Once upon a time, there was a little dog, a beagle - dachshund mix. He had a long, chubby body; short, stubby legs; long, floppy ears; a long, squat head; and a beagle's coat of brown and black splotches on a white background. ...

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🚨 Republican candidate Ryan Dewayne Jenks has been sentenced to 20 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl.

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🚨Tyler Steven Greene, 27, and Angel Faith Greene, 25, of Fleetwood, NC — vocal and proud MAGA Christians — have been charged with felony child abuse with serious injury after their 3-month-old baby was hospitalized with devastating injuries. Angel’s Facebook was filled with “Trump Girl — Deal With It” posts, posts portraying Trump as a messianic figure saved by ‘god,’ and Bible verses. Tyler was photographed wearing an “I Stand With Trump” camo hat. According to arrest warrants, the couple allegedly “unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously did intentionally inflict…serious physical injury” to their baby. Staff at Brenner’s Children’s Hospital in Winston-Salem alerted investigators after the baby arrived with four broken ribs, a stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, a right flank hematoma, pattern bruising, diffuse bruising, and petechiae. Both were arrested June 8 and initially held without bond. More charges are pending. It takes a special kind of cruelty to inflict such harm on a helpless infant. And this culture comes from the top-down — set by Trump and the Epstein class.

Venus is unusual because it rotates extremely slowly and in the opposite direction to most planets. A day defined by its rotation lasts about 243 Earth days, even longer than its 225-day year, and the Sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east. A new work argues that this strange rotation may not be a slow evolutionary accident, but the fossil result of a giant collision early in Venus’s history. The study models possible impacts using smoothed particle hydrodynamics, testing differentiated impactors between 0.01 and 0.1 Earth masses, with velocities of about 10 to 15 km/s and different impact angles. In several scenarios, especially oblique or hit-and-run impacts on an already rotating young Venus, the collision can slow the planet dramatically or even push it toward retrograde rotation. The result is not that scientists have proven such an impact happened, but that a giant impact is physically consistent with two major Venusian puzzles: its abnormal spin and its lack of a real moon. In the simulations, impact cases that reproduce Venus-like rotation often create only small debris discs located inside Venus’s synchronous orbit. That matters because material in such an orbit would tend to fall back onto the planet instead of assembling into a stable satellite. In other words, the same event that altered Venus’s spin could also explain why Venus, unlike Earth, never ended up with a large Moon-like companion. The impact would also have been geologically violent. The models presented at EGU 2026 suggest that such collisions could produce magma oceans ranging from a roughly 100 km deep melt layer to a fully molten mantle in the most energetic cases. Some scenarios also inject large amounts of heat into the deep interior and upper core, producing short-lived but intense mantle and core dynamics. However, one important conclusion is that this thermal disturbance may not leave an obvious signature after billions of years: after a few hundred million years, the long-term interior evolution of an impacted Venus-like planet can become difficult to distinguish from one that never suffered such a collision. The broader significance is that Venus’s present state may have been shaped by a combination of early violence and later climate evolution. Its slow rotation affects atmospheric circulation, cloud formation and how the planet redistributes heat. That, in turn, matters for understanding whether Venus ever had more temperate surface conditions before its runaway greenhouse state. But the study does not solve every Venus mystery. It leaves open how much water Venus retained or lost, whether its interior is still hydrated, and how any early impact may have interacted with the later absence of Earth-like plate tectonics. The key idea is more cautious and more interesting: Venus’s strange rotation could be the surviving dynamical scar of a giant early impact, not merely a quirk of tidal evolution or atmospheric braking. 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03239

Three years ago, my doctor told me I was going deaf. I haven't heard from him since.

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Spend 20 years studying Chemistry. Collect data. Publish papers. Pass peer review. Earn a PhD. Go online. Get told you're wrong - by an electric screwdriver salesman. That's the internet. Expertise vs confidence. Science isn't broken. Our respect for it is.

🚨One year ago today, Vance Boelter — a self-described evangelical pastor, registered Republican, and avowed Trump supporter — stalked Democratic lawmakers at their homes under cover of darkness, disguised in a fake police uniform and silicone mask. On June 14, 2025, Boelter shot former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman multiple times as she fled through her own home, then pressed his gun to her head and fired. Her husband Mark and their dog, Gilbert, were also killed. That same night, Boelter shot Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife at their home, and attempted to shoot their daughter. He left behind a kill list of over 45 targets — a who’s who of Democratic leadership. Among the names: Gov. Tim Walz, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, Reps. Ilhan Omar and Angie Craig, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, and Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. The list also included abortion providers and Planned Parenthood clinic addresses. Boelter was no mystery figure. His roommate told CNN he was “a strong Trump supporter” who voted for Trump in 2024. Public voter records confirm he participated in the 2024 Minnesota Republican presidential primary. Friends said he consumed far-right media including Infowars and attended Trump rallies. This is the nightmare Trump built with language like calling his political opponents “the enemy from within,” describing them as “vermin” who needed to be “rooted out,” and telling supporters that Democrats were “destroying our country.” Trump also called Democrats “evil” and more dangerous than China or Russia. For years, Trump used rallies to dehumanize political opponents — and Boelter was listening. This week, Boelter pleaded guilty in federal court to six charges, including murder and stalking. He will spend the rest of his life in prison. State charges — including two counts of first-degree premeditated murder — are still pending. Melissa Hortman dedicated her life to public service. She deserved to answer her own door safely. She didn’t — because dehumanizing rhetoric from the most powerful man in the world has consequences.

Ginger Cat Crashes Romeo and Juliet Ballet Finale in Turkey Trends: Entertainment. Yesterday I correctly guessed Turkey ! Turkey (Turkiye) loves cats! Their cat named Gli in Istanbul's Hagia Sophia had its on social media. #Turkiye #Cats #Caturday #Love x.com/Yoda4ever/status/20655…

Though it appears more like a microscopic life-form than a celestial object, NGC 2022 is actually a massive globe of gas, released by a dying star. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Wade)

Two masterminds, one deeply doomed plan #CalvinandHobbes #SneakyPlans

MAGA Influencer Joshua Heffner has been arrested for possession of child p*rn. ⛔️Heffner has nearly half a million followers on TikTok.‼️

"Jucika and canning".

Record high of 99° tied at the airport today, per NWS. Record was last set in 2011.

Donald Trump when it comes to pardoning people

🚨 Jan. 6 rioter Kene Brian Lazo was charged with the rape and aggravated sexual battery of a 13-year-old. Trump pardoned him anyway.

Extraordinary Fossils Solve a 500-Million-Year Evolution Mystery sciencealert.com/extraordina…

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