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Gregory Pijanowski
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Science teacher, history buff, traveler, photographer, likes dogs and cats equally, but no, I don't play basketball. Blog at: https://www.pigeonroost.net/
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You might’ve heard the news: SpaceX just passed 10,000 Starlink satellites launched. And that number is already old news, as there’s now a new Starlink batch launched every other day. Here’s what that looks like in a short animation of Comet A6 Lemmon courtesy of Michael Jaeger:
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You can tell when someone never rides the subway.
Sean Duffy: "If you're a Democrat, you're a liberal, you don't like cars and you want people to ride public transportation, I think that's wonderful, good for you. But if you want us all to ride public transportation, make it safe. Make it clean. Make is beautiful. I don't know why NY can't do that"
Besides being immensely powerful, Melissa is moving at an incredibly slow rate for a hurricane.
Winds at the center of #Melissa remain at 175 mph, pressure 901 mb. Radar shows a ring of intense rain around the eye.
Ok, I saw videos of Biden like this...but those videos were chopped up and edited Project Veritas style.
Goodness gracious - part 2
Whenever you see an Abolish the EPA bumper sticker, it's a good bet that person isn't old enough to have been around before the EPA.
This Day in Labor History: October 27, 1948. An air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Smog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. Let's talk about this horrible moment and how it spurred pollution controls!
This reminded me when I asked ChatGPT who I was and it made up this really wild story...my brother read it and said it should have added I was Batman at night.
Took a look at the entry they have for me in Elon's Grokipedia.

There are some surprisingly deep details, dredged up from interviews I'd long ago forgotten about, and then there are some incredibly big points that are completely wrong.

Let's roll the tape.
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What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
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The monster eye at the center of a still strengthening Hurricane Melissa.
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From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
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10/27 5am EDT: #Melissa has strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph winds and a 917 mb central pressure, confirmed by the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters. Conditions in #Jamaica will rapidly deteriorate later today and tonight.

See hurricanes.gov for the latest details.
One reason a Senator like Bob Dole expanded SNAP was spending on food was good for farmers in Kansas. He was concerned about hunger sure, but it's a win-win no brainer here.
one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death
This is sorta funny in that one of the critiques of Kamala Harris was she "is a cop".
Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy
This reminded me of an old Canned Heat song.
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
That should have gotten as much coverage as say, HRC's email server.
Don't forget the bleach injections.
Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.
One of the reasons SNAP exists is that 1 out of 9 men drafted in WWII was rejected due to issues related directly to malnourishment. It was considered a national security priority to eliminate this problem.
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I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.
SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
We simply have to rely upon independent news sources not reliant upon access.
CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.
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NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.

The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
One of the key drivers expanding SNAP was Bob Dole - the 1996 GOP nominee for president. www.wfpusa.org/news/history...