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Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

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Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

submitted 6 hours ago • 426 comments

Very interesting reporting here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 5 hours ago • 20 comments

Congrats to @bsky.app and all the users and team that make it unique ! 32m users is real !

submitted 6 hours ago • 500 comments

There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, and President Biden hadn’t known for at least four fucking years that Donald Trump was a Russian asset. If they didn’t, then every single one of our intelligence agencies….sucked. In short: They fucking knew.

submitted 5 hours ago • 178 comments

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ~ Carl Sagan

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

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Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

submitted 7 hours ago • 263 comments

I'm in ! Tell me how.

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President Musk is turning out to be a real dickwad. If I worked at spacex and got treated like this, I might “accidentally” forget to tighten a few bolts on the rocket engines.

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

Eggs are now so expensive they’re smuggling them like fentanyl.

submitted 14 hours ago • 705 comments