finally calling it what it is. a for profit concentration camp. blood money and tears.

A mushroom in the undergrowth

🍄‍🟫 A little worse for wear, but a true Pacific Northwest / Oregon beauty nonetheless!

#mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography #naturephotography

Tails of Comet Wierzchoś apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021...
Some comets are regular guests of our solar neighborhood; others come by only once, never to return. We won’t have another chance to see Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś), which is currently making its way through the inner Solar System.

Europe Is America’s Secret Weapon. And We’re Giving It Up. The principal agreement of the Munich Security Conference is that a key American relationship is severely damaged.

The United States does not lead alliances out of charity. We lead them because no nation in history has ever secured its interests alone.

In Trump’s politics, there is no quiet part In Donald Trump’s politics, there is no quiet part. Everything is intended to be said aloud for everyone to hear.

NEW: If one phrase should be retired from Trump analysis, it’s that they have “said the quiet part out loud.”

In today’s politics, there’s no quiet part.

The president is making his desire to steal the 2026 elections loud and clear, and it’s due time we listen, Marc Elias writes.

JUST IN: Trump DELETES racist post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, blames a "White House staffer."

Karoline Leavitt previously defended the post and criticized the public outcry as "fake outrage."

Ilhan Omar walks along a sidewalk wearing a blazer, with people blurred in the background.

Ilhan Omar: “In the 4 years when Biden was president, my death threats went to almost zero — now they are back up — so there is a clear correlation between his presidency & the political violence that we see & the political danger that a lot of members of Congress & electeds feel across the country”

Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception

Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages

40 years after Challenger disaster, NASA faces safety fears on Artemis II Many of the team behind NASA’s Artemis II mission were children 40 years ago, when the space shuttle Challenger disaster reshaped spaceflight

Many of the team behind NASA’s Artemis II mission were children 40 years ago, when the space shuttle Challenger disaster reshaped spaceflight

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.

It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Again, there is no legislative fix for the magnitude of the authoritarian crimes being committed daily. Everyone is just pretending at this point:

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Forty years ago today (Jan 28 2026), the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger 51L slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God. Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik, Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe.

The Pleiades star cluster (M45) captured over 25 hours. The blue glow is starlight reflecting off interstellar dust. The surrounding brown structures are the Integrated Flux Nebula, incredibly faint clouds lit by the glow of our entire galaxy.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #m45

may he be frolicking with his fur companion. RIP to him

Alex pretti was a Va nurse and a dog owner

Marram grass leaf. Light micrograph of a cross section through a closed (unravelled) leaf of Marram grass, Ammophila arenaria. The deeply grooved leaf is thrown into folds. The folds conserve water and withstand salt, and prevent excessive evaporation. Round vascular bundles are visible inside each fold, serving to transport food and water through the leaf. They look like smiley faces. The large "eyes" are the xylem, which transport water. The bright blue "mouths" are the phloem, which transport sugars produced during photosynthesis. The spiky, curved structure is a natural adaptation to drought conditions, helping the leaf to roll up and conserve water. Spines on the surface discourage animals from eating the leaf. Marram grass is important in coastal ecology, since it is one of the commonest grass species in Britain to stabilize sand dunes.

Mother nature is a raver.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Cast immobilisation versus surgery for unstable lateral malleolus fractures (SUPER-FIN): randomised non-inferiority clinical trial Objective To compare cast immobilisation with surgery using open reduction and internal plate fixation for unimalleolar Weber B ankle fractures with a congruent mortise on initial radiography but deemed unstable by external rotation stress testing. Design Randomised, pragmatic, non-inferiority, clinical trial. Setting One specialist university hospital trauma centre in Finland, 16 January 2013 to 7 July 2021. Participants 840 skeletally mature patients (age ≥16 years) with an isolated Weber B fibula fracture on static radiographs. Fracture instability was assessed by standard external rotation stress test under fluoroscopy. 714 participants were excluded (569 with stable fracture, mortise incongruency, or fracture dislocation) and the remaining 126 patients with a congruent but unstable ankle mortise were randomised. Interventions Participants were randomly allocated to receive either conventional cast immobilisation for six weeks (n=62) or surgical treatment with open reduction and internal plate fixation followed by cast immobilisation for six weeks (n=64). Main outcome measures The primary, non-inferiority outcome was the Olerud-Molander Ankle Score (OMAS; range 0-100 points; higher scores indicating better outcomes and fewer symptoms) at two years. The predefined non-inferiority margin for the primary outcome was set at −8 points. Secondary outcomes were ankle function, pain, health related quality of life, ankle range of motion, and radiographic outcome. Treatment related adverse events were also recorded. Results 121 out of 126 randomised participants (96%) completed the study. In the primary intention-to-treat analysis of 121 participants completing two year follow-up, the mean OMAS was 89 in the cast immobilisation group and 87 in the surgery group (between group mean difference 1.3 points, 95% confidence interval −4.8 to 7.3). No statistically significant between group differences were observed in any secondary outcomes. One participant in each group had radiographic evidence of non-union. In the surgery group, one participant had a superficial wound infection, one had delayed wound healing, and nine underwent procedures to remove hardware, two of whom developed postoperative infections (one deep and one superficial). Conclusions Cast immobilisation proved non-inferior to surgery for the treatment of unimalleolar Weber B ankle fractures with a congruent mortise on initial radiography but deemed unstable by external rotation stress testing. Overall, fewer treatment related harms occurred with cast immobilisation compared with surgery. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov [NCT01758796][1]. The study protocol, including the statistical analysis plan, has been published.[23][2] The data underlying the primary findings in this paper and the code used to analyse the data are openly and publicly available at: <https://doi.org/10.23729/fd-392c45f8-500c-32e5-adf9-f32f84b4e78a>. Contact the corresponding author for problems with accessing the data. [1]: /lookup/external-ref?link_type=CLINTRIALGOV&access_num=NCT01758796&atom=%2Fbmj%2F392%2Fbmj-2025-085295.atom [2]: #ref-23

Cast Immobilisation Non-Inferior to Surgery for Unstable Ankle Fractures, Touting Fewer Complications and Similar Outcomes

by Kortekangas T, Lehtola R (...) Pakarinen H et 5 al. in BMJ #MedSky

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Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.

"Two of them are high-schoolers.

"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."

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CARTOON OF THE DAY

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I’m reminded of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”nothing 2 justify what’s happening in “the land of the free” except ignorance, fear, & hate.i’m reminded of when frogs were put in water, & the temperature upped until they died.Is the pot hot enough yet? “They” can come 4 u or me,who’s left 2 stand?

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You're looking at an incredible image of the star forming region Cepheus A. It contains a massive protostar with 16 times the mass of the Sun, part of a recent survey.

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/studying-massive-and-mysterious-young-protostars-with-the-hubble

I don’t know, what would you call it?

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