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A former top staffer for Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has quit the campaign and is publicly unloading on his former boss.
Jordan Domingue, who says he worked closely with El-Sayed across two campaigns as his personal assistant and executive protection lead, accused him of being a “manufactured man” and described his behavior behind the scenes as “immature” and “cartoonishly fake masculinity.”
Domingue also alleged El-Sayed’s management “pushed multiple staff to tears” and said he ultimately walked away after becoming disillusioned with El-Sayed’s approach to foreign policy.
Is his campaign about to implode?
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My name is Byl Holte and I was born in 1961 - way before the Speech Police.
So I still say ILLEGAL ALIEN.
I still say RETARDED.
I still say FAT.
I still say MIDGET.
I still say STEWARDESS.
I still say LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
I still say CRIPPLE.
I still say DEAF.
I still say BLIND.
I still say HANDICAPPED.
I still say HOMELESS.
I still say CRAZY.
I still say INSANE.
I still say ORIENTAL.
I still say BLACKLIST.
I still say COLORED PEOPLE.
I still say MOTHER.
I still say MAN and WOMAN.
I still say MERRY CHRISTMAS.
I still say “INDIAN” instead of Native American.
I still say “good morning” and never “buenos dias.”
I still say “Elliot Page is a WOMAN.
I still know Trans women are MEN.
And I still know that if a woman kills her children, she deserves the death penalty, no questions asked.
My 65-year-old brain can’t help it.
It was programmed back when evil was evil, not something that needed to be debated.
So go ahead and call me whatever new name you just invented.
I was here first, and I’m not changing.
Who’s with me on that?
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The official verdict is absolute Crap!
I'm a Commercial pilot (Complex piston singles) and I have followed this story from the beginning. The official story is pathetic. This will go down in history as one best examples of aviation bravery.
For this story to have the happy ending that it did, 3 things had to happen perfectly:
First, Cpt. Smit who while on the floor (being attacked with an axe!!!) thought "these are my last moments, but I cant let these people die" and somehow opened the cockpit door. Without his bravery and determination, Everybody dies no question.
Second the passengers Yaniv and Yitzhack rushed the cockpit the minute they heard screams. Dont minimize this. Most people in a situation like this would freeze in their seats. Not to mention getting the the front of the plane in a zero G nose over. I'm assuming IDF training (mandatory for all Israelis) but even then excellent reactions under pressure. By rushing to the front immediately, they were on the other side of the door the second that Cpt Smit opened it. The IDF training also probably had a hand in their ability to rapidly neutralize the co-pilot.
Yaniv taking the stick and pulling out of the dive is critical simply because there was no time otherwise. At the rate of decent by that point there is maybe 30s to impact if they keep diving (and they were already past Vne)
However, contrary to popular male ego, a non pilot successfully recovering the plane has odds near zero. Commercial aircraft are huge and have massive momentum. Even in a small plane, if you are too heavy on the controls nothing happens for ten seconds, then next thing you know you are upside down. The most likely outcome after a non-pilot pulling out of a dive would be overcontrolling and triggering a stall. Fortunately (according to Yaniv's interview) the relief pilot took over just as he leveled the plane.
The relief pilots being on board was fortunate, the relief pilot managing to take over the controls before Yaniv could trigger a stall was perfect timing. The pilots were not just random pilots or random airline pilots, they were the relief crew which meant they had hundreds if not thousands of hours in that exact model. Why is this important? Because the co-pilot had smashed the instruments (once again from Yaniv's interview) and the rudder was damaged from exceeding Vne. The relief pilots could handle this as a routine emergency, for a pilot unfamiliar with that airplane and instruments smashed it would be a insurmountable challenge.
Finally the Pilot who thought he was going to die was in luck because on board was a dentist. A dental surgeon no less. Not quite the same an ER doc, but enough to stop major arterial bleeding from multiple wounds.
If somebody doesnt make a great movie out of this it would be a crime. This is aviation history being made.
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Explain this to a Japanese person, because we are utterly baffled.
If a foreign network systematically drugged and raped tens of thousands of schoolgirls in Tokyo and Osaka...
If the police covered it up to avoid being called racist...
And if our government then handed citizenship to a foreign militant while letting rape ringleaders walk free...
Our cabinet would fall by midnight.
Every police chief involved would be in prison attire within a week.
The entire country would stand united in unstoppable outrage.
Yet in Britain, you are told to stay polite.
You are told to watch your tone.
You are told that anger makes you "far-right."
At what point did not offending the political elite become more important than the physical bodies of your daughters?
Politeness is a virtue.
Politeness in the face of child sacrifice is complicity.
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Unborn Babies Disguise Selves As Death Row Inmates So Liberals Will Defend Their Right To Live buff.ly/RiYEyHx
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Today on Earth, a tanker crossing the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an unknown projectile, causing a small fire and temporary blackout. No casualties were reported, and the vessel continued its journey. It was the fifth tanker struck in the region in recent days. No one claimed responsibility.
In Yemen, the internationally recognized government said its warplanes carried out 20 strikes against Houthi targets in Taiz within three hours. Fighting spread across the province, roads were closed and tens of thousands of people have already been displaced. Reuters also reported that Saudi Arabia is preparing a broader offensive aimed at securing the Bab el Mandeb shipping route.
Russian drone attacks disrupted traffic across three of Kyiv’s six road bridges over the Dnipro River. Ukraine also said it had received separate proposals from the United States, India, Turkey and Egypt for a limited truce covering energy infrastructure and Black Sea shipping.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola death toll passed 4,000. Health officials reported 4,018 deaths among approximately 8,300 cases across seven provinces, making it the fastest growing Ebola outbreak on record. Frontline health workers also protested unpaid wages as the response struggled to contain the spread.
Taiwan received the first two F-16V fighter jets from a long delayed purchase from the United States. The aircraft are part of an $8 billion order and arrived amid continuing Chinese military pressure around the island.
The G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products from emergency reserves over the next four months, beginning with substantial supplies of diesel. President Trump also said he would not impose a ban on American diesel exports.
The United States added 29,000 jobs in September, far below the forecast of 90,000. Unemployment rose to 4.2%, while job growth for the previous two months was revised downward by a combined 60,000. Stocks rose as investors lowered their expectations of another interest rate increase this month.
The jobs report missed the forecast, so Wall Street celebrated. Bad news is now an interest rate strategy.
Attorneys for Christa Pike said she remained unconscious and on a ventilator two days after Tennessee’s unsuccessful attempt to execute her by lethal injection. Governor Bill Lee suspended the state’s remaining execution for the year and ordered an independent investigation.
Former U.S. Representative David Rivera was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for acting as an unregistered agent of Nicolás Maduro’s government and laundering millions of dollars connected to a $50 million lobbying campaign.
Apple said it will introduce stronger warnings and controls when artificial intelligence agents request full access to data stored on Mac computers. The change followed complaints involving Meta’s Muse agent. Meta said access to messages is optional and requires users to grant two separate permissions.
AI agents asked for the keys to the entire computer. Apple has decided the owner should at least be notified.
On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall joined the United States Supreme Court, becoming its first African American justice. He served on the court for 24 years.
That was one day on Earth.
See you tomorrow. Same planet. The oil is in reserve. The restraint is not. 🌎
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Pour comprendre ce qui se passe, il faut revenir trente-cinq ans en arrière.
Le mur tombe. L'Occident pense avoir gagné l'Histoire. Fukuyama annonce la fin des conflits idéologiques, et une génération de dirigeants européens en tire une conclusion folle : les nations, les frontières, les cultures, tout ça appartient au passé. L'avenir, c'est un grand marché sans visage, géré par des experts, des traités et des commissions que personne n'a élus.
Maastricht en 1992. L'euro. La désindustrialisation assumée, parce qu'on peut tout produire en Chine et que les usines sont ringardes. L'immigration de masse érigée en politique, sans jamais demander l'avis des peuples. Et quand les peuples disent non, comme en 2005 au référendum sur la Constitution européenne, on passe outre et on fait voter la même chose par le Parlement trois ans plus tard.
Pendant ce temps, dans les universités, une autre machine tourne. Une idéologie qui enseigne aux enfants que leur civilisation est coupable, que leur histoire est une honte, que le mérite est une oppression et que l'ordre est une violence. Elle sort des campus, elle colonise les médias, les administrations, les grandes entreprises. C'est ce qu'Elon appelle le woke mind virus.
Le résultat, on l'a sous les yeux. Une classe dirigeante hors sol qui parle à Davos et ne sait plus parler à Lorient. Un État obèse qui prélève tout et ne protège plus rien. Une dette qui explose. Des services publics qui s'effondrent. Et une partie de la jeunesse qui filme en rigolant un pompier en train de brûler.
Voilà l'aboutissement du projet globaliste. Et maintenant, trois issues.
La première, c'est 1984. Le système sent qu'il perd le contrôle, alors il serre la vis. Identité numérique obligatoire, monnaie numérique de banque centrale, censure des réseaux au nom de la lutte contre la désinformation, surveillance algorithmique de chaque échange. On ne règle aucun problème de fond, on interdit simplement d'en parler. C'est la voie que Bruxelles prépare déjà avec le DSA. Un ordre sans liberté.
La deuxième, c'est la libanisation. Le système n'arrive même plus à contrôler. L'État se retire morceau par morceau. Des quartiers entiers passent sous d'autres lois. Les hôpitaux ferment, la police ne vient plus, l'électricité devient incertaine, les communautés s'arment et se replient sur elles-mêmes. Le pays ne meurt pas d'un coup, il se fragmente. Le Liban était la Suisse du Moyen-Orient. Il a suffi de quelques années.
La troisième, c'est le rebond. Le retour de l'ordre. L'Union européenne telle qu'on la connaît se disloque, les nations reprennent leur souveraineté, et vient le temps des comptes. Un Nuremberg du communisme et de tous ceux qui ont mené ce continent dans le mur en toute connaissance de cause.
Et je pense que cette troisième voie est de loin la plus probable. Pour une raison simple que personne ne veut voir.
La France est une puissance nucléaire. Elle a des sous-marins lanceurs d'engins, près de trois cents têtes, un siège permanent au Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU. Jamais les États-Unis ne laisseront un arsenal pareil tomber dans les mains du chaos intégral. Jamais. Washington peut tolérer une France faible, une France arrogante, une France qui donne des leçons. Il ne tolérera jamais une France libanisée avec la bombe.
Ce qui veut dire que le scénario du chaos total a un plafond. Il y a un point au-delà duquel la plus grande puissance du monde interviendra, d'une manière ou d'une autre, pour que l'ordre revienne. Et l'Amérique d'aujourd'hui n'est plus celle d'Obama. C'est celle qui a décidé de détruire le woke mind virus. Avec Elon, qui réussit tout ce qu'il entreprend. Les fusées réutilisables, les voitures électriques, Starlink, le rachat de Twitter que tout le monde disait impossible. Il ne parle pas, il exécute.
En face, qu'est-ce qu'il y a ? De la fausse intelligence. L'apparence de l'intelligence. Macron en est l'incarnation parfaite : un produit de communication. Retirez-lui ses conseillers, ses éléments de langage, ses mises en scène, et il ne reste personne. Mettez-le devant un tableau blanc avec un vrai problème à résoudre, il ne saurait même pas par où commencer. Un système entier dirigé par des gens qui savent paraître, et plus aucun qui sait faire.
Ce système tient sur l'illusion. Et les illusions finissent toujours par tomber.
Alors oui, j'ai de l'espoir. Je crois que toute cette fraude va s'effondrer. Et je crois que juste après, viendra une renaissance. Celle des bâtisseurs, des ingénieurs, des entrepreneurs, des gens qui se lèvent le matin pour construire. Ceux qui font, pas ceux qui paraissent.
L'Europe s'est déjà relevée de ses cendres. Après Rome, après la peste, après deux guerres mondiales. Elle le refera.
Et cette fois, on sera là pour la reconstruire.
I’ve been saying things like this for years. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?
Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.
Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.
Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.
Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.
Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.
There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.
There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”
Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??
And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?
Your body started as ONE CELL.
ONE.
And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?
The iron in our blood was made inside a star??
We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?
We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?
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How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?
Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.
Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.
Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.
Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.
Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.
There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.
There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”
Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??
And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?
Your body started as ONE CELL.
ONE.
And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?
The iron in our blood was made inside a star??
We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?
We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?
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Illegals: A Warning to Americans:
Since ~2019, I have tracked caravans of illegals from So America to the US. I interviewed them, followed them into cartel towns and jungles, and observed all that they were willing to do — sell themselves, go without food, steal, risk every kind of danger, make Faustian bargains, etc. — to get to the US. Always I had this feeling, a memory, really, from my years of studying history, that I couldn’t put my finger on, but it was trying to penetrate my conscious being.
Then it came to me: They are tougher than Americans. Writing on the fall of Athens, historian Will Durant said, “Nations are born stoic and die epicurean.” That is, nations are born amidst struggle and hardship and collapse as seekers of pleasure.
I said I had a memory of sorts that was trying to find expression, and it ran along much the same lines as Durant’s observation. I remembered that Rome collapsed, not in a day, but over the course of centuries that accelerated into decades, as wave upon wave of uncivilized Germanic tribesmen, “illegals” so to speak, poured across the empire’s northern frontier and eventually sacked Rome itself. Rome had been built on strong, large families; unity of purpose; and the hard work of its people. Its armies were, at its height, citizen armies. Men fought to preserve what they knew and loved.
Near its end, Romans were a lazy, self-indulgent people who paid others to do their fighting. Infanticide, which was common throughout Rome’s history, became a capital offense and a woman who aborted her child, also common, could be executed or exiled. This wasn’t due to any moral considerations, a recognition of the personhood of an unborn child, or anything like that at all. It was a much too late recognition that with the dramatic decline in the size of Roman families as prosperity increased, came a decrease in tax revenues and an over-reliance on foreigners to fill the ranks of the army — all of which would prove disastrous for Rome.
Sound familiar?
All of this was somewhere in the back of my mind, a feeling at first, as I observed the third worlders making their way by the millions to our borders. I saw them in the violence of Africa, the intrigues of the Middle East, and everywhere there is misery south of our border. Generally speaking, they are a people inured to suffering (theirs or that of others), are accustomed to death, unaccustomed to the comforts Americans take for granted, have lived in nothing but squalor, do not share your views of private property or civil discourse, view violence as a part of daily life, lack even the most basic education, and have little sympathy for the low pain threshold of Americans.
These are the people coming to take your inheritance from you. Coming from a “might makes right” world, they know no other policy. They have no vested interest in preserving American law or culture, and that is because it isn’t their heritage and they don’t understand it. Democrats seem to think they will be immune from all of this because they foolishly believe these newcomers will view them as benefactors. They do not. I’ve met them, been in their cardboard camps, walk with them on trails, heard their hopes and dreams, and in none of it is there such nuanced thinking. America is, for them, a ripe fruit theirs for the taking.
Once you open the castle gates and lower the drawbridge, you no longer control the outcome. Indeed, you have surrendered it. And why are Democrats willing to do that? Because they hate Americans more than this still ill-defined rabble, and they don’t understand what’s coming. These people are tougher than you, and they don’t give a damn about you.
Be careful how you vote. The future you hope for will be, I promise, very different from the rosy one media promises you.
I’m speaking from firsthand experience.
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Probably the MOST incredible and well-made video I’ve seen in a long time. Wow. Wow. Wow🔥
It takes the slander they throw at us every day and runs it until the slander breaks. The people who actually filled the trains never dropped a warning, never opened a corridor, never paused a war to keep someone else’s children alive.
The @IDF who the haters keep dressing in that uniform does the entire list they just invented for a ghost.
You simply MUST watch this.
Credit: @stephenpowell33
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At the height of its power and prosperity, America lost its capacity to transmit basic numeracy and literacy to a rising generation because it handed over pedagogy to a pseudo-scholarly establishment that paid a credentialed caste handsomely to propagate ruinous errors that conformed to moral vanities that it chose to prioritize over all other values
People have heard about the phonics vs triple-queuing fiasco but there is a similar issue in math where ed school ideologues have stigmatized the normal and necessary work of drilling novice students in the fundamentals.
slowboring.com/p/math-needs-…
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what Elon Musk has done to make my life better:
- electric cars
- satellite internet
- saved free speech
what Jeff Bezos has done to make my life better:
- nationwide next-day delivery
- architecture that powers the internet
what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have done to make my life better:
- made the internet searchable
- online email and documents platform
what Mark Zuckerberg has done to make my life better:
- social media to keep me connected to friends
- online ads platform
what Larry Ellison has done to make my life better:
- database software for my businesses
- data centers for AI and cloud computing
what Jensen Huang has done to make my life better
- hardware that powers the AI revolution
what Bernie Sanders has done to make my life better:
🤖 Made with AI
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Today on Earth, U.S. and Iranian officials continued indirect talks on ending the eight-month conflict and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran proposed lifting sanctions and releasing frozen assets, but Washington said the nuclear issue remained unresolved.
Eight U.S. Marines suffered minor injuries earlier this month when Iran attacked a nonmilitary vessel they were aboard, The Washington Post reported.
British police released five men arrested near RAF Fairford, a U.S.-used air base. They remain under investigation, including over possible links to a foreign state or its proxies.
Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine people and injured more than 80, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He also said Russia currently has more than 8,000 North Korean troops and is preparing to receive another 10,000.
In Myanmar, an airstrike near a market killed at least 49 people and wounded 58.
Two women and a 10-year-old child died during an attempted English Channel crossing from France.
A court in Rome sentenced three Egyptian security officials to 10 years in prison for the kidnapping of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in 2016.
Flooding affected about 700,000 people in Bangkok after heavy rains.
The United States and China announced plans to lower tariffs on $60 billion in selected goods and extended their trade truce to January 10.
President Trump announced plans for a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa. The administration also rolled back fuel economy standards.
OpenAI canceled the planned launch of its GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns. SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time and deployed 26 Starlink satellites, though an engine failure shortened the mission.
One stayed grounded for safety; the other made orbit and still had to cut the trip short.
Major League Baseball’s labor contract expires December 1, and owners are expected to impose a lockout over a proposed salary cap.
On this day in 1928, Alexander Fleming noticed that mold had killed bacteria in a laboratory culture, leading to the discovery of penicillin.
That was one day on Earth.
See you tomorrow. Same planet. It seems to have no off switch. 🌎
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How did this happen in the first place? And what else are they doing to discriminate against Christians? Never going there again.
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WHILE THE WORLD ARGUES, AMERICA PUT A CITY-SIZED ROCKET IN ORBIT
At 7:48 this morning, while the rest of the planet was still arguing about tariffs and elections and whose fault everything is, a rocket taller than the Statue of Liberty lifted off a beach in South Texas and did something no rocket that size has ever done. It went to orbit and stayed there.
That's Starship, on its fourteenth try. Thirteen times before this it flew and fell short, sometimes spectacularly, and thirteen times a certain kind of commentator declared the whole thing a billionaire's fireworks show. This morning it had an engine quit on the way up. The old way of doing things, the way of committees and cautious men, would have been to abort and study it for a year. Instead, the ship relit an engine it wasn't supposed to need, pushed itself the rest of the way to 17,500 miles an hour, and opened its doors.
Out came twenty-six satellites, each one the size of a 737 when it unfolds. The company's own spokesman said the payload was worth about twenty Falcon 9 launches of bandwidth. Twenty flights' worth of internet, delivered in one morning, from one ship, and then the ship came home and splashed down in the Pacific in time for lunch.
Here's what I keep coming back to. Nobody made the country do this. No five-year plan, no ministry of rockets. A bunch of engineers on a Texas beach decided the future should arrive sooner, and it did, and the rest of us got to watch it on our phones. That's not something that happens everywhere. It happens here.
Every empire in history was built by whoever controlled the high ground. For a few thousand years that meant the hill above the river. Then the sea. Then the air. This morning, in the time it takes to eat breakfast, we reminded the world where the high ground is now, and who's standing on it.
Argue about the rest of it. That's fine. That's what a free country does. But somebody put a city-sized rocket in orbit today, and it wasn't them.
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Apple just mass-killed 9 paid apps with one free software update.
iOS 27 shipped September 22. Most people saw a new look and moved on.
A developer who tracks App Store economics looked at the feature list and said: "Apple just made $372/year in paid apps completely unnecessary. They rebuilt the functionality of 9 subscription apps and buried it inside a free update. Most people will keep paying because they'll never find the settings."
He showed me every feature and the paid app each one kills.
Here's the full list 🧵
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Today on Earth, President Trump rejected Iran’s seven-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pause fighting in the Middle East. Trump said Iran wanted the waterway reopened because of the economic pressure it was facing and said he remained willing to make a deal, but not on Tehran’s terms. Iran said it still wanted a diplomatic solution and was waiting for a response through mediators.
A Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted two ballistic missiles and two drones launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis. The missiles were headed toward Khamis Mushait and the drones toward Riyadh.
At the United Nations, China pushed back against the United States over Iran and Cuba. Chinese Vice President Han Zheng urged respect for the sovereignty and security of Gulf countries and called on Washington to end sanctions on Cuba. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also called for U.S. restrictions on Cuba to be lifted.
Hours later, Trump said he believed the United States and Cuba would eventually reach an agreement and did not think military action would be necessary. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said Cuba remained open to dialogue and commercial relations while opposing U.S. sanctions.
Russia and Germany’s foreign ministers also met at the U.N. in their first talks since before Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Germany called for an immediate ceasefire and progress on restoring Black Sea grain exports. Russia said it was discussing safe-navigation proposals with India, Egypt and Turkey.
Four years without speaking. Turns out they could’ve waited five.
In Paris, an estimated 800,000 people filled the Champs-Élysées for an outdoor Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV. Crowds stretched from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe as Leo urged Catholics to seek happiness in faith rather than material things.
800,000 people gathered on the Champs-Élysées to hear that material things don’t bring happiness. In Paris. Of course.
In Bangladesh, the government launched a measles-rubella vaccination campaign targeting 3.4 million children who missed earlier immunizations. More than 185,000 suspected cases have been recorded since March, along with more than 1,000 confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths.
In Thailand, Bangkok was declared a disaster-affected zone after nearly 12 inches of rain fell in 48 hours, flooding roads and leaving cars partially submerged. The army opened shelters and field kitchens, and residents near canals were told to move belongings higher.
In Athens, rescuers recovered six bodies from a residential building that collapsed after an explosion in the historic Plaka district near the Acropolis. Four victims were Americans. Investigators were examining reports of a gas smell.
In the northeastern United States, a powerful nor’easter battered New York and New Jersey with heavy rain, strong winds and coastal flooding. More than 100,000 homes and businesses lost power at one point and more than 400 flights were canceled. A 56-year-old man was killed in Brooklyn by a falling tree.
Hurricane Nolo remained south of Hawaii’s Big Island with winds of about 90 mph, bringing heavy rain and the threat of flash flooding and mudslides. Parts of the island could receive up to 20 inches of rain.
Farther east, Hurricane Polo weakened from Category 5 to Category 4 as it moved northwest toward Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. By Saturday evening, Polo had winds of about 145 mph and was expected to weaken before approaching Baja California Sur.
And on this day in 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon met in Chicago for the first nationally televised presidential debate between the major-party nominees. Roughly 70 million Americans watched as presidential politics entered the television age.
That was one day on Earth.
See you tomorrow. Same planet. Still talking. Still flooding. 🌎
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Every elementary schoolchild in California is taught that a boy can have a vagina and a girl can have a penis. Orwell's novel was not just about a repressive state apparatus, but what that repressive state apparatus did: it commanded those within its power to believe a falsehood that the state designated as virtuous.
So California doesn't have a Ministry of Love into which people disappear, that's true. But it does command you to ignore the evidence of your senses and believe a state approved dogma.
When we say that the transgender movement is Orwellian, we are not claiming that people who dispute state-enforced dogma are being disappeared into torture chambers. That is only one part of Orwell's dystopia that we haven't yet reached -- and that hopefully we never reach. (Which is one of the many reasons we resist the transgender movement.) We are noting that the state is teaching children to repeat a falsehood -- a lie -- as the only truth. We are noting that children are being disciplined for stating a truth and refusing to lie. We are noting that people have been sentenced to prison in Brazil for making an accurate reference to a person's sex, and that ruinous financial penalties have been imposed by courts in Australia and Canada for disputing transgender dogmas. We know what the movement seeks: the redefinition of sex classes to be inclusive of both sexes and the top-down re-engineering of language and law enforced by the state. We know this because the movement has exerted its power to this end wherever it obtains the power to do so.
To say that a movement that uses state power to punish people for stating truths and denying falsehoods should not be analogized to Orwell, who warned of exactly this, is to participate in Orwellian machinations yourself. ("But there is no system of Gulags to punish people who believe that man can't become a women!" Indeed there is not, and we want to keep in that way.) To say that state enforced re-engineering of language is "just how language works" is to be a liar on behalf of this movement, which is exactly what the movement does to everyone who supports it: it makes them a liar and an enemy of human freedom.