.

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

submitted 9 days ago • 258 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 13 days ago • 3239 comments

The giant ring transit ASASSN-21js is following the model prediction we made in our paper last year - the latest ASASSN data shows a slower rise than expected, but still consistent with a ringed disk. We still predict it finishing somewhere in 2026. 🔭🪐 #astrodon

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Wow. Clerked for both Kavanaugh and Roberts. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to be me.” Honor and admiration.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 13 days ago • 1780 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 13 days ago • 787 comments

@diane.dianeduane.com I’m reminded of a sword you wrote about in a Star Trek book. www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 15 days ago • 388 comments

Trump and the GOP are in a full-out war against science. I have a lot to say about that. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-attack... 🧪 🔭

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 17 days ago • 255 comments

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Can’t believe I’m typing this but… FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC. If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.

submitted 18 days ago • 92 comments

I know, I've said this before, but: if Joe Biden made Selena Gomez a "special government employee," she blocked all appropriated funding for ICE and their grants/contracts, and then started posting about how DHS didn't exist, nobody would doubt that was all unconstitutional and illegal.

submitted 19 days ago • 65 comments

It took a lotta years but I have finally learned how to stop staying up all night obsessing over my past mistakes Now I stay up all night obsessing over other people’s (Joe Biden and Merrick Garland’s) past mistakes I am choosing to view this as personal growth

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 21 days ago • 1215 comments

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

submitted 22 days ago • 276 comments

this is an underrated key to things Dems need to be doing right now these assholes have abdicated their jobs and let Elon rip out the government’s guts, and they are susceptible to neither shame nor scolding make them miserable, force them to be there all day every day to counter you

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge in Maryland grants nationwide preliminary injunction against Trump executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee, says order is likely 'unconstitutional.' More to come....

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

NEW: The Jewish leaders who led the early X ad boycott under Musk released a new letter. We call on: 1. Companies to pull ads from X 2. Google/Apple to drop X from stores 3. People with 100k+ followers to leave X 4. Jewish orgs to speak up 5. Major shareholders to pressure Musk

submitted 22 days ago • 65 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 25 days ago • 970 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 25 days ago • 4937 comments

A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.

submitted 25 days ago • 116 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 25 days ago • 817 comments

❗❗NASA is pausing program analysis groups activities. These are the groups that provide community input to the Astrophysics and Planetary Divisions to help shape the science that NASA supports. Source: I'm on the ExoPAG executive committee (repost with more emails blocked)

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

Seeing this come up in a lotta ways big and small right now, so once again a quick reminder for living under wannabe authoritarians, Rule # 1: Do Not Obey in Advance youtu.be/9tocssf3w80?...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment