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Republicans aren't running attack ads anymore. They're running AI psyops – and one Texas candidate might already have the playbook to punch back. I wrote about it for @BulwarkOnline.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Don’t ever wonder why women will pick the bear.

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This is such an interesting interview

The Rosetta stone of slang:

NASA just released this… and it’s hard to process. 🌍 The Moon in front. Earth in the distance. And Orion carrying humans between them.

Not real but it should be

I want to send JD Vance to I-35

Hungary's veteran nationalist leader Viktor Orban conceded defeat on April 12 after a landslide election victory by the upstart opposition Tisza party, in a setback for his allies in Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump's White House reut.rs/4msixUr

If they can automatically register people for the military draft they can automatically register people to vote.

Opinion | "If you think a quality public school system is costly, wait until you have to pay for a population ill-equipped and undereducated to hold down quality jobs and pay taxes," writes Ilona Thomson. houstonchronicle.com/opinion/letter…

If after last nights results you want to look at how state parties can overperform you should look at the Wisconsin/North Carolina, the wickler/clayton rebuild machines and the shared tactics they use to win hard races and reshape the battlefield

This may be the most majestic thing I’ve ever seen.

Humanity’s farthest-traveling explorers captured historic images of Earth from the far side of the moon Monday evening. Just before the Artemis II astronauts entered a planned 40-minute communications blackout as they flew behind the moon, they snapped images of “Earthset,” the setting of Earth behind the lunar surface. The image shows the planet's day side, with clouds hovering over Australia, while a darkened portion of the planet experiences nighttime. The image evoked memories of “Earthrise,” an image taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in late December 1968. The photo of Earth’s setting was taken at 6:41 p.m. EDT on Monday, according to NASA. Around 7 p.m. EDT, Orion made its closest approach to the moon, reaching approximately 4,067 miles above the lunar surface. The crew set a new record two minutes later, reaching the mission’s maximum distance of 252,756 miles from Earth. That’s a new record for human travel in space. The crew also witnessed a solar eclipse that lasted nearly an hour as the Orion spacecraft, moon and sun lined up to create the spectacle. The corona formed a halo of sorts around the moon during the nearly 54 minutes of totality that the astronauts watched using eclipse glasses. “It is so great to hear from Earth again,” Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch radioed back as the communications blackout ended. After the crew’s seven-hour lunar flyby finished, the crew received a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump. “I’ll ask for your autograph, because I don’t really ask for autographs much,” Trump said. “But you deserve that.”

Texas is home to the second-largest public school system in the U.S., with 5.5 million students, 9,113 schools, and 1,202 districts. And now, for the first time, all of that data is in one place, easy to find and easy to understand. We've partnered with The @TexasTribune on the updated Texas Public School Explorer, which gives parents, educators, community members, and policymakers the clearest view yet of how Texas public schools are performing, who they serve, and how they're funded. Search your school or district to explore enrollment trends, demographics, teacher experience, pay, and outcomes: schools.texastribune.org #TxEd #TexasPublicSchoolExplorer #TexasPublicSchools #TexasISD

Vance's charisma may carry Péter Magyar to victory

Tucker Carlson: "It is vile on every level. It begins with a promise to use the US military, our military, to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country, which is to say, to commit a war crime, a moral crime against the people of the country. Those people who are in direct contact with the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, because this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out.'"

As tech companies announce plans to build dozens of new AI-focused campuses, water rights and access have rapidly evolved from due diligence checkboxes to deal-breaking issues. Jai Khanna outlines what this means for data center developers. #DataCenters climatesolutionslaw.com/2026/04/the-ne…

Earthset. The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.