SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.

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RE: https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_analysis/116243970802731429

#Putin's agents and #European far right are the same people.

#Russia #Ukraine #Putin #EU

From Mother Jones in 🦋 24 minutes ago:

Trump’s #DoJ has shown an unusual amount of consideration for Smirnov, a confessed criminal tied to Russian intelligence who betrayed the FBI and perpetuated a fraud designed to destroy Joe Biden's candidacy & reputation that roiled American politics.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/donald-trump-doj-justice-alexander-smirnov-russia-ukraine-burisma-fbi/

#USpol #Iran #Russia #Ukraine

American democracy is now declining at a faster rate than in Hungary and Turkey. I spent the past week talking to Staffan Lindberg, the founder of the V-Dem Institute in Gothenburg, about their alarming new annual report on global democratic decline, which was released today.

My latest piece for The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

"Epstein funded academic research to the tune of around $20 million per year, and hosted many of the academics he supported in his home and on his plane, at lavish dinners... may have played a role in how these ideas have seeped into the mainstream, and not just in the very visible pronouncements of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their ilk. The ideas Epstein funded shape the way that Western governments try to influence the behavior of their populations."

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-academic-justification-for-male-supremacy/