DOGE’s federal property sell-off has accidentally revealed a CIA black site in Northern Virginia, according to Bloomberg.

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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“The workers had been fired as part of the Trump administration’s efforts, led by Elon Musk, to significantly downsize the federal government and cut costs. But the salaries of many of the fired F.D.A. staff members had been funded by fees companies pay the F.D.A., not taxpayer money.”

Rally 2/23/2025 Martin Luther king park downtown Rochester.

This is devastating for our future. I would absolutely not be where I am now if it were not for my REU experiences. I gained friends and mentors who I am still close with 20+ years later. It colored my choices for grad school and my thesis project. I chose my career and field based on an REU. 🧪

Not the BAD DOGE Act lmaoooooo

We took the Rochester Police Dept to court over their failure to disclose police officer misconduct records - and won. In a landmark ruling from the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in NY, Rochester must now disclose ALL records related to police discipline and misconduct allegations.

University of Rochester graduate workers announce intent to strike #RochesterNY

“57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

MTA to Feds: Drop dead

The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned after declining to comply with a Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Apparently the gutting of the National Science Foundation is underway at the moment. "More to come." One can debate whether cuts are warranted, but the mindless, know-nothing fashion in which they are being carried out is inexcusable. This will damage US science for generations.

It's paper day! This work made up half of my MSc thesis and was looong in the making, but it's finally out in the world for everyone to see! arxiv.org/abs/2502.12107

Whoever did the colour and brightness tweaking for this JWST image deserves a prize for art. It's so beautiful it looks fake.... 🔭

sometimes I really do love Rochester :) <3

Good. I'm not sure how this might affect any outcome, but it's good at least to see the Dems fighting back.

Turns out I can't read and once I fixed all my mistakes force A is 10^-11 times smaller than force B. hurrah!

result I was hoping for: force A is < 1% of force B, meaning we can ignore annoying complicated physics result I got: force A is 10^11 times GREATER than force B

office so cold fingers might fall off

two more postdoc apps and I am done done done

new from me! We looked at very late time HST + JWST imaging of the exceptional GRB 221009A & see a break in the light curve + also see evidence for an additional component - maybe a light echo or a star cluster. 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663

writing tex locally is 10x better than overleaf in every way, except for when you get to the co-author edits stage. fight me.

Hello new followers! I'm Kaila and I use population synthesis (simulating populations of 100s to 100s of 1000s of objects) to figure out why stars and black holes are misbehaving and what it means! I do a lot of coding, coffee drinking, and love to travel. Welcome!

IF YOU ARE GOING TO AAS the inauguration is on the 20th, AAS ends the 16th. DC is going to be overrun with Trump voters and news media starting the 18th/19th.

Here's the big Harris-Walz ballot cure phone bank. Ballot curing means you're calling voters who ALREADY VOTED but have something wrong with their ballot. A fantastic, high impact phone bank that helps make every vote count. Slots all day! DO IT!

Do you remember that time there was a tape released that had Jeffrey Epstein saying Donald Trump was his best friend for ten years and that Trump liked to have sex with his friends' wives and then it didn't really have any impact? Yeah, that was yesterday.

yes lets hear more about whether joe biden called them garbage

That this is coming from not a single writer, but the entire Haaretz editorial board, pubbed in both English and Hebrew, is a tremendous deal. (Yes, it’s later than many of us would wish and not using strong enough language yet AND STILL.) (Haaretz is in Israel what NYT was, well, once.)

Hold the phone. A white South African tried to exploit the labor of Black men under false pretenses with the assumption that he'd never be held legally accountable for such actions? No way.

Important note from one of the lawyers representing the nonprofit organizations that sued: There is same-day registration in Virginia, so, know what you need to bring with you, but even purged legal voters should be able to vote if they realize they were improperly purged.

If re-elected, Donald Trump has promised to end federal support for a clean energy transition and expand oil and gas production. He also said he would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and potentially go further. Read more: nyti.ms/4fHWSTV

Absentee voters who haven't returned their ballots yet, returning in person at an official dropoff location may be your best bet now. Mailing with the USPS now risks your ballot not arriving by Election Day, which, in most states, would get your vote rejected www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...

Kamala Harris will campaign on Tuesday at the park where Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to fight to overturn the 2020 election results. Her speech is designed to reach a slice of the electorate that may be "exhausted" by the Trump era's politics.

perhaps I am a Boomer™️, but when I was an undergrad we were zealous about keeping our housing/rideshare/gen info fb groups student only and chased out any parents posting on behalf of their kids. I'm in similar groups for my current uni and like 30% of posts are just parents talking to each other???

what an absolute whiny baby

Tomorrow’s P1.

link here wapo.st/3UqHWRM

Ricky Martin shares the racist anti-Puerto Rico remarks from today’s Trump rally to his more than 18 million followers on Instagram. “This is what they think of us,” he wrote in Spanish. “Vote for Kamala Harris.”

my friend and I had dinner at 5pm and I kinda understand my grandparents now because we're cozied up on the couch with love is blind and it's only 7:42pm and there's so much time to watch tv before bed

Respect to Susan B. Anthony's grave in Mt. Hope cemetery in Rochester, and those who appreciate her. An Ofrenda in its own way. And beautiful in its own way.

Bezos swore he wasn't going to interfere with WaPo when he purchased it in 2013

When we talk about members of different groups being held to different standards, this is what we mean. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Supernova paper officially published and available in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society! academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

Scoop: Beyoncé will appear with Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston Friday at a campaign rally, according to people familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview an appearance that hasn’t been publicly announced. Live updates:

So go check out the code & the paper, & if you need more info (or find a bug!) please reach out using GitHub Discussions or drop into our office hour (Fridays noon eastern)! Access link/info here: saavikford.wixsite.com/saavik/gener... /fin

As promised, McFACTS Paper I (the code paper) is out today on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2410.16515 🎉 Led by @bmckastro.bsky.social , we explain exactly what McFACTS (the 1st public open source pop synth code for the full AGN Channel!) is doing & why & give some example default outputs. 1/

I liked ONE post in German and now my entire discover feed is German tweets

People going to APS: have you tried submitting your abstract yet? I went to submit mine and got to the page where you list authors and I have 3 random (real) people attached. I can delete two, but the "first author" can't be deleted. My friend tried and has the same issue, with the same 3 people.