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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Why did the researchers even think to search for helium in the first place? @danclery.bsky.social has the story of how an atmosphere on a rocky #exoplanet was detected using a ground-based telescope, while JWST has found only bare rocks. ☄️🔭🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Astronomers spot first atmosphere around a potentially habitable alien world
Detecting escaping helium from LHS 1140b is important step in search for life beyond our Solar System
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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Observing an atmosphere on a rocky #exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone: Cherubim et al. use transit spectroscopy to identify helium absorption by LHS 1140b. The results indicate a helium-dominated atmosphere that is undergoing transient escape. ☄️🔭🧪 #Exo6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/07/2026
Indiana, ICE, and the destruction of immigrant families
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Indiana, ICE and the Destruction of Immigrant Families
At the ‘Crossroads of America’, money, detention and hardline immigration policies turn Indiana into one of Trump’s strongest allies.
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kbsamurai.bsky.social @kbsamurai.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Par for the course with Paxton. If he beats Talarico, it will be a new low for Texas. And that’s very low.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if thegovernment pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry-classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing— personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.That precedent makes clear that universities and even other government entities have crucial authority to shape curricular content, discipline teachers, and take other steps to guide and govern postsecondary education. But the speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns. The rule Florida developed for this case does not withstand scrutiny.
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
not.
Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.
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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A shark that can walk was just discovered! 🦈🚶🧪 The Dudgeon’s walking shark, the most recently discovered shark species, who uses its fins like legs to crawl across the ocean floor! #Shark #Ocean #MarineBiology #Animals #Science
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New Shark Species That Walks
YouTube video by Museum of Science
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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toonerman @dptoon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Houston Chronicle, largest newspaper in Houston endorse James Talarico! 👏 Writing, “Texans deserve better than Ken Paxton’s moral rot’… Paxton’s documented deeds prove he’s a man of low character, lacking integrity. An extremely very poor candidate for an even more powerful political office.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What Say You,Military Recruiters...?
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026
ICE defended its decision to target Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal for deportation, though he had not been convicted in any case. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.
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kbsamurai.bsky.social @kbsamurai.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I protest this #FacistFourth in honor of everyone the Trump regime has unlawfully targeted. ✊ Too long to list!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/07/2026
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Good article
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Tulsi Gabbard's not-so-shocking revelation of U.S.-funded veterinary biolabs in Ukraine
As she leaves office, Tulsi Gabbard is again promoting claims about U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine that have long been debunked.
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kbsamurai.bsky.social @kbsamurai.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
lol. Groan …
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Politico @politico.com · 11/06/2026
At the American Medical Association’s annual meeting, members of the group’s House of Delegates sent a clear message to their leaders: Call out RFK Jr. — even if it costs us in the pocketbook.
politico.com
America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr.
The American Medical Association has sought a working relationship with the health secretary. Members saw moral compromise.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The world's first trillionaire received 38 Billion Dollars from the US government. But, no, we won't have enough money to pay for school lunches for your kids. Or give you healthcare. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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NPR @npr.org · 13/06/2026
Three Vietnam War veterans are suing to stop President Trump from building an arch just steps from Arlington National Cemetery, where 400,000 service members, veterans and their relatives are buried.
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Veterans and relatives see no place for Trump's arch near Arlington National Cemetery
Three Vietnam War veterans are suing to stop President Trump from building an arch just steps from Arlington National Cemetery, where 400,000 service members, veterans and their relatives are buried.
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Colin Stark @cstark.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Jo at MNB @joatmnb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A story is about to come out in JAMA showing how ivermectin prescribing shot up after Mel Gibson touted it on Joe Rogen. Learn more about this drug and the clinical evidence for off label prescribing with MNB. medicalnewsbulletin.com/whats-the-de... 🧪
medicalnewsbulletin.com
Why your cancer doc won't offer you ivermectin | Medical News Bulletin
Ivermectin has been popping up on cancer related social media, but how would that even work? What's the deal with ivermectin and cancer?
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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 12/05/2026
Forecasting extreme weather events with AI falls short compared with a standard physics-based model. Machine-learning algorithms are fairly reliable when looking at typical weather patterns, but often wrong when it comes to extreme temperatures and winds. #meteorology 🧪
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Physics-based models outperform AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes
Physics-based models still outperform artificial intelligence-based weather models in forecasting record-breaking extreme events.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
chart in here shows: electricity prices up 6.1% year over year and gasoline prices up 28.4% year over year... (april 2025 to april 2026) www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/i...
cnbc.com
Here's the inflation breakdown for April 2026 — in one chart
The Iran war has pushed up gasoline, groceries and other prices for consumers.
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grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social @grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
On April 30, 2026, medical experts who believe President Donald Trump is “mentally unfit” to perform his duties had a letter outlining their concerns submitted to the congressional record. www.congress.gov/congressiona...
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kbsamurai.bsky.social @kbsamurai.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways (Gift Article)
The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
POLL: 65% understand who to blame for ⬆️ gas prices (Trump)
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Bryan Harnsberger @psychhype.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2026
The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible:
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Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year
The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/04/2026
Long-wavelength radio astronomy is some of the only science that would get a major benefit from being on the lunar far side. The Moon blocks radio noise from the Earth & presents the possibility of ground-based astronomy with no atmospheric interference. (Of course there are many other challenges!)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“.. For weeks the Trump administration was leaning on Islamabad to convince the Iranians to agree a pause in fighting where it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the people said.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/249b...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/04/2026
I was on CBC-KW this morning to chat about #Artemis II and got a lovely view of the waning gibbous Moon on my way in to work afterward. We have such a pretty satellite 😍 BTW, did you know NASA has a Daily Moon Guide with Moon-viewing tips & info? science.nasa.gov/moon/daily-m...
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NASA's Daily Moon Guide
Your interactive map for observing the Moon each day of the year, featuring detailed views from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, plus special Moon events.
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kbsamurai.bsky.social @kbsamurai.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“Someone get a doctor, these folks are going to blow.” 🤡 responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ceasef...
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Grief, anger, disbelief: War proponents lose it over​ ceasefire
​​It's hard to bodyslam the two-week pause with Iran without taking direct shots at the guy who announced it. But they are trying their best.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
JK Simmons as the head of the CIA in Burn After Reading

What have we learned? 
I don’t know.
I don’t know either.
I guess we learned not to do that again.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao
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Willis22 @billdg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#NoKings. Our 4th stop on the Freedom drive this morning. Little Saigon in Westminster California. This is big! The first protest in this neighborhood. Organized by young people!!!
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loveismyreligion.bsky.social @loveismyreligion.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Peaceful #NoKingsSD march in San Diego by the bay.
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This We Will Defend @thiswewilldefend.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Chicago No Kings
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Funk Cat @wolfman1.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
NO KINGS NASHVILLE!
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LegalEBlonde ❌ 👑 @legaleblonde.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Somerville NJ. We had a chicken!
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Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
💪🫡❤️🇨🇦😁
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Jeff @jeff-in-sd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Good size crowd up here in Rancho Bernardo along Bernardo Center drive. Maybe 5K folks by my guesstimate. Glad to hear a big group in downtown SD. #NoKingsSD
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Adrian Hummingbirder @xzxv.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Palm Springs checking in. The weather cooperated. I'm hearing 900 attendees at just one of the five events in the Coachella Valley. We're all seeking a better world for all.
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Leasa @fishgirl66.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
My girls were there too ❤️🤍💙 let’s go SD
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The Big O @the-1-sro.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Local neighborhood protest in Portland this morning before the main event downtown had over 1000 people
Photo of protesters.
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That’sCrazy! 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @kismetchaos.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Seattle is CROWDED! Massive and it was massive last time and it is definitely double that!
Seattle No Kings Protest
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Patti 💙 #BlueWave2026 🌊 🐸 @planetmead.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Hey hey! Ho ho! Donald Trump has got to go! Hi from Dunedin FL! Great turnout and support from passing
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