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Astronauts suggest naming a moon crater 'Carroll' after their commander's late wife   https://www.npr.org/2026/04/07/nx-s1-5776440/artemis-moon-crater-carroll-wiseman

Read this article I started to cry. When you yearn for an example of love and caring and refusing to give up on a dream you can now look at the moon and remember a crater named after the Artemus II commander's late wife who died at age 46 from cancer. As someone who lost a spouse to cancer I can't stop smiling and crying.
nugget: Reid Wiseman has said in interviews that when Carroll first got sick, he wanted them to move back north to be closer to family in Virginia and Maryland.
"But she said, 'No, this is where you work and you love your job. And we should not give that up for this,'" he told Baltimore Magazine in January.
In 2023, three years after Carroll's death, Wiseman was chosen as the commander for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the moon in over half a century.
"It was like I was carrying a legacy of her along and … continuing to go down this path that we had forged for 17 years together," Wiseman told The Times last year. "I honor her every single day, every single minute."

Part one: if it is Friday it must be Texas a regular check in with Harvey Kronberg publisher of the Quorum Report, the oldest political newsletter in Texas  

Kronberg argues Texas House Administration crackdown on quorum breakers could become instant fundraiser for Talarico and Texas House Democrats heading into November

https://www.quorumreport.com/Quorum_Report_Daily_Buzz_2026/kronberg_argues_texas_house_administration_crackdo_buzziid33205.html

topics:Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/texas-data-centers-sales-tax-break-billion-dollars/

The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.


Dan Patrick says Republicans will “have a tough time” holding Texas House majority in NovembervThe lieutenant governor’s remarks are the latest sign that Republicans are worried about the fall midterms. The GOP has controlled the state House since 2003 and currently has an 88-62 advantage. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/texas-house-dan-patrick-gop-majority-2026-midterms-cornyn-paxton/


Democrats seek to pause Texas’ social studies revamp over $70K grant from conservative think tankThe Texas Public Policy Foundation awarded the grant to Schreiner University’s Texas Center, which is led by a historian guiding the state in its social studies revision. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/texas-education-board-social-studies-tppf-grant/


Houston police union pulls support for Whitmire after council limits ICE cooperation.   https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/houston-council-ice-cooperation-22185910.php

opening thoughts 
Relations between the U.S. and the Catholic Church have not been the same since January, when senior U.S. defense officials shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official.
Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture. “The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the 14th century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France.The Trump administration had taken issue with the pope’s critique of its militaristic proclivities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top Pentagon officials were particularly aggrieved by portions of Leo’s January 9 speech in which the pope argued that “a diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force,” and that “war is back in vogue, and a zeal for war is spreading.” The pope’s address was dissected line by line and interpreted as a hostile message toward the administration, reported Letters from Leo Substack writer Christopher Hale.
It was difficult not to interpret Leo’s comments as an immediate commentary on Donald Trump’s second administration, which had at that point bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, kidnapped Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, fiercely advocated for the dissolution of NATO, and threatened America’s allies, including claiming that the U.S. would seize control of Canada and Greenland. But the blatant intimidation tactic is the first of its kind ever made by American officials to the Catholic Church. There are no public records of any previous meetings between Vatican and U.S. officials at the Pentagon, let alone an instance in which the world power suggested that it could force the Bishop of Rome into captivity.The Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo cancelled his plans to visit the U.S. later in the year, reported Hale, who noted that “many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.”Tensions had not been mended by February, when the Holy See rejected the White House’s invitation to host Pope Leo—the religious order’s first U.S.-born pontiff—for America’s 250th anniversary in July. Instead, the Catholic leader has arranged to visit a very different locale on July 4: Lampedusa, a tiny island between Tunisia and Sicily where North African immigrants wash ashore by the thousands.
“Robert Francis Prevost is too deliberate a man to have chosen that date by accident,” commented Hale.
part two: 
Bill Curry  was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. He has written for Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and the Hartford Courant and has provided commentary on National Public Radio, MSNBC and many other news outlets.  
Harold Meyerson editor at large for the American Prospect
topics:



Netanyahu Declares Ceasefire Is “Not the End” as Iran War Spirals Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is destroying Trump’s ceasefire deal—and he’s proud of it.



Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump
RFK Jr. Using Your Taxpayer Money to Become a Podcast Bro 

Bombshell Report Reveals Trump Was Begging for Iran to Join Ceasefire This contradicts everything the president has said about the war.

The Weirdest Detail in Iran’s Ceasefire Agreement You won’t believe how Iran wants tolls on the Strait of Hormuz to be paid.


Donald Trump, Wrecker of American Empire harThe president has done more damage to American power than anyone in history. https://prospect.org/2026/04/08/donald-trump-wrecker-of-american-empire-iran-war/

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