Marshall Eubanks

Hypocrisy of Roberts Court is astounding: they’re inventing one set of rules to uphold gerrymandered maps that benefit white voters & Republicans in states like Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial minorities & Democrats

If this turns into a Shia uprising around the Middle East I'm guessing the 4-5 week timeline is a bit off.

And if it is the pilot will be lucky if all he gets is fired.

No warning, no siren: six US service members killed in Iranian strike that hit makeshift operations center in Kuwait | CNN Politics The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local...

To say that this is infuriating is to say too little

Coming as army leadership preaches transitioning to a new type of war where ranges mean nothing and there is no safe “rear area” and then to ignore that in this operation is sheer irresponsibility. Those poor families

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Beware the Ides of March and all that.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

I feel like it already has and we just don't know it yet.

Oh yeah. This could go very far south very very quickly

Note that Bahrain is ~85% Shia and the Sunni government there was literally kept in power by Saudi Arabian tanks. If Iran blew up the causeway to the KSA, those tanks couldn't get into Bahrain and the government would likely fall.

She has practice.

Hillary Clinton has more than her share of flaws, but when it comes to "showing congressional Republicans the proper level of contempt" she is flawless.

The US Embassy in Riyadh seems to have taken a direct hit.

No idea on casualties, but it looks bad. Hope it was evacuated.

Sidenote: The destruction of American support for Israel as a consequence of the action and crimes of Bibi Netanyahu will be a diplomatic disaster studied at universities for decades to come.

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Hegseth described the target site was a "a “tactical operation center that was fortified" but the news piece says it was a command trailer in the middle of a civilian port

OK not even a TOC

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yeah like if it was a *TOC* TOC it would've at least had sufficient frag protection (even if not being HARDENED hardened), which would've still been a bad day with a direct hit, but would likely significantly reduce severity of a hit from something like a shahed

a fucking trailer on the other hand

I have not spoken to one expert in DC from either party in the past 48 hours who thinks: a.) Trump has a real plan re: Iran, b.) Trump has considered all the potential consequences of his actions, c.) Trump believed there was an imminent threat to the US (because there wasn't one.)

We are surrounded by unserious people.

Trump is so out of his depth. He’s probably gonna be like “I’ll just put Jared in charge for now” or something equally stupid and networks like ABC will keep parroting it like rational, normal shit is happening.

Exactly. Blindly hooting for the Buffoon-in-Chief as he unlawfully orders airstrikes without a coherent plan isn't a foreign policy, and isn't patriotic; it's just stupid, and dangerous.

With the way this administration leans into politicization of everything and conspicuous pageantry, I can't help but note that the launch window for Artemis IV begins two months before the election.

And Baghdad.

I had a similar experience recently.
Young scientists saying “we’d like to do c on the seabed”
And me at the back saying “yeah we did that 10 yrs ago”.
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I talked to some of those guys during the break. They were all Apollo guys who'd been let go in 1973 or so and spent the rest of their careers doing something completely different. (I remember one guy from Houston got into petroleum geology.)

I went to a Moon session at a GLEX in DC back ~15 years ago. Every talk went something like this

young researcher : here is a new idea to do X on the Moon

old guy in back: We looked into that in Apollo Applications and you are missing problem Y which we figured we could solve by doing Z.

Apollo 8 and 9 swapped.

The people mostly got fired and went on to do something else. I remember running into a Apollo PhD pumping gas in Titusville.

Of course, but I find the loss of technical knowledge like that interesting. How does the crowning achievement of such a grand program just drift away?

I guess my comment was kind of a non-sequitor.

There is no reason for them to do an EVA on that mission.