Artemis II astronauts return from moon with a splashdown to close out a record-breaking lunar voyage The Artemis II astronauts are back on Earth. The three Americans and one Canadian have returned with a dramatic splashdown Friday evening, as their capsule parachuted into the Pacific to close out a nearly 10-day trip to the moon and back.

Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.

BREAKING: There it is. 2 week extension. TACO.

Astronauts Dedicate Moon Crater to Carroll Wiseman, Wife of NASA Commander

"It’s a bright spot on the moon,” CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen said, his voice breaking up, “and we would like to call it Carroll.”

The crew all shared a hug after.

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Shameful

Pete Hegseth Accused of Jaw-Dropping Act of Greed in Build-Up to War Hegseth’s broker reportedly sought to invest in specific companies on behalf of the defense secretary weeks before the war in Iran began.

A broker for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly sought to invest in major defense companies just weeks prior to the commencement of President Trump’s war in Iran, a new report has alleged.

I don't recognize the world we're living in right now.

Good times in Cary NC last night ( loudest “Little Phoenix” sing along of the tour!🐦‍🔥) Love to Mike & Amy &band for sharing the stage, to “Stormy” (Steve) on merch & to all of you for coming ❤️

Off to Richmond for tonight’s show & Rockville MD Sunday ‼️

#sirsy #sirsyband

OK, this is a good decision but suddenly I'm hungry for TACOs.

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Great summary @lindaholmes.bsky.social! Now I need to go stream all these great movies!

So scary, but so glad you are all OK. Healing energy being sent from Virginia.

Shit. Here we go. Protect our troops and get them out of there!

How dare her!! 🧐🤨

"When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

Read the full analysis.

No worries!

We certainly will! A musician/singer-songwriter we have gotten to know has sent in songs to Tiny Desk a bunch of times (8?) and gets nice responses but has never made the cut, so she asked the audience today if anyone knows someone at Tiny Desk. Not sure there's a close enough connection though.

@lindaholmes.bsky.social hi Linda! Do you do anything on the music side of NPR? I feel like you're more on the movie/tv, even book side of things? On another note, been meaning to go visit your folks one of these trips up 81 that we do a lot. Hope you are well!

Kansas Makes Trans People’s Driver’s Licenses Invalid Overnight Kansas is informing trans people that their driver’s licenses will soon be invalid.

Kansas Makes Trans People’s Driver’s Licenses Invalid Overnight newrepublic.com/post/207081/... via @newrepublic.com

Is this at the State of the Union Address?

Putin's Top Officials Laugh About How Dumb Trump Is Behind His Back They’re in hysterics over just how easily the MAGA leader buys into the Russian tyrant’s lies.

Vladimir Putin’s top aides are snickering behind Donald Trump’s back at how they say the Russian tyrant is playing the U.S. president like a fiddle.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits: paid for by cuts to reproductive health care paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid paid for by cuts to SNAP paid for by cuts to clean energy projects paid for by cuts to obesity prevention paid for by cuts to disaster response paid for by cuts to energy tax credits

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Asked about Ilhan Omar being accosted, Trump’s ugly response spoke volumes It would’ve been easy for the president to say, “No elected official should ever face violence, assaults or threats.” But Trump is who he appears to be.

“I’m trying to imagine what the reaction would be if two Republican members of Congress were assaulted over the course of five days, and a Democratic president made no effort to denounce the incidents and instead responded with ugly and conspiratorial nonsense.”
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Impeach Bondi (along with Noem, and well, really the Pres and his entire cabinet)!

I believe this is highly likely.

Someone willing to test it's validity if you take a sharpie and draw a tiny mustache on the face that is on the right of Washington?

Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.

"ICE has waged a recruitment drive drenched in war metaphors and martial imagery. The type of person sought...is someone with a fervor for guns and an eagerness to apply violence."

Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos:
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MAGA’s Lust for Fascism Trump’s ideologues want a smaller, meaner, whiter America.

"So MAGA does not want to make America great again. MAGA does not simply want to correct some of the excesses of modern America or the modern world. MAGA embraces what was most illiberal about the old order. Or to put it simply: It is fascism that they yearn for." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The sheer number of people that are gleeful and celebratory about a young woman being shot in the head is a demonstration of how a country could allow millions of people to be disappeared and slaughtered.

When we allow people to be dehumanized, we desensitize ourselves to their murder.