I'm very sorry to tell you that Dr. Ellen LeMosy passed away after a short illness this past Thursday.

This is her sister. Ellen will be sorely missed.

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

The mission, is it accomplished yet?

NASA employee: oh hey you guys are back early.
Astronaut: *grabs plunger, gets back on rocketship*

House Hesitates To Pass New DHS Bill Despite Agreement

A day after Mike Johnson and John Thune put out a joint statement declaring a "deal" to fund DHS, the Senate voted early today to pass its bill to reopen DHS and House Republicans... chose not to vote on it.

DHS shutdown continues! www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

screenshot of a three-paragraph excerpt from the end of the linked article, with the second paragraph highlighted in green. excerpt reads as follows: Sotomayor also pressed Sauer about the implications of the administration’s theory, and if ruling for Trump in this case would replicate the harms of U.S. v. Singh Thind, a 1923 decision involving an Indian immigrant who served in the U.S. Army and later became a naturalized citizen. There, the Court ruled that only “free white persons” were eligible for naturalization, and revoked Thind’s citizenship. The federal government then embarked on a denaturalization campaign, and dozens of Indian Americans lost their U.S. citizenship. “There would be nothing limiting that, according to your theory,” said Sotomayor. Sauer insisted that the Trump administration is only asking for prospective relief, as the executive order is not retroactive. But that answers a different question than the one that Sotomayor asked: Whether the administration is seeking to strip people of their citizenship right now is distinct from whether its theory would empower it to do so in the future. The possible harm Sotomayor was wary of gets to the heart of why the birthright citizenship provision exists, and why Trump’s executive order is both legally and morally repugnant. Congress adopted the Fourteenth Amendment to ensure that the Constitution would no longer tolerate a racial caste system, and that bigoted politicians could not arbitrarily exclude people born in America from equal membership in American society. Accepting Trump’s view of birthright citizenship would shatter both multiracial democracy and the constitutional tool used to forge it.

while I think folks generally understand how Trump's birthright citizenship order threatens a ton of newborns now, I don't think it's fully appreciated how it also threatens everyone

bc if he can arbitrarily revoke citizenship from them, why not from you?

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

The Opening of Trump’s Box - The American Prospect Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy.

"at $2 million a pop, that comes out to about $100 billion in revenue for Iran—more than one-quarter of Iran’s nominal GDP, and nearly twice the country’s annual budget. Unlike the U.S., these tariffs really can fund the country." prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

The Women Who Believe Women Should Lose the Right to Vote

The Women Who Believe Women Should Lose the Right to Vote www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

When I was living in Russia, I of course could never fully understand the cynicism and contempt people had for their leadership. But I witnessed it, and talked with people about it, and felt it at an angle as I lived among them, and holy shit is it all rushing back to me right now.

All data in this work are beautiful – look at this 3-day timelapse of in vivo myelination along a zebrafish axon!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

You know you've made some peak new tech when you have the exact same fine print disclaimers as Miss Cleo.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Oh for fucks sake.

What in the actual fuck was that

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations.

A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes.

We are completely lost.

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

watch for whichever bet spikes five minutes before the speech actually starts (which will be well after 9PM EST) to learn which of the viziers won out

DUAL NATIONALITY AND ELECTION RICHARD W. FLOURNOY, JR. (1921)

Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:

Maxwell: Florida scrub-jay may lose protected status if aspiring homebuilder gets his way If you live in Florida long enough, you learn that two kinds of people move here. One comes to Florida, appreciating what the state has to offer. The other moves in and immediately starts trying to ch...

"A young tech entrepreneur who recently moved to Florida got upset when he ran into obstacles while trying to build a house on the habitat for the endangered Florida scrub-jay.

So he filed a lawsuit attempting to strip the bird of its federal protection."

Minneapolis Wedge Cat Tour: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Passover, a Moon mission, birthright citizenship arguments, a presidential address on ?!, and April Fools is all a bit much for one day

Praying for Terrible White Christians to Get Tired As someone who grew up in the Church and who spent three decades ministering within it, there’s something particularly distressing about the expansive hellscape we’re all stuck in right now: it’s all ...

As someone who grew up and ministered in the Church, there’s something particularly distressing about the expansive hellscape we’re all stuck in right now: it’s all because of white, professed Christians who are committed to being terrible...

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/praying-fo...

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Opinion | The Birthright Con

“Their vision of citizenship…would bring Dred Scott back from the dead. And it would do this in support of a political agenda that seeks nothing less than the reconstruction of race hierarchy & the rank domination of despised minorities.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

@jamellebouie.net is right.

Boy, it sure seems like spending trillions to wedge a product into every aspect of life while bragging about how it will make all white collar jobs and creative endeavors obsolete might have backfired

Someone could ask me to compile a list of Jews at my job, in my school, on my block.

I'd laugh in their faces.

It's time for civil disobedience. I know people need jobs. But, if someone asks what your job is, are you gonna say: "I make the lists of Jews [fill in the blank] to send to the govt"?