John Glenn became first American to orbit earth today 1962:

An engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958. Photo by Berenice Abbott

You are neither here nor there, A hurry through which known and strange things pass And catch the heart off guard and blow it open. Lá Fhéile Pádraig #StPatricksDay

It’s extraordinarily hard, almost impossible, to pass a law that violates constitutional “rational basis” review, but I think a law that bars one citizen from giving another citizen food and water lacks any rational basis and violates the Constitution.

For all you history buffs: the desk in my West Wing office was constructed by the U.S. Navy out of reclaimed materials from the USS Constitution warship. On this day in 1794, President George Washington signed the Naval Act which authorized construction of the USS Constitution.

Today is 4-3-21... or is it Major Tom Day? 4-3-2-1 Earth below us, drifting, falling, floating, weightless... #80s

Smart dog. I only wish I'd thought of hiding behind the couch when I first met him.

Republican Senator John Kennedy asks @StaceyAbrams to give him a list of provisions in Georgia’s new voter suppression law that she objects to. It’s a long list. Give it a listen:

Michael Sheen performing 'Do not go gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas is everything you'd hope it to be ❤️ The poet's masterful Under Milk Wood was first read in New York on 14 May 1953. Our staging reopens the Olivier on 16 June. #DylanDay #BackOnStage

Really not a fan of taking a complex foreign policy issue that spanned six presidential terms—with four quite different presidents; two from each party—and trying to shove it into preconceived partisan point-scoring.

The Afghan debacle lasted two decades. The media spent two hours deciding who to blame. …My column on the winners-and-losers, hot-take punditry we’re seeing way too much of washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…

Few people know her, but Katharine Wright worked closely with her brothers, aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. She managed the bicycle shop, helped with flight operations, writing, communications and iterated ideas with them. She was also a high school teacher.

Sometimes they’re not geniuses. Sometimes they’re just thugs.

The TV show M*A*S*H premiered on this day 50 years ago. #ClassicMASH #MASH50th

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