Kevin 🚀
@astro-kevin.com
Spacecraft operator in LA
Democracy and bureaucracy enjoyer
Previously at NASA, Stanford, UT Austin
Democracy and bureaucracy enjoyer
Previously at NASA, Stanford, UT Austin
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Kevin 🚀
@astro-kevin.com
· Mar 11
The political blitzkrieg on the most popular parts of our country—sacking social security, defunding NASA, shuttering national parks, pulling vaccines off shelves, tanking the stock market, attacking allies—is obvious evidence that they don’t plan on winning free and fair elections again.
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Hundreds of students outside the MDC in DTLA right now, facing off against DHS agents. Bit chaotic here will post am able
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Hundreds of students outside the MDC in DTLA right now, facing off against DHS agents. Bit chaotic here will post am able
Perjury
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Perjury
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Everyone talks about parable of the sower being prescient (and it is), but I see fewer comments about how its sequel parable of the talents is also prescient, with the main character (spoiler) getting locked into a concentration camp for not being a white Christian.
February 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Everyone talks about parable of the sower being prescient (and it is), but I see fewer comments about how its sequel parable of the talents is also prescient, with the main character (spoiler) getting locked into a concentration camp for not being a white Christian.
Turns out the search function is useful
What Nehorai describes here is a genocidal sort of bureaucratic violence — genocide by rug-pull, one might call it. Instead of an open action to take lives, we've witnessed the malicious withdrawal of supports that enable some lives to begin or continue.
Elon Musk Isn't a White Nationalist. He's a White Globalist.
How Musk's USAID efforts indicate an ideology larger than we are used to talking about. One we have to adjust to quickly as his power grows.
eladnehorai.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Turns out the search function is useful
I forgot who said it, but “genocide by rug pull” really is an apt phrase for this outcome.
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I forgot who said it, but “genocide by rug pull” really is an apt phrase for this outcome.
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you can have all the critiques of AOC that you like & many of them are valid
but you cannot deny that she is adeptly maneuvering Washington & has already carved a nearly-untouchable lane for herself & the DSA-aligned progressive electoral movement, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in generation
but you cannot deny that she is adeptly maneuvering Washington & has already carved a nearly-untouchable lane for herself & the DSA-aligned progressive electoral movement, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in generation
if AOC is too right-wing for you to support, you do not believe in electoral politics and should just be honest about that
Someone who won’t vote for AOC because she’s insufficiently left for them is someone whose vote we will never get and they should be treated as such. Also they only exist online
February 13, 2026 at 7:08 AM
you can have all the critiques of AOC that you like & many of them are valid
but you cannot deny that she is adeptly maneuvering Washington & has already carved a nearly-untouchable lane for herself & the DSA-aligned progressive electoral movement, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in generation
but you cannot deny that she is adeptly maneuvering Washington & has already carved a nearly-untouchable lane for herself & the DSA-aligned progressive electoral movement, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in generation
Basically Octavia Butler predicted the whole arc of “maga president drags us back into the past, carving up the country into corrupt capitalist fiefdoms, accelerating climate disaster, and putting ‘illegals’ into concentration camps.”
February 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Basically Octavia Butler predicted the whole arc of “maga president drags us back into the past, carving up the country into corrupt capitalist fiefdoms, accelerating climate disaster, and putting ‘illegals’ into concentration camps.”
Everyone talks about parable of the sower being prescient (and it is), but I see fewer comments about how its sequel parable of the talents is also prescient, with the main character (spoiler) getting locked into a concentration camp for not being a white Christian.
February 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Everyone talks about parable of the sower being prescient (and it is), but I see fewer comments about how its sequel parable of the talents is also prescient, with the main character (spoiler) getting locked into a concentration camp for not being a white Christian.
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My position is that I do not intend to vote for Gavin Newsom in a Democratic primary, that I would vote for any Democrat against JD Vance in a general election, and that Hasan Piker is both an idiot and a bad person.
February 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
My position is that I do not intend to vote for Gavin Newsom in a Democratic primary, that I would vote for any Democrat against JD Vance in a general election, and that Hasan Piker is both an idiot and a bad person.
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noem and levandowsmi are a former pageant winner and a political consultant who think it's their job to create the appearance of immigration enforcement. they do not understand that they have been put in a job to accomplish a task. they think the appearance is the thing itself.
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 AM
noem and levandowsmi are a former pageant winner and a political consultant who think it's their job to create the appearance of immigration enforcement. they do not understand that they have been put in a job to accomplish a task. they think the appearance is the thing itself.
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The arrest rate among CBP agents is higher than the arrest rate among undocumented immigrants.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece
The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.
cbsn.ws
February 13, 2026 at 3:24 AM
The arrest rate among CBP agents is higher than the arrest rate among undocumented immigrants.
Her talents would be wasted in the senate imo
February 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Her talents would be wasted in the senate imo
Oops missed that Katie pointed this out first
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Oops missed that Katie pointed this out first
“repealed the bedrock scientific finding”
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:49 PM
“repealed the bedrock scientific finding”
RFK, Bondi, and Hegseth have all committed impeachable/prosecutable acts in the past 24 hours alone.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
RFK, Bondi, and Hegseth have all committed impeachable/prosecutable acts in the past 24 hours alone.
Smarter people than me can fix the general problem of media running entire articles about “CEO said,” but for Elon in particular we can make him irrelevant by nationalizing SpaceX (which now includes disbanding xAI).
Unfortunately I haven’t seen even one Dem mention the concept.
Unfortunately I haven’t seen even one Dem mention the concept.
They simply can't help themselves. It's utterly pathological.
The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
One of my favorite trends in modern U.S. infotainment media is something I affectionately call "CEO said a thing!" journalism.
"CEO said a thing!" journalism generally involves a press outlet parroti...
karlbode.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Smarter people than me can fix the general problem of media running entire articles about “CEO said,” but for Elon in particular we can make him irrelevant by nationalizing SpaceX (which now includes disbanding xAI).
Unfortunately I haven’t seen even one Dem mention the concept.
Unfortunately I haven’t seen even one Dem mention the concept.
I won a NASA senior design competition in the “Commercial Cislunar” category. After years of working in the industry and becoming wiser, my new thoughts can pretty much be summed up as:
“Moon economy” just shut the fuck up
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I won a NASA senior design competition in the “Commercial Cislunar” category. After years of working in the industry and becoming wiser, my new thoughts can pretty much be summed up as:
It’s true there are some narrow and specific domains that non space people can contribute to space exploration and use of space.
But the analogy is the medical field. The vast majority of people who disagree with doctors and researchers are overconfident and wrong.
But the analogy is the medical field. The vast majority of people who disagree with doctors and researchers are overconfident and wrong.
February 12, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It’s true there are some narrow and specific domains that non space people can contribute to space exploration and use of space.
But the analogy is the medical field. The vast majority of people who disagree with doctors and researchers are overconfident and wrong.
But the analogy is the medical field. The vast majority of people who disagree with doctors and researchers are overconfident and wrong.
I’m talking about the news companies that stenographically hype vaporware at the expense of real work that can be done in space
That's a great way to make sure that important lessons about how to operate in space are not learned
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I’m talking about the news companies that stenographically hype vaporware at the expense of real work that can be done in space
“Moon economy” just shut the fuck up
February 12, 2026 at 6:07 PM
“Moon economy” just shut the fuck up
I propose we ban people from talking about space who don’t have a relevant degree of some sort.
The 'Moon economy' is about to boom. Deutsche Bank thinks this one space stock will benefit
The 'Moon economy' is about to boom. Deutsche Bank thinks this one space stock will benefit
This stock is a play on lunar infrastructure and connectivity, the firm said.
cnb.cx
February 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I propose we ban people from talking about space who don’t have a relevant degree of some sort.
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nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early
astronaut: moon economy is about to boom
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon economy is about to boom
astronaut: moon economy is about to boom
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon economy is about to boom
The 'Moon economy' is about to boom. Deutsche Bank thinks this one space stock will benefit
The 'Moon economy' is about to boom. Deutsche Bank thinks this one space stock will benefit
This stock is a play on lunar infrastructure and connectivity, the firm said.
cnb.cx
February 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early
astronaut: moon economy is about to boom
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon economy is about to boom
astronaut: moon economy is about to boom
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon economy is about to boom
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I am so proud to be endorsed by EAA. The Engineers & Architects Association represents over 6,000 public sector workers across more than 40 department
January 26, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I am so proud to be endorsed by EAA. The Engineers & Architects Association represents over 6,000 public sector workers across more than 40 department
This is incredibly positive news, and yet you can’t help but think about how much better it could be if we didn’t elect a regressive, coal-loving regime
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 12, 2026 at 6:59 AM
This is incredibly positive news, and yet you can’t help but think about how much better it could be if we didn’t elect a regressive, coal-loving regime