We need to educate the youth of today with school house rocks.
Schoolhouse Rock - "I'm Just a Bill"
YouTube video by TV Über
Gunther Fehlinger, chairman of the Austria Committee for NATO Enlargement, to United States: "If you take it, we will take every single base of the US from Aviano to Ramstein, from Romania to all the other military bases, will be confiscated and you will lost it." "If you go extreme, we go extreme"
You know, this time when we had to air lift my son out of Yosemite National Park, I would have felt really comfortable asking them to pause sending the chopper until I could drive down the mountain and get cell service to price check medivac crews. No really.
A G3 (STRONG) geomagnetic storm watch has been issued by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. This is due to a CME predicted to arrive at Earth around early-midday Dec 9 UT (Monday night).
Auroral displays may be seen across the central U.S. Follow for more updates.
Before the night emerges, our Paranal Observatory glows in the colourful light of the Chilean sunset 🤩
The atmospheric phenomenon known as Venus belt is also visible.
Curious what it is? Find out:
eso.org/public/images/potw2…
🔭 🧪
📷 J. Looten/ESO
Someone please explain to me how every single major media report about Trump and MBS does not start with an explicit statement that the two men are now officially business associates in multiple Trump Organization developments in Saudi Arabia, making any meeting about profit as much as anything else
Trump pulling out all the stops to welcome Saudi crown prince for first White House visit since Khashoggi killing | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump is planning to receive Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House this week with all the trappings of a state visit, sources familiar with the m...
Brief view of northern lights from my back deck in Seattle
Intense pink aurora shortly after sunset tonight driving south out of Fairbanks, Alaska. Some of the most stunning color in the aurora I have ever seen!
it is insane that this is real
When I looked up… wow!
"completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems" - the MO of this administration
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
If you say Dems should negotiate with Trump, please confirm you've read the pre-shutdown Trump EO that authorizes you and yours to be probed as terrorists if you commit any thought-crime listed on the right-hand side of this Ken Klippenstein report excerpt.
*That* is who you want to negotiate with.
Many of you have asked about gifts to us during a shutdown, mainly doordash types of things. No. Instead, donate to local food banks like Manna in MoCo, Capital Area Food Bank in DC, Find Food in PGC, and Food for Others in Fairfax. These serve everyone. Please repost.
#fedstrong #shutdownSubstorm starting! Head outside and look north to see aurora. Central U.S. is in play. Use a smartphone and take a test shot if you can't see anything with your eyes. Good luck!
Birding makes you do some really stupid shit sometimes, but aurora hunting is definitely worse.
Sure, I’ll drive alone, having told no one, to a city park I’ve never visited, in the middle of the night when it’s technically closed, and find the darkest corner possible with my expensive camera.
