Wow.

Welcome home, Sweet Prince 🤍 – Imani has also returned to Montrose! 🤍⭐️

The boys are back in town. Let's go!!!

📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani and Pippin, Montrose Protected Beach, April 13, 2026)

Attention, laggard Chicagoans! If you have not yet made it to Jackson Park, the cherry blossoms are still doing their thing, but won't be for long.

RIP

People make fun of government agencies for still being on Flickr but photos produced by the government are copyright-free and I have yet to see a better photo-centric platform for delivering higher resolution photos that anyone can easily download.

Picture of the century. 😍

📷 credit: Science Tube

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.

One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

Forever doesn't allow him as many opportunities to manipulate the stock market.

[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

#Artemis II -

Todays ‘Earthrise’ image is reminiscent of a similar image taken in 1968 by astronaut Bill Anders of Apollo 8

Bill was 1 of 3 crew who became the first to leave low-Earth orbit and travel to the moon.

Pic 1 - Apollo 8 1968
Pic 2 - Artemis II 2026

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#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion

EARTHSET.
April 6, 2026.

Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon.

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During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.

A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's four main windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026.

Here's the full quality of Earth's picture taken from inside Integrity and Artemis II.

images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

April Foo !

Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.

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.

Color photo of CTA platform with sign for Harold Washington Library State/Van Buren. Below in Dearborn St. skyscraper canyon the No Kings protest, with people and signs as far as the eye can see.

This is Harold Washington Library State and Van Buren

Overhead of the #NoKings march in Chicago. Tens of thousands here

A black and white image featuring a concrete barrier with graffiti that reads "GENERAL STRIKE MAY 1st." The background includes a view of tall buildings and a bridge over water.

General Strike May 1st
#NK3 #Chicago #NoKings

Chicago is losing another iconic neon sign. blockclubchi.co/4rUO6HB

Good thread. Yeah, Maria Hadden's answer to that question was completely innocuous. Right-wing media is trying to spin it, and it's putting her in danger.

Fleet of robot delivery units

We caught them while they were having their secret robot meeting to take over our sidewalks

This is a story every American should know, and exactly the kind of story the current administration would literally ban the teaching of if they could. It cannot be reconciled with their view of America.

Reminder No Kings protest on March 28.

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Nice. What course?

A snowy owl in the Windy City. Filmed March 8, 2026, in Chicago.

"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

We should have a yearly parade to mark the day his name comes down. Make it a city holiday! Put another star on the flag.