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A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

JWST Reveals How #BlackHoles are Fed - Kiloparsec-scale Multiphase Filaments Feed Subkiloparsec Circumnuclear Disks: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae81ae -> UK researcher helps solve longstanding black hole mystery / How do supermassive black holes 'feed' themselves? https://research.uky.edu/news/uk-researcher-helps-solve-longstanding-black-hole-mystery / https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/07/09/how-do-supermassive-black-holes-feed-themselves

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Cosmic Analog Ensemble:
🎵 Recto
#CosmicAnalogEnsemble
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/recto
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mL1QOY3or1KFNKdgnDKmh

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

Direct detections of white dwarfs in four WD dM post-common envelope binaries within 20 pc: #WhiteDwarfs hiding under our noses: https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/dead-stars-in-our-cosmic-backyard/ - Warwick astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found four new ‘local’ stars, showing us we can still find surprises in the nearby region of space that we thought we knew so well.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Wyatt Waddell:
🎵 I Saw the Light
#WyattWaddell
https://open.spotify.com/track/6I7W5lsc1wSM1eXfFSRpkQ

Summary of evidence from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Conference on ‘#LightPollution and its impacts’: https://ras.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-05/RAS LP Conference 2025.pdf -> Artificial light a 'pollutant' to humans, nature and astronomy: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/artificial-light-pollutant-humans-nature-and-astronomy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Nitzer Ebb:
🎵 Join in the Chant
#NitzerEbb
https://virulents.bandcamp.com/track/nitzer-ebb-join-in-the-chant-virulents-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5XkWyuHcgIQncQWMdBQ9lP

Experimental Demonstration of Gravitational Impact on the Speed of Light / Exploring the gravito-optic effect for gravity sensing applications: #Gravitation