Beth⭐️🇺🇦

Welp.

[Beth⭐️🇺🇦 @PersuasivePR]

BREAKING: Scientists have now discovered that a Scaramucci can be divided into an even smaller time span: the Guiliani.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: This man found a loophole in the US Constitution that could end the Electoral College’s power to override the popular vote — without Trump, Congress, or a constitutional amendment.

He’s already gotten states worth 222 electoral votes to sign on.

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

ducks dying at reflecting pool.
https://t.co/w57EjNKCAY

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “Acting AG Todd Blanche told Congress not to worry about the $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists…The DOJ then told the court the same thing—don’t worry, it’s moot, it’s dropped, and then last week, the judge said okay, fine, put it in writing. She ordered Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and an associate AG to all sign ‘a declaration under the penalty of perjury, they will not take any action to create or operate the anti-weaponization fund and that the anti-weaponization fund will not proceed in any manner or under any name.’ Well, today was the deadline for that and guess what? They came back to the court and they said no, we’re NOT doing it. We’re NOT filing any declaration to officially kill the fund, which probably means the slush fund is NOT dead.”🙄🤦‍♀️

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lawrence: Do you have audio tapes of the situation room?

Swan: We’re not going to comment on the tapes.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

For every family who got priced out.

Every renter who gave up on owning.

Every young person forced to move back home.

Congress is closer than ever to passing the biggest housing bill in 30 years.

The ROAD to Housing Act is on its way to becoming law.

[Ancient Hypotheses @AncientEpoch]

LiDAR: Mexico City, Aztec Templo Mayor.

While construction workers were digging a foundation they discovered a 12x12 Foot Monolith depicting Tlaltecuhtli.

“The Lord of the Earth”

[Ce jour-là dans l'Histoire @CeJour_Histoire]

Cette tour gothique en plein Paris ne mène nulle part.

Pas de porte qui compte, pas d'église autour. Juste un clocher seul, planté au milieu d'un square, entre le Châtelet et la rue de Rivoli. Vous êtes passé devant cent fois.

C'est la tour Saint-Jacques. Et c'est une orpheline.

Au Moyen Âge, elle coiffait une église immense, financée par les puissants bouchers du quartier. Nicolas Flamel, le bourgeois que la légende dit alchimiste, y était enterré.

Puis vient la Révolution. L'église est vendue comme simple carrière de pierres, en 1797. On la démonte, on revend les murs.

Mais le contrat de vente pose une condition étrange. Le clocher, lui, doit rester debout.

Il survit donc, seul. Transformé en fonderie de plomb de chasse, puis racheté par la Ville en 1836.

Un détail scelle sa légende. À son sommet, Blaise Pascal aurait refait son expérience sur le poids de l'air. Un clocher devenu laboratoire.

Aujourd'hui, ses 300 marches mènent à une vue à 360 degrés sur tout Paris.

Une église entière a disparu. Son clocher, lui, veille encore.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The castles of Scotland

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Across Britain right now, farmers are shearing their sheep, bagging up the wool, and burning it. Some bury it. Some leave it to rot in a corner of the field. The wool-burning has made the odd headline as a protest, but the truth is duller and sadder. The fleece is worth less than the diesel it would take to haul it to the depot.

The numbers are grim. In recent years a kilo of British wool has fetched somewhere between twenty and sixty pence, and hill breeds like Swaledale and Welsh Mountain sank as low as ten. A whole fleece off a mountain ewe might bring thirty pence. Shearing that same ewe costs the farmer around two pounds. One Lincolnshire farmer added it up out loud: over three pounds to shear and cart a single fleece to the depot, and twenty-six pence back. So she burns them. A great many do.

Here is the part that stings. The shearing still has to happen, every year, whatever the wool will fetch. A sheep left in full fleece overheats, struggles to move, and gets eaten alive by maggots. So the job carries on purely as welfare, a cost the farmer simply eats to spare the animal, with the wool itself going on the fire straight after.

And think about what this fibre once was. For centuries wool was the engine of the English economy, the country's greatest export and the crown's main source of tax. It raised the soaring wool churches of the Cotswolds. It turned merchants into princes. To this day, whoever presides over the House of Lords sits on the Woolsack, a literal cushion of wool, put there in the fourteenth century so nobody would forget where the nation's wealth began.

Prices have lifted off the floor this past year, the first real relief in a long while. It still does not cover the shears for a hill farmer. The fibre that built England now smoulders in a heap behind the barn, and almost nobody notices the smoke.

[Mack's Cats @maxkatz515]

Catfish at war - amazing

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Spanish moss isn't Spanish, nor is it moss. It's a bromeliad, Tillandsia usneoides, a flowering plant that feeds itself entirely through tiny scales on its leaves, pulling moisture and nutrients directly from the air and rain.

It has no roots at all. It uses trees for support the way you'd use a fence post, taking nothing from them, doing no damage. The belief that it kills trees is backwards: Spanish moss tends to thrive on trees that are already weakening, because the thinning canopy lets in more light. The moss didn't cause the problem. It just moved into a sunnier spot.

The name came from a Franco-Spanish argument in the 1600s. French explorers, unimpressed by the conquistadors, named it "Spanish beard." The Spanish fired back by calling it "French hair." Neither side won. The English just went with "Spanish moss" and called it a day.

What it actually does in the ecosystem: northern parula warblers nest almost exclusively inside clumps of it in the Southeast. Bats roost in it. It shelters spiders, insects, and small tree frogs. It's gray, ghostly, and drapes across live oaks like something out of a gothic novel.

It's also a native plant doing exactly what it evolved to do, hanging there making its own food from thin air, bothering no one, and being deeply misunderstood for four centuries.

[Chris Cristi @abc7chriscristi]

UPDATE: The Lineage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles is continuing to burn into the 6th straight day. LAFD is surgically removing the facade of the building to allow water flow from the perimeter of the facility as it is unsafe for firefighters to fight the fire from the inside.

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

$600 MILLION for a vanity ballroom.
$29+ BILLION for an illegal war.
$300 BILLION for Iran.

Even $14 MILLION for an algae-infested pool.

But not a single penny for the 770,000 hungry kids in our country.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

THERE IT IS:

Another challenge to Trump's sweetheart deal that immunizes him from I.R.S. reviews

Group of former federal tax officials (who've served in Admins. of both parties) have filed brief challenging the deal in federal court in Florida

https://t.co/6EkAWAUxK3

(MORE)

[Ben Sainsbury @ben_weather]

Probably my best clip from today showing the dramatic shelf cloud and the green tinge. The storm was near peak intensity at this point near Shepton Mallet🌩️

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 CHINESE SCIENTISTS JUST INVENTED 3D PRINTING THAT CREATES OBJECTS IN 0.6 SECONDS USING ONLY LIGHT.

Researchers at Tsinghua University have developed a new method called DISH (Digital Incoherent Synthesis of Holographic light fields) that can print complex millimeter-scale objects almost instantly. Instead of slowly building layer by layer, the system fires thousands of precisely patterned light images from multiple angles into a still vat of liquid resin.

Where the light overlaps, the resin instantly hardens into a solid 3D object.
The entire process takes just 0.6 seconds.

Why this matters:

• It’s currently the fastest volumetric 3D printing method ever demonstrated
• Achieves extremely fine detail features thinner than a human hair
• The resin stays completely still, so there’s no vibration or distortion
• It can work with watery (low-viscosity) resins, making it suitable for biological applications
• The team has already printed complex structures like blood vessel-like tubes and even a tiny bust of a historical figure

The deeper implication:

Traditional 3D printing has always been limited by speed and the need to move either the print head or the resin. This approach removes both constraints by using light itself as the sculptor. Because it can print directly into still liquid (and potentially onto living tissue), it opens new possibilities in bioprinting, medical devices, and rapid manufacturing.

If the technology can be scaled beyond millimeter sizes, it could fundamentally change how we think about making physical objects turning “print” from a slow process into something closer to instantaneous fabrication.
We’re moving from “layer by layer” to “all at once.”

How do you think instant volumetric 3D printing like this could change medicine, manufacturing, or everyday life if it becomes widely available?

Follow for more frontier manufacturing and materials science breakthroughs.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Vermont has banned AI chatbot therapy, passing a law that requires a mental health professional to conduct therapeutic services.

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Now that’s a pic!

This evening’s thunderstorm approaching Glastonbury.

By Mike Jeffries via Facebook.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The DOJ Civil Division would have been the office to handle Trump's IRS lawsuit settlement.

So we requested records.

And they said they had none...

Having no trace of this lawsuit is HIGHLY irregular.
https://t.co/YDBSnsQz4g

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The first time people see this place, they assume it is AI-generated. It is not. This wonder is real and it has stood in the sea for thirteen hundred years...

It is called Mont Saint-Michel, a small island off the coast of Normandy, where a medieval abbey rises in tiers of stone straight out of the sea, climbing to a single golden spire nearly a hundred metres above the water.

There is nothing around it. It stands alone in a vast bay, and the effect is so strange that the eye struggles to accept it: a whole city of stone, floating between the water and the sky.

What makes it stranger still is that the sea around it disappears. Mont Saint-Michel sits in a bay with the highest tides in continental Europe. Twice a day the ocean retreats for kilometres, leaving the abbey stranded on a desert of wet sand, and twice a day it floods back in and turns the rock into an island again. The same place is, within hours, surrounded by ocean and surrounded by emptiness. For more than a thousand years, this rhythm has never once stopped.

Victor Hugo, who loved it, described it perfectly in 1884: “Mont-Saint-Michel is to France what the Great Pyramid is to Egypt.”

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