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Not an official NASA account. Come for the facts, stay for the snark.🥄 Same team from Twitter but with more gray hairs. 🚀🛰️🧪🔭 climate.nasa.gov they/them 🏳️‍🌈🫶🏳️‍⚧️

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · Nov 15

. @theonion.com is cool.

The Onion @theonion.com · Jul 20

On This Day In History: July 20, 1969

The front page of The Onion newspaper from July 20, 1969, that reads "HOLY SHIT, MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON"

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 22h

Just wait until he hears about Mars.

COUPON CODE: RECESSION50 @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 6d

This guy is so fucking stupid, man. This is straight up caveman wisdom

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Shea (she/her) @solarshea.bsky.social · 1d

Shared with permission from Carl Stahle, Retired, Vice President of Goddard Retirees and Alumni Association, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center

Link in the document text: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

(Original LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/carl-s...)

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 1d

Highly recommend the book by Eli Saslow about David Duke’s godson Derek Black:

‘Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist’

Basically his godson grew up and went “oh fuck this shit” with respect to his white supremacist upbringing.

There are stories that end well, sometimes

DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 1d

Miss me yet?

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Franck Marchis @allplanets.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Jill Tarter — astronomer, innovator, and founder of the @setiinstitute.bsky.social — for receiving the California Academy of Sciences Fellows Medal!
Her dedication to science has inspired generations, including myself. Always a joy to talk with her about @skymapper.bsky.social

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 1d

Orion Launch - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/q4jror

From the NASA Social for the EFT-1 launch on Dec. 3-5, 2014.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists Make the Case for NASA Science spacepolicyonline.com/news/scienti...

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 5d

Thank you for sharing your story. We can relate, and for what it’s worth, we appreciate you too. 💙

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5d

normal Portland Friday night things: sitting on your friend's porch listening to choppers and cessnas and then checking ADSB exchange to see which craft are running with their transponders off or without callsigns and which you can actually document.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 6d

Proud to know and have worked with Hamish, Dead End is a brilliant show about kind, wonderful characters and the vitriol that's coming out now from the usual bigoted suspects can get fucked really

✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 8d

It's probably going to be a very odd day

Screenshot of Elon Musk tweeting "this is not ok" as a reply to Libs of TikTok posting "omg. Dead end paranormal park, a show on netflix, is pushing pro-teangeder on CHILDREN. This show is advertised for 7-year-olds. It's being promoted on netflix kids now. Parents - beware" with an attached photo of Barney from the show.

Elon's tweet has 3.6k comments, 8.7k retweets, 60k likes and 4.2million views

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 6d

Work has been batshit crazy this week. We’ve weathered our fair share of shutdowns, and this was by far the most disorganized shitshow we’ve ever seen.

I don’t want to go into details, but it seems like the administration wanted to think the layoff threat would work so plans weren’t necessary.

an astronaut giving a thumbs up with a circle with the letter k in it

Alt: an astronaut giving a thumbs up with a circle with the letter k in it

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

Texas Universities are now banning many professors from even acknowledging that transgender people even exist.

A massive censorship battle is snowballing its way through Texas higher ed.

S. Baum writes about it in their latest piece for Erin In The Morning.

Subscribe to support our work.

Texas Universities Are Now Banning Professors From Even Acknowledging Trans People Exist

Campus officials claim to have no choice but to censor the mere mention of trans people. But that’s not actually the law.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Shea (she/her) @solarshea.bsky.social · 9d

🛰️ New #Senate report shows OMB have been illegally imposing budget cuts on #NASA science since summer, before a FY26 budget from #Congress (still pending).

These cuts undermine research, missions, safety, livelihoods, and U.S. space leadership.

#StandUpForScience #SaveNASA
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New Democratic Staff Report: Direct Evidence Trump Administration Has Been Illegally Imposing President’s Proposed Budget Cuts at NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science

Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, released a new staff report revealing that OMB Director Russell Vought has...

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Shea (she/her) @solarshea.bsky.social · 8d

@roguenasa.altgov.info , NSF and DOE are being told to align shutdown spending with the @ushouseofreps.bsky.social #appropriations CR. Not nearly as bad as the PBR cuts, but still significant. Outlining key #heliophysics points in the comments.

@aas.org has a good summary: aas.org/posts/news/2...

House FY2026 Appropriations Report: NASA, NSF, and DOE Details | American Astronomical Society

The House released its Commerce, Justice, and Science spending bills and reports for FY2026. Here we break down the provisions related to the astronomical sciences for NASA, the National Science Found...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12d

"Nice government you’ve got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it. Maybe some more federal employees disappear. I don’t want to do it. You are forcing my hand. But you know I’ve done it before."

This, in a nutshell, is the White House negotiation strategy over the government shutdown.

To be very clear, Vought is under no legal obligation to fire public employees because of a shutdown. This has never been a feature of any previous shutdown, where some employees are furloughed and then provided backpay. He is doing it because he wants to do.

The guy who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is relishing the chance to hold them hostage.

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 11d

History is full of fools and also, apparently, the fools who follow them.

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 12d

Real post on another network:

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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 12d

🪖🎖️🩺 This week, 69 current Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA) physicians & ~100 other current/former VA staffers signed the Lincoln Declaration, voicing urgent concerns that Trump's policies undermine the VA’s health care system, overwhelm VA’s budget, & negatively affect the lives of all veterans

A Courage is Contagious drawing of federal workers who have signed declarations of dissent to the current administration. They are all wearing the attire they would adorn to do their jobs.

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 12d

Relevant #startrek

Portrait of Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, wearing his red and black Starfleet uniform against a dark red background. White text is overlaid across his chest reading: “‘A matter of national security’—the age old cry of the oppressor.” – Captain Picard, Stardate 43489.2.

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 14d

Whoever made this into a real thing is a genius ❤️

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 14d

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16d

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.

I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:

“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 14d

They can do this without a shutdown. This is a scare tactic that they used earlier this year…stop falling for it.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14d

This seems to be their angle. If there’s a shutdown they won’t furlough employees they’ll fire them permanently. The fact that this is illegal kind of isn’t the point these days. I don’t see why this is much of a threat. They don’t have to do this. It’s a choice. They run the govt. when things …

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14d

they just created one million jimmy kimmels

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14d

“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”
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Incredible waste and incompetence

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE

Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio.

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 14d

Whoever made this into a real thing is a genius ❤️

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