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| | Opinion | All the President's Enablers - POLITICO
May 21, 2025
Opinion | All the President's Enablers
POLITICO
Three books on Joe Biden’s presidency jointly paint a devastating portrait of an ailing, geriatric leader surrounded by mendacious aides and grasping family members. |
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| A NASA Mars rover looked up at a moody sky. What it saw wasn't a star. | Mashable
May 21, 2025
A NASA Mars rover looked up at a moody sky. What it saw wasn't a star.
Mashable
Perseverance captures a rare sight from the surface of the Red Planet.
In the hours just before dawn, NASA's Perseverance rover adjusted its gaze toward the heavens and saw a brilliant point of light. That bright sparkle wasn't a morning star beaming from distant space, but something more mysterious — Mars' shiest moon, Deimos. The rover used one of its navigation cameras at a long-exposure setting to capture the new image. "It's definitely a mood," NASA said of the rare photo in a post on X.|You May Also Like
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NASA rover captures an aurora from Mars surface for the first time
Because the rover took the image in the dark with an almost one-minute exposure time, the scene appears hazy. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively little about them — especially Deimos, the smallest of the two. Both moons are "blacker than coal and look like battered potatoes," according to the European Space Agency, which has studied the pair with its Mars Express spacecraft. Right now researchers aren't sure where the moons came from, and it remains a source of scientific debate. Some believe they could have been asteroids captured in orbit around the Red Planet. Others think they could be chunks of Mars itself, blown out by a giant collision billions of years ago. Nearly all of the images of Deimos, a city-sized moon at roughly 7.5 miles wide, have been taken just like this new one, from the Martian surface by rovers. Because the moon is tidally locked — meaning one full spin matches the amount of time it takes to complete its orbit of Mars — only one of its sides has been seen on the Red Planet. NASA's Perseverance rover was on its way to a new exploration site on the rim of Jezero crater, dubbed Witch Hazel Hill, when it conducted the Deimos photoshoot. Though Perseverance took the image on March 1, NASA just released it to the public. Because the rover took the image in the dark with an almost one-minute exposure time, the scene appears hazy. Many of the white dots in the sky likely aren't distant stars but digital noise. Some others could be cosmic rays, space particles traveling close to the speed of light, according to NASA. Two of the brighter specks are Regulus and Algieba, stars about 78 and 130 light-years away from the solar system respectively, in the constellation Leo.
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Though little is known about Deimos, another European spacecraft recently captured unprecedented views of the moon's far side. The Hera mission, which will study the asteroid NASA intentionally crashed into three years ago, flew by the Red Planet on March 12, just 11 days after the rover looked up. Hera's flyby wasn't a detour but a necessary maneuver to put the spacecraft on the right trajectory toward its ultimate asteroid destination. Swinging within 625 miles of Deimos, Hera used Martian gravity to adjust its course. Queen cofounder Brian May, who is an astrophysicist when he isn't playing guitar, is among the team that processed the Deimos images. "You feel like you're there, and you see the whole scene in front of you," he said during a news conference in March. "The science that we get from this is colossal, and I think we're all like children." let cbeScripts = {"twitterEmbed":["https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"]}; let cbeScriptObserver = function (nodeType, scriptsArr) { let firstElem = document.querySelector('.' + nodeType) let self = this
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| | Gemini App: 7 updates from Google I/O 2025
May 21, 2025
Gemini gets more personal, proactive and powerful
Google
The Gemini app is getting major new updates, from Veo 3 and Imagen 4 to Deep Research and Canvas. |
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May 21, 2025
Liberals STILL BELIEVE The "Very Fine People" HOAX
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May 21, 2025
FLOTUS: 2025 White House Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
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First Lady of the United States Melania Trump welcomed children to the White House with a patriotic arts and crafts activity in the Kennedy Garden as part of... |
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May 21, 2025
Democrats BLAME Trump For Brooklyn Bridge Ship COLLISION
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| | Mureka
May 21, 2025
Mureka
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| | Nelly; on X: "YouTube is a free university. Here are 10 channels that teach you new skills: https://t.co/8B2lzDOMA4" / X
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| Meet our experts - Archistar
May 21, 2025
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| JUSTICE MALALA | So what exactly does Trump want? South Africa is about to find out
May 21, 2025
JUSTICE MALALA | So what exactly does Trump want? South Africa is about to find out
TimesLIVE
The meeting between Cyril Ramaphosa and Donald Trump will not be a rational meeting because nothing is rational about the assault on South Africa, says the writer |
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| Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies: "For our first BlueSky post, it is appropriate that we begin with South Africa's newly signed Expropriation Act. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has today signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975. However... #ExpropriationBill" — Bluesky
May 21, 2025
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (@plaasuwc.bsky.social)
Bluesky Social
For our first BlueSky post, it is appropriate that we begin with South Africa's newly signed Expropriation Act. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has today signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975. However...
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May 21, 2025
Why JD Vance Could Be The Most Influential Vice President in American History, with Mark Halperin
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Why JD Vance could be the most influential vice president in American history, with Mark Halperin.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly/3A... |
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May 21, 2025
Elon on the Spot, Grok Has a Week | Elon, Inc.
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Elon Musk was interviewed Tuesday by Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. The wide-ranging conversation spanned the multibillionair... |
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May 21, 2025
Elon Musk Talks Tesla, Politics and Putin Relationship (Full Interview)
YouTube
Elon Musk said he’s committed to still leading Tesla Inc. five years from now and expects to pare back his political spending, assuaging some investors’ conc... |
| | Elon Musk Insults 'NPC' Bloomberg Editor Mishal Husain
May 21, 2025
‘It’s Like Talking to a Computer’: Elon Musk Insults ‘NPC’ Bloomberg Editor During Live Interview
Mediaite
Billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk insulted Bloomberg editor Mishal Husain during a live interview on Tuesday, comparing her to an "NPC" in a video game. |
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May 21, 2025
Musk to attend Trump's meeting with South Africa's president
Axios
Musk was born in South Africa and has been an open critic of its government. |
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| Elon Musk lays into 'NPC' Bloomberg journalist Mishal Husain
May 21, 2025
Musk rips journalist in interview: ‘Like talking to a computer’
The Hill
Elon Musk ripped into a journalist asking about the effectiveness of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying talking to her is “like talking to a computer.” Bloomberg Editor-at…
Elon Musk ripped into a journalist asking about the effectiveness of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying talking to her is “like talking to a computer.” Bloomberg Editor-at-Large Mishal Husain pressed Musk during an interview at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday about the amount of savings DOGE is finding as it seeks to reduce waste in the federal government. She mentioned Musk has said DOGE is saving $4 billion per day but noted that wouldn’t be enough to reach his stated goal of saving $2 trillion by the time the department is set to wind down next year. “I feel you’re somewhat trapped in the NPC [nonplayer character] dialogue tree of a traditional journalist,” Musk responded, in comments highlighted by Mediaite. “So it’s difficult when I’m conversing with someone who’s trapped in the dialogue tree of a conventional journalist, because it’s like talking to a computer.” He said DOGE is an advisory group and is doing the best it can, claiming its progress so far has been “excellent.” “I don’t think any advisory group has done better in the history of advisory groups for the government,” he said. “Now, we do not make the laws, nor do we control the judiciary, nor do we control the executive branch. We are simply advisers. In that context, we’re doing very well.” The tech billionaire and senior adviser to President Trump argued the three branches of government are “to some degree” opposed to the level he wants for savings, creating an obstacle. Musk’s DOGE has overseen a significant reshaping of the federal government in the months since Trump started his second term. Under recommendations from DOGE, hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been laid off or taken buyouts. Musk has said the effort has saved billions, but that is still well short of his initially stated goal, and some experts have raised doubts that the amount of savings may be even less than Musk has maintained.|
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May 21, 2025
Tapper Pressed on Biden Coverage, DOJ Charges Dem Rep, Rubio's Fiery Senate Hearing: AM Update 5/21
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Jake Tapper admits the legacy media ignored clear signs of Biden’s cognitive decline, and says it’s time for serious soul-searching. A New Jersey Democrat Co... |
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May 21, 2025
Jake Tapper brutally humiliated during Biden book tour after being exposed as a raging hypocrite
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Jake Tapper has been exposed. The CNN host and darling of the Democrats is in damage control today after his book tour turned into a pile on following Joe Bi... |
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May 21, 2025
Israel Prepares To STRIKE Iran Nuclear Facilities Says US Intel | Timcast IRL
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| | Gemini Code Assist: Updates from Google I/O 2025
May 21, 2025
Coding with Gemini just got easier
Google
Gemini Code Assist for individuals and for GitHub are now generally available and powered by Gemini 2.5. |
| | Google’s future is Google Googling | The Verge
May 21, 2025
Google’s future is Google Googling
The Verge
Google wants to Google that for you. |
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May 21, 2025
Biden's staged town hall footage was unusable, new book says
Axios
The episode highlights the lengths Biden's campaign went to cover for his deficiencies as an 81-year-old candidate. |
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May 21, 2025
cat is cat no matter the size#cute #animal #lynx #cat
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May 21, 2025
Episode 2846 CWSA 05/21/25
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Biden's brain, budget chaos, and so much more~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If you would like to enjoy this same content plus bonus content from Sc... |
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May 20, 2025
Truth About Biden Cover-Up, and "Original Sin" Revelations, with Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, More
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Megyn Kelly is joined by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, co-authors of "Original Sin," to discuss their new book, the revelations about Biden's cognitive decl... |
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May 20, 2025
Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami
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(0:00) The Besties welcome Sergey Brin!(0:40) Sergey on his return to Google, and how an OpenAI employee played a role!(5:58) AI's true superpower and the ne... |
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May 20, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: Prostate Cancer Doesn’t Develop Immediately. What Biden’s Team Isn’t Saying
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There are more mysteries than answers surrounding the Biden team.Why did Joe Biden's medical team announce right now—on the eve of the release of “Original S... |
