NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Hegseth's hostility to the institutional norms of the US military and his desire to humiliate the flag officers is what made me think of the Cultural Revolution when his nomination was announced. He's the Red Guard cadre disciplining and purging the party honchos.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

Welp, Artemis is now committed to going to the moon after a successful TLI burn. Wild that the rest of the flight is all gravity. No more burns at all until splash down.

this is a seriously impressive misunderstanding. literally the scene fakes you out by making you think that this dude is going to kill people and then pointedly not having him do that. It’s one of the most anti-utilitarian moments in popular fiction in the last couple of decades.

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

The launch caught me short. I just got surprisingly emotional watching it. Someone posted here that NASA is among the best things humanity has ever done, and it is hard to argue with that. Incredible stuff.

Ask and you shall receive! Gemini explains why the Constitution actually demands that Ilan Wurman, specifically, should be fired out of a cannon across the border.

I don't know what SCOTUS will do on birthright citizenship case, it's anybody's guess. But if they endorse Trump's diktat, the only response is defiance. Outright, open defiance by the states. A decision not just erroneous but illegitimate, beyond their power, null and void from the day it's issued.

A new contender for best headline

Duke won’t solve this until one of their own throws Stephen Miller into an active volcano

Braylon Mullins' magical March Madness moment sends UConn to the Final Four 🪄

HOLY SHIT!!! UCONN!!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!

I was just helping my kid with their high school Gov homework, and was astonished to learn the United States has a Congress.

After a decade as a Yale hospital janitor, she is now a doctor there By Sydney Page “I still can’t believe it,” said Shay Taylor-Allen, who landed a residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she was born and spent most of her adult life on the cleaning staff. Gift link!

It’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Day. The fact that everyone knows about the Titanic and no one knows about the largest industrial disaster of the era says a lot about our priorities and how we view class and labor

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Most southern West Point Officers honored their oaths and stayed with the U.S. Army. Only *one* Colonel in his cohort chose to resign and join the treason, that piece of shit slaver Bobby Lee.

The ONLY reason why you've heard of Robert E. Lee is that he chose to resign his commission in the US Army and take command of an army of rebels, who hoped to establish an independent slaveholding republic. He was a fervent Confederate nationalist, who was willing to give his life for this cause.

Whatever you think of him, you have to respect that Robert E. Lee was a slave-owning rapist piece of shit who got a lot of people killed for what might be the single worst reason imaginable and also he lost.

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

I think this is an important point. While Trump said US is in talks with Iran and Iran denies this, what’s really going on is countries in the region are talking to both sides to try to ease tensions. So truth seems to be somewhere in the middle. Will it work? 🤷‍♂️

It hasn't really. That's the "some countries in the region are trying to reduce tensions". The three foreign ministers are talking to the Iranians and the Americans.

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

My Kennedys? Dead

My lips? Flaming

Mainers need not vote for the elderly lady or the coy Nazi tattoo guy, I hope they know that!

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

Great and informative thread.

Every adult is responsible for every child, and collectively we are failing them miserably right now. Mr. Rogers would be so sad at the state of the world, and especially the US, and that thought alone should make everyone in my generation immediately volunteer in ways that would make him proud. +

“Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention” “Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”

Complete failure to see the situation (really any situation) from the other side’s perspective. This is a common theme with this admin. They aren’t even interested or curious about what might motivate other players.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Just curious, how does he plan to take control of the strait? What force will be employed? Where? Sounds like that is something that will take quite a bit of force. Is the necessary combat power in theatre?

Ready, fire, aim!🔥 “US officials called London insurers & brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said…The conflict has sent rates soaring. It typically now costs 1% to 2% of the ship’s value to insure a vessel in the Gulf…That compares w/around 0.25% in peacetime.”

Just to be clear, if the results are reported accurately, neither Trump nor Republicans in Congress have any power to impede Dems from assuming office. GOP Congress can’t because the 119th Congress ceases to be on 1/3/27. Trump could only do so by locking Congress up. That’s a coup.

Cosmically, there is something very darkly funny about spending an entire decade of American politics obsessed with repudiating the mistakes of the Iraq War, and then immediately doing it again at the first opportunity, but with even less justification, planning, strategy, or foresight.

friends, I have brought you a gift

It’s too easy to go to war

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

A lot of people confuse "not sporting" with "war crime". They aren't the same.

Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered. President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero: “In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Look, I don’t know all the details of this law, but if it in fact merely bars an AI system from UPL or UPM, not sure why that’s bad. To counter the particular point made in this QP, if a lawyer gives you legal advice in a private casual conversation, he is practicing law and can be liable for it.

There's also the point to be made that just because you can do something militarily doesn't mean you should.