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Scooted to the US Capitol at 1 am in the rain to let Congress know the people are watching. It does not matter what time they call their votes. We’ll be out here working to protect Medicaid. #ProtectMedicaid
rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner @rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social · May 21
Not on our watch! We’re at the U.S Capitol at 1:42am because Republicans called a vote to cut Medicaid in order to give big tax breaks to billionaires in the middle of the night, thinking we won’t notice. Well, we notice & and we will not give up! Americans Need Medicaid #AmericansNeedMedicaid
May 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Fellow journalists, it's easy to write "at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic" when referring to 2020-2021, instead of putting Covid-19 in past tense.
levin.bsky.social Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · Mar 21
right now we are "in the middle of the pandemic". If we are ever going to reach the end of the pandemic we need to talk about it like the present crisis it is. Remember when HIV was a death sentence? HIV denialism didn't lead to a cure. Organizing did.
March 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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my favorite jwst images 🌌
A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view. Cassiopeia A, a circular cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
davidsonjess.bsky.social
Is this thing on????
November 17, 2024 at 2:52 AM