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‘It blowed-up real good’

SpaceX: "Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn." Translated from the Weasel-speak: "It blowed-up real good, like a common Tesla or Cyber Truck."

http://mockpaperscissors.com/2025/01/17/it-blowed-up-real-good/

‘It blowed-up real good’

SpaceX: “Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn.” Translated from the Weasel-speak: “It blowed-up real good, like a common Tesla or Cyber Truc


Mock Paper Scissors
Raids targeting anti-corruption chief rock Hungary's government
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y66j852nyo
Raids targeting anti-corruption chief rock Hungary's government

Ferenc Biro is suspected of corruption and abuse of authority but says it is politically motivated.

Might we have an unusual late winter #COVID19 surge?

- New research found that LP.8.1 has as much immune evasion as XEC but has increased ACE2 binding “supporting its rapid growth.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.27.630350v1

- In the US, LP.8 has doubled every 2 weeks, growing from 2% on 11/23 to 8% on 12/21. If that continues, it'll become predominant in early February. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

- This winter's surge was smaller, which could stimulate a larger or odd surges in 2025.

Time will tell. Stay tuned.

...for instance, Executive Order 13769, issued on January 27, 2017; you know, the Muslim Travel Ban

I guess these folks forgot?

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-muslims-regret/

'Very troubling': Leader of 'Abandon Harris' movement now anxious about Trump appointees

In interviews with NBC News, prominent members of the "Abandon Harris" maintained they made the right decision to either not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris or cast their ballot for Donald Trump despite previously being in the Democrats' camp.As NBC's Jillian Frankel reported, members of the m...

Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism

Newly released report from the NYC Health Department based on a 2022 survey:

- 80 percent of adult New Yorkers infected with #COVID19 experienced at least one symptom lasting one month or longer.

- 33% of adults with at least one severe post-acute symptom after COVID-19 had probable depression, higher than those reporting only mild symptoms (6%) or no symptoms (2%).

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/press/pr2024/nyc-adults-with-covid-19-experienced-symptoms-one-month-or-longer.page

Health Dept. Finds Most Adult NYers Infected With COVID-19 Experienced Symptoms Lasting 1 Mo or Longer - NYC Health

For anyone doubting the effectiveness of the MMR vaccine, it's worth reading Roald Dahl's account of the disease
Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam

Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.

The New Republic
If one more person tells me I have to be empathetic to MAGA voters, I may start acting like one of them. And it won’t be pretty. It doesn’t matter what grievance they have. No civilized human would vote for a broken human like Trump. It’s like electing your daughter’s rapist while he’s fondling your grandchild. There is something deeply broken with anyone that supports him.

This should be illegal but my guess is the people most likely to take Musk's money are MAGA folks who were voting for Trump anyway. Both ends of the equation are fools.

But I hope law enforcement looks into it anyway.

Gov. Shapiro says law enforcement could look at Elon Musk’s $1M giveaway to super PAC supporters:
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/gov-shapiro-says-law-enforcement-could-look-at-elon-musk-s-1m-giveaway-to-super-pac-supporters-222213189705

Gov. Shapiro says law enforcement could look at Elon Musk’s $1M giveaway to super PAC supporters

During an interview with Meet the Press, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) questions the legality of Elon Musk promising $1 million giveaways to voters who sign his super PAC’s petition “in favor of free speech and the right to bear arms.”

NBC News

That take is common but utterly ahistorical. She lost by a handful of votes, in 3 states, mostly thanks to relentless lying by the Sander’s campaign early on, which was manipulated by the GOP to do Trump’s dirty work for them,.

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