Thank you @gizmodo.com for covering this illegal actions by OMB. Full article: gizmodo.com/white-house-...
17.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@eblur.bsky.social
High energy astronomer studying space dust and exoplanets. Opinions my own.
Thank you @gizmodo.com for covering this illegal actions by OMB. Full article: gizmodo.com/white-house-...
17.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
15.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 41198 🔁 13942 💬 660 📌 595We can look in shock at what was said & done a decade ago, but similar things are probably happening right now, and possibly right under our noses too - as wealthy individuals are becoming increasingly part of the science funding ecosystem for universities.
16.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Indigenous communities nationwide are increasingly reporting encounters with immigration agents, including detention — despite them being U.S. citizens and members of sovereign tribal nations.
16.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 632 🔁 268 💬 24 📌 21This x 10^6
16.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow. 🤯
15.02.2026 18:20 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
13.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 4972 🔁 2237 💬 582 📌 3911/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
07.02.2026 21:00 — 👍 12625 🔁 3942 💬 135 📌 111Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...
Can’t stop thinking about the gargantuan gulf between the kid glove, caveat-laden, “having your name all over the Epstein files doesn’t mean you did anything wrong”-treatment of the men in Epstein’s inbox… and the brutalize first, ask questions later policing in Minneapolis.
04.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 329 🔁 99 💬 8 📌 4We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
01.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 3277 🔁 1379 💬 32 📌 42The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.
29.01.2026 21:19 — 👍 450 🔁 292 💬 19 📌 49Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
#SaveNASA #NASAcuts
The NY Times and other news outlets reported that GSFC decreased its workforce by 11%.
This figure is misleading; the actual reduction was significantly higher. Here are at least two reasons why:
1- Timing of Retirements: These statistics are from November 2025, a
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Funding opportunity! Check out this new program from NASA. Looking for PIs at smaller schools who want to collaborate with NASA scientists and researchers!
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16.01.2026 22:34 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0On the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, we’re also remembering the life of fellow civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, who passed away on Tuesday at age 86.
15.01.2026 17:37 — 👍 79 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0Our story: www.propublica.org/article/vide...
15.01.2026 23:22 — 👍 206 🔁 80 💬 3 📌 3Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean.
Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone."
Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)
The dinosaur extinction event is my personal unit for getting a sense of astronomical time. For instance, if the local bubble formed 1-2 Myr ago, that’s After Dinos = very recent!!
27.11.2025 13:11 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
Viola Fletcher, one of the last two known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit seeking reparations for the attack — one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history — has died. She was 111.
25.11.2025 02:00 — 👍 203 🔁 60 💬 7 📌 6Gender-affirming care saves lives
25.11.2025 11:49 — 👍 3948 🔁 1337 💬 21 📌 11Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
We will not forget who enabled fascism in the United States.
13.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0As feds seal off labs from staff at NASA Goddard in prep for hasty evac+demolition, union reports: “Closure activities are proceeding during the government shutdown, which may be illegal under the Antideficiency Act and further endangers property.” 🔭🧪
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
04.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 100 🔁 71 💬 2 📌 10#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet.
www.space.com/space-explor...