RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/116844616500605008

The impact of satellite constellations on astronomy can get much worse. A new ESO study has quantified not only the effects of the satellite streaks, but also the overall increase in the sky brightness due to (a) millions of faint satellites that create a veil of diffuse light, and (b) sunlight scattered by space mirrors, even when not aiming directly at the observer. 👇 #astronomy #space

Trump has been buying stock while in office

There is no getting around it
– Trump has a personal stake in hundreds of companies,
from big tech in Silicon Valley to Papa John’s pizza, Netflix and Victoria’s Secret.

One of the reasons Tuesday’s disclosure is so long,
-- at 927 pages,
-- is because the president has been actively buying stocks, and the US Office of Government Ethics names them all.

The document is publicly released due to a 1978 law that requires presidents and vice-presidents to disclose their income, assets and financial interests

@pluralistic

Just finished listening to your conversation with Lawfare Senior Editors Kate Klonick and Alan Rozenshtein, it's excellent.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily---the-reverse-centaur's-guide-to-life-after-ai--a-conversation-with-cory-doctorow

PS Anyone fighting to stop the approval of a data center will get a number of important arguments to use with local, regional and state officials why granting approval would be an enormous economic gamble from this podcast episode, never mind the environment and grid impacts.

110 years ago today, on 1 July 1916. On the first day of the bloody, Battle of the Somme, 19,240 soldiers of the British armed forces were killed, of whom my great grandfather, Ernest Holtom, was one. It was the worst ever daily death toll for the British Army in military history.

Senator Whitehouse(D-RI) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) sit down for a conversation on the many reasons liberals need to talk about climate.
https://youtu.be/lO52-DRldtc?si=-3drwmqu1jZ6a2Lw

Please help me get the word out to people who might be interested in reading Democracy Americana in German: I hope I can build a readership large enough to carry this experiment of offering my work in two languages (it’s a struggle!).

If you want to read the essay in English, you find it here:

https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/59b197fa-1a03-44e5-b155-2c221e2a3c0e

If you recently moved to somewhere where a wildfire can get to your home, some advice:
Have a fireproof box with your passport, mortgage docs, birth certificates, etc. so you can grab them in a hurry, but hopefully won’t lose them if you must leave them behind.

Have a go bag with a change of clothes, basic toiletries, and if possible, a few days of any key medicines you need.

Decide now that you are OK leaving everything to burn, because you don’t want to confront that as the house goes up.

How a team of engineers a built the most spectacular museum exhibit in the solar system.
Installing the 185-foot space shuttle Endeavour in the California Science Center was a feat of engineering.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91565660/california-science-center-endeavour-shuttle-exhibition #globalmuseum #museums #sciencecenter #Space

tRump's DOGE wanted to "kill off" 2.7 million living Americans in Social Security records — citizens included — to terrorize immigrants into self-deporting. Whistleblower blew the whistle on this monstrous plan. tRump's cruelty has no bottom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/

Welcome to America, where ICE agents show up at your work place to demand you delete your Instagram post, because it reminds people that ICE agent Jonathan Ross has not been indicted for his murder of Renée Good.

#LandOfTheFree

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5871369/new-york-ice-instagram-immigration-dhs-paigelynne-gonyea

Mitch McConnell was found unconscious according to EMT dispatch. The story going around is that he's being kept on life support so Republicans don't lose their majority in the Senate.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/116841497363782089

"We in this country have seen a remarkable change. And in Washington right now — and forgive me, I’m gonna use the 'f' word — we have a fascist, a fascist government that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

"We have been lied to over and over and over again about these camps. Our president said these detention camps were being put up to put in immigrants who had criminal records. We now have about 65–70,000 people incarcerated in these camps."

"29% have criminal records. 71% of the people in these camps, even with our country's and our government's statements about why they set up the camps, don’t belong there! 71% of the people in camps don’t belong there, according to the government, and yet they are put there."

#Fascism #DetentionCamps #Trump #Republicans #USA #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity

A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer, proving once again that the best way to find amazing bones is to look in people's drawers

https://apnews.com/article/titanosaur-dinosaur-fossil-antarctica-a822751dc177f9056cf030a6fb63cdf6?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

#stem #science #paleontology #dinosaur #cool #Antarctica

Ukraine's top commander says Russia's most realistic option for a new offensive isn't through Belarus - it's a push into Chernihiv Oblast from Russia's Bryansk Oblast

Syrskyi said several intelligence indicators point to this as the likeliest axis, even as Ukraine prepares for both scenarios.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/30/ukraines-top-commander-russias-likeliest-new-offensive-runs-through-chernihiv/

Accurate.

#Environmentalism #HumanityIsTheVirus

"The #TrumpAdministration’s new drug strategy does more than escalate the war on fentanyl. It sketches the architecture for a national #surveillance system built from some of Americans’ most personal data: prescriptions, toxicology results, wastewater, electronic #health records, license plate scans, and law enforcement intelligence." https://zeteo.com/p/trump-medical-data-surveillance-drug-war

Everything in Low Earth Orbit is travelling at essentially the same speed. So you can take this density plot, and turn it in to a close encounters plot. The heart of the paper is doing that calculation in two different ways, one analytic, and one numerical.

In Starlink's orbit, the densest part of orbit, close encounters closer than 1 km happen every half hour or so. 1km sounds like a large distance, but remember the speeds are 7 km per SECOND. That is scary-close.

A ninja cat got your back.

Trump’s personal army/police detained a nun walking to mass, dressed in her habit. They held her in custody until public outcry led to her release. Don’t forget: we live in a county whose federal government, and many states’ governments, are controlled by Republican Fascism. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/ice-nun-detained-released-texas