Quite a contrast to start my feed this morning.

Tove Jansson (Finnish, 1914–2001), Moomin and sisters Mymble and Little My paint an #Easter egg #womensart #Moomins

Not to mention mall restrictions, closing arcades, and they defunded every bit of teen programming possible at the libraries, closed all the community centers, and refuse to fund after-school and weekend events...

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

I love it when people talk about cool stuff they've written or made. (Hell, I love it when people enthuse about stuff they like whether they're responsible for it or not.) Tell us about the cool things!

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

It really blows my mind that for my entire life, folks struggling to get by have to eat gruel and wear burlap sacks in order to "deserve" any kind of assistance, but we've got more billionaires than ever before and are gonna have trillionaires soon enough.

Make no mistake: our collective fates are in the hands of insane, narcissist warmongering religious zealots & the greediest, most malicious con-artist of the 21st century & a former political party that decided "fuck it, organized crime is the way to go, we'll take over EVERYTHING."

They’re making this woman pay $500 a month to talk to her husband.

> Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

How utterly heartbreaking How disrespectful of our service people. This sucks

🚨 🚨 ABC News confirms that Iran used advanced, passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15E fighter jet. Passive infrared detection does not emit radar signals. As a result, it cannot be detected or jammed by American electronic warfare systems. That leaves our aircraft vulnerable.

🚀🌔 Stunning views from NASA’s Artemis II mission and the International Space Station showcase Earth, the moon and even Venus, captured during humanity’s first crewed lunar mission since 1972. 🚀🌔 Follow all our mission coverage here: spklr.io/6001EyN07

The Pentagon has notified the House Armed Services Committee that the status of the second pilot from the downed jet remains unknown, AP reports.

Most Americans still instinctively think of America as rich & modern & powerful and emerging economies as vaguely primitive & backward. Man are we going to have to update those assumptions. We have met the shithole country, and it is us.

NEWS: A second U.S. Air Force combat aircraft has gone down in the Persian Gulf region, per NYT. Officials say an A-10 Warthog crashed near the Strait of Hormuz, with the pilot safely rescued. This comes as an F-15E was shot down over Iran—one crew member recovered, search ongoing for another.

Two points about the downed F-15 crew in Iran: 1. Hegseth threatened “no quarter” against Iran, making the situation worse for those downed fliers. 2. Media speculation that the fliers could be used as “hostages” is sloppy language. They'd be prisoners of war taken during combat. Not "hostages."

Second US Air Force plane crashed in Persian Gulf region, New York Times reports reut.rs/4cngn58

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

My god, the depravity. Innocent civilians and emergency workers. Horrible 💔

Remember the lady in the penis costume who was tackled by cops at the October No Kings protests? Not only have they not dropped the charges, they've added new ones. Her trial is set for later this month. theintercept.com/2026/04/03/p...

Stop what you're doing and look 🌍 The full globe? That is the NIGHT SIDE. I'm pretty sure I can see some satellites/debris glinting away on the periphery. Also the Aurora?! What a bonkers beautiful world that supports and holds everyone and everything you've ever known and loved, and so much more.

Man if Mychal AND Miss Rachel showed up to say they were disappointed in me I would simply die

Looks like we’re well into the political purges of senior military officers stage of authoritarianism. It’s been going this whole time, but now noticeably accelerated. Even worse, the regime is doing it in the middle of a war, one they launched that is going poorly.

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Absolutely vile mediocre man. I’d like Karma to kick in and kick in FAST.

petapixel.com/2023/04/11/t... Petapixel with the name (Josh Valcarcel) *and* setup

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Time to get your air purifiers in working order, purchase those replacement filters, stock up on N95s and figure out a way to seal up any leaks before wildfire smoke rolls into town this summer.

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

I don’t think I realized I had any latent Challenger trauma until right about now My kid’s like “neat!” and I’m like 🫣

And keep defensively insisting it's not all men. We LOVE that.

🚨 JUST IN: Human Case of H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Cambodia Child Hospitalized en.vietnamplus.vn/cambodia-rep...

it sounds like the good guys have the numbers on this one but, dude, Alito is so far gone. soooo far gone. brain fully melted, leaking out onto the dais, forming a puddle of racist Republican goo

Just to recap: Russia is currently helping Iranian forces try to kill US troops. In response, Trump is… lifting sanctions on Russia and threatening to pull out of NATO, which are the #1 and #2 items on Putin’s wishlist

If U Penn loses its appeal, it will be required to question every staff member to compile a list of Jewish staff members. They must then turn that list over to Kash Patel, who has appeared on rabidly antisemitic, Holocaust-denial podcasts at least eight times. Clip from NPR report attached.

lying about it happening on april fool's day: mean-spirited, hurtful, not funny at all it actually happening on april fool's day: possibly the funniest thing of all time

This movement has never been about violent criminal aliens, undocumented immigrants writ large, or even immigration in general, but about the country’s changing ethnic and religious makeup. It has always been about white Christian nationalism.

I’m not sure how some people are peopling. I’m freaked out about the conversion therapy ruling. And tmrw, the birthright citizenship ruling? My brain feels fizzy, yet dull. I’m tired and wired. I’m scared. I’m mad. Feeling a heavy dark hopelessness creeping in. Grateful for my cat

Things are just RELENTLESSLY BAD… ALL THE TIME!!!

The line has already formed outside of the Supreme Court for Wednesday’s oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, which will determine the legality of Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. People at the front of the line told me they got here yesterday.

Every time I post about things Mamdani has done wrong the cult of personality weirdos come crying into my mentions to accuse me of abandoning the left. Like. Be for real. Politicians aren’t celebrities. Fainting every time the flashes a cute smile at you is the wrong way to make a democracy.

All the news today caused the major outlets to forget that we are taking the first human flight to the moon tomorrow in >50 years! I think about all the wonder & inspiration that came from the Apollo and Voyager missions & how we are missing that now bc of all the terrible things happening. 🔭🚀

by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

🔥🔥Wow. Take a few minutes. Heather Cox Richardson has called attention to many topics of import, but this one about the Boston Tea Party puts everything happening now into a different light. 👏👏Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

"Conversion therapy" doesn't work. It never has and never will. All it does is teach a young person to feel shame for who they are and that repression later manifests into unhealthy behavior. Today's Supreme Court ruling will result in a generation of shame and subsequent harm.