Margery Harrison

Good stories cheap.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Floating in the Void: Nature’s Tiny Star Factories

This stunning Hubble portrait reveals one of the universe’s rarest stellar nurseries: Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules—nicknamed frEGGs.

These dark, dense knots of gas and dust drift alone through space like cosmic islands, their outer layers being slowly stripped away by the fierce ultraviolet glare of nearby massive stars. Yet inside these shrinking cocoons, gravity is still winning. Some of the densest cores are collapsing right now, quietly forging new low-mass stars—future suns taking shape in the most unlikely of places.

Isolated, eroded, and yet defiantly creative, these free-floating globules are a reminder that even as the cosmos tries to tear them apart, they refuse to stop giving birth.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai)

[Jimmy P (Gilbert AZ)🇺🇸☮️🦋 @gilbertjimp]

A heartbreaking investigation revealed that Trump's Bureau of Land Management is systematically rounding up thousands of America's wild horses, then quietly selling them off to buyers who are shipping them to slaughterhouses abroad.👇🏼

[Margery Harrison @pargery]

"... whether industrial decline, strategic incoherence and political dysfunction have weakened the U.S. to the point where it would no longer wield decisive force in a multi-front conflict.."
https://t.co/ANuZrcLazL

[Margery Harrison @pargery]

@Havenlust Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Terminating TPS for Haiti means tens of thousands of Americans are losing their caregivers. And if the Trump admin terminates TPS for El Salvador soon, the entire DC/MD/VA construction sector will be devastated, as up to 20% of construction employees are Salvadorans with TPS.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth forces the editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes to resign and replaces him with a loyal minion for breaking the story of sailors throwing themselves off the USS Abraham Lincoln!

The publisher of Stars and Stripes is walking away after more than 30 years at the storied military newspaper as Pete Hegseth's Pentagon moves to exert more control over a publication generations of American service members have trusted for independent news.

Max Lederer, who has served as publisher for nearly two decades, announced his retirement after the Pentagon installed an active-duty Navy public affairs officer as his deputy without even consulting him.

Lederer made clear this was no ordinary retirement. “It has become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization,” he wrote to staff.

That “direction” has been increasingly obvious since Hegseth took over the Pentagon. His Defense Department has derided Stars and Stripes as “woke,” announced plans to overhaul the publication, and fired its independent ombudsman (who is now suing the Pentagon and alleges she was retaliated against for criticizing its attempts to control the paper's editorial content).

Now active-duty Capt. William Urban has been placed directly in the newspaper's senior leadership, which members of the Stars and Stripes advisory board say threatens the separation that has allowed the government-funded newspaper to report independently on the Pentagon for decades.

“How does someone with zero experience in a global news organization walk into a senior-level role at Stars and Stripes?” asked advisory board member and newspaper editor Bill Church. “We should all worry about the future of Stripes.”

Three Democratic senators are worried enough that they've demanded Hegseth explain Urban's role and whether he will have any influence over editorial operations.

And here's why this matters right now: Stars and Stripes has continued doing exactly the kind of journalism an independent military newspaper is supposed to do.
It has reported critically on the mental health crisis and risk of self-harm among sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, even as Hegseth has attacked reporting about conditions aboard the carrier as misrepresenting what's happening.

There are plenty of traditions that survive long after their usefulness has disappeared, but the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes isn't one of them. Through it, the three million people who serve in and work for the Defense Department have a trusted source of news that isn't controlled by the same people who command them.

Hegseth has shown little interest in leading the Pentagon through the institutional restraints, professional expertise and hard-won consensus that traditionally govern an organization of nearly three million people.

He wants to impose his will on it, and an independent newspaper capable of telling those people things their boss doesn't want them to hear plainly doesn't fit that model.

Some traditions are there for a reason. This is one worth fighting for.

[The Hill @thehill]

U.S. Army to phase out drone unit backed by Army leaders that Hegseth sacked

https://t.co/xT08spLcuT

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Navy Sailor Doris Miller. Known for his heroic actions at Pearl Harbor, he carried wounded crew members to safety and shot down Japanese planes before later dying in combat.

Pete Hegseth is considering renaming an Aircraft Carrier after Donald Trump instead of Miller.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If you voted for the Big Beautiful Bill, please don’t get on here and express righteous indignation that the debt is now $40 trillion. Anyone with a room temperature IQ knew that cutting taxes and increasing spending was going to balloon the deficit.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Dear U.S. Senators, especially Republicans.

It's our job to tweet about all the terrible, destructive things this felon president is doing to destroy America.

- Adding $3.8 trillion to the national debt.

- Starting a war with no plan or exit strategy.

- Enriching himself by $3 billion in one year.

- Grifting billions off American taxpayers for unapproved vanity projects.

- Covering up the Epstein files and appointing his personal attorney as AG.

- Drilling, mining, logging and developing our beautiful protected public lands and national forests. Bulldozing a National Park in Texas.

- Making us sicker with measles, salmonella and contaminated food because the FDA was gutted by DOGE.

- Making America less safe by wasting our munitions, and having incompetent leaders in charge of National Security.

- Refusing to sign a bipartisan bill for affordable housing, because he wants the SAVE Act to cheat the midterms.

- Allowing US sailors to live in deplorable conditions while he flies around in a gifted plane from a foreign country.

- Making groceries, gas, and healthcare unaffordable for all Americans - while refunding corporations for his tariffs. (that we paid).

We see all of it.
It's our job to tweet about it.
It's your job to DO SOMETHING.

November is coming. 🇺🇸

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Iran literally destroyed several of our U.S bases when Trump swore they had no Military or weapons left and these are the bases that supplied our Navy ships.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

The House and Senate passed different CRs, so at least one chamber has to pass another CR. Dems should fight to add restrictions on ICE, and claw back funding for ICE. And no UCs, no quiet agreements to let the CR proceed. How can you not fight to stop ICE doing what it's doing?

[Andrea @acolombiadev]

I work at GitHub. yesterday was rough and i'm not pretending otherwise. full root cause report is up if you want the timeline and numbers, and what we are doing to prevent this from happening again.
https://t.co/05do2WFoMa

[Jack Pitney @jpitney]

$40 trillion in debt. Heckuva job, Orangie. https://t.co/VBdjnMsQcv

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A vibrant collage of the Tarantula Nebula 🕷️
This is 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud—a neighboring galaxy 160,000 light-years away. A new image from August 11, 2026, combines data from Chandra (X-ray), James Webb (infrared), and Hubble, revealing thousands of young stars amidst honeycomb-like clouds of gas and dust.

By comparing these observations with the Spitzer archive, astronomers discovered that the nebula is losing energy from several sources, including the leakage of hot gas.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

A U.S. National Park Service engineer warned the Trump administration about the floor of the Lincoln Reflecting Pool peeling in early June due to the renovation process and the materials used for the job, court filings reveal. https://t.co/iCbgfV0dem

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump has turned the presidency into the greatest grift in American history.

It’s madness, and everyone around him is complicit.

[Frank Wu @thefrankwu]

The 5-yr-old in me got VERY EXCITED by this AIRLESS TIRE on construction equipment by work. They have no inner tube but are puncture resistant and strong. I used similar designs on the Fifth Column vehicles for the Lethogica/manual for our videogame "Revolution 60."

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

"Our national debt continues to pose an existential threat to the future of our nation," says House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington, who has led GOP-only bills that increase the national debt by $3.4 trillion (OBBB), $72 billion (ICE/CBP) and $95 billion (Recon 3, in progress).

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The city of Mesa, Arizona is suing major fire truck manufacturers for allegedly colluding to drive up costs and delay deliveries.

A key player in the dangerous consolidation of this market has been private equity. Watch.