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A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? | WorldCat.org "Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away--no climate change, no war, no Twitter--beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critical

9) Please read this thread, be bored instead of mad about the nuke thing, and focus on his actually horrible policies and actions.

10) All this, including lots of detail on how the international law works is available in my book, which is free at the library: search.worldcat.org/title/137148...

7) Musk is a dick who promotes and supports evil stuff while gutting worthwhile programs, but the Falcon 9 rockets are extremely reliable and would be a fine choice for this

8) Trump is an buffoonish narcissist who is a caricature of an evil politician, but not because of this.

5) Nuke is basically the only way to get a persistent human presence on the Moon if we want it.

6) Putting humans in space is not a great use of science bucks, but it's not like we always get to choose how science bucks are spent, so I'm in favor of taking what we can get

4) It is almost certainly NOT a play to mine the Moon because there is nothing worth mining on the Moon. No, Helium-3 isn't even close to worth mining on the Moon, and likely never will be because there are alternative production methods that work on Earth.

Thanks everyone looping me in on the Sean Duffy thing. Short response to various questions

1) Nuclear power for the Moon is not new. Look up e.g. Kilopower.

2) None of this clearly would violate international law.

3) It can be done very safely, and I suspect NASA would do it safely.

Good for her. She’s an outstanding reporter and the Washington Post is no longer worthy of her work.

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This is an abduction

Nebraska, everyone.

The thing about redacting names in the Epstein files is that I am automatically going to assume every redacted name is Donald J. Trump.

Dollar weakens as rate cut odds rise, tariff uncertainties linger The U.S. dollar wavered on Tuesday as the rising odds of Federal Reserve rate cuts weighed on sentiment, while investors assessed the broader economic impact of U.S. tariffs unleashed last week.

Dollar weakens as rate cut odds rise, tariff uncertainties linger reut.rs/455UML6

Melania Trump did this to the White House rose garden so her husband couldn't bury her there.

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

Netanyahu government votes to dismiss attorney general Israel’s cabinet voted to dismiss Israel’s attorney general, a key Netanyahu critic, as the U.S. grows increasingly impatient with the war in Gaza.

Gift Article:

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government voted unanimously Monday to dismiss his attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, the chief prosecutor in his ongoing corruption case…”

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And our country should not be backing an authoritarian government period full stop!

Jeanine Pirro is an election denier who called the J6 attackers "hostages" & has unfairly attacked DOJ

She is the latest Trump nominee to be confirmed by a MAGA majority in the Senate that has abdicated "advise & consent"

I explained @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social @msnbc.com

“‘I’ve never met a person so!intellectually, and emotionally, … limited,’ said Charles Leerhsen, the co-author of Trump’s 1990 book ‘Surviving at the Top,’ who has been warning about Trump’s innumeracy and, more generally, his ignorance, since Trump began his first run for president in 2015. ...

“‘And that’s why some people mistake his idiocy for “chess on three levels,”’Leerhsen continued, ‘because, being unable to understand him, and feeling that nobody could be as dumb as he seems, they arrive at the conclusion that he is actually smarter than they are.’”

If anyone is wondering the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad is now a TWO WEEK story on Fox News. No kidding. The network is that pathetic. The Five is including a full segment on it.

Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.

The Anatomy of “Othering”: How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence

🧵The Anatomy of “Othering”:
How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence

All autocratic regimes need enemies.

Authoritarians invent them to seize power.

Learn how you’ve been othered by MAGA👇

open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

The difference between Texas Democrats leaving the state and House Republicans fleeing D.C. is a perfect example of what separates the two parties.

How is Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected, and why is Trump targeting it? The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been thrust into the spotlight after President Trump criticized its federal jobs report and fired commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

A government agency best known for its number-crunching prowess has recently become the target of the president’s criticism.

Here’s what you need to know about the Bureau of Labor Statistics and what happens next.

But they have money for millions of dollars for weekly golf trips, & hundreds of millions for a ballroom that is only for the oligarchs.