Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

My friend is reading The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com, which inspired me to finally make this guide to the series. I'm pretty proud of this table. I tried really hard to make it easy to understand, since most sources for this information are pretty confusing.

The LCARS are I think, the best "future" computer interface ever developed. Yes, it's more what we have now than the 24th century (though that's because your Ipad and smartphone were inspired by Trek), but it actually looks practical and workable rather than just Cool.

The MAGA way. WaPo documents how Rep Cory Mills (R-FL) used overt political influence, including calls to Pam Bondi and Ed Martin, to avoid being arrested and prosecuted after he physically brutally assaulted a woman in Washington, DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Trump posted an AI image of himself as Jesus and attacked the Pope. He's now going to read a Bible passage for a Christian Nationalist event. Faith or damage control? You decide. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/after-ange...

“We know certain things to be true of men, family, violence, and power in this country. We’ve all seen the darkly pointed memes of how the media treats regular white men who annihilate their entire families. “ open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

*sigh* 1. That's not a direct quote. If you're going to put something in quotation marks and then go, "Wow. He just came right out and said it," it should be a direct quote. 2. This speech is from 2018. Don't present it as new/recent. 3. The actual content of the speech is bad enough.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Why is it that Democratic politicians are always doing this thing where they legitimize right-wing caricatures of Democrats? Which Democrats are referring to people in prison as the "justice involved population?" That's just not a thing any elected official is saying.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

I just think you should cover the statements of a known prolific liar differently than the statements of an honest person. Call me crazy.

Not sure how @atrupar.com does it. "Real" journalists have checked out for the weekend & he's continuing to document the madness of King Don. (& none of the madness will be reported anywhere else.)

Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

It is totally inconceivable to me that there are people just now finally realizing he’s a total charlatan after all this time and so much evidence, and yet here we are.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

Trump just publicly referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the “Strait of Iran.” Not only does this look like total capitulation from his administration but I am trying to imagine the GOP/Fox response if Joe Biden had said this.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment. By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults. All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Every single news story, headline & social post needs to be crystal clear that the the Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 47 days because of Donald Trump. It was open on Feb 27th and it closed because of Trump's reckless war.

My only friend in the world was my Boxer dog, Kokomo. He lived in a pen on the hill at the back ... excursion, we ran headlong into a wild boar. My dog stood nose-to-nose with that beast; I knew he’d die.

White House Faith Office Senior Advisor Paula White‑Cain on Trump's faith: "He can quote to you so many sermons. I mean, profound."

70% of Americans see through Trump’s “Christian” act. And yet the conservatives who most loudly claim to care about faith keep insisting he's one of them. That contradiction explains a lot. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/70-of-amer...

Here is that "gender critical" artist who set out to create 100 portraits of "detransitioned women" FOUR YEARS AGO admitting that a number of her subjects have retransitioned in that time, as everyone who knows anything about trans people predicted they would. She should obviously remove them. 1/

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

If the Court strikes down VRA districts, the easiest way to undo that damage would be to move to multi-member PR districts, which a future Congress can do by statute. Same or better minority representation results (e.g. black members in the South), no need for it to be explicitly race-conscious.

Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS

Feels like a good time to mention I recently finished my dinosaur and friends chart. For anyone looking for a new favorite.

I don’t know Dave Chappelle. I can’t tell you if he hates trans people. But to me, that doesn’t matter. You don’t have to hate someone to hurt them. You can simply be indifferent to them, simply not care at all about what they think, and ignore them when they tell you your jokes will be weaponized.

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

“I don’t mind locking up kids and separating families and terrorizing immigrants and citizens alike while dropping bombs on girls’ schools and driving up the price of oil BUT GODDAMMIT YOU TOOK ALL MY FREE LABOR!!!” Yeah, fuck this guy.

Devastated to hear the entire Marvel Studios’s Visual Development team has been let go. This was my old home but more importantly, the home of so many incredible artists and peers. Absolutely heartbreaking 😔 Sending all my impacted peers my love and support. Please reach out if you need anything!

he showed up to a mostly empty auditorium, got heckled by anti war protesters opposing the war he just humiliatingly failed to negotiate an end to, erika kirk stood him up, and he tried to explain catholicism to the pope. the only way he could’ve had a worse time is if he pissed his pants up there.

part of the reason people don’t believe this is a real problem is because every republican admin spends like a drunk sailor and every dem admin gets asked why they’re not paying for it, which is another reason to imprison every trump appointee

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Should be part of his next test.

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?

This is a lie. I included Trump‘s post and the picture in my newsletter last night (scroll down), before he deleted it. Judge for yourself; you can’t miss the portrayal of him as devine. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

The fact that this is being authorized without the ability to audit the tech or verified studies documenting error rate is.... not good

Why don't reporters carry copies of documents, then hand them to politicians who claim they haven't seen them?

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

On the blog today, @espinsegall.bsky.social touts a new book on money, politics, and speech edited by Geoffrey Stone & Lee Bollinger, highlighting 5 key points in an essay by Erwin Chemerinsky et fils. Taken together, they comprise a devastating case against SCOTUS campaign finance doctrine. 👇

analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

Trump: Pope Leo is terrible at MMA fighting

Rather than treat Trump’s comments about Pope Leo as deranged, embarrassing and offensive to (many) Catholics, early headlines (and stories) paint it as Trump just bashing back against a political opponent. Truly broken media environment.

Deranged anti-Pope Leo screed from the current president of the U.S.