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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 31m

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 39m

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 11m

Thanks! It’s a big relief.

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 1h

Whelp, survived the JPL layoffs. Thankful, but oof, we lost serious, irreplaceable talent. Call your Congress folks and let them know what an unforced error this was because of the current criminal administration who don’t have a 🤬 clue what this country does or can do.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7h

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Tero "Kaukoputkimies" Hiekkalinna @terohiekkalinna.bsky.social · 6h

Harsosumu ilman tähtiä ja tähtösten kanssa! Tämä supernovajäänne sijaitsee Joutsenen tähdistössä n. 2400 valovuoden päässä Maasta. Kuva on kahden paneelin mosaiikki ja molemmissa valotusta n. 10.5 tuntia! ☄️💥🔥🌪🌈☀️⚡️✨🌟⭐️💫🪐🌙🔭

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Eleanor 🌎🛰️🗺️🌲🌊 @ella0nearth.bsky.social · 11h

My internship at Goddard Space Flight Center was focused on assessing the effects of extreme urban heat on vulnerable populations. NASA research does so much for us here on Earth — but not without funding. 🧪

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Science Blog @scienceblog.com · 8h

Geologists Find Proto Earth Fingerprints In Ancient Rocks

A tiny wobble in potassium is rewriting Earth’s origin story. In new work published today in Nature Geosciences, an MIT-led team reports a subtle deficit of potassium-40 in some of the planet’s oldest and deepest rocks, a chemical quirk…

Geologists Find Proto Earth Fingerprints In Ancient Rocks

A tiny wobble in potassium is rewriting Earth’s origin story. In new work published today in Nature Geosciences, an MIT-led team reports a subtle deficit of potassium-40 in some of the planet’s oldest and deepest rocks, a chemical quirk that points to preserved fragments of the 4.5-billion-year-old proto Earth. Why this matters: for decades, scientists assumed the Moon-forming giant impact melted and mixed Earth so thoroughly that any primordial signature vanished.

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Nature @nature.com · 6h

A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the matter between galaxies began gradually changing, from electrically neutral to ionized

go.nature.com/492EwN2

Gigantic black holes did not have starring role in early cosmic transition

Stars in young galaxies must have been responsible for stripping most intergalactic gas of its electrons.

go.nature.com

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Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 8h

A moss crab looking pretty at the Monterey Bay Aquarium 🦀

#MarineLife #Crabs #LoxorhynchusCrispatus #Decorator #Pacific #WestCoast #MBARI #Photography #MontereyBay

A moss crab with a chunk of kelp on its head sitting on a rock covered with pink algae in an aquarium

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 6h

That was too disgusting to finish, reading all the hyper-male 🤡💩 from our criminal president.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 8h

3 hour rainfall totals for Santa Barbara, Ventura, LA Counties at 10/14/25 0700PT. Looks like mostly "green", but definitely a few higher rainfall rate areas. #rain #cawx

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 8h

That 🤬🤡 can rot in the 💩 he created forever.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 8h

‪🆕 Researchers combed through images from ESA's #MarsExpress and #ExoMars spacecraft to find 1039 swirling dust devils 🌪️

Using these dust devils to track raging winds on Mars, their findings include that the strongest winds blow much faster than we thought!🧪🔭
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 6d

This new catalogue of dust devils gives us a much clearer picture of the Red Planet’s weather and climate.

But besides pure science, it will also be useful for planning future missions, like dealing with the irksome dust that settles on the solar panels of our robotic rovers.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 6d

This new catalogue of dust devils gives us a much clearer picture of the Red Planet’s weather and climate.

But besides pure science, it will also be useful for planning future missions, like dealing with the irksome dust that settles on the solar panels of our robotic rovers.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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kosmi.bsky.social @kosmi.bsky.social · 1d

Small part of Antarctica.

Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Sep. 21, 2025.

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California Geological Survey @cageosurvey.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #EarthScienceWeek!

The theme for today is Minerals. At the @cageosurvey.bsky.social
our Mineral Resources Program provides data about California's mineral resources, mineral hazards, and active and historic mining activities. Learn more ➡️ www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/minerals...

A man in field gear stands on a rocky slope near a cliff of exposed rock. He is looking closely a small piece of rock in his hand.

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you. It’s going to be a long day. 😣

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d

#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) captured from Slovenia about a week ago.

Credit: Uroš Fink www.urosfink.com

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🔭🧪

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) with a tree in the foreground standing on some grassy ridge.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 16h

NGC 7177 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2irrgUb

Dust lanes around the center of NGC 7177, a barred spiral galaxy 56 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Made from Hubble WFC3 observations in Oct. 2017 (PI Peter Erwin).

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 16h

They’re the real criminals.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 4d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 19h

Solar-powered airships for high altitude (18-20 km) long-endurance surveillance and early warning:
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...
6 of these could cover the entire US east coast with 500 km range radar, but they'd need to be 185m long and generate 300 kW.

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