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Writing about space policy and politics, from the Space Coast of Florida. Now retired after ten years doing public education at Kennedy Space Center. You can also find me on Counter.Social at the same handle, and a Star Trek blog at TheWrittenTrek.com.
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#Politics From Tampa Bay Times: #Florida governor #DeSantis wants to roll back the state's child labor laws to fill jobs left vacant by the deportation of immigrants. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

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Good evening from the #SpaceCoast of #Florida.

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Hey I wrote a super cheerful and not-at-all anxiety-inducing cartoon to start off the week! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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#Politics From @washingtonpost.com: #IRS expects to lose up to 10% of this year's tax revenue due to #Trump staff cuts. wapo.st/4iPfJ0O

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I've been saying all along that DOGE is going into these agencies to capture data looking for dissidents. Elon is using AI to find anyone not marching in goose step to Dear Leader.

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Not an Elon fan by any means, but I had a friend who worked at SpaceX. She said that Elon did share buybacks once every quarter for those who wanted to cash out for whatever reason. Always ask for context.

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#Space #NASA Now playing at Space Center Houston. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNzh...

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#Politics BREAKING from @washingtonpost.com: #Trump administration threatening to close the Social Security Administration and suspend payments unless Elon #Musk and #DOGE get access to personal data. wapo.st/4bM5d89

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Tesla is recalling 46,096 Cybertruck vehicles in the United States to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving, the latest in a series of call-backs for the pickup truck since last year cnn.it/4ips9g8

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From #Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance: #Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks due to pieces of steel trim falling off. They weren't fastened, they were glued on! The parts are falling off. finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-r...

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Anyways...

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Welcome home, Crew-9—Nick, Aleksandr, Suni, and Butch! May we never, ever have to hear words like “stranded,” “abandoned,” or “stuck” again. Seriously. Ever. But I digress… Thank you for your service—not just to our country, but to humanity.

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Dragon Freedom (Crew-9) has now descended to about a 197 x 389 km orbit, and is preparing for trunk jettison and the deorbit burn

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The #NASA #SpaceX #Crew9 deorbit burn should begin at about 5:05 PM EDT. Watch live now on the NASA YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYt...

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This afternoon's #SpaceX #Starlink launch as seen from north Merritt Island.

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#Politics You may recall that last week the #Trump White House withdrew its nomination of local wackadoodle Dave Weldon to be #CDC director. In today's #FloridaToday, Weldon blames "big Pharma" for sabotaging his nomination. www.floridatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Here's the August 2024 #NASA presser discussing Butch and Suni's reassignment to Crew-9, disproving the lies #Trump and #Musk will be telling today about how they supposedly "rescued" the astronauts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UZu...

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"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO... "Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads... "The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

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#Space #SpaceCoast #NASA #CCSFS My latest Space Pundit Substack article is about the Vanguard 1 launch 67 years ago today. The satellite is the oldest object in orbit. The article includes a link to the audio instead the blockhouse during the launch. wordsmithfl.substack.com/p/the-oldest...

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Happy Sir Patrick's Day. #StarTrek

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#Musk #SpaceX #Tesla Some of you might get a laugh out of the "Elon Time" website ... In other words, when he gives a date, the average multiplier until it really happens (if ever). elontime.lol

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#Space #NASA #SpaceX Due to a deteriorating weather forecast off Florida for later in the week, NASA has moved up the Crew-9 return to Tuesday evening. Splashdown is around 6 PM EDT. (Spoiler ... They're not stranded. Never were.) www.nasa.gov/news-release...

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A guest on a recent radio show suggested that Elon #Musk and fellow travelers are part of a movement called neo-reactionism. He suggested reading this @nytimes.com interview with Curtis Yarvin, an intellectual figurehead for the movement. The article is gifted free. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

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#Space The #NASA #SpaceX crew Dragon launch as seen from north Merritt Island.

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#Space #SpaceCoast NASA and SpaceX are targeting 7:03 PM EDT for the #Crew10 launch to #ISS. Four astronauts are aboard -- two from NASA, one from Roscosmos, one from JAXA. The #Falcon9 will come back to land at #CCSFS. Watch live now on the NASA YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8u...

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#Space #NASA Over on Zombie Twitter, @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social just posted a photo of last night's lunar eclipse as seen from the moon! The photo was taken by its Blue Ghost robotic lander.

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From @nbcnews.com: #Trump has given the US military orders to draw up options for "reclaiming" the Panama Canal. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Johns Hopkins University announced that it will be cutting more than 2,000 jobs after it lost $800 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development amid the Trump administration’s effort to significantly downsize the federal government.

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#Space #NASA 95 years ago today, the Lowell Observatory announced they had found the elusive ninth planet, which they named #Pluto. They were wrong. Why is Pluto not a planet? Here's my latest Substack article, "Pluto is Not a Planet." wordsmithfl.substack.com/p/pluto-is-n...

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Then they came for the Brookies ... arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

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#Politics From @nbcnews.com: White House withdraws nomination of Dave Weldon to head #CDC just before his Senate confirmation hearing. Comment ... Weldon preceded "Birther" Bill Posey as the House representative from the #SpaceCoast. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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BREAKING ... #NASA and #SpaceX have scrubbed tonight's Falcon 9 crew Dragon launch. One of the clamp arms holding the erector to the rocket won't release.

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