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Attention astronomy nerds, skywatchers, and anyone curious and fascinated by the celestial bodies visible in our night sky...

Jupiter is here, and it's very easy to see at this time. Head out between 4:00am and 4:15am, and look to the Southeast horizon. Scan up to about 40° off the horizon, and you'll see Jupiter! It appears alone, and is very bright and unmissable. You'll notice that it's a static light with no flicker, as planets don't flicker. It looks like beautiful jewel rising up from that Southeast horizon.

Another great body to observe around this time is the star, Regulus. Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation, Leo, and is readily observable with the naked eye. Like Jupiter, Regulus can be found by looking to the Southeast horizon from about 4:00am to 6:00am, with the best visibility at about 5:00am. While looking towards the Southeast, move your eyes up about 34° off the horizon. Regulus is close to Jupiter, only about 8-10° beneath it. It's a blueish-white star that will appear dimmer than Jupiter, but is still plainly visible at the correct time.

October is an exiting time for viewing celestial bodies, and you can see these and other objects each night during the month provided the sky is clear, and your view of the horizon is unobstructed. If you decide to go outside in that 4:00am-6:00am window to spot Jupiter and Regulus, I hope you enjoy finding and observing the objects. Our night sky is a wondrous reminder of our place in the Universe, and how small and relatively insignificant we all are in the grand scheme of the cosmos. It can be humbling, and change our perspective on our lives, and sometimes that's exactly what we need.

Trump destroyed a 7000 year-old indigenous geoglyph in Arizona along the Mexican border when his team of Customs and Border Patrol contractors plowed a 50ft scar through the ancient earthwork to build his administration's border wall.

The glyph, a nearly 300ft long fish called the Las Playas Intaglio, is the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas and was carved into the Sonoran Desert around 2000 years before the creation of Egypt's pyramids in Giza by the Tohono O'odham people. It was used in rituals intended to encourage a great bounty of fish from the nearby Sea of Cortez to feed the O'odham.

With reckless abandon, and without a shred of regard for humanity's collective history, Trump and his enablers are pissing in the face of the entire world, and wiping away irreplaceable remnants of a long-past people, and their culture.

How much more can we can we take? When is enough enough?

"It is not the ICC that Rubio is dismantling brick by brick, but the rules-based international order that grew out of the ashes of World War II,” said Raed Jarrar, advocacy director of the human rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). "Rubio’s attack doesn't just underscore US hypocrisy, but undermines access to justice across the globe, from Ukraine to Sudan and could amount to obstruction of justice, a crime under the Rome Statute in and of itself."

Trump is big angry, and hurling ketchup across the Oval Office again! If you're in DC, cross Pennsylvania Avenue to avoid getting struck by an errant laptop and the accompanying ketchup carrying Monkey Bowl!

This man has fully crossed into the next life, probably to continue asking Lindsey Graham questions that sound like something a real person in his position would say. Don't be surprised if he slips up in the coming weeks and starts talking about how he was just talking to his good friend, Lindsey. Because he was.

Trump just beat out Jeffrey Epstein and Jeffrey Dahmer for Worst American in History. Lol

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. Trump is so humiliated by the consequences of his abject incompetence, that he's invented a story about how the Reflecting Pool has fallen apart in just a few short days. And the story comes complete with anonymous perpetrators who have been arrested for their vandalism.

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Here's what happened. New paint was applied to the bottom and sides of the pool. Then, having restarted dormant water equipment without proper cleaning and maintenance, algae quickly bloomed and took over the pool a matter of hours after its unveiling.

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To combat the algae, Trump ordered unqualified parks department workers to pour a super-high concentration of hydrogen peroxide (12%) into the pool. The algae was coming under control, but the peroxide ate away at the paint starting with the weakest areas, resulting in huge sheets of the paint coming free.

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Rather than acknowledge that he's a moron who regularly does dumb shit based on his ignorance, Trump decided that it must have been Obama and the Democrats who secretly vandalized the pool out of hatred for Trump and the country. At this point, he seems to have dropped the claim that the Dems did it, but he's still claiming (without evidence) that vandals did it, and that many of them have been arrested (again, without evidence).

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If these so called vandals exist, he needs to present them to the world. The police need to release their names and information to the press as they would for any other criminal case. After all, that's information that's legally required to be released. But that's not going to happen. What'll happen is nothing. Trump will move on, believing that he solved the problem, and we'll never again hear any information about the alleged arrestees. We'll never find out who they are, or what their crimes are. It'll be as if it never happened, because it never happened.

Lolololol... This dude can't do anything without being totally ridiculous. He's trying to put the Congressional Medal of Honor on this guy's neck, but his fat sausage fingers have no dexterity, and probably no blood flow, leaving himself with no choice but to tie the ribbon around the guy's neck like it's a choker, with the actual medal resting against his Adam's apple. You just can't take this dude anywhere 🏅😭

Dear Christians...

If you want to know why people mock you, this is why. This, right here.

I'm just waiting for that Breaking News notification... 🤞

Has anyone seen any notifications that Social Security is changing their benefit payment dates? I just got a Google notice about it and I'm in a panic.

I receive my benefit payment on the 3rd of each month (unless the 3rd falls on Saturday, Sunday or Holiday in which case I receive it on the Friday before). It's been this way since I began receiving benefits back in 2005.

I know some people have a payment date based on their Birthday, but that's never applied to me. The notice I read basically says all payments are going to be based on birthday. This would be a nightmare for me since I rely on my benefits to pay my rent by the 3rd of each month.

I logged into the SSA.gov website to look at my payment schedule, and it clearly states that I receive my payments on the 3rd of each month, and that my next scheduled payment will be in June 3, 2026. So, I don't know if I'm reading this notice wrong, or if the SSA.gov site just hasn't been updated with the new payment dates, or if my circumstances somehow exempt me from this change and I'll continue receiving my benefits in the 3rd as it's always been.

Could someone cast any light in this, or ease my mind about it. I'm terrified of not being able to pay my rent until after the 72hr grace period when I'll be charged a $75 late fee. I've never missed a rent payment in the 13 years I've been here, and I don't want to suddenly become a problem for my landlord due to a change in the benefit pay date.