Brette O'Connell

Black-and-white 1922 studio portrait of astronomer Annie Jump Cannon in profile, facing left. She is a middle-aged woman with her hair styled in an elegant, voluminous Gibson-girl updo with soft curls framing the top and sides. She wears a lace-trimmed blouse with intricate floral embroidery on the shoulders and sleeves. The photograph has a classic, softly lit, formal quality typical of early 20th-century portrait photography

American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.

Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.

#WomenInSTEM #astronomy

Please repost to everybody and help get this pup a home.
Thanks!

Vermont Conversation: A former EPA official on how the plastics industry sabotages real recycling - VTDigger "[The industry] has spent millions of dollars advertising, telling us, 'don't worry about all the plastic you're generating,'" said Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the Environmental P...

#ResistanceEarth

Plastic production has gone from two million tons per year in 1950, to 450 million tons per year today, and the plastics industry has spent millions deceiving us into believing it can be recycled. “Plastic recycling has never worked. Never will work.”

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Can we retirement home this flip flopper please? Long overdo….

#ResistAuthoritarians
#NoKings
#FightFascism
#SaveOurRepublicFromOligarchs

I’m going to repeat this everyday by George F. Willis “sickening moral slum of an administration.” 😡😤🤮

ICE and DHS are wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens—including a veteran who served in Iraq.

Kristi Noem should resign, NOW.

Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.

Most definitely. 😽

YouTube video by The Enforcement Archives Most People Don't Know This: Trump Forgets He's President — Then Attacks Reporter | Steve Schmidt

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I couldn't agree more! 👍

It wasn’t even close.

I guarantee that the entirety of ICE has more past criminal charges themselves than the people they've kidnapped so far.

If you love cats... It should be an "if". Everyone should love cats.

This week alone the President has:
• Tried to forbid states from regulating a disruptive new technology
• Threatened to cancel all federal funding to a state if it failed to pass a law he supported
• Insisted he can pardon crimes against the laws of a different state

How long can this go on?

For the love of God
DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts.
Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter .
A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many
sacrifices.
Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara apologies to the US citizen who was brutally detained by ICE.

“This is embarrassing”.

ICE is embarrassing America.

That’s why tourist revenue is down.

That’s why people don’t want to visit.

That’s why there’s boycotts.

It’s an embarrassment & a danger.

It's just right, Jon! 👍

Edward enjoyed eating my candy floss this afternoon.
Tallulah was waiting on the arm of the chair for her bite.
Of course, they did have more than a tiny bite as sugar isn't good for them anymore than it is for me.

Oh, yeah! It takes your breath away.
My Tallulah likes to run across the bed and jump on my stomach, using it as a springboard. 😹

I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!

I took the high road and just smiled.

@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats.senate.gov

Do NOT let Trump declare war on Venezuela!

The release of the Epstein files is required by law to happen on December 19th.
On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela.
Bank on it.

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

All the threats from Trump and his henchmen to Republican state senators in Indiana failed. Mid-decade gerrymandering rejected. This is no small thing. Maybe some other Republicans will finally start to stand up to the Mob Boss.

Today is a good day to leak the Epstein files.