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There are several hundred billion things wrong with this bill. An also there’s not one person of color in this photo.

Love that you’re fighting the good fight. Also love the view out your window. That’s gorgeous!

Copying this from Mastodon. Seems to capture the time. @maylikestoronto.bsky.social

One year ago today we lost our sweet Kiyann. I still miss her every single day.

Same for me

This is NGC 2264 the Cone Nebula and the Christmas Tree cluster. It’s only about 3 hours of data so it’s pretty rough. Another 6 or 9 hours on it would make it more presentable.

But the point of the DOGE effort is not to find real fraud. It’s to gain access. That access will be used to control agencies until at some point someone revokes their access. Who will that be?

My older sisters

It really is that dark

I feel like it might be an appropriate time to drink this

I always check with stuff like this, and yup. It's listed this way on Maps.

Thanks, just deleted the app. FWIW Apple Maps is still correct.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Trump floating the idea that the U.S. should take over Gaza—forcibly relocating its 2 million Palestinian residents. Ethnic cleansing dressed up as redevelopment. A war crime repackaged as a real estate deal.

Dangerous escalation that ignores international law, morality, and basic humanity.

And 99% of people don’t know what USAID is and at least half would have a cow when they are told that it gives tax dollars to foreign governments.

Republicans control all three branches of government.

Depends on what part they want to change. President needs Congress to pass a law that does away with an agency. The Executive can’t do it unilaterally. So I guess the Dems will cry Constitutional Crisis (saw Chris Murphy do this earlier today). They can stall the Senate nomination process.

$500B is supposed to go to Ukraine this year through USAID. Cancelling that would give Russia a big win.

www.usaspending.gov/agency/agenc...

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Rosette Nebula Take 2. I played some games with image processing. The yellow represents hydrogen gas and the blue represents oxygen gas. I like how this reveals details that are not evident in the previous attempt.

It took this photo of the Rosette Nebula earlier this week. Enjoy!

Karma Police

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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

We were hanging out in Moab and did a drive through/around Canyonlands

We drove by there on Monday. It was too cold to do much more than drive around and gawk.

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

Note to self, BlueSky preserves the original format of photos unlike ZuckerGram.