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Space.com by Robert Lea 5/2/2024

Both space telescopes went down on April 23 — but, while Hubble is back, TESS remains in safe mode.

On Monday (April 29), NASA restored the Hubble Space Telescope to full operation, returning it to its scientific activities after the spacecraft spent a week in safe mode. The celebratory mood was dampened somewhat, however, because NASA's exoplanet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), remains in limbo.

Ironically, TESS also stopped collecting science data on April 23, the same day the Hubble Telescope was placed into safe mode. The latter's operations were halted due to a glitch with one of its three gyroscopes, which the space telescope uses to determine how it is orientated, while the reason for the former's lapse in service is still unclear.

NASA engineers had been preparing to operate Hubble, which launched in 1990 and has been surveying the cosmos for 34 years, with just one gyroscope. A NASA update on Tuesday (April 30) revealed that the issue had been resolved, and Hubble was back to operating with three gyros. In the statement, NASA said that all of Hubble’s instruments are online, and the telescope has resumed taking scientific observations.

More: https://www.space.com/hubble-space-telescope-tess-exoplanet-hunter-safe-mode
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Politics/Government / Re: Political Graphics 2024
« Last post by Slide Rule on Today at 05:58:55 pm »
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Kristen Clarke Allegedly Knifed Her Ex And Lied About It — But It’s Not The Worst Thing She’s Done

BY: DAVID HARSANYI
MAY 02, 2024


Sure, Clarke lies. But she has also weaponized the DOJ.

According to The Daily Signal, there is a strong indication that Kristen Clarke, who now leads the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, lied during her confirmation process in 2021. In written questions, Sen. Tom Cotton had asked Clarke: “Since becoming a legal adult, have you ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person.” Her answer was “No.”

Clarke, who was arrested in July 2006, allegedly attacked her husband with a knife, “deeply slicing his finger to the bone.” Her pedantic argument is that her record was expunged. But the incident meets all the criteria of being “accused” of a “violent crime.”

Listen, we have no clue how the knife incident went down. It’s a personal matter. Clarke says it happened after years of domestic abuse. Maybe her then-husband had it coming. Maybe not. She still lied to the Senate. And it’s not the only thing she lied about.

Clarke, recall, was ahead of the curve in spreading the racist pseudoscientific quackery that has popularized on modern campuses. As president of the Black Student Association at Harvard in the 1990s, she authored a wild letter to the Crimson, arguing that the structure of the black person’s brain made them superior to other races. Chemicals in the brain, Clarke went on, imbued the black race with “superior physical and mental abilities” and “spiritual abilities,” and “[m]elanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.”

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https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/02/kristen-clarke-allegedly-knifed-her-ex-and-lied-about-it-but-its-not-the-worst-thing-shes-done/
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World News / Re: Ukraine 4
« Last post by Smokin Joe on Today at 05:53:54 pm »
Ukraine is continuing to defy LIEden's, ummm, request, that they not attack Russian oil production and storage facilities:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we5k17eDxHg

Unlike LIEden, they realize that tanks and IFVs (of various types) and weapons systems (self-propelled or towed) need fuel, making Russian oil production and storage facilities important military targets. No fuel, no move.
The only oil industry LIEden is anxious to destroy is our own.
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These failing and flailing institutions are being propped up by Federal Subsidies - Government backed student loans.

End the Federal Government backed student loan program, then, you'll have college administrators' undivided attention.
:yowsa:
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I adopted my lab when he was 12 months old, and he was fully grown ~100 pounds.  If a 14 month old dog is killing livestock or biting its owner, he'll probably end up like Cricket eventually.  There is no time for that on a working ranch.  Yes, if she were too squeamish, then she could have taken him to a shelter, so he could drive someone else crazy.

Dumb controversy.  Her rumored affair with Lewandowski is what bothers me. 
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I was crying writing it.  We still miss him.   He was the sweetest tempered thing imaginable.  We have a few cats, and though they fight with each other, they all adored him.  We'd give him a treat sometimes, and he'd carry it over to one of the cats and give it to them.   Just a remarkable animal.

Here's my favorite picture of him from a day I took him out fishing:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/52zZ5QUYCqgmQzBAA

and he and our one female cat on one of their dates:

https://photos.google.com/search/dogs/photo/AF1QipPxPeP30-nPptpZ3ucEOxEcii2WkKGyZISCN_TE

Love the one in the boat...and he sure seemed to love being there...
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California police confirm more than 130 anti-Israel agitators arrested at UCLA

More than 130 anti-Israel agitators were arrested after police raided the encampment on UCLA's campus.

The California Highway Patrol said in a statement that multiple law enforcement agencies responded to a mutual aid request from the UCLA Police Department. Wearing face shields and protective vests, they stood with their batons protruding out to separate them from demonstrators, who wore helmets and gas masks and chanted, "You want peace. We want justice."

Law enforcement removed barricades after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.

"In response to a mutual aid request from UCLA, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) deployed to assist the UCLA Police Department," Sergeant Alejandro Rubio told Fox News Digital. "The CHP was one of several law enforcement agencies who responded to the campus’ request for assistance.  CHP assisted with arresting more than 130 protesters whom will be processed by the UCLA Police Department."

Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace contributed to this update.
Posted by Chris Pandolfo
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‘A new normal’: How the Supreme Court weathered the Dobbs leak

By Kaelan Deese
May 2, 2024 5:00 am


Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer recently lamented the “unfortunate” leak of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade, an incident that two years ago today threatened the very core of the institution he once represented.

“You try to avoid getting angry or that — you try in the job — you try to remain as calm, reasonable, and serious as possible. I think it was unfortunate,” he said of the leak of the draft decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case.

Justice Clarence Thomas called the leak a type of “infidelity” that “changes the institution fundamentally.” Chief Justice John Roberts directed the court’s marshal to launch an investigation into the leak, which months later turned up inconclusive.

Even two years later, there are signs that the high court may still be reeling from the unprecedented leak decision, according to legal experts and court watchers interviewed by the Washington Examiner.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2986986/how-supreme-court-weathered-dobbs-leak/
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Sen Mike Lee targets university grants, cites 'woke DEI programs,' anti-Israel riots

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is taking on university subsidies from the federal government as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs expand and schools lose control over antisemitic protests and riots across the country.

The Utah Republican introduced the No Subsidies for Wealthy Universities Act in the Senate on Thursday, with Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., introducing a companion version in the House. The measure is also co-sponsored by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan.

"The tax dollars of hardworking American families are going to ultra-wealthy universities, like Columbia and Harvard, supporting woke DEI programs while churning out graduates who despise our country and riot for the destruction of Israel," Lee said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

The senator's bill would address the issue of subsidies and grants being used to bolster DEI and facilitate them by scrutinizing what are referred to as indirect cost reimbursements. While direct costs are easily tracked and are used for items such as lab equipment, indirect costs are more difficult to predict and include the carrying out of such grants.

Lee's measure looks to eliminate the indirect cost reimbursements on these federal subsidies for research for any universities that boast endowments greater than $5 billion. For those with endowments less than $5 billion but still more than $2 billion, they would be capped at 8%. All other institutions would face a 15% cap for the indirect costs.

He said that the emphasis being placed on DEI at U.S. universities, as well as the current anti-Israel protests and riots, prompted the legislation, slamming both as "a disgrace."

"If they want to trash their reputations as academic institutions, they can do so on their own dime," Lee said.

Fox News Digital's Julia Johnson contributed to this update.
Posted by Chris Pandolfo

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/may-2-antisemitism-surges-campus-protests
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