Phobos photobombing Jupiter, from Mars orbit.

Congratulations to Dommaraju Gukesh, youngest ever winner of the FIDE candidates’ tournament at age 17. Gukesh will play Ding Liren for the world championship later this year.

The cult isn’t Trump.
The cult is the Republican Party.

The clouds were super annoying again last night. I gave them the finger and took a drive to get away from them.

This is looking southeast toward Matanuska Glacier around 120am, about 25 min after I got there.

I had a nice sunrise there too!

So is Marge Greene the yelling woman in the meme?

trying to imagine an Alaska without an everpresent sense of loss soaking into everything.

No post is ever as interesting as the post that scrolls away as soon as you open the app.

This woman introduced an amendment with the word 'Transcarpathia' in it yesterday. I've sat across a hearing room from her for long enough to know she couldn't spell that word before this week, let alone find it on a map.

We all know what's going on here.

Three Republicans voted in the last 30 seconds: one aye, one nay, and one present.

Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas this week: I will highlight two reminders from the 1930s. First, if you look away, eventually it will cost more. Second, if aggression pays off somewhere, it's an invitation to use it elsewhere. Let’s finally learn from history and do the right thing.

Here’s the USA’s population pyramid.
It would be interesting to see what it would look like without immigration.

Interesting problem.
Immigration seems like the simplest solution.

If I was 50 years old in Italy, I'd start wondering who will pay my state-funded pension.

You need either economic growth, acceptance of high migration or healthy demographics. Italy has none of the three.

What will give?

JUST IN: The DC Circuit has upheld the conviction of former Ron/Rand Paul aide Jesse BENTON for orchestrating an illegal payment from a Russian national to the Trump campaign and RNC. documentcloud.org/documents/2455…