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Visually and scientifically spectacular day! First images from a fully functional Space Telescope released to the public. Decades in the making and painstakingly assembled by thousands of hands, we can literally SEE the best science has to offer.
#JWST
ALT Stephanβs Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, βItβs a Wonderful Life.β
ALT Carina Nebula, also called the Cosmic Cliffs
ALT Southern Ring Nebula, a planetary nebula
ALT Deep field galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
Re-upping this request because it just doesn't go away.
Churches, please don't hand this out next year. It's ghoulish.
Christians, please stop spreading the God-carving-pumpkins story to your congregants every Halloween. While unintentionally hilarious, it's not the upbeat analogy you think it is.
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If your pregnant relative is considering visiting you in Houston for the holidays, maybe rethink your plans.
It's a 12-hour drive to the nearest live-saving care if she starts to miscarry. Consider that while #voting, today.
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Women over 65 remember it was illegal for single women to use birth control pills before the Supreme Court ruled the state legislatures couldn't regulate that choice away in 1972. 1/3
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Women over 65 remember the daily existential dread their entire lives could be hijacked by one mistake, birth control failure, or sexual assault. Until Roe gave them another choice in 1973. 2/3
Hey @TexasGOP, @KenPaxtonTX, @GregAbbott_TX, @DanPatrick, a miscarriage of a failed fetus is not a baby, it's a life-threatening medical emergency. The heartbeat law is killing Texas mothers at an alarming rate. Restore abortion rights in Texas now. YOU are killing Texas women.
π€£ Magical thinking going on at the Washington Post today.
A quarter million canceled subscriptions so far.
So very sad to hear Teri Garr passed away. She was a joy to watch and lit up every role she played.
At least her name will live on as a crossword favorite forever.
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BREAKING: Inflation drops to lowest levels in 3 years, back down to 2.4%
US inflation has historically been around 2-3% per year
US recovered faster from inflation than any other top economy
So if you still see prices climbing out of control, thatβs PRICE GOUGING by retailers
Hey, @MarkHamill! You can add this Sunday to the all the times you've been included in the NYT Crossword! Have you kept count?
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If you have not yet mailed in your mail ballot and are concerned it may not arrive by Election Day, you can bring the ballot with you to your polling center and cancel the mail ballot and vote regular way. If you are disabled, you are entitled to advance to front of line. Sorry but you cannot just turn in your mail ballot at a polling center. The GOP dominated state Lege doesnβt permit that.
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This woman spent the entire flight from Hiroshima to Tokyo forcefully finger-combing strands out of her hair, coiling them, then dropping them in the aisle. Hundreds of hairs. I was gagging. Don't be this person.
#badpassenger
With complete confidence the state will enforce their decision with no additional effort from them.
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Been waiting for this for a loooong time. Go, Europa Clipper!
(Weβll see it again as it does its gravity assist around Earth in late 2026 on its way to Jupiter.)
Anyone who saw the movie β2010β in 1984 and remembers this warning will be glad weβre not landing there.
Go to Iwillvote.com and verify you're still registered. You may be surprised. Today may be your last day.
NOOOOooo! Maggie Smith don't leave us! Bereft. π π
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Oh my god, this just keeps getting worse the farther down you get in the thread. This man is an incompetent monster, not an Ob/Gyn.
Imagine suggesting to a sick woman he's examining, in stirrups, that he do cosmetic surgery to remove her labia majora to look better.
The FBI wants you to report it if you're a student or prof at a law school and receiving text messages like this. At tips.fbi.govΒ (or 1-800-CALL-FBI). They must be tracking a threat. Pass it on.
Women law professors have been receiving text messages, all with similar wording, from a variety of unknown numbers. And no, it is not because syllabi were posted online w cell phones (many non-public numbers are being contacted). I have been texted 3 separate times, and I know of women law professors at more than 30 law schools also contacted.
Just this week, I have started receiving emails from women law students that they are now also receiving these messages. One of the students called the person who sent the message to her. He stayed on the phone for 9 minutes. He said that he is a 2L law student and repeated much of the rhetoric from the messages. He said that he had been βdoing his researchβ and had βaccepted defeat.β The male on the phone had a slight Southern accent.
The FBI is encouraging recipients of these messages to contact them to report at tips.fbi.govΒ (or 1-800-CALL-FBI). You are welcome to email/DM me to discuss.
Rest in peace, James Earl Jones. The best voice in the whole acting world. I hope you enjoy whatever's beyond the corn.
Vote for Colin Allred, not @SenTedCruz
TX electricity distributor messages all customers to not rely on them if they need electricity to live this week.
"If you rely on electricity for life-sustaining equipment, please have a backup plan in place to ensure your safety."
Thx @GregAbbott_TX @ERCOT_ISO @CenterPoint