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ArianeGroup to Transfer Responsibility for Vinci Assembly to German Subsidiary ArianeGroup to transfer responsibility for Vinci engine assembly and testing from France to Germany, with a new Lampoldshausen facility set to be built.

ArianeGroup to transfer responsibility for Vinci engine assembly and testing from France to Germany, with a new Lampoldshausen facility set to be built.
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to? Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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The Burden of Metaphor in Gaza Beyond a lasting ceasefire, what Gaza needs most is to be understood on its own terms — and for its people to be heard

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Trump says he’s sending troops to Portland to | CNN Politics President Donald Trump is directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “provide all necessary troops” to Portland, Oregon, a city he says is “war ravaged” and protect ICE facilities he claimed are “und...

This ought to be a huge story everywhere. It is imperative that we not normalize sending troops into blue cities on false pretenses. The consequences could be tragic. Journalists must rebut the lies and quote the outraged at the top of their articles and segments. www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/p...

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.

This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

The War Thunder school of combat performance evaluation

Not exactly, because the techies who are trying to sell dumbass drones are explicitly embracing the cult of the operator to do so

oh my god as bad as things are with the Dems the Your Party catastrophe is making me somehow optimistic by comparison

This is extra wild when you remember that Tori Branum, the white woman who called ICE, did so because she claimed the 450+ workers were here illegally and they were trafficked and suffering human rights abuses, and she saved their lives.

Hoping that being nice about his legacy will save them from the crackdown that has already started. Or legitimate brainworms

Last US chemical weapons destroyed.

We can do good things.

Anybody pretending to have a confident read on the motive of this shooting because of reported inscriptions on bullet shells that included video game references and "If you're reading this, you're gay LMAO" is a fool

We’ve had wide-spread Internet gore for a while now, and mysteriously, online-poisoned mass shootings and global fascist violence just keep accelerating (even as general crime rates continue to decline).

I think there’s a serious flaw with “people need to see gore to stop being fascists” theory.

I feel like I've spent today sorting through accusations of this guy being a groyper, only to find that those aren't based on anything. There isn't an indictment yet. The cops haven't handled this better, but seriously—posting without verification makes you no better than the right yelling "antifa."

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

I have a soft spot for craneflies for this exact reason. Truly God's dumbest creature but I can't help but feel a bit of affection for them as they smack into the same wall repeatedly for half an hour

Good thread. I'd like to use it as a springboard.

The phrase "free speech" throws a lot of people. Kirk used it to misdirect from his authoritarianism.

Centrists have grabbed onto that phrase in a way that supports Kirk's aims.

It's time for them to let it go.

"The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence." Gavin Newsome Bluesky post, 9/10/25. https://bsky.app/profile/governor.ca.gov/post/3lyjajnblcs25

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way By Ezra Klein in New York Times 9/11/25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination-fear-politics.html

They saw Charlie Kirk as a peer, and they stand by their own.
It's an exclusive club, and you're not in it.
Bouncers will be checking race and gender at the door.

Matthew Dowd Fired From MSNBC For Charlie Kirk Comments Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

"You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in."

MSNBC fired someone for pointing out structural factors exist and Kirk contribute to making them

Matthew Dowd Fired From MSNBC For Charlie Kirk Comments Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Fired4Truth

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The American Years of Lead are Here The Charlie Kirk shooting is just another sign of our new era.

"There will not be another American “civil war.” The country is too geographically and economically and socially enmeshed for that. But the lone wolves, the fringe groups, and the homicidally desperate will strike, again and again, killing both the innocent and guilty alike."

One of the dominant features that will distinguish the American Years of Lead Paint from the Italian Years of Lead is that in Italy, groups getting weapons and picking targets followed getting organized. In the US, awash in guns, people have the tools on hand, and need not be organized for violence.

For the first time in their lives, gun violence has claimed someone who was real to them

official Presidential response and it's blaming the "radical left" despite law enforcement not even knowing the shooter's name much less any political motive

epic

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

"Oh no, now MAGA has a martyr!"

My brothers and sisters in Christ, Ashli Babbitt is their martyr. Elliot Rodger is their martyr. Every dead RW terrorist is their martyr. Can we tackle gun violence without phrasing it like we're terrified because our abusive husband accidentally dropped his steak?

it’s stunning how passionately and viscerally a bunch of white guys with faces like thumbs hate Greta Thunberg

Explicit calls for violence, even war on many Americans, is very bad. Even worse since they have no idea who killed Kirk or why.

But if you’re not familiar with these prominent right-wing figures, they regularly advocate violence and repression against the broadly defined Left, often based on lies.