Scott Centoni @ScottCentoni

@WKCosmo And heavier elements, like iron, we shall call metal. Fine. What do we call carbon? Metal. Uh, what about oxygen? Metal. Everything is metal except for hydrogen and helium.

@BruceBartlett The fact that a Russian traitor is allowed to run in this election at all demonstrates that there is something structurally wrong with our political system.

This seems like a pretty good summary of the country. Someone I knew was posting angrily on Facebook that there was a Pride month but no Military Appreciation Month. He was wrong. There is. It’s in May. The reason why he didn’t know this is because it had never occurred to

[1/12] The LISA gravity wave detector will comprise three spacecraft, all in free-all in heliocentric orbits, that always lie on the vertices of an equilateral triangle. But how can they do that? The answer is: they can't! Not precisely.

Nuclear Power Update: Fission vs Fusion Fusion now generates 3/4 as much electricity as fission and is set to overtake fission in 2026. Note: fusion data does not include generation from unregistered SMRs (small modular receivers). These may account for around 10% of total power generation in places like Pakistan.

Michael Liebreich - @MLiebreich.bsky.social @MLiebreich

2 years ago

I 😍 nuclear power! (HT @JessePeltan)

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Whoever made this is a genius 🤣

Aaaaaaand there it is.

John Harwood @JohnJHarwood

2 years ago

Springfield OH geese killer was a 64-year-old white guy hunting illegally huffpost.com/entry/springfi…

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I think this is the best take yet on this issue 👇

County Clerk and election denier Tina Peters allowed MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to use her security card to breach Dominion voting machines in the 2020 election. The judge just sentenced her to 9 years in prison after dragging her for FILTH. “You are one of the most privileged people to ever sit in that chair. You are a charlatan and you’re going to prison.”

Not trying to create a pile-on here. But let's talk about why something might still be made in unethical conditions even though it bears a "made in USA" tag. 🧵

DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SHIT. Anti-choice GOP presidents and candidates have been sending their wives out to say pro-choice things before elections since Barbara & George H.W. Bush pulled this in 1988. George H.W. Bush appointed Clarence Thomas. Roe is gone and women are dying in part because enough voters fell for this shit. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SHIT. Every step of the way to overturning Roe just enough voters told themselves that abortion wasn’t really on the line because the First Lady was pro-choice. Sure, Republicans campaigned against Roe and promised to overturn Roe and appointed justices who were committed to overturning Roe — and willing to lie to the Judiciary Committee — but they wouldn’t actually overturn Roe because they didn’t want to cross Barbara Bush. And here we are. Nancy Reagan was pro-choice. Barbara Bush was pro-choice. Elizabeth Dole was pro-choice. Barbara Bush II was pro-choice. Cindy McCain was pro-choice. Ann Romney was pro-choice. It doesn’t matter what the First Lady thinks or pretends to think about abortion. It never mattered. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SHIT. And do you think Donald Trump gives a shit what Melania suddenly claims to think about a woman’s right to bodily autonomy? Do you think that makes a difference to her husband, the adjudicated rapist? Do you think Melania Trump would still be married to Donald Trump if she gave a single, solitary shit about the bodily autonomy of women? And do you think it’s a coincidence that her ghost-written book came out four weeks before the election? And don’t tell yourself it doesn’t matter now — don’t tell yourself you can “safely” vote Republican — because Roe is already overturned so it can’t get any worse. IT CAN AND IT WILL. They will ban abortion nationwide. They will ban birth control. They will ban IVF. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SHIT.

Walz: Understand in that 88th minute last night with that damning nonanswer, Vance made it clear he will always make a different choice than Mike Pence made. And as I said then and I will say now, that should be absolutely disqualifying..

This makes it all the more clear how SCOTUS’ unconscionable delay to take on the ridiculous immunity decision was an utter betrayal of our democracy. That the public will vote before this is adjudicated may well be the biggest scandal in the history of the Supreme Court.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney

2 years ago

BREAKING: Judge CHUTKAN has unsealed Jack Smith's 165-page redacted motion re presidential immunity. Read it here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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Last night, what JD Vance didn’t say said everything.

On January 6, Mike Pence had the integrity to do his constitutional duty. That’s why he’s not on this stage tonight.

The assumption that our place in the Universe is special has been refuted so often that there clearly has to be a psychological component to the enduring appeal of this viewpoint

How did the US invent solar power and dominate it for 60 years, before giving it up to China over the past decade? The answer is, IMO, quite different to the stories we have told ourselves in recent years. And it has important lessons for the future.🧵 bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Don’t ask Joe Biden why Donald Trump is telling a bunch of bullshit lies about him, ask Trump why he’s telling the damn lies.

“I've been in this business 40 years. I've never seen something like this." Steve Rattner on Jared Kushner's business dealings with the Saudis. #TrumpCrimeFamily