Skeets Of The Day

 

Operation Epic Epstein Fury: girls school shame and Malignant Fascist lies --

SEVEN. That’s how many strikes hit near the Iranian girls’ school. Video shows a tomahawk missile hitting a building next to the school. The kind of “precision” you get when an incompetent administration runs a war on outdated intelligence. Don’t look away —we should all see the deadly destruction

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— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) March 9, 2026 at 11:03 PM

 

The U.S. killed those little girls over a week ago. Only an idiot would believe Trump still doesn’t know what happened.

— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM

 

RAJU: Footage shows an American missile likely destroyed the Iranian girls' school. Will the US accept any respons-- TRUMP: Well, I haven't seen it. I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is sold and used by other countries. Iran has some Tomahawks.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM

 

Great quotes in military history. @atrupar.com

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) March 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM

Iran, the gullible markets, gas prices and TACO -- 

The markets said stop.

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— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM

 

“Markets rejoice as man who always says what everyone wants to hear tells them what they want to hear”

— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM

 

Colossal suckers and gullible chumps, all of them

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— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM

Our broken media, CBS "News" edition -- 

You can devastate a news organization The Jeff Bezos Way, by slashing the budget in half and forcing massive layoffs. Or you can do it The Bari Weiss Way, by steadily eroding your journalism standards, week after week, so the talented people who can leave, do leave. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM

The Malignant Fascist issues threat for his election-rigging "SAVE America Trump Act" --

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump urged House Republicans Monday to halt legislative business until the Senate passes the SAVE America Act. But in new comments, the top Senate Republican again questioned whether the bill can realistically advance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM

 

This is why they're desperate to pass the SAVE Act

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— Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM

MAGAts increasingly feed at Government trough, but hate "socialism" --

 

They scream about Socialism while their roads, hospitals, and schools are basically on a Federal IV drip.

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— 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.lol) March 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM

The Onion reports -- 

Girlfriend Changes Man Into Someone She's Not Interested In https://theonion.com/girlfriend-changes-man-into-someone-shes-not-interested-1819565990/

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— The Onion (@theonion.com) March 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM

 

 

Dementia Don's Further Descent Into Madness, Cont.

 

Yesterday, the demented Malignant Fascist claimed that his Operation Epic Epstein Fury would be over soon, in an effort to calm tanking markets.  A few hours later, it didn't seem so imminent:

Using the language and bravado of an 11-year-old Call of Duty gamer (no offense to them), the MF at once threatens, then hopes his threat doesn't have to be employed, then demands thanks for his bumblefuck adventure's endangering oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.  What an epic clown.

Is TACO Back?

 

Guess who sees the falling stock market and ballooning gas prices as a result of his war of choice on Iran?  Commander Cankles, that's who.

He went from “unconditional surrender” and “I must pick their new leader” to full “just declare victory and get the hell out” TACO Trump.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM

It was a certainty that he'd declare victory no matter the situation when things started going south. The ever-shifting rationales for a war he now calls a "little excursion", the varying positions coming from the Pentagon and the White House all pointed to a reckless adventure, ill thought out and with little regard to the potential consequences. When those consequences become real, the Malignant Fascist is caught unprepared and fearful. And the consequences may not end with the MF declaring victory;  he may be done with Iran, but they may not be done with him (and us).

Stay tuned because the MF's position changes continuously.

 

Trump's Beelzebub Bubble

 

Last night, Jimmy Kimmel roated the Malignant Fascist's disrespectful showing at the Dover AFB dignified transfer of the remains of servicemembers killed in Operation Epic Epstein Fury, how Fox "News" covers for him, his monetizing everything including the Bible, his embarrassing ignorance and lack of self-awareness... not to mention how the Epstein-Trump files account of a teenage girl who reported being sexually and physically assaulted by him became a quickly passed over story.  Another day in America.

QOTD -- A Time Of Lunatics And Monsters

 

"...We have, thankfully, never seen anything like this president who believes he is the last word on anything that happens in the world. A commander-in-chief who acts independently of our Congress as if he was king. A chief executive who believes his domain is limitless and behaves like the emperor of the world.

"A man who behaves like a god, who gives and takes life like a god, who determines who to lift up and who to cast down like a god, who feels there is nothing to constrain him but his own conscience… but who is too disturbed and out of touch with reality to realize has no conscience or that he is just a man and a profoundly flawed one at that.  [snip]

"And looking at what we are confronted with today and all the grim precedents in history for it, we also, if we are honest, realize that those who are most likely to argue they should hold a place above ordinary people are actually, in fact, the least of us, the most contemptible among us, the banes of our existence.

"And given that, it is up to us, if we wish to contain and ultimately defeat such threats to our well-being and to our world at large, to demythologize them and their power, to demystify their actions rather than to cloak them in the somber grey cloth of polite political discussions, to see them for who and what they are—to acknowledge them as lunatics and monsters." -- David Rothkopf, concluding an essay in his "Need to Know" Substack, on "Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters."  Look around.  It's not just the Malignant Fascist and his regime of lunatics and monsters.  It's all those little everyday lunatics and monsters who enable him, support him, follow him.  He may be the worst (he is), but he has plenty of company.

 

Cover Of The Week

 

The cover of the upcoming issue of The New Yorker  -- "War-a-Lago" (cover art by Barry Blitt):

Skeets Of The Day

 

The Epstein-Trump files coverup --

 

If there were credible allegations against a Democratic president that he had punched a 13 yr old girl in the face after she bit his penis while he was raping her, Fox would be running that shit on a loop 24/7 and calling for his arrest/execution let alone his impeachment.

— JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM

 

Page One @miamiherald.com

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 7:20 AM

 

Operation Epic Epstein Fury:  Nostradumbass Trump in free fall --

 

Trump is in serious trouble. His war is deeply unpopular. He's now in the toilet on the economy, immigration, and national security. His public standing is getting close to being broken in an irreparable way, akin to Bush after Iraq and Katrina: newrepublic.com/article/2074...

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— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 7:31 AM

 

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But... ...maybe there wasn't much planning?

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— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 7:46 AM

 

I’m sure Trump anticipated all of this happening and has a great plan.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) March 8, 2026 at 9:46 PM

 

Trump: It's a small price (for you) to pay.

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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM

 

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— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 10:58 AM

 

the affordability and iran president

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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 8, 2026 at 11:18 PM

 

Trump just put in charge of Iran a guy considered to be a hardliner *before* we killed his father, mother, and wife. We helped cement his rule by blowing up a girls elementary school, scorching their skies, and cutting off their water. We should expect retaliation—and blame Republicans for it.

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— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 9:16 AM

 

Meanwhile, Trump's master profits while Ukraine fights harder.  Slava Ukraini!-- 

This is how war criminal trump is propping up his favorite dictator, war criminal Putin. 1/Start an unprovoked war 2/Use russian propaganda to justify it 3/watch as oil prices go through the roof 4/fund Putin’s war against Ukraine #TrumpRussiaCollusion #TrumpsOwnsIransWar #FDT #DV1 #ProudBlue

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— PoliticalNash (@politicalnash.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 9:19 AM

 

❗️Ukraine's FP-2 long-range drone's warhead will be increased to 158kg, Fire Point co-owner and chief engineer Denis Shtilerman announced. Currently the FP-2 holds a 60-100kg payload depending on the configuration. #Ukraine

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 9, 2026 at 10:12 AM

 

Hard to fathom --

 

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 10:21 AM

 

 

Decision To End War On Iran "Mutual" With Israel

In an interview yesterday with the Times of Israel, draft-dodging sociopath Malignant Fascist declared that ending the war with Iran would be by mutual agreement with Israel's far-right Prime Minister Bibi "Bomb Bomb" Netanyahu.  The MF keeps deferring to Netanyahu on war strategy ("regime change") and targets in Iran, also. 

"The US president was asked whether he alone would decide when the war with Iran ends or if Netanyahu would also have a say.

'I think it’s mutual… a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,' he responded, indicating that while Netanyahu will have input, the US president will have the final say. [snip]

Trump’s answers to The Times of Israel pointed to the significant degree of influence Netanyahu would appear to have over Trump’s decision-making in the war, which the US and Israel launched jointly on February 28 with a strike that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei."  (our emphasis)

The pathetic MF is trying to project a role as the dominant partner with the Israeli leader, but the history of this conflict doesn't support that.  If we can believe figurehead Secretary of State "Li'l Marco" Rubio, it was Israel's plan to attack Iran that triggered our attack several days ago, in concert with Israeli armed forces.  The specious rationale was that knowing Israel would attack Iran, we preemptively attacked Iran in anticipation of a strike from them.  It's a safe prediction that the MF will declare victory when the U.S. ends its campaign against Iran no matter how disastrous the reality might be.

It appears that Netanyahu was the tail wagging the MF dog in this latest war in the Middle East.

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Today's Tomorrow Cartoon

 

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Time to update patriotic war poster themes of the past, featuring "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth, Tom "Rotten" Cotton, White House spokes liar KKKaroline Leavitt, criminal ghoul Stephen Miller, and of course the delusional, demented Malignant Fascist himself and his golden ballroom construction priorities when he's not distracting from the Trump - Epstein files.

Please consider supporting Tom's work by going here.

 

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

 

The good:

In a victory for Voice of America staffers, a federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully ran the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year.

The mass layoffs and other actions undertaken during that time “are void,” US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote.

The ruling was a remarkable rebuke of Lake, a failed Arizona gubernatorial and US Senate candidate and fierce loyalist of President Trump.

Lake immediately called the judge an “activist” and said the agency would appeal. 

The plaintiffs who sued Lake to save their jobs and defend the agency amid Trump’s attempts to dismantle it said they felt “vindicated and deeply grateful.”

“The judge’s ruling that Kari Lake’s actions shall have no force or effect is a powerful step toward undoing the damage she has inflicted on this American institution that we love,” the plaintiffs, Patsy Widakuswara, Kate Neeper, and Jessica Jerreat, said.

“Even as we work through what this ruling means for colleagues harmed by her actions, it brings renewed hope and momentum to the next phase of our fight: restoring VOA‘s global operations and ensuring we continue to produce journalism, not propaganda,” the plaintiffs added.

Reporters Without Borders, which joined the staffers in filing suit, said the case was “proof that fighting for press freedom matters."...

Lake is now a failed administrator in addition to being a failed gubernatorial and senatorial candidate. If this ruling has any chance of restoring the professional journalism to VOA and squashing MAGA propaganda, it indeed is a victory for freedom of the press.  Let's hope it withstands appeals.

The bad:

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday would not commit to blocking any additional funding for the war in Iran, saying the president has so far failed to justify the war but “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”

The New York Democrat was asked on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether House Democrats would move to block a funding request if the White House were to ask for more money for the military.

Jeffries said the administration has so far “failed to make its case ... for this war of choice in the Middle East,” and unless President Donald Trump provides a “compelling rationale,” he’s “going to have a difficult case to make on Capitol Hill.”

Congress last year approved a $900 billion defense spending bill as part of routine annual budget appropriations, and the president signed the bill into law in December. But since the U.S. began its military operation in Iran, lawmakers have been considering the need to pass additional defense spending to bolster the U.S. military.

On Tuesday, following a classified briefing for senators about the war, several lawmakers including Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., told reporters that they expect the Trump administration will ask for supplemental funding for the war effort. Coons added that he would support additional funding for troops, but, like Jeffries, he demanded more information from the administration about the war...

There's no excuse for this behavior from Democratic "leaders."  To participate in any way in the Malignant Fascist's Operation Epic Epstein Fury is to be 100% complicit.   If Democrats are lucky enough to win back the House (and avoid an MF coup), Jeffries needs to go.  If lightning strikes and Dems win the Senate, Sen. Schumer needs to go, too.  If this country is ever to be reconstructed, these enablers and quivering, turtling Democrats must be sidelined and tough, junkyard dog Democrats who'll fight the fascists must lead.

The ugly:

President Donald Trump promised that 2026 would be a bumper year for economic growth, but instead it has kicked off with job losses, rising gasoline prices and more uncertainty about America’s future.

In his State of the Union address less than two weeks ago, the Republican president confidently told the country: “The roaring economy is roaring like never before.” The latest batch of data on jobs, pump prices and the stock market suggests that Trump’s roar has started to sound far more like a whimper.

There is a gap between the boom that Trump has predicted and the volatile results he has produced — one that could set the tone in this year’s midterm elections as he tries to defend his party’s majorities in the House and Senate. With Trump’s tariffs drama ongoing, the war in Iran has suddenly created inflationary concerns regarding oil and natural gas. To the White House, it is still early in the year and stronger growth is coming.

“WOW! The Golden Age of America is upon us!!!” Trump posted on social media Feb. 11 after the monthly jobs report showed gains of 130,000 jobs in January.

Since then, the job market has evaporated in worrisome ways.

Friday’s employment report showed job losses of 92,000 in February. The January and December figures were revised downward, with December swinging to a loss of 17,000 jobs. Monthly data can be rocky, but a trend has emerged that shows an enduring weakness. Without the health care sector, the economy would have shed roughly 202,000 jobs since Trump became president in January 2025. Still, his administration notes that construction job gains outside of the housing sector point to future hiring growth...

"The Golden Age of America!"  The Golden Age of the Epstein Class more like it.  But, Commander Cankles is taking a "so what!" approach the signs of collapse all around him.  He'll  somehow manage, we're sure.

 

Across The Universe, Cont. -- Cat's Eye Nebula

 

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From NASA/ESA, March 3, 2026: For this month’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month, we turn our gaze to one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543. This extraordinary planetary nebula lies roughly 4 400 light-years away in the constellation Draco, and has captivated astronomers for decades with its elaborate and multilayered structure.

Planetary nebulae, so-called because of their round shape when viewed through early telescopes, are in fact expanding gas thrown off by stars in their final stages of evolution. It was the Cat’s Eye Nebula itself where this fact was first discovered in 1864 — examining the spectrum of its light reveals the emission from individual molecules that’s characteristic of a gas, distinguishing planetary nebulae from stars and galaxies.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope also revolutionised our understanding of planetary nebulae; its detailed images showed that the simple, circular appearance of a planetary nebula seen from the ground belies a very complex morphology. This was particularly true of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, where Hubble’s images in 1995 revealed never-before-seen structures that broadened our understanding of how planetary nebulae come to be.

This time, Hubble is joined by ESA’s Euclid space telescope to create a new image of NGC 6543. The nebula is showcased through the combined eyes of Hubble and Euclid, revealing the remarkable complexity of stellar death in this object. Though primarily designed to map the distant Universe, Euclid captures the Cat’s Eye Nebula as part of its deep imaging surveys, resulting in this broad view that situates the nebula against the deep space beyond.

In Euclid’s wide, near-infrared and visible light view, the arcs and filaments of the nebula’s bright central region are situated within a halo of colourful fragments of gas zooming away from the star. This ring was ejected from the star at an earlier stage, before the main nebula at the centre formed. Hubble captures the very core of the billowing gas with high-resolution visible-light images, adding extra detail in the centre of this image. The whole nebula stands out against a backdrop teeming with distant galaxies, demonstrating how local astrophysical beauty and the farthest reaches of the cosmos can be seen together in modern astronomical surveys.

Together, these missions provide a rich and complementary view of NGC 6543 — revealing the delicate interplay between stellar end-of-life processes and the vast cosmic tapestry beyond.

[Image Description: A planetary nebula in space. The star in the very centre is surrounded by white bubbles and loops of gas, all shining with a powerful blue light. Farther away a broken ring of red and blue gas clouds surrounds the nebula. A multitude of golden and white stars, wisps of gas and distant galaxies of various sizes surround the nebula on the black background.]

Credit:  ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov

BONUS:  On this day in 1934, Edwin Hubble was responsible for a giant leap in our understanding of the Universe (see "Sunday Reflection").

QOTD -- A Gigantic Crime From Beginning To End

 

"The Iraq war was illegal, and a massive collection of war crimes, but at least the Bush administration went to great lengths over many months to construct what lawyers call a “colorable” argument that it wasn’t. The most salient feature of the Iran war is that nobody involved in launching the war has made the slightest attempt to provide a fig leaf for its flagrant criminality.

"This is why I have a certain impatience with arguments over whether this or that act within the war is a war crime on wholly independent grounds — that is, would be a war crime even if the war itself had some shred of legality or justification. I understand that this is an important legal distinction from the perspective of the individual commanders and soldiers who are carrying out their orders, but the whole thing is just a gigantic crime from beginning to end, and it’s startling — this is a rhetorical phrase, it actually isn’t — that these massive crimes are being carried out in public with almost no discussion of the fact that they are what they are (Again, the most striking feature here is the absence of any semblance of attempt to justify what is both morally and legally mass murder on a vast scale)." -- law professor Paul Campos, LGM, in his post today, "Kinetic Illegality."  The vast scale and scope of the Malignant Fascist's criminality is breathtaking.  The narcissistic sociopath wants to have an historical legacy second to none, and he may very well achieve that -- as one of the most malign figures ever to strut the world stage.

Today's Cartoons

 

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(Scott Stantis, Chicago Tribune)

(Paul Duginski, caglecartoons.com)

(Dave Whamond, caglecartoons.com, Canada)

(Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News)

(Tim Campbell, Tribune Content Agency)

(Mike Smith, Las Vegas Sun)

(Jeff Stahler, gocomics.com)

(Paul Fell, paulfellcartoons.com)

(Clay Jones, claytoonz.substack.com)

(Drew Sheneman, The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ)

(Malcolm McGookin, caglecartoons.com, Australia)

(John Darkow, Columbia Missourian)

(Brendan Loper, The New Yorker)

Pic Of The Day: Disrespectful And Clueless

 

The clownish and disrespectful Malignant Fascist salutes at yesterday's solemn transfer of the remains of six service members who died in an Iranian drone attack, wearing one of his silly, white "USA" baseball caps. He couldn't part with his cap to honor the dead that he put in harm's way, people that he likely thinks are "suckers" and "losers".  Reactions were similar:

Head unbowed and baseball cap in white. Total disrespect

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— Jill Wine-Banks (@jillwine-banks.bsky.social) March 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM

 

This is *nothing* dignified about wearing a cheap baseball cap that promotes yourself to the otherwise solemn ceremony to receive the bodies of the troops you had killed to distract from your bad economy and rampant pedophilia.

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) March 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM

 

Showing the American people that he really does think America's fallen soldiers are "suckers" and "losers," the pedophile president refused to take off his fucking golf hat during the dignified transfer. 😡😡😡👇

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— Bill Madden (@maddenifico.bsky.social) March 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM

 

Take your hat off, you disgusting little man.

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— Governor Newsom Press Office (@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov) March 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM

 

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Sunday Reflection: "We Measure Shadows"

 

"With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial." -- astronomer Edwin Hubble, in his "The Realm of the Nebulae" (1936).

On March 8, 1934, Hubble, using Mount Wilson observatory's powerful Hooker telescope, demonstrated that the universe consisted of as many galaxies as stars in the Milky Way galaxy.  Previously, the assumption among most astronomers was that the universe was limited to our own Milky Way galaxy. In that discovery, Hubble exponentially increased the knowledge of the universe to other astronomers through a galaxy classification system, measuring the distance to galaxies and laws governing  galactic movement. 

(photo: historic image of Hubble's view through the telescope taken on March 8, 1934)