What did the galaxies in the early universe look like? Researchers now think they have a clearer idea‚ and like many of us in the Northern Hemisphere are battling with freezing temperatures and dreaming of summer. So‚ in their beach-themed analogy‚ galaxies at the edge of what we can see are close in shape to pool noodles and surfboards.The occasional frisbee or volleyball-shaped galaxy appears in the data‚ with frisbees becoming more and more common with time. Most of these objects are flatter compared to the galaxies we see today‚ most of which have either got a spiral structure or an elliptical one (like those volleyballs but much bigger).Shapes of galaxies seen by JWST.Image Credit: NASA‚ ESA‚ CSA‚ Joseph Olmsted (STScI)“Roughly 50 to 80 percent of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions‚” explained lead author Viraj Pandya‚ a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University‚ in a statement. “Galaxies that look like pool noodles or surfboards seem to be very common in the early universe‚ which is surprising‚ since they are uncommon nearby.”Elongated galaxies were already spotted in the deep Hubble data. JWST confirmed those observations and showed that even more distant galaxies have those characteristic shapes – important insights into how these early galaxies formed.“In the early universe‚ galaxies had had far less time to grow‚” said Kartheik Iyer‚ a co-author and NASA Hubble Fellow also at Columbia University. “Identifying additional categories for early galaxies is exciting – there’s a lot more to analyze now. We can now study how galaxies’ shapes relate to how they look and better project how they formed in much more detail.”The current beachware range might not be all that there is out there. Researchers admit that there are still major gaps in our knowledge of these distant cosmic objects. JWST will continue to see deeper and wider and find many more of these early galaxies.“These are early results‚” said co-author Elizabeth McGrath‚ an associate professor at Colby College in Waterville‚ Maine. “We need to delve more deeply into the data to figure out what’s going on‚ but we’re very excited about these early trends.”A paper with these results is submitted to The Astrophysical Journal and available on the Arxiv.

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The Washington Post should know that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Continuing to tell voters they’re ignorant for not appreciating the Biden economy is case in point. “The economy is improving under Biden. But many voters aren’t giving him credit‚” read The Post’s condescending Jan. 14 headline. But that was just the start of The Post’s nonsense‚ which took six authors to spit out. It proceeded to cite data points without context to prop up President Joe  Biden’s cadaver of an economy: “By many measures‚ the U.S. economy is a great success story — recession fears have fallen‚ along with gas prices and the unemployment rate‚ while manufacturing construction is up along with nominal wages and the stock market.”   Except‚ JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon just warned that the U.S. economy looks like the dreaded stagflation era of the 1970s; Reuters reported in December that U.S. manufacturing was “mired in weakness” and forecasted the economy as “heading for slowdown.” In fact‚ the New York Federal Reserve’s Empire State business-conditions index "sank in January to the lowest level since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020‚ perhaps a sign of trouble brewing for the U.S. economy‚" according to MarketWatch. In addition‚ American households are having to spend an extra $11‚434 a year just to maintain the standard of living they had in January 2021. Housing is also suffering. CNN reported in November that this was “the least affordable housing market since 1984. It’s getting worse.” With regards to the unemployment rate‚ Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni already noted that between five and eight million people are now missing from the labor force‚ “artificially reducing the unemployment rate.”  If that wasn’t bad enough‚ “One quarter of American[s’] retirements savings -- $30‚000 -- are gone since Joe Biden took office. Enough to delay millions of Americans' retirement for a decade‚” wrote Heritage Foundation economist Peter St. Onge in an X post.  Credit card debt is also at a record $1.08 trillion‚ with a whopping 56 million Americans swimming in credit card debt for at least a year. In addition‚ the New York Post just reported that the U.S. government had “overstated” job growth in 2023 by a whopping 439‚000 jobs. This indicated that the gross overstatement meant the “job market is not as healthy as the government suggests.”  All of this somehow spells a “great success story‚" but those dumb plebeians just aren’t getting it‚ implied The Post in its propaganda. “Despite the statistics‚ the kitchen-table experience of Biden’s first term has meant that many voters have experienced the last few years as a time of relative economic hardship.” But don’t despair‚ proclaimed The Post. Biden is supposedly due for a Reaganesque comeback and the voters will soon come to their senses: Biden’s polling on the economy has fallen with consumer confidence since he got into office‚ only recently stabilizing as confidence has begun to rebound. Wages are up‚ but the sting of higher grocery‚ coffee and restaurant bills remain. The president is still looking for credit from the budding manufacturing renaissance brought about by recent bipartisan legislation‚ though relatively few projects have been announced or begun production yet. White House advisers are optimistic that the American public will soon internalize the good news and give the president credit before November. His political advisers note that other presidents who won reelection‚ like Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama‚ overcame challenging first-term economic conditions‚ [emphasis added.] What a joke. Journalist Roger Lowenstein pointed out in a Jan. 15 guest essay for The New York Times that “Inflation has snatched away the gains from even a very strong labor market.” Lowenstein’s analysis proceeded to showcase why propagandists at The Post are doing readers no favors by repeatedly gaslighting them over their economic struggles: Over [Biden's] first two years‚ as price hikes outran wages‚ real median household income fell 2.7 percent. The census has yet to report median income for 2023‚ but given that real wages were up about 1 percent through November‚ the cumulative change in household median income‚ adjusted for inflation‚ over Mr. Biden’s first three years is likely to be in the range of mildly negative to very mildly positive. In other words‚ in the all-important category of improving living standards‚ the country did not make progress. Conservatives are under attack. Contact The Washington Post at 202-334-6000 and demand it stop gaslighting Americans on their economic struggles.

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Democrats in Maine are poised to advance legislation that would grant the state emergency jurisdiction over children whose parents refuse to subject them to sex-change mutilations and other confusion-affirming medical interventions. Additionally‚ it would prevent authorities from reuniting runaways with parents out of state if they traveled to Maine to have their genitals removed. A judiciary committee hearing was originally scheduled for Wednesday morning to discuss whether to advance LD 1735‚ the so-called "Act to Safeguard Gender-affirming Health Care." However‚ the review has reportedly been postponed on account of bad weather and will now be held at 3:00 p.m. on Jan. 25. The bill resembles "kidnapping" legislation in various Democratic-run states‚ including Democratic California state Rep. Scott Wiener's SB 107‚ which made California a so-called sanctuary for child sex-change mutilations. Should the act pass: courts would be prohibited from considering the abduction of a child from a parent or guardian who has legal custody "if the taking or retention was for obtaining gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming or gender-affirming mental health care"; courts will be authorized to "take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care"; and law enforcement would be barred from participating in the "arrest or extradition of an individual pursuant to an out-of-state arrest warrant" based on laws against the sexual mutilation of children. "Gender-affirming health care" is defined as "medically necessary health care that respects the gender identity of the patient‚ as experienced and defined by the patient." This so-called "care" includes genital mutilations; sterilizing chemical interventions and hormone therapies; and cosmetic surgeries "to align the patient's appearance or physical body with the patient's gender identity." "Gender-affirming mental health care" is defined thusly: "Mental health care or behavioral health care that respects the gender identity of the patient‚ as experienced and defined by the patient‚ including‚ but not limited to‚ developmentally appropriate exploration and integration of identity‚ reduction of distress‚ adaptive coping and strategies to increase family acceptance." Children taken from their parents and rendered wards of the state would thereafter have access to state-funded programs that pay down the cost of the irreversible and disfiguring procedures. — (@) The bill's primary sponsor is state Rep. Laurie Osher‚ the leader of the legislature's LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus. Its cosponsors are Democratic state Reps. Erin Sheehan‚ James Worth‚ Matthew Moonen‚ Nina Azella Milliken‚ and Suzanne M. Salisbury and state Sen. Anne Carney. Ahead of the state judiciary committee's now-postponed meeting Wednesday‚ the parental rights group Courage Is a Habit ramped up its pressure campaign to "take a chunk out of the Transgender Cult‚" providing the email addresses of the committee members. Alvin Lui‚ president of Courage Is a Habit‚ told the Post Millennial‚ "If you're wondering how you got there in Maine‚ wherever you live ... it's because over time‚ you've allowed your kindness to be weaponized against you and they kept moving that goalpost and now‚ even when they're proposing a transgender trafficking bill‚ they're still using emotional blackmail to try to get you to accept this." Libs of TikTok highlighted this legislation prioritizing the medicalization of children over parental rights‚ prompting significant backlash. Megyn Kelly wrote on X‚ "This is SICK! Bombard them with emails. This cannot pass." This is SICK! Bombard them with emails. This cannot pass — (@) Mike Davis of the Article III Project noted‚ "This is clearly unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution. And the most monstrous bill I've seen in a long time." Political scientist and legal scholar Carol Swain asked‚ "Do we really want the state making medical decisions for our children or elderly parents? I don't think so." "Demonic‚" wrote Tom Fitton‚ president of Judicial Watch. Other critics suggested LD1735 amounted to a Democratic effort to increase medical tourism to the state and to increase the profits pharmaceutical companies. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Former President Donald Trump (R) picked up an endorsement from United States Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday‚ Fox News Digital reported.Cruz announced his support for Trump following his "dominating victory" in the Iowa caucuses earlier this week. The Republican senator told Fox News' Sean Hannity that the results from the caucuses were "decisive." It is time for Republicans to unite.\n\nI am proud to support President Donald J. Trump in his effort to take back the White House and send Joe Biden to the retirement home. — (@) "It was a dominating victory for Donald Trump. I got to say‚ there's no place like the Iowa caucuses. I know it intimately. The men and women of Iowa‚ they take their responsibility incredibly seriously. They scrutinize the candidates. It's an amazing process and I'm a big believer in letting democracy play out‚" stated Cruz‚ who beat Trump in the 2016 Iowa caucuses."Well‚ last night it played out‚" he continued. "Trump's victory was across the board. He won 51% of the vote. He won 98 of the counties."Cruz congratulated Trump on his landslide win in Iowa on Monday evening. The former president secured a 30-point victory over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R)‚ who eked out a second-place win against former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley."At this point‚ I believe this race is over. So I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States. I look forward to supporting him enthusiastically because I think it's time for the Republican Party to unite‚" Cruz added.He stated that the GOP needs to come together to beat President Joe Biden (D) and his party's "disastrous cultural Marxist agenda." Cruz said he does not see a path to victory for any of the other Republican candidates. "With the results last night‚ the people have spoken. It's time to move onward to victory in November‚" Cruz remarked. He predicted Trump would score another decisive win in South Carolina. Cruz‚ who is up for re-election‚ stated that he is one of the top targets of the Democratic Party."I wear that as a badge of honor‚" he commented."If you are a left-wing Democrat‚ after Donald Trump‚ there's nobody in the country you want to beat more than me. And Chuck Schumer has made clear I am his number-one target in the country‚" Cruz added. "The Democrats are going to spend $100 million this year trying to beat me and trying to flip Texas blue. Now‚ that ain't going to happen."Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race following the results from the Iowa caucuses and placed his support behind Trump. The former president also recently captured endorsements from North Dakota Republican Governor Doug Burgum and U.S. Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida‚ Blaze News previously reported.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While the Democrats are still yelling about the 2020 election‚ they’re doing as much as they can to alter the course of the next one. Mark Levin pins this interference on “Joe Biden personally‚ and his surrogates at the Department of Justice‚ and his party members in the judgeships and the unelected prosecutors and the would-be unelected jurors should there be trials in these Democrat cities.” It’s “monumentally outrageous‚” he adds‚ noting that Biden has “interfered up and down.” Levin is of course referring to the attacks on Donald Trump‚ which he says are “undermining our voting system.” Trump is currently at the mercy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit‚ where a three-judge panel will debate the limits of presidential immunity. The panel‚ which features “two radical leftists‚” is set to decide whether or not the former president should be granted immunity from a four-count criminal indictment that charges him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election and inciting a violent riot at the Capitol. Levin doesn’t believe the panel of judges is promising. “The worst of the bunch was appointed by Biden‚” Levin says‚ referring to Judge Florence Pan. “This was done to try and impact and interfere with the election and to get Joe Biden re-elected‚” Levin warns. Want more from Mark Levin?To enjoy more of "the Great One" — Mark Levin as you've never seen him before — subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America‚ defend the Constitution‚ and live the American dream.

A doctor was suspended by a medical college after an argument with a woman who wanted to become a man and was requesting testosterone injections. The doctor said that despite male pronouns and testosterone injections‚ the patient would remain a woman. The college declared the doctor must adhere to the patient's preferred "gender identity."Dr. Raymond Brière has 700 patients in Montreal‚ Quebec‚ Canada‚ and had been seeing the unnamed woman for at least four years before their confrontation in 2022.During the appointment‚ the woman reportedly asked for a prescription for testosterone‚ citing that she had already been using male pronouns.The doctor noted that he had never helped a patient transition into a man and issued a warning to the woman that testosterone therapy could make her more aggressive‚ the Daily Mail reported.The patient disputed the claim and told the doctor that his opinions were based on "stereotypes." She was then offered testosterone gel‚ but demanded injections as a faster means to "masculinize."The patient also allegedly made a recording of Dr. Brière in which he insisted that she would still be "genetically a woman‚" even after treatments. The doctor reportedly said a genetic analysis of the patient would show that she had two XX chromosomes‚ rather than the XY of a man.Brière was also allegedly asked to refer to the woman as "he/him‚" to which he responded that she is "biologically a woman."The doctor then reportedly told the patient that believing she is a man was "in your brain.""A patient until today‚ [but] you were a woman‚ dear madam‚" Brière reportedly remarked.Before long‚ the two agreed that the patient should see another doctor‚ with Brière stating that he would organize a new appointment. That was until another argument erupted surrounding the use of pronouns‚ which resulted in the doctor refusing to book the new appointment.That was a serious point of contention for the Medical College of Quebec‚ which sided with the patient in its subsequent three-month suspension of Brière.The college determined the doctor had acted in an "inappropriate and disrespectful manner." It added that it was the "doctor's obligation" to establish a relationship of trust with his patient and ultimately adhere to her gender confusion."[If a patient] believes that their gender identity does not correspond to the sex appearing on their birth certificate‚ they can request that they be referred to by the identity they express‚" the panel declared. "The medical encounter must then take place while respecting this gender identity."The college added that it did not see any indication that the patient had been "difficult" and referred to the patient as a "he."Brière disagreed and said that the patient "denotes‚ at best‚ a problem or the non-existence of the mutual trust necessary for the professional relationship."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Special counsel David Weiss revealed in a new court filing that FBI investigators recently discovered cocaine on the handgun that Hunter Biden allegedly purchased illegally in 2018.The new detail was included in Weiss' response to Hunter Biden's motion asking a federal judge to dismiss the felony firearm charges that he faces for allegedly lying about his drug use when purchasing a revolver in October 2018. The first son's legal team has claimed Hunter is the victim of a selective and vindictive prosecution.Weiss and his team of prosecutors address that claim in their filing. But they also go to painstaking lengths to explain why the preponderance of evidence against Hunter is so "overwhelming" that it would be legal malfeasance to dismiss an airtight case.For example‚ Weiss explained:In 2023‚ FBI investigators pulled sealed evidence from the state police vault to take photographs of the defendant’s firearm. After opening the evidence‚ FBI investigators observed a white powdery substance on the defendant’s brown leather pouch that had held the defendant’s firearm in October 2018. Based on their training and experience‚ investigators believed that this substance was likely cocaine and that this evidence would corroborate the messages that investigators had obtained which showed the defendant buying and using drugs in October 2018. An FBI chemist subsequently analyzed the residue and determined that it was cocaine."To be clear‚ investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun‚" he emphasized.The filing is also significant because Weiss confirmed — for the first time — the legitimacy of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop that Biden defenders claimed was Russian disinformation before the 2020 election.Weiss explained:In August 2019‚ IRS and FBI investigators obtained a search warrant for tax violations for the defendant’s Apple iCloud account. In response to that warrant‚ in September 2019‚ Apple produced backups of data from various of the defendant’s electronic devices that he had backed up to his iCloud account. Investigators also later came into possession of the defendant’s Apple MacBook Pro‚ which he had left at a computer store. A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop and the results of the search were largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple.Regarding Hunter's claim that he is a victim of selective prosecution and right-wing bias‚ Weiss denounced the assertion as a "conspiracy theory.""Left with the inconvenient truth of trying to explain how this could happen during the Biden Administration‚ the defendant suggests that evil motives are lurking deep within the Department of Justice‚" Weiss wrote. "This theory is a fiction designed for a Hollywood script.""The charges in this case are not trumped up or because of former President Trump — they are instead a result of the defendant’s own choices and were brought in spite of‚ not because of‚ any outside noise made by politicians‚" Weiss said.Hunter will likely go to trial in the case later this year. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!