Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA’s mobile launcher enters the Vehicle Assembly Building following its approximately 4-mile trek from Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, April 17, 2026, in preparation for Artemis III stacking operations. Description Credit: NASA

Following the successful #Artemis II launch on April 1, the 380-foot mobile launcher has returned to the VAB. Ground teams are now conducting the inspections and repairs necessary to prep for the Artemis III mission.

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Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

Seems not only a risk, but likely an illegal ask.

Straight up milking the market

Ahhh dignity. Must feel nice.

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

RFK Jr. grilled over dismantling public health policy in defiant hearing Democrats and even one Republican with an autistic son criticize Robert Kennedy’s messaging around vaccination and public health misinformation

Among many other heinous things he’s said, RFKJ said Black children with ADHD who are medicated should be taken away & “re-parented” all while insinuiating they’re violent because of this. 😒

How many insane tropes can this 🧠 🪱 bitch fit into a single sentence?

From this Black poster with ADHD, 🖕🖕🖕

This is a handy little website if you want to keep track of how things are going with science funding.

sciencespending.org#overview

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$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn b

While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits.

Yes, $30 million per HOUR.

All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.

As we sign off for the night, a friendly reminder that rest is not an earned luxury, it is necessary.

Wishing you all rest and rejuvenation.

Tomorrow we pick up the resistance where we left off. Goodnight y'all💤🛌✨

Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.

When I was in Iraq in 2005, I don't ever remember them suspending mail call, and we were on the ground in an active war zone...

Don't remember food shortages either...

The US-Israel war must be going *great*!

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A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.

Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Trump administration holds up NOAA grant funding The Trump administration is holding up some National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) grant funding. Earlier this month, the University of Colorado released a statement sayin…

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More fckery by Russell Vought refusing to execute the spending directive of Congress. #ImpeachVought

Rep. Balint: How is it that we can continue to spend money on foreign wars and yet we cannot find a solution to the fact that people can't afford healthcare?

Vought: This President has been a person who has campaigned and led for peace and against endless war.

Balint: Peace through war?

BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss?

VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden--

BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!

VOUGHT: This president has campaigned and led for peace, and against endless wars

BALINT: So it's peace through war? Is that where are right now? Peace through war?

America's right-wing in a single exchange. It's perfect.

WATCH: Protesters interrupt OMB Director Russell Vought's opening statement: "PEPFAR Saves Lives, Spend The Money!"

Under Vought's direction, the administration has withheld billions in congressionally appropriated funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

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Today at the @nihvigils.bsky.social they called Artemis II "competence porn". In a time when expertise is dismissed and frowned upon, a multinational coalition of experts and public servants, coming together over 10+ years showed what expertise and government alone can deliver.

We get it. Collective action is hard. Just look at Congress.

But it’s our best way out.

Let’s practice together May 1

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

Picture of the century. 😍

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“The Alarm Bell”: Arizona’s Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.

Arizona is finally winning…in the category of number of families going hungry thanks to MAGA.

Since July, more than 400,000 Arizonans have been kicked off of SNAP, the highest figure of all states, though others will soon follow. Stop voting for Republicans.

Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.

Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

SPLASHDOWN!!!

Three cheers for science, engineering, research, curiosity, cooperation.

Look what the fuck we can do when we ask big questions, work together, and fund our scientists.

Congratulations, NASA. Congratulations, humanity!

I know it’s crazy, but as an alternative, White House staffers could simply choose not to commit any crimes.

The alt text really is the best