Props to the NY Times editor and reporter who refused to sanewash this www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Your Guide to NASA's Budget How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.

NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...

The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.

NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

More Americans breathing unhealthy air, new American Lung Association report finds The American Lung Association's 2026 "State of the Air" report finds that more than 129 million people live in counties with failing grades for ozone pollution.

Nearly half of Americans -- 152.3 million people -- now live in places with unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution (PM2.5), two of the most dangerous air pollutants.
abcnews.com/Health/ameri...

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

We could just ... not let them do this.

HUNGARY’S OUTGOING GOVERNMENT ‘SHREDDING EVERYTHING’

The foreign minister literally locked himself in the building with his flunkies and they spent days shredding state papers to hide their guilty relationships with Moscow.
Orban seems to have gone into hiding and a massive cover up is underway

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.

Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.

You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

Former NASA astronauts launch new group to promote U.S. constitutional values More than 100 NASA astronauts have signed on to a nonpartisan effort to promote “the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years”

"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

And as imperfect and laughable as we are, the concept of dust coalescing into a form that could develop a rough understanding of that history mind blowing and should be celebrated all the time.

A photo of Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II.

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe.

Happy Earth Day.

The Scandalous Past of the San Patrignano Model of Addiction Treatment The Pulitzer Center's support for this reporting was made possible through the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Paolo Severi's mind keeps replaying what happened three decades ago when he entered...

Thanks. I guess he's referring to this one. pulitzercenter.org/stories/scan...

The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It

warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/...

“We will lose a prolonged war because we’ll run out of munitions.” — @RepTedLieu

In ~6 weeks:
- 50% of our THAAD interceptor missiles,
- 50% of our Patriot missiles
- 30% of our Tomahawks gone.

We’re firing $4M missiles at $30K drones — like shooting Ferraris at Frisbees. That math doesn’t 1/

The acting head of the CDC has canceled publication of a study showing the Covid vaccine sharply cut hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter.

How strong can a hurricane get in a warming world? » Yale Climate Connections In the Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean, hurricanes with 224 mph (100 m/s) winds are possible. Warming the oceans will increase this maximum potential intensity, with potentially devastating effec...

In my latest installment in an ongoing series on climate change and hurricanes, I look at how strong a hurricane can get. In the Persian Gulf, where SSTs get to 95°F, a 300 mph hurricane is possible.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/how-...

I live in Seattle I applaud our state for doing the right thing despite all the Zionist propaganda and opposition against it! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍💙🇺🇸

BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated?

RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number

BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy

RFK Jr: *death growls*

BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?

Beating the rest of the world in the second supersonic race, North Carolina-based Boom Supersonic is set to begin rolling out America’s Concorde successor within the next two years - Luxurylaunches

I see so someone saw it on Fox and wanted to give a boost. New engine, new fuel, new assembly line. What's to stress about?

North Carolina-based Boom Supersonic is set to begin rolling out America’s Concorde successor within the next two years - Luxurylaunches share.google/SWCxFkqVl7hp...

Pingree, Massie Team Up to Strip Big Chemical Immunity from Farm Bill

🚨NEWS🚨

Rep. Massie and I just introduced a bipartisan amendment to strip the pesticide liability shield from the Farm Bill.

If a company’s product makes people sick, it should be held accountable. If states and communities want to create stronger protections, they should have every right to do so.

Boom Overture - Wikipedia

I guess the reference is to Boom. Looks like current target is 4 years away, and many unknowns, is that the cusp? Also they are planning to build 1000 50-seat aircraft by 2035. I guess many folks will pay 5K. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Ov...

For a split sec I was like "why are those people in a bordello"

Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.

a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red

A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes

Right: How Mississippi actually votes

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

And fwiw the same guy holds a ton of sports in his portfolio. MLS, NHL

I think it was just an SMO to collect territory that was rightfully theirs /sarcasm. Dunno why the League of Nations got so worked up about it.

sad that I understand this reference

In the earliest days of T, I was like cool, US is going to lead the world, again, this time out of this fossil fuel addiction, and maybe slow CO2 rates. The Fremont assembly line was just 6 years ago (I recall from the "pandemics are dumb" episode). Now I just don't see how we could catch up.

We could have nice things and clean cheap energy too ... if we weren't governed by idiots.

hard to weight 40M viewers of LGBTQ+ friendly acts, and atmosphere, vs impact of boycott. His vast holdings in other sectors, probably outweighs potential boycott impact. I do wonder whether he has considered putting out an explicitly supportive statement. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_...

Of course, folks should act on their beliefs. That said, this is just conservative Christianity, and imo expectable. I also note the 100M$ gift for medical center in Col, 1M$ gift to Elton John Aids fund, the pro-choice statement after Dobbs. I'm looking at 40M+ unique viewer of the livestream,