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If it flies, floats, submerges, or gets me into orbit, I'm onboard. Twitter provokes all my opinions. Give me all the nuclear energy! 😉
If I were to gift ATACMS to Ukraine (and I most certainly would), I would want the first people to find out to be Russian military in Ukraine, not the Press.
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it

'Noctalgia' is a feature of the modern age.

Space
We've been worrying about AI achieving sentience sometime in the future. The whole time ODIN has been laughing at us.
He's probably not done yeeting pilots into the sky. But where is he assembling his precious lightning? 😉
You think you're seeing a successful ZSU op. But, in actuality, what you're witnessing is a sacred, time-honoured naval decommissioning ceremony that has transpired since the Vikings got lost in the land of Rus.
@georgetakei
Not anti democratic. But Absolutely an erosion of checks and balances. Democracies without a constitution are always vulnerable to autocratic parties.
@adamjschmidt
She has the ability to get swifties to the polls. Say a 2pt swing. That's a big deal.
As this may be indictment week #3, it makes sense to zoom out a bit and take stock of where things stand. As the legal walls close in, Trump’s star in his party rises ever higher. But where will this all lead? Our laws are not our politics, after all. I break down why that is and why that matters, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/our-laws-are-not-our-politics?sd=pf
Our Laws Are Not Our Politics

There’s a decent chance that this is, once again, indictment week. This new set of federal charges, expected out of the grand jury in D.C. any day now, is the most legally perilous for the ex-president and consequential to the nation. And over the last 24 hours, Trump has been

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Three recent stories out of the South show a growing challenge to federal authority. And that spells trouble for our country. I walk through these today and draw some common, disturbing threads. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/three-southern-states-three-deadly?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Three Southern States, Three Deadly Serious Challenges

Three stories caught my attention, all situated in the South, all raising deep and troubling questions about state overreach, the rejection of core principles of federalism, and the vicious targeting of vulnerable minorities. If this sounds familiar, these indeed bear echoes of the pre-Civil Rights era South of seventy years ago, and before that the actions of rebellious state governments during the long shadow of the Confederacy.

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@loweringthebar
Slingshots in national parks are classified as firearms.
Check it out. 😉
Still here. Sorta.