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Just an old technophobic laborer trying to learn how to get past my limitations and hoping to help democracy survive.
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HBO film on Border Patrol coverup teams finally released.
Remember, these are the ICE agents in your cities today kidnapping your neighbors.
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January 4, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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January 4, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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The new HBO documentary "Critical Incident: Death at the Border" examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant "beaten to death" by U.S. border agents in 2010.

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December 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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An HBO documentary, Critical Incident: Death at the Border, premieres tonight that examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in U.S. custody at the border.

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Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump’s Current Border Commissioner
An HBO documentary, Critical Incident: Death at the Border, premieres tonight that examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died ...
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December 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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First-ever 'mummified' and hoofed dinosaur discovered in Wyoming badlands
Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur "mummies" in the badlands of Wyoming, confirming duck-billed dinosaurs had hooves, alongside a string of other discoveries.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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For the first time, James Webb telescope detects 5 'building blocks of life' in ice outside the Milky Way
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around a star outside our galaxy. This cosmic first hints that the stuff of life m...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over the Internet for the First Time – A New Era Begins share.google/m4okpgtccbgS...
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over the Internet for the First Time – A New Era Begins
Scientists at Northwestern University have achieved quantum teleportation over active internet cables for the first time, sending quantum information through 30 kilometers of fiber-optic cable carryin...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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'Puzzling' object discovered by James Webb telescope may be the earliest known galaxy in the universe
While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling discoveries" to date.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Quantum computing 'lie detector' finally proves these machines tap into Einstein's spooky action at a distance rather than just faking it
Researchers developed an experimental method for confirming quantum activity in a quantum computing system.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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New eye implants combined with augmented-reality glasses help blind people read again in small trial
Of the 38 patients with age-related macular degeneration, 80% were able to read again after having the eye implant and using the glasses.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The Holy Grail of Physics: Scientists Discover New Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors share.google/uWMrMzrYBD1U...
The Holy Grail of Physics: Scientists Discover New Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors
Penn State scientists have unveiled a new theory-driven method to predict superconductors, offering a possible path toward materials that could conduct electricity perfectly. Electricity travels throu...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“Unlike Anything Yet Discovered”: New Fossil Rewrites Our Understanding of Reptile Evolution
A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the appeara...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Astrophotographer Adds His Adorable Cat to Far Out Space Photos
In space, nobody can hear you meow.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Alex Ross - Superman convenes the “war room”, in the classic Mark Waid/Alex Ross tale, Kingdom Come (1996).
September 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A Million-Year-Old Skull Just Rewrote The Origin Story of Humanity
An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the history of modern humans.
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September 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulous): The Waxwings that move south from northern Eurasian & N.American forests during the winter frequently appear in towns, cities and urban areas. Cracking photograph taken by Richard Cousens in Yorkshire, UK. #waxwing #waxwings #bird #birds #wildlife #nature
September 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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30,000-year-old 'personal toolkit' found in the Czech Republic provides 'very rare' glimpse into the life of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer
Archaeologists have found an extraordinary cluster of Stone Age artifacts that may have been the personal gear of a single prehistoric individual.
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September 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Physicists find a loophole in Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle without breaking it
By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position without violating Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Martin Gregus Jr.
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"One of the most unique sequences I filmed this summer was on a day when three to five bears were play wrestling in the water."
September 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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125-Year Mystery Solved: New Dinosaur Species Identified in Wales
Paleontologists identified a new dinosaur species from a 125-year-old Welsh fossil. The animal was a giant Triassic theropod. Paleontologists at the University of Bristol have confirmed a new dinosaur...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy
I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west. This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes). The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia). I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope). The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used. I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them. In any case, I hope you li...
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"She walked like us, but around 3.2 million years ago.
For five years now, a life-sized fleshed-out model of a female Australopithecus aferensis known as "Lucy."
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October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Scientists find best evidence yet that icy moon Enceladus is habitable
An ocean flowing beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is spewing ice that holds the building blocks of life.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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From tool use to warfare — here are 5 ways Jane Goodall revolutionized our knowledge of chimpanzees
Pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall has died at age 91. These are her five biggest contributions to how we understand about our closest living relatives.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM