"Getting to the stars isn't just building a ship; we would need to keep a species healthy and cooperative across generations, with bodies & social cultures that don't fall apart on the way," says Evolutionary anthropologist Kathleen Bryson, PhD Alpha Centauri, a constellation 4.37 light-years away.

This idea now being parroted by Johnson in his panic stricken press conference came straight from Donald Trump. Trump is terrified.

AS DANIEL DEFOE wrote in his 1722 novel ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’, describing the misery of the bubonic plague in London 60 years earlier, it is “the common Temper of Mankind” to “forget the Deliverance, when the Danger is past.” That’s what happened in the wake of COVID-19 3 centuries later.

The U.S. government’s willingness to walk away from pandemic preparation now that COVID-19 has receded baffles Duane Wesemann, an immunologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “It’s as if it stopped raining, so therefore why would we fix the roof?” - science Magazine

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“You're ready to become the horror of your workplace.” 🤨😏😆

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." - Rebecca West

This might be my new favorite classic‼️❤️🥰 Hudson Super 8 1947 - source 40s & 50s American Cars.

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#Pinks #ProudBlue But what about HIS EMAILS? You gotta LOVE the irony!

This song will gut you women, even if you haven’t experienced this tragedy‼️ it’s worth a listen… music.apple.com/us/album/har...

It really is all crumbling around Trump, by the way. I can’t promise any big, cathartic ending, but the weird coalition of insane people he cobbled together last year was never going to be able to hold, and they’ve waited so long to pick a side that the whole thing is getting ready to blow.

After a 7week standoff, Mike Johnson was finally forced to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva - Moments atter raising her hand to swear allegiance to the Constitution, she turned, walked across the chamber, and signed the discharge petition that will force a floor vote to make Epstein's files public.

Chris Gillette o These are actually harmless little creatures called tailless whip scorpions, they're neither a spider or scorpion though, but are a related arachnid. This was on one of my past expeditions in the Peruvian Amazon ! #arachnid #whipscorpion #amazon #peru #invertebrates

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@Cavemanwildlife on IG Capturing, measuring, weighing snapping turtles for research.

Astrophotographer captures the Elephant Trunk Nebula in breathtaking detail By Anthony Wood The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is located 2,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus.

16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, photographed at the age of 56 on the 5 February 1865, a month before his second inauguration, and 2 months before his assassination. Credit: color_by_hmhsbritannic⁠ on Instagram #history #lincoln #president

…when Boreá Juma, the eldest sister, assumed the chiefdom and spoke at a meeting of local indigenous leaders, she was shouted down. “Your tribe is extinct!” she was told. “They don’t listen to us because we are few and we are women,” she said. 😤😠😡🥵🤬

“It is chilling to hear Hermann Goering offer some of the same excuses for dispensing with the processes of democracy that are offered today by American Maga chiefs. This does not brand the latter as Nazis but it reflects a matching, terrifying contempt for law.” - Max Hastings, the Sunday Times

“If you believe that these men were psychiatrically-disordered, were monsters, then you absolve them from responsibility for their actions,” El-Hai says. “They made choices, and a monster doesn't necessarily make choices. A monster just acts like a monster. …hold them accountable for their acts.”

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Green mamba after a rain shower, photographed by Mike Grosshanten Photographie.

Germany has sternly informed the U.S. Army that their food banks cannot and will not feed 30,000 soldiers. Nor should they be expected to! What does it say about the govt that won’t feed its own soldiers‼️

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Via Lisa Boyette…

Trump dismissed concerns about the cost of living for Americans, calling such criticism a “con” by Democrats and touting his record on inflation. “So I don’t want to hear about the affordability, because right now we’re much less,” Trump told reporters on Thursday in the White House. - MSN

Nancy Pelosi: "He's just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the Earth." When pressed by CNN interviewer Elex Michaelson, who asked: "You really think he's the worst thing on Earth?" — she doubled down without breaking a sweat: "I do, yeah. I do."

“A black-hearted man who only lives to revel in cruelty.”

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

New Jersey Governor: Mikie Sherrill, 53, a former Navy helicopter pilot and fed prosecutor: Her campaign emphasized steady governance over ideological purity. She vowed to freeze electric utility rates, repair the state’s overburdened rail infrastructure, and deliver with “ruthless competence.”