Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

No one could have predicted…

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

We will not go back.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Let there be snark.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

He really is that stupid.

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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  1. 1.

    Redshift

    Interesting note on this launch – The risk assessment office decided a couple of days ago to make the normal press area and nearby buildings off-limits, because the launch abort system is operational (if the rocket malfunctions, it will separate the capsule to preserve the cargo.) Because the prevailing winds are toward land, it would potential land on the grounds of Kennedy Space Center.

    (That could have changed since I read that report, though.)

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    Adam L Silverman

    Stuck the landing. 6.0, 6.0, 3.5 from the Uzbeki judge – they’ve been very tough on the mandatory fundamentals so far…

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    This makes me rather nostalgic for Uncle Walter doing countdowns on Apollo missions…

  12. 12.

    SgrAstar

    I LOVE this! It’s awesome to see them stick those landings. Also so fun to see those young engineers handling the narration of the mission with such aplomb. All of the kids in our family hang on every word.

  13. 13.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Major Major Major Major: I have no idea. I only know its been a too long weekend, so I’m going to rub doggy bellies and watch some expanded cable channel show on ghosts or cryptids or something.

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    scav

    Fun to be in a period again with active space stuff popping in at a regular clip. Belatedly found out about the Bronze Age archaeology at Must Farm today (here and here) which has more than fun levels of preservation. Oh, well, here’s another one with the cloth, although apparently no evidence of how many buttons they had, let alone kept buttoned.

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    Monala

    Adam, have you heard anything about 1500 U.S. service members being held hostage in Turkey?

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Monala: Its BS. Apparently someone at the Right Scoop decided that because Turkey has closed the airspace over Incirlik, this means that Erdogan is holding the US military personnel their hostage. This was then picked up by Mark Levin, Alan West, and others. No reputable news source, in the US, Britain, and/or Europe is reporting this as Turkey taking and holding American military personnel hostage. Every legitimate news service simply reported out that yesterday, as I mentioned in one of the Turkey coup posts, Erdogan had closed the airspace over Incirlik and the speculation is by holding up US airstrikes from Incirlik against IS in Syria, he may be trying to use this as leverage to get the US to send Gulen back so he can dispose of him. The Turks can’t really close the airspace and hold it closed. If they really tried to do so using their own air assets, they’d be quickly defeated by our carrier group based air assets in the Med. And Erdogan isn’t stupid. He maybe ruthless, but he knows he can’t make good on the airspace closure if we pushed it. We respect the airspace closure, because its a norm of sovereignty. But if we absolutely had to take off or land there right now, we could force things and it would be very, very uncomfortable for the Turks. But we’re not going to push this to breaking and neither will Erdogan. Neither we nor him are going to break NATO over this. Demarches will be traded. The CENTCOM Commander will be meeting with his counterparts. The Chief of Mission (Ambassador Ankara) with his. And the Senior Defense Official on the Chief of Mission’s staff with his. And Secretaries Kerry and Carter will be in contact with their counterparts. This will get resolved, though the usual suspects will be trying to make it out as a failure of President Obama’s leadership because he’s leading from behind. My guess is this is a screaming point that is being tried out for staying power ahead of tomorrow night’s RNC start.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    In related news, I’m going to see Endeavour later today(I actually got a ticket this time).

    ETA: Now back to reading “Before the Storm”.

  27. 27.

    Ken

    @jl: You do know what that machine did to the Krell, don’t you? (OK, technically what it allowed the Krell to do to themselves.)

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