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A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
05.03.2026 15:58 — 👍 516 🔁 121 💬 7 📌 2Sometimes I think an explicit carbon tax might work for climate.
03.03.2026 19:28 — 👍 191 🔁 26 💬 8 📌 3
An oblique view of mountains on the Moon. NASA/Apollo 17/Kevin M. Gill
An oblique view of mountains on the Moon. The horizon is dominated by the darker lunar maria. NASA/Apollo 17/Kevin M. Gill
Cool views of lunar highland mountains from Apollo 17. Zoom to examine and you can get a good feel for the hight and ruggedness of the terrain.
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Three cheers for the sources that give great quotes. And also for @mollytaft.com @wired.com. Link to story below
13.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 114 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
Source: SciTechDaily
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Quite a sight #Hubble
When things are going well.
09.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 163 🔁 26 💬 13 📌 0
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Our grandchildren are going to ask what we did to stop this.
10.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 176 🔁 46 💬 4 📌 2"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
10.02.2026 10:09 — 👍 8382 🔁 4443 💬 161 📌 473
A news article displays a photo of a person in a dark face covering and blue jeans being led away by two heavily armored officers in tactical gear, one wearing a gas mask, on a city street. The article's headline reads: "ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises," with the photo caption stating "ICE in action in Portland."
Employees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation.
#leopardsatemyface #Politics #News
🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader.
One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa":
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
The No Kings People VOTE!
Leigh and Timmy and Matt and Tim and Beth and Mattie are scared shitless! Tarrant County is Blue!
It’s the No Kings Era now! #NoKings is a political earthquake!
Any Seattle cop who refuses to defend the people of Seattle against violent federal shock troops should be fired immediately. Full stop.
Start with Mike Solan, the head of the rogue police union.
JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
31.01.2026 04:54 — 👍 37393 🔁 11242 💬 825 📌 712
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
30.01.2026 23:58 — 👍 30054 🔁 6542 💬 388 📌 309
The crowd protesting against ICE in Minneapolis is growing larger every minute.
Similar marches are happening all across the country.
Minnesotans have had enough. Our country has had enough. ICE OUT NOW.
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
NO GUNS? PRESIDENT IS NOT A FACTS GUY www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/prote...
28.01.2026 16:21 — 👍 107 🔁 45 💬 12 📌 6
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
29.01.2026 02:52 — 👍 30756 🔁 13460 💬 873 📌 717
It would e a *very good idea* to get your measles antibody titer checked, particularly if you were vaccinated as a child before 1967. The old vaccine doesn’t last as long!
Or just skip that step and get the current vaccine if you have any doubts at all.
The City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested.
youtu.be/i5Yvg_HHfbE?...
Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
#Migrationsproblem? Lässt sich einfach lösen. Ein erster Schritt zu gleichen Rechten: die Legalisierung. Spanien macht es vor.
27.01.2026 19:01 — 👍 800 🔁 207 💬 31 📌 5
chicago's massive impromptu protest + minnesota resists doj's effort to extort voter data
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#BREAKING: Vineyard Wind is allowed to get back to work.
Just now, a federal judge issued a stay on the Trump administration's order halting work on Vineyard wind.
This is the 4th offshore wind project to win an injunction against the administration's order
@wbur.org
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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