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This blog will pay for itself.

I really should read my own blog.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Let there be snark.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Come on, man.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Fight them, without becoming them!

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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Very Late Open Thread: Will They Or Won’t They?

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Will NASA launch Artemis tonight? Only time will tell.

It’s on hold as I write this…

 

This… was so freaking perfect. Someone needs to make it a meme. Remora journalism is how I’m going to describe Haberman from this moment on.

And a little humor…

Everyone is in bed here and I’m off to join them. Been a long day.

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    kindness

    Maggie helps Trump every chance she gets.  She’ll never change.  NY Times too.  Pravda for the fascist adjacent.

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    Shalimar

    Are we sure Haberman wasn’t watching something else?  I didn’t personally watch, but every other critique I have seen described the exact opposite of Maggie’s bullshit.

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    otmar

    I have to say: very considerate from NASA to delay the launch so that I can watch it live over breakfast.

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    MobiusKlein

    Goin’ back to the moon.   What a night.  I want to say something petty about some guy, but

     

    nah

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    eddie blake

    ot- sooo just for the record, you know how we know that crime in nyc isn’t really a problem and has just been totally blown out of proportion by the media, the fascist gop and mayor cop?

    bc people walk around with their five hundred dollar smartphones out, earbuds in, oblivious to their surroundings and without a care in the world.

    back in the day? when shit was actually dangerous, you hadda walk around with your head on a swivel. these days people have their heads up their asses.

    it’s kind of amazing (and a bit infuriating when you’re trying to catch a train). but yeah, no one’s scared of a crimewave in nyc. some may have said they were, but their behavior gives away the game

    eta- go rocket! (also go knicks! they beat the jazz! pretty sweet.)

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    SectionH

    @JoyceH: I’d just gotten home, and was reading NASA’s posts (yeah on my Twitter feed), and  I was reading “Oh shit, who knows when”, and then YES. Yeah, not the same as waiting for the countdown in real time, but I am so old I watched John Glenn’s first flight (from the floor of the gym at my elementary school with Everyone at the school.)  But since Challenger, I’m good with third hand cheering.

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    SectionH

    @eddie blake: there was a time when we were just driving to some convention in Orlando, and then WAIT WUT? –  Major Contrail Straight UP. All the cars, all of us just pulled over to watch. My memory takes over with smiles about that one.

    The night launch at the FL smofcon , which a bunch of ppl got into a couple of years later was apparently spectacular.

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    RobertDSC-Mac Mini

    I’m so happy Artemis got a good launch. The company I used to work for provides support for NASA launches and I bet they were in their secure area helping for this one, too.

    I have a tiny connection to the SLS program, my current company did work on alloy samples a few months back.

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    JWR

    Yikes. Maggie’s crush is showing!

    Maggie’s access is visibly growing again
    — FA (@FADCLDN) November 16, 2022

    From Tom Watson’s tweet. BYW, did anyone here actually read Haberman’s book, about which she told Stephen Colbert, “I don’t do ‘takes’, Stephen”, only to find that it was nothing but, oh, what’s the word, “takes”?

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    p.a.

    Wikipedia: Although it was initially believed that remoras fed off particulate matter from the host’s meals, this has been shown to be false; in reality, their diets are composed primarily of host feces.[8

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    Ruckus

    @SectionH:

    8th grade when John Glenn went up. Have always wondered what it would be like to go. Never wondered enough though. Pretty amazing how the last 60 yrs have gone with space flight. It still doesn’t seem all that normal. It’s somewhat like commercial flight. 60 yrs ago it was done but nothing like now. I flew 19 yrs ago to New Zealand, non stop. 13 hrs. Sat next to a German fella who worked for an international company and 3 weeks later he was on the same flight coming back to L.A. It really has become a small world. Now if we could only get assholes to not start wars because their penis is way too small…..

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    Cameron

    @p.a.: Sometimes I’ve considered Trump as a scarab beetle, a creature which was held sacred by some but which feasted on carrion and dung.

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    Matt McIrvin

    So, the elephant in the room is that the other half of the Moon landing scheme is supposed to be dependent on, um, one of Elon Musk’s companies. (And it’s a really weird, over-engineered approach.) What do you think the odds are it actually happens?

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    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @eddie blake: I am sometimes surprised more people don’t get hit by cars or fall into construction zones..or down subway station steps.  I don’t even go into the city much but the sheer level of inattention is nuts.  Hapensin my building at work too, walking down stairs, halls, into elevators looking at their screen with their ear buds in.  I am going to start letting them walk into me because I am sick of it.. Except they would probably break my recently replaced knee and I would be seen as at fault….  Ok I’ll be over here yell at the kids to get off my lawn.

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