Going to get some great images from NASA in the coming days. Here’s a couple of post-splashdown snaps of actual heroes.

What if all the richest people in the world were reading sweeping social novels of the late 19th/early 20th century instead of Tolkien

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Just gorgeous images to look at on the NASA Johnson Flickr this morning www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Kelsey Rexroat investigates the super-readers who log hundreds of books a year.

The Endangered Species Act is US law. They've convened a group of people to determine when to break the law.

me: but how can you be angry when you have such fancy pants hawk: I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR not sure if this is my #bestofthemonth for #birdoftheday, but I haven't been posting, so we'll go with it Cooper's Hawk, having a moment March 25, 2026 #birdphotography #wildlife #eastcoastkin #naturephotography

Tiny, raucous monk parakeets from South America thrive in Chicago. @adrianaperez.bsky.social explains why www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/02/m...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West. I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down. I'd welcome help building a strong application. Thank you 💙🙏

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

The bookcases need a bit of touching up and then I can start filling them with books.

North Carolina elections officials used to avoid participating in partisan campaigns. No more: Republicans who run the elections process are out stumping for party peers, including state auditor David Boliek, who now appoints elections board members. ncnewsline.com/2026/02/25/n...

Here is Hillary Clinton’s opening statement to House Oversight on Epstein. Clinton says she does not recall ever encountering Epstein and says she knew nothing about his crimes. She also says that Trump should testify under oath and criticizes the committee for not holding any public hearings.

From this article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-wh...

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Good Evening✨ Charles Bridge, Prague

Has anyone had success removing matts from a feral kitten's fur? I had a long-haired 6 month old spayed yesterday & I really don't want to release her with these matts. Vet won't do it w/o a full blood panel.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

OMG: “The healthy baby boy was born through natural birth early Monday at 1:38 a.m., standing at birth at 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 139 pounds… While it was a natural birth, zoo staffers were on hand and created a soft-landing area to cushion the calf’s 6-foot drop during delivery.”

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

The Books section—with Becca Rothfeld, Ron Charles, Michael Dirda—is one place where the Washington Post is definitively better than the Times. So they're getting rid of it

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

college should be free, and the pursuit of education simply for the sake of learning and exploring and expanding your world view should be encouraged and respected.

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

George Saunders tells @janeciab.bsky.social about writing Vigil and developing his own take on the afterlife.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Never underestimate the capacity of evil people to lie. If you *accept* the lie, you endorse the evil.

Alex Pretti was the best of us.

One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition. RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.

We’re gonna need a bigger Hague. digbysblog.net/2026/01/23/d...

Washington Post weighs in on Trump’s planned sale/demolition of the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump

This post by @pkrugman.bsky.social on "Sundowning" is worth reading. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow... Agree with this conclusion:

In a remarkable court filing, DOJ also revealed that DOGE employees traded Social Security data on an unapproved third party server — Cloudflare — and may have sent private SSA info to a top DOGE adviser. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...