The President “shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States.” Wired 2017-2020: POTUS can’t pardon state crimes. Wired 2026: POTUS can’t pardon int’l war crimes & crimes against humanity. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

Wow

Picture worth a thousand words

The fact that the ask is "joint control" and not "freedom of navigation" tells you everything you need to about the thugs running the US atm.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

At the NYC First competition with my kid, a mentor for one of the teams. Brought the dog and everyone is happy about that (including him)

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Gifs and insults aside, science in general - including space science - is *incredibly* international. This is something we can do because we do it together.

Damn, NASA and JPL know their shit. Voyager 1 is talking to home from deep space right now. eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now...

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Government is good. Science is good. Government funded science is good. Artemis II is a perfect reminder of these values. From @smotus.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...

New at Tusk: This wasn’t some billionaire throwing cars or celebrities into orbit as a vanity project — this was a collective effort to send experts in to do a job and come home safely.

The extreme competency of NASA will be rewarded by… massive funding cuts.

While we're on the subject of arches: in 1917, with WWI raging in Europe, Marcel Duchamp, John Sloan & others broke into NYC's Washington Square Arch, climbed to top, & declared Greenwich Village an independent republic—as memorialized in Sloan's "Arch Conspirators" (Duchamp at left, Sloan at right)

We fought and lost a war in Iran so that both the Iranians and the Russians could make far more money from oil—the Iranians from tolls, the Russians from higher prices and the end of sanctions. That isn’t just strategic defeat; it’s self-destructive foolishness at a level unknown to military history

This exactly

Jeffries and Schumer are intent on calling a WPA vote, and that would have the effect of peeling off a few members in both house. But you need a larger narrative that GOP refusal to do its job enabled a catastrophic war.

An army of unemployables persecuting productive citizens, as @byyourlogic.bsky.social said

ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues. He had just asked to call his wife. They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw. Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

If you can automatically register people for the draft, then you can automatically register people to vote. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

This is a good story. And I understand why it focuses on the modern court. Still, it's surprising/disappointing that there's no acknowledgement of the Court's role in undoing the First Reconstruction - which does provide precedent for its more recent role in undoing the Second.

“Asked” makes it clear who’s in charge

Love Bibi setting our war policy

🚨: NASA just released this closest image of Moon ever taken by Artemis II . The clarity in insane in this view.

Seems quite bad

Excellent lede and pretty good headline on this story from Robert Jimison today in NYT.

Quite the lede . www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

I mean that makes sense the jet is already set to “evil”

"Hello, World."

Literally a hole in the ground countries and corporations can throw bribes into

If you’re looking for #ArtemisII wallpaper images for your phone/computer/intense and lasting joy, NASA has you covered. www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-m...

Remains remarkable that a U.S. Senator colluded with a foreign government to talk POTUS into launching a completely unnecessary, illegal, and disastrous war. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Thanks for painting my station @mta.info

I would read a content analysis of the way the Times. WAPO, CNN, Jake Tapper etc... covered Biden leaving Afghanistan compared to this absolute debacle of the War on Iran by Trump.

New U.S. bargaining position has no mention of the strait, or proxies, or ballistic missiles. Basically the president is begging for a return to the Obama nuclear deal but with Iran adding a massive new revenue source.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

The Milky Way Galaxy stuns in new photo captured by Artemis II.

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

I thought January 6 and its aftermath, which we're still living through, was the darkest period in modern U.S. history. And yet somehow things can still get darker. Presidential impunity will cost us and our children for generations.

Rally at the White House tonight

“Everyone from far-right conspiracists Alex Jones and Candace Owens, to former MAGA loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene, to Never Trumper Bill Kristol, to progressive lawmakers Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, is now calling for Trump’s removal from office.”

"Bloomberg examined Trump’s record of following through on threats to attack other countries and non-state actors. "Looking at his first term, he made good on threats roughly 20% of the time. "In his second term to date, that rate has risen to 50%." www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Why Liberia unless the goal is to be as cruel as possible?

I wish as many people were outraged by Putin seeking to erase Ukraine and Netanyahu seeking to erase Gaza as they are about Trump's threat regarding Iran. They are the same.

There are 600+ MILLION evangelical Christian Zionists globally. Their political theology and eschatology is genocidal wrt Jews and Muslims.