Tom Ashby

[Tom Ashby @TBoneAshby]

@andyblarsen Seriously, this is a public safety issue. For every Julia Reagan billboard, someone out there will be clueless as to which luxury blanket to buy.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

One of the few assertions that's basically beyond debate.

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

As a society, we are making an enormously risky bet: that we can reap the rewards of a runaway gambling industry without paying any price; that the litany of social ills long associated with this vice—addiction and impoverishment, isolation and abuse, cheating and chasing and corrosive idleness—can, this time, be kept in check; that, unlike every civilization that came before us, we can beat the house.

What are the odds that we’re right?

https://t.co/4w7HPUy0Kk

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.

The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood.

The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old.

The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose.

And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled.

The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around.

Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

[Neil L. Andersen @AndersenNeilL]

As the years have passed, I have become increasingly humbled as I have thought about, studied, and found immense comfort in the immeasurable gift of our Savior, the Atonement of Jesus Christ. The human mind can scarcely begin to comprehend how completely the destiny of mankind changed because of what happened in Gethsemane, on the cross, and at the tomb.

There are no words to describe the magnitude of His precious gift. It will never be required of another. Jesus Christ suffered “once for all” (Hebrews 10:10).

As one of His ordained Apostles, I have experienced the spiritual and personal moments that have brought to me a sure and certain witness that Jesus Christ lives. At this Easter season, may we rejoice in singing:

“He is risen! He is risen! ...
Death is conquered; man is free.
Christ has won the victory”
(“He Is Risen!” Hymns, no 199).

[Covie @covie_93]

Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "My dad was always very forgiving of my misbehavior. He'd just say, 'I know you can do better.' That was very powerful stuff — because I could do better. I knew it and he knew it. It's nice to have somebody have faith in you."

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

In December 2025, former US Senator @BenSasse announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That's the primary topic for this @UncKnowledge conversation about mortality, faith, and what truly matters when time is short.

Talking to host @P_M_Robinson, Sasse reflects on "redeeming the time"—holding ambition lightly, loving family more deliberately, and resisting the urge to make politics or professional success the center of life.

The discussion also covers Sasse's thoughts on the failures of Congress; the dangers of a fragmented, attention-starved republic; the crisis of higher education; and the moral challenges of technological abundance.

He speaks candidly and movingly about regret, forgiveness, prayer, and suffering—arguing that while death is a real enemy, it does not get the final word. Watch the full conversation on X:

[La femme merveilleuse invisible @larwoolf]

“I never in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper. . . . If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.”

Abraham Lincoln,BOTD after signing the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

[Luke Epplin @LukeEpplin]

I saw a lot of newspaper/media cartoons along these lines when I was researching "Our Team," a book set in the 1930s/40s. They're part of our country's history, and the only way to get rid of them is to shame and drive out those who perpetuate them. Sadly, that's not happening.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

In years past, this sort of behavior would have been unimaginable from a president of the United States. Unimaginable. There are other words to describe this, but you can simply watch it and feel it yourself. This is being done in public.The press is being attacked in public and private. Having a free press is critical to our democracy. Having a president that knows how to answer questions with class, professionalism, and intelligence is critical to our culture and society.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Nearly every day brings a real Trump corruption scandal that is billions beyond even the most creative fantasies about Hunter Biden. US power and influence exchanged to enrich Trump and his family.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Another appalling and disgraceful effort by DHS to mislead the public and erode rights secured by the Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment requires a judicial warrant to enter a home. The purpose is to ensure that a separate branch of government serves as a check.

An administrative warrant comes from the executive branch, the same branch seeking entry. It’s like getting permission from yourself. This is wholly insufficient under the Fourth Amendment.

What DHS is doing is about as un-American and anti-American as it gets. Americans fought a revolution over this, and everyone should speak out against it.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Why are HSAs connected in any way to insurance policies ?

Don't we want people to save as much as possible for their healthcare ?

Remove the link to insurance.
Increase the caps considerably, or remove them altogether

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Romney: "Typically, Democrats insist on higher taxes, and Republicans insist on lower spending. But given the magnitude of our national debt as well as the proximity of the cliff, both are necessary. DOGE took a slash-and-burn approach to budget cutting and failed spectacularly"

[David French @DavidAFrench]

One thing about Trump is that almost every day he presents his supporters with an off-ramp. Every day he says or does something that allows decent people to say, "Ok, that's enough. I'm out."

The fact that so few people have taken those off-ramps has been a sign of strength. But as MAGA cracks, those off-ramps will become a weakness. Every day he'll give people looking for an excuse to leave all the reason they need.

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

How this vile, disgusting, and immoral behavior has become normalized in the United States is something our descendants will study in school, to the shame of our generation.

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Unbelievably cruel.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Perfect quote.