Aaron Baker

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.

I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

A Loth-cat wearing a Santa hat at the base of a Christmas tree

It’s beginning to look a lot like Loth-mas.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

discovering insane edits recently

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.

But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

A TruthSocial post from Donald Trump, featuring an AI generated image of him in front of Chicago burning and under invasion with the words “Chipocalypse Now” near him stylized like the poster for the film Apocalypse Now. The text accompanying the post reads “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR 🚁🚁🚁”

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here.

This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

The Gilded Rage

A space nebula in Hubble SHO color palette, with screws, oranges, yellows and greens. It looks a bit like a beach maybe.

A good photon catch.

The California Nebula
🔭🧪 #astrophotography

i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo

Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.

I really regret getting that history degree

two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field . ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .

"Bluesky is dying"

Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

A dual left/right stereoscopic pair of black and white photographies displaying a Martian landscape and the shadow of the Curiosity rover. This dual image is intended to be used to obtain a Stereo3D rendition of the scene through parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed viewing.

Fascinating: a Stereo3D shadow selfie, captured by Curiosity just 11 hours ago.

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye

#Mars July 30, 2025 - Sol 4614
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

Employees’ protests against Trump science policies spread to NSF Letter to key House Democrat follows declarations by scientists at NIH, EPA, and NASA

In my newsletter that came out this morning I wrote about NASA employees filing a declaration of protest against Trump's attacks on science and the agency.

Just a couple of hours later NSF employees did the same thing. The voices are growing louder.

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People exploding this false messaging that I voted for a bill + funding that I quite literally voted NO on. The threat environment this morning is scary.

Doesn’t help anyone. Drag me for the position if you disagree but don’t lie. It’s out of control. Saying I voted for this funding is false.

Illo of a celestial person reaching up to grab a star. Based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Drawn by gdbeeart in autumn 2021, photoshop.

Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s

i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda

I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.

As currently configured, NASA newest grant opportunity release represents an ****82%**** cut to planetary science research funding.

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.

I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Superman Isn’t Trying to Be Political. We Just Have Real-Life Supervillains Now.

What a headline.

Southwestern rim of the crater

Northwestern rim of the crater

Crater floor perspective

Crater rim perspective

The Western Rim of Palikir Crater on Mars. Rendered using @uahirise.bsky.social DTM data.

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Watterson is such an inspiring example of 'do what you do for as long as you want to do it then disappear'. We should all emulate him.