Em.C 🦋

Statue of Liberty surrounded by a blue sky and white clouds.

"JULY IV MDCCLXXVI"

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me…”
…from the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

Some of us still believe (((<3)))

Photo ("SoL") by Joanna Lindblad

#poem #photo #july4th #NoKings

The Minor Planet Center has designated 3I/ATLAS = C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), or informally "Comet ATLAS", a new interstellar comet that is currently about 4.5 AU from the Sun and screaming through the solar system at 58 km/s (130000 mph)

Third Interstellar Object Swoops through our Solar System, Surprising Astronomers All eyes are on Comet 3I/Atlas as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system

Now on @sciam.bsky.social : Detected on July 1, the comet 3I/Atlas is only the third interstellar object ever witnessed passing through the solar system. It'll have its closest approach to the sun on October 30. Nice piece by @norabradford.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

YouTube video by Josh Johnson Juneteenth Explained To White People

youtu.be/bFIwDWV8xok?...

250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..."

www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

In Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, public colleges are tuition free or virtually tuition free.

Their governments understand the value of investing in their young people. So should we.

"In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical 'therapy' to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens."

Neurologist Oliver Sacks on the healing power of gardens www.themarginalian.org/2019/05/27/o...

Why Journalists Must Band Together to Defend the First Amendment - PEN America Brett G. Johnson, PhD/JD: 'The Trump administration’s censorial actions are only as powerful as we, the people, allow them to be.'

"Why Journalists Must Band Together to Defend the First Amendment," by Brett G. Johnson, PhD/JD, associate professor at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. pen.org/why-journali... #journalism #firstamendment

If Trumps 50 percent cut to NASA space science budget is not rejected by Congress, Hubble will be shut down.

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country.

“Our leaders must follow their example.”

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

YouTube video by dresdendolls The Dresden Dolls 'Shores of California' music video

And, her band the Dresden Dolls is my favorite band youtu.be/Awnjw36mNEs?...

YouTube video by Amanda Palmer *Amanda Palmer "Astronaut" Live From Sxip's Hour of Charm*

It's Amanda Palmer's birthday today! It's not a party till your mic goes flying and is rescued by Lance Horne 🩷 🎉 youtu.be/444MW-dBwcU?...

Let’s be clear. Trump's arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration.

This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power.

It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Arrested by FBI in Immigration Dispute Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by the authorities, the F.B.I. director said.

Arresting judges cannot be the new normal in America. I’m deeply concerned by the lack of information and partisan tone surrounding this news, and I trust my Republican colleagues will agree. It’s incumbent on all of us to uphold and protect the constitution.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.

Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Trump has cut the part of the FDA that notifies doctors and the public when there is a safety problem with a drug or a medical device.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

Hey everyone please welcome our newest addition to the Serotonin masthead, @axiopoeticus.bsky.social! Angel Rosen is going to be helping out with submissions. An experienced poet, her "...poetry exists in a realm of mental illness and hope - Plath spaces - and spaces inclusive of everyone."

Hands Off! Shelburne Fights Back · Mobilize **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** We are fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and da...

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.

gift link...

sober and practical. and very much where we are.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Until this weekend..."

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Wrong, in so many ways.

Moon partially blocked by the earth's shadow on the lower right side against a completely clear black night sky

Shelburne, Vermont, 4am, 3.14 lunar eclipse 2025
.
Sony a1 135mm #lunareclipse #lunareclipse2025 #BTV #eclipse

Got any plans for next Friday? Cancel them and do this instead, we need you. ❤️🇺🇸

www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/m...

The shadow of Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander on the lunar surface.

BLUE GHOST LANDED ON THE MOON!!!! LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL IMAGE FROM THE LUNAR SURFACE!!