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Explanation: Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown with a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward...

A group of more than 20 prominent progressive groups and unions is criticizing Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in a new ad campaign for his response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and his vote against federal voting rights legislation, NBC News reported Monday. The $800,000 ad campaign, which started on Sunday, highlights Johnson's remarks on Fox News on the violent Jan. 6 riot, which he said was "peaceful" except for "a number of people, basically agitators that whipped the crowd and breached the Capitol." "You're failing us, Sen. Johnson," the ad campaign, named "Country Over Party," states. "Protecting our democracy has...

Children are not at risk of catching or spreading Covid-19. The mortality rate is so small, it doesn’t register on any lists of top causes of death among kids. This is why even the CDC, mainstream media, and Covid-terrified leftists scratched their head over an inexplicable piece of guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics that called for face masks used by children over the age of two until they’re vaccinated. Of course, Anthony Fauci agreed, but he’ll agree with anything that takes away rights, humiliates Americans, and promotes ubiquitous vaccinations. As people started wondering about the inexplicable and indefensible...

Tuesday’s White House Press Briefing was a welcome reprieve as Fox News’s Peter Doocy found himself with more than a few colleagues willing to join him in grilling Press Secretary Jen Psaki as ten reporters (including Doocy) lobbed one question after another about Texas Democrats fleeing Austin for Washington D.C. and triggering a superspreader of coronavirus cases. By the time Doocy spoke, he was the third reporter to inquire about how Texas Democrats have spread COVID on both Capitol Hill and in the White House. Doocy, however, went where his colleagues wouldn’t with the use of the word superspreader.

A new poll found most Republicans would support Donald Trump in the 2024 primary for president if he were to run for office again. A survey released Tuesday from the John Bolton Super PAC found 46 percent of likely general election voters would back Trump being the party's nominee—the highest level of support of any potential presidential candidate polled by more than 30 points. In second was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had 13 percent support. DeSantis has been praised by Republicans for his approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, as Florida lifted restrictions before many other states. Former Vice President...

Prominent Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California appears to have spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars on booze and limousine services, as well as over $20,000 at the luxury hotel where his wife works. The tens of thousands of campaign dollars include limo services, luxury hotels, high-end restaurants and alcohol delivery services over the course of the second quarter, according to FEC records reviewed by Fox News. The California congressman appears to have been driven in style with his FEC records showing the campaign spending over $10,000 on 26 rides from various limousine and luxury car services. Swalwell's campaign...

Stars & Stripes journalist David Choi also retweeted video of Bezos' comments, remarking "I'd like a refund."

July 1969. It's a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out.It is only seven months since NASA's made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket.Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use...

He was so broke just 13 years ago that he had to borrow £2.50 from his mum for deodorant but now Darren Briggs is sitting prettyDarren Briggs can remember the day that, aged 38, he had to borrow £2.50 from his mum to buy deodorant before he could go and sign on to the dole. These days he’s in charge of a company turning over £200m and takes helicopter piloting lessons every Friday. He is flying high, literally, as director of one of the fastest-growing companies in Wales which is set to make £12m this year. But, just 13 years...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci during a hearing on the Chinese coronavirus Tuesday over his prior claim that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has never funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Paul’s presentation triggered President Biden’s chief medical adviser, who refused to retract his May 11 statement and instead snapped at the Kentucky senator, brazenly telling Paul, “you do not know what you are talking about.” “Dr. Fauci, as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress,” Paul began during the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions hearing...

How is the NIH spending its money? Sen. @RandPaul discusses his heated exchange pushing Dr. Fauci for answers on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/l83sDjtpNq— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) July 20, 2021

With the vote for the new Clark County Chairman scheduled for tonight at 7pm, the current Never Trump board voted in the middle of the night yesterday, to ban Jesse Law from running. Dave Sadjak and his corrupt group of lawless Never Trumpers pulled another midnight surprise out of their hat. Their excuse, 10 year old false claims that Jesse Law used the Social Security Number of a previous CCRP Candidate for Chairman to dig up dirt unlawfully. But Jesse was never charged and there was never any proof of any such accusations ten years ago. Jesse has been a...

Thomas Barrack was arrested Tuesday on federal charges in Los Angeles for illegally lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates Barrack was hit with a seven-count indictment related to trying to push the UAE's agenda in the US He had served as chair of former President Donald Trump's inaugural committee in 2017 The DOJ said Barrack and two associates conducted nothing 'short of a betrayal of those officials in the United States, including the former President' The chair of former President Donald Trump's inaugural committee in 2017 was arrested Tuesday on federal charges in Los Angeles for illegally lobbying...

As crime in the United States continues climbing, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is looking to allocate $50 billion from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending package to fund more police officers in localities and states.On Tuesday, Cotton introduced the Fund the Police Act, (obtained) by Breitbart News, that would use about $50 billion in unspent funding from Biden’s American Rescue Plan to establish a “Law Enforcement Support Trust Fund” at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to continuously support federal grants to local and state police. Likewise, Cotton’s plan would give $1 billion each to the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance...

Remember Biden's Political Prisoners Until He Let's Them ALL Go HomeThe Biden Administration is holding January 6 protesters as political prisoners ahead of trials not expected to take place until next year. Here are the details.Exclusive Audio: Listen to January 6 Detainees Sing the National Anthem (amgreatness.com)Biden needs to know we are watching and hold him responsible for keeping and abusing his political prisoners.combat_boots to ransomnote; AllSing the National Anthem with them at 9 pm every night. Followed by a chant of USA, USA, and an Our Father.Pleasehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzEJMln73M

Some of her tirade:"Let’s deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial reckoning, anti-opportunities, anti-help people, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social justice, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-inclusion, anti-live-&-let live people.

In Tucker Carlson’s report last night on government lies regarding the unvaccinated population, he made some shocking statements, including: #1: According to the CDC website, just 335 people under the age of eighteen have died from coronavirus in the United States. No information was provided on circumstances. #2: Researchers at John’s Hopkins, led by Doctor Marty Makary, looked more closely at those numbers and what they actually meant. They found a “mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia.” “A mortality rate of ZERO!” ZERO!!! So, to put this in perspective, the United States...

A Frontier flight from Philadelphia to Miami ended in a brawl when witnesses said one passenger attacked another, apparently angry at how long the passenger ahead of him was taking to gather his bags. The fight broke out after the plane landed in Miami about 9:30 Sunday evening, according to reports on Fox and ABC stations. Another passenger told WPLG-TV that a white man threw the first punch at a Black passenger and used a racial slur. Other people, apparently related to the two men, also got involved, pushing, punching and pulling hair. “You can see the white man on...

[H/T LucyT]ransomnote: This is where Covid tyranny is heading. This New South Wales (Australia) official leading the way, telling people not to speak to one another at all. How long before they cite people for the 'risky' behavior of speaking to someone they know? Divide and conquer:'as we oppress you, don't gather to talk about it, m'kay mate?' NoRisk_NoReward on Twitter: "SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. DON’T ACT LIKE A HUMAN. DON’T TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS, EVEN WHEN MASKED. DON’T BE FRIENDLY. THIS IS NOT THE TIME. https://t.co/iiPgz2D8Bb" / TwitterTranscript:Whilst it is in human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be...

A dispute within the Catholic Church over whether politicians who support abortion rights should be allowed to receive the sacrament of Communion is hitting close to home. State Sen. Joe Cervantes, a Las Cruces Democrat, tweeted Saturday morning he was denied Communion on Friday “based on [his] political office.” In his tweet, Cervantes wrote he was denied Communion, or the Eucharist, “by the Catholic bishop here in Las Cruces,” apparently referring to Peter Baldacchino, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces. “My new parish priest has indicated he will do the same after the last [priest] was run...