What kind of odious people would have signed up to get this creature elected in the first place?
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 11, 2026
[Tuesday-morning update]
Eric Swalwell and the Brett Kavanaugh karma train.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer set of scumbags.
Also, how Nancy fed Swalwell’s delusions of adequacy.
[Bumped]
…is merely a strategic pause. And the blockade of Iran is part of it.
[Tuesday-morning update]
I’m going to make many of you spitting mad at me for pointing this out, but now that we have started the naval blockade, Iran’s strategic position (which was already hopeless) has become terminal. They are soon going to run out of storage space for their oil. And we haven’t even…
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) April 13, 2026
The legacy of Al Gore’s religious polemic, twenty years on.
He, I think more than anyone, was responsible for the politicization of science.
…and his empire of fraud.
Unfortunately, it almost certainly extends to voter fraud.
Optimistic thoughts from Sarah Hoyt.
And she doesn’t even mention space.
…from Eric Raymond.
Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) April 4, 2026
They have a choice. Our best allies in Europe right now are Poland, Finland, and the Baltics.
Whatever amount they estimate, I’m sure it’s more. I wonder if this torpedoes his chances at the presidency?
And it’s not just California.
I've written about this extensively over the years (this, depressingly, is from almost a decade ago: https://t.co/4mnbzkPsvN), but the reason we didn't continue on from Apollo was that we did it the wrong way, the most expensive possible way, because of the "end of the decade"… https://t.co/BjXuPmKvgk
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 2, 2026
Trump is right.