Shabbat shalom. Sending a little extra light your way.

Shoutout to the Mets for this 📸 @mets.com

"So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that a further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells." - Seamus Heaney

When #NASA Astronaut Scott Carpenter had safely been recovered after his orbital flight in May 1962, JFK received this note during a meeting letting him know that he was safe.

Everyone just exhaled, right?

I've been through them all. The waiting IS the hardest part (for us)

Are you in southern California or Baja? Let the USGS know if you felt the sonic boom from the Artemis re-entry! DYFI link: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Meanwhile on the water www.flickr.com/photos/nasah... #Artemis 🔭🧪

Okay, but the view out the window of Integrity, with the Earth the way we're used to seeing it in photos from the ISS, is pretty awesome, because earlier today, it was still a sphere

baked during approach

Where are you watching #ArtemisII splashdown? I'm bopping between the garden and the kitchen.

In the ten minutes since that post, the Artemis II crew has accelerated to 3,500 metres per second. They will continue to get ever faster until atmospheric entry interface.

Working on it! Sorry—I know how frustrating it is

The wide range of responses to this post make me realize a) you just cannot generalize from your own youth and b) both my parents were the first in their families to go to college, and both went to local city colleges, so it never *occurred* to them to do this. Fascinating.

FOIA scoop (no paywall): The day Renee Good was killed, a Minnesota state police official repeatedly texted a FBI agent. He wanted to co-manage the crime scene & ensure his agents were included in interviews. For at least 2 days, maybe longer, the FBI didn't respond: www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

Want to learn more about Hummingbirds? Free Zoom class 1 pm Saturday, April 11th Missouri Conservation online event Magical Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds Register mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD... The native Columbine & Honeysuckle are blooming in Missouri. Time to put up feeders!

SOME NEWS: Joe Buck says he wants to remain at ESPN for the rest of his career. His ESPN contract expires at the end of this NFL season. Story for Sports Business Journal: www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

The Nazis couldn’t kill Thomas E. Gwynn — though he earned a dozen Purple Hearts fighting them. But no one lives forever. Gwynn died Monday, just two months from turning 107. Read about his life & legacy: www.stripes.com/veterans/202... #Flashes

Honored to participate in two days of panel discussions on journalism ethics in the modern age, organized by the Society of Professional Journalists. My panel, asking why should we even bother updating the SPJ Ethics code, is at 7 p.m. April 29. SIGNUP for the ZOOM HERE: loom.ly/AKFoiTM

very interesting effort ... 🧵

After generous winter rains, the land surrounding the Getty Villa is green and thriving, attesting to the quick resilience of Mother Nature after the Palisades Fire. How does a museum prepare to prevent future disasters? Find out: https://gty.art/48ntocs

in a wild ass reminder we live in texas, my kid can’t pick “queer representation in media” as an informative speech option because you can’t talk to people under 18 about sexual orientation in a public school environment?

It's Las Vegas and there has not been water available to fans since the end of the second period. (They just started period 5...)

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Breaking Passover on Route 66

I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process. Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

ICYMI: I made an interactive map for yall to explore all the cherry blossom, magnolia and crabapple hotspots across NYC! 🌸 with @lillysabs.bsky.social! bonus: there's also a tool in here to search how your neighborhood ranks in terms of flowering tree density www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

LIVE 🔴 The Masters Day One: Back-to-back birdies has Rory McIlroy on early charge heading onto back nine at Augusta

The 166yo weekly Cameron Herald laid off its entire staff.

Sur le Pont d’Avignon On y danse, On y danse Sur le Pont d’Avignon On y danse tous en rond (I can’t be the only one …)

>>Our continued presence on other platforms like Facebook and TikTok is not an endorsement. We stay because the people there deserve access to info, too. We stay because the fewer steps between you and the resources you need to protect yourself, the better. <<

A handful of House Dems showed up for a pro forma session today, trying to get recognized to offer a 'war powers' resolution on the Iran war. Rep. Chris Smith R-NJ refused to recognize them and quickly gaveled the House out until next week.

#OTD in 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant, which means it’s time for a little Thurber: “If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox”

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Sur le Pont d’Avignon On y danse, On y danse Sur le Pont d’Avignon On y danse tous en rond (I can’t be the only one …)

One other thing: I didn’t understand before I got here how geographically proximate the murders of George Floyd, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti were. From my mom’s old house, it wasn’t more than 5 minutes between the memorials. Did some crying in public today.

Anyway please don't ever harass anyone on my account; if I publicly call out an account it's because I think that people should be aware of some context or issue with their content, not because I want them to be mass-lambasted. That stuff just kinda sucks all around.

>>Tell that to the troops stationed around Iran — go track down eight pages of your favorite comics elsewhere.<<

📣 Rescheduled Tonight's Sierra Club's meeting on Data Centers has been moved to April 22nd You don't have to choose between 5:30 pm Tonight, Wednesday, April 8th Anti-War Protest at Aloe Plaza, Downtown, St. Louis and data center meeting

There's a misunderstanding on what this #moleg bill is about. This is the nationwide fascist-leaning Constitutional Sheriff movement's constitutional amendment to enshrine sheriffs as top law enforcement official in county. And by that, they really mean top elected official, supreme leader shit.

Mark Evanier has had a large amount of original comics art stolen from his home; there's a list at this link. If you're involved in buying or selling art, please circulate it. www.newsfromme.com/2026/04/07/m...

Do not cross the picket line 💕

For its closing statement, the losing slate skipped a forum held by student journalists bsky.app/profile/stlp...

RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students. Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.

Sara Dillard, Jason Adams and Kevin McGuire are the projected winners of three seats on the Francis Howell School District Board of Education — marking a sweeping rebuttal of conservatives who dominated after the pandemic and protests for racial justice in 2020.

All four incumbent city council members that supported a $6 billion data center development Festus lost their seat to anti-data center opponents tonight. Story coming tomorrow. 📸: @brianmunoz.bsky.social

St. Charles County is about to reject a property tax freeze by a 60% to 40% margin. I'm not sure if it's safe to read into the results here, but St. Charles is a traditionally Republican place that's been growing like crazy. So the tax freeze failing miserably here probably makes you go 🤔