I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late.
— Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) April 24, 2026
The right stack is always taller.
On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on…
All posts by Rand Simberg
Better Late Than Never
No more Pell Grants for crap degrees. But the loan program still needs a massive overhaul, if not obliterated entirely.
The Latest From Jared
I understand some in the community have an affinity for specific hardware, but the focus should be on outcomes. With respect to SLS, the desired outcome is launching crewed Orion spacecraft at a reasonable cadence, rebuilding muscle memory, and buying down risk so we can land…
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) April 17, 2026
[Mid-morning update]
An interesting interview with him.
[Noon update]
ICYMI, from Jared’s X post: “I do not want to throw away billions of taxpayer dollars, and time we do not have, on a flavor of a rocket that is not necessary to return astronauts to the moon.”
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman has thoughts on his Congressional hearing.
[Bumped]
The SPLC
🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 22, 2026
11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:
• The indictment describes a paid informant in the… pic.twitter.com/iCQeu550kB
Is it possible that, after all these years, there will finally be consequences for this massive lawlessness and corruption?
[Update a while later]
Is anything the Democrats do not fraudulent?
With the organized-crime syndicate that is the Democrat party, it being fraudulent is always the way to bet.
The Real Reason Hegseth Is Targeted
🧵 THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup@PeteHegseth named the institutions… CFR, Brookings, the general class… in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color… pic.twitter.com/DgWilvJlf8
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 21, 2026
Launch Industry Woes
The only company currently performing is SpaceX.
And then we have the suit problem (that I talked about in my Reason study last year). But Eric Berger seems sanguine about it:
People often say there's no difference between "new" space and "traditional" space. Not true, and we've seen that play out with this spacesuit contract. Axiom has no guarantees it will ultimately profit on its fixed price suit contract with NASA. It could lose big time. But the…
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) April 21, 2026
[Afternoon update]
I left Rockwell a third of a century ago when it became very clear that, despite being the prime contractor on the Shuttle, they didn't see themselves as being in the space business. They were in the government-contracting business.
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) April 21, 2026
The “Palestinians”
Everyone is lying to you about them: A history.
The Chief Justice
He has been a disappointment, but then so was George W. Bush in general.
On The Iran War
Future Scarcity
An interesting discussion on the implications of AI and robots. Read the whole thread.
Maybe unpopular opinion? I think an age of abundance via AI might cause more war instead of less, because the value of land on earth will trend toward infinity (there is finite land on earth), while the cost of creating robot armies to fight over it will trend toward zero.
— Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) April 18, 2026