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+ counter with their own weaponized propaganda... eeep! *shudders*

overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.

good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.

good night, sewers, everywhere.

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#evergreen

Few things are as lovely as a good thunderstorm.

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (Guardians of Bloods Brigade) carried out attacks using Shahed kamikaze drones targeting U.S. bases in Erbil and Camp Victoria in Baghdad.

Haha Trump didn't know Iran had a navy that's berserker

Awwwww diddum waddum #Iggyboos!!

Mother cat and her kittens ❤️

Court order ordering work to cease at Williamsport ICE detention warehouse.

JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior is reporting that “Iranian aggression” has targeted fuel tanks at a facility in the Muharraq Governorate.

Kinda crazy we've got no updates at all about Nancy Guthrie.

*sigh*

I...I'm tired, honestly. And really don't get people's aversion to facts.

I asked President Trump about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election. Then he called me a rotten reporter.

Tall, muscley bald white man in a black polo shirt, from which rises an impossibly long neck tattooed in black vertical stripes.

Detail from a photo by Scott McIntyre for the NYT, a man in the crowd at an event for Florida hipster fascist guv candidate James Fishback. The article is about his fascism, but I think we may need to also worry about this man's neck.

"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought:

You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another though. The process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt

This is bonkers.
Today, we hit record highs of 85-86 across DC area + had evening tstorms and tornado warnings.
Tomorrow, temps may drop into 30s w/ chance of wet snow mixing w cold rain.
The 24-hour temp change? 45 to 50F.
Crazy but a great example of how you can get 3 seasons in 1 day!

150-200 dollar a barrel oil and a collapsing gas reserve at home = massive supply chain disruptions the longer this goes on.

Military families navigate hasty evacuation as missiles fly in Middle East It’s unclear why the U.S. waited until after launching Operation Epic Fury to authorize departures for military families.

U.S. military families are navigating a hasty evacuation from the Middle East as Iranian attacks target American bases in the region.

Stars and Stripes' Alison Bath and Lara Korte on one of the largest movements out of the Middle East in years and what families are facing once they leave:

This has been my autocorrect conspiracy theory for ages

BREAKING NEWS: Large fires continue to erupt in oil storage tanks in the Bahraini city of Muharraq after they were targeted by an Iranian suicide drone.

Two oil tankers have been hit by Iran in the strait of Hormuz.

An Israeli drone strike targeted a tent camp housing displaced civilians in Ramlet Al Baida, Beirut.

At least 7 people were killed and 21 others were injured. The death toll will likely continue to rise.

This is outstanding journalism

ECONOMY: SHAMBLES
OIL: $300 PER BARREL
COUNTRY: ON FIRE
REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-

I want to underscore how INCREDIBLY racist “we went too far”/“racism is over” takes are.

The quiet part of that statement is: current racialized disparities represent the natural distribution of opportunities, talent, and resources between racial groups.

It is white supremacist, bell curve shit

A vibrant official NASA portrait of astronaut Laurel Clark, mission specialist on STS-107 (Space Shuttle Columbia), taken before her 2003 flight. She is shown in a three-quarter view, smiling warmly at the camera with an open, confident expression. She has shoulder-length curly brown hair and fair skin. She wears the bright orange NASA launch-and-entry suit (ACES), complete with the American flag patch on her left shoulder, NASA insignia on the chest, her name tag "LAUREL CLARK" with gold wings above it, and the STS-107 mission patch on the left chest. She rests her right arm/hand on her black-and-white NASA helmet. The helmet's reflective visor shows faint reflections of lights and surroundings. Behind her are two large vertical flags: the U.S. flag on the left with stars and stripes visible, and a dark blue NASA banner with partial text "AND SPACE A" (likely "National Aeronautics and Space Administration") on the right. The background is softly lit with a gradient of warm tones, emphasizing her poised and approachable demeanor as a physician, naval officer, and space explorer who tragically perished in the Columbia disaster. The overall composition conveys professionalism, pride, and dedication to space exploration.

US Navy Captain Dr. Laurel Clark tragically died during her first space mission (Space Shuttle Columbia). She was a mission specialist on STS-107, a 16-day dedicated science mission, conducting experiments focusing on bioscience & gardening in space. She was born #OTD in 1961.

#WomenInSTEM #WHM

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