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Yup…

“Nope. Nothing to see here. Not a death star. It’s a moon. Move along.”

Gotta update my 2025 bingo card. I set the bar waaaaay too high…

The fact that Witkoff was in the chat while being in Moscow means that russia knows everything that was being discussed there. But russia didn’t need Witkoff for that because Tulsi Gabbard was also in the group

YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg Pete Responds Live to Trump Admin’s Major Security Failure

The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite.

My full interview here:

Yes, please. ASAP… As every single member of congress should be…

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Gift link,

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It isn’t enough that white men got there first. They want to make sure they’re the only ones who ever set foot on the moon.
Bless their hearts. They better hope they can get to Mars because we will chase these small men to the end of the earth.

Spicy lemonade is yummy!

Also @agwilliamtong.bsky.social

No. Just cautious.

True thankfully!

Yes but Volvo is mostly owned by a Chinese conglomerate (Geely) now… so how independent/Swedish is it really… 🤷‍♀️

And who thankfully still get real news… ours is filled with so much 🐂💩

Photo of lunar eclipse from the Moon courtesy of NASA

A lunar eclipse — as seen from the Moon.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander was able to capture something extremely special from the surface of the Moon: the Earth blocking the light of the Sun, creating a bright ring of light in the lunar sky.

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

Check out that nosedive!

The Complete List of Jeff Bezos Companies Many of the companies under Bezos were acquired by Amazon, but Bezos himself acquired a handful under his investment arm, Bezos Expeditions. This is the complete list of Bezos and Amazon companies.

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More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.

"Undermining NOAA’s operations could risk the safety of millions of Americans and destabilize countless industries, from farming and fisheries to energy and finance, threatening job losses and economic downturn..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/c...

🚨 Public health data disappeared. We’re restoring it. 🚨

RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice.

Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org

#PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

We are of course seeing this first hand here in Maine, with our Sea Grant funding fiasco, social security EAB chaos, Title IX funding threats... And we ❤️🧡💛 that Governor Mills, AG Frey, Senator King, and Rep @chelliepingree.bsky.social are fighting for us, not complying in advance! #seeyouincourt 💪

Maine Sea Grant regains funding after industry, congressional pushback The Maine Sea Grant program regained funding just days after the Trump administration cut funding without warning

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Star Wars meme “You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” With obi-wan, Luke skywalker photoshopped overlooking the National mall in Washington DC.

Women's rights are human rights.

They aren't negotiable on International Women's Day or any day.

Here in Illinois, we celebrate the contributions of the incredible women in Illinois' history and honor them by continuing to push our state forward.

Fun times… not…

Trump administration terminated funding for aid programs it said were lifesaving | CNN Politics When the Trump administration abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts and grants last week, it ended funding for programs around the world – including those that had been granted...

First: 92 percent of #USAID programs were TERMINATED. Not frozen. ENDED. Even programs that received a waiver were terminated. Only 500 out of over 6,000 programs were given a lifeline. 2/
www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/p...

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM