Retired electrical power engineer living on the Olympic Peninsula. Sailing, woodworking, dogs.

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"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."

Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."
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Arlington, Virginia friends:

Our neighbor's dog went missing late last night, please keep an eye out for her!

She is a white brindle labrador mix named Kira, about 55lbs. Working on getting a picture.

Penrose/Columbia Pike area.

DM me please with any info and I will promptly pass it along.
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Democrats should take it as a personal insult that this man has the gall to run for governor of our largest state while knowing what he did.
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There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice
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call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism
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The joyful, wonder-filled Artemis scenes contrast with our nation's leaders, people who have ascended to the pinnacles of power & wealth—and yet couldn’t day-to-day be more miserable, a fact that they all collectively broadcast with every fiber of their being. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-joy-of-joy
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I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.

Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:

www.inprnt.com/gallery/phineas/prompting-with-hitler/
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brenttoderian.bsky.social's profile picture
2. Many studies have shown that it’s normal to fear change to an unusual degree when it’s first proposed (see status quo bias) even when change is constant, & to weigh potential loss more heavily than we value potential gain. So #NIMBY likely can’t be avoided. Change will always be hard everywhere.
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rincewind.run's profile picture
there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes
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kwcollins.bsky.social's profile picture
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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I will waste no time reminding everyone that the President has again proposed an extinction-level budget for NASA.

47% cut to science.

And even though Congress sets budgets, NASA will---like last year---start planning as though this were the real budget.

Stupid. Pointless. Destructive. Insulting.
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Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation
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The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍

The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern.

www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs
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I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f674-498a-b261-d34993c25e4f
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Best video on this subject… from a law prof at Regent University, no joke whatsoever.
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April 9, 1865. Happy Appomattox Day to all who celebrate victory over the slavers.
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We can never unsee the genocidal monster Trump revealed yesterday. Even worse, we are likely to see more of him going forward. My latest.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-exposed-his-monstrous-self-he-will-only-get-worse/
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kenvogel.bsky.social's profile picture
NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.

Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.
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Don't let the chaos and constant lies fool you. America's elections ARE secure. That's a fact. We need people of integrity to keep it that way. Serve as a poll worker and protect the vote: www.country1st.com/poll_workers
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New reporting reveals Trump plans to use $15 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pay for an arch named after himself in Washington, DC.

This is the same Humanities Endowment funding that DOGE cut from any project that mentioned DEI.
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Israel
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maxberger.bsky.social's profile picture
BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.”

After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.
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Shingles vaccines make the astronauts’ bodies radiate light. Thank you for asking.
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People on the right as far gone as MTG, Tucker Carlson, and Alex Jones have called on him to be impeached (or A25). The idea there are no gettable R votes is just smug self-fullfiling doomerism
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If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.
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This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe.

Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.
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We won't last 33 more months of this.

This must stop.

We must make it stop.
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We have the constitutional tools to stop [waves arms wildly] this gangster nonsense. The people who carry the tools in their toolboxes, the Cabinet and the Congress, lack moral courage and are drunk on piss ant power. We turned our backs on the Greatest Generation. They weep beneath their headstones
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The struggle is real...👇😉 #Dogs #BlueSkyDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #Doglovers
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