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astrophysicist studying X-rays from massive stars; husband & dad in that chronological order; eta carinae afficionado; editor, High energy astrophysics picture of the week https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/heapow/heapow.html

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I’m sure he’ll resign in protest.

28.02.2026 13:13 👍 902 🔁 233 💬 25 📌 13
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28.02.2026 13:37 👍 22203 🔁 8143 💬 1023 📌 770

Nothing to see here I’m sure

23.02.2026 17:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HISTORICAL NASA DOCUMENTS ARE BEING ILLEGALLY PURGED FROM THE GODDARD SPACE LIBRARY.

DEMAND THAT CONGRESS SAVE THEM BY VISITING THE LINK IN OUR BIO OR BY SEARCHING tr.ee/save-nasa

HISTORICAL NASA DOCUMENTS ARE BEING ILLEGALLY PURGED FROM THE GODDARD SPACE LIBRARY. DEMAND THAT CONGRESS SAVE THEM BY VISITING THE LINK IN OUR BIO OR BY SEARCHING tr.ee/save-nasa

The 2026 budget directive tells NASA to protect the Goddard Space Library, not following the directive is illegal. Visit the link in our bio or search tr.ee/save-nasa to contact your rep. and urge that they make NASA follow the budget directive.

#NASA
#savenasa
#space
#science

22.02.2026 00:54 👍 268 🔁 130 💬 5 📌 3

Awesome

20.02.2026 15:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember when the worst Republican policy was tort reform?

20.02.2026 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Message From Administrator Jared Isaacman (Starliner) Dear NASA Team

A Message From Administrator Jared Isaacman (Starliner)
nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi... #NASA

19.02.2026 22:39 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 4
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On the Deepest Search for Galactic Center Pulsars and an Examination of an Intriguing Millisecond Pulsar Candidate On the Deepest Search for Galactic Center Pulsars and an Examination of an Intriguing Millisecond Pulsar Candidate, Perez, Karen I., Gajjar, Vishal, Bogdanov, Slavko, Halpern, Jules P., Demorest, Paul B., Croft, Steve, Lebofsky, Matt, MacMahon, David H. E., Siemion, Andrew P. V.

Finally out in the Astrophysical Journal. Results from the deepest radio pulsar search of the innermost 1.4 arcminutes of the Galactic Center region at 10 GHz. Work led by recent Columbia PhD Karen Perez. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

09.02.2026 18:47 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

NSA's whistleblower report is about contacts between foreign intelligence and someone close to Trump. Instead of acting on this information to protect the United States, Gabbard tipped off the White House and squashed an internal investigation to protect Trump.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.02.2026 18:30 👍 1538 🔁 759 💬 112 📌 54

also loss of tax revenue since the fed government is exempt from paying real estate taxes

07.02.2026 20:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rachel @Wallaceforcongress who's running to unseat Dan Meuser, has been all over this issue. She's a great candidate

07.02.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We are not Nazis. Also: No Kings, No Dictators.

For anyone who wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. We watched it start in real time. Do you remember last October? The details slip away fast but holding onto them helps us hold onto who we are joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

06.02.2026 12:56 👍 1883 🔁 672 💬 48 📌 34

Thanks

06.02.2026 03:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it's behind a paywall - can someone gift link it?

05.02.2026 22:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trump post: After a one year review of The Trump Kennedy Center, that has taken place with Contractors, Musical Experts, Art Institutions, and other Advisors and Consultants, deciding between either Construction with Closure and ReOpening or, Partial Construction while continuing Entertainment Operations through a much longer period of time, working in and around the Performances, I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World. In other words, if we don't close, the quality of Construction will not be nearly as good, and the time to completion, because of interruptions with Audiences from the many Events using the Facility, will be much longer. The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality result!
Based on these findings, and totally subject to Board approval, I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything that has taken place with respect to such a Facility before.
Therefore, The Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex. Financing is completed, and fully in place! This important decision, based on input from many Highly Respected Experts, will take a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center, one that has been in bad condition, both financially and structurally for many years, and turn it into a World Class Bastion of Arts, Music, and Entertainment, far better than it has ever been before. America will be very proud of its new and beautiful Landmark for many generations to come. Than…

Trump post: After a one year review of The Trump Kennedy Center, that has taken place with Contractors, Musical Experts, Art Institutions, and other Advisors and Consultants, deciding between either Construction with Closure and ReOpening or, Partial Construction while continuing Entertainment Operations through a much longer period of time, working in and around the Performances, I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World. In other words, if we don't close, the quality of Construction will not be nearly as good, and the time to completion, because of interruptions with Audiences from the many Events using the Facility, will be much longer. The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality result! Based on these findings, and totally subject to Board approval, I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything that has taken place with respect to such a Facility before. Therefore, The Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex. Financing is completed, and fully in place! This important decision, based on input from many Highly Respected Experts, will take a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center, one that has been in bad condition, both financially and structurally for many years, and turn it into a World Class Bastion of Arts, Music, and Entertainment, far better than it has ever been before. America will be very proud of its new and beautiful Landmark for many generations to come. Than…

After numerous artists said they would no longer perform there and ticket sales plummeted, Trump says he is closing the Kennedy Center for at least two years.

01.02.2026 23:31 👍 3232 🔁 898 💬 679 📌 226

Chris va Hollen deserves the thanks of every American for his defense of due process rights

01.02.2026 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't mean this in a snarky way. I really mean this earnestly:

Why are Republicans so much better than Democrats at this?

29.01.2026 19:10 👍 112 🔁 26 💬 31 📌 2
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

29.01.2026 17:22 👍 6412 🔁 2494 💬 257 📌 260
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen releases new song: "Streets of Minneapolis":

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst...
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

28.01.2026 18:22 👍 682 🔁 204 💬 19 📌 13

Don't let them change the narrative and blame only Bovino.

TRUMP GREENLIT THE ASSASSINATION OF INNOCENT AMERICAN CITIZENS.

That's it. That's the headline.

27.01.2026 00:40 👍 83 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 1
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HEAD Awards Rossi Prize to Henric Krawczynski

The top prize in high-energy astrophysics has been awarded to Henric Krawczynski of Washington University in St. Louis for his contributions to the theory, instrumentation, and scientific interpretation of X-ray polarimetry. aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭

26.01.2026 14:17 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Walz: "I don't care if you are conservative are flying a Donald Trump flag, a libertarian 'Don't Treat on Me,' a Democratic Socialist -- this an inflection point. If we cannot all agree that the smearing of a citizen and besmirching everything they stood for -- someone has to be accountable."

25.01.2026 20:50 👍 8067 🔁 1938 💬 114 📌 63

Ironic isn’t it? Had an ICE thug been hurt at the very same location 5 minutes earlier, Alex would have dropped everything to save his life.

But 5 minutes later….

25.01.2026 21:20 👍 15997 🔁 3544 💬 322 📌 87
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Well, would you look at that

24.01.2026 23:37 👍 278 🔁 104 💬 16 📌 5
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Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

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25.01.2026 01:08 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

murder

24.01.2026 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

17.01.2026 18:23 👍 13900 🔁 2308 💬 391 📌 144

Best way to stop the conquest of Greenland is to point out the likelihood of two additional Democratic senators.

14.01.2026 21:17 👍 335 🔁 51 💬 23 📌 3

Alexandra Petri FTW

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/individual-federal-services-replacement/685333/?gift=X3irTF-fr6U_jIeZ7biZ4iBSt651tko4l_BtoMktHxY

12.01.2026 01:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0