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Has anyone observed STEVE from Alaska? This is just a soft ask for now, but I am compiling a list of events to study further, and if you have a photo of STEVE from Alaska (specifically near Fairbanks), feel free to comment it below with a date, time, and location!

Photo below by Neil Zeller/NASA

I wonder if Rubio has lucid dreams of standing beside Hegseth and others in The Hague?

God! God! God!—crack my heart!—stave my brain!—mockery! mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs

smooth success
Be strew’d before your feet!

I hate to say it, but the first thing I thought of was PSP (paralytic shellfish poisoning). But maybe she just liked scallops?

Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.

How ‘bout we ALL agree to go back—even the airlines?

For real in my 10th grade Astronomy class: “Has a comet ever been found circling Uranus?” [barely stifled snickering in the classroom] Teacher trying to not laugh, “Mr. [kid’s surname], if they ever find a comet circling Uranus, I’ll teach about you in this class.”

RIP my favorite science teacher.

Reminder to schedule a colonoscopy

BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:

"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

I’m pretty sure they just walk through the FLETC campus and don’t stop for any training.

There should be no pensions for elected representatives and senators. Full stop.

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes."

Who remembers those early Palantir trades

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

I don’t think anything will happen. We had four years to hold the Orange ape and his ape-ettes accountable and couldn’t get it done. This will be no different.

Wow. What a horrible human. How did he live so long and see so much and STILL be such a horrible human?

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

WE FOUND THE FRAUD!
Turning Point USA leader, the former GOP state Rep Austin Smith has pled guilty to attempted election fraud in Arizona, after he was caught submitting fake signatures in his reelection campaign.

Opinion: Jamal Khashoggi's words live forever Jamal Khashoggi came from a prominent Saudi family but fled his country in June, 2017, after he'd become increasingly critical of his government. The Saudi journalist was murdered in 2018.

Jamal Khashoggi came from a prominent Saudi family but fled his country in June, 2017, after he'd become increasingly critical of his government. The Saudi journalist was murdered in 2018. n.pr/43JW7WJ

4.9 earthquake shakes Southcentral Alaska The 6:38 a.m. quake was centered about 9 miles north of Tyonek, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake centered on the western side of Cook Inlet shook Southcentral Alaska communities early Saturday. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

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The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.

Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets

Yale’s Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS) @yaledatascience.bsky.social is seeking applications for postdoctoral positions. These are cool, generously supported, competitive positions, expected to last 2-3 years, for independent scholars working on the foundations of data science.

We've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study.

New results, in 3 figures: 🧵

1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/

Oh! Wow! Yes!! I loved it. I got it from the library and then went out and bought a copy so I could jot notes in the margins.

Sorry for fanning-out, lol! Thank you for writing it.

Huh. Interesting way she’s got her hand on that gun.

They look… the opposite of “nice.”

Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines

No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.

It turns out the newly elected Mayor of New York City is a skilled moron whisperer and it is sending MAGA into a full blown panic attack.

Pensions for members of Congress is a crap idea. They don’t need it after scamming millions while in office.