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Two globular clusters near the center of the Milky Way. NGC 6522, center, 25000 light years away; and NGC 6528, left, 26000 light years away. #astrophotography #seestar #ngc6522 #ngc6528

VLT image of Arp 289, also known as NGC 3981. This image was captured as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems Program, which uses the Very Large Telescope to photograph beautiful objects in the southern skies when conditions don’t allow scientific observations to be made. Credit: ESO Source

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Israel's attacks on the ambulances have drawn condemnation, including from the United Nations' human rights office, which said it was "shocked" and warned that intentionally targeting medics constituted a war crime. https://to.pbs.org/4dQHW89

UPDATE: The Trump administration is deporting "nonviolent medically impaired grandparents" to Laos over a 33-year-old drug conviction, a decision Judge Tana Lin says is "inhumane" and "cruel" — but says she is powerless to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We can’t prove that there wasn’t at least one Pharaoh who was a cat

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

Whether it’s pictures of Barack Obama reading to a group of children with Zohran Mamdani or it’s pictures of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein on an island full of sex-trafficked minors, occupants of the oval office are making some controversial choices about who they take pictures with.

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

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Everyone has finally picked up the pattern. When the stock market is open, Trump is a peacemaker. Then the closing bell rings and the monster awakes. He becomes the sort of bloodthirsty beast who nods along to Hegseth quoting Pulp Fiction as if it’s the Bible. And the march to global war continues.

Reporter presses Trump about Iran firing on boats in Straight of Hormuz and he ejects her www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkuNYBFm/

From the top: NGC 5569, NGC 5560 NGC 5566 NGC 5577 NGC 5576 NGC 5574 #astrophotography #seestar

Clockwise, from lower left: NGC 5364 (aka NGC 5317) NGC 5363 NGC 5356 UGC 8818 (for the diligent observer) NGC 5348 NGC 5360 About 68 million light years away. #astrophotography #seestar

O illegitimate construction!

Just calling balls and strikes

Iran is not yet ready to hold a new round of face-to-face talks with U.S. officials, a senior Iranian official said Saturday, citing Washington's refusal to abandon "maximalist" demands on key issues. https://to.pbs.org/4tV9zBA

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Left side: NGC 5054 Immediately above it: PGC 46256 Farther above: edge on PGC 46261 Right of 5054 is PGC 46193 Upper right is edge on NGC 5047 Upper left of that is NGC 5049, upper right NGC 5044 Right of 5047 near the edge is NGC 5037, above that NGC 5035. #astrophotography #seestar

Center: NGC 3166 Left: NGC 3169 Lower right of 3166 is NGC 3165 Down towards the lower right corner is NGC 3156 About 65 million light years away. #astrophotography #seestar #ngc3166 #ngc3169 #ngc3165 #ngc3156

Hungary’s Tisza party led by Peter Magyar has secured 141 of 199 seats, gaining a constitutional majority, while Fidesz dropped to 52 mandates, opening path for sweeping reforms and EU funding unlock. #Hungary

If this gets any worse I will have to get some priests visit and pray away the flames.

Experts who spent months negotiating a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran say mutual mistrust, starkly different negotiating styles, and the complexity of the issues make a quick deal unlikely. n.pr/3QLFN3W

Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

Trump announces final Kennedy Centre show will be to host AVN Awards

Good thing Iran has no agency!

Things so bad in Mamdani’s socialist hellscape that upper east side can no longer afford restaurants- must now eat in the park like squirrels

Galaxy group Hickson 44 or Arp 316: Center, the lower of the double 'star': NGC 3193 Lower left of it: NGC 3190 Upper right of that: NGC 3197 Lower right of those: NGC 3185 About 80 million light years away. Left of 3185 is PGC 2806871, 200 million light years away. #astrophotography #seestar

President Trump is a racist rapist who has us mired in a mindlessly stupid war. But Zohran Mamdani just raised taxes on the $12 million trophy condo I spend two weeks in each year. I have never felt more politically homeless.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

"[Several officials] said that [Kash Patel] is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned’s in Washington, D.C., while in the presence of White House and other administration staff." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Donald has claimed Iran has been defeated almost as many times as my trolls have claimed Ukraine has been.

Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data.

Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet… It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

Update: Iran's military said on Saturday the Strait of Hormuz has "returned to its previous state." The announcement came after President Trump had said the blockade on Iranian ports would remain in place.

A rare image of a shark that just stood on a piece of Lego

Rediscovered, Renamed, Reclassified Image date: 12 July 2021, 06:00 This image shows the globular cluster NGC 6380, which lies around 35 000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio (The Scorpion). The very bright star at the top of the image is HD 159073, which is only around 4000 ...

Iran fired at a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Saturday after reimposing restrictions on the waterway in response to a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports.

French President Emmanuel Macron said a French soldier was killed and three others injured on Saturday morning in an attack on U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. https://to.pbs.org/4tX6Jw5

Fuck off.

Not many people know this, but the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is responsible for making sure the coal industry is never inconvenienced. Pretty sure it's part of the oath he swore.

They got to get everyone on something to help them cope with all this insanity.

SCARED STRAIT! (1978)

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