🎉WIN: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger restored voting rights for over 66k people with past felony convictions. “These Virginians deserve the right to use their vote, make their voices heard, and be recognized as contributing citizens to our Commonwealth and country," she said.

Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions

The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.

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On August 5, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is predicted to crash onto the Moon. What has crashed on the Moon before? The very first human object to touch the Moon - Luna 2 in 1959. A probe, 3 bombs, and a rocket body! 🧪 🔭

1959: Luna 2 (USSR)

YouTube video by International Astronautical Federation

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The smell of death surrounds you, Donald Trump Deportees slain in Guatemala. A Haitian woman abandoned at a PGH bus stop. The bomb striking a family in Iran. Detainees in the ICE gulag. Lorenzo Salgado. Renee Good. USAID Dehumanization, then death. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch

In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.

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Some not-so-good news from the NASA Swift Boost Mission. The Katalyst LINK servicing spacecraft is having issues with 2 of its 3 reaction wheels and with the cold gas thruster system. Spacecraft spinning. Comms. sporadic. science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/... fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1170... #Space

Commissioning Update for Spacecraft to Boost NASA’s Swift - NASA Science

Over the weekend, Katalyst’s LINK servicing spacecraft experienced issues with attitude control.

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New FCC application from Amazon Leo for a 5,105 satellite LEO constellation for D2D services to mobile devices. Altitude: 510 - 580 km Spectrum: L and S band, acquired in merger with Globalstar. First deployment: 2028 @planet4589.bsky.social fccprod.servicenowservices.com/icfs?id=ibfs...

ICFS Application Summary - ICFS Portal

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The NASA DSN site in Madrid, Spain remains offline as wildfires have threatened the site and its equipment over the past few days. Evacuation order remains in place. "No significant structural damage observed to antennas or buildings." More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1169... #Space #NASA

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Attached: 1 image The NASA DSN site in Madrid, Spain remains offline as wildfires have threatened the site and its equipment over the past few days. Personnel have been evacuated. It appears that th...

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Happy Birthday to Vera Rubin (July 23, 1928 – Dec 25, 2016), pioneering astronomer and passionate advocate for women in science. Her research on galaxy rotation rates provided strong evidence for the existence of dark matter. She deserved the Nobel Prize. fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1169... #Astronomy

13 Americans w/o Ebola exposure put in detention when returning from Africa. “Staff even created a map for Bhattacharya that showed the vast distance from Kinshasa to Ituri province, to highlight the low risk. He ordered them to be detained anyway.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's CDC Is Detaining Americans in Response to Ebola: A 'Wild Misuse' of Power

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is needlessly detaining Americans as part of a chaotic Ebola response led by Jay Bhattacharya.

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July 21, 2011, 5:57 a.m. ET: Space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the STS-135 mission, marking the end of the Space Shuttle era. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1169... #Space #NASA

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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The FCC approves the deployment of the first Reflect Orbital satellite, which will provide sunlight-on-demand to customers, dismissing objections from over 1,600 public comments on potential harm to astronomy and the environment. www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-app... #Astronomy

FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

The FCC says the most controversial aspect of Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1 satellite, the giant mirror, falls out of its authority since the regulator mainly focuses on radio spectrum.

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A coalition of environmental and scientific orgs, represented by Earthjustice, petitioned the FCC for a comprehensive review of the environmental risks, impacts, and costs of satellite-based data center and pause granting licenses for them. earthjustice.org/press/2026/c... #FCC #Satellites

Coalition Calls for Rigorous Federal Review of Space-Based Data Center Proposals

As companies make plans to launch more than a million data centers into space, FCC must provide oversight and conduct a thorough review of the risks and impacts of these projects to ensure they are no...

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"Day 139, orbit 2155 — 🤩 Watching this glowing green ribbon shimmer and dance, it's easy to lose yourself completely in the magic of the moment. Turn the sound on for the full experience 💚", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. #εpsilon 🎥 ESA/NASA

Scientists find no link between Tylenol and autism, again, after Trump warning

Prenatal Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Use and Autism and/or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

This population-based cohort study assesses the association between prenatal paracetamol exposure and risk of autism spectrum or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder using a sibling-matched design...

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Miklós Horthy did it. Benito Mussolini did it. Adolf Hitler did it. Francisco Franco did it. Augusto Pinochet did it. Jorge Rafael Videla did it. Now Donald Trump does it. Did what? Used the threat of Communism to justify a dictatorship.

“DOGE was sold to the American people as a war on waste. Instead, it became an engine of it, costing $1,028 per U.S. taxpayer by our analysis. In a single year, the Trump Administration forced out more than 300,000 career civil servants…” ourpublicservice.org/know-the-fac...

Successful launch of the NASA Swift Boost Mission! The Katalyst Space LINK robotic servicing spacecraft was launched into orbit today on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, from an L-1011 aircraft at 40,000 feet. Next: Signal acquisition science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/... #Space

Mission To Boost NASA's Swift Launches From Marshall Islands - NASA Science

A mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift observatory has reached orbit.

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Aircraft is RTB, now we all F5 the only NASA blog post page to see if there are updates....

DutchSpace@dutchspace.bsky.social · last mo.

Stargazer is up, possible new launch attempt for Pegasus XL for the Swift boost mission...

Not true. There are two people. I can see them right there, on camera.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

INCREDIBLE SCENES ON FOX as there is LITERALLY NOT A SOUL at Trump's fair, which has now been open for 15 minutes

Update to my Sunday story on the strange retraction of two 1940s papers by Max Planck: arstechnica.com/science/2026... Springer Nature has supplied Ars Technica with an official statement from Tim Kersjes, head of research integrity, resolutions, as follows: [1/3]

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? [UPDATED]

Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”...

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One of the best competitions ever: get your drawing printed on the top of the Ariane 6 rocket that will launch Plato – and see it ascend to space 🚀 (Under 12s only) www.esa.int/kids/en/thin...

Hey, @transport.esa.int: package inbound! The @esa.int FLEX satellite is on its way to Kourou by boat, together with Copernicus Sentinel-3C. After traveling together, the two spacecraft will also fly to space later this summer aboard a Vega-C rocket: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 📸Thales Alenia Space

Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87 www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a... #PlantScience #PlantBiotech 🧪

Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87

The late biochemist from Southern Pines transformed agriculture by creating the first genetically modified plants.

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NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

1/2 I've posted a revised version of my paper on unitary executive theory and democratic accountability, now with a discussion of Slaughter and Cook at pp. 5-6. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 Beyond the limit 🚨  New ESO study finds that current proposals to launch 1.7+ million satellites into orbit would have devastating consequences for astronomy. The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital  🔭 🧪 ☄️ #DarkSkies #SatelliteConstellations 1/4

Texas passed an age assurance law that requires Bluesky to verify the age of users. This law was paused by a judge and then unpaused by an appeals court, so we are preparing to comply. If you saw an age assurance notice today, that's why. Read about the law here: ccianet.org/news/2026/05...

Appeals Court Pauses Injunction on Texas’ App Store Law that Likely Violates First Amendment - CCIA

Washington – A federal court agreed with the Texas Attorney General’s request to temporarily lift a block of the state’s controversial App Store

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The Supreme Court Is Going Where Anti-Trans Activists Are Leading It

The conservative movement has spent years villainizing trans people. The conservative justices are simply doing their part to help.

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Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Wishing a Happy 83rd Birthday to Vint Cerf. The TCP/IP protocols endure. fosstodon.org/@ACM@mastodo... #Internet #TCP