Rachel P-M
@rpmastronomy.com
Former astronomer trying to be a current astronomer. Jeopardy! Champion.
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Has anyone reached out to Merrick Garland for a response yet
Following President Trump’s demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton.
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Trump Directs Bondi to Probe Epstein Ties to Clinton, Democrats
President Trump has directed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Bill Clinton and other Democrats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Has anyone reached out to Merrick Garland for a response yet
…ew
O.C. city leaders designate street to honor Charlie Kirk
O.C. city leaders designate street to honor Charlie Kirk
Westminster city leaders voted 4 to 1 to partially rename All American Way for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed in September.
www.latimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
…ew
THIS THIS THIS
It is part of why I'm furious about the introduction of gen AI performance reviews, because HR is touting it as a way to summarize all the input. IT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB AS MY SUPERVISOR TO DO THAT.
It is part of why I'm furious about the introduction of gen AI performance reviews, because HR is touting it as a way to summarize all the input. IT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB AS MY SUPERVISOR TO DO THAT.
I also think GenAI summaries of conversations and personal emails are fucking wack and disrespectful
Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t
Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
THIS THIS THIS
It is part of why I'm furious about the introduction of gen AI performance reviews, because HR is touting it as a way to summarize all the input. IT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB AS MY SUPERVISOR TO DO THAT.
It is part of why I'm furious about the introduction of gen AI performance reviews, because HR is touting it as a way to summarize all the input. IT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB AS MY SUPERVISOR TO DO THAT.
Yeah, like, even if he weren't all over these emails I *still* wouldn't want him involved in this. He sucks.
Democratic elites don’t understand why they lost and want to keep losing.
He is a misogynistic creep who hates working people. A Democratic Party that cares about its constituencies would not be elevating Summers.
He is a misogynistic creep who hates working people. A Democratic Party that cares about its constituencies would not be elevating Summers.
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
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prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Yeah, like, even if he weren't all over these emails I *still* wouldn't want him involved in this. He sucks.
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There is an Erewhon across from my dentist, so after an appointment I went to get one of these smoothies. Her name wasn't on them and that was 2 years ago? I didn't even anything resembling this on the menu, got way too overwhelmed, and just walked out.
It is arguably the most famous smoothie ever — and it is no more.
Erewhon has quietly removed Hailey Bieber's name from its $20 Strawberry Glaze Skin Smoothie
Your morning catch-up: The end of Hailey Bieber's $20 Erewhon smoothie, a Sacramento corruption case and more big stories.
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
There is an Erewhon across from my dentist, so after an appointment I went to get one of these smoothies. Her name wasn't on them and that was 2 years ago? I didn't even anything resembling this on the menu, got way too overwhelmed, and just walked out.
The internet is cursed today; I wish I never learned to read
Gah, can we just get an hour of posting Alf Hog to tidy up the timeline?
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The internet is cursed today; I wish I never learned to read
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This! Here's a slide pulled from my class lecture notes this semester. Comets have two clear tails - one from dust and one from ions. They point in different directions because one feels the solar wind while the other feels radiation pressure.
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This! Here's a slide pulled from my class lecture notes this semester. Comets have two clear tails - one from dust and one from ions. They point in different directions because one feels the solar wind while the other feels radiation pressure.
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Congratulations! Your students know more about comets than Avi Loeb!
This! Here's a slide pulled from my class lecture notes this semester. Comets have two clear tails - one from dust and one from ions. They point in different directions because one feels the solar wind while the other feels radiation pressure.
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Congratulations! Your students know more about comets than Avi Loeb!
Fuck the polygraph and fuck this. If I have to do it, the the Deputy Director of the FBI sure as shit should have to do it.
The FBI has recently used polygraph tests to ask senior employees if they have said anything negative about FBI Director Kash Patel or had spoken to the media.
Separately, Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other staffers, exempting them from passing polygraph exams.
Separately, Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other staffers, exempting them from passing polygraph exams.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Fuck the polygraph and fuck this. If I have to do it, the the Deputy Director of the FBI sure as shit should have to do it.
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"According to project scientists working on NASA's next generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.. they were given only four days to empty a mission-critical laboratory." www.space.com/space-explor...
'This all must end now.' NASA lab closures at Goddard Space Flight Center under Congressional scrutiny
A congressional letter is putting NASA on blast.
www.space.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"According to project scientists working on NASA's next generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.. they were given only four days to empty a mission-critical laboratory." www.space.com/space-explor...
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ouroboreos
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ouroboreos
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While camera-based speed and red light enforcement are great and speed governors will help stop the worst repeat offenders, what we really need is for the police to actually enforce basic traffic laws like “you have to actually stop at stop signs and red lights” and “your car needs license plates.”
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
While camera-based speed and red light enforcement are great and speed governors will help stop the worst repeat offenders, what we really need is for the police to actually enforce basic traffic laws like “you have to actually stop at stop signs and red lights” and “your car needs license plates.”
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you could not script a more perfect "who are white Republican women in a nutshell?" moment than Megyn Kelly - quite famously herself a victim of an older and more powerful man's sexual misconduct - doing the "TECHNICALLY he wasn't a 'pedophile' per se" routine with a perfectly straight face
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
you could not script a more perfect "who are white Republican women in a nutshell?" moment than Megyn Kelly - quite famously herself a victim of an older and more powerful man's sexual misconduct - doing the "TECHNICALLY he wasn't a 'pedophile' per se" routine with a perfectly straight face
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One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
This was always where this was headed.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids
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something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
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i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
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On the one hand, this little shit is a real piece of work. On the other hand, the real scandal is not so much that Teenage Douchbags like this exist (they always have) but that we have set up a quasi-military governmental apparatus ready to take orders from them
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On the one hand, this little shit is a real piece of work. On the other hand, the real scandal is not so much that Teenage Douchbags like this exist (they always have) but that we have set up a quasi-military governmental apparatus ready to take orders from them
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The first time I saw this I did not clock that this woman is an English professor. Jesus.
Can I just say, besides my deep anger at the normalization of pedophilia, I am also deeply disturbed that a Harvard English Lit professor would so deeply misunderstand the point of Lolita. It was very much anti-pedophilia and the narrator is not one you are supposed to sympathize with.
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To:
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J [jeevacation@gmail.com] 11/25/2018 11:56:06 PM
Elisa New
Re: invitation
count how many times you say I or me?
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 7:30 PM Lisa New <
> wrote:
Jeffrey,
How's this
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 11:05 AM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Needs edit. Start with id like you to join clinton ..eyc
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:52 AM Lisa New <
Dear Jeffrey,
Here is an invitation you can forward. Fingers crossed.
wrote:
I'm going upstairs to hunt for my copy of Lolita, or will get on my kindle and reread on our way to Australia. I may have lent it to one of my kids. I would recommend reading My Antonia by Cather next time you're on a long plane trip. The prose is gorgeous, and the book has-- come to think of it-- similar themes to Lolita in that it's about a man whose whole life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl.
Thank you for this help with Serena. I'm so sorry about what happened with WA. I will keep the "bootleg" episode and hope to release someday. It's so good, and he was so kind to read the poem with me and you were so kind to make it happen.
Lisa
Elisa New
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Director, Poetry in America
Harvard University
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November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The first time I saw this I did not clock that this woman is an English professor. Jesus.
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as someone who was paid to do it for over a decade, i dont know how people can stand to watch cable news for free. it doesnt inform you about anything. they repeat either conventional wisdom or newswire reporting you could scan in 5 minutes. it is a net negative for humanity.
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
as someone who was paid to do it for over a decade, i dont know how people can stand to watch cable news for free. it doesnt inform you about anything. they repeat either conventional wisdom or newswire reporting you could scan in 5 minutes. it is a net negative for humanity.
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todays reminder that we dont tax the ultra wealthy enough and even if we taxed them a smidge more they would still have billions to waste on their passion projects
Elon Musk's xAI raises $15 billion in series E round, CNBC reports reut.rs/47Zot0p
Elon Musk's xAI raises $15 billion in series E round, CNBC reports
Billionaire Elon Musk's xAI has raised $15 billion in a series E funding round, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing sources.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
todays reminder that we dont tax the ultra wealthy enough and even if we taxed them a smidge more they would still have billions to waste on their passion projects