Ann Yarko Orner

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ~Paine #NeverTrump

And we just all pretend it's normal and this is not a sign of serious, alarming cognitive issues

Kevin Williamson:

You want to know why Trump won? It’s the total moral depravity reflected in this tweet

Resign now @RepTonyGonzales. Unacceptable that he still gets paid by taxpayer $$$. No one in the private sector would get this pass.

"Welcome to my old neighborhood." Our @NASAArtemis II astronauts woke up on the sixth day of their mission to a special message recorded in 2025 by astronaut Jim Lovell, the pilot of Apollo 8.

Clocking in ⏱️ Moon joy is in full swing as the Artemis II crew begins seven hours of lunar observation. Crewmembers will photograph both the near and far sides of the Moon and describe what they see. Watch live:

Approaching the near side of the Moon. The Artemis II astronauts have surpassed the record for the distance from Earth at 1:56 ET (1756 UTC). This record was previously set during the Apollo 13 mission when the astronauts traveled 248,655 miles from Earth. The Moon continues to grow larger and larger in the windows of the Orion spacecraft as the Artemis II mission gears up to observe the far side. The astronauts are predicted to make their closest approach of the Moon around 7:02pm ET (2302 UTC).

To commemorate the Artemis II mission, the astronauts announced their suggestion to rename certain features on the Moon to honor the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, as well as commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll.

A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth. This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.

EXCLUSIVE: Regina Santos-Aviles wasn't the first staffer that Rep. Tony Gonzales asked for nude photos & sex. He sought a sexual relationship with his congressional campaign's political director in 2020— 4 years before his affair with Santos-Aviles. 🧵

Trump saying that he can’t believe an American President didn’t take on Iran before now seems to gloss over the fact that he was President 10 years ago.

"I would rather have the president threaten literal war crimes abroad than issue an anodyne statement condemning discrimination against trans people." Listen to yourself!

Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been. Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now. Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list. His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch. Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.” The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule. Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.

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You literally wrote an op-ed that Disney had gone too woke so you ‘wouldn't be going back or watching Disney+ anytime soon.’ Everything and I mean EVERYTHING Republicans do is performative. They stand for nothing, believe in nothing, do nothing but peddle in outrage.

Who exactly?! Name the names. Otherwise, stop lying.

The truth is we’ve always held Donald Trump to a pathetically low standard - the lowest standard any politician has ever been held to. Trump gets away with behavior no other politician would ever get away with. He’s treated like a child who doesn’t know any better. Shameful.

ICE tackled a rape victim outside a courthouse after testifying.

GEN. PETRAEUS: Ukraine has the best battlefield command-and-control system I’ve ever seen, better than ours. I told this to our software engineer in Ukraine. He said, “Well, it should be. These guys are fighting for their lives and survival of their nation every single day.”

The warfighter Miller is describing exists. His name is Matthew Blank. Five years in. Previously deployed. Training to deploy again this month. Three days ago ICE came to his base and took his wife. She was brought here as a toddler. No record. Teaching Sunday school and finishing her biochemistry degree. The deportation order on her is from 2005. She was 22 months old. The agents apologized. Said the higher-ups made them do it. “Frontier history never ended” and “Western excellence” are doing work in this post that has nothing to do with Matthew Blank’s courage, character, or sacrifice. The gap between the rhetoric and the policy is Staff Sergeant Blank standing in a detention facility parking lot with a form his wife can’t sign.