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 LORD TRUMP BANANAS SAYS - HENCEFORTH, ALL ENERGY WILL BE CARBONIZED. JAN. 20

High Treason (1929) is a British science-fiction film that imagines life in the futuristic year 1950 pic.twitter.com/fJwTbtPU4x — Silent Movie GIFs (@silentmoviegifs) January 22, 2025

  World BEYOND War · A Levitation With Ed Sanders

  It’s been something of an afterthought since the US Apollo program ended in December of 1972, but the Moon is moving into the public spotlight again. What’s becoming clear is that a new Moon race is well underway, one with plenty of participants but one most pointedly pitting China against the US. The competition has a different character than it had in the now distant past — it’s become more a long-running endurance race and less the clearly defined sprint it was in the 1960s, when fear of Sputnik tended to unite sentiment in the US. Today, as opposed parties slot in and out, the ‘where’ and ‘when’ of US space targets are in constant flux, according to a China expert and tech strategy analyst. “Do we go to Mars or the Moon?” author Dean Cheng asked, as he discussed his “China and the New Moon Race” in a book launch and lecture at the Space Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. “When you think back over the last five administrations,” he said, “how often have we gone back and fort...

  Very exciting! SpaceX are now one step closer to their goal of a manned spaceflight with a 100% fatality rate [image or embed] — pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” ( @pixelatedboat.bsky.social ) January 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM

 From ‪Jack Vaughan - USA‬ ‪@jackvaughan.bsky.social‬ https://bsky.app/profile/jackvaughan.bsky.social/post/3lfugzary2c2s Reading the news: A Euphoric Tech Industry Is Ready to Celebrate Trump and Itself ... But their Giddiness is based on Confirmation bias that misleads.... Last year was notable because it was the first time that Republicans won the popular vote since 2004 ... But the victory does not stand out compared with much larger shifts in previous elections, like the 25-point turn toward Democrats in Jimmy Carter’s 1976 victory or the 23-point flip toward Republicans in Richard Nixon’s 1968 win. However the medias generally go with the Landslide narrative - which is easy for sports-attuned public to go with too ... After 4 years of incessant Trump trumpeting and Biden bashing the populi were worn out...Biden too! The drama of quickly switching in new candidate confused as many as it enthused...and Dems lost. But Election Narrative takes form of "Landslide". The 23-pt...

  UPDATED - Hit the road, Jack - The exit of hot shot legal eagle Jack Smith brings out a pet peeve long nagging me. News is based on something being new and important and dramatically so, so there is a bias in the press room toward building up a figure for news purposes. Such was the case with Smith and Robert Mueller. Each having a touch of Sam Waterson [or Abe Lincoln] about them but in the light of history rather thin in terms of effect. Not saying they had it easy, just saying they failed as redemptors. And the press just ran with the easy take at the start of the interludes. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-resigns.html Why am I including this stuff here? I am ratcheting back from Facebook – and this is why: Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term -The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. Zuckerberg has no spine – and he joins a par...