Elle Cordova

04/22/2026

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe.

Happy Earth Day.

[Image shot by the crew of the Artemis II mission aiming a camera through a window of the Orion spacecraft. Courtesy of NASA.]

04/17/2026

Up on the big screen at TED this morning with some rhyming humor in between talks.

04/08/2026

Every RX commercial. Toni Lindgren on the diabolical bass slides

Happy second anniversary to this ditty

04/01/2026

Fellow human beings are bravely flying out into the cold darkness of space today.

With this mission, NASA is laying the groundwork for so much more exploration over the next few years. I’ll be watching, hoping, dreaming with them at launch time, and I’m so glad to be alive to see the next chapter in space being written.

Let’s go Artemis II!

03/28/2026

Going live in one hour (9am PT) to discuss William Gibson's cyberpunk classic Neuromancer on Patreon for the sci-fi book club! Join the discussion here:

Creating videos, songs, and poems

03/14/2026

Are you an artist specializing in imagined worlds, speculative concepts, and/or sci-fi and fantasy themes?

We’re in need of cover art and would love to see your work!

Share in the comments or get in touch here:
LBrunger @ ellecordova dot com

03/04/2026

Environmental Protection Agency has an identity crisis after overturning its bedrock 2009 scientific determination that greenhouse gases cause climate change and endanger human lives.

01/29/2026

Bring on the midterms

01/25/2026

These guys are so clearly terrified. Spooked by their own wrongdoing. Alarmed that it’s all being recorded and disseminated before they can rewrite the story. Each bystander has a billion eyes, a billion ears. This is not what they signed up for. The recruitment propaganda promised glory and power and pay. They were festooned in costumes of authority and given weapons and then sent slipping and fumbling into the streets of Minneapolis without planning, training, or public support.

They believe that serving at the pleasure of the president means they have legal safe harbor. They don’t. From the heads of state to the boots on the ground, everyone complicit in these abuses will have to be prosecuted under United States constitutional law. Our reps must put an end to this now or be voted out, the courts will catch up, and there will be no protections, no immunity. For these duped masked fools, their pretend cop time will have been short but the consequences will be forever.

12/08/2025

Mr. Oil Man, start your machines🛢️with Toni Lindgren on guitar

The EPA recently approved new pesticides made with PFAS - “forever chemicals” that don’t break down easily in the environment and so sneak into our food and water supply, build up in our bodies, and lead to all kinds of health risks from liver damage to cancer.

But the good news is, introducing more toxic chemicals into our food and water supply is unpopular with just about everyone on both sides of the aisle. MAHA activists (with whom I disagree about a great many things) are pushing for the firing of the EPA’s administrator over this decision.

Since this administration’s regulators aren’t actually doing much regulating, it falls on us to combat PFAS exposure, fight for clean air and water, and demand at every level of governance that safer pollution standards are drawn up and enforced.

12/02/2025

Protect science! 🧪 It’s the most precious thing we have.