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I Think Trump Will Win

11:58 “The whole reason we have freedom of speech is to protect us, protect normal people, who have their own truths to tell, in a world where there are too many Trumps and too many Musks. That’s what it’s for. If it gets flipped around to be a weapon of the Trumps and the Musks,Continue reading “I Think Trump Will Win”

Trumpist Social Darwinism

By Jonathan Chait Last week, Donald Trump appeared before a rally in Iowa, where he regaled a crowd of supporters with stories of the great wealth of his inner circle of advisers. “When you get the president — this is the president of Goldman Sachs — smart! — having him represent us, he went fromContinue reading “Trumpist Social Darwinism”

Fran Rocks

https://prospect.org/topics/francesca-fiorentini/ I’ve seen enough: The Future sucks. I don’t mean the future, as in our planet’s survival or America’s descent into authoritarianism. Those things also suck, but I mean The Future: that technological utopia where everything is clean and made of rounded chrome that seamlessly syncs with the natural world. A combination of Wakanda, Naboo,Continue reading “Fran Rocks”

Divided and Conquered

Opinion by Arash Azizi Ask most Americans what DSA stands for and they are unlikely to know the Democratic Socialists of America, the country’s largest leftist organization, with about 92,000 members. But ask about AOC and they are likely to be familiar with DSA’s most famous member: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Bronx-born socialist firebrand knownContinue reading “Divided and Conquered”

No Starship to Mars

I call it the Parker Dyson Spudis Continuum. All of them died recently. Eugene Parker determined that a 5 meter layer of water is required to shield space travelers from cosmic radiation. Freeman Dyson validated the concept of Nuclear Pulse Propulsion with his work on Project Orion. Paul Spudis discovered the first real evidence forContinue reading “No Starship to Mars”

Nukes in Space

The solution to nuclear deterrence is to place the nuclear arsenal months in deep space on human-crewed “Space Boomer.” It solves several problems. The first problem is deterrence. The second problem is launch-on-warning, and the third problem is climate change. From the Slate article: “Maybe it’s because of the wars in Ukraine and the MiddleContinue reading “Nukes in Space”