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Vera C. Rubin Observatory “First Look” Images Just a quick note to say that the "first look" images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be revealed at 11am (Eastern Daylight Time; 4pm local Irish Time). This is the live stream: I understand there will be a watch party at the EAS meeting in…

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Nuclear fusion is already beating nuclear fission, despite the closest plant being 93 million miles away.

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it's kind of wild that tottenham hotspur threw a bigger parade than the us military

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Sure, sure, the decorative bird is sitting on the top of Zeus’s sceptre. But let’s not pretend it doesn’t look like a tiny, jaunty hat. At the Met Museum.

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Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

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Happy Obama Appreciation Day.

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There are 506 days until the Midterms, 1241 days until the next theoretical Presidential Election, and 1315 days until the next optional Inauguration Day. Midterms progress: ██▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 22% Presidency/Regime progress: █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 10% Until Next Inauguration : █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 10%

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A few old photos from the Scottish Highlands. Who can see the Andromeda galaxy in the last pic? 1. A selfie showing my best side 2. The Milky Way over Spey dam loch 3. Loch Morlich at ‘blue hour’ 4. The Milky Way over a frozen loch in Laggan. #bluesky #photography #travel #Scotland #nightsky

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Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman. She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

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Never Surrender

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In 1872 John Atkinson Grimshaw was commissioned by the House of Commons to paint three views of the Roundhay Estate (of which this is one) in consideration of the Leeds Corporation Improvement Bill that proposed to turn this former private estate into a public park.

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Yesterday, I met with a 12 year old boy in Oxnard, CA. His mom and dad have been fieldworkers for over 20 years. ICE agents snatched his parents from the fields and left this boy alone with no clue when he’ll see them again. A 6th grader.

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I agree with the protesters. Charging parents when their children are hit by cars is monstrous. Our built environment prioritizes cars over kids' safety. This was a tragedy.

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SCHATZ: "This is the stuff of dictatorships. He identified himself. That should be enough."

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AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

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God pls I have seen what you have given other people

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NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

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See latest appeals court ruling.

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Judge says Trump "illegally" deployed California National Guard to LA www.axios.com/2025/06/13/t...

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of California National Guard www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Gavin Newsom - The courts have ruled. The Guard will be back under my command — and Donald Trump will be relieved of his command at noon tomorrow.

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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A gorgeous phenomenon called solar rain Solar rain occurs when super-heated plasma rises up the sun's looping magnetic field lines, then falls back to the surface (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO)

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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

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"Iranian officials had dismissed the warning signs that Israel was planning to strike nuclear sites as propaganda and a media frenzy aimed at pressuring Tehran into concessions in talks" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said today that Rome will “do everything [it] can” to stop Italians being transferred to Guantanamo Bay.

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BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Today's moment of joy: Cab driver asked me about work, we got chatting, turned out he was from Sierra Leone so I blew his mind by telling him about Johnny Smythe

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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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Turns out federal judges don't like it when ICE tries to put an ankle monitor on people that immigration judges have released WITHOUT GPS monitoring. Habeas relief GRANTED. Orellana Juarez v. Moniz (D.Mass) from yesterday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... cc @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

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Quantum Machine Learning (QML)—merging quantum computing with AI—is transforming drug discovery. My new post discusses insights from Smaldone et al. on Quantum Neural Networks in pharma. open.substack.com/pub/bravoaba...

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"The NASA Science Community Meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 12 has been postponed, allowing time for all NASA Mission Directorates to brief internal staff and hold discussions on the FY26 President’s Budget Request. [...]" 😬😬😬 🧪🔭🪐

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ASM urges the Department of Health and Human Services to reinstate the ACIP and to ensure that all future committee appointments include experts with diverse scientific expertise in public health, virology, immunology and epidemiology: asm.org/press-releas...

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Protective genetic variants may help prevent Alzheimer's disease development in those who carry them. A Review in @thelancetneuro.bsky.social explores the latest evidence on genetic variants & their potential to slow down Alzheimer's disease: tinyurl.com/ym4v2z9a #AlzheimersAndBrainAwarenessMonth

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“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3000 arrests for ICE every day,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News last month, pledging to increase the numbers.” www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

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RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

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Newsom: I told the president, just get it over with. Arrest me. Move on. If you need someone’s head to scalp, then do it with me. But stop messing with these kids. Stop messing with four-year-olds. Kids in elementary school

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Listen to "The Headlines," which brings you the biggest stories of the day from the New York Times reporters who are covering them, all in about 10 minutes.

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President Trump is edging closer than ever to invoking the Insurrection Act, driven by a vision of executive power free from the guardrails, governors and generals who stifled him in 2020.

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@repmaxinewaters.bsky.social pleads with National Guard to not use their guns, yesterday.

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Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

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🇺🇦 FM Andriy Sybiiha urged immediate, powerful new sanctions against Russia following one of the most massive air strikes of the war overnight. “Russia hit a maternity hospital and residential buildings, killing and injuring civilians. It rejects peace—so it must face consequences. No more waiting.”

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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🧪NIH staff have released the Bethesda Declaration, a public statement signed by over 340 scientists and staff, urging their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse significant cuts and freezes to external grants. It comes in response to a proposed 40% budget cut to NIH for 2026. #MedSky

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This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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“In his first term, he asked the country’s most senior military officer to shoot unarmed civilian protesters in the Black Lives Matter demonstrations.” www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

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