Oh genuinely this photo of Artemis II is just so good.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Beijing watching a completely mentally unstable U.S. President reorient all U.S. foreign policy to coerce Brussels:

Space sector eyes further investment growth in 2026 after record year reut.rs/3LHjFpp

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

I keep seeing this paragraph shared and I'm curious what the actual sources for these claims are--there are no links or names

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

fun tidbit from today's Artemis II presser: Astronauts on the mission may have the opportunity to see parts of the Moon that humans have never laid eyes on before, according to Jacob Bleacher, who leads the mission's scientific efforts.

🏜️My first feature for @sfgate.com, and such an important story. For decades, the inventory & monitoring program has ensured that parks are being managed based on the best available science. Now, that effort is being threatened.

Congress has passed the minibus spending bill for NASA, which would reject most of the proposed budget cuts for the agency www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Statement on the passage of HR 6938, which includes funding for NASA in FY 2026: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Artemis II rocket revealed and ready for its ride out to the pad!

NEW >> The Defense Department said it plans to overhaul Stars and Stripes, the storied military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence, to rid it of “woke distractions” and refocus coverage on “warfighting.” w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Also new in v1.114 today: cashtags! Like hashtags, but for stocks. Tag your posts with #$AAPL, #$NVDA, whatever, then tap to see everyone else's equally unqualified analysis!

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

I knew immediately that I wanted to talk to @jaspercwang.bsky.social for my first episode of The Kicker — no one is smarter about the promises *or* the challenges of worker-owned media. I'm really excited to start my era of the podcast here!

me rn

👉🏼 www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

White settlers taking native Americans hostage in order to force an immigration agreement with the tribe, in the literal year 2026

it's the big day

Interesting anecdote arguing AI is more likely to compete with offshore workers in the short-term given its current level of effectiveness. Beige Book, Jan 2026, Philly Fed

The US Dept of Energy, in re its announced plan to develop on the lunar surface, posts an image seeming to identify itself with the supervillain of a children’s movie who plots to steal the moon.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

"BlackRock, Fidelity Management ..., and Baron Capital declined to comment. A spokesperson for Morgan Stanley initially told us that she could find no documentation that the company is a major investor in xAI. After we sent a public announcement ... the spokesperson did not answer our questions. "

mark zuckerberg is visited by the ghost of Meta Reality Labs layoffs and restructurings past

the funniest thing is that this guy is using the BoomerVision big text in public and expecting no one, much less a reporter, will read them? www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/01...

They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.

Breaking News: Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the wife of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent. The Justice Department sought to examine her supposed ties to activist groups.

a key part of modern parenting is going to be teaching your kids to self-police their parasocial relationships

In San Francisco, the "progressive" view is that there should be more cars and fewer parks 🙃

If I had to predict what the future of the AI labs are, I would say XAI and OAI wind up roadkill, Anthropic becomes a premium-priced B2B SAAS company, Google wins consumers via the ad cross-subsidy, and Meta/Chinese open source models monopolize “specialized use cases” ie goonbots

the funniest graph in the Weiss piece: look, I booked America's media gadflies, who else could do that?

Rick Pazdur, very briefly and until recently the FDA's top drug regulator, rang the alarm about political influence at the agency at a @statnews.com event. At the end, he quipped: "I hope the IRS doesn’t come and audit me now.” www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/r...

The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...

This is the exact quote I have been searching for with regard to what is happening with science

inject it into my veins

This is the account of the French Foreign Ministry

Wrote about how the Grok scandal upended our notion that platforms would do even the bare minimum to prevent attacks against their own user base www.platformer.news/grock-blocke...

counting down until I hear @julienlaurens.bsky.social talk about this PSG loss to Paris FC

one of the things running beneath the surface of all the defense procurement shenanigans is DoD realizing they spent thirty years deferring maintenance on the nuclear delivery methods and now they've got two megabillion can't-fail programs in sentinel and columbia and it's eating the whole budget

Capital controls already

cleansing the feed with this cool archaeology story that might explain a myth about a French city lost to the seas bigthink.com/strange-maps...

truly an insane sum

Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016

Betterment was hacked and users' personal data compromised, but you might not know it because the company hid its data breach notice with a "noindex" tag in its web page source code. This tells search engines to ignore the page so people won't see it in search results. techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/f...

Two new preprints on the efx of GLP-1s just dropped. They use different samples, data, & designs. But they come to the same conclusion on one point: GLP-1s do not generate meaningful short- to medium-run reductions in non-GLP-1 medical spending, despite clear health benefits.

For @the-ringer.bsky.social I wrote about the extraordinary American life (and sure to be afterlife) of Bob Weir. www.theringer.com/2026/01/12/m...