Dear Gen Z,
In 1992 Sinéad O'Connor ripped a picture of the Pope in half on Saturday Night Live to protest the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. She was roundly condemned except by a few.
In the years and decades that followed the truth came out and the scope of abuse within the Catholic Church came to light. Many, but not enough, were punished. Many, but no where near enough, victims were heard, believed and lived to see some measure of justice.
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I’m starstruck by this new #JWST image of one of my favorite astronomical objects 🤩
Herbig-Haro 46/47 is a pair of jets launched by young stars, embedded in a dark nebula.
The binary stars responsible for the jets shine brightly in the middle of the image, seen as one point of light with red diffraction spikes.
The two-sided orange lobes were created by earlier outflows. More recent ejections appear as a blue line in the center of the lobes.
More: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-131
#Astronomy #Space
"Describing [RFK's] views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest. They’re not controversial. They’re false. He’s not spreading controversial views, he’s spreading lies. And so the framing matters enormously, and that’s something that I foresee being a huge, huge issue in the 2024 campaign."
Agreed!
Some key distinctions made by journalist Seth Mnookin in this sharp interview. (He wrote a book about the anti-vaccine movement in 2011.)
If the US government really had alien bodies, then the US president would know about it.
If the US president knew about it, then Trump would know about it.
If Trump knew about it, he would have told everyone, bragged about it, kept boxes of documents about it at Mar-A-Lago, etc. There would be a ketchup stained original photograph of an alien autopsy on the floor of his bathroom.
Since we haven't heard him brag about having seen a photo of an alien, we know that he hasn't seen one.
if you're wondering how @Twitter turned into @x, i spoke with the original @x (who had his handle changed to @x12345678998765)
Elon Musk took his 16+ year old username
here's how it went down:
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-take-x-handle-from-original-user
Kevin Lyda
Kelly Lepo
Jay Rosen
mekka okereke 
donni saphire
Matt Binder
rob HAS MOVED
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Laffy