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I live in Tennessee, USA. I am an engineer, patent attorney, weight lifter, hiker, music lover, and astronomer. Bearded. NoVid. Circumcised, but restoring. Active Nov. 2024. Don't follow me if you expect me to follow back. No DMs.
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❗️🇷🇺Moscow airports are in chaos after a drone attack. Many flights were delayed or canceled. Russians are stuck in queues and passengers are not being allowed off planes.

Sweden to fund Ukrainian Deep Strike militarnyi.com/en/news/swed...

Yup.

🇺🇦🚀 "If we have money, we will respond to Russia's missile attacks, and this will bring us closer to peace," — Zelensky 🇺🇸 Putin is more irritating to the White House than I am, — Zelensky

🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is welcomed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz with official ceremony in Berlin, Germany on May 28, 2025.

JUST IN: Trump administration says it is working to charter a flight back to the United States for O.C.G., who a judge ordered returned from Guatemala to receive due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sounds about right. This is a reminder that, yes, ICE can in fact bring people back that it has wrongfully deported. It is just choosing not to do that for Mr. Abrego Garcia, in violation of a court order. But in this case, it doesn't have the figleaf of CECOT to hide behind.

while I knew judges have been getting anonymous 'I know where you live' pizza deliveries, I didn't know til writing this piece on Trump endangering judges that many orders were placed in the name of a judge's son who was murdered by someone posing as a deliveryman ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I have not seen a valid argument against living wages. There is not one. People who work full-time should be able to live on their paycheck. That’s basic common sense.

One thing we never talk about is how NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX does. For NASA, they’ve been under a strict microscope of not wasting taxpayer dollars in their pursuits. The bar was always high. SpaceX has a lower bar, all while still using taxpayer dollars.

5/27/25😳”Groundwater is disappearing 2.4 times faster than the surface water” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Russian media report a massive drone attack on Russia last night. Authorities report shooting down 296 drones. Explosions were heard in many Russian cities. Several Russian airports have been closed for hours. There are huge lines and dozens of canceled or delayed flights.

BREAKING: Elon Musk's AI Company is Choking Memphis Residents and Not Enough People Are Talking About It. This is the scariest story, and more people need to read it. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

“We’re using Patriot missiles carefully, just like before,” Zelensky said. “We’re tackling the toughest threats—ballistic and cruise missiles. We have the rockets, and partners are helping. We’re getting close to decisions on licensing other air defense systems, but I can’t share details yet.”

Many believed that EU would not be able to reach its ambitious 2030 climate goal Now: EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Red Miami turns its back on Marco Rubio: The first Latino Secretary of State squanders his political capital in Florida over Trump’s immigration policy and the decision to end TPS for Venezuelans #FAFO english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-...

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

Hateful woman in Palmdale, California, keeps threatening to call ICE on a man—for flying a Mexican flag. Except, he’s an American citizen and flies the flag because he sells Mexican food. That’s it.

Heroin soaked brain worm guy is trying to kill us all. By taking away vaccines from a large segment of the population, he risks everyone else with disease or death. I’m so fed up with this administration & anti-vax conspiracy nut bars. ⬇️ #ProudBlue #OneV1 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

⚡️Ukraine to ramp up arms production for symmetrical response to Russia, Zelensky says. Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 27 the government is fully mobilizing "entrepreneurial capacity for weapons production" and plans to sign new agreements with European partners to attract investment.

THREAD 🧵 🚨 ICE Agents Arrest Immigrants at Courthouses 🚨 Demand Immediate Investigations Masked ICE agents are arresting immigrants immediately after their court hearings, violating due process and deterring individuals from attending court. 1/4 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

When we can fix our own devices or take them to the shop we want, it saves us money and cuts down on waste. Glad to see these steps taken in our state – and I'll keep fighting in Congress for the right to repair our cars, ag equipment, and electronics.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

The new amerika

Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.

NASHVILLE SCENE: “The week after ICE concluded its operation, local lawyers noticed a spike in illegal evictions of Hispanic immigrant families, and the message from landlords to their tenants is clear: If you refuse to leave, we’ll call ICE.” www.nashvillescene.com/news/citylim...

Earlier today, Judge Tanya Chutkan in D.C. denied DOJ's motion to dismiss the multistate challenge to DOGE — allowing the litigation to proceed against everyone named but Trump: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

Integrety is priceless. Too few at the top have it these days.

💀 Russia loses 990 soldiers and 17 artillery systems over past day

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

Not a coincidence.

Actor Bryan Cranston on Donald Trump: “Trump is unabashadly a demagogue. He talks about issues and problems and if you listen to that, you would think that everything is horrible. He also doesn’t present any solutions. He’s saying nothing. He has no ideas.”

🎀🎀

Iowa, Nebraska announce first measles cases Iowa's patient is an unvaccinated adult, and Nebraska's is a vaccinated child who had not traveled outside the state. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

BREAKING: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

Her stats line up with CDC data…

NEWS: This evening, Judge Brian Murphy — with some fire — denied DOJ’s request that he reconsider his decision that the Trump administration violated his prior order by trying to send people to South Sudan in a plane that left the U.S. and got to Africa. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035.  Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

It's important to know the warning signs.