I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch:

This is Victor. We are going for our families.
This is Christina. We are going for our teammates.
This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

Top headlines: Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash. Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

If you aren’t watching The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, you ought to so they’ll make another season

Vince and Landry from the East Dillon Lions in Friday Night Lights

Screenshot of an email ad that says "Fri. March 13 - Sunday March 15" on one line and "One Day Sale" on the next line

which part of this am i not understanding

The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics.

We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump

NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted.

I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.

what is the transfer penalty for public transit rides?

if anybody knows a teen boy who works out can you please ask him why they're all dressing like steve jobs in the weight room these days

'The Epstein scandal is astonishing by the scale of the complicity and rape culture at the top of society' The philosopher Marc Crépon, who specializes in the forms and effects of violence, analyzes the public response to the sex scandal in an interview with Le Monde. He warns against the risk of disregard...

"...the risk in this kind of sexual scandal is to lose sight of the nature of the acts in question, which I call the "derealization of evil," meaning a lack of consideration for the suffering and trauma of the victims. We no longer perceive evil as it is."

something i'd like to see in the next season of "strip law" is a throwaway joke about isaac chotiner. i feel like the audience would really appreciate that

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

NEW: You now have free unlimited access to @nytimes.com online at all NYPL branches, with no library card or login required. Just connect your device to library WiFi or use one of their computers. Includes news, games, cooking, The Athletic, Wirecutter etc.

One more reason to love our libraries!

In a screengrab from a video, Alex Jeffrey Pretti is seen holding a phone as agents approach him. A headline reads: "How Federal Agents Shot And Killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Moment by Moment." Credit: dangjessie, via Instagram

Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The People vs. ICE Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.

I wrote about Minneapolis.

nymag.com/intelligence...

Yes! The truth is the truth; it is not, in fact, sensitive to the positions people take on it.

Arnold Palmer: get me a refreshing drink Bartender: try this, its lemonade and iced tea Palmer: Mm..its good..I just invented it

Who can ever forget this banger. We lost a real one.

i think you mean @symonedsanders.bsky.social

New York’s BQE Is Falling Apart. The City Can’t Agree on How to Fix It. (Gift Article) The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.

The standoff over the B.Q.E. has become, more broadly, a symbol of the power that local communities wield over critical infrastructure projects around the nation.

sometimes you question whether your kids are listening to you at all and then other times you catch your three-year-old muttering to herself "these are really chic" while putting on her new shiny little mary janes

settled down intending to crack open a novel tonight but there are simply too many takes to fav

How Trump Leans on Emergency Declarations to Bypass Congress and Skirt Regulations (Gift Article) The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.

10 emergency declarations
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33 executive orders
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Hundreds of actions
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Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

A solution to the child care shortage is hiding in plain sight “Looking only at one half of the population is a mistake.”

New: I wrote about the shortage of men in the child care industry—and what it would take to change that.

I was glad to spend time with some of the talented men who have chosen this career path, despite the stigma and bias they sometimes face

vox.com/child-care/4...

banks and atms are not functional either, so to get the physical cash to use at the markets, gazans have to pay 50 percent commissions on the black market

with aid increasingly difficult and dangerous to obtain, some basic items are available to buy in gaza, but at unfathomably expensive prices. a bag of flour that cost $10 before the war is $300 now; a pack of diapers that would cost $5 in the u.s. is $150 in gaza. (gift link)