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Penn State Astronomer (he/him), personal account. “We went and made everything a computer without ever bothering to fix computers.”

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And polar juice!

07.03.2026 12:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

07.03.2026 10:34 👍 1779 🔁 721 💬 39 📌 60
brianmcginnisnc
Brian McGinnis' wife has
NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital.
He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries.
Legal counsel has also been denied access.
A Marine veteran.
A firefighter.
A father of four.
And his family still cannot see him.

brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.

so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm

06.03.2026 19:50 👍 1866 🔁 827 💬 6 📌 55

As if it’s taken straight from the evening news this week

06.03.2026 23:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We pulled this off with Japan in WW2, all it took was… oh no

06.03.2026 21:53 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

welcome to competitive authoritarianism!

06.03.2026 21:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Six federal scientists run out by Trump talk about the work left undone | CNN Federal data shows the NIH lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its workforce. Scientists say the departures harm the U.S.’ ability to respond to disease outbreaks, develop treatments for chroni...

Federal data shows that #NIH lost ~4400 people, 20% of the workforce. Many scientists have been pushed out.

~80% of NIH $ is awarded to universities & research institutions. Funding cuts are having a trickle down effect all over the country, affecting job prospects.

🧪 www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

06.03.2026 16:39 👍 105 🔁 80 💬 4 📌 1

And Ukraine

06.03.2026 16:48 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department said Friday, missing expectations.

A nightmare employment report this morning.

Economists’ expectation was +50,000 jobs.

Actual number was 92,000 jobs lost.

🎁 🔗

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

06.03.2026 13:43 👍 203 🔁 89 💬 19 📌 19

Timely piece!

06.03.2026 16:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

06.03.2026 16:25 👍 2527 🔁 810 💬 48 📌 92

Timely piece!

06.03.2026 16:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

I wrote about Trump's fantasy of omnipotence and invulnerability crashing against the material reality of a interdependent world. This insane, heedless war will ruin us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

06.03.2026 13:58 👍 96 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 7

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 9351 🔁 2114 💬 87 📌 34

4. But with all that focus has come unwanted attention to the fact that Trump broke his word. Virtually all reporting on the Iran war has included reminders that in his 2024 victory speech, Donald Trump said: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”

06.03.2026 13:59 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

This is not technically a war crime; an unarmed combatant is not hors de combat (out of the action) sufficiently to make targeting them illegal. And had the IRIS Dena returned home it would have immediately armed up and joined the fight.

But blowing up an unarmed ship vulnerable because of a joint

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 75 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

05.03.2026 20:39 👍 2437 🔁 1397 💬 92 📌 340
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 👍 9933 🔁 5232 💬 622 📌 627

I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

06.03.2026 12:22 👍 311 🔁 139 💬 3 📌 12

“Pervert glasses” never ever gonna beat that rap

06.03.2026 03:34 👍 58 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

Okay but how many of the Dems who voted yes did it knowing that these four were voting no and the resolution would fail? That’s the real question.

06.03.2026 03:18 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Four AIPAC Dems made the difference. Without them, the measure would have passed.

05.03.2026 22:38 👍 86 🔁 52 💬 7 📌 7

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

06.03.2026 01:10 👍 3354 🔁 778 💬 37 📌 17

BREAKING:

The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.

They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.

DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

06.03.2026 00:05 👍 5412 🔁 2420 💬 195 📌 215

That’s just horrible. So sorry!

06.03.2026 02:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 12199 🔁 7373 💬 289 📌 335

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05.03.2026 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Noem got canned because Congressional Dems were turning her into embarrassing television day after day. They have yet to even try with Miller, but they should!

05.03.2026 22:12 👍 488 🔁 74 💬 0 📌 4
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BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient The battery can add a staggering amount of range in under 10 minutes. Here's just how quick it is, and how it compares to the best Western designs.

On a 1,500-kilowatt charger, these batteries added over 500 miles of indicated range in ten minutes.

05.03.2026 15:44 👍 361 🔁 113 💬 18 📌 31

Honestly wonder if Noem hadn’t assured Trump that she’s happily married, and he believed it until seeing her performance under questioning in re: Lewandowski

05.03.2026 21:10 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0