Congratulations to Christina Koch and the rest of the crew of Artemis II!! So pleased your mission was a success! The splashdown was exciting and nerve wracking. We look forward to celebrating your remarkable accomplishment when you come back to NC.

Drop something RED!

"There is nothing in my background to suggest that I would become a world traveler & a humanitarian," says Brandy Witthoft. Yet she's spent much of her life working overseas, including 17 years with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)... until Elon Musk gutted that agency.

NASA has done more to effectively communicate progressive values in two weeks than the Democrats have in 10 years. The crew choice, their messaging, and media training are a triumphant rebuttal of anti-DEI hysteria and governmental austerity. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8g2hpDL/

1928: we can never have a Catholic president, he would take orders from the Pope! 2026: any chance the Pope can fill out the rest of the term as president?

Reproduction of a Banksy piece from Ukraine. (Photo taken at the Museo Banksy, Madrid.)

Impeach Trump.

I love this so much.

On this rainy Easter, I discovered Hosea 6:1-3: "Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. 1/2

This is so, so well-articulated.

📷 @photorama2 Kirsten Shultz Photography

Listen who am I to say that Trump isn’t analogous to a leading character in the story of Easter? The donkey Jesus rode into Jerusalem on, for example

"All authors are using AI now" Not true! A lot of us use spite

Birds chirping and other philosophical explanations for hope

"It seems only yesterday I used to believe/ there was nothing under my skin but light./ If you cut me I could shine."

The hard thing about both hope & history is that neither predicts the future with certainty. But history does show us that seemingly impossible things can happen when committed people keep striving, despite uncertainty. I wrote this the day after the election and I think it still holds. Keep going.

how can you not be romantic about baseball

Pilots and submariners have restricted shifts. The notion of 24 hour shifts in the medical sector outside of crisis time feels deadly dangerous. c.org/zmPQ5WDhNs

Fact check: True

😢🥺 to live during the burning and not to see the rebuilding

115 years ago today, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. 146 garment workers dead, 123 of them women. In about 18 minutes. Remember them.

Jerusalem patriarchate cancels Palm Sunday procession, postpones chrism Mass amid war www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/03...

Artist's Wife Wanda Reading (1914) by Alexander Bogomazov

Being a powerful, wealthy person "unwilling" to speak the truth publicly and going further to actively lie is pretty much the definition of "not a good person."

*facepsalm*

oil and water are hostile

“Sing and rejoice, ye children of the day and of the light,” George Fox told his fellow Quakers, “for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt.” Feeling helpless in the face of evil is understandable—but it shouldn't be the end of the story. quaker.org/2026/03/16/t...

Senate leader Phil Berger requests recount in GOP primary. Berger trails Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page by 23 votes in NC Senate District 26 race. One of the most powerful politicians in NC could be ousted from office. (Via @dawnbvaughan.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol

These poems landed in my inbox this morning, and made my day. open.substack.com/pub/rabbitro...

Paging Northwestern Univ. faculty/grad students: I need a copy of a 1940 thesis that's locked behind a library password. Anyone out there able to help out a remote researcher? DM for details. Thank you.

The only skies I dream of.

I needed this.

Some pretty stellar work here. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/eliz...

The type of coverage we should demand from the major media.

It's worth remembering that we were already in the midst of a massive spike of auto loan delinquencies *before* this spike in gas prices (and everything else). The myriad costs of car dependency are just destroying people. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/b...

I love North Carolina.

😆 (Alt text: white image with black font reading, "I was told there would be a handbasket.")

Being mad somebody brought up politics at Jesse Jackson’s homegoing service is like being mad somebody put butter in the poundcake.

Sharpton: "We're still here! We've come this far by faith. It was against the law to read and write! It was against the law to marry, but we've come this far by faith. I don't care what they do in Washington, I care what we do in the community. We've beat people bigger than Trump!"

📢North Carolina is investing $24 million in projects across the state that will improve flood mitigation, protect critical infrastructure, and reduce community risks from future disasters.

If you’re at AWP2026, I am reading tonight at this Iowa Writers’ Workshop event with Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Harding, Sarah Minor, Lauren Haldeman and Rodney Dailey II. Tomorrow I’ll be honoring Edmund White alongside @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social, Alysia Abbott, Brian Alessandro and Alden Jones.

SHADOW GOVERNOR DAVE BOLIEK ncnewsline.com/2026/03/04/b...

Farmer, and lock keeper on the Dismal Swamp Canal.

Here's something I learned in researching this story: Since the death of George Floyd, 2/3rds of the private companies that provided liability insurance to law enforcement agencies pulled out, and those that remained have increased their rates and lowered caps. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/what-to-do...

North Carolina, we're officially on the road to November 3rd. There’s no doubt — we’ve got our work cut out for us. But North Carolinians have always given me hope and that’s what’s going to get us across the finish line.

I collect quotes on my cell notepad. Here's a keeper from @joshtpm.bsky.social: "The essence of dystopic fiction is the idea that things can go wrong and have no clear path to getting better. It is a one-way street. But life, real life, is about persisting and finding a way back." (dated 5/17/20)

Oh, I just threw my 2026 bingo card away on January 3rd.