My heart is with the National Guard members shot and killed near the White House today and their families who are left to grieve — the day before Thanksgiving. These shootings are senseless and frequent. They impact everyone. We have to do more.

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money no object? I would move to France (probably Nice or somewhere smaller like Agen). In the US, I prefer where I live quite frankly. Of this list, maybe NYC (decent mass transit, high density, decent transit corridor in the northeast)

Saturn's moon #Enceladus is a top target for us in our #Voyage2050 long-term planning period. No space agency has ever landed on Enceladus. And yet this moon has enormous potential for new science, particularly in the realm of habitability. 1/ #CM25 🔭

about correct, though the sequel trilogy made me reappraise the prequels. I would place all of them above any movie from the sequel trilogy (so 5, 6, 7). Of the sequel movies, keep the order. The Last Jedi had some of the best Star Wars material (anything with Rey) and the absolute worst (sans Rey).

New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders. This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭

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3 years ago, NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into an asteroid at 22,000 kilometers per hour. The event changed the asteroid's orbit and tilt & sent it tumbling. A nearby cubesat captured these remarkable images of the asteroid immediately after the impact. 🧪🔭 aasnova.org/2025/11/03/s...

We need a reimagined LPSC flavored meeting and the locale should be Tucson in March, after the gem show. Plenty of hotel choices along the free tram line that goes to the convention center. Visit Tucson is onboard to support this. If anyone has the bandwidth to invent the meeting we've got the city.

Fun thing to watch on my Sunday afternoon

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Tesla continues to prove that they are not a serious company. Giving him that much money after basically lighting the company on fire for the last two years is beyond ridiculous. Tesla isn't a car company or an AI company or a tech company any more. It's a meme coin disguised as a stock.

Correction. Our costume was: "ALLEGED assault with a deli weapon, AN ALLEGATION ULTIMATELY REJECTED BY A JURY OF HIS PEERS AFTER CAREFUL DELIBERATION."

I'm very excited to announce `usaspending-orm` a new Python library to ease access to data from the USASpending API. Available now on PyPI and GitHub. Repo link in thread.

New Paper alert! Surface Changes on Io Observed by Large Binocular Telescope/SHARK in Early 2025 🧵 doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

No, sorry, my bad. A photo of my ceiling slipped in there.

I mean, if you squint she does kinda look like a sofa...

This is the most meaningless thing I’ve ever read from him. “Testing on an equal basis” so no testing?

Obvious wavenumber-5 mesovortex pattern within #Melissa’s eyewall earlier today — when the simulation matches reality. Just two decades ago, the very existence of mesovortices was still a matter of debate.

This is cool, 6 million year old ice from Antartica with inferred temperature ~12°C warmer than the late Pleistocene. No CO2 level yet! (That will be highly anticipated!) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Looking good in his Hugo Boss jacket. </sarcasm>

The less said about the Milwaukee Brewer heretics the better.

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

In December 2019, I made a series of predictions for the 2020s. Lots of wide misses (Alphabet break up, a President Elizabeth Warren), but some good calls (Biden winning 2020 election, missed Queen Elizabeth’s death by a few months). Then there’s this quarter or half credit:

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Is there such a thing as a reverse endorsement?

Processing some images of Io from March 2025 from Juno JIRAM. You know that I am done with my work day when my first thought was….

wanna feel old? the date Marty traveled to in the future was ten years ago today

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I’m more upset that the woke liberals took the “tp’ing someone’s house because they didn’t give out the good candy” out of Halloween.

Scenes from the No Kings protest in Midtown Tucson.

No Kings in Nice, France. 🇫🇷

Thought I would check the Kilauea webcam. What a view to wake up to! Thinking of all the USGS Volcanoes team and hoping federal agencies can get back to their jobs soon. www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

Right on time. I have a colleague who flew out on Wednesday night to try to catch episode 45 so hopefully he go some nice pics.

Once again, I look forward to @jonbois.bsky.social update to the Mariners history series. Too bad the Dodgers seem to be spoiling the "Seattle Pilots are the final boss" story line.

A Eugenio Suárez grand slam makes it 6-2 Mariners

Weirdly fun to block the White House

I don't like blocklists for a few reasons, but you can look at this list and block accounts individually. I just did.

i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.

Watching Devil’s Advocate to celebrate my partner’s new job. They used Donald Trump’s penthouse as the set for a murderer’s residence. It looks like if you ordered Versailles on Wish.com

Bailing out Argentina? The country that is eating our soybean farmers' lunch because of our dumbass president's tariff policy? That Argentina?

Any report about a beloved actor who's 98 should start with "Don't worry, he's still alive! Now see what he's up to now!"

This is the same Speaker who has repeatedly refused to put up the congressionally-mandated plaque honoring the Capitol Police members who were viciously assaulted by MAGA goons on January 6th. We've seen your deeds, you oily liar.

"Kids" and "Young Boys" are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

After some workshopping, going with the costume but... change the sign to "The only allowable king in America is Burger King"

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Late night brain fart: so what do people think of me wearing this costume for the No Kings Protest with a sign that says "It's the No KingS protest. We're allowed one." www.amazon.com/California-C...

Layoff notices at JPL are going out today. About 11% of the Lab, or 550 people, are being let go. I'm thinking of my friends and colleagues there, some of whom will still be employed after today and some of whom won't. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.