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Annette Heist

@annetteheist.bsky.social
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Journalism, dogs, radio things, science. Formerly Gimlet, Science Friday. IGG🧬 volunteer. RN for life.

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Annette Heist @annetteheist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wish the @nytimes.com didn’t include a steady stream of obituaries in their news alerts. I’m not saying these people don’t deserve to be remembered. It’s just…a lot some days.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Annette Heist @annetteheist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open www.inquirer.com/arts/drexel-...
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William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
A Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Annette Heist @annetteheist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If anyone in his circle truly cared about Mitch McConnell, they would not allow this to continue. (My opinion. And I hope someone in my life would look out for me in that way.)
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl
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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...
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Annette Heist @annetteheist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem opened my eyes to the freedom that comes with age, as women become invisible to men. I got there and it’s glorious. Thank you for paving the way Ms Steinem. RIP.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports
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2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“I’ve been surprised by how firmly the ‘pervert glasses’ label has stuck. There’s a widespread aversion here that doesn’t seem quite as present for other surveillance or data-intensive products” www.404media.co/meta-ray-ban...
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Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women
A new study shows how pickup artist influencers use smart glasses to create content, and the connection between covert recording and harm.
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Annette Heist @annetteheist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Excellent interview IMO. I’ve been waiting to hear Fetterman explain some of his votes and positions.
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Annette Heist @annetteheist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🧪Protect the Scientists🧪
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Annette Heist @annetteheist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Listening to a true crime murder podcast and they bleeped the word “bullshit.” For whose tender ears? Who needs their murder talk free of curse words?
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 19/07/2026
Are we sure it wasn't the fashion police?
Andrew Tate getting arrested in an open purple shirt and navy pedal pushers Pedal pushers do not flatter Mr Tate
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/07/2026
Congrats to this guy, who might have gotten slightly richer. www.wsj.com/business/jef...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“While the true number of slaveowners among the Founding Fathers remains uncertain, surviving historical records can prove with certainty that George Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence with connections to the Lehigh Valley, was among this group.”
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America 250: How slavery complicates discussions about the Founding Fathers, including the Lehigh Valley’s George Taylor
As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, the subject of slavery and its connection to the Founding Fathers can be a complicated topic to discuss, historians sa...
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
No better way to close things out than Alicia Keys performing “Empire State of Mind” 💙🧡 #nyknicks
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
NEW: Videos show ICE agents defying Connecticut’s new mask ban during recent arrests. The agency says it “will not abide by” the ban. "Tell them. I dare you,” an agent said in one video. “Who’s going to arrest me?” My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
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‘Who’s going to arrest me?’ ICE agents defy Connecticut law on mask ban
"Tell them to arrest me," the agent can be heard saying. "Tell them. I dare you. Who’s going to arrest me?”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.
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DoctorCarlton @doctorcarlton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Never forget those we lost at Pulse 10 years ago. #Pulse #Orlando #lgbtq #latinx
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So many questions about the ICE custody death of Philly immigrant Tuan Van Bui, child of the Vietnam War, welcomed here in 1990, violently arrested in 2025 The biggest: Why do other detainees tell such a different story from ICE about how he died? My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...
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The U.S. welcomed this child of the Vietnam War. Why did he die in ICE custody? | Will Bunch
In 1990, the U.S. welcomed Tuan Van Bui, other young Amerasians. In 2025, ICE violently arrested him. Why did he die in custody?
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Tina the Diving Dog with her daddy Carmelo 💕
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“I had the right visas and everything. “I’m just simply a referee who’s trying to live his dream, the biggest dream of my life, to come to the World Cup.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🫏 “Nobody but Dolan wanted Donald J. (Joykiller) Trump there… rich people love making decisions everybody else has to deal with.” CHARLAMAGNE gives Knicks owner Jim Dolan DONKEY OF THE DAY for bringing in Trump to kill their momentum + hurt local businesses.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
WATCH: @andersoncooper shows video of a Trump throwing a tantrum and being a misogynistic pig towards @kaitlancollins — and other female reporters (As the rest of the press stands there and says nothing)
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/06/2026
Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."
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The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 21/05/2026
🧵 92% of the death sentences sought by Tarrant County prosecutors since 2012 have been against racial and ethnic minorities, even though 40% of Tarrant County’s population is white, according to a new report. thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/21/t...
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Texas County Pursues Death Penalty ‘Almost Exclusively’ Against People of Color, Report Shows. We Have an Opportunity to Change That.
A new report concludes Tarrant County is an “extreme outlier” in its unfair targeting of racial and ethnic minorities for the death penalty.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Jesus, look at this thing: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14... The IRS is apparently "FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED" from investigating Trump, his companies, and his family ever again because the Acting Attorney General (his old personal attorney) says so.
The United States RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES each of the Plaintiffs from, and is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims, counterclaims, causes of action, appeals, or requests for any relief, including injunctive relief, monetary relief, damages, examinations or similar or related reviews, appeals, debt relief, costs, attorney's fees, expenses, and/or interest, whether presently known or unknown, that-as of the Effective Date of the Settlement Agreement-have been or could have been asserted by Defendants against any of the Plaintiffs or related or affiliated individuals (including, without limitation, family or others filing jointly), or parties including trusts, parent, sister, or related companies, affiliates, and subsidiaries, by reason of, with respect to, in connection with, or which arise out of (1) any matters that were raised or could have been raised in the Case or the Pending Agency Claims; (2) Lawfare and/or Weaponization; or (3) any matters currently pending or that could be pending (including tax returns filed before the Effective Date) before Defendants or other agencies or departments.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Out of respect for the dead entombed in the wreck of the Arizona, rules bar visitors even from wearing swimwear at the memorial. But that didn’t stop Kash Patel. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...
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Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/05/2026
French judge opens inquiry into Khashoggi killing reut.rs/4nDiqpU
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French judge opens inquiry into Khashoggi killing
A French judge has been appointed to lead an inquiry over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ​the country's national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) said on Saturday, ‌after a court ruled the case admissible.
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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 16/05/2026
For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...
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Knox County Schools bans historical novel 'Roots' by Alex Haley
A sculpture of Haley stands in Morningside Park. He donated his personal papers, including drafts of "Roots," to the University of Tennessee.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 13/05/2026
The Trump administration wants to decrease a mother's allotments for fruits and vegetables from $52 to $13 a month.
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Proposed WIC cuts could be detrimental to children's growth and well-being
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
PennLive starts eight-part series on largest ICE facility in the Northeast, the "Moshannon Valley Processing Center" in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania: www.pennlive.com/news/2026/05...
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A Pa. county hosts one of ICE’s largest detention centers, a site of controversy and complaints
Despite protests, county officials say they have little authority over Moshannon and cannot dictate how the prison is run, or how ICE operates it.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 08/05/2026
We commend ABC for standing up for itself and the First Amendment. It’s about time outlets start telling Brendan Carr to kick rocks. Otherwise, he’ll continue making bogus pretexts to harass and jawbone licensees that air content his boss doesn’t like.
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Finally: ABC is fighting back against FCC censorship
Other news outlets should follow suit and go on offense against the administration
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FOX8 WGHP @myfox8.com · 06/05/2026
Rand Paul pushes for Anthony Fauci indictment
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Rand Paul pushes for Anthony Fauci indictment
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday called for Anthony Fauci, former longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to be indicted for what the senator claime…
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them
Special Citations and Awards
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Julie K. Brown
A special citation is awarded to Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 and 2018 that exposed Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women, the justice system that protected him, and, over time, his powerful network of associates and enablers.
Her Perversion of Justice series, published nearly a decade ago, revealed how prosecutors shielded Epstein from federal sex trafficking charges when he was first accused of abusing young women. She went on to document and give voice to the scores of victims who had been groomed and abused by him and others in his circle. Her work, and the release of the government's Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 04/05/2026
The Minnesota Star Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its coverage of a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church last summer.
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Star Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Annunciation shooting
The newsroom last won the award for coverage of the George Floyd murder and following unrest.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Will a single member of the White House press corps, as they dine w/ Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Carr et al this weekend, directly call out people who are undermining journalism? Or will they soft-pedal it with bromides about “the importance of the First Amendment”? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Calvin Duncan, a man imprisoned for 30 years before he was exonerated, won an election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him Now, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in
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Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man
A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmaker...
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Annette Heist @annetteheist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Way back when, Every Little Thing talked to Christina Koch about what it’s like to come home from space. 🥹 watching her splash down tonight. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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When Astronauts Come Home
Podcast Episode · Every Little Thing · June 1, 2020 · 28m
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Pathetic. gift link wapo.st/4ccudpF
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.
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Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA) A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2026
NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.
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Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers
The defense secretary’s efforts to block or delay promotions to general or admiral for some officers has raised concerns that he may be targeting them because of race, gender or affiliation with the B...
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Punch the monkey has taken over the internet. But why? Primatologist Christine Webb chats with Flora about how anthropomorphism makes us so invested in the social life of a monkey in Japan. Listen to this and more from 2-4 pm ET on your local public radio station. Happy Science Friday! 🐒
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