We no longer have safe air travel but Sean Duffy used Department of Transportation resources for some kicking home movies!

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

NASA’s Artemis II commander teamed up with astrophotographers to capture stunning never-before-seen images of the Moon’s far side during humanity’s first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo. The mission returned over 12,000 photos, including eclipses, Earthsets, and crater closeups

Important as fuck. peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/05/h...

Astronaut Gene Cernan (Apollo XVII commander, Apollo X, Gemini IX) was a friend of mine. We had many a long conversation. The Apollo XVII triangular configuration photographed in and included as of this Pentagon file release validates and corroborates with what Cernan told me he saw there.

Is it just me or do the Portland Fire look lots funner a watch for the average fan than the Toronoto Tempo? #wbna

Happy #PumpkinCarvingFriday! Lets look at some 2017 carves. Last up, some fun one-off carves - 3D Mario Goomba - Baby Groot - Diablo's the Butcher - "Feed Me!" Plant Happy Friday and have a great weekend! 5/5 #pumpkincarving #Halloween #Mario #fantasyArt #fantasySky #Diablo

Step 1: Privatize government services so they’re no longer subject to public records laws Step 2: Keep procurement contracts confidential as “trade secrets” & proprietary business info Step 3: Shield contractors for liability in the courts Step 4: Oligarchs profit

Happy #PumpkinCarvingFriday! Lets look at some 2017 carves. The 3rd thematic carving set, Game of Thrones! - Viserion, in the North, When the Wall Fell - Daenerys Targaryen taking Drogon for a throat clearingnsession - Night King 3/5 #pumpkincarving #Halloween #GoT #fantasyArt #fantasySky #dragons

Happy #PumpkinCarvingFriday! Lets look at some 2017 carves. Fourth up, this looked AMAZING in person! The Queen Witch from Snow White poisoning the apple. The texture on the Iron pot was pitch perfect. So many wanted to touch it! 4/5 #pumpkincarving #Halloween #Disney #fantasyArt #fantasySky

Happy #PumpkinCarvingFriday! My 2017 carves continued Second up, Star Wars! - X-wings in the clouds - 2nd Death Star attack - Porg! - Tuscan Raider 2/5 #pumpkincarving #Halloween #Disney #StarWars #ScifiSky

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

Destany Pete researched an Indigenous chokecherry recipe and achieved promising “in vitro” results on cancer cells. Her science project gained international recognition for combining traditional knowledge with modern laboratory experimentation.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Happy #PumpkinCarvingFriday! Lets look at some 2017 carves. First up, Beauty and the Beast! I love how the dress turned out, same with the rose stems and glass chalice. 1/5 #pumpkincarving #Halloween #Disney #fantasyArt #fantasySky

All of this shit was already in the National Archives or designated to be. I read these transcripts years ago. www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/iLC...

Archaeologists using satellite imagery in Sudan’s Atbai Desert discovered 280 ancient stone burial monuments, some over 6,000 years old. The tombs reveal a lost cattle-herding culture that thrived before the Sahara became an arid desert

The #WNBA refs are still just as shitty as last year, but #GoMystics! Get Betts some looks next game! And wow Rori's D was amazing!

ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.com/Politics/jud...

Happy #PumpkinCarvingFriday! Lets look at some 2017 carves. First up, Beauty and the Beast! I love how the dress turned out, same with the rose stems and glass chalice. 1/5 #pumpkincarving #Halloween #Disney #fantasyArt #fantasySky

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TMTG exists so that one person's posts can be screenshotted for free. And as the screenshots' like/RT numbers always show, it has ~0 other users; there's nobody to monetize. It's a Potemkin social network, with the overhead costs of a real one. That would be unsustainable even without all the graft.

Flamingo Friday Reza Nazemi photography Videographer "Beauty of Iran : March of Babies 🦩"

VA Dems went through a more democratic process to legitimate their redistricting and the result is to be rejected by the courts. Southern states just passing new maps via legislation.

NASA has combined data from the greatest optical and x-ray observatories in space. The results are predictably spectacular. This is NGC 346, a cloud where newborn stars are bursting to life & shocking the nearby gas, creating a shimmer of x-rays (pink). 🔭🧪 chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2026/s...

Kenny Boddye: "there are two key things as Virginians we can do over the next few years...Given the current climate, it is entirely possible for Virginia Democrats to secure 8-9 seats in November...We must take a hard look at the current redistricting process." bluevirginia.us/2026/05/brea...

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

...the law binds but does not protect...

Note: Virginia supreme court justices are "re-elected" by state lawmakers, meaning the legislature chooses whether to reappoint them or replace them. Two of the four justices in the majority today against the new congressional map will be "up" by early 2028.

this whole thing feels like it was written by a very stupid child

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

Ludicrously anodyne framing from NYT here effectively launders the Trump/GOP rigging of elections and reduces it all to a simple "who's winning, who's losing" formulation. Explains a lot about why we're in our current mess.

Remember how when Blu-ray came out, every movie you bought included a DVD and a digital copy? I need book publishers to start doing that. When I buy a new book, I want to get a hardcover for my shelf plus the Kindle edition. #booksky

This administration ended work from home policies that caused many federal employees who can't afford DC price to leave government. In the meantime, Cabinet Secretaries treat their jobs like a side hustle to their brand building.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

😕🇺🇸 Yeah @marenmorris.bsky.social gets it

"Trump and MAGA judges will continue to try to rig the system to evade accountability, but make no mistake, disenfranchised Virginians and Americans will remember this when they make their voice heard this November.” - @repsuhas.bsky.social (D-VA10) bluevirginia.us/2026/05/brea...

Spanberger should pull a DeSantis and ram through the map. If Republicans can do it, why not the rest of us?

Turns out college drop out DOGE bros put in charge of cancelling humanities grants violated both the law and the First Amendment by asking ChatGPT to tell them why it was okay to cancel grants for being "DEI"

explain to me why anyone continuing to play by the rules isnt a chump

The messed up thing is if Virginia had passed a map weakening the Black vote it would have held up in court.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

When the voters approve a map to help Democrats, it's nullified. When Republican legislators approve a map to help Republicans without going to the voters, it's allowed. The system is rigged to help the fascists.

Every weakness in our political system – the Electoral College, the makeup of the Senate, lifetime terms for the Supreme Court, the acceptance of gerrymandering – has been weaponized by the fascists to steal our government from us.

thedemlabs.org/2026/04/23/d... Spreadsheets show Jane Roberts earned $10,323,842.70 in commissions over seven years.

"Today [SCOVA] has chosen to put politics over the rule of law by issuing a ruling that overturns the April 21st special election on redistricting. This decision...fuels the growing fears across our nation about the state of our democracy." VA AG Jay Jones bluevirginia.us/2026/05/brea...

From tyler merritt : “Racism with paperwork. And what’s wild is you smile and quote scripture while doing it.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn