An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

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NASA unveiled the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and said the agency is ready to launch in early September, eight months ahead of schedule. NASA Administrator, Jared Isaacman said, "Roman will investigate dark matter, dark energy and the structure of the universe itself."

My Artemis musings were smacked several times this week by killjoys and skeptics…Was determined not to let them take away from the wonder of this moment…Then I found this article. Now I’m a Liz Plank fan. And these are my people. open.substack.com/pub/lizplank...

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"

I gotta quote estar wars: "That’s how we’re gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love."

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

One thing that helps me a lot is thinking of my mind as a camera with a lens that can zoom WAY in or WAY out. Whenever you find yourself paralyzed by useless stress, zooming out toward the cosmic or in toward the infinitely moment-mindful is both healthy and wise. It's ALL reality.

I’m not kidding when I say I love a formal synthesis. This one is spot-on. Some of what’s happening is people are trying to have a historical gaze for events that are still happening. Is it definitionally authoritarian? Cannot know until bodies stop dropping. But you can know it feels authoritarian

Andrea Gibson. Poet. Powerhouse. Beacon of hope. Lover of life and the world. You will be missed forever 13/8/1975-14/7/2025

This is and will be the existential question of this time…How are we (Americans) losing to cruelty, stupidity, ineptness?…

I love this song. ❤️ youtu.be/fPr3yvkHYsE?...

My neighbor shared this poem her friend wrote. Paying it forward - jummyjeenz.com/2018/06/21/f...

We once lived in a world where Ella Fitzgerald and Karen Carpenter sang together. Happy Birthday my Ella.

This opinion piece exemplifies what means to hold space for complexity and nuance … A reminder to resist sloppy/undisciplined narratives. Especially in these strange times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

Way to adapt @merriam-webster.com!

Not a film nerd but this has me locked in.

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

I think we have to confront the fact that tens of millions of Americans have pledged slavish allegiance to a man who says explicitly that his benchmark for when America was great is 1913. And then we have to think about the possibility that we are in the throes of a nationwide mental health crisis.

Public progress and private prejudice. This conversation reminds me of Randall Kennedy’s critique — In our personal spheres we feel entitled to act on preference which often exposes the very racism/classism/elitism we claim to oppose publicly. open.spotify.com/episode/1rgE...

This is tragic. Anyone who was familiar with 18F knows those were some of the real heroes of government, who helped make government tech/digital services better for the public. They were doing real work that DOGE pretends to do, but is too ignorant to know how to do.

Many people used to like to say that “Twitter isn’t real life,” but now we have a federal government influenced in large part by people who spent the last decade as Twitter trolls. A few of us tried to warn that the online ops happening in plain sight needed to be taken far more seriously.

Done!

actual civic service

I would not accept this thoughtless/BS analysis from an intern, much less an “efficiency expert”. Are people really running with this?!

Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nice to see @petebuttigieg.bsky.social here!

the way the stadium was fucking silent for “the revolution will be televised, you picked the right time but the wrong guy” actual fucking goosebumps

I need him to do Not Like Us but regardless. Black excellence!

So there is a line???

I have this framed in my office. He’s one of the ‘Norfolk 17’ to segregate Norfolk schools in ‘59. A few miles away in Va Beach my parents went to a segregated school until they graduated in ‘68. Their first integrated experiences - work. My dad’s was 3 tours in Vietnam. #BlackHistoryMonth

"I need a love that is troubled by injustice … A love that has no tolerance for hate, no excuses for racist decisions, no contentment in the status quo. I need a love that is fierce in its resilience and sacrifice." - Austin Channing Brown Read more daily wisdom here:

Damn that was the longest January ever….let’s hope for a better February 👐 Happy Black History Month

Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

Happy Black History Month! 🙌🏾

LIBRARIES ARE ABOUT TO MATTER MORE NOW THAN EVER. Books are the windows to worlds unseen. Support them by: - Joining a Friends of the Library (annual donation) - Visiting and using their many wonderful resources - Hiring librarians (@mychal3ts.bsky.social is on the market!!)

Courtesy of The Tetra issue 1205 — Dream the world as it ought to be. Don't let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be. King Toni Morrison

JUST NOW: @aoc.bsky.social tells people to stick together and not underestimate what tech billionaires will do/suppress to “placate” Trump - pointing to the lack of coverage of Elon’s salute on major media outlets as an example. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFHHmP_...

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

Sometimes the activism starts at just being a good ass person.

I’m practicing stillness. (Not inaction!) Positioning my heart and mind on higher things. On the truth that doing the right thing matters. Stillness is flow, not force. Stillness is self preservation…. Be still, y’all.

This whole thread - but especially that last part. Stay genuine and always punch back.