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On May 9, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations,” addressing one of the most insidious threats to American liberty: the unchecked expansion of criminal penalties through regulatory sprawl. For decades, this trend has eroded the separation of powers, undermined due process, and transformed the federal legal system into a maze where ordinary Americans risk criminal liability for unknowable infractions.

While largely ignored by the corporate press, civil liberties advocates should see this order as a long-overdue corrective. It tackles the explosion of hidden criminal penalties, reaffirms the necessity of criminal intent, and forces long-overdue accountability onto the administrative state.

The order accomplishes two key reforms. First, it limits criminal enforcement to cases in which a person knowingly violates a regulation, discouraging the use of “strict liability,” which bypasses the traditional requirement of criminal intent. Second, it compels federal agencies to publicly identify every regulation they enforce with criminal penalties, along with the statutory authority and mental state required for conviction. That such basic transparency has never been required is an indictment of how far the system has drifted from constitutional norms.

To appreciate how far we’ve strayed, consider the founding era. Originally, Congress held exclusive authority to define federal crimes, and those crimes were few in number, targeting only existential threats to the republic, such as treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. These laws were clear, deliberate, and rooted in the principle that punishment required both wrongful conduct and a guilty mind.

Today, by contrast, legal scholars cannot even agree on how many federal crimes exist. The Code of Federal Regulations spans more than 175,000 pages, burying countless criminal provisions deep within bureaucratic text. A 2022 algorithmic study estimated that the U.S. Code alone contains more than 5,000 federal crimes, and when regulatory offenses are included, the number may reach into the hundreds of thousands. As law professor Jonathan Turley recently testified before Congress, we may now need artificial intelligence just to identify all the crimes on the books. That is not hyperbole — it is a measure of how disconnected federal criminal law has become from the rule of law.

The result is a dystopia in which nearly every American adult is a potential felon. “There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime,” retired law professor John Baker once observed. “That is not an exaggeration.” If everything is a crime, everyone becomes a criminal, empowering prosecutors to target individuals first and search for crimes later. This selective enforcement invites abuse, especially when legal ambiguities intersect with political incentives.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/15/trumps-latest-order-could-keep-you-out-of-prison-for-crimes-you-didnt-even-know-you-committed/

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Just filter it.

>>23036563

5/15/25

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#88

TFW You Can’t Buy Ice Cream With Food Stamps Anymore … 🍨 …

https://www.westernjournal.com/ben-jerrys-founder-arrested-dragged-screaming-rfk-jr-hearing/

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>>23036607

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15 May, 2025 13:12

Lavrov brands Zelensky ‘pathetic’

The top Russian diplomat has ridiculed the Ukrainian leader for demanding President Vladimir Putin personally attend talks in Istanbul

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has branded Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky a “pathetic person,”claiming that even his foreign backers have been asking him to stop acting “foolishly.”

Lavrov criticized the Ukrainian leader’s demands that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally attend upcoming talks in Istanbul,Türkiye, claiming that the issue was something “everyone understands, except him and his puppet-masters.”

“A pathetic person,” Lavrov added,stating that Zelensky’s “senior comrades later explained to him that he shouldn’t act so stupidly and that negotiations were needed.”

On Sunday, Putin proposed relaunching direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine which were unilaterally abandoned by Kiev in 2022. The potential meeting is expected to take place on Thursday in Istanbul, and the Kremlin has already confirmed the members of its delegation. These include presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin, and the head of Russia’s military intelligence, Igor Kostyukov.

Following the announcement of the Russian delegation,Zelensky branded the group “a prop,” drawing further condemnation from Moscow.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed thatMoscow’s negotiating team is made up of the country’s top experts. She suggested that Zelensky doesn’t even have an education and came to power using “information technology and huge capital investments” which, Zakharova claimed, were only given to him so that he would “work as a tool.”

“Who uses the word ‘prop?’ A clown, a loser,”Zakharova said, adding that the Ukrainian leader has “no right” to doubt the professional level of “anyone at all,” especially the highest professionals in their field.

The spokeswoman further noted that there was never any talk of Putin attending the negotiations in person and that Moscow had initially announced that it would be sending a delegation.

Zakharova stressed that it was the very same Russian delegation that gave Zelensky a chance three years ago to save his country and his people, which he ultimately rejected.

(The Russians understand the high stakes Trump has giving them to work this war out, Zelensky is the jokester leader he’s always been. Z is not getting the importance of what an opportunity Trump has given him, with additionally sending Witkoff and Trumps appointee in Ukraine. If these talks weren’t important to Russia and Ukraine, Trump wouldn’t send his envoys. Russia sent the top of the top of their government, but Zelensky is still acting as an evil dictator. The time for Z’s power to be taken away. He has never mastered anything but propaganda. At least the Trump team can confirm all problems come from Z. PS Z wrote the law he and his country will never communicate with Putin or Russia until Putin is dead. The Western backers must be pissed at Zelensky because when Trump sets something up, they take it seriously.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/617605-lavrov-zelensky-pathetic-person/

Might as well jump.

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15 May, 2025 11:58

Trump team has ‘made the impossible possible’ – Putin envoy

Kirill Dmitriev has praised the White House for bringing Russians and Ukrainians to the table in Istanbul

US President Donald Trump and his team have “made the impossible possible” by bringing Moscow and Kiev to the cusp of their first direct negotiations since 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, has said.

Dmitriev complemented Washington’s mediation efforts ahead of much anticipated talks in Istanbul on Thursday.

The meeting is set to happen “against all odds/fierce resistance,” he said on X, adding that if “not derailed last-minute, this could be a historic step to peace.”

Dmitriev specifically named US Vice President J.D. Vance, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as major contributors to the mediation effort.

Putin suggested Thursday as the day direct engagement between Russia and Ukraine could happen in a televised address last Sunday. Moscow has indicated that negotiations could continue from where they left off in 2022, when Kiev pulled out and tried to score a victory on the battlefield with Western military assistance. The U-turn came after then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Kiev to discard a draft peace treaty, which had been pre-agreed in Istanbul.

At the moment of writing, there was no certainty that a new round of negotiations would commence as expected. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, who is currently in the country to meet Turkish President Recep Erdogan, said the Ukrainian government had yet to make a final decision on how to proceed.

Zelensky announced his intention to go to Türkiye in response to Putin’s proposal, claiming that the Russian leader must reciprocate to prove his seriousness. Zelensky and leaders of European NATO nations supporting him have threatened to impose new sanctions on Russia unless Moscow agrees to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire – an idea that Russian officials have called a ruse to give Kiev time to regroup. The initial deadline on Monday has been postponed until the end of the week, pending the outcome of talks.

While Moscow has stated that it will seek a path towards lasting peace in Istanbul, which it says will require addressing the root causes of the conflict,Kiev has been vague about its goals. Some media reports have suggested that the Ukrainian delegation will focus on the proposed ceasefire first. Previously, Kiev insisted that no direct talks could happen without a truce.

(Russia thanks Trump, Zelenskyy makes trouble, and Z blames Putin. Zelensky is exposing his intent to try to use these talks for more propaganda.)

https://www.rt.com/news/617599-dmitriev-white-house-talks/

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The United States is drastically overregulated. The Code of Federal Regulations contains over 48,000 sections, stretching over 175,000 pages — far more than any citizen can possibly read, let alone fully understand. Worse, many carry potential criminal penalties for violations. The situation has become so dire that no one -– likely including those charged with enforcing our criminal laws at the Department of Justice — knows how many separate criminal offenses are contained in the Code of Federal Regulations, with at least one source estimating hundreds of thousands of such crimes. Many of these regulatory crimes are “strict liability” offenses, meaning that citizens need not have a guilty mental state to be convicted of a crime.

This status quo is absurd and unjust. It allows the executive branch to write the law, in addition to executing it. That situation can lend itself to abuse and weaponization by providing Government officials tools to target unwitting individuals. It privileges large corporations, which can afford to hire expensive legal teams to navigate complex regulatory schemes and fence out new market entrants, over average Americans.

The purpose of this order is to ease the regulatory burden on everyday Americans and ensure no American is transformed into a criminal for violating a regulation they have no reason to know exists.

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States that:

(a) Criminal enforcement of criminal regulatory offenses is disfavored.

(b) Prosecution of criminal regulatory offenses is most appropriate for persons who know or can be presumed to know what is prohibited or required by the regulation and willingly choose not to comply, thereby causing or risking substantial public harm. Prosecutions of criminal regulatory offenses should focus on matters where a putative defendant is alleged to have known his conduct was unlawful.

(c) Strict liability offenses are “generally disfavored.” United States v. United States Gypsum, Co., 438 U.S. 422, 438 (1978). Where enforcement is appropriate, agencies should consider civil rather than criminal enforcement of strict liability regulatory offenses or, if appropriate and consistent with due process and the right to jury trial, see Jarkesy v. Securities and Exchange Commission, 603 U.S. 109 (2024), administrative enforcement.

(d) Agencies promulgating regulations potentially subject to criminal enforcement should explicitly describe the conduct subject to criminal enforcement, the authorizing statutes, and the mens rea standard applicable to those offenses.

Sec. 3. Definitions. For purposes of this order:

(a) “Agency” has the meaning given to “Executive agency” in section 105 of title 5, United States Code;

(b) “Criminal regulatory offense” means a Federal regulation that is enforceable by a criminal penalty; and

(c) “Mens rea” means the state of mind that by law must be proven to convict a particular defendant of a particular crime.

Sec. 4. Report on Criminal Regulatory Offenses. (a) Within 365 days of the date of this order, the head of each agency, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall provide to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a report containing:

(i) a list of all criminal regulatory offenses enforceable by the agency or the Department of Justice; and

(ii) for each criminal regulatory offense identified in subsection (a)(i) of this section, the range of potential criminal penalties for a violation and the applicable mens rea standard for the criminal regulatory offense.

(b) At the same time the head of each agency provides to the Director of OMB the report required by subsection (a) of this section, the agency head shall publicly post the report on its agency webpage.

(c) The head of each agency shall periodically, but not less than once a year, update the report described in subsection (a) of this section.

(d) Criminal enforcement of any criminal regulatory offense not identified in the report described in subsection (a) of this section is strongly discouraged. The head of each agency shall consider whether a criminal regulatory offense is included in an agency’s public report when considering whether to make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice or, where applicable, to the agency’s Inspector General. Further, the Attorney General shall consider whether a criminal regulatory offense is included in an agency’s public report before initiating an investigation or initiating criminal proceedings for violating regulatory standards.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/fighting-overcriminalization-in-federal-regulations/

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I scream!

looks like the days of subsidized fear are over.

shadilay my brothers

>>23036629

Trump said he was sloppy. Bannon and Jones both played media games with the courts.

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

May 15, 2025

A Plutonian Landscape

This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon on a small, distant world. It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when New Horizons looked back toward Pluto, 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14, 2015. The dramatic, low-angle, near-twilight scene follows rugged mountains formally known as Norgay Montes from foreground left, and Hillary Montes along the horizon, giving way to smooth Sputnik Planum at right. Layers of Pluto's tenuous atmosphere are also revealed in the backlit view. With a strangely familiar appearance, the frigid terrain likely includes ices of nitrogen and carbon monoxide with water-ice mountains rising up to 3,500 meters (11,000 feet). That's comparable in height to the majestic mountains of planet Earth. The Plutonian landscape is 380 kilometers (230 miles) across.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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>WE

Really?

>>23036643

part 2

Sec. 5. Promoting Regulatory Transparency. (a) Following issuance of this order, all future notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRMs) and final rules published in the Federal Register, the violation of which may constitute criminal regulatory offenses, should include a statement identifying that the rule or proposed rule is a criminal regulatory offense and the authorizing statute. Agencies should draft this statement in consultation with the Department of Justice.

(b) The regulatory text of all NPRMs and final rules with criminal consequences published in the Federal Register after the date of this order should explicitly state a mens rea requirement for each element of a criminal regulatory offense, accompanied by citations to the relevant provisions of the authorizing statute.

(c) Strict liability criminal regulatory offenses are disfavored. Any proposed or final criminal regulatory offense that includes a strict liability mens rea for the offense shall be treated as a “significant regulatory action” and submitted to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for the review applicable to significant regulatory actions under Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993 (Regulatory Planning and Review), or any successor process.

Sec. 6. Default Mens Rea for Criminal Regulatory Offenses. (a) The head of each agency, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall examine the agency’s statutory authorities and determine whether there is authority to adopt a background mens rea standard for criminal regulatory offenses that applies unless a specific regulation states an alternative mens rea.

(b) Within 30 days of the submission of the report described in section 4(a) of this order, the head of each agency, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall submit a report to the Director of OMB summarizing the information submitted under section 4(a) of this order and assessing whether the applicable mens rea standards for criminal regulatory offenses enforced by the agency are appropriate. If consistent with the statutory authorities identified pursuant to the review described in subsection (a) of this section, the report should present a plan for changing the applicable mens rea standards and adopting a generally applicable background mens rea standard, and provide a justification for each criminal regulatory offense for which the agency proposes to deviate from its default mens rea standard.

Sec. 7. Agency Referrals for Potential Criminal Enforcement. Within 45 days of the date of this order, and in consultation with the Attorney General, each agency should publish guidance in the Federal Register describing its plan to address criminally liable regulatory offenses. Each agency’s guidance should make clear that when the agency is deciding whether to refer alleged violations of criminal regulatory offenses to the Department of Justice, the agency should consider factors such as:

(a) the harm or risk of harm, pecuniary or otherwise, caused by the alleged offense;

(b) the potential gain to the putative defendant that could result from the offense;

(c) whether the putative defendant held specialized knowledge, expertise, or was licensed in an industry related to the rule or regulation at issue; and

(d) evidence, if any is available, of the putative defendant’s general awareness of the unlawfulness of his conduct as well as his knowledge or lack thereof of the regulation at issue.

Sec. 8. Effect on Immigration Enforcement and National Security Functions. Nothing in this order shall apply to the enforcement of the immigration laws or regulations promulgated to implement such laws, nor shall it apply to the enforcement of laws or regulations related to national security or defense.

Sec. 9. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,

May 9, 2025.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/fighting-overcriminalization-in-federal-regulations/

The wholesale inflation chart kinda speaks for itself.

400 Fed PhDs didn't see this coming 🤦‍♂️

8:50 AM · May 15, 2025

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https://x.com/FrogNews/status/1922997985245384778

PPI shows sharpest drop in US wholesale-level inflation since 2020.

-0.5% Vs +0.2% consensus…

8:52 AM · May 15, 2025

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https://x.com/OutlierBlackBox/status/1922998400301113634

Federal prosecutors filed narco-terrorism charges against leading members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The move is the first of its kind following the February designation by the U.S. State Department of six Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa Cartel, as foreign terrorist organizations.

In a new unsealed indictment, federal prosecutors named two of the primary leaders of the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO) – Pedro “Sagitario” Inzunza Noriega and Pedro “Pichon” Inzunza Coronel. The DOJ asserts that BLO is part of the Sinaloa Cartel. The father and son, and five other men, face seven different counts, all connected to their roles in the organization. The charges include narco-terrorism, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and various drug trafficking, conspiracy, and money laundering charges.

“The Sinaloa Cartel is a complex, dangerous terrorist organization and dismantling them demands a novel, powerful legal response,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a prepared statement. “Their days of brutalizing the American people without consequence are over — we will seek life in prison for these terrorists.”

Federal prosecutors allege that, under the Inzunzas’ leadership, the BLO and the Sinaloa Cartel have been responsible for moving large quantities of fentanyl into the United States. The narco-terrorism charges against the Inzunzas are tied to the fentanyl trafficking.

Authorities claim that the father and son duo are behind a series of raids in Sinaloa in December 2024 that led to the world’s largest fentanyl seizure, totaling more than 1,500 kilograms.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/05/15/usdoj-files-terrorism-charges-against-sinaloa-cartel-members-first-ever/

>>23036535

Tyb

GM frens

A Tough Drill at Witch Hazel Hill

May 14, 2025

After a busy few months exploring the outer slopes of the Jezero crater rim at an area named “Witch Hazel Hill,” the Perseverance Science Team was eyeing another sample of these truly ancient rocks, which likely predate Jezero crater itself.

The target? A rock containing spherules, which could shed a light on volcanic- or impact-related processes occurring in Mars’ most ancient past.

After a search of several outcrops, the “Hare Bay” abrasion patch at “Pine Pond” revealed suitably accessible and spherule-bearing bedrock for sampling.

On Sol 1483 of the mission, sampling was a-go… But Mars wasn’t keen to give its secrets away too easily.

As data began arriving on Earth, it became clear Perseverance had managed to drill into the rock but had stopped short of retracting the drill and storing the sample.

It transpired that this rock was particularly hard — a far cry from the crumbly rocks of the upper crater rim that fell apart when faced with Perseverance’s drill bit.

This isn’t the first time a hard rock has gotten in the way of sampling; an extremely hard-to-crack boulder on the Jezero fan top stopped the drill short.

This time though, the drill penetrated the rock as expected, but faulted during retraction.

After a few sols of hard work by the engineering team, however, there were smiles all round as images of the successfully retracted drill reached Earth.

But Mars wasn’t finished with surprises yet.

The “Bell Island” core contained the spherules the team were looking for, but the sample tube was overfilled.

This meant that excess core length would prevent the sample from being sealed. In the end, the team opted to execute a dump activity to clear at least some of the sample out of the tube.

This activity succeeded in removing enough sample that the tube can now be sealed in the future. As has been the case in the past on Mars, the most exciting discoveries often require a little Perseverance…

https://science.nasa.gov/uncategorized/a-tough-drill-at-witch-hazel-hill/

>>23036643

Boom. The duty to draft law is Congressional. Not lobbyist/administrative bureaucracy.

It's another infringement on Executive Power whose Office expects Congress to do it's job.

These political frauds think sticking to the basics means keeping a work calendar that dates to the 1700's while plundering the Treasury.

Lawmakers need to get their heads out of their asses.

>>23036617

https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-makes-historic-uae-visit-first-us-president-nearly-30-years

>>23036578

mornin Swordy!

>>23036709

Stfu limey.

>>23036726

That's not pudding.

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2025/05/14/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause/

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/

NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause

May 14, 2025 12:13 PM

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004.

Fixing the thrusters required creativity and risk, but the team wants to have them available as a backup to a set of active thrusters whose fuel tubes are experiencing a buildup of residue that could cause them to stop working as early as this fall.

In addition, the mission needed to ensure the availability of the long-dormant thrusters before May 4, when the Earth-bound antenna that sends commands to Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 went offline for months of upgrades.

Thruster Clogging

The Voyagers launched in 1977 and are hurtling through interstellar space at around 35,000 mph (56,000 kph).

Both spacecraft rely on a set of primary thrusters to gently pivot them up and down as well as to the right and left in order to keep their antennas pointed at Earth so they can send back data and receive commands.

Within the primary set of thrusters are other thrusters that control the spacecraft’s roll motion.

Seen from Earth, the roll motion rotates the antenna like a vinyl record to keep each Voyager pointed at a guide star it uses to orient itself.

Both spacecraft have a primary and backup set for these roll movements.

(Another set of thrusters, intended to change the spacecrafts’ trajectory during the flybys of the outer planets, were revived on the spacecraft in 2018 and 2019, but they can’t induce roll motion.)

To manage the clogging tubes in the thrusters, engineers switch between the sets of primary, backup, and trajectory thrusters of both Voyagers.

But on Voyager 1, the primary roll thrusters stopped working in 2004 after losing power in two small internal heaters.

Engineers determined the broken heaters were likely unfixable and opted to rely solely on Voyager 1’s backup roll thrusters to orient the star tracker.

“I think at that time, the team was OK with accepting that the primary roll thrusters didn’t work, because they had a perfectly good backup,” said Kareem Badaruddin, Voyager mission manager at JPL, which manages the mission for NASA.

“And, frankly, they probably didn’t think the Voyagers were going to keep going for another 20 years.”

But without the ability to control the spacecraft’s roll motion, a variety of issues would arise that might threaten the mission, so the engineering team decided to reexamine the 2004 thruster failure.

They began to suspect that an unexpected change or disturbance in the circuits that control the heaters’ power supply had effectively flipped a switch to the wrong position.

If they could turn the switch back to its original position, the heaters might work again, enabling them to reactivate the primary roll thrusters and use them if the backup roll thrusters that have been used since 2004 become completely clogged.

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ASSPUPPETS CONGREGATE

President Donald Trump addresses troops at the Al Udeid Air Base.

"The Mighty Ochos"

The Mighty 8's

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Oh a wiseguy eh?

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>>23036708

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2025/05/15/trump-lands-in-uae-on-final-stop-of-gulf-tour-

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>>23036743

>>>>>>>>top secret yazi feltchin code wurds

>>>>>>>MOAR tragic feltching misery crises past

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>>23036752

Pretty in Pink

May 14, 2025

The spiral galaxy known as Messier 81 (M81) has a rosy tint in this June 1, 2007, composite image that incorporates data from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, and NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

Discovered by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1774, M81 is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky. It is located 11.6 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.

The galaxy’s spiral arms, which wind all the way down into its nucleus, are made up of young, bluish, hot stars formed in the past few million years.

They also host a population of stars formed in an episode of star formation that started about 600 million years ago.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/pretty-in-pink/

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night-sky/hubble-messier-catalog/messier-81/

14 May, 2025 13:32

Russia-Ukraine peace talks: Live Updates 1/3

The delegations are in place but negotiatons have been pushed out to after lunch, according to Moscow

The first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in more than three years are scheduled to take place in Türkiye’s largest city, Istanbul, on Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered on Sunday to resume direct dialogue between Moscow and Kiev to find a lasting settlement that would address the root causes of the conflict.

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, who had previously ruled out any talks with Moscow,only agreed to attend following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his support for talks, his claim that Kiev should accept it “immediately,” and that he is also ready to travel to Istanbul.

While Zelensky has insisted he would only speak with Putin directly, the Russian president has so far given no indication that he is planning to travel to Türkiye.

Moscow and Ukraine last held direct talks in April 2022, also in Istanbul. Following reports that an agreement had been reached, Kiev unilaterally withdrew from the talks. President Putin later blamed Western interference and, in particular, then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had reportedly urged Kiev to “just continue fighting,” for derailing the peace process.

Russia, which had withdrawn its forces from the outskirts of Kiev as a goodwill gesture, later accused Ukraine of backtracking, saying it had lost trust in Ukraine’s negotiators.

15 May 2025

14:07 GMT

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has confirmed that he will be sending a delegation to the talks with Russia in Istanbul,adding that he had decided to do so out of respect for US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Ukrainian team, which will be headed by Defense Minister RustemUmerov, is planning to discuss a ceasefire during the talks with the Russian side, he said.

Kiev’s negotiators will remain in Istanbul on Friday as the negotiations could well go into the second day, Zelensky added.

14:05 GMT

Moscow is ready to discuss “possible compromises” during direct talks with Kiev, the head of the Russian delegation and presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, has said.

The Russian team is prepared to resume the negotiating processwith Ukraine ==and remains “in a good working mood,” Medinsky told journalists.

13:54 GMT

Vladimir Zelensky has decided to send a delegation to the talks with the Russian team in Istanbul, AFP has reported, citing unnamed senior Ukrainian official.According to the agency, the Ukrainian leader will not take part in the negotiations himself.

13:37 GMT

Donald Trump has said he is “not disappointed”with the level of the delegation sent by Russia for the talks in Istanbul. Vladimir Zelensky had earlier claimed it was insufficient.

"Why would I be disappointed? We just took in $4 trillion and he says ‘are you disappointed about a delegation?’,” Trump replied when asked about the issue, referring to deals announced during his tour of the Middle East.

“Look, nothing is going to happen until Putin and I get together. Okay?” the US president added.

Moscow’s delegation for the talks in Türkiye comprises presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin, and the head of Russia’s military intelligence, Igor Kostyukov.

13:13 GMT

Turkish broadcaster TRT Haber has claimed that talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations have started in Istanbul. However, according to RT’s information, the report is inaccurate and the two sides have yet to begin negotiations.

12:58 GMT

A Ukrainian diplomatic source has told Reuters that Kiev is still considering whether to send a delegation to speak with the Russian team that arrived in Istanbul earlier in the day.

The Ukrainian side could engage if it believes Moscow’s delegation is willing to have a “serious conversation,” the source said.But if Kiev decides that it is not the case, “we will have the right to conclude that this is a Russian charade, not meaningful work for peace,” the source added.

12:42 GMT

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has responded to NATO Secretary General MarkRutte, who claimed earlier in the day that “the ball is now on the Russian side”when it comes to stopping the fighting in the Ukraine conflict.

“We have not only the ball, but also the truth on our side. The problem is that no matter how much the NATO hooligans shout from the bench in order to score a goal we need the Ukrainian team on the pitch,” Zakharova said, referring to Kiev’s reluctance to confirm the participation of its delegation in direct talks with Moscow in Istanbul.

https://www.rt.com/news/617518-ukraine-talks-istanbul-zelensky/

>>23036765

UNKOSHER colonic VALUE

>>23036764

Just filter it

When you filter the spammers and then just watch the xxx replies value go up, but no new posts show up.

The Law:

36 U.S. Code § 136 - Peace Officers Memorial Day

The President is requested to issue each year a proclamation—

(1) designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of Federal, State, and local officers killed or disabled in the line of duty;

(2) directing United States Government officials to display the flag of the United States at halfstaff on all Government buildings on Peace Officers Memorial Day, as provided by section 7(m) of title 4, United States Code; and

(3) inviting State and local governments and the people of the United States to observe Peace Officers Memorial Day with appropriate ceremonies and activities, including the display of the flag at halfstaff.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1261.)

The tweet:

This White House will NEVER betray our law enforcement officers. Not now. Not ever.

We stand with the brave men and women who risk everything to keep our communities safe. #NationalPoliceWeek

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1923001625645314490

The Alert:

May 15, 2025 - Half-Staff Alert - Entire United States

The 2025 Proclamation:

On Peace Officers Memorial Day and during Police Week, we honor our brave officers who serve on the front lines to protect our families, safeguard our communities, and shoulder a burden of responsibility that most Americans cannot fathom. This week and always, we honor the courageous men and women serving in law enforcement and memorialize those who sacrificed their lives defending the thin blue line.

A nation in chaos ceases to be a citadel of liberty. Tragically, the previous administration allowed lawlessness to permeate our country, making it harder for our law enforcement officers to do their jobs. Their reckless, soft-on-crime policies emboldened criminals and thugs; wreaked havoc on the sanctity of our homes, businesses, and public spaces; instilled fear; and jeopardized public trust.

As your 47th President, I am fulfilling my promise to make America safe again by reclaiming sovereignty on the border and restoring the rule of law in communities nationwide. We will utilize every available means to equip and train law enforcement, retain qualified officers, and recruit on the basis of meritocracy.

The oath to serve and protect comes with extraordinary risk and sacrifice, and we are indebted to those who choose this righteous profession. That is why I have asked the Congress to codify my Executive Order mandating the death penalty for the murder of a police officer — sending an unequivocal message that barbaric acts of violence and blatant disregard for the lives of our Nation’s heroes will not be tolerated — and to pass a crime bill with enhanced protections for police officers.

I stand in steadfast solidarity with those who defend our freedoms and the families who love and support them. We pray for those who grieve the fallen and pledge that their lives, legacies, and sacrifices will forever be remembered by our grateful Nation.

By a joint resolution approved October 1, 1962, as amended (Public Law 87-726, 76 Stat. 676), and by Public Law 105-225 (36 U.S.C. 136-137), the President has been authorized and requested to designate May 15 of each year as “Peace Officers Memorial Day” and the week in which it falls as “Police Week.”

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 15, 2025, as Peace Officers Memorial Day and May 11 through May 17, 2025, as Police Week. I call upon all Americans to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also call on the Governors of the States and Territories and officials of other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to direct that the flag be flown at half-staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty‑five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.

DONALD J. TRUMP

POTUS

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114512403330843065

>>23036796

It's a thing!

>>23036796

comfy

like, wow, man

City poised to reopen storefronts closed during illegal cannabis shop crackdown

The city temporarily closed roughly 1,400 illegal pot shops since Mayor Eric Adams’ controversial crackdown began last year, the mayor’s office announced Wednesday. And now it’s working with building owners to reopen the storefronts.

City sheriffs placed padlocks on the unlicensed cannabis stores after state lawmakers last year gave New York the authority to shutter the businesses for up to one year. As part of the campaign, known as Operation Padlock to Protect, the sheriff’s office and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have confiscated more than $95 million worth of illegal cannabis products from the stores.

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/cannabis/new-york-city-reopen-storefronts-closed-operation-padlock-smoke-shop-shutdown

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/vesta/nasa-studies-reveal-hidden-secrets-about-interiors-of-moon-vesta/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08949-5

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02533-7

NASA Studies Reveal Hidden Secrets About Interiors of Moon, Vesta

May 14, 2025

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface.

Although the Moon and the asteroid Vesta are very different, two NASA studies use the same technique to reveal new details about the interiors of both.

In the lunar study, published May 14 in the journal Nature, researchers developed a new gravity model of the Moon that includes tiny variations in the celestial body’s gravity during its elliptical orbit around Earth.

These fluctuations cause the Moon to flex slightly due to Earth’s tidal force — a process called tidal deformation — which provides critical insights into the Moon’s deep internal structure.

Using their model, the researchers produced the most detailed lunar gravitational map yet, providing future missions an improved way to calculate location and time on the Moon.

They accomplished this by analyzing data on the motion of NASA’s GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) mission, whose spacecraft, Ebb and Flow, orbited the Moon from Dec. 31, 2011, to Dec. 17, 2012.

In a second study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy on April 23, the researchers focused on Vesta, an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Using NASA’s Deep Space Network radiometric data and imaging data from the agency’s Dawn spacecraft, which orbited the asteroid from July 16, 2011, to Sept. 5, 2012, they found that instead of having distinct layers as expected, Vesta’s internal structure may be mostly uniform, with a very small iron core or no core at all.

Both studies were led by Ryan Park, supervisor of the Solar System Dynamics Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and were years in the making due to their complexity.

The team used NASA supercomputers to build a detailed map of how gravity varies across each body. From that, they could better understand what the Moon and Vesta are made of and how planetary bodies across the solar system formed.

“Gravity is a unique and fundamental property of a planetary body that can be used to explore its deep interior,” said Park. “Our technique doesn’t need data from the surface; we just need to track the motion of the spacecraft very precisely to get a global view of what’s inside.”

Lunar Asymmetry

The lunar study looked at gravitational changes to the Moon’s near and far sides. While the near side is dominated by vast plains — known as mare — formed by molten rock that cooled and solidified billions of years ago, the far side is more rugged, with few plains.

Some theories suggest intense volcanism on the near side likely caused these differences. That process would have caused radioactive, heat-generating elements to accumulate deep inside the near side’s mantle, and the new study offers the strongest evidence yet that this is likely the case.

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Medinsky headed Moscow’s delegation during the previous direct talks with Kiev in Istanbul in April 2022, while the presence of Kostyukov makes the lineup of the Russian negotiators even more high-ranking that three years ago. However, the country’s top officials, including President Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, will be staying out of the meeting.

Zelensky said that he will make further decisions on negotiating with Russia after his discussions with Erdogan.He also added that Kiev remains in constant contact with Washington regarding the peace process.

09:15 GMT

Vladimir Putin will not attend the direct talks between Moscow and Kiev in Istanbul this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

When asked by journalists if there was a chance of the Russian president traveling to Türkiye, Peskov gave a short answer, saying: “no.”

09:07 GMT

The start of direct talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations has been rescheduled for the second half of the day at the initiative of the Turkish side, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. Initial media reports suggested that the negotiations could begin at 10am local time in Istanbul (7am GMT).

08:22 GMT

UK national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, is expected to travel to Türkiye to provide background advice to Zelensky, the Guardian has reported.

The outlet described the possible negotiations in Istanbul as “an unpredictable meeting in an unclear format.”

Powell’s advice to Zelensky would be not to do anything that alienates Donald Trump, but encourage the US president to realize that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is an obstacle to peace, according to the British publication.

08:17 GMT

In a piece for the online newspaper Gazeta.ru, and translated and edited by the RT team, Russian journalist and political analyst Vitaly Ryumshin has taken a pessimistic view of the upcoming talks. According to Ryumshin, two main issues will hinder significant progress being made: the conditions for real peace talks simply don’t exist, and the poor track record of previous efforts.

08:00 GMT

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has confirmed that the Russian delegation has arrived in Istanbul. This corroborates earlier reports from an RT correspondent and a TASS source.

Moscow's negotiators are “ready for serious work,” Zakharova said during a briefing.

07:45 GMT

US President Donald Trump has said he could still travel to Türkiye if progress is made during direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

"You know, if something happened, I would go on Friday,” the US president told journalists in Qatar.

https://www.rt.com/news/617518-ukraine-talks-istanbul-zelensky/

Notable Quotes from Trump

Donald Trump has said he is “not disappointed”with the level of the delegationsent by Russia for the talks in Istanbul. Vladimir Zelensky had earlier claimed it was insufficient.

"Why would I be disappointed?We just took in $4 trillion and he says ‘are you disappointed about a delegation?’,” Trump replied when asked about the issue, referring to deals announced during his tour of the Middle East.

“Look, nothing is going to happen until Putin and I get together. Okay?” the US president added.

Trump claimed earlier that he could travel to Türkiye where direct talks between Russia and Ukraine are expected to take place, but only if Putin also comes.

Trump just put Z on notice, his games are not going to work

Just days ago you were considered a ‘conspiracy theorist’ and targeted for saying Fluoride was bad for you

Now NBC News is reporting removing Fluoride from our water is one of the top 10 greatest public health achievements… Literally unbelievable

“The Food and Drug Administration is taking prescription fluoride drops and tablets for kids off of the market. Those types of tablets are usually given to kids with high risk for cavities. This all comes after a controversial analysis released by In JAMA Pediatrics earlier this year found that higher fluoride exposure was linked to lower IQ scores in kids.

Recently, Florida and Utah passed laws banning fluoride from being added to drinking water. It's an effort that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.”

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1923024386422079704

Was waiting for the little clown that likes to pretend and use only my memes or meme rotations. Knew it wouldn't take long. The little clown that announced he felt like his ego was in second place is obsessed with imitating someone else for attention, the behavior of a tranny.

Losers that display jealousy of other anons and try to destroy other anons lost bigly. Now they just go through the motions. Not even trying for checkmate or stalemate anymore, just copying the same moves and praying for the clock to run out.

>>23036699

NASA to Participate in Next Private Astronaut Mission Teleconference

May 14, 2025

NASA will join a media teleconference hosted by Axiom Space at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 20, to discuss the launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

Briefing participants include:

Dana Weigel, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA

Allen Flynt, chief of mission services, Axiom Space

Sarah Walker, director, Dragon mission management, SpaceX

Sergio Palumberi, mission manager, ESA (European Space Agency)

Aleksandra Bukała, project manager, head of strategy and international cooperation, POLSA (Polish Space Agency)

Orsolya Ferencz, ministerial commissioner of space research, HUNOR (Hungarian to Orbit)

To join the call, media must register with Axiom Space by 12 p.m., Monday, May 19, at: https://axiomspace.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ut8jLK0cRjyfaZXu3Ch3sA#/

The Ax-4 launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted no earlier than 9:11 a.m., Sunday, June 8, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

During the mission aboard the space station, a four-person multi-national crew will complete about 60 research experiments developed for microgravity in collaboration with organizations across the globe.

Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, will command the commercial mission, while ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will serve as pilot.

The two mission specialists are ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.

The first private astronaut mission to the station, Axiom Mission 1, lifted off in April 2022 for a 17-day mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.

The second private astronaut mission to the station, Axiom Mission 2, also was commanded by Whitson and launched in May 2023 for eight days in orbit.

The most recent private astronaut mission, Axiom Mission 3, launched in January 2024; the crew spent 18 days docked to the space station.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-participate-in-next-private-astronaut-mission-teleconference/

>>23036797

Minneapolis will not burn under Trump.

>>23036730

The welcome ceremony in UAE continues! 🇺🇸🇦🇪

8:41 AM · May 15, 2025

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https://x.com/MargoMartin47/status/1922995639455044017

>>23036805

Who is Otto?

I'm reminded of Abel and Joseph's brothers for some reason right now. Weird. Not claiming kinship, just noticing a parallel.

>>23036852

>>23036853

>Who is Otto?

Otto Korekt is grammar kitty's cousin.

Hubble Pinpoints Young Stars in Spiral Galaxy

May 14, 2025

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth. Visible in this galaxy image is a bright blue ring that hosts hot, young stars.

NGC 1317 is one of a pair, but its rowdy larger neighbor, NGC 1316, lies outside Hubble’s field of view. Despite the absence of its neighboring galaxy, this image finds NGC 1317 accompanied by two objects from very different parts of the universe.

The bright point ringed with a crisscross pattern is a star from our own galaxy surrounded by diffraction spikes, whereas the redder elongated smudge is a distant galaxy lying far beyond NGC 1317.

The data presented in this image are from a vast observing campaign of hundreds of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Combined with data from the ALMA array in the Atacama Desert, these observations help astronomers chart the connections between vast clouds of cold gas and the fiercely hot, young stars that form within them.

ALMA’s unparalleled sensitivity at long wavelengths identified vast reservoirs of cold gas throughout the local universe, and Hubble’s sharp vision pinpointed clusters of young stars, as well as measuring their ages and masses.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-pinpoints-young-stars-in-spiral-galaxy/

>>23036852

https://www.wionews.com/world/watch-donald-trump-welcomed-in-uae-abu-dhabi-with-traditional-hair-flip-al-ayyala-dance-middle-east-trip-9072331

frivolous suits

is there a punishment?

>>23036853

They're all guilty. Especially Jill and hunter.

>>23036861

>Otto Korekt is grammar kitty's cousin.

Grammar Kitty is a proper name, and therefore needs to be capitalized.

assumption

rejected

what does the autist know?

did they call him to confess their sins and then give him the wrap?

will the public ever know the truth?

damned sloppy….

>>23036578

God bless the swordAnon

>>23036861

Kek.

https://truthsocial.com/@DanScavino/posts/114512418394272537

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJrKUXqOUVp/?igsh=ODUza3VnMWhtdWI3

>>23036737

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/magellan/nasas-magellan-mission-reveals-possible-tectonic-activity-on-venus/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt5932

NASA’s Magellan Mission Reveals Possible Tectonic Activity on Venus

May 14, 2025

Using archival data from the mission, launched in 1989, researchers have uncovered new evidence that tectonic activity may be deforming the planet’s surface.

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus’ surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA’s Magellan mission.

On Earth, the planet’s surface is continually renewed by the constant shifting and recycling of massive sections of crust, called tectonic plates, that float atop a viscous interior.

Venus doesn’t have tectonic plates, but its surface is still being deformed by molten material from below.

Seeking to better understand the underlying processes driving these deformations, the researchers studied a type of feature called a corona.

Ranging in size from dozens to hundreds of miles across, a corona is most often thought to be the location where a plume of hot, buoyant material from the planet’s mantle rises, pushing against the lithosphere above.

(The lithosphere includes the planet’s crust and the uppermost part of its mantle.) These structures are usually oval, with a concentric fracture system surrounding them. Hundreds of coronae are known to exist on Venus.

Published in the journal Science Advances, the new study details newly discovered signs of activity at or beneath the surface shaping many of Venus’ coronae, features that may also provide a unique window into Earth’s past.

The researchers found the evidence of this tectonic activity within data from NASA’s Magellan mission, which orbited Venus in the 1990s and gathered the most detailed gravity and topography data on the planet currently available.

“Coronae are not found on Earth today; however, they may have existed when our planet was young and before plate tectonics had been established,” said the study’s lead author, Gael Cascioli, assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “By combining gravity and topography data, this research has provided a new and important insight into the possible subsurface processes currently shaping the surface of Venus.”

As members of NASA’s forthcoming VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) mission, Cascioli and his team are particularly interested in the high-resolution gravity data the spacecraft will provide.

Study coauthor Erwan Mazarico, also at Goddard, will co-lead the VERITAS gravity experiment when the mission launches no earlier than 2031.

Mystery Coronae

Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Magellan used its radar system to see through Venus’ thick atmosphere and map the topography of its mountains and plains.

Of the geological features the spacecraft mapped, coronae were perhaps the most enigmatic: It wasn’t clear how they formed.

In the years since, scientists have found many coronae in locations where the planet’s lithosphere is thin and heat flow is high.

“Coronae are abundant on Venus. They are very large features, and people have proposed different theories over the years as to how they formed,” said coauthor Anna Gülcher, Earth and planetary scientist at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

“The most exciting thing for our study is that we can now say there are most likely various and ongoing active processes driving their formation. We believe these same processes may have occurred early in Earth’s history.”

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>>23036887

https://truthsocial.com/@DanScavino/posts/114512443987251448

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJrakeLuxFd/?igsh=aXVhOGZhdW9qdnA=

>>23036701

>Listen Live: Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump birthright citizenship case | CBS News

What happens when a liberal leaning Supreme Court interprets the Constitution?

>>23036890

[''stupid motherfuckers']' -the Zuck

paraphrased cuz it's scrubbed from the search path

>>23036897

One pic looks like an upsidedown Palm Tree…

google's monopoly on "reality"

observe: anon naively does a quick search for alternatives to Spectrum (who sucks).

Google doesn't know that Starlink exists unless it is told that Starlink (which does exist) exists. And even then, google provides a negative comparison, just in case you were thinking positively about Starkink.

(picrel)

Clowns will be clowns.

Nuke the hegemony.

>>23036908

it's not so much about the IP hop, but rather the same tired old content that they choose to post.

The Club

>>23036908

Just filter it.

>>23036881

>>23036915

https://www.jamesedition.com/real_estate/map?map_coordinates=55.088361006194475,25.087392443002983,55.20800809276608,25.128793804890506&country=united_arab_emirates&location=the-palm-jumeirah-united-arab-emirates

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-observes-first-visible-light-auroras-at-mars/

NASA Observes First Visible-light Auroras at Mars

May 14, 2025

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover made history by detecting them for the first time from the surface of another planet, and MAVEN confirmed the detection.

On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the Sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries with it large amounts of solar energetic particles.

This solar activity led to stunning auroras across the solar system, including at Mars, where NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover made history by detecting them for the first time from the surface of another planet.

“This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future astronauts on Mars’ surface,” said Elise Knutsen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway and lead author of the Science Advances study, which reported the detection.

Picking the Right Aurora

On Earth, auroras form when solar particles interact with the global magnetic field, funneling them to the poles where they collide with atmospheric gases and emit light.

The most common color, green, is caused by excited oxygen atoms emitting light at a wavelength of 557.7 nanometers.

For years, scientists have theorized that green light auroras could also exist on Mars but suggested they would be much fainter and harder to capture than the green auroras we see on Earth.

Due to the Red Planet’s lack of a global magnetic field, Mars has different types of auroras than those we have on Earth.

One of these is solar energetic particle (SEP) auroras, which NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission discovered in 2014.

These occur when super-energetic particles from the Sun hit the Martian atmosphere, causing a reaction that makes the atmosphere glow across the whole night sky.

While MAVEN had observed SEP auroras in ultraviolet light from orbit, this phenomenon had never been observed in visible light from the ground.

Since SEPs typically occur during solar storms, which increase during solar maximum, Knutsen and her team set their sights on capturing visible images and spectra of SEP aurora from Mars’ surface at the peak of the Sun’s current solar cycle.

Coordinating the Picture-perfect Moment

Through modeling, Knutsen and her team determined the optimal angle for the Perseverance rover’s SuperCam spectrometer and Mastcam-Z camera to successfully observe the SEP aurora in visible light.

With this observation strategy in place, it all came down to the timing and understanding of CMEs.

“The trick was to pick a good CME, one that would accelerate and inject many charged particles into Mars’ atmosphere,” said Knutsen.

That is where the teams at NASA’s Moon to Mars (M2M) Space Weather Analysis Office and the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), both located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, came in.

The M2M team provides real-time analysis of solar eruptions to the CCMC for initiating simulations of CMEs to determine if they might impact current NASA missions. When the simulations suggest potential impacts, the team sends out an alert.

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>>23036701

>Listen Live: Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump birthright citizenship case

>>23036923

>>23036908

>more people use mobiles

<britbong detected

Top of the morning to you old chap.

>>23036932

Kek

Lotta sit down shut ups going around.

>>23036930

Roberts is a liberal justice too. His latest actions prove that.

>>23036797

notable day

Pickerel is a reminder of who is trying to undermine police and why.

>>23036923

>>23036934

>>23036869

maybe elon should claim he's part of the executive and take executive actions in the name of executive privilege?

>>23036936

Ausies call them that too.

>>23036946

The Boss is throwing it down.

>>23036925

Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System

May 14, 2025 11:00AM (EDT)

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system.

Now there is definitive evidence: Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star 155 light-years away using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

(The term water ice specifies its makeup, since many other frozen molecules are also observed in space, such as carbon dioxide ice, or “dry ice.”) In 2008, data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope hinted at the possibility of frozen water in this system.

“Webb unambiguously detected not just water ice, but crystalline water ice, which is also found in locations like Saturn’s rings and icy bodies in our solar system’s Kuiper Belt,” said Chen Xie, the lead author of the new paper and an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

All the frozen water Webb detected is paired with fine dust particles throughout the disk — like itsy-bitsy “dirty snowballs.” The results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Astronomers have been waiting for this definitive data for decades.

“When I was a graduate student 25 years ago, my advisor told me there should be ice in debris disks, but prior to Webb, we didn’t have instruments sensitive enough to make these observations,” said Christine Chen, a co-author and associate astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

“What’s most striking is that this data looks similar to the telescope’s other recent observations of Kuiper Belt objects in our own solar system.”

Water ice is a vital ingredient in disks around young stars — it heavily influences the formation of giant planets and may also be delivered by small bodies like comets and asteroids to fully formed rocky planets.

Now that researchers have detected water ice with Webb, they have opened the door for all researchers to study how these processes play out in new ways in many other planetary systems.

Rocks, Dust, Ice Rushing Around

The star, cataloged HD 181327, is significantly younger than our Sun. It’s estimated to be 23 million years old, compared to the Sun’s more mature 4.6 billion years.

The star is slightly more massive than the Sun, and it’s hotter, which led to the formation of a slightly larger system around it.

Webb’s observations confirm a significant gap between the star and its debris disk — a wide area that is free of dust.

Farther out, its debris disk is similar to our solar system’s Kuiper Belt, where dwarf planets, comets, and other bits of ice and rock are found (and sometimes collide with one another).

Billions of years ago, our Kuiper Belt was likely similar to this star’s debris disk.

“HD 181327 is a very active system,” Chen said. “There are regular, ongoing collisions in its debris disk.

When those icy bodies collide, they release tiny particles of dusty water ice that are perfectly sized for Webb to detect.”

Frozen Water — Almost Everywhere

Water ice isn’t spread evenly throughout this system. The majority is found where it’s coldest and farthest from the star. “The outer area of the debris disk consists of over 20% water ice,” Xie said.

The closer in the researchers looked, the less water ice they found. Toward the middle of the debris disk, Webb detected about 8% water ice.

Here, it’s likely that frozen water particles are produced slightly faster than they are destroyed. In the area of the debris disk closest to the star, Webb detected almost none.

It’s likely that the star’s ultraviolet light vaporizes the closest specks of water ice. It’s also possible that rocks known as planetesimals have “locked up” frozen water in their interiors, which Webb can’t detect.

This team and many more researchers will continue to search for — and study — water ice in debris disks and actively forming planetary systems throughout our Milky Way galaxy.

“The presence of water ice helps facilitate planet formation,” Xie said. “Icy materials may also ultimately be ‘delivered’ to terrestrial planets that may form over a couple hundred million years in systems like this.”

The researchers observed HD 181327 with Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph), which is super-sensitive to extremely faint dust particles that can only be detected from space.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-119

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08920-4

>>23036956

Vatty's always easy to filter.

>>23036956

Kek

Roger that

Finland has taken steps to combat antisemitism by criminalizing Holocaust denial and recognizing Holocaust Remembrance Day.

>https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/finland/finnish-government-presents-report-about-the-rise-of-antisemitism-in-the-country/

>https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/wjc-president-ronald-s-lauder-welcomes-finlands-move-against-holocaust-denial

>>23036535

TYB

TYB