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Oh, wow, I needed this today. I knew curl rocked, but I didn’t know it rocked this hard. 😆

https://youtu.be/atcqMWqB3hw

To keep my American brain from exploding today, here are some remarkable new deep-space images from JWST.

First, a celestial smash-up. JWST's infrared eyes reveal cold dust that forms the "skeleton" of these colliding galaxies, known as IC 2163 and NGC 2207.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-136 #space #science #nature #astronomy

The MAGA tantrum over wives secretly voting for Harris is funny. But it's also alarming.

This is GOP leadership normalizing the attitudes that research has long shown lead to domestic violence.

But then again, they're voting for a sexual assailant.

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/05/bracing-for-magas-backlash-the-strategy-behind-secret-kamala-harris-is-safety/