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#Leavitt

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This @CNN news story is so riddled with state propaganda statements coming from every direction with this administration, media need to start addressing it but won't push back for fear of losing their seat at the Oval Office table. It's up to journalists, few and far between, who don't get government perks for their news coverage, to expose these untruths.

"Musk and Trump allies ratchet up rhetoric against the judiciary"

reuters.com/legal/musk-trump-a

#Musk#Trump#Leavitt

"#Trump WH Press Secretary took hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions...Per federal campaign finance law, #Leavitt should have re-designated or returned excess funds within 60 days of receiving the donations. But NOTUS’s review of the updated filings suggests she still hasn’t done so. Leavitt’s campaign is still required to return hundreds of thousands to donors."

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#USPolitics

Yahoo News · Trump WH Press Secretary took hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributionsBy Griffin Eckstein

Trump gibt bekannt: Karoline Leavitt soll Sprecherin des Weißen Hauses werden

Einige wichtige Personalien für seine künftige Regierung hat der designierte US-Präsident Trump bereits verkündet - nun legte er einen weiteren Namen vor: Karoline Leavitt soll Sprecherin des Weißen Hauses werden - mit gerade einmal 27 Jahren.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/trump-sp

tagesschau.de · Trump gibt bekannt: Karoline Leavitt soll Sprecherin des Weißen Hauses werdenBy tagesschau.de

Former Trump advisor #Stephen #Miller claimed he has
“never been involved with Project 2025” in a post on X on Saturday

However, a video on the Project 2025 YouTube channel says otherwise.

Following in Donald Trump’s footsteps, Miller tried to deny he has had any involvement with the plan, that has been described as, “ridiculous and abysmal,” by his former boss.

Unfortunately for Miller, he appears in a video on the Project 2025 website entitled
“Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy.”

Miller addressed the Biden-Harris campaign X account which shared a screengrab of Miller in the video, telling followers on X
“I have never been involved with Project 2025, not one word. But keep hoaxing, losers. Hoaxes are all you have.”

Miller isn’t the only Trump administration official linked to Project 2025.

Former Trump assistant #Spencer #Chretien, former Trump Office of Personnel Management Chief of Staff #Paul #Dans and Trump advisor #Troup #Hemenway appear in the video
and are listed on the Project 2025 website as creators of the plan.

Trump campaign press secretary #Karoline #Leavitt also appears in the video right after Miller.

thedailybeast.com/former-trump

The Daily Beast · Former Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Squirms to Deny Involvement With Project 2025, Ad Says OtherwiseBy Owen Lavine
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In the print titled "The Leavitt Crater," Dr. Aura Satz superimposed Leavitt's portrait with a photograph of a lunar crater named in her honor (part of the collection at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.)

In an interview, she said - "The idea of women's names being associated with imperceptible craters on the moon, seemed an apt metaphor for women having a moment of slight visibility and then receding in the distance of history."

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"Leavitt's discovery would forever change humanity's picture of the universe, as it prompted Harlow Shapley to move the Sun from the center of the galaxy in the "Great Debate" and Edwin Hubble to move the Milky Way galaxy from the center of the universe.

The accomplishments of Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer who established that the universe is expanding, also were made possible by Leavitt's groundbreaking research."

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Leavitt's paper in 1912 titled "Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud" laid the foundation for measuring cosmic distances based on the period of variable stars and the observed luminosity.
Earlier parallax based techniques allowed measurement of distances up to few 100 light years. Leavitt's law made the Cepheid variable stars the first "standard candle" in astronomy, allowing scientists to compute distances up to 20 million light years.

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As a woman, Leavitt was not permitted to take up the theoretical work that would have enabled her discovery to be put into practice. That activity was reserved for men.

Leavitt's scientific work at Harvard was frequently interrupted by illness and her hearing had started deteriorating before she joined Pickering’s group. She died at the age of 53 from stomach cancer.

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Leavitt worked as a research assistant at the Harvard College Observatory, under Edward Pickering, the observatory's director, who had brought together a group of women to catalog all the stars captured on Harvard's photographic plate collection.

These skilled workers, called "computers," were not allowed to operate telescopes, their assignments were to catalog and analyze images. Their analysis led to several major scientific discoveries.

salientwomen.com/2020/06/20/bi
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Happy Birthday to American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (born July 4, 1868, Lancaster, MA, died Dec 12, 1921, Cambridge, MA), who discovered the relationship between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables - pulsating stars that vary in brightness in precise periods ranging from a few days to several months.
The period–luminosity relationship, now known as "Leavitt's law," led to methods to calculate vast celestial distances.
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