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Fantastic News
In Blow To Democrats, SCOTUS Rules They Have To Stop Being Racist https://t.co/kKW7YsB3lQ pic.twitter.com/tmszIB4CeJ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 29, 2026
Despite the source, it’s not a joke. Here’s more:
A few underrated follow-ons from this voting rights decision:
— Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) April 29, 2026
(1) it will eliminate a lot of the very worst members of Congress because members elected from majority minority districts conspicuously tended to ignore the interests of White voters in their districts and to engage… pic.twitter.com/Bt1xsLzIEQ
The Good News Just Keeps Coming
Trump has broken OPEC.
Breaking news..
— Ahmed Khalifa (@_A_khalifa) April 28, 2026
The UAE has announced its
decision to withdraw from OPEC
And OPEC+ effective May 1, 2026
THIS IS BIG !! pic.twitter.com/530V03coRV
After leaving OPEC
— Ahmed Khalifa (@_A_khalifa) April 28, 2026
With its Fujairah pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, UAE can now ramp up freely potentially adding around 2 million extra barrels a day and helping break the high-price grip..
Game changer for markets😎 pic.twitter.com/TAwnkam5Rh
The Democrats’ Enemies List
It shows that they are serious, and should never get power.
[Late-morning update]
Come see the violence inherent to the systemDemocrats.
The Current State Of Ethics In Government
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…
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]
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
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