💬 Quoted…​​ “This is what you’ve waited for.”

• Yesterday, NASA published a highly-anticipated James Webb photo of the ‘Pillars of Creation’ (right), a scene first made famous by the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope (left).

🇺🇸 Stat of the Day: 9% of Americans believe US democracy is working "extremely" or "very well," per a new poll published yesterday by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

🤯 Did You Know?... A cat named Oscar, who was adopted in 2007 by a nursing home in Rhode Island, became so adept at predicting which residents were about to die – ignoring anyone not close to dying – that the staff developed a protocol where families were called in to say their last goodbyes whenever Oscar would curl up near someone.

• He had accurately predicted 50 deaths as of January 2010, per a peer-reviewed study.

📖 Worth a Read: The black market for blue checks → (The Verge)

📊 Poll Results: Yesterday, we asked why y’all think the American public has gradually drifted away from organized religion since the early 1990s.

• Click here for a dozen-plus of the best responses.