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Cosmic Turtle

@ffgson.bsky.social

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Just a guy in New Jersey. Happily married over 20 years. Retired techie. Photography, music, travel. Science and aerospace geek. Cosmologically it's 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢s all the way down.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

OMG feeling sorry for the unpaid air traffic controllers and folks waiting in planes at Newark. How come we can pay ICE and the military but not ATC? Image credit @flightradar24.com

Airport map showing long lines of aircraft waiting to takeoff.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Seriously Bloomberg? The world should care about the big baby's feelings??? Please...

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

And this ridiculous banner of a glowering #Trump was just unveiled at the Dept. of Labor.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Protesters at Union Station

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

These guys were in good mood and posed for me, assault weapons and smiles make quite a contrast.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We saw troops in force at Union Station, the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and random places around the city.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Trump says he can invalidate a law passed by Congress and upheld by Supreme Court (TikTok ban). Letter sent to Apple by AG Bondi...

Two page letter from US Attorney General Bondi to Apple Computer

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Spring in NJ! Forsythia and daffodils are at their peak, and pollinators are hard at work.

Photo of yellow and orange daffodil flower with bumblebee crawling in looking for nectar.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Homeland Security on Monday will publish a notice in the Federal Register that approx 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela must leave the USA and should "self-deport":

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) is terminating the categorical parole programs for inadmissible aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members (hereinafter referred to as “CHNV parole programs”) that DHS announced in 2022 and 2023.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Does anyone else have a problem with this front page of the @nytimes.com (as of this moment?) Like, maybe something in the USA should be on top?

Top of 3/4 of New York Times website is filled with five stories about Israel hostages and Hamas, with two large photos. Also stories about Netflix 'Suits' series, traveling abroad, and an op-ed. At the bottom, almost cut off, are stories about the new FBI director, Trump and Musk.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The medicaid payment system is now available from 9 AM to 4 PM EST Mon-Fri. What kinds of computer system is only available 7 hours a day? Only one that does NOT want to provide good service. What are Guam, Hawaii and Alaska supposed to do? Work only at night?

screenshot of Medicare payment system showing a red banner message limiting hours.

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Cosmic Turtle @ffgson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A beautiful morning

Sunny day. A thin layer of snow covers tree branches and bushes. The sky is partly cloudy with clear blue patches

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