Redshift ❌👑

Trump II as very specifically an effort to erase JFK seems like an underdiscussed angle. Bulldozed Jackie's rose garden, threatening to bulldoze the Kennedy Center, stripped the Kennedy blue off Air Force One, shuttered USAID, put JFK's animal torturing nephew in charge of reviving polio, now this

Our Hera spacecraft can now see Didymos and Dimorphos as two separate asteroids! 👀 Coming closer, it will study the effects of NASA's 2022 DART impact and help advance asteroid deflection as a planetary defence technique. The first detailed images of Dimorphos are expected on 25 November.

The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution has increased dramatically in the last year.

The Meta takedown of the No Kings' account on the biggest early vote push in history was bad. But it's encouraging that key congressional leaders are asking the right questions. www.ms.now/news/instagr...

When they tell us "there is no alternative," what they mean is "stop trying to think of alternatives." To imagine radically is to move beyond the helplessness of prediction: a radical imagination dares to insist that history is what we make, not what happens to us.

Prediction is hard. Especially about the future. That Yogi Berra gem proves that you don't have to be a sf writer to get irritated with people insisting that you must know what's going to happen tomorrow, but (as a sf writer), I can tell you that this is one of our main occupational hazards.

Good morning team! One week! Vote!

In addition to being very cute, "Comparing sleep across such different animals can help us understand how sleep evolved, which features are ancient, and what functions different sleep stages may serve." 💤🕷️ 🧪

With almost no advance warning, DHS has suspended its Acquisition Forecast Planning System tool. Contractors relied on this to see what new contracts the agency would be soliciting — and so did we. Now it looks like no new advanced notice will be given between Oct. 30 and Nov. 5.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris visited Columbus, Miss., on Cot. 22 to campaign with Mississippi's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom. Here are some photos from the rally. buff.ly/ltT63ud

Sculpture recreates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup, using 1600-year-old recipe developed by University of Sheffield researchers. The sculpture replaces the globe in the original Roman artifact with a cup as a tribute. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

⚡️️️️️️️Russia's assault on Ukraine's energy grid is a war crime, UN says. Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, which weaponize winter to inflict suffering, amount to war crimes, a UN inquiry has found.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Breaking news: A federal judge barred the Trump administration from cutting, damaging or impairing any more trees at East Potomac Park without first obtaining a court order, challenging President Trump’s plan to remake the public golf course.

The only problem with this ad is that there are so many stories about Republicans' ties to pedophiles that a lot of the headlines move by too quickly.

The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing.

Reading the House Judiciary Report on Trump and Epstein and one thing I have been thinking about a lot lately is that Todd Blanche really needs to be charged and tried for almost everything you couldn't build a worse person in a lab democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

He is so close to getting it

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.

I would take a thousand replies disagreeing with me over one trying to tell me how or what I should post.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

SUNY's University Faculty Senate and Faculty Council of Community Colleges, the system-wide governance bodies for SUNY's 64 schools, have both signed America's Compact for Higher Education 🎉 ✊️

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

NEW: Brent Taylor is the front-runner for one of Memphis’ congressional districts, recently redrawn from majority Black to majority white. As state senator, he repeatedly used his power to supersede local officials — and the will of the city’s voters. with @mlk50.com

the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

I would, but that's because I hate him & want bad things to happen to him. Why his "friends" do it is more interesting.

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

VA Sen. Louise Lucas right back to work this morning, following the craziness of last week... bluevirginia.us/2026/10/mond...

🚨🚨New version of our student debt cancellation paper is out.🚨🚨 Using a nationally representative credit panel, we follow borrowers whose federal loans were canceled in 2021–2024 for up to four years. Cancellation raised homeownership, credit scores, and credit access. 1/20

ICYMI yesterday: A threat assessment before the midterms. MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness

Very eventful weekend

i like how the first line is "you read that correctly" like even the wsj editorial board is like pfffffffffff what are they smoking

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

all you fascists bound to lose ❤️

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

Can't believe Vucic's gambit of importing racist American influencers to make English-language videos about how nice and white Belgrade is didn't pay off.

Me at my performance review

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!

interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

Trump's closing message: Remember when I started the war on preserving Christmas? Remember that? The stores were afraid to put up Christmas trees

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