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Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies that made me smile, think, and despair for humanity this week.First up, its officially a hot Jurassic summer with the recent release of yet another Mesozoic movie filled with de-extincted animals that are oddly preoccupied with human flesh. Well lead with a story about a fantastic Jurassic predator that didnt make the cut for Jurassic World: Rebirth, but will eternally star in your nightmares hereafter.Then: a whole new world, the horrific consequences of Medicaid cuts, and the cosmologies of ancient graveyards.The case of the cursed ichthyosaurLindgren, Johan et al. Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur. Nature.Jaws, a summer blockbuster about how a rampaging shark can expose paradigms of masculinity, turned 50 years old last month. But if you want to meet a truly O.G. stealth ocean predator, you'll need to wind the clock back another 181 million years, according to a new study about Temnodontosaurus, a Jurassic predator that belongs to the extinct ichthyosaur family.Scientists have discovered an exquisitely preserved front fin from this giant hunter, which grew to lengths of more than 30 feet. Unearthed in Germany, the fin includes a wing-like shape with a serrated trailing edge that probably evolved to reduce the sound it makes while sneaking up on its prey, according to researchers led by Johan Lindgren of Lund University.183-million-year-old soft-tissue fossil (SSN8DOR11; Palontologisches Museum Nierstein, Nierstein, Germany). Image: Randolph G. De La Garza, Martin Jarenmark and Johan Lindgren.The notably wing-like fin sheds light on the unique hunting strategy of Temnodontosaurus, revealing secondary control structures that probably served to minimize self-generated noise during foraging activities in low-light habitatsin effect, a novel form of stealth (silent swimming) in an ancient marine reptile, the team said in the new study.In other words, this animal had a silencer built into its fin, all the better to ambush fish, squid, reptiles, and other aquatic Jurassic delicacies. But waitit gets creepier. Temnodontosaurus is most famous for its absolutely enormous eyeballs, with sockets that measured some 10 inches in diameter, potentially making them the biggest eyes of any animal that ever lived.A conspicuous feature of Temnodontosaurus is its huge eyeballs; these are the largest of any vertebrate known, rivaling those of the giant and colossal squid (of the genera Architeuthis and Mesocychoteuthis) in absolute size, Lindgren and his colleagues said. There is broad consensus that the eyes conferred advantages at low light levels, and thus were well suited either for nocturnal life or deep diving habits.Temnodontosaurus, staring at you from beyond the grave. Image: Ghedo, taken at the Paris Museum of Natural HistoryIn Jaws, the shark hunter Quint, played by Robert Shaw, seems especially haunted by the eyes of sharks, describing them as lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes in his chilling firsthand account of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis.But hey, Ill take the dolls eyes of a great white over the freakish monster gaze of Temnodontosaurus any day of the week (or geological epoch). What a relief that none of us will ever encounter this nighttime predator with its bus-length body, acoustic invisibility cloak, and pizza-pan peepers.In other newsNew sednoid just droppedChen, Ying-Tung et al. Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au. Nature Astronomy.Scientists have discovered a new world in the solar system: the trans-Neptunian object (TNO) 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite. The object is estimated to be about a hundred miles across and has an extreme orbit that takes it as far as 252 times the orbit of Earth. It belongs to a family of distant worlds called sednoids after the dwarf planet Sedna.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z561PGgTe8IThe discovery of Ammonite...offers a valuable opportunity to evaluate current models of outer Solar System formation and evolution, said researchers led by Ying-Tung Chen of Academia Sinica in Taipei. These findings highlight the diversity of orbital properties and dynamical behaviours among distant Solar System objects.As an interesting twist, this new world may be a strike against the idea that a giant hypothetical planet, popularly known as Planet Nine, is lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. Its orbit doesnt seem to line up with that theory. Time will probably tell, because Planet Nineif it does existis running out of places to hide.Medicaid cuts could cause thousands of excess deaths by 2034Basu, Sanjay et al. Projected Health System and Economic Impacts of 2025 Medicaid Policy Proposals. JAMA Health Forum.There has been a lot of speculation about the extreme Medicaid cuts in the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill, but a new report summarizes the predicted effects with devastating brevity.CBO projections suggest 7.6 million individuals in the US would become uninsured by 2034 due to Medicaid policy changes resulting in an annual increase of approximately 1,484 excess deaths, 94,802 preventable hospitalizations and 1.6 million people delaying care due to cost, said researchers led by Sanjay Basu of the University of California, San Francisco.This is a conservative estimate: In the higher-impact scenario where more than 14 million people lose Medicaid by 2034, annual impacts are estimated be substantially greater: 2,284 excess deaths, 145,946 preventable hospitalizations [and] 2.5 million people delaying care, according to the study.This analysis doesnt include the cutting of subsidies to the Affordable Care Act Marketplace plans or possible changes to Medicare, which will compound these negative effects. At the risk of sounding glibseems bad!Eternal sunsets for the Yangshao deadChen, Yuqing. Cosmology in the Orientation of Neolithic Burials in Central China: The Xipo and Qingliangsi Cemeteries. Journal of World Prehistory.You can tell a lot about a culture from the way it treats its living (see above) but also from the way it treats its dead.With that in mind, Yuqing Chen of Durham University set out to better understand the Yangshao culture () of central China, which spanned 47002800 BCE, by cataloging the orientations of graves of people buried at the Xipo and Qingliangsi burial grounds.This work is overflowing with cool insights, from the careful placement of goods inside graves, like cooking pots and ovens, to reconstructions of the Neolithic sky, to an explanation of the Gaitian model of the universe in which the sky was perceived as a lid parallel to the Earth, and the celestial bodies, such as the Sun, were thought to move within the lid, according to the study.A diagram of the Gaitian model. Image: Wu, 2020Ultimately, Chen concluded that the predominately westward orientations of the Neolithic graves did not necessarily reflect the importance of particular astronomical phenomena known to have been important in later times (e.g. the Milky Way or the star Antares), but rather the direction in which sunsets are most commonly seen throughout the year.It is suggested that in the cosmology of the Late Neolithic period, the Sun was perceived to play a key role throughout the year in the worlds of the living and the dead, by maintaining the harmony of sky, Earth and human, she said.May we all aspire to maintain some harmony between, sky, Earth, and humanity this weekend, and beyond. Thanks for reading! See you next week.

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Photo by Earl McDonald.Subscribe nowSince being sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in 1991, Clarence Thomas has developed a reputation for his quiet demeanor during oral arguments. As the longest-serving current member of SCOTUS, he has opposed constitutional protections for abortion, LGBTQ rights and affirmative action programs. He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society, and he frequently speaks at events hosted by The Heritage Foundation, the authors of Project 2025.Thomas opinions lean farther right than any other justice on the bench. And as a new push to overturn marriage equality heats up in the U.S., we wanted to understand Thomas track record on LGBTQ issues.Early LifeJune 23, 1948Thomas is born in rural Georgia. Growing up, he has dreams of being a priest. But after experiencing racism at his Catholic high school, he pivots and applies to law school.1971Thomas is admitted to Yale Law School under an explicit affirmative action plan with the goal of having blacks and other minority members make up about 10 percent of the entering class.Through the years, Thomas becomes an ardent opponent of affirmative action. Rosa Parks calls out his hypocrisy in 1996, saying he had all the advantages of affirmative action and went against it.Photo by Gage Skidmore.May 30, 1987Thomas marries his second wife Ginni, who is an attorney, conservative activist and political consultant. Ginni is a Jan. 6 sympathizer and member of anti-LGBTQ organizations such as the Council for National Policy, which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.Supreme Court JusticeOct. 11, 1991During Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearing, he faces sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, who accuses him of making repeated sexual advances during her time as his assistant. Hill alleges that Thomas discussed his penis size, his sex life and his porn consumption in graphic detail and that he made sexual innuendos toward her at work.Thomas calls the hearings racist and a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. Hill and her family are harassed and receive bomb threats in the wake of her allegations. Despite this, Thomas is confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 52-48.Almost 25 years later, lawyer Moira Smith accuses Thomas of groping her while she was a Truman Foundation scholar in 1999. Thomas denies the allegations.Photo by R. Michael Jenkins.May 20, 1996Thomas dissents in Romer v. Evans, the 6-3 decision that strikes down Amendment 2 of Colorados State Constitution, which enables discrimination based on homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships. The decision is seen as a major victory for gay rights. In Justice Antonin Scalias dissent, which Thomas joins, he writes about the immorality of homosexuality:[T]he society that eliminates criminal punishment for homosexual acts does not necessarily abandon the view that homosexuality is morally wrong and socially harmful.June 28, 2000Thomas dissents in Stenberg v. Carhart, which aimed to overturn a Nebraska law that bans partial birth abortions, a rare procedure used in extreme cases to save the life of the mother. The SCOTUS majority disagrees with Thomas and rules that the law is unconstitutional because it places an undue burden upon a womans right to an abortion.Subscribe nowJune 26, 2003The Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that sodomy laws are unconstitutional. The case came to the Court after police responded to a false report that a man with a gun was inside another man's apartment. The police instead found two men engaging in consensual sex and they were subsequently arrested for violating Texas Homosexual Conduct law. Thomas dissents and writes that while the law is uncommonly silly, the Texas Legislature should be the one to repeal it and that his job is not to take sympathy with the ruling but rather its constitutionality. Despite his dissent, the law is overturned.June 26, 2013Edith Windsor and Thea Spyera lesbian couple who married in Canadamove to New York in 2008. The following year, Spyer passes away and Windsor is barred from tax-exempt status to her wifes estate because of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies recognition of same-sex marriages at the federal level.The case, United States v. Windsor, is taken to SCOTUS, which rules 5-4 in Windsors favor.Thomas partially co-signs the dissent that says Windsors problem should have been remedied by the courts and that SCOTUS had no right to strike down Section 3. The dissent, written by Justice Samuel Alito, also states:It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race.Photo by Rex Block.June 26, 2015Thomas writes the dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, the groundbreaking decision which legalizes gay marriage across the U.S."In its haste to reach a desired result, the majority misapplies a clause focused on 'due process' to afford substantive rights, disregards the most plausible understanding of the 'liberty' protected by that clause, and distorts the principles on which this Nation was founded. Its decision will have inestimable consequences for our Constitution and our society."Thomas dissent is noteworthy as SCOTUS references Loving v. Virginia, a case which declared state bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional, as legal precedent in its decision. Thomas own marriage would have been illegal without this ruling.Photo by Elvert Barnes.June 15, 2020In a 6-3 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, SCOTUS declares that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. In a dissent, Alito and Thomas write:The question in these cases is not whether discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity should be outlawed. The question is whether Congress did that in 1964. It indisputably did not. Even if discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity could be squeezed into some arcane understanding of sex discrimination, the context in which Title VII was enacted would tell us that this is not what the statutes terms were understood to mean at that time.Oct. 5, 2020SCOTUS declines to take up a case in which Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples on the grounds that doing so would violate her religious beliefs.In a statement, Thomas writes:Due to Obergefell, those with sincerely held religious beliefs concerning marriage will find it increasingly difficult to participate in society without running afoul of Obergefell and its effect on other antidiscrimination laws. Obergefell enables courts and governments to brand religious adherents who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman as bigots, making their religious liberty concerns that much easier to dismiss. By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the Court has created a problem that only it can fix. Until then, Obergefell will continue to have ruinous consequences for religious liberty.Although Thomas agrees with the decision not to hear the case, his statement signals a desire to revisit Obergefell and overturn it.July 2, 2021Thomas votes for SCOTUS to consider an appeal from a Washington state florist who refused to provide service to a gay couple on the grounds that doing so would violate her religious beliefs. The Court ultimately declines the case, with the dissenting justices not providing elaboration for their decision.Nov. 1, 2021Thomas agrees to hear a case from a Catholic hospital that refused to perform a hysterectomyan element of bottom surgeryfor a trans man. The Court ultimately declines to take the case.Subscribe nowJune 24, 2022Thomas joins the 6-3 majority and authors a concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, which holds that the Constitution does not provide a right to an abortion. The decision overturns Roe v. Wade. Thomas writes:As I have previously explained, substantive due process is an oxymoron that lack[s] any basis in the Constitution. In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Courts substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.Substantive due process focuses on rights that are not explicitly written into the Constitution, including LGBTQ rights. Thomas openly flirts with the idea that almost all other precedents that rely on the doctrine of substantive due process should be overturned, with the convenient exception of Loving v. Virginia, which made his own marriage legal.June 18, 2025SCOTUS issues a 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The Court claims that the law is not directly targeted at transgender youth and does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, despite them being the only group harmed by the law. In Thomas opinion, he writes:Extending the Bostock framework here would depart dramatically from this Courts Equal Protection Clause jurisprudence. We have faced sexual-orientation claims in the equal protection context for decades. But in those cases, the Court never suggested that sexual orientation discrimination is just a form of sex discrimination warranting heightened constitutional scrutiny.If objective, nonpartisan, rigorous, LGBTQ-focused journalism is important to you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor, Resource Impact, by clicking this button:Donate to Uncloseted Media

Here are this weeks most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this?Sign up for our Good News email.Even when the summer heat is on and the news is making us sweat, its important to remember that the LGBTQ+ community is still going loud and growing proud in big, beautiful ways. This weeks roundup has numerous instances of queer communities pulling together, families supporting each other, and some huge victories worldwide.But before we jump in, did you hear how California is filling the gap after the president recently ended the helpline for LGBTQ+ youth? Did you hear about the newly unveiled Boston park honoring the trailblazing trans woman who inspired the Trans Day of Remembrance? And did you know that LGBTQ+ people of color broke records and made history with this years Emmy nominations? Shes got Betty Davis eye! (singular) Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today View this post on Instagram A post shared by Myles (@camp.o.rama) Queer runner Caster Semenya wins legal victory against World Athletics sports policyThe sports body tried to force her to reduce her testosterone levels. A higher court of human rights said, No way.Daughter of Norwegian princess becomes countrys first royal to come outMaud Angelica Behn earned the title of Bravest Woman in Norway in 2020, and she continues to demonstrate that bravery. Community rallies against churchs anti-gay sermonsThe protestors held signs that said, Trans rights are human rights, Stop the hate, and True Christians preach love. Sylvester wants to funk with you! View this post on Instagram A post shared by @80svintagemusicDemocrats cheer as GOP governor vetoes two anti-LGBTQ+ billsGov. Kelly Ayotte (R) called one of the laws overly broad and impractical. Celebrate 10 years of marriage equality with 20 celebrity couples who wed during the last decadeLet wedding bells ring with these LGBTQ+ stars whove tied the knot. My dad struggled when I came out as a trans man. Then he danced with me at my wedding.There was no awkwardness. No performance of masculinity from either of us. Just love, plain and simple.This modern mash-up of The Birds stars Outkast and Sesame Street View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bell Brothers (@hellobellbros) Ukraine court recognizes same-sex couple as a family in historic LGBTQ+ victoryA very big and important step toward marriage equality in Ukraine, and a small victory in our struggle for simple family happiness, one of the men said. White House reverses plans to cut global HIV/AIDS program PEPFARPEPFAR has saved millions of lives and will continue to do so.Trans wrestling group provides a hot antidote to toxic masculinityThe standing room only spectacles are making the latent and homoeroticism of WWE wrestling overt. And dont forget to enjoy some sun & fun this weekend! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Broadway Enthusiast (@broadwayfocus) From our sibling sites:QUEERTY: The Gay National Anthem? Why Connie Francis Where The Boys Are is a queer classicINTO: Five underrated lesbian movies you need to watch immediatelyOUTSPORTS: Gay former golf pro helps young golfers navigate future careersGAYCITIES: These queer bookstores are more essential than ever

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