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A year into the pandemic, the kids wanted to toss this during a cleaning purge. I told them there may be a day they will want to learn some Linda Ronstadt. Thank you #TheLastOfUsHBO for backing us up on this choice.

An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel money to his criminal allies. He will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before.

Gift article! “The Treasury Department is responsible for depositing $1.776 billion into an account that will be controlled by a group of people selected by the acting attorney general…” Top Treasury Lawyer Resigns nytimes.com/2026/05/18/bus…

THIS IS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE ‼️

Don Lemon: “If Barack Obama had sued his own government, settled with himself in secret, created a billion dollar fund with no congressional oversight to pay his political allies. What if he did that? They would’ve had him in chains before sundown. The National Guard would have been called in. Impeachment articles would have been filed. Can you imagine Fox News?”

Today is Primary Election Day in Georgia and in states across the country. My parents understood that voting is both a right and a responsibility. We honor their legacy not only in what we say, but in what we do. Especially in this moment, we cannot afford apathy. Vote, stay engaged, and encourage someone else to do the same. #MLK #VotingRights #CorettaScottKing

The United States already owns an official ballroom. It is Mellon Auditorium and sits, appropriately, on Constitution Ave. And, fantastically, it was just renovated in 2023. So, it's time to stop talking about a $1 Billion dollar ballroom. eventsatmellon.com/auditorium-gal…

I was shocked the first time I went to Atlanta, like oh y’all are in the woods

We’ll be watching Marianna Baccus sing “Georgia on My Mind” on replay for the next couple of months ✨

Don’t go chasing waterfalls...cautiously approach and be careful of slippery conditions. In fact, you may just want to stick to the rivers and lakes that you’re used to.

Ted Turner is featured in my single favorite Futurama bit. R.I.P.

NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration "It's an extinction-level event for science". The US government is proposing massive cuts to almost every branch of science, from NASA to the National Institutes of Health. NSF would completely eliminate the social, economic and behavioral sciences directorate. This would decimate the world's leading scientific system. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Earth has two crowns - both auroral ovals were imaged by the Artemis II crew today, pretty amazing to see this perspective. Here I have zoomed in on both auroral ovals so you can see more clearly the green emissions extending around 100 km into our thermosphere/ionosphere.

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

Pretty incredible--the @NASAArtemis II crew captured what appears to be aurora in one of the latest images to be shared as the mission travels away from the Earth to fly by the moon. Sooo cool!

3:10am CDT #SPC Day1 Outlook Enhanced Risk: across northern Missouri and southern Iowa spc.noaa.gov/products/outlo…

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

'Judge Roberts' grandpa was born before his parents were naturalized, but he was nevertheless an American, guaranteed by the US principle of birthright citizenship.' SCOTUS' family stories are a reminder that the law has shaped who can be an American: NYT nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/…

It's a bird...It's a plane...It's the Artemis II crew on their way to the moon! #ArtemisII

Cecilia Wang (my coclerk for Justice Breyer and law school classmate) just gave a brilliant Supreme Court argument against President Trump’s attempt to take away birthright citizenship.

The paperback of THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP is out today. This is only a perfunctory announcement. My father died; I'm taking time off. But it's a good book: travelogue, history, memoir. If you like my newsletter, you'll like it. Now it's cheaper! us.macmillan.com/books/97812508…