Video: Trump and Hegseth Gather U.S. Senior Military Officers in Virginia More than 800 generals and admirals, under the direction of President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, were summoned to a military base in Virginia for an unprecedented meeting.

Can anyone explain this to me?

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Opinion | Christianity After Charlie Kirk

“All the people in his orbit…have to constantly prove that they…are tough enough and mean enough, willing to cross the line or…bully or break the moral norm…to stand by the boss or stick it to the libs.”

Including Christians

Christianity After Charlie Kirk www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Selfish.
Awaiting a flight that has been delayed twice. Trying hard to stop my superpower from intervening.

In Texas The Water Rises: A Reckoning By now, the South should know better.

Why we all need more than just resilience, although - especially now - we certainly need that!
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HOLLYWOOD: Trump’s unhinged Gestapo smashes a window then tackles and arrests an American citizen for filming it, saying “I got one” and counting like they’re playing some kind of sick video game. (For money)

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Opinion | The Waste Musk Created

“Republicans in Congress will have to search their consciences…there is still time for them to blame Musk for the aid shutdown and work with Rubio to limit the number of children dying unnecessarily.”

The Waste Musk Created www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...

YouTube video by vlogbrothers My Religion

What a great summation from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social of one person’s faith! A great treat with lovely moments and thoughts. Thanks for sharing, John.
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Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.

“…science is only as resilient as the people who refuse to let it die.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

From my brilliant friend @kccreates.bsky.social today

Opinion | The Stupidity of the Tariffs Are the Achievement of a Lifetime Maybe we’re just not good at thinking anymore.

“…behavioral change is leading to cultural change. As we spend time on our screens, we’re abandoning a value that used to be pretty central to our culture — the idea that you should work hard to improve your capacity for wisdom and judgment all the days of your life.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

Prescient.

A Constitutional Crisis? We’re covering an imbalance of power in the government.

“…Trump has called the bluff of our constitutional system: It works best when each branch does its job with alacrity.” I say “when each branch does its job with honor and integrity” which is sorely lacking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

Opinion | Our Government Stopped Enforcing Robinson-Patman and Destroyed Communities The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to stop enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act is killing grocery stores in low-income communities.

Corporate greed affecting grocery prices shouldn’t be news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

The years Y = 1, 9, 36, 100, 225, 441, 784, 1296, 2025, 3025 … all follow the pattern Y = square of (1 + … + n) = 1 cubed + … + n cubed.

So the last pre-2025 year of this form was 1296 = (1 + 2 + … + 8) squared = 36 squared = 1 cubed + … + 8 cubed.

The first post-2025 will be 3025 = 55 squared.

I like this…..

Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.

What Elon got wrong about the CR

The nightmare begins, with an ignorant, unelected billionaire from South Africa gunning to shut down the US government—based on lies and falsehoods. A @politico.com fact check, and it’s a doozy.
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Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: Opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention A drug with a novel mechanism protects people against the AIDS virus for 6 months. It could speed the end of the epidemic—if those who need it most get access

🧪Science breakthrough of the year - a mindblowing example of the value of interdisciplinary approaches and a testament to the value of fundamental research:

From understanding HIV capsid architecture to a drug that may soon eradicate the disease! 🤯🤯🤯

www.science.org/content/arti...
@science.org

OpenAI has released updates to Canvas and it’s worth seeing. See demo video www.youtube.com/live/qZ0ImE4...

Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF)

SPACE FACTS: DAY 237/365🛰️🧪🔭

There are at least 5500 galaxies in the area covered by a grain of rice held at arm's length, as revealed by the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, which stared at a patch of sky for a total of 22.5 days over 10 years to see galaxies as faint as magnitude 31!

Image: NASA/ESA

An image of the Sun, bright orange, with a cutaway revealing interior layers of different bright colors. A circle with a gamma, indicating a photon, is superimposed on the core.

A YEAR OF SPACE FACTS: DAY 1/365

The photons we receive from the Sun take a little over 8 minutes to reach us from the surface of the Sun. But they are created deep in the core of the Sun, and it takes them 100,000s of years to get from the core to the surface!

e-Storage subsidiary to build $712M plant in Kentucky Shelbyville Battery Manufacturing is establishing a cell, module and packaging facility and is set to begin production in 2025.

More US manufacturing investment courtesy of the Inflation Reduction Act: a $712 million integrated battery cell, pack & packaging plant to open in Shelbyville, Kentucky in late 2025 producing 6 GWh/yr of grid storage batteries & employing 1,572 workers.
www.utilitydive.com/news/e-stora... 🔌💡

Thank you for this recommendation! Purchased via @librofm.bsky.social and looking forward to listening on the plane.

Seasons

Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it

We can’t possibly be surprised by this in late 2024. We all need to take heed, take measures, and take the time for training ourselves!
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