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It means anti-Ares, as in rival of the planet Mars. It's a red supergiant in the constellation Scorpius that can be mistaken for the fourth planet.

@MichelleKOMO Hey Michelle, astronomer here. The pronunciation of Antares is ann-TARE'-eez. Thanks for asking. Pronounce Ann with a short A like the given name, accent Tare like tearing paper, then ease of use.

@NoContextBrits And if you ignore the advice, be sure to have all the sugar carefully licked away.

Stay safe, ladies.

Activist judges keep winning Washington Supreme Court races because voters leave those lines blank. This November, five of nine seats are on the ballot — the most in decades. Two justices retired early specifically so the governor could hand-pick their replacements before voters ever got a say. Are you paying attention to these races?

@seattletimes And voters would be wise to remember that Gov. Ferguson is a proven liar.

As an initiative to repeal the 'millionaires tax' gains steam, Gov. Bob Ferguson is trying to reassure voters the tax won't get expanded to apply to them. #Echobox=1779918502-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

I'm not going to go too far into details for the lay public who lack chemistry training, but be prepared for the possibility that missing victims of the Longview paper mill explosion may never be recovered. If you've seen the show Breaking Bad, a plot point early on talks about dissolving a body in hydrofluoric acid. The technical consultants for the show took some liberties with the chemistry so as not to provide a roadmap for people who want to obliterate human remains, but that's the sort of idea that I'm talking about with this pulp mill business. In fact, it's quite possible that some victims may only be identifiable by synthetic clothing they wore that day or by recovered teeth. Their soft tissue DNA has likely been completely denatured. The only reason I'm discussing this is because we should expect the government to either not understand or to obfuscate certain upsetting details, which will confuse a news media who mostly lack the technical proficiency to ask the right questions about why we still have missing victims weeks from now. Take it from me: some of these poor victims may have entirely dissolved in the hot white liquor. It's horrifying. My thoughts are with their families.

Inslee lied about farmers/truckers being exempt from the CCA, they sued and lost somehow. Ferguson said he would honor it and make them exempt, but the way he implemented it isn't even remotely practical for rural Washington State farmers. Even though you aren't my representative I feel like you speak for all of us most of the time. Most of us being anyone against Progressive Democrat Legislation.

@BobFergusonGov You've always been a weasel who reneges on his word. We expect no different here.

It looks like voters will get a say on whether to maintain the tax on income over $1 million that was passed earlier this year- and I look forward to the public having their say on this important policy. To be clear, this reform of our regressive tax code included expansion of tax credits for working families, relief for small businesses, and investments in K-12 and affordable childcare. One more thing voters should know: so long as I am Governor I will veto ANY attempt to lower the threshold or raise the rate of this tax-- we are asking those who make the most to pay a little more, and providing relief to workers and small businesses. Let's keep it that way.

@mitake111 @TjordFergesen I see what you're saying, but the early AM is the coolest part of the day. Evenings remain stifling in Phoenix. Standard time during summer pushes that tolerable hour earlier, instead of delaying it so more people can enjoy it.

@TjordFergesen Arizona is unique because of its almost unbearable heat in the summertime. Most of the rest of the country likes having more light in spring and summer when they get home from work. It’s that simple.

Arizona doesn’t do daylight savings time and they are fine. Get rid of DST.

@TjordFergesen Arizona is in the southern tier, the part of the country that needs DST least, and also sits midway between time zones. They're the exception, not the rule.

Are you advocating for reverse DST in the winter, then? In order to give the northern tier a 7 am sunrise in the winter, clocks would need to change two hours from Standard +1 (DST) to Standard -1 for winter. That means a 3pm sunset in late December. Have fun selling that idea.

@jamesawhiite No one needs daylight until 10 o’clock at night. No one needs the sun rising after 7 o’clock in the morning.

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered. You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm. The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone. A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time. Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans. We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all. Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

The glaring omission of Bill Maher speaks volumes. His engaging mix of political conversation with humor appeals to triple digit IQs. Nope -- undeserving to be a pillar of democracy. Meanwhile, Colbert, Kimmel, et al. busy themselves ladling their slop of political animus for sycophantic crowds who lap it off the floor. It's tribalistic hate laundered as tedious comedy for double digit IQs. Heroes, all. 🤡

Pillars of U.S. democracy The Globe and Mail by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/p/…

@brianlilley The absence of Bill Maher from the cartoon is quite ironic, especially considering that he produces substantive political conversation while the others produce loads of dreck.

I'm sorry, but this cartoon about Stephen Colbert in The Globe is ridiculous. Colbert was not a pillar of democracy. He's a comedian and not a very good one. His show was bloated in terms of staff compared to audience size and ratings, that made him vulnerable. This is overblown.

@brianlilley @cbcwatcher It’s also a stunning admission that the Left and Liberals see their monopoly with the media as a very important vehicle to their control over the culture so they can tell people what to think, to retain their grip on power or sour sentiment and obstruct their opposition.

@morrismd1918 @Eugenics_R_Us @JohnnyAGI Babbitt was killed while committing a felony, actively threatening public officials. The tip of the riot's spear got bent back. Floyd was an active threat. Babbitt was an active threat. Both deserved their fates. Drop the tribal handcuffs imprisoning your mind.

@Eugenics_R_Us @JohnnyAGI The cop should be in prison. Babbitt was not innocent but her crimes didn't deserve death.

Some say George Floyd died from having the weight of a mans knee on his neck for 9 minutes Some say George Floyd died from an overdose of all the drugs that were in his system impacting his respiratory function It's an issue that is very much influenced by partisan, social justice, and racial biases. If George Floyd was white, and Derek Chauvin was black, a lot of the very same people would have completely flipped opinions. In both directions. I am not wrong.

The unwashed masses want the Sun to cross the meridian between 12 and 1. If it gets much earlier than 11:45, they'll demand it be reset to 12:45. That said, West Texas is egregious. Out near Marfa, at the March equinox the Sun rises at 8 and sets at 8. There's no excuse for extending Central Time that far west.

@TheHegemony @HustleBitch_ As you said, it's your issue. Apparently, you're not entertained.

@HustleBitch_ Everyone gets pissed off every now and then. Here my issue: Guy is worth millions and wearing a Polo. What’s the point of being rich if you don’t up your game a little?

🚨 RUSSELL CROWE LOSES IT ON FANS IN PARIS — “DON’T FU*KING PUSH IN ON ME!” A heated clip of Russell Crowe is going viral after the actor suddenly stopped a crowd of autograph seekers in Paris and bluntly warned them to back off before things escalated. “Stay where you are.” “Don’t fu*king push in on me!” “I’ll come to you.” “As soon as somebody’s a dick, I'm gone.” People online are now debating: • whether celebrities are reaching a breaking point • if autograph culture has become too aggressive • and whether some “fans” are really just resellers chasing money Now the comments are sounding off: • “You can hear years of frustration in his voice.” • “Those aren’t fans. Those are professional vultures.” • “Celebrities are starting to hate the public.” • “Honestly? I don’t even blame him.” Was Russell Crowe justified here… or did he completely lose his cool? 📹: Instagram/hush.officiel

@RepJayapal What a laugh. You expect us to believe that American-produced groceries are more expensive because of tariffs and Iranians, rather than inflationary STATE policies like lavish minimum wages, tolerance toward shoplifting, and record tax increases.

As Americans come together for cookouts this long weekend, they’re paying more for the basics. Thanks to Trump’s illegal war and inflation, grocery prices are up on everything from corn to sodas.

Can we please pour some 20'x20' concrete pads out on BLM land in the very deepest part of our western deserts? We users of big telescopes seek out the most remote places in the country like the Oregon/Nevada border to observe, and a little smidgen of concrete out there helps a lot. We can't set up directly on sagebrush.

Two hilarious things about this tweet that Rocky Mountain people see all the time. First, it’s very common for NYC/SF/DC beltway people to spend several *days* on vacation on Western public land. Shortly after, they fancy themselves policy experts and proudly proclaim their “love” of public land but then go home and go out of their way to advocate for its privatization and sale. They return to their cities and condescendingly explain to Westerners that we must privatize public land or sell it off to foreigners/investment funds/billionaires/out of staters because line must always go up and BLM land isn’t as “pretty” as the NPS parcel where they vacationed. Second is BLM land, from a conservation perspective, isn’t set aside for recreation or aesthetic value, and he’s displaying a complete lack of knowledge in our land portfolio that disqualifies him from weighing in on its sale. What the National Park tourists don’t understand (because they don’t live here and their knowledge of the issue is quite shallow) is the BLM land that he disparages for not being pretty is “multiple use.” This is a particularly brilliant and uniquely American management classification that allows large swaths of land to be wild and working landscapes that permit livelihoods and conservation. Oil and gas operations can share their parcels with sensitive sage grouse leks. Mining operations can occur, with regulations, on migratory game corridors for some of our biggest deer and elk herds. Recreation and hunting can still occur right next to a seventh generation small family run cattle operation. There’s also a big 2A connection here. Near my university, the only place the kids have to go to zero in their rifles before elk season is BLM land. They couldn’t do any shooting sports while away at college be it not for our local BLM parcel that Andrew wants to sell because it’s not as pretty as Yosemite. BLM as an agency isn’t perfect but their scientists have been instrumental in collaborative efforts to restore the Bonneville Cutthroat trout (a symbol of the West, beloved by westerners, and endemic to the waters of Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Idaho) as well as Colorado’s iconic greenback cutthroat. Migration corridor habitat protection by BLM for Mule deer, bighorn, and elk has been instrumental across a number of states in the Rockies for keeping herd numbers where they need to be so we can fund wildlife conservation work with hunting tags. If members of the America first coalition want to partner with rw people of Western states, they shouldn’t be so prideful and think that a vacation qualifies them to advocate for the sale of public land that they woefully misunderstand in terms of both the purpose and how we manage it. Public land enables a unique heritage, culture, people, ecology, and set of livelihoods that make tourists like Andrew want to come and spend time out here. Once you put a fence around it all, and lose access to things that American legends like Teddy Roosevelt set aside for us and our children, you’re just advocating to further strip America for its parts so long as that sacred line goes up. East coast conservative think tankers and GOP staffers should learn fast that the rw under 50 high elevation crowd isn’t Orrin Hatch. We are led by Hunter/angler groups and GWOT vets like the guys at @Sagebrush_Inst who embody servant leadership and stewards of our beloved American commons. We follow ranching families like @caseymurph1 who safeguard our land from foreign land grabs. This issue is very serious to us.