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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We don't need answers, Senator Schumer, we already know what happened: forceful abuse of power violating rights by an anti-Constitutional regime, in defense of other abuses. Maybe working with and appeasing them, or doing nothing and hoping they'll go away on their own, isn't the best strategy.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A billboard by The Telegraph, reportedly in Kent, England.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Born #onthisday in 1840, the French symbolist artist Odilon Redon. Known for his surreal and often haunting imagery, some of his most stunning works are his illustrations for Flaubert's failed masterpiece Temptation of St Anthony: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #OTD

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Andreas Lindqvist @andreaslindqvist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Former commander of Pituffik Susan Meyers must have known that she would be fired for this. But apparently she found there are bigger considerations at stake than keeping her command. Question is if we'll see more of this sort in coming months? Berlingske has obtained her leaked email #Defence

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 01/04/2025

"Life, not computation, unlocks our non-deterministic future. Only by looking beyond our current technological moment to the next technologies creating new life forms will we be able to understand what our future could hold." Read @saraimari.bsky.social: longnow.org/ideas/physic...

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Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not

Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...

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Ten weeks that shook the world

On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I had legit completely forgotten this.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 24/03/2025

I joined @united24media.com for a status on the war and a discussion of what victory for #Ukraine looks like. I think it was a really good conversation. You can listen to it here.

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'If Ukraine Falls, Russia Won’t Stop – What’s Next for Europe' – Podcast With Anders Puck Nielsen

YouTube video by UNITED24

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

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‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article)

The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL WHO SUPPORT HIGHER ED: Please join us in signing this public commitment to the value and values of higher ed as a crucial part of healthy democracies, and calling on our leaders to actively defend us against attack! bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 17/03/2025

The massive upside of U.S. security guarantees, including for Americans, has been the astonishing containment of nuclear proliferation elsewhere, Debak Das and Rachel A. Epstein write.

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An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb

Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia.

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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

»The political scientist Kenneth Waltz famously argued that when it came to the spread of nuclear weapons, “more may be better”—because all international rivalries would be durably stabilized by the prospect of mutually assured destruction. The world may be about to test his hypothesis.«

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Get Ready for the Next Nuclear Age

How Trump might drive proliferation.

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Ward Carroll @wardcarroll.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

New episode just posted (featuring @justin-br0nk.bsky.social). Don't argue with anyone on social media or at pickleball without watching this first!

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The Real Truth About What's Next with the War in Ukraine

YouTube video by Ward Carroll

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Anton Barbashin @abarbashin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

There are two reasons why Putin invaded Ukraine. The first is that he believed he could. In 2014, Ukraine was weak, embroiled in revolution. He tested this by annexing Crimea—and succeeded. He tried again in eastern Ukraine; it didn’t go as well, but he bided his time. 1/12

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

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The Democracy Canary🦜 @sage71.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Trumps New world order.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Most Ukrainian cities have not been destroyed. Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US Constitution, which requires it). isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

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Jürgen Nauditt @juergennauditt.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Impeach Trump. Americans are already protesting against Trump, — CBS Organizers said their goal was to oppose the "anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration." One of the signs in Washington, where hundreds of people gathered, read: "Deport Musk, Impeach Trump."

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 20/02/2025

Trump is right to say Russia’s war against Ukraine “never should have started”—but the blame for it lies entirely with Putin, not with Ukraine and Zelensky, writes David J. Kramer.

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Why Trump Is Wrong About Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Setting the record straight on who started the war.

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

After having spoken to Vladimir Putin, Trump claims Ukrainian president Zelenskyy’s approval rating is 4 percent. The actual number is 57 percent, which Trump would know, if he ever did some fact checking. US voters have elected a fool.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Arp 321. a compact group of five galaxies located in the constellation Hydra. It's a fascinating object for astronomers because these galaxies are in close proximity and interacting with each other. Processed Hubble data by Dr. Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç. www.flickr.com/photos/mhozs... 🔭 🧪

This Hubble image captures Arp 321, a compact group of interacting galaxies. The galaxies display distorted structures and bright star formation regions, evidence of their gravitational dance. The dominant galaxies show prominent spiral arms and bright cores.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

High quality image of one of the heaviest and most luminous stars in the known universe (Hubble). Processing: Judy Schimdt. www.flickr.com/photos/geckz... 🔭 🧪

This Hubble Space Telescope image showcases WR 124, a Wolf-Rayet star, enveloped by a luminous nebula. The brilliant central star illuminates the surrounding material, creating a vibrant orange glow punctuated by dark, wispy patches of dust and gas. This nebula, formed by the powerful stellar winds ejected from WR 124, reveals the star's dynamic interaction with its environment. The image captures the complex structure and turbulent nature of the nebula, highlighting the distinct features of this massive, evolved star against the backdrop of a dark cosmos speckled with distant stars.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

WOW!!!

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Lagoon Nebula by Hubble. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

A breathtaking view of the Lagoon Nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula is a swirling mass of cosmic dust and gas, illuminated by young, hot stars. Shades of blue, red, and orange create a celestial masterpiece.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

lots of devastation and negativity on the feed today. i know this won’t solve anything, but maybe it’ll make someone smile and just forget for a small moment. the beauty of the cosmos 🌌

Large orange, yellow, and red clouds of dust and gas tower in the image, interspersed with a few pink stars.

A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disk. It has a shining spot at the center from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disk fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars.

The Orion Nebula is an expansive and cloudy cosmic landscape. Sweeping clouds that shine in pink, yellow, orange, and other colors are bright against the black backdrop of space. Big stars are forming and glowing within the nebula.

$Hundreds of stars and galaxies in varying shapes, sizes and colors on a black background. Two of the largest, most prominent stars can be found in the top left quadrant and near the bottom right edge, respectively. They are tinged with blue and have an eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Near the center of this image is the ZS7 system, made up of a merger between two galaxies and their black holes. The ZS7 system is not easily seen by the naked eye in this image, as it looks like very small red dots.$

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today, a brush fire started in Pacific Palisades fueled by extremely high winds. At the Getty Villa, some trees & vegetation on site have burned, but no structures are on fire, and staff and the collection remain safe. The Villa is closed to non-emergency staff and the public.

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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

'A lazy consensus seems to have emerged in the West, based more on hope than serious analysis, that Putin will agree to stop his further incursions into Ukraine' writes Tim Willasey-Wilsey in the latest RUSI Commentary.

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Will 2025 be a Repeat of 1938 for Europe?

It is tempting to compare the two years. Any deal that Trump negotiates with Putin may have similar features to Munich: land for temporary peace. The West has already weakened its negotiating position...

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