Love this fun Landsat tool from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.

This interview with Lisa Whelchel is outstanding! The combination of reflections on her Survivor season (25), analysis of #Survivor50, discussion the game’s evolution across seasons, and updates on where Lisa is now makes this one of the best interviews I’ve seen. @robhasapodcast.bsky.social

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.

we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country

Incredible work from photographer Nicole Hester of the Tennessean: Attempting to attend a Senate Committee meeting about redistricting affecting his own city, state Rep. Justin Pearson is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms, May 6, 2026.

Two years ago, I had the pleasure of talking to novelist Daniel Kraus about his love of horror and suspense. As of yesterday, he’s a Pulitzer winner — and if you’re looking for a page-turner to pick up, I heartily recommend “Whalefall” and “Angel Down.”

Personal pet take: The best monocausal explanation of how we got from 1/6 to now is that Mitch McConnell didn't have the courage to put party before country just once and banish Donald Trump from elected office forever. bsky.app/profile/davi...

Stunning. I just got goosebumps.

We needed a new shower curtain for the guest bath and let the 9yo pick the replacement, no regrets whatsoever. It brings me joy every time I walk by and we’ve named the kitten Catney Spears.

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.

“Imagine being 4 years old, going to your first symphonic concert, and you know every song and every word. Ten years from now, these kids are going to find each other and say, ‘Do you remember that?’ ”

Once again, it's a Tuesday, and that means there are many good books being published today. Buy or borrow one and it will be an automatic distraction from the daily horrors.

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

I think it’s horrible that anybody should be subjected to gun violence. unlike the guy everyone was there to party with, who thinks it’s good and cool

"When Trump pulled out of the Obama agreement and replaced it with nothing, Iran did not have a single bomb’s worth of uranium "Then it started enriching with a vengeance.. "Today, Iran has 11 tons of uranium.. With further purification, that is enough to build up to 100 nuclear weapons" 🎁🔗 below

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

I’m a faithful Thursday listener to the #RHAP exit interviews, but this was the first one I didn’t listen to. Two episodes into #Survivor50, I’d already met my lifetime quota of hypocritical nonsense outta Coach.

📌Pope Leo XIV TODAY: “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” He is NOT backing down.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

This is such a great photo. Probably the best of all the #ArtemisII photos. Diversity, international collaboration, humanities, science, art, engineering, the desire for exploring, the drive of human curiosity, the reward of years of dedicated hard work, and just pure joy. It's all in there.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Oh: Shortly before the Artemis II Orion craft flew around the moon yesterday, entering a 40-minute period of radio silence, Astronaut Victor Glover — who has been open about this faith — took a moment to reflect on Christian scripture. The passage he chose: love your neighbor as yourself.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

✅ #Artemis II update: the spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence this morning at 05:37 BST/06:37 CEST, 6 April, at about 51 000 km from the Moon (the region of space where the Moon’s gravitational pull is stronger than that of Earth’s). www.nasa.gov/image-detail... @exploration.esa.int

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

I look at the unfathomable beauty and majesty of this image, realizing it contains basically the entirety of our collective existence, and I get so sad knowing that humans are *still* killing each other over tiny scraps of land, or which imaginary deity they prey to, on this tiny spec in the cosmos.

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Importantly, #ArtemisII is going to set some new records that have not been attempted for 54 years. And for the first time, the first woman, the first person of colour and the first non-American will travel to lunar space. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 📸 ULA #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito: If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons. Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred million dollars

Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Way to go, Wikipedia!

Still thinking about last week’s Survivor episode, the Zac Brown debacle, and Dee’s hilarious reaction. #Survivor50

New CBS News ratings are catastrophic for Bari Weiss, reports @oliverdarcy.bsky.social. “Under the 41-year-old’s watch, the network’s two flagship daily news programs are seeing their audiences collapse." The network just suffered its worst quarter of ratings in 25 years.

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

The Goodman Theatre production of David Byrne's ‘Theater of the Mind’ has been extended through July. Learn more about the show in our exclusive interview with Byrne.

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

Part of Trump's sneering contempt for Robert Mueller is driven by the fact that Mueller volunteered to serve in a combat role in Vietnam and earned a chestful of medals, while Trump weaseled out of service yet keeps talking about how much he wants a Purple Heart now.

Curious whether Trump had a plan going into his nightmare war that’s destroying the Middle East and wrecking world economies? Ask no further. Trump is now financing Iran’s revenge efforts, giving them the funds to kill US soldiers and bomb our allies. Because for him, oil > blood every time.

Juliana Stratton's win tonight confirms this as the most memorable ad of 2026 so far. Really did cut through. www.youtube.com/watch?v=svuh...

Steve Kornacki, our Election Night King, says about the Illinois primary race for U.S. Senate, "The news keeps getting worse for Krishnamoorthi. Julianna Stratton is now leading in the suburbs." Love to hear it!

A bunch of architects basically said: Not on our watch www.motherjones.com/politics/202...