this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

Pope Leo on an all-time heater: - Jesus ignores warmongers' prayers - ICE is an affront to God - Imperialist occupation is a sin

From Bloomberg: “The world’s most important price for real-world oil barrels surged above $140 on Thursday, the highest since 2008.  Dated Brent, the price of shipments bought and sold in the North Sea, reached $141.37, surpassing levels seen when Russia invaded Ukraine.” #economy #energy #markets

I have this on in the background. They say a few things every few minutes, mainly just a visualization of the Artemis II at this moment or a shot of everyone working in Houston. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Can't really express how at a loss for words I am to learn that Daryle has passed. We worked together more than once over the years and crossed paths in countless other ways overall--socially, intellectually, nerdily. Just an incredibly decent human overall. My deepest condolences to his family.

hmm

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

Don't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post

"at $2 million a pop, that comes out to about $100 billion in revenue for Iran—more than one-quarter of Iran’s nominal GDP, and nearly twice the country’s annual budget. Unlike the U.S., these tariffs really can fund the country." prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

Rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated

Dark side of the moon landing lnk.thebulwark.com/4s9fzW4

This bit of his is so stupid

I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die

One of my favorite Apollo moments.

my soul has left my body

Spain also used the term apartheid in a statement for the first time, though it merely said the law was a "step towards apartheid". Major human rights organizations have already concluded that apartheid exists today, and the ICJ said in 2024 that the occupation violates the statute against it.

For the first time ever, Arab states use the term apartheid in a joint statement condemning Israel for its passage of a new and openly racist death penalty law.

UN experts said the targeted killing of three Lebanese journalists constitutes another egregious attack on press freedom by Israeli forces and must be promptly, fully and independently investigated by an international body. Read the statement ⤵️ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... 📷 AP/Mohammed Zaatari

Ron Johnson is an out-and-out conspiracy theorist including 9/11 Truth, btw. He is also a January 6th Truther and believes the 2020 election was rigged. These are not the words of a disappointed politician. These are the words of an enemy of this republic and reality.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

Someone sent me this.

In Monstrous Intimacies, @hystericalblkns.bsky.social surfaces the inextricability of the desire for freedom from the desire for slavery, outlining their mutual intrication in the antiblack project of nation building. Come join us in Toronto this summer to discuss this and other insights!

WIRED has identified several BORTAC and BORSTAR agents involved in immigration sweeps whose backgrounds include domestic violence, sexual assault, use of force, and expressed racism and hate speech online.

Tesla Board: Let's give the drug-addled racist who putatively runs this company and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for this decline--the guy who presided over the incompetent, careless, deadly decimation of the federal government from his redoubt at DOGE--a trillion dollar pay package.

From our latest print issue, Naomi Bethune goes inside the crowdfunding campaigns of the far right, where you can get rich for being bigoted, discriminatory, or even violent. It's where virality can turn into celebrity. prospect.org/2026/04/02/a...

Shiloh Hendrix has taken in $850,000 on GiveSendGo after going viral for calling an autistic, five-year-old Black child a racial slur. You can see the intent of the donors from the comments they left: prospect.org/2026/04/02/a...

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Rip to every president who lost a war in the middle east but I’m different. And better. Maybe even good enough to win a war in the middle east

Instrumental in so many groups being formed and so much music. Salute.

My best friend spent 3 months watching this back in 2022. There’s an article out there that says that they are the only film critic to ever make the claim that they sat down to watch the entire thing and it’s “impossible to know” if they actually did.” I was there, they totally did, and wrote this:

It’s lovely that many first-generation Americans feel pride in securing citizenship under the 14th Amendment, but I think it’s important to understand that they became citizens the exact same way as an American born here to descendants of the Mayflower. There is zero constitutional distinction.

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

"The medical research centre was founded in 1920, and is one of at least 316 hospitals, healthcare and medical service facilities which have been damaged or destroyed since the start of the US-Israeli attacks against Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent."

Trump: "We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare.... Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.... You can’t do it on a federal [level]. We have to take care of one thing: military protection." www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits...

“I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” - Charlie Kirk Artemis II Pilot…

He just read his truth shitposts with no real announcement... a waste of time

Trump gave a speech arguing for war in Iran 33 days into the war in Iran because his polls are at the lowest point of his presidency and 70% of voters oppose a ground invasion

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Melvin Edward's Lynch Fragments were also featured in "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983". I recall them being very near Howardena Pindell's large work.

African American sculptor Melvin Edwards, known for his Minimalist works that incorporate industrial materials to confront and interrogate racial violence in the U.S., passed in Baltimore at 88 on March 29th. His “Lynch Fragments” are so powerful. May he rest in peace. #BlackSky #ArtSky

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Roe v. Wade was a 7-2 decision. But reactionaries made it their white whale, and spent 50 years building a far-right Supreme Court that would overturn it. I’m not saying the same thing will happen with birthright citizenship. I’m just saying that any dissent in this case will leave that door open.

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation