Folks, I have spent literally the entire day trying to get someone at AOL to unlock my email. For the last eight hours, I have been told that the issue has been escalated to supervisors who would contact me. I haven't heard a thing.
You would think that, since I'm one of the last human beings on the face of the Earth still using AOL, they would take care of this. You'd be wrong.
So, once this gets resolved, hopefully before the next presidential election, I'm dropping them. (I kept them this long out of convenience, but now I have no reason to keep them.)
I'll see you on the radio at 6 p.m., at which time I will address this further.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today revealing that the Pentagon has lost track of more than 17,000 F-35 fighter jet parts worth an estimated $1.3 billion
The Cocoon Nebula: Where Stars Are Born Inside a Cosmic Cradle 🦋
Imagine a glowing, pink-and-blue cocoon floating in the night sky — not made of silk, but of gas and dust, quietly spinning new stars into existence. That is the Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146, also Caldwell 19).
Lying roughly 2,500–2,650 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan, this beautiful emission and reflection nebula stretches about 15 light-years across. Discovered in the late 19th century, it earned its name because it truly looks like a luminous cocoon wrapped around a cluster of young stars.
Its colors tell a story. The rich red glow comes from hydrogen gas excited by the hot, newborn stars inside. Soft blue regions appear where starlight is reflected by fine dust. And the dark, inky lanes — especially the long, winding cloud known as Barnard 168 stretching westward — are dense curtains of dust that hide even more stars still forming in secret.
Young, energetic stars are actively carving out cavities in the surrounding clouds, lighting up the nebula from within. Observations in visible light, infrared, and X-rays have revealed a busy stellar nursery full of infant stars still gathering mass and settling into life.
Best seen under dark skies in late summer from the Northern Hemisphere, the Cocoon Nebula is a living reminder of one of the universe’s most beautiful processes: vast clouds of gas and dust slowly transforming into the next generation of stars.
Picture credit: Chuck Astrophotography / Peter Butler
Harmeet Dhillon resigns as head of DOJ's Civil Rights Division. She's the first senior official to leave the Trump administration after the midterms. https://t.co/R4FOiGH0M0
BREAKING: Trump convened his entire inner circle, including Vance and Rubio, to the White House to watch the midterm results, but after major losses some aides began leaving before 10 p.m., per NYT.
Most attending described it as a "dark and funereal" atmosphere.
Other allies of Trump even said privately that they were happy they were out of town to not witness the losses.
@carlivar@HollywoodBowl@Aerosmith Cantrell first mentioned having a sound issue early on. Seemed like Heart, Crowes, GnR were bad mixes. Axl sounded fine talking and then singing with band was bad. So weird for such a big night. Curious if Night 1 had an issue