Patricia Dreame💙💛🕊💜

A few months before my Covid nightmare began. 2019 running to catch a train, and a laugh in Vienna while lunching with my son. Three years and another lifetime ago. #LongCovidAwarenessDay

Liberty Statue, perched on Gellért Hill overlooking Budapest, was erected in 1947 to commemorate those who sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and prosperity of Hungary 🇭🇺. This Sunday, on Election Day, may freedom and liberty ring out across this land. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

@hell_line0 Ran across this quote from Sylvia Plath…

my friends & i have always felt sad about how, as girls, it's not safe for us to take late-night walks… when all we wanna do is go look at the moon. but a few nights ago, a woman left the earth, on her way to be the first woman to go to the moon, in a rocket named after a goddess… and the moon was pink that night… and it felt like being told to keep reaching for a better world… one where we're so free to take walks under the moon that we feel like we could touch it.

If the last decade—and especially the last two months—have taught anybody running a country anything, it's that nuclear weapons are a key part of regime survival. Everything that's happened since Feb 28 will only make Iran *more* determined to get nukes.

Trump's war on Iran has reminded me of Putin's war on Ukraine in so many ways, not least of which is this one: a cadre of advisors being too scared to tell the President what they really think, only to be horrified when he unleashes what they should've stopped him from doing.

Before Trump’s war the Strait of Hormuz was open, sanctions were in place, and gas was $2.39. Now Iran controls the Strait, sanctions will be lifted, gas is $4.99, 13 Americans are dead, over 300 injured, and the loss of hundreds of billions in aircraft and U.S. base repairs.

The ceasefire gives Iran control over the Strait of Hormuz, which it did not have before Trump launched the war. The regime is still in place, it still has enriched uranium, the capability to shoot missiles at drones at its neighbors. What, other than chaos, did Trump achieve?

@kalmantibs @magyarpeterMP 🙏🏻🕯️

Stunning images from Hungarian opposition leader @magyarpeterMP's rally in Vác tonight. While Orban & JD Vance were huddled in a venue in Budapest, Péter Magyar was on the road, as he is each and every day, visiting towns, villages, and cities across the country. #April12 🇭🇺🗳️

Iran Deal By Obama: •Strait of Hormuz open for free •Iran limits Uranium enrichment •Iran agrees to make no nuclear weapons •Iran allows Int'l inspectors to ensure compliance •Inspectors confirm Iran's full compliance Iran Ceasefire By Trump: •Strait of Hormuz closed, only open for $2M Per Ship •Iran makes no guarantee of limit on uranium enrichment •Iran makes no guarantee of no nuclear weapons •Iran makes no guarantee to allow Int'l inspectors MAGA: Trump Playing 5D Chess! Art Of The Deal!!

“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos

He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet. My interview with @guardian theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…

Okay I've seen enough. Triple NASA's budget.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Democrat Chris Taylor has defeated Republican Maria Lazar in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election. This expands the liberal majority on the court from 4-3 to 5-2. This is a flip from 🔴 to 🔵.

A Ukrainian soldier who returned from the frontline is playing with his son. This is what Ukrainians are fighting for - for the right to exist, to raise their families, to love, and to love.

In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.

For years I've been photographing the moon using @Space_Station's External High Definition Cameras. Yesterday, I was incredibly privileged to do the moon using @NASA_Orion's Solar Array Wing Cameras Ad Lunam y'all

Today’s photos from the Artemis II crew offer a dazzling, beautiful view of our shared home in the stars. Most people want to uplift and safeguard humanity, not destroy a ‘whole civilization’

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

Erik Bruun turns 100 today. Born in Viipuri on 7 April 1926, he fled as a child when the war took his Karelian home — and ended up giving Finland some of its most iconic visuals. The Saimaa seal, the Jaffa poster, the markka banknotes, over 100 stamps. A whole visual language for a country. I have the Saimaa ringed seal poster hanging on my wall and it never gets old. There's something quietly stubborn about it — a small, endangered creature staring back at you and smiling.