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Michael Covington

@covingtonmagnus.bsky.social

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An Idaho Real Estate Broker, pro labor, West Ham fan, Packers Shareholder, just trying to do better. That includes punching fascists.

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · Aug 2

The fall lineup for the #FirstFriday #Astronomy series looks awesome.

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 1h

This tracks with numbers I've seen. I'm waiting on some local data for housing starts, but that's starting to look shaky too.

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 3h

That might have actually gotten me back into the series.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 4h

Which is true? Either Trump’s Labor Department actually believes that immigration enforcement is threatening food security, or they are pretending the threat is real in order to crush wages for farm workers.

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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 21h

Hey Google, how did Joan D'Arc die?

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

He's been found.

Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 1d

Updated. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a graphic from @theguardian.com in case people are wondering.

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone is hiking around Idaho and sees Fred Ramsdell also hiking somewhere in Idaho, you might want to let him know he's won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and he should call the committee back.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 1d

how to win a nobel physics prize 🔭✨☄️

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

If that swing is with a wrecking ball, sure.

I guess I'm feeling my sadistic side today, I really don't want to punch him, but flaying him alive? That honestly sounds relaxing.

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 5d

Our five-day series about how and where people could be most affected by the Medicaid cuts to Planned Parenthood/other family planning clinics is complete, with all of the stories posted here. This page also features stories that were contributed by our state outlets.

Unraveling Series | News From The States

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 4d

I've reloaded Peacock about 8 times now, this has been the best I've gotten so far.

At least I know what the score is..

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 4d

Will Peacock have the same production value later today? Asking for BSU fans everywhere.

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 4d

Livestream of the citizen science conference at Boise State www.youtube.com/live/YrUHCmT...

Live with Restream, October 03

YouTube video by Astronomy at Boise State Physics

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 4d

What are you doing today?

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 5d

Not in any ethical way, that's for sure.

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Boise State Public Radio @boisestatepublicradio.org · 7d

Today is our first day without federal funding. It may sound like a loss, but to us it feels like a declaration. Our strength has always come from you. Public media belongs to you, to the people who power it. And we’re not going anywhere.

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 7d

The "Generals gathered in their masses to hear from two gigantic asses" headline is sitting right there for whoever is wise enough to jump on it.

This also fat shames, so maybe not that?

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 7d

Hmm, I'd also ask a physicist, optics is an interesting field that I know almost nothing about. Let me see if my textbook by Alex Filippenko touches on it in its Optics chapters.

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Idaho Capital Sun @idahocapitalsun.com · 8d

COMMENTARY | Idaho’s Department of Environmental Quality has quietly rewritten cancer protection rules to benefit Perpetua Resources’ gold project, writes guest columnist Ian von Lindern.

Arsenic and old lies: Idaho should listen to MAHA about the Stibnite Mine • Idaho Capital Sun

The White House designated September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, declaring: “Tragically, over the last 50 years, rates of child cancer have skyrocketed by more than 40 percent. To reverse the...

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 8d

The neighborhood was distinctly lacking in both Pride and Glory, that has been rectified.

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 11d

After having met your ex-wife, I really need to meet your kids.

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 13d

So are you refusing to look at why the organization is problematic, or are you that bad at reading and understanding some basic directions?

Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 13d

Autism Speaks is a hate group. I can't think of a single person with autism who has not spoken out against Autism Speaks.

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Michael Covington @covingtonmagnus.bsky.social · 13d

Hey @thomasjrennie.bsky.social I guess someone took your "Sullivan is the problem" take too literally.

I'm aiming for humor here, and I'd get a million bad takes from bots over in Hell, I mean X.