#IranAttack #StraitOfHormuz #FrankDrebin #TheNakedGun

If they’re going to allow CAROM, then they should allow BIDON, ETAPE, & ENDER

#TdF #LeTour #Wordle #Wordle1756 #cycling

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

Times are CDT (UTC-5)
6:33 PM - CM (w/ astronauts) separates from SM
6:53 PM - CM enters upper atmosphere and hot plasma prevents communication
6:59 PM - CM communication resumes
7:03 PM - Drogue (Small) parachutes deploy
7:04 PM - Main (Large) parachutes deploy
7:07 PM - Splashdown

#ArtemisII

If the cap fits: why Nato but not Bbc? Barely a week goes by without at least one BBC News website reader asking why acronyms are in lower case.

In case you’re wondering why the Bbc doesn’t follow the OED, the Cambridge English Dictionary, and NASA’s own guidelines on the name of NASA:

#CopyEditing

“Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them! “We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people. Indifferent to the repercussions of hatred and division that conflicts sow. Indifferent to the economic and social consequences they produce, which we all feel.” — POPE LEO XIV

Every Tomahawk Cruise Missile costs you $3.M. You. It costs you. Our war plan is so poorly conceived that in addition to killing Iranian school girls with them we’re using them to shoot down $20,000 drones because our leadership isn’t just immoral it’s incompetent.

Trump called me a "really bad person." A "radical." An "election stealing lawyer."

I wear his scorn as a badge of honor.

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Who was grandfather? I’d ask my older brother. What was he like?

A screenshot showing the temperature has 96°F

The temp is dropping to about 40°F by morning, after reaching 97°F this afternoon. I don’t ever remember a 57°F drop within 24 hours. Now, at about 7 PM it’s 73°F.

#TXwx #ATXwx #WX #ATX #SXSW

“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” — Mark Twain, abt. 1899, from The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance

#war #IranAttack #SWANA

Image of Pete Hegseth looking scary. White and yellow text reads, "DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SPENDS largest single-month AMOUNT ever recorded by a federal agency...BUT ARGUES THAT HEALTH CARE FOR TRANS TROOPS IS TOO EXPENSIVE." HRC logo appears.

The math is simply not adding up.

This is your daily reminder that health care is a HUMAN RIGHT.

Photograph of clouds against overcast sky around dusk

Dusk.

#photography

In blow to Trump DOJ, judge disqualifies ‘triumvirate’ leading U.S. attorney’s office in NJ The judge said the DOJ's defense of the triad was an "enormous assertion of Presidential power."

🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi violated federal law when she replaced Alina Habba, the former interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, with a “triumvirate” of attorneys, a federal judge ruled Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Administration Says War in Iran Could End Soon or Quickly Escalate Into Biden’s Fault

I like to explain the meaning of “didactic” to people.

Total lunar eclipse peaks at about 5 AM CST Tuesday morning.

#astronomy #photography

In latest voting lie, Trump says Dem voters get ‘seven ballots’ as he pushes mail voting ban As is typical, Trump provided no credible evidence that any voters routinely receive multiple ballots.

NEW: President Donald Trump repeated false claims that Democrats “cheated” in the last election and escalated his push for national anti-voting policies, including a ban on mail-in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.” — abolitionist Theodore Parker, 1853

Border wall plans now set to include Big Bend National Park The Trump administration’s “Smart Wall” plan was expanded in recent days to include the potential for border wall building within Big Bend National Park, according to a map of border projects from U.S...

#conservation #NationalParks #BorderWall

States That Offer Free Tuition for Senior Citizens | BestColleges.com Explore which states offer free college tuition for seniors and learn about program eligibility requirements, limits, and conditions.

#TIL that many state universities and colleges offer coursework tuition exemptions for senior-citizen residents for free or at very nominal cost. Expect limitations for credit hours, availability, priority to full-tuition students, and additional course fees.

#HigherEducation #SeniorDiscounts

King Charles I was subsequently the first reigning British monarch lawfully tried and executed

#photography #ATX

The FAA has announced a strict no-party-balloon zone around US airports.

#ElPasoAirport

Winter dusk

#photography

A “violet crown” dusk

#photography