This is a disgrace. And we are the weaker for it as a nation.

More: https://www.justsecurity.org/144739/combat-experience-strategic-soviet-army/

More showy milkweed today, plus bonus chicory. 🌸🦋

#BikeTooter #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #Colorado

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#SCOTUS upholds #BirthrightCitizenship, rejecting #Trump proposed limits

SCOTUS Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s EO declaring #children born to parents in the #US illegally or temporarily are not US #citizens. The decision, in line with the longstanding judicial interpretation of the #14thAmendment, comes on the final day of a SCOTUS term that has centered on Trump’s expansive claims of #PresidentialPower.

#law #immigration #ImmigrationLaw

AR 4478: Giant Sunspot Group
Image Credit & Copyright: Alfredo Vidal Pérez

Explanation: Right now, one of the largest sunspot groups in recent history is crossing the Sun. Active Region 4478 is not only big -- it's violent, showing tangled magnetic fields capable of throwing off huge clouds of particles into the Solar System. Some of these CMEs might impact the Earth. At the extreme, these solar storms could cause some Earth-orbiting satellites to malfunction, the Earth's atmosphere to slightly distort, and electrical power grids to surge. When impacting Earth's upper atmosphere, these particles can produce beautiful auroras. Pictured here, AR 4478 and its dark sunspots were captured in visible light a few days ago from Barcelona, Spain. Almost as large as AR 3664 was in 2024, the AR 4478 sunspot group is so big that it is visible just with glasses specially designed to view solar eclipses. This week, skygazing enthusiasts all over the globe will not only be tracking AR 4478 during the day -- but keenly watching night skies for its corresponding bright auroras.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260628.html #apod

Ukrainian long range sanctions are effective.

Video: https://xcancel.com/rpsagainst.../status/2071219612776063166

Katie Phang is a bad ass. This journalist / lawyer may have figured out a way to get around the wall erected by the DOJ around the Epstein files. And a judge just granted her motion for some of the most important missing material. My write up in the link in comments.

The walls are cracking. https://www.comicsands.com/former-trump-supporter-luttrell-snap?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Last night's shitshow almost convinced me to move entirely to moderated follow requests and followers-only posting.

I'm really sick of fighting entitled, privileged, men¹ who don't understand consent (especially when interacting with vulnerable communities).

But then I reread one of Evan's replies which could be (in my words) summed up as "if you don't want to be violated, hide", and, after some crying in the plaza at 5AM, I decided *fuck* that noise. I don't hide.

Well-behaved enbies rarely make history and all.

...but... I realized that I need to step away here and there for my own mental health (which I often put secondary to everyone else's).

So, with that, I'm putting my phone down for a bit; probably not that long, but for a bit.

¹ InB4: "not all men" — some of my good friends are entitled, privileged, men.

#MH #TTYL

Hello everyone,

All the services we offer are down and unreachable. We are currently investigating the cause. For the time being, it appears that all three servers are without power.

Federal judge bars #Trump from implementing proof of #citizenship requirement to #vote

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Trump’s admin from implementing most of his first executive order on #elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote.

#law #Constitution #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #USpol #MafiaState #intimidation #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-judge-358912bcb6c7223b3d2d36465156fde9

My coauthor Jamie Garner and I are BEYOND excited to announce DREAMING OURSELVES INTO BEING: THE RHETORIC OF TRANS COMICS, through
Bloomsbury Academic, & featuring cover art from the absolutely amazing Robin Brooks, out on February 4th!

https://tinyurl.com/5u2fadxd

In a time of bonkers stories, this one may just take the cake. It turns out Tulsi Gabbard reportedly was little more than a puppet for a Hare Krishna sect’s guru this whole time. Read that sentence again, then read my write-up in the link in the comments.

1/4: From a woman who moved from Moscow to Ukraine. Roughly translated:

Hello everyone, my name is Ksyusha. I’m a Russian from Moscow who moved to Ukraine during the war. Today, I’m addressing my fellow countrymen.

Nearly 200 drones over Moscow. For the second time in three days, the refinery in Kapotnya is burning. “Lyublino” is burning. All four of the capital’s airports are shut down. This is no coincidence. This is the first serious demonstration that Ukraine is capable of bringing the war

#PeterThiel is the #shadowGovernment and #DonaldTrump is enabling the downfall of the working class.

https://www.grumpychineseguy.com/p/the-leak-that-exposed-americas-real

More reactions and footage from the Moscow region.

Video: https://xcancel.com/gerashchenko_en/status/2067508843517460666

Wow, the voice of Lilo (Lilo and Stitch) dead at 35, while homeless.

https://abc7.com/post/former-child-actor-daveigh-chase-ring-villain-lilo-voice-dies-35/19325178/

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-police-officer-shoots-and-kills-1-year-old-child-in-response-to-senatobia-shoplifting-call/

Your reminder that if you see someone stealing diapers and/or baby formula, NO YOU DIDN'T

#Shoplifting #diapers #ACAB #PoliceShooting #NoBillionaires #NoGoodBillionaires

#ITHumor #TechMemes #BDSM #SafeWord #PasswordRequirements #CatONineTails #EthernetCable #ShitIFind

Charon: Moon of Pluto
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute, U.S. Naval Observatory

Explanation: A darkened and mysterious north polar region known to some as Mordor Macula caps this premier view of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The high-resolution image was captured by the interplanetary space probe New Horizons near its closest approach to distant Pluto on July 14, 2015. The combined blue, red, and infrared image data was processed to enhance colors and follow variations in Charon's surface properties with a resolution of about 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). A stunning image of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere, it also features a clear view of an apparently moon-girdling belt of fractures and canyons that seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across. That's about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself, and makes it the largest satellite relative to its parent body in the Solar System. Still, the moon appears as a small bump at about the 1 o'clock position on Pluto's disk in the grainy, negative, telescopic picture inset at upper left. That image was used by James Christy and Robert Harrington at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff to discover Charon in June of 1978.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260606.html #apod

I give my utility company a lot of grief for service issues over the past few years. But… they always show up at #pride events, and this year were giving out purple night lights. 💜