Archaeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Sword So Well Preserved It 'Almost Still Shines' | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bronze-age-sword-germany-180982399/
Eight days ago I lamented that Pennsylvania's timeline to fix the destroyed I-95 overpass was measured in months. This afternoon, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced it will be open again this weekend. The state has maintained a popular livestream of the repairs, which the governor uses to monitor progress. This is a great example of government doing the work and doing it right. Very impressive! https://www.inquirer.com/news/95-live-cam-shapiro-repair-quinta-20230621.html
Here's a picture I shot of #matariki setting behind the southern alps here in New Zealand a few years ago. This isn't a composite shot, it was taken through a telescope tracking the stars. (if you look closely you can see the mountain is blurred due to the tracking) #astronomy #newzealand
Towering tornadoes of plasma the size of planets dance over the Sun's surface in this timelapse from the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.
Credit: NASA GSFC/SDO
Full HD version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQqisFi43DY&list=PLc4W06G5-v7BDRHoh7n3QkUKUDJmgMO0n
Adam Schiff Gets John Durham to Admit Russia Helped Trump
https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-schiff-gets-john-durham-to-admit-russia-helped-trump
#TheDailyBeastNews #AdamSchiffQuestionsDurham #RussiaHelpedTrump #JohnDurhamTestimony #TrumpRussiaCollusion #USIntelligenceUpdates #Politics #News
As LGBTQI+ people continue to be attacked from all directions, I am committed to not just pushing back against these attacks--but also pushing equality forward.
That's why I’m proud to join my Congressional Equality Caucus colleagues today as an original cosponsor of the #EqualityAct. 🏳️🌈
Remember how your favorite resister decided to stay on Twitter till the wheels fell off?
Look at Elon Musk’s Twitter
Platforming actual Nazis, while silencing legitimate journalists
Attacks on the trans community intensify
Cis and cisgender are now slurs on Twitter and using them will result in a ban
But harassment of trans people results in a platform boost
Because free speech.
…If you are still on Twitter, you are not just part of the problem: you are funding the problem
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We've been on Twitter for over ten years now. This account has been on #Mastodon for close to two months.
I've seen more engagement in those two months (hell, even just this past week) than I have in all of those ten years on Twitter.
Maybe there's something to this #fediverse thing after all 😉 — just saying.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-boebert-a-little-bitch-on-the-house-floor
Here's my dad's obituary in the paper he read every day, the Star Tribune. When we were kids, he'd regularly serenade us with the "funny papers." As recently as a few years ago he'd still cut out stories and mail them to me in DC. He loved the printed word ❤️ https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000461448/?fullname=robert-t-bob-rupar
Daniel Goldman kicked some major ass here.
Via Acyn:
Goldman: One of my Republican colleagues says “we will hold members accountable.”
You are the party of George #Santos! Who are you holding accountable?!? Don’t lecture us with your projection.. It’s pathetic
#Schiff #GOPhypocrisy #politics
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1671591819958788096/pu/vid/1280x720/wdd4fQYxsX3bPfaO.mp4?tag=12
I am about to kick some journalists in the nuts real hard.
YOU failed to report on the dire warnings of scientists the past *checks the 6 IPCC reports* 33 years with your bloody "both-sideism" and now it's our fault?
Fuck you, the Hill. Fuck you very very much.
Rep. Eric Swalwell remarks on the project undertaken by congressional Republicans to try to project as much criminality on President Biden as possible to make Donald Trump's legal problems less alarming by comparison, and the stubborn factual reality that keeps making them look foolish in that endeavor.
Wonderful news!
Take that, Rethuglicans, you hateful backwards bigots.
Judge Strikes Down #Arkansas Law Banning Gender Transition Care for Minors
"In his 80-page ruling, Judge James M. Moody Jr. of Federal District Court in Little Rock said the law both discriminated against transgender people and violated constitutional rights for doctors. He also said that the state of Arkansas had failed to substantially prove a number of its claims."
(gift article)
Nancy Northup, president of The Center for Reproductive Rights, talks about how the Republican Supreme Court campaign resulting in the overturning of Roe v. Wade has not only revoked a crucial personal right from American women but has turned once personal pregnancy health crises into dire matters of life or death with national political resonance.
Mostly reclusive and carrying slightly damaged goods. A survivor by some accounts. Definitely in need of much therapy. ;)
Staunchly anti-fascist
Bear in mind that, while I may "like" your "toot", about a person, event or particular topic, if it links to the "bird-site" I will no longer boost and inadvertently contribute to their grift. Everyone has a choice and a part to play when crimes go unpunished.
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers".
-Elric