Gretchen Hoenes

International Dark Sky Week is April 13-20. Learn how you can celebrate the night by adopting, discussing and promoting Dark Sky approved lighting practices. Turn off your outdoor lights. Invite your neighbors to join in. Let your eyes adjust. Look up and around. 🖤 Nighttime. idsw.darksky.org

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

It’s very loud in Kyiv. russia is attacking us with ballistic missiles. Let the world know.

It’s time for those of us who support our democracy to get tough.

🚨🚨🚨 Yesterday I promised I'd post my full analysis of how much gross 2026 #ACA premiums are expected to increase in #TEXAS. As promised, here it is: 4 MILLION Texans are looking at avg. *gross* rate hikes of 31% starting in January: acasignups.net/rate_changes...

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Sky Monkey Ⓡ ꜱᴜʀꜰ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ʙʏ ᴅʀᴏɴᴇ Tom Myers pulling into a bomb this morning in Sydney.

This how an apartment of a Ukranian TV host, Kateryna Soliar, looks like after russia's attack on Kyiv. 📽️ Катерина Соляр U24 Gov UA / Instagram

352 drones and 16 missiles overnight. Their main target was Kyiv. If your media ‘was bored’ to tell. Video source: Kyiv mayor, Vitaliy Klychko

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

🚨 A reminder that Republicans rammed the #MAGAMurderBudget through the House. Massive turnout for the #NoKings protests won't mean ANYTHING unless people also VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS UP & DOWN THE BALLOT. FLIPPING THE HOUSE BLUE is critical. Donate today. #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/house...

28 Tanks and an Old Hound Dog by Kinney Baughman #NoKings West Jefferson, NC

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A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year – almost four times the government's estimate for the cost of incarceration.

🇺🇦 We expect a real result from today's meeting in Istanbul: a ceasefire, an exchange of prisoners, the return of children and a meeting at the leadership level, — Zelensky.

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Absolutely breathtaking…“SN 1993J” a supernova explosion in progress captured by the Hubble ST. NASA 💫

This was my late 1970’s jam.

Mini juniper tree with a lovely patch of cedar rust.

owning a small business in 2025…

Kindly switch your outdoor lighting to the off position for the birds, for the bugs, for your neighbors.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From NZZ in Switzerland)

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

If you have been putting off going to the dentist, I highly recommend just doing it. I went last week, ummm😳, *four years* late for my six month check up. It felt good to take care of my chompers.

For the love of country, this should be a concern regardless of party. Cost-cutting at DoD. Fine. Needed. But not this way. As President Trump says he is going to dispatch Musk to the Pentagon Recent Bloomberg News: "Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets"

Light pollution, the term for the brightening of the night sky by unnatural lights, is increasing worldwide. On average, skies are getting 10% brighter each year globally, with the fastest rate of change in North America. cnn.it/4aKCyjn

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As Pete Buttigieg told students at @UMich’s Ford School, political moments change quickly. Don’t let this moment discourage you. Work for the change you believe in. You can listen to his inspiring talk here.

In 1976, while in eighth grade, a Democratic Party delegate mom of a friend of mine gave me this poster. After turning 18 one month before the 1980 presidential election, I cast my very first vote for Carter. Here’s to the world where all future presidents are at least a little bit like Jimmy.