Woman Astronomers Day Woman Astronomers Day honors the achievements of the great female astronomer Maria Mitchell and the many other women whose names went unheard.

Happy Woman Astronomers Day!

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#WomeninSTEM
#WomeninScience
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EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”

This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.

Two posts in a row. The first quotes JD Vance as saying in the past "we had dumb presidents". The next post quotes Trump who misspelled his own damn name as Donakd J Trump with a k i stead of an l in his first name.

The kind of timeline synchronicity you wait your whole life for.

ICE deports Florida pastor's wife even though judge issued stay of deportation order. She was denied her medication—shackled by wrist, stomach & ankles, leaving severe bruising.

Daughters: "We paid everything they asked us, filled out forms, and not skipping anything.”

REUTERS: “Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.” www.democracynow.org/2025/6/17/he...

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

New #VA rules, linked to a Trump executive order, permit medical staff to deny care based on a veteran's politics or marital status. While the VA asserts all veterans will be treated, experts call the changes "extremely disturbing and unethical." #MedSky

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.

The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

I make over $1600 per month eating eggs. The government actually pays you to eat them.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

‘Remove your name tag:’ Email appears to direct troopers to take off nameplates when working with ICE One day after more than 100 undocumented immigrants were arrested in Tallahassee with the help of the Florida Highway Patrol, an email shared with News 6 appears to show some troopers in Central Flori...

Troopers in Central Florida appear to have been given direction not to wear their name tags during ICE operations.

So messed up. It’s criminal I think

Crazy!

This is lowkey terrifying

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.

China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.

organizing + solidarity + action >>> fear + division + normalization

In recent years, Judge Boasberg has:

- ordered the release of Hillary’s emails

- ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public

- restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation

- limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case.

The resistance, he ain’t.

This is terrifying!

Misspoke, or Freudian slip?

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

He supposedly lives and works in the White House, correct?

Thanks for this, Scott!

Raw milk causes 10-15% of TB cases now, although I’m sure that’s increasing

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
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