"I had an overwhelming sense of being moved by the moon...it is a real place, and when we have that perspective and we compare it to our home of the Earth it just reminds us how much we have in common - everything we need the Earth provides, and that is in and of itself somewhat of a miracle."

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

This is a *terrific* piece which drives home two key points: People with special needs often have special skills, so hiring them isn't some noble sacrifice you're making but a savvy investment. Accommodations for people with special needs almost always wind up benefiting everyone else too.

An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections. If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

Mike Peters 1978

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

We launched our first anti-poaching team 25 years ago. The elephants born that year are now turning 27. We have watched over them every step of the way. Today that team numbers 29 units and a Canine Unit. Support us watch over the next generation: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/projects/ant...

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

Shout-out to Gil Scott-Heron.

The extent to which it is just taken completely for granted even in a lot of liberal circles that the US is supposed to underwrite Israeli defensive capabilities indefinitely, completely regardless of the policies, action, or commitments of the Israeli government is really just wild to me.

Albert Podrasky, Chief Justice Roberts’ grandfather, born in the U.S. to parents who were not citizens, was an American citizen. Why not the U.S.-born child today of a migrant from Africa? Or El Salvador? Or Honduras?

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

This one hit hard. #denver #nokings #copolitics

The Raging Grannies of Dane County were singing as marchers made it to the steps of the Capitol.

Orca at rubbing beach.

Bondi's argument here is also the main thrust of the chapter 'Subjects and Citizens' in Hitler's Mein Kampf (a chapter which, incidentally, lauds racist U.S. immigration policies)

At the Dilley Detention Facility, I met 5-year-old Gael. He was in pain and his stomach was so bloated because he hadn’t been able to go to the bathroom in over a week. ICE just gave him laxatives and dismissed any concerns. A 5-YEAR-OLD. In pain and suffering.

“Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people on Capitol Hill are refusing to stop it.”

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Safe, protected bike-lanes are: Better for business Better for emissions Better for air quality Better for public health Better for noise Better for space Better for equity Better for affordability Better for public cost Better for safety for EVERYONE Better for oil independence Better.

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

YOU CANNOT BE A UNITED STATES SENATOR IN PRIVATE

This one has lived rent free in my head for 25+ years. theonion.com/national-fun...

I'm a stage 4 cancer survivor, and the Affordable Care Act saved my life nine years ago. The ACA and I are both still here. Why are we funding more wars overseas while taking away health care from millions of Americans like you and me? #HealthcareNotWarfare

Anyway, this scene from “Munich” once again comes to mind. It’s from a film made 21 years ago about events which happened 54 years ago and both everything and nothing at all has changed. youtu.be/YoAV0xF7A2U?...

A solar panel installed today will still be generating power in 2050. No fuel. No smoke. No volatility. Just clean energy from an infinite source☀️

William Shatner is 95. Here’s what was going through his mind as he boldly went where a small group of people went before. Humble & haunting.

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

Not me as an academic coming upon Wollstonecraft’s line that “every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality” (vindication of rights of woman, 1792)

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

Just sitting here shaking my head and swallowing the bile. Hordes of men get away with raping women and children, who must carry the scars around in silence, while bronze statues of the rapists stand in the public square and boulevards bear their names.

Turns out it didn't have legs

I think for most media, Trump's pardons feel like a good target because they represent Trump's "lawlessness," but I have felt for a long time that Trump was elected because of his lawlessness, not in spite of it.

Years ago, I made a joke about billionaires on Twitter without mentioning anyone by name, and this guy, whom I've never followed and never exchanged any messages with, blocked me. So I guess he uses the time other people use for introspection on seething resentment instead.

"American cinema needs more of this raw truth — stories that pulse in the blood and set spirits free. We don’t need endless remakes. We need the conjure, the haints and the original hope that comes from knowing exactly who we are."

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail." People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"

The cure for male loneliness is defending your people from hate and prejudice.

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

This man, like his colleague Peter Thiel, is a dangerous, extremist, deranged, lunatic who should not receive 1 cent of public funding for anything...and every Democrat needs to make that a campaign commitment. Time to end the Palantir grift and malevolence train.

There’s never enough money to forgive student loans or give people healthcare but always money to drop bombs on brown people.

What if we spoonbilled instead of bombed? 🪶

Here's my bottom line: Much of what they are doing is bad. Much of what they are doing is unpopular. Pushback is working. We are winning. Keep fighting. Be creative. Push for what you'd want. Allow for insiders and outsiders. Realize that change takes time. Reduce harm in the meantime.

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives