Mike Matessa
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📣 We’re so excited to announce that Sun Day has hit OVER 150+ EVENTS across the U.S! 🙌 That’s over 150 events showing the strength behind solar power, empowering people to take action and push for cleaner, cheaper energy for all. 👇 Here are a few of the events happening on September 21 🧵
August 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📣 We’re so excited to announce that Sun Day has hit OVER 150+ EVENTS across the U.S! 🙌 That’s over 150 events showing the strength behind solar power, empowering people to take action and push for cleaner, cheaper energy for all. 👇 Here are a few of the events happening on September 21 🧵
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One month out from Sun Day!! Join in the fun, schedule an action for your town at SunDay.earth. @sundayofaction.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
One month out from Sun Day!! Join in the fun, schedule an action for your town at SunDay.earth. @sundayofaction.bsky.social
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I will literally pay someone from the press pool to ask him to explain the difference between the legal immigration status of asylum and an insane asylum. Like. Literally. I don’t have much money but I will literally pay for this. Please. It’s so painful to watch him fuck this up every five minutes.
Trump still doesn't get the difference between political asylum and insane asylums: "We have people from mental institutions, insane asylums even. That's a mental institution on steroids."
July 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I will literally pay someone from the press pool to ask him to explain the difference between the legal immigration status of asylum and an insane asylum. Like. Literally. I don’t have much money but I will literally pay for this. Please. It’s so painful to watch him fuck this up every five minutes.
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3rd interstellar object discovered? Maybe. There's a lot of buzz right now in the Astro community. More observations should come in tonight to confirm if A11pI3Z is from beyond the solar system.
July 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
3rd interstellar object discovered? Maybe. There's a lot of buzz right now in the Astro community. More observations should come in tonight to confirm if A11pI3Z is from beyond the solar system.
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Here's our images of interstellar object #A11pl3Z from Deep Random Survey's 0.43-meter scope @ Chile. The telescope was following A11pl3Z's motion, so stars appear smeared. Weather got worse by the end, so still hard to tell if it's a comet.
600-sec exposures, from 2025 Jul 2, 00:42-01:23 UT
🔭☄️
600-sec exposures, from 2025 Jul 2, 00:42-01:23 UT
🔭☄️
July 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Here's our images of interstellar object #A11pl3Z from Deep Random Survey's 0.43-meter scope @ Chile. The telescope was following A11pl3Z's motion, so stars appear smeared. Weather got worse by the end, so still hard to tell if it's a comet.
600-sec exposures, from 2025 Jul 2, 00:42-01:23 UT
🔭☄️
600-sec exposures, from 2025 Jul 2, 00:42-01:23 UT
🔭☄️
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!!!!! Waking up to the news that we might have found an interstellar object passing through our Solar System - only the third ever seen. Looks convincing based on the orbit.
For any asteroid observers who have not heard about it already:
Newly-discovered #A11pl3Z is a candidate interstellar object.
cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/obje...
Newly-discovered #A11pl3Z is a candidate interstellar object.
cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/obje...
Scout: NEOCP Hazard Assessment
NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site. Data related to Earth impact risk, close-approaches, and much more.
cneos.jpl.nasa.gov
July 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
!!!!! Waking up to the news that we might have found an interstellar object passing through our Solar System - only the third ever seen. Looks convincing based on the orbit.
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After advancing their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching megabill late last night, Senate Republicans are aiming for a final vote within the next 24 hours.
Tell your GOP senator to vote NO on Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
Tell your GOP senator to vote NO on Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
June 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
After advancing their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching megabill late last night, Senate Republicans are aiming for a final vote within the next 24 hours.
Tell your GOP senator to vote NO on Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
Tell your GOP senator to vote NO on Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
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Opinion | I am voting for the Senate megabill. But I'd still like the media to give me credit for expressing reservations about it.
by Josh Hawley
by Josh Hawley
June 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Opinion | I am voting for the Senate megabill. But I'd still like the media to give me credit for expressing reservations about it.
by Josh Hawley
by Josh Hawley
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Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social
Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data
Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30.
n.pr
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social
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BUDAPEST! Where Orban banned Pride, hundreds of thousands turn out today - for pride and for democracy. We need to step it up, people! #AltCitizens #Pride2025 #resist
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
BUDAPEST! Where Orban banned Pride, hundreds of thousands turn out today - for pride and for democracy. We need to step it up, people! #AltCitizens #Pride2025 #resist
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Every political reporter in the country understood that if Republicans won a trifecta, the upshot would be what happened today: huge cuts to healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Yet they consistently reported the biggest issue at play in the election as "high prices." Why?
June 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Every political reporter in the country understood that if Republicans won a trifecta, the upshot would be what happened today: huge cuts to healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Yet they consistently reported the biggest issue at play in the election as "high prices." Why?
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The Senate has voted 51 to 49 to open debate on the legislation, clearing a key procedural hurdle.
June 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Senate has voted 51 to 49 to open debate on the legislation, clearing a key procedural hurdle.
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Wild — they got Senator @lisamurkowski (R) to sell out the rest of 🇺🇸 by exempting Alaska from some harmful aspects of the bill and essentially buying her off with tax incentives for Alaska whalers and clinicians and a higher Medicaid share.
More: prospect.org/politics/202...
More: prospect.org/politics/202...
June 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Wild — they got Senator @lisamurkowski (R) to sell out the rest of 🇺🇸 by exempting Alaska from some harmful aspects of the bill and essentially buying her off with tax incentives for Alaska whalers and clinicians and a higher Medicaid share.
More: prospect.org/politics/202...
More: prospect.org/politics/202...
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Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know
June 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know
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It’s 2AM on a Sunday and I’m heading to the Capitol to FORCE a full reading of the Republicans’ 940-page bill.
This bill will rip health care coverage away from 16 million people and cut food assistance.
It’s sick. And we will not stand for it.
This bill will rip health care coverage away from 16 million people and cut food assistance.
It’s sick. And we will not stand for it.
June 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
It’s 2AM on a Sunday and I’m heading to the Capitol to FORCE a full reading of the Republicans’ 940-page bill.
This bill will rip health care coverage away from 16 million people and cut food assistance.
It’s sick. And we will not stand for it.
This bill will rip health care coverage away from 16 million people and cut food assistance.
It’s sick. And we will not stand for it.
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If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
June 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
June 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
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Dems think they’re rising above partisan politics by killing impeachment. Really they’re falling down on constitutional duty. Trump illegally bombs Iran without Congress, 128 Dems + leadership join the GOP. We can’t confuse complicity for pragmatism. You don’t fight authoritarianism by enabling it.
June 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Dems think they’re rising above partisan politics by killing impeachment. Really they’re falling down on constitutional duty. Trump illegally bombs Iran without Congress, 128 Dems + leadership join the GOP. We can’t confuse complicity for pragmatism. You don’t fight authoritarianism by enabling it.