<p>Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman described the moment he called for the ship&#8217;s chaplain at the end of the historic lunar mission, saying that even though he did not think of himself as terribly religious, he &#8220;broke down in tears&#8221; when he saw the cross on the officer&#8217;s collar.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-what-nasas-artemis-ii-commander-stole-before-he-left-the-capsule">Wiseman</a> and his crewmates sat for a joint interview that aired on Fox News on Thursday evening, and the mission commander tried to explain what had been going through his mind at the time as he struggled to grasp the enormity of what he and his team had just witnessed.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">NEW: Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman reflects on being MOVED to tears by the Christian cross after returning to Earth from the historic expedition:</p>
<p>&#8220;When I got back on the on the ship — I&#8217;m not really a religious person — but there was just no other avenue for me to explain… <a href="https://t.co/yk2JBIkxrN">pic.twitter.com/yk2JBIkxrN</a></p>
<p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/2044852432891527539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;When I got back on the on the ship — I&#8217;m not really a religious person — but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything,&#8221; Wiseman said of the moment they were retrieved from the Orion capsule after splashdown.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute, and when that man walked in, I&#8217;d never met him before in my life. But I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s very hard to fully grasp what we just went through.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wiseman also issued a challenge to the world, saying that it was very easy in today&#8217;s society to get used to a more passive existence – but that progress depended on embracing hard work.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re starting to lose scope as a society that you do have to go do things. You have to go do really hard, really challenging things,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have got to get our hands out there and engaged — our hands, and our minds have got to be engaged.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">NOW: Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman shares an inspirational message to those who want to become astronauts and all of society as a whole:</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re starting to lose scope as a society that you do have to go do things. You have to go do really hard, really challenging things.&#8221;… <a href="https://t.co/yNjI4QTGaN">pic.twitter.com/yNjI4QTGaN</a></p>
<p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/2044857455054655769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, in contrast, took every possible opportunity throughout the mission to express his faith and to point to God. He delivered a brief Easter message from space, and then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/artemis-ii-pilot-gets-a-front-row-seat-to-the-universe-and-then-points-straight-to-god">another one</a> just before the mission lost contact.</p>
<p>&#8220;Christ said in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are … He said the second … that is to love your neighbor as yourself,&#8221; Glover said.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">JUST IN: Astronaut Victor Glover shares the Gospel from Artemis II before losing communication.</p>
<p>&#8220;Christ said in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He said the second &#8230; that is to love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</p>
<p>The… <a href="https://t.co/9xErKPxmQU">pic.twitter.com/9xErKPxmQU</a></p>
<p>— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/2041296734312423857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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The Christian Symbol That Brought The Artemis II Commander To Tears

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<p><em>This article is part of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/introducing-upstream-a-lifestyle-and-culture-section-of-the-daily-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Upstream,</a> The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you.</em></p>
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<p>Artemis II pilot Victor Glover went a long way — 252,756 miles, to be exact — to make an impression, and boy, did he ever make one. A devout Christian, Glover praised God from the heavens as he and his compatriots completed their lunar mission — and his faith resonated in shockwaves back on Earth.</p>
<p>While many are accustomed to watching celebrities or sports figures answer victory — and sometimes defeat — with prayer and a call to glorify God in all things, those words are more striking when they come from scientists because so often culture teaches us that science and faith must be at odds with each other.</p>
<p>But Glover says otherwise, loudly and boldly — and when he&#8217;s given a microphone, even hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth, he says it again.</p>
<p>The naval test pilot holds three master&#8217;s degrees in flight and engineering fields, and he explained in a 2023 <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-artemis-ii-pilot-victor-glover-reframes-race-question.html">interview</a> that his faith feeds his academic and career pursuits.</p>
<p>&#8220;My career is fed by my faith. Anytime I do something that’s pretty risky, I pray. Before I fly, every time I fly. Definitely when you go sit on top of a rocket ship,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In the military, there’s a saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. There aren’t any on top of rockets, either.&#8221;</p>
<p>Throughout Artemis II&#8217;s mission, Glover took every opportunity to share his faith — particularly in the context of God&#8217;s creation, to which he&#8217;d just been given a front-row seat.</p>
<p>On Easter Sunday, he gave an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/artemis-ii-pilot-pauses-during-lunar-mission-to-deliver-powerful-easter-message">impromptu speech</a> from aboard the Orion capsule.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨 JUST IN: Artemis II pilot Victor Glover just gave this BEAUTIFUL Easter message</p>
<p>&#8220;So far from Earth, looking at the BEAUTY of creation.&#8221;</p>
<p>“When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us&#8230;this amazing place.&#8221; ❤️🙏🏻<a href="https://t.co/cjZscnGz2A">pic.twitter.com/cjZscnGz2A</a></p>
<p>— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2040566651788157186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;You know, when I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us, who were created, it’s — you have this amazing place, this spaceship, you guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship really far from Earth,&#8221; Glover said, adding, &#8220;You’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the cosmos. Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we’re doing is special, but we’re the same distance from you, and I’m trying to tell you, just trust me, you are special.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In all of this emptiness, this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe, you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Just before they circled around the moon and lost contact with Mission Control, Glover once again took the microphone and brought the conversation back to his faith: &#8220;Christ said in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are &#8230; He said the second &#8230; that is to love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">JUST IN: Astronaut Victor Glover shares the Gospel from Artemis II before losing communication.</p>
<p>&#8220;Christ said in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He said the second &#8230; that is to love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</p>
<p>The… <a href="https://t.co/9xErKPxmQU">pic.twitter.com/9xErKPxmQU</a></p>
<p>— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/2041296734312423857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>When the crew finally splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, marking the end of their lunar mission, Glover&#8217;s first public comments were once again rooted in his faith: &#8220;I wanted to thank God in public, and I want to thank God again, because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing what we did, and being with who I was with — it&#8217;s too big to just be in one body.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨 WOW! Artemis II pilot Victor Glover spreads the gospel after a safe return home from space</p>
<p>This dude is a MASTERCLASS!</p>
<p>&#8220;I wanted to thank God in public, and I want to thank God again, because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the… <a href="https://t.co/VnCljIxdqX">pic.twitter.com/VnCljIxdqX</a></p>
<p>— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2043079388887953721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>When Glover was granted a hero&#8217;s welcome at home, his thoughts remained on shining the light outward. &#8220;Some of us have never met before. And you know whose fault that is? Ours. So let&#8217;s choose to do this. Let&#8217;s be this more. Let&#8217;s be neighbors,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if you heard me say it, but God told us to love Him with all that we are and love our neighbors as ourselves.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">NEW: Astronaut Victor Glover shares the gospel to a crowd who welcomed him back home to Houston, Texas.</p>
<p>People were seen lining the streets to welcome Glover back home.</p>
<p>“Some of us have never met before. And you know whose fault that is? Ours. So let&#8217;s choose to do this. Let&#8217;s… <a href="https://t.co/xMLozkJtLr">pic.twitter.com/xMLozkJtLr</a></p>
<p>— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/2043704154120724796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The response was overwhelming: People everywhere heard him, and they loved what they heard.</p>
<p>&#8220;Loves Jesus. Loves his wife. Loves his daughters. Literally new fav astronaut,&#8221; commentator and Daily Wire contributor Elisha Krauss <a href="https://x.com/ElishaKrauss/status/2043513849769574698">posted</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really beautiful to see someone in the government, in the military, and most definitely in the public eye giving glory to God for a mighty achievement. Our society needs so much more of this,&#8221; another <a href="https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2043396363002765561">responded</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Victor Glover is currently my favorite American,&#8221; journalist Olivia Rondeau <a href="https://x.com/rondeaulivia/status/2043405151730643408">added</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;No need to send poets to the Moon, we have NASA Astronaut Victor Glover,&#8221; someone else <a href="https://x.com/OwenSparks/status/2041273387801030964">observed</a>.</p>
<p>But Glover himself said it best: &#8220;We need Jesus — whether on Earth or circling the moon.&#8221;</p>


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<p>Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman admitted to stealing one very important item from the capsule as he and his teammates disembarked the Orion capsule after Friday&#8217;s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean: the crew&#8217;s zero-gravity indicator.</p>
<p>The little plush ball, nicknamed &#8220;Rise&#8221; and made to look like the iconic &#8220;earth-rise&#8221; over the moon that can only be seen from space, was featured alongside the human crew members throughout the Artemis II lunar mission and had, in effect, become part of the team.</p>
<p>Rise could be seen in a photo of Wiseman after he left the capsule, prompting a comment on X that read, &#8220;It&#8217;s very moving to me that Commander Reid Wiseman, the last of the #ArtemisII astronauts to exit Integrity, made sure to bring the plushie Rise — and the 5 million names it carries — back with him immediately upon landing. Every one of those names completed the mission with him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wiseman responded, saying, &#8220;I was supposed to leave Rise in Integrity … but that was not something I was going to do. I stuffed that little guy in a dry bag we had in our survival kit and hooked the bag onto my pressure suit.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I was supposed to leave Rise in Integrity….but that was not something I was going to do. I stuffed that little guy in a dry bag we had in our survival kit and hooked the bag onto my pressure suit.</p>
<p>— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) <a href="https://twitter.com/astro_reid/status/2043029624146505888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Wiseman followed that with another photo later on, reassuring fans that Rise was still safe and in his custody.</p>
<p>&#8220;PS- it’s hard not to love this little guy. I cant let Rise out of my sight…currently tethered to my water bottle,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">8-year-old Lucas Ye designed Rise, the mascot for the Artemis II mission.<a href="https://t.co/7hZOJLuz0i">pic.twitter.com/7hZOJLuz0i</a></p>
<p>— Cinema Hub (@_CinemaHub_) <a href="https://twitter.com/_CinemaHub_/status/2043032151474716776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In addition to functioning as the team&#8217;s zero-gravity indicator throughout the mission, Rise also carried the names of millions of people on earth as the team traveled farther from earth than anyone in history.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hi Rise! 🧵</p>
<p>The Artemis II zero gravity indicator was designed by 3rd grader Lucas Ye. Our blanket technician at Goddard brought it to life, fabricated in the same lab where blankets are created to keep spacecraft like <a href="https://twitter.com/NASARoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NASARoman</a> the right temperature for science. <a href="https://t.co/1lALREmkUs">pic.twitter.com/1lALREmkUs</a></p>
<p>— NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard/status/2039727559072432574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The little plush moon was designed by a California second grader, Lucas Ye, as part of a contest — which required that the item meet certain weight and size standards and only be made from specific materials that would be safe for spaceflight — and Ye has since said that he&#8217;d like to work for NASA when he grows up.</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Updates from Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed moon mission in over 50 years, range from </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-shares-first-photo-taken-from-far-side-of-moon"><span style="font-weight: 400;">extraordinary</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bright-spot-artemis-ii-crew-names-moon-feature-after-mission-commanders-late-wife"><span style="font-weight: 400;">heartwarming</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Now, everyone following along at home has a way to feel a little closer to the brave crew embarking on a new era of space exploration: a morning playlist.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA shared a </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WO94bzZeuUun777vv6UJu?si=Nhmsvj9ZTMCW7zEJfTJ4pg&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=897c28d3abb04eda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">link to the playlist</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Spotify yesterday, noting that the selections were picked by the astronauts and continue in a long tradition of playlists.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Artemis II Wake-Up Songs” include: </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Sleepyhead&#8221; by Young &amp; Sick</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Green Light (feat. André 3000)&#8221; by John Legend and André 3000</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;In a Daydream&#8221; by Freddy Jones Band</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Pink Pony Club&#8221; by Chappell Roan</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Working Class Heroes (Work)&#8221; by CeeLo Green</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Good Morning&#8221; by Mandisa and TobyMac</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Tokyo Drifting&#8221; by Glass Animals and Denzel Curry</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Under Pressure&#8221; by Queen and David Bowie</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artemis II began its 10-day moon mission on April 1 with a crew including commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. This mission took them further away from Earth than any manned spacecraft has gone before, reaching a maximum distance from Earth of 252,756 miles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colin Fries of the NASA History Division first </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wakeup-calls.pdf#:~:text=Use%20of%20music%20to%20awaken%20astronauts%20on,allowed%20outside%20interests%20to%20influence%20the%20process."><span style="font-weight: 400;">compiled a record</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of NASA playlists in 2015, noting public interest in what the astronauts were listening to.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;There have always been inquiries about flown items and mission events as we all know, and those about wakeup calls and music played in space encompassed a steady stream (no pun intended)!&#8221; he wrote at the time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fries included a letter from NASA’s acting director in 1990, Lynn W. Heninger, to Congressman Robert H. Michel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues in mission control with lyrics from popular songs that seemed appropriate to the occasion,” Heninger wrote.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;The common element of all these selections is that they promote a sense of camaraderie and esprit de corps among the astronauts and ground support personnel. That, in fact, is the sole reason for having wake-up music; and it is the reason that NASA management has neither attempted to dictate its content nor allowed outside interests to influence the process.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Apollo 10 song list in 1969 included Tony Bennett’s &#8220;The Best Is Yet To Come&#8221; and Sinatra’s &#8220;It&#8217;s Nice to Go Trav&#8217;ling&#8221; and &#8220;Come Fly With Me.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Several missions chose Dean Martin&#8217;s &#8220;Houston&#8221; for their last day in space, which includes the repeating lyric &#8220;Goin&#8217; back to Houston” and conveys a sense of longing for home and comfort. So far, NASA has not revealed the last day playlist for Artemis II.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman said it was a “surreal” and inspiring experience to be completely cut off from Earth for about 40 minutes while the Orion spacecraft rounded the far side of the Moon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wiseman made the comments during a media call from space on Wednesday night as he and his fellow astronauts continued their journey back to Earth. During their record-breaking journey around the Moon on Tuesday, communications were temporarily lost when the Moon blocked radio signals between Orion and NASA. The communication disruption was expected.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I&#8217;m actually getting chills right now,” Wiseman told reporters. “My palms are sweating, but it is amazing to watch your home planet disappear behind the Moon.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He described watching Earth gradually vanish from view as the spacecraft moved along the Moon&#8217;s far side.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;You could see the atmosphere, you could actually see the terrain in the Moon, projected across the Earth as the Earth was eclipsing behind the Moon. It was really, it was just an unbelievable sight. And then it was gone.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">LIVE: Artemis II astronauts answer media questions as they continue their journey toward Earth following their record-breaking lunar flyby. <a href="https://t.co/iAN74RMaRk">https://t.co/iAN74RMaRk</a></p>
<p>— NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/2042071557938323456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Communication was restored once Orion emerged from behind the Moon.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After regaining contact, Wiseman said the crew paused briefly to take in the moment before continuing their scientific observations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We shared maple cookies that [astronaut Jeremy Hansen] had brought, and we took about three or four minutes, just as a crew, to really reflect on where we were, and then it was right back into the science,” he said. “And it is a surreal feeling, but we had a lot of work to do, too, and I think that kept our focus.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wiseman also reflected on an emotional moment during the mission, when the crew named a lunar crater after his late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">That moment came shortly after the astronauts surpassed the distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We all pretty much broke down right there, and just for me personally, that was kind of the pinnacle moment of the mission for me,” Wiseman said. “That was, I think, where the four of us were the most forged, the most bonded, and we came out of that really focused on that day ahead.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Orion spacecraft is expected to splash down Friday in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at around 8:07 p.m. EST. </span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ignore those who are preaching doom. America rocks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">America is experiencing a totally exceptional moment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This country just kicks ass.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are sending human beings around the moon for the first time in decades.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are performing some of the most extraordinary military operations in all of human history, killing terrorists, delivering the most targeted strikes from the most sophisticated weaponry ever built.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are rescuing pilots in Mission: Impossible-style operations.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday, the Artemis II astronauts made history by traveling farther than any human being has ever gone.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/artemis-astronauts-are-going-where-no-human-has-gone-before-99962e92"><span style="font-weight: 400;">According</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to The Wall Street Journal:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just before 2 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, the astronauts on Artemis II steered their Orion craft into the record books, flying more than 248,655 miles from Earth, which is the furthest that human beings have ever gone.</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Human beings are doing unbelievable things because America kicks absolute ass.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Trump called the Artemis crew to congratulate them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Tell me, what is the most unforgettable part of this really historic day?” he asked. “The whole world is watching and listening. Please tell me.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Mr. President, this call is certainly special to all of us, and we really have a lot of faith in our administrator, Jared Isaacman, who is with you,”  Commander Reid Wiseman responded.</span><b> “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">We appreciate his leadership in NASA and in the international community. We are doing great things and we are proud to be a part of &#8230; I have to tell you, as we came around the near side of the moon, seeing all the sights that we&#8217;ve seen from Earth for all of our lives, but we&#8217;re seeing them from a different perspective, and then we started to get a glimpse of the &#8230;  And we saw sights, oriental sights that no human has ever seen before, not even in Apollo, and that was amazing for us. And then the surprise of the day: We just came out of an eclipse where the sun, moon and the entire dark moon, about that big, right out the window that we were watching, we could see the corona of the sun, and then we could see the planet train line up, and then Mars, and all of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become a two-planet species.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">America rocks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And you know what? It&#8217;s part and parcel of an inspiring vision for the United States. I know we don&#8217;t talk about the United States that way, or haven&#8217;t in recent years, but America is an unbelievably inspiring place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s the reason why everyone is clamoring to get here, not just because we can put human beings 250,000 miles away going around the moon, but also because when people come here, they are inspired to create and to build and to build better lives for themselves and their families.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s because the American system offers them that opportunity, and because America is, in fact, the guarantor of security on planet Earth. It’s because the United States, the same United States that takes humans and puts them 250,000 miles away around the moon, is the same United States that stands up to the thuggish, theocratic tyrants in Iran who want to develop nuclear weapons and develop into intercontinental ballistic missiles, and who wish to spread terrorism all over the region against us and our allies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We stand up to them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What President Trump is providing is an inspiring vision of what the United States should be.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And guess what? We are making it happen in real time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The president has provided the Iranian regime an off-ramp over and over and over and over again. This is the part that everyone seems to just ignore: If Iran did not wish to be in the gun sights of the United States military, all they would have to do is stop developing nuclear weapons, stop developing long-range ballistic missiles, and stop funding terrorism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is all they would have to do. That&#8217;s it. And they could have done this at any time for 47 years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They could have done this at any time. They would have been reintegrated into the world economy. They would have been treated as a member of the family of nations. Their concerns would have been heard.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instead, they decided that they were going to double down on their theocratic tyranny, that they were going to rush toward a nuclear weapon, that they were going to back every major terrorist group in the region and beyond.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They decided to do that. That was their decision.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The difference now is that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">this</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> president understands that it is not in the interest of the United States to allow that cancer to fester, that the gangrenous limb that is the Iranian cannot be allowed to poison the entire region and beyond.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s why the president took the stand that he is taking right now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And guess what? We are kicking the hell out of the Iranian military. We are. There is no standard in military history by which we are not kicking the hell out of them. We have put their entire navy underwater. We have taken their entire air force out of the sky. We have taken their ballistic missile launcher capacity to near zero. We have destroyed their steel factories. We have been hitting specific Basij checkpoints in Tehran. We&#8217;ve been bombing every nuclear facility we can find. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And still, President Trump is offering them an off-ramp; all they would have to do is open the Strait of Hormuz and give up their nukes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do it, and we’re done. The war would be over. That&#8217;s all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They won&#8217;t do it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ask yourself: Why? We would give them a permanent cease-fire if they opened up the Strait of Hormuz and gave up their nukes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They won&#8217;t do it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And the reason they won&#8217;t do it is because they must terrorize their people. They must rush toward a nuclear weapon to preserve their tyrannical regime, and they must harass the countries around them to gain power. They have regional ambitions not restricted to Iran in their philosophy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This notion that radical Islam is restricted to a small portion of the world, that if only we would leave them alone, they would leave us alone, ignores the entire history of radical Islam going back roughly 1300 years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Trump was asked if God supports the United States’ actions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I do, because God is good, and because God is good and God wants to see people taken care of, God doesn&#8217;t like what&#8217;s happening,” he said of the violence perpetrated by the Iranian regime against their own people. “I don&#8217;t like what&#8217;s happening. Everyone says I enjoy (waging war)? I don&#8217;t enjoy this.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the president says that he thinks that God supports the United States as we take out tyrannical dictators, when we kill Ayatollah Khomeini, a mass murderer, when we try to destroy the forward function of terror groups, he is correct.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are a great and moral nation. Whether it’s going farther than Man has ever gone before or removing evil from the world’s midst, we are a unique force in world history.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And Americans should feel justly proud of that.</span></p>


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<p>An apparently random occurrence aboard the Orion spacecraft quickly resulted in an &#8220;out of this world&#8221; ad campaign for the hazelnut cocoa spread Nutella.</p>
<p>During a video clip posted by the crew of the Artemis II lunar mission — just moments before they broke the record, set by Apollo 13, for distance traveled from earth — a jar of Nutella floated across the cabin, tumbling end over end as it prominently displayed the label.</p>
<p>&#8220;A jar of Nutella was seen floating through the Orion spacecraft approximately 4 minutes before the Artemis II crew made history as they passed the Apollo 13 distance record from 1970 of 248,655 miles from Earth on Monday,&#8221; CBS News captioned a short video of the moment.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">A jar of Nutella was seen floating through the Orion spacecraft approximately 4 minutes before the Artemis II crew made history as they passed the Apollo 13 distance record from 1970 of 248,655 miles from Earth on Monday. <a href="https://t.co/wqt680thQL">pic.twitter.com/wqt680thQL</a></p>
<p>— CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/2041263539386458166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Nutella quickly capitalized on what was being hailed across X as the best accidental product placement in history, sharing a video clip with the caption, &#8220;Honored to have traveled further than any spread in history. Taking spreading smiles to new heights.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Honored to have traveled further than any spread in history 🚀 Taking spreading smiles to new heights ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/vDUJMi1qbS">pic.twitter.com/vDUJMi1qbS</a></p>
<p>— Nutella (@NutellaUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NutellaUSA/status/2041274623417795021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Bright, bold letters on the screen — as the jar flipped across the frame — read simply, &#8220;Nutella is out of this world.&#8221;</p>
<p>NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center got in on the joke, posting in <a href="https://x.com/NASAKennedy/status/2041285011467390990">response</a>, &#8220;Enjoying sweet treats while our Artemis crew takes sweet photos of the Moon!&#8221;</p>
<p>Hilton Hotels <a href="https://x.com/Hilton/status/2041314714194506195">posted</a>, &#8220;A suite touch to a historic journey.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ultrarunner Carilyn Johnson <a href="https://x.com/CarilynJohnson/status/2041303028196622436">suggested</a> a joint campaign with Moon Pies, saying, &#8220;There it is! We’ve been waiting. Now, consider a product mashup with @MoonPie. Their dialogue with NASA has been an absolute delight! And a Nutella Moon Pie sounds delish!&#8221;</p>
<p>The Moon Pies X account has been going back and forth with NASA since Artemis II launched, responding to photos of the <a href="https://x.com/MoonPie/status/2039482821392097425">rocket</a> and the <a href="https://x.com/MoonPie/status/2040082044361875607">earth</a> from space with comments like, &#8220;Please tell the moon how much we love her,&#8221; and, &#8220;Enough about Earth I wanna see that MOON.&#8221;</p>


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<p>The crew of NASA&#8217;s Artemis II mission spent Monday looking at parts of the moon that had never been seen by the human eye — and they paused briefly to pay a one-of-a-kind tribute to a lost family member.</p>
<p>The crew shared video on Instagram as they discussed the new features and craters they&#8217;d observed while seeing the far side of the moon for the first time, and shared the names they&#8217;d chosen for two of them: Integrity, for their spacecraft; and Carroll, for mission Commander Reid Wiseman&#8217;s late wife who died of cancer in 2020 at just 46 years old.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Our science team helped us out with a couple of relatively fresh craters on the moon that have not been previously named, and our crew would like to propose a couple of potential names for those items or those areas,&#8221; Canadian astronaut and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen explained. &#8220;We spent a bit of time this morning looking out the window and we&#8217;re able to see them now, both with our naked eye and through the long lens, and so we feel this is a good time to send this down, and a special shout out to Kelsey for helping us with this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hansen said that the first of the two features was a crater that the crew wanted named &#8220;in honor of our great spacecraft Integrity,&#8221; but the second was one that held far deeper meaning for the members of the Artemis II crew.</p>
<p>&#8220;A number of years ago, we started this journey [with] our close-knit astronaut family and we lost a loved one, and there&#8217;s a feature and a really neat place on the moon and it is on the near side/far side boundary, in fact it&#8217;s just on the near side of that boundary, and so at certain times of the moon&#8217;s transit around earth you can — we will be able to see this from earth. And so we lost a loved one, her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katey and Ellie,&#8221; Hansen said, his voice breaking. Wiseman could be seen in the video wiping away tears, as could mission specialist Christina Koch.</p>
<p>&#8220;And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko and it&#8217;s just to the northwest of that at the same latitude as Ohm and it&#8217;s a bright spot on the moon. We would like to call it Carroll,&#8221; he continued, his voice still shaky as he spelled out the name.</p>
<p>The microphone cut then, and the three other astronauts quickly converged on Hansen, enveloping each other in a zero-gravity group hug.</p>


‘Bright Spot’: Artemis II Crew Names Moon Feature After Mission Commander’s Late Wife

Artemis II Crew Names Moon Feature After Mission Commander's Late Wife

<p>The crew of Artemis II channeled the opening sequence from popular 1980s sitcom &#8220;Full House&#8221; — complete with theme song — in a video NASA shared via Instagram on Easter Sunday.</p>
<p>As anyone who has ever taken a long road trip knows, the challenge is always to find something to do to fill the long hours in between destinations. And in the downtime, amid their mission-oriented duties and amateur photographic exploits, the crew of Artemis II answered that challenge with gusto.</p>
<p>&#8220;Everywhere you look, everywhere you go — there’s the Artemis II crew,&#8221; NASA&#8217;s Instagram caption read. &#8220;These four astronauts are currently on their way to fly around the Moon in NASA’s Orion capsule, which is roughly comparable to two minivans. You could say it’s a full house!&#8221;</p>
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<p>Throughout the video — with &#8220;Full House&#8221; theme song &#8220;Everywhere you look&#8221; playing in the background, each of the crew members got a brief video introduction. Even the crew&#8217;s zero-gravity indicator — a ball nicknamed &#8220;Rise&#8221; — got a nod as they all hammed it up for the camera.</p>
<p>Opening on title &#8220;Full Capsule&#8221; and a shot of the crew all together, waving at the camera, the video quickly cut to individual introductions.</p>
<p>Reid Wiseman, Commander, got the first nod. Then came Victor Glover, Pilot; Christina Koch, Mission Specialist; Rise, zero-gravity indicator; and finally Jeremy Hansen, Mission Specialist.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were doing scenes from bad 80s sitcoms when they introduce the cast of characters, so that&#8217;s why we all did those,&#8221; mission Commander Reid Wiseman said with a laugh as the video ended. &#8220;And we are cracking up up here.&#8221;</p>
<p>The video caught the attention of &#8220;Full House&#8221; star John Stamos, who was clearly on board with the good-natured ribbing. &#8220;Bad 80&#8217;s sitcoms? Honored,&#8221; he posted in the comments.</p>
<p>Stamos then reposted the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DWxR2FDDs_K/">video</a> from his own account, adding his own caption: &#8220;Honestly? If aliens make contact now, they’re gonna think our entire civilization is just hugs, life lessons, and Uncle Jesse fixing everything in 22 minutes.&#8221;</p>


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<p>Four days into the Artemis II space mission, the crew captured a stunning photo of the far side of the moon.</p>
<p>The image, which features the <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/moon/lunar-craters/the-explosive-history-of-orientale-basin/">Orientale Basin</a>, “marks the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes,” according to NASA.</p>
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<p>In this new image from our <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAArtemis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NASAArtemis</a> II crew, you can see Orientale basin on the right edge of the lunar disk. This mission marks the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes. <a href="https://t.co/iqjod6gqgz">pic.twitter.com/iqjod6gqgz</a></p>
<p>— NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/2040647522276802773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The photo of the moon was released just days after the crew of the Artemis II — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — shared spectacular images of Earth.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">These two images were taken by <a href="https://twitter.com/astro_reid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@astro_reid</a> only minutes apart. The stark difference is the result of camera settings. In the first, a longer shutter speed let in much more light from Earth, while the shorter shutter speed in the second emphasizes our planet&#8217;s nighttime glow. <a href="https://t.co/4H5gFymlcl">pic.twitter.com/4H5gFymlcl</a></p>
<p>— NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/2040114143626244576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>While Artemis II will not touch down on the lunar surface, the mission lays the groundwork for more launches. Artemis III is scheduled to launch in 2027 and <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-iii/">will test</a> “rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land astronauts on the Moon.” Artemis IV is scheduled to launch in 2028, and will finally bring mankind back to the surface of the moon after more than 50 years.</p>
<p>On Sunday, NASA posted a &#8220;last look&#8221; at Earth before the Artemis II crew reach the moon.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon.</p>
<p>This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6. <a href="https://t.co/z2NJUGWkKc">pic.twitter.com/z2NJUGWkKc</a></p>
<p>— NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/2040899704293052514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“Artemis II is a test flight, and the test has just begun. The team that built this vehicle, repaired it, and prepared it for flight has given our crew the machine they need to go prove what it can do,” <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/liftoff-nasa-launches-astronauts-on-historic-artemis-moon-mission/">said</a> NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya. “Over the next 10 days, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy will put Orion through its paces so the crews who follow them can go to the Moon’s surface with confidence. We are one mission into a long campaign, and the work ahead of us is greater than the work behind us.”</p>
<p>NASA’s long-term plan is to create a permanent American presence on the moon by building bases. Additionally, by the end of 2028, NASA is <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-unveils-initiatives-to-achieve-americas-national-space-policy/">scheduled to launch</a> the unmanned “Space Reactor‑1 Freedom, the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft,&#8221; to Mars.</p>


Artemis II Crew

Astronauts Reveal Something No Human Has Ever Seen On Far Side Of Moon

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don’t usually bother with celebrity news because I like to think my audience is too smart and sophisticated for that. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">But of course, that’s ridiculous. I mean, look at you. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">So today, we’re going to catch up on the shenanigans of the famous, rich, and powerful, because it’s degrading and wastes precious moments of our lives, and that’s what <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/hosts/andrew-klavan?elementPosition=6&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Hosts&amp;rowType=Hosts+Portrait+Carousel">The Andrew Klavan Show</a> is all about.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So let’s get started.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the Daily Mail, Byron Noem, the husband of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, has been secretly posting pictures of himself online wearing women’s hot pink underwear and enormous fake breasts. Kristi Noem said she was absolutely devastated to discover her husband was a Democrat, but she did feel that this might explain how she could sleep with Corey Lewandowski and consider it an upgrade. President Trump said he felt sorry for the Noem family, although he congratulated Byron on having such a nice rack.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Champion philanderer Tiger Woods, while apparently under the influence of drugs and alcohol, rolled his car over, after clipping a truck. Woods told police his life was full of so much sex and success and money that only abusing substances could keep him from sinking into despair. He was charged with three counts of driving while being an ungrateful schmuck.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shapely, semi-attractive Australian actress Milly Alcock has been cast to star in the $300 million DC studio film &#8220;Supergirl.&#8221; </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alcock told Vanity Fair that the role “definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on. We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The comment won Alcock the coveted Rachel Zegler award — a bronze statuette of a mouth without a brain attached, that is given to the shapely, semi-attractive actress most likely to tank a studio’s investment while under the delusion that people want to hear her opinions. Medical experts say this delusion is often brought on by men telling women they are interested in their opinions and women thinking that means men are interested in their opinions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda were among the thousands of doddering old white people who shuffled out to the latest &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rallies, which must’ve been held to celebrate the fact that we have no kings, because otherwise they just don’t make any sense. De Niro and Springsteen got together to reminisce about how they made millions of dollars by simply saying a meaningless phrase over and over again, like “You talking to me?” or “Born in the USA.” Springsteen said he could not believe that Boomers had been gullible enough to pay them for doing something so monotonous, but it gave him hope that Boomers might also be stupid enough to take the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rallies seriously.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black, gay, transgender actor Billy Porter was also at a &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rally, where he complained that black, gay, transgender actors are having a hard time finding work because — Donald Trump. Personally, I find this story kind of confusing. I mean, if you’re transgender and gay, isn’t that the same as being straight? Like, Billy Porter is a man who thinks he’s a woman, but he’s gay, so he’s a woman attracted to other women, so he’s really just a man who’s attracted to women. In which case, it seems possible the reason Billy Porter can’t find work isn’t because Donald Trump but because Billy Porter is an irritating no-talent.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the Senate got to go on vacation to rest up after grueling weeks of doing absolutely nothing. Graham was later photographed wandering around Disney World’s Fantasyland with a Little Mermaid Bubble Wand. Lest anyone get the impression Graham is a sad old queen who wanders around Fantasyland with a bubble wand, the senator immediately issued a macho photograph of himself firing a shotgun. The Little Mermaid’s slug-riddled body was subsequently found in a pool of her own bubbles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fantasyland Police are still searching for Graham and, in fact, for the rest of the Senate, hoping to bring them back to Washington D.C. where they can pass intelligent, useful legislation. Because this is Fantasyland.</span></p>
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<p><em>This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”</em></p>
<p><em>Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fifth installment, <strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-That-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries/dp/1613166869/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EGZUC370LG46&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y_NI0mDOKeowShheDQTVx5NH-fAeimJoCD56_T0Acpl8C0mup7uJf-nGGSRLEItaaekoDnvS2vWLMa4Zd2UBXQ8Y-g-P502jOWz-Y8IX3ZQsdlO7WMLrg1xIhNoKmjCorSWUR4C2l_RbiZ7apJ1MfPzGOrrEf7AdAXX6xwnJRVP_XqUfWuMuVthTWscaU3P4vgmS86-96n-721enHfX12CFQWTajqFbVnrsDkexfUf4.6_gTH6h1Bb9Pn375QdF_VAVZSayDvjQBBKGXE-MTiFo&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=klavan&amp;qid=1754049918&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C80&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">After That, The Dark,</a></strong> is NOW AVAILABLE. Follow him on X: <a href="https://x.com/andrewklavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@andrewklavan</a>.</em></p>


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