Grant McKinney

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I play with lasers, telescopes and robots. Passionate about the climate. Made a movie: artooinlove.com

"This type of crime is now possible because ICE agents insist on going around like masked thugs."

https://www.commondreams.org/philadelphia-immigration

'What People Have Feared': ICE Impersonator Zip-Tied Woman and Stole $1,000 | Common Dreams

"This is what people have feared," one immigration expert said after an ICE impersonator in Philadelphia zip-tied a woman and stole $1,000.

Common Dreams
@tobeB See, this is why the regime wants to cut NASA funding, particularly science funding, and especially earth science. They show evidence of things the regime doesn’t want seen.
There are golden moments.
I feel them occasionally and each one takes me back to times I've felt this same feeling of loving and being loved.
The three of us are together for a simple dinner of chicken strips, brown rice and asparagus outside on a warm evening bathed in sunset colors.
These interludes are precious and I don't take even a minute for granted.
We watched a boat, way off in the distance, bobbing away on the ocean. Summer stays close to keep us all warm. We hear the far away waves crashing on the beach.
It really doesn't take very much to make us happy.
Thank goodness.
Rosette Nebula Deep Field

Image Credit: Toni Fabiani Méndez

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250617.html #APOD
Shiny new AI contradicts EPA chief's do-nothing climate change stance

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin might want the United States to become the “ AI capital of the world ,” but he might not have anticipated that the technology would turn ...

Daily Kos

The extinction emergency: How climate change is eliminating species at a catastrophic rate

From the vanishing of 10 billion snow crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea to the first mammal officially declared extinct due to climate change, the devastating impact of rising temperatures on Earth's wildlife has moved from scientific prediction to documented reality. The numbers are staggering: approximately one million animal and plant species now face extinction, with […]

https://vegoutmag.com/news/the-extinction-emergency-how-climate-change-is-eliminating-species-at-a-catastrophic-rate/

#Climate

The extinction emergency: How climate change is eliminating species at a catastrophic rate

From the vanishing of 10 billion snow crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea to the first mammal officially declared extinct due to climate change, the devastating

VegOut

This is going to make you feel very small.

Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.

Credit: ESA/Hubble, World Wide Telescope

‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C

Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study.

Dieback would see large numbers of trees die, shifting the lush rainforest into a dry savannah

https://www.carbonbrief.org/significant-risk-of-amazon-forest-dieback-if-global-warming-overshoots-1-5c/

#Amazon #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #environment #climate

‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C - Carbon Brief

Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study.

Carbon Brief
Turns out, the joke’s on Trump when it comes to that Qatari jumbo jet https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/05/turns-out-the-jokes-on-trump-when-it-comes-to-that-qatari-jumbo-jet.html
Turns out, the joke’s on Trump when it comes to that Qatari jumbo jet

Qatar dumps an expensive plane, Trump thinks he's getting a gift

nj