A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage.

Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video.

This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide.

A gorgeous picture of our home from #ArtemisII!

However, it also highlights that space imagery is often edited to accentuate certain features.

The original photo is probably more representative of the moonlit surface of Earth, and is beautiful in its own right. 🧪🔭☀️🌍🚀🌕

www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

Ad lunam.

"Humanity's next great voyage begins" #Artemis

Just a reminder that Trump unilaterally deciding to give TSA money is a fundamental crime against the constitutional order but I guess we're too overstimulated to care

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies:
a) Ever;
b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East

FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e...

In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Comic: Timeline of Inflation. [Timeline of age of the universe (seconds) starting at 10^-40 with a block labeled “cosmic”, increasing to 10^20 with a narrow block labeled “regular”]

Inflation Timeline

xkcd.com/3223/

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape.

What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

Shatner, or his social media manager ^^

But still, basic principles like “[Something] is different for everyone” and "Societal norms change over time" are so BASIC. I had already instilled them in my sons by the time they were 5. How out of touch some people are. Their dad’s disastrous parenting.

They should impeach him for just saying this. But they won’t because the Republicans no longer believe in the Constitution.

Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War. The president told his White House team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait, the world’s most vital shipping lane.

Could be reasons that the U.S. Constitution does not leave decisions to go to war to the whims of one man.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

A cartoon of four images, representing a pre-sleep dialogue between a girl and her brain. Brain: “Did you enjoy that non-fiction history book?” Girl: “Yes, Brain. It was well written. It was a good story. Why?” Brain: “Did you notice it had a vague bibliography and NO referencing?” Girl: (says nothing, eyes open wide, all hope of sleep gone)

Reworked this old favourite, chiefly for amusement of sad people like myself - credit owed to the original author except I don’t remember their name and not even sure I ever knew it.

Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.

Trump Surprised To Find He's At War in Iran Once his not-even-half-baked plan failed to materialize in Iran, it’s clear that there’s no Plan B.

Donald Trump is surprised at how poorly the Iran War is going — but the news media is covering all of this uncertainty and sham-handedness as if it’s all part and parcel of a normal conflict. Every article needs to start leading with: Trump is lost at sea.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.

Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

Trump will have a plan to reconstruct a lot of his tariffs after this SCOTUS ruling through a combination of other legal authorities (232, 301, 122). But those authorities are more narrow and process-intensive, so he has lost the ability to just rapidly slap tariffs on any country on a day's notice

Secretly rewriting rules is not how the nuclear industry builds trust. Allowing microreactor developers to employ a move fast and break things ethos is not good for anyone except their investors short term pocketbooks. Not good for the environment, the public, even the nuclear industry

Sounds like 19th Century China.

We ALREADY have all the military access we want, if we just ask nicely.

RIP to an Order that was never fully Liberal, never fully International, and never fully Orderly.

1) Trump announces tariffs.

2) Countries offer something that basically already existed but that Trump is too stupid to understand.

3) Trump declares victory and cancels tariffs.

4) Trump’s sycophants tell him what a big boy he is.

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

1. He wants to
2. It’s plausible he’ll try
3. His people would support it
4. But it’s vastly harder and more complicated than people are suggesting and can’t be done by his fiat

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now

Trump Battleship Will be Largest Surface Combatant Since WWII - USNI News The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of th...

USNI out with some actual details. Contrary to what I think Trump promised (I might be wrong?), USNI citing Navy says construction to begin in 2030, not ships in the water in 2028.

>30 knots and power for railguns and lasers, but gas turbines not nuclear powered

news.usni.org/2025/12/22/t...

John Phelan just re-nuclearized the surface navy by saying the Trump class will carry nukes

That's utterly bonkers.

We have to be committed to a total rebuilding of our government when these ghouls are out of power. We can build agencies and institutions fitted for a new century of progress.

For inspiration, read @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.