SOME MEDITATIONS ON THE CONTINUING ATTEMPTS TO TAKE POT SHOTS AT THE PRESIDENT:  Pushed To The Edge.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

SPACE: ‘Guess I’ll be waiting a minute to surf again’: Artemis 2 moon astronaut Christina Koch shares her recovery journey. “A week after her historic moon mission ended, NASA astronaut Christina Koch struggled to walk in a straight line during a blindfold test. After posting a video showing her wobbling and nearly tipping over — nearly enough, in fact, that attendants jumped in ready to help — Artemis 2’s Koch joked about her recovery on Instagram: ‘Guess I’ll be waiting a minute to surf again.'”

FACT-CHECKING SOCIAL MEDIA CLAIMS LINKING HAIR DYEING TO MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS:

Many people change aspects of themselves to fit in or stand out, and sometimes even as a coping mechanism during stressful times in their lives.

These changes are often seen in how people style their clothes, play with new makeup trends, or dye their hair.

Online platforms such as Instagram and TikTok are filled with posts about dyeing hair—especially unnatural colours.

On Instagram, there are posts about how unnatural hair dyeing can be linked to mental illnesses.

And TikTok is filled with stories about how dyeing your hair is related to “having a mental breakdown.”

These trends have grown in popularity since 2019, becoming popular during the pandemic.

But is there a link between mental well-being and hair colouring?

Well, based on anecdotal evidence…

UPDATE:

MORE: “Zeldin told DeLauro that people should not drink or inject glyphosate, the active ingredient in pesticides such as Roundup, to which she responded, ‘Maybe you should try doing that.’ She then quickly added, ‘Excuse me,’ in an apologetic tone.” That’s not much of an “apologetic tone” on display here, so why is Bloomberg.com covering for a Democratic congresswoman suggesting that the head of the EPA kill himself, only a couple of days after someone from her party tried to kill Zeldin’s boss? To ask the question is to answer it:

KRUISER ON FIRE: If You Can’t Say Something Nice About Someone, You Must Be Talking About a Democrat. “Please bear in mind as you read this column that I took several breaths and hours before writing it because I wanted to bring down my internal rage temperature by several degrees. My reserves of Christian charity are, for the moment, completely tapped, and I apologize for that. This is what passes for calm here in the Kruiser Bunker this week.”

REMINDER:

This was well known during the election. Dems voted him in, regardless.

Or was that because?

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): A Kiss Exposed Her Crimes. Now Teacher Pleads Guilty to Abusing 2 Students. They let her off pretty light, though.

In exchange for her guilty plea to the two counts, prosecutors dismissed two counts of sexual assault against a child she was also facing, the district attorney’s office said.

Prosecutors have recommended that Lashombe be placed on deferred probation and fined $1,000.

She was facing up to 40 years in prison before she entered into the plea deal with prosecutors.

I very much doubt a male teacher would have gotten this deal.

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

It’s supposed to fly early-to-mid May. Can’t wait

BYO2: NASA Planning to Set First-Ever Fire on the Surface of the Moon.

As part of an experiment appropriately dubbed Flammability of Materials on the Moon (FM2), the researchers are looking to challenge a standardized test, known as NASA-STD-6001B, which involves holding a six-inch flame to a material to evaluate its safety. If it burns more than six inches up or drips burning debris, it fails the test. The standard is required for the “evaluation, testing, and selection of materials that are intended for use in space vehicles and associated Ground Support Equipment,” according to NASA.

But there’s one glaring problem, as the scientists point out in their latest mission outline: the test is “conducted in normal Earth gravity, with the assumption that if a material passes the 1G test, then it is considered safe for spaceflight.”

However, the partial gravity on the lunar surface could throw our understanding of fire for a loop once again — a crucial question scientists are racing to understand, as an open fire inside a lunar habitat, let alone the tight confines of a spacecraft, could easily prove disastrous.

But the testing ought to be a blast.

ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR ELEVEN:

THE NUMBER OF THINGS GLENN GREENWALD PRETENDS NOT TO UNDERSTAND IS LIKELY GREATER THAN THE THINGS HE UNDERSTANDS:

OBAMA ALUM SAYS WHAT?