Tom D

Astronomer

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

This what a rocket leaving Earth looks like from a plane.

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

On the Left - Apollo 17, 1972
On the Right - Artemis II, 2026

Two photographs of us, taken over half a century apart.

What changed?

[Tom D @tmdame]

@CuriosityonX You can see a sliver of the day side overexposed on the right.

[Tom D @tmdame]

@CuriosityonX The Artemis photo is of the night side of earth. Much more sensitive camera. Cool.

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Freakish idiot children occupying the WH

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

One is crossing a continent. The other is leaving the planet.

A rocket launch seen from commercial plane ✈

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say "The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the fuck they want and make shit up as they go along."

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

"If I can't get Greenland, I'll punish Americans with higher prices"

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Harris camp, amid notes of good news around Philly and college campuses, urges caution about reading too into results from Florida.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Trump: I don't know if you heard the latest statistic that of the jobs these people created, which is very little, every single job was taken, about 107%, by illegal immigrants. @Acyn

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: Given the amount of the mounting evidence of climate change, do you still believe it's a hoax?

Trump: I get awards environmental awards for the way I build it for the water, the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water, I mean, many different, but I've had many awards over the years for environmental, the way I've built because you know about building, that's what you do. It's very important to me… The real global warming that we have to worry about is nuclear. The water is coming up an eighth of an inch over 300 years, the ocean is gonna rise and, you know, nobody knows if that's true or not, but they're worried about the ocean rising an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch in 300 years

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

OMG. This is hysterical!

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Lindsey Graham: I do not support Trump's idea to mandate that insurance companies have to make IVF free. *@atrupar

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Photo from Todd Heisler of The New York Times.

[Tom D @tmdame]

One of the less appreciated events of August on the island—the Perseid Meteor shower—captured at Squibnocket beach in the early morning hours of Aug 12.
@mvtweets @mv4pics @TheMVTimes @vineyardgazette #meteors #Perseids #Astrophotography

[Mona Charen @monacharen]

Quite a stat: “An NBC News poll in April found Biden had a more than 50-point advantage among newspaper readers but trailed by 26 points among voters who said they didn’t follow political news.” https://t.co/pDa4xH6gEV

[Tom D @tmdame]

@mvtweets Double rainbow

[Jeff Storobinsky @JeffStorobinsky]

1.26.24 910 PM ET CNN's @kaitlancollins with Conservative Lawyer and Contributor to @TheAtlantic who played a role in getting @ejeancarroll her justice, George Conway @gtconway3d . Here is the FULL CLIP, no doubt CNN will post it too.
KC : "Do you think this will stop him from talking about her'"?
GC : "Maybe for a few hours or a few days"
The talking points is this segment are astounding
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