Goodnight everyone 💞. Dream of a better world ☮️. I know that's not easy right now. #Goodnighteveryone #KindnessMatters #WeMissYouRex #Dogsofbluesky #LoveYouRex #SweetDreamsSpike

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Every single bird is on that blue dot

Anecdotally, this is my experience with my Jewish students. The ones who might want to talk about real antisemitism on campus are being dissuaded by the fact that they do not want to feed the destruction of higher education as a whole, and now by the fear of ending up on the admin's Jew list.

"For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us." - Cmdr./Cpt. Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 🖖🏾

I am a citizen of 2 countries the governments of which are going out of their way to make life measurably worse for their own citizens & immeasurably worse for people under their thumbs, many of whom happen to also be citizens. This man's dedication to the people he represents makes me want to weep.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

The reaction of Dr Kelsey Young at the Science Desk was one of the best things in the feed but I'd also like to acknowledge the dude in the lower left corner of the control room view doing his own little dance of joy during Jeremy Hansen's discussion of his corona observations. #Artemis

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

I didn't know anything about the Artemis II astronauts a week ago and now I would fight my way into Hell for any of them.

What is the number of times that Israel can break a ceasefire before the Western media will call it "breaking a ceasefire."

I am not surprised by any of the kind of … poignancy a lot of people are finding in the Artemis II story. To me, it’s like talking to someone you love who you almost never get to see anymore. This is the kind of story I miss when every day makes me despair. How many more will we have?

Communications are back, with a crescent view of Earth about 252,000 miles away.

no they're not doing the whole solidarity thing to make political statements on the spaceship, they're doing it because they are as far away from home as any human has ever been in this history of our species and these are the only people they have, everything is not Content®

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

This damn near killed me. If you aren't paying attention to the Artemis II mission with at least a modicum of wonder, you're missing out.

I also think a lot of non-Jews overestimate the amount of time Jews spend thinking about them. You mainly come up when we’re worried about being terrorized or killed by you!

My dad told me that one of his first lessons in yeshiva was figuring out how someone knows when Shabbat starts if they’re in a room where they can’t see the sky and thus can’t see the first three stars. Lots of logic problems in Judaism.

There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope. indivisible.org/events/may-d...

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anyone attending the white house correspondents dinner is a fucking traitor

yet another reason to leave substack (before they make it even harder to leave):

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!

July 20, 1969, my dad kept us up to watch the lunar landing, and around 11pm CST, he took us outside so we could look up at the moon while he explained there were men walking around on it right that very second and how amazing an undertaking that was. And now I genuinely can't stop crying.

Any member of the House can force a vote on impeachment, but Jeffries as minority leader has the extra perk that he can force it immediately rather than within two days.

This is a textbook example of the dual loyalty trope, a form of antisemitism that has been used to marginalize Jewish communities for centuries.

On the theme of kids of astronauts, this is Maya Glover, the daughter of NASA astronaut Victor Glover and Dionna Glover. Maya is at Cal Poly doing architecture. From her Insta: mayalorinnn.

Donald Trump must be removed from office. Not only is he waging an illegal war—he’s threatening war crimes. To the members of our military: remember, you do not have to follow illegal orders.

As a former historian, I can't stress enough how important these clips are. Future generations will think we're exaggerating when we tell them how batshit crazy the Trump era was. Hang on to your receipts. It was immeasurably worse than the printed word can convey.

And if not a supervisor, a tell’er.

One correction to this piece that I just noticed and have to make. I have 274,000 newsletter subscribers *total.* A very small fraction of that number are paying ones. It is not the case that I have "274,000 subscribers who pay $50 per year," as the piece claims. 😅

"But in reality, when you actually watch [Trump's] rallies, you see that they’re full of hatred, he’s lying constantly, and a lot of it is incoherent.”

The sides-only leftover plate the day after a major holiday meal has to be one of the top five simple pleasures in life

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

Our sweet lad went on Easter vacation and this was the last post he left and I don’t even want him to see the news. I want him to be free.

And it was poison, too.

The Artemis II crew just named one of the moon's craters after crew commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll. A genuinely touching moment.

Why would he be concerned, given that he has never, in his ENTIRE life, been held accountable for any of the many other crimes he's committed.

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

“Fly me to the Moon, let me play among the stars” - - Frank Sinatra “I need to borrow your rocket, I ain’t telling you why” - Evasive Sinatra

Have your Members of Congress taken a *public* stand against authorizing more $ for Trump's war? A shocking number of Democrats haven't! Which means THEY'RE LAGGING BEHIND LAUREN BOEBERT In my case @duckworth.senate.gov has; @durbin.senate.gov & Rep Davis haven't Check here ⬇️ & call the laggards!

Have your Members of Congress taken a *public* stand against authorizing more $ for Trump's war? A shocking number of Democrats haven't! Which means THEY'RE LAGGING BEHIND LAUREN BOEBERT In my case @duckworth.senate.gov has; @durbin.senate.gov & Rep Davis haven't Check here ⬇️ & call the laggards!

The Mountain Goats also have a very jaunty version that is fun to break out the guitars to at a party. youtu.be/fmsCDVTvOcI?...

Shared this same post verbatim on YouTube and got what I think has to be my favorite comment of all time. I have to admit that I have been bested and I must concede that since the dawn of time millions, literally millions of people have been real at one point

Good morning everyone today is MOON DAY 🚀🌖🥰 #Artemis

Yeah yeah yeah Adam Lambert's great and whatever, but Carl Anderson. That's the argument. Carl Anderson.