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The National Hurricane Center now forecasts Melissa to reach Category 5 strength before striking Jamaica head on late Monday or early Tuesday. An exceedingly dire, catastrophic forecast unfolding as Melissa crawls and rapidly intensifies on the doorstep of Jamaica.
Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Advisory Number 18
...MELISSA LIKELY STARTING TO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY AND EXPECTED TO BECOME A MAJOR HURRICANE TOMORROW... ...LIFE-THREATENING AND CATASTROPHIC FLASH FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN HISPANIOLA AND JAM...
Additional Details Here.
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Nu Dromalhaut Grand Echtromedon
2022
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Yesterday, I went to an ICE check-in with 16-year-old Joel Camas and his lawyer, who expected him to be out in time for school by 8am because he has special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status. Instead, he was detained.

Here is what happened (free link):

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...
A Woman Self-Deported, Hoping to Shield Her Son. He Was Detained Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
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Immature White-bellied Sea Eagle that flew past me at Pitt Town Nature Reserve.
#birds
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A dispatch from the Upper East Side.

Across the five boroughs, tens of thousands of volunteers are meeting their neighbors, building community, and winning this election, one door at a time.

GOTV continues tomorrow: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
theintercept.com
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In a 2024 study, a research team reports an exciting discovery.

It is about LID-568, a low-mass supermassive black hole (SMBH) that appears to be consuming matter at a rate of over 40 times its Eddington limit.

➡️ noirlab.edu/public/news/...

🔭 🧪 #science #cosmology

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I'm hoping to avoid shitting my pants or fighting my dad but I definitely want to (lightly) experience it
Menswear Guy only cooks racist ignorant aholes so you're good

And for others who come to him with might be considered dubious fashion hot-takes, which I have no idea if includes MO jackets, he very kindly and informatively offers advice and better alternatives

My personal favorite takedown
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hello from 26th street in the heart of chicago’s little village neighborhood.

a crowd of a couple hundred community members has gathered under the iconic archway after a week of terror in which federal agents abducted dozens of people and tear-gassed the neighborhood.

chants of “chinga la migra!”
Living in AZ (form Philly, NYC) all the gorgeous Lake Michigan recreation, nightlife, etc images had me drooling

Obviously everything ICE is horrible but a tiny silver lining is protest imagery introduced/reinforced how awesome these cities (and their people) are

And, I'm curious about malort lol
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Steroid abuse induced lopsided shrunken junk
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THREAD: This was an all-white jury in rural Louisiana and a judge appointed by Trump. But when ordinary people hear about the everyday brutality pervasive inside our jails, they are outraged. But something deeper is going on here:
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Vampire moths might sound more horror film than natural world, but they’re 100% real! 😱

See why some moths pick human blood over fruit juice in this week’s Surprising Science. 🩸🦇
Portland only becomes more and more endearing to my loving little weirdo dark-humor heart!

Seriously, Portland and Chicago are both now on the top of my (domestic) travel bucket list
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Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
www.kuow.org
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'Passing Hours'
& the watercolour painting process for how I made this piece 😴
#brbchasingdreams
"The legal term for my people were slaves"

Yes! Time to retire racist colonialist terminology.

Speaking of, North America wasn't empty when the Mayflower landed.
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Fantastic report covering what I would say is the single most important idea in the world of renewable development processes: avoiding failure, delays, conflict and friction by just sharing the benefits of resources like sun and wind
Building Community Power - our new report looks at community benefits agreements, intended to increase social acceptance. Read about California and New York’s programs to approve renewables and energy storage projects at the state level with community support. climateandcommunity.org/wp-content/u...
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I am once again asking you to post raptors 🪶🌿

Pele, a peregrine falcon at Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka!