It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.

Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:

#DavidSouter, former #SupremeCourt justice has died

#RIP

He foresaw our fall in 2012:

"ProPublica reviewed Trump’s proposed budgets from 2018 to 2021, as well as regulations that he attempted to enact or revise via his cabinet agencies, including the departments of Labor, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services, and also quasi-independent agencies like the National Labor Relations Board and the Social Security Administration.

We found that while Trump was in the White House, he advanced an agenda across his administration that was designed to cut health care, food and housing programs and labor protections for poor and working-class Americans.

“Trump proposed significantly deeper cuts to programs for low- and modest-income people than any other president ever has, including Reagan, by far,” said Robert Greenstein, a longtime federal poverty policy expert who recently published a paper for the Brookings Institution on Trump’s first-term budgets."

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-agenda-working-class

#USA #Trump #ClassWarfare #WorkingClass #Poverty #Inequality

"Protection against arbitrary arrests..."

A) those laws have always been less effective when it comes to the poor and powerless

B) Trump has the legislation on his side and historical precedent of how to play this with Nixon's war on drugs.

C) The legacy media and major player in social media have proven to be tools in manufacturing right wing consent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z06TJAMY-bo
#Trump #guardRails #politics #law

"Weak men, they do make the world go 'round.." - June Osborne, The Handmaid's Tale

#USPol #election #US #USA #Trump #voting