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Friday, June 21, 2024
Justice and the Law - ‘She has displayed her bias and incompetence’: Nicolle Wallace on Judge Cannon - YouTube - MSNBC
Nicolle Wallace with Mary McCord,Former Acting Assistant Attorney Deneral for National Security and Kristy Greenberg,Former Federal Prosecutor for the Southern District of New York
Judge Cannon is holding a hearing on the legitimacy of the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith,a matter that has voluminous precedent.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Justice and the Law:REP. LIEU DISCUSSES TASK FORCE TO STOP PROJECT 2025 WITH NICOLLE WALLACE - YouTube - MSNBC
with Nicolle Wallace and Representative Ted Lieu (D-California)*Project 25 would warp the Constitution by concentrating power in the presidency and commandeering the Justice Department and FBI for political ends.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Astronomers find most distant merging quasars yet - YouTube - Space.com - cosmology
Credit:NOIRLab/National Science Foundation/Aura
A quasar is an extremely luminous Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN).It is also known as a Quasi-Stellar Object.The emission from an AGN is powered by a supermassive black hole.Quasars emit gigantic amounts of radiation,sometimes more than all radiation from one large galaxy.They are so bright,they can be seen in the far reaches in the universe.This pair of merging quasars date back to only 990 million years after the Big Bang.
They were discovered by the combined efforts of the Gemini North Telescope and Subaru Telescope on Mt.Mauna Kea,Hawaii.*Cosmology is the study of the origin and structures of the universe.
Monday, June 17, 2024
Justice and the Law - 'An Arm of the GOP': Raskin sounds off on SCOTUS
with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Rep.Jaimie Raskin (D-Maryland)
The Supreme Court as hub of judicial activism
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Justice and the Law - ‘It’s a manifesto’: The most terrifying details in Project 2025 - YouTube - MSNBC
with Melissa Murray and Elie Mystal,Justice Correspondent for The Nation magazine
Project 2025 unveils Trump's intent to centralize power in the executive branch and purge the Justice Department of dissent,warping the Constitution.
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Princess of Wales gives rare update after cancer diagnosis - YouTube - oncology
with Boris Sanchez,Brianna Keilar,Dr.Sanjay Gupta and Kate Williams
Takeaways:The illness is more serious than originally thought.There is much uncertainty involved.It may not be possible for Princess Catherine to carry out planned events,Buckingham Palace said.
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Jeffrey Gundlach Fed Day - CNBC Closing Bell - 12 June 2024
with Scott Wapner,Steve Liesman and Jeffrey Gundlach,founder,CEO and Chief Investment Officer of DoubleLine Capital LP
The interview took place in DoubleLine's Los Angeles office.The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at its June meeting.Mr.Gundlach is predicting a recession and is less sure the Federal Reserve will make even one interest rate cut this year.He currently likes investing in gold and India.DoubleLine has a range of mutual funds,closed end funds,exchange traded funds and UCITS.UCITS is a European Union regulatory framework for trading mutual funds.
Based in Tampa,Florida,DoubleLine is majority employee owned and employs 248.Oaktree Capital Mangement owns a 20% stake in the firm.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Roadmap to the Moon: LRO to Artemis - YouTube - lunar history
Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) provides topographic data on the lunar surface,revealing slopes and surface roughness;helping us model lunar gravity and surface brightness;as well as high resolution 3D maps of the Moon.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Justice and the Law -AOC: Supreme Court is ‘paving the path to authoritarianism’
with Chris Hayes,Rep.Jaimie Raskin (D-Maryland) and Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York)
Close Up Images Show Something Weird is Happening on Betelgeuse - YouTube - The Secrets of the Universe - astrophysics
Betelgeuse is only 550 light years from Earth.When it goes supernova,we will be able to see it in the daytime for a few months.It isn't close enough,though,to pose any danger to Earth.It's been ascertained that the rapid rotation of the star is an optical illusion caused by the star's boiling surface.
Justice and the Law:Trump jail time? Trump faces probation officer in felon ritual - YouTube - MSNBC
with Ari Melber,Monalisa Weber-Former Probation Officer,Florida Department of Corrections,Molly Jong-Fast Special Correspondent,Vanity Fair magazine
Monday, June 10, 2024
It's Alive! Voyager 1 Has Sent a Message From Interstellar Space - YouTube - Secrets of the Universe
Update:since this was posted on 6 May 2024,Voyager 1 has again been relaying science data from two of its instruments.It will take the engineers a little longer to restore the data from the other two working instruments.Both Voyager spacecraft are now in interstellar space,but Voyager 1 got there first,so its data is especially valuable.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
First crewed Boeing Starliner docks with the International Space Station - YouTube - 6 June 2024 - Space.com
Spectacular footage of the docking sequence.
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Justice and the Law -‘The Trump to prison pipeline is real’: Bannon joins wave of Trump allies - YouTube - MSNBC
with Joy Reid and former Republican Congressman David Jolly
Friday, June 7, 2024
NASA Remembers Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders
Apollo 8 was the first journey to the Moon,scouting out lunar landing sites and testing hardware.Apollo 8 crew member William Anders has died at the age of 90.An Air Force officer and nuclear engineer,he went on to head the Nuclear Regulatory Agency and served as US Ambassador to Norway.He took the iconic Earthrise photo on Apollo 8.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Justice and the Law - 'Long time coming': Steve Bannon ordered to surrender to prison July 1
with Chris Hayes,former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner,and The Atlantic Staff Writer McKay Coppins.Steve Bannon is a MAGA leader with a podcast,a close associate of Trump's who helped foment the January 6th insurrection.He was sentenced to four motnhs in prison for contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the January 6 Committee's investigation.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch – June 5, 2024 (Official NASA Broadcast) - YouTube
Boeing Defense,Space and Security (BA)
CSA Astronuat Josh Kutryk has been assigned to the first regular starliner mission,Starliner 1.
NASA Hubble Operations Update - YouTube - astrophysics/planetary science - audio only
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been a highly valued source of astrophysics and planetary science data and is expected to continue as such until at least the mid-2030s.It has studied galactic evolution,exoplanet atmospheres and space weather on the planets.A commercial reboost/servicing mission is under study.
Participants in the teleconference include:Mark Clampin,director,Astrophysics Division,Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington;Patrick Crouse,project manager,Hubble Space Telescope,NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center,Greenbelt,Maryland.*Space weather includes meterological phenomena such as storms,ice formations and seasonal change;aurorae and volcanoes.Ice formations can be evidence of subsurface oceans.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Justice and the Law:More unpleasant legal surprises for Trump possible, newly revealed investigations suggest - YouTube - MSNBC
with Rachel Maddow and Craig Mauger,State Politics Reporter,The Detroit News
The FBI and Justice Department have reportedly opened an investigation into this case,and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel hasn't ruled out indicting Trump.
Monday, June 3, 2024
Third time's a charm? NASA prepares Boeing Starliner to launch after two failed attempts - WQAD News 8,Moline,Illinois
The ULA team fixed the Ground Systems problem by replacing a faulty computer card.
Justice and the Law - President & Convicted Felon: Historian on the Unprecedented Trump Verdict | Amanpour and Company - YouTube - PBS
with Hari Sreenivasan and Presidential Historian Tim Naftali,former Director of the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Justice and the Law - ‘Finally’: See Mary Trump react to Uncle Donald’s historic guilty verdict - YouTube - MSNBC
with Rachel Maddow,Alex Wagner,Lawrence O'Donnell,Joy Reid and Ari Melber
Clinical psychologist and niece to Donald Trump Mary Trump reflects on her uncle's historic conviction:This is a moment he's been dreading his entire life.*
Saturday, June 1, 2024
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