Bathed in the light of the setting Sun, that’s a Boeing 737-86N (HP-1726CMP) transiting the nearly full Moon Monday over the Space Coast.

Copa Airlines 445 was traveling from Orlando (MCO) to Panama City (PTY) @ 19,250ft & 389 kts.

(📷:me; flight data: @flightradar24.com )

#aviation #photography

This hits close to home as a former participant in this program. 10 years of public service just to be rug pulled by hostile politics would be devastating. text.npr.org/nx-s1-5591157

Kristi Noem pledged to boost the nation’s cybersecurity. She gutted it instead. The cyber community fears that the administration’s continuous cuts have weakened our cyber defenses.

New from @maggiemiller.bsky.social: Kristi Noem pledged to boost the nation’s cybersecurity. She gutted it instead. “There’s a real disconnect between the public messaging about #cybersecurity and the reality on the ground” www.politico.com/news/2025/10... @gate15.bsky.social

A photo of a building shows windows standing out against a red-bricked building. A headline reads: "A Chaotic ICE Raid in Chicago Swept Up Dozens of U.S. Citizens." Photo by Todd Heisler/The New York Times

“They didn’t treat people like they were American.” In Chicago last month, federal agents carried out one of the most aggressive immigration operations in recent memory, sweeping up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night. nyti.ms/3Jgpxob

While visiting Manzanar during a rainstorm, the sun came out to create a rainbow in the background while I photographed the memorial obelisk built in 1943 by the Japanese who were interned there.

#Landscape #Photography 📷 📸 #Leica #fotografía #foto #memorials #desert

Yet another area where the current administration is reducing freedom for the American people.

Wooden furniture with two-point wave interference carved in

#ITeachPhysics

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

A great new newsletter. Check out the section on exporting the great firewall.

Opinion | No President Should Have This Kind of Power Even if the allegations are correct, blowing up the boats is a lawless exercise in the use of deadly force.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

With attacks on speedboats in the Caribbean Sea, President Trump has ordered the summary execution of people who may not have committed the crime of which he accused them, the editorial board says. “It is a violation of legal due process that should alarm all Americans.”

This is awful treatment of vulnerable kids. text.npr.org/g-s1-86788

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies

Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.

Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

CitrixBleed 2 exploitation started mid-June — how to spot it CitrixBleed 2 — CVE-2025–5777 — has been under active exploitation to hijack Netscaler sessions, bypassing MFA, globally for a month.

New by me - although Citrix say there is no evidence of exploitation of CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability, they are wrong - it has been under active exploitation since mid June by an IP associated to a ransomware group, with multiple IP addresses now involved.

doublepulsar.com/citrixbleed-...

Netanyahu Releases Letter Nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

This is absurd flattery. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...

VIDEO: Frederick Douglass' descendants deliver his 'Fourth of July' speech Five descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?".

Fitting words for my conflicted feelings this 4th of July.

Alligator Alcatraz from within

If you can help with this it would be appreciated. gofund.me/b9a0d8f4

Rep. Lynch: "In late March, ICE agents wearing masks detained Rümeysa Öztürk. And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland ... it does look like the Gestapo."

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

This is worth paying attention to... The interviewee says "I think it's worth risking my career, and even my personal safety, to speak out about this."

This administration has no appreciation for science or the pursuit of truth.

2 U.S. Citizen Children Were Deported to Honduras With Their Mother, Lawyer Says The children, 4 and 7, were put on a plane with their mother, who was deported. The family’s lawyer said the mother was given no choice but to take her children, which the Trump administration denied.

A 4-year-old and a 7-year-old with U.S. citizenship were deported alongside their mother to Honduras last week, the family’s lawyer said, adding to the recent string of American citizens caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081