David Grinspoon
@drfunkyspoon.bsky.social
Astrobiologist, Author, Musician. 👽🎸❤️🚀
Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow.
Former Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA.
There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow.
Former Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA.
There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
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EAI Seminars: The Astrobiological Potential of Venus
YouTube video by EAI - European Astrobiology Institute
youtu.be
Attention astrobiology nerds:
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
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Reposted by David Grinspoon
DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.
January 31, 2026 at 3:51 PM
DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.
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DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 PM
DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
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Attention astrobiology nerds:
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
EAI Seminars: The Astrobiological Potential of Venus
YouTube video by EAI - European Astrobiology Institute
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Attention astrobiology nerds:
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
Some detailed intel on how the newly amped up totalitarian surveillance state is operating.
SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
The full user guide here:
The full user guide here:
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Some detailed intel on how the newly amped up totalitarian surveillance state is operating.
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every free state should do this
California's Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes
open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
California's Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes
open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
California's Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes
A model for the next Minneapolis, from Attorney General Rob Bonta.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM
every free state should do this
California's Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes
open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
California's Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes
open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
Attention astrobiology nerds:
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
EAI Seminars: The Astrobiological Potential of Venus
YouTube video by EAI - European Astrobiology Institute
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Attention astrobiology nerds:
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
The talk I gave on Tuesday for the European Astrobiology Institute “The Astrobiological potential of Venus” is now online.
🧪👽🔭
youtu.be/f941vluwtFI?...
So… question: is Elon really THIS profoundly ignorant? Or is he merely evil and manipulative and figures that many of his minions are this stupid?
January 29, 2026 at 7:13 PM
So… question: is Elon really THIS profoundly ignorant? Or is he merely evil and manipulative and figures that many of his minions are this stupid?
Has anyone offered Tom Homan $50K in a takeout bag to get ICE to stop kidnapping & killing innocent people? Should we start a gofundme?
January 29, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Has anyone offered Tom Homan $50K in a takeout bag to get ICE to stop kidnapping & killing innocent people? Should we start a gofundme?
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Seems like a good video for his trial
January 29, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Seems like a good video for his trial
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Just outside Seattle on I-5 🤘
January 27, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Just outside Seattle on I-5 🤘
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Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later..
If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
January 27, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later..
If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
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Reposted by David Grinspoon
I don’t think Carl would look at the world today and conclude that this bit of starstuff has taken its destiny in its own hands.
But can we? Can we humans get hold of ourselves to solve the global problems we’ve created?
And if not, how tragic to be able to ask the question but not shape the answer?
But can we? Can we humans get hold of ourselves to solve the global problems we’ve created?
And if not, how tragic to be able to ask the question but not shape the answer?
“We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos. Out of the common stuff of the universe, the stars have forged the elements of life. We are starstuff, which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
January 27, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I don’t think Carl would look at the world today and conclude that this bit of starstuff has taken its destiny in its own hands.
But can we? Can we humans get hold of ourselves to solve the global problems we’ve created?
And if not, how tragic to be able to ask the question but not shape the answer?
But can we? Can we humans get hold of ourselves to solve the global problems we’ve created?
And if not, how tragic to be able to ask the question but not shape the answer?
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Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out
January 27, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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This is complete bullshit, and it's a criminal administration's transparent effort to cover up a crime.
www.ms.now/news/no-civi...
www.ms.now/news/no-civi...
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
This is complete bullshit, and it's a criminal administration's transparent effort to cover up a crime.
www.ms.now/news/no-civi...
www.ms.now/news/no-civi...
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I guess he just got lucky.
January 27, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I guess he just got lucky.
I don’t think Carl would look at the world today and conclude that this bit of starstuff has taken its destiny in its own hands.
But can we? Can we humans get hold of ourselves to solve the global problems we’ve created?
And if not, how tragic to be able to ask the question but not shape the answer?
But can we? Can we humans get hold of ourselves to solve the global problems we’ve created?
And if not, how tragic to be able to ask the question but not shape the answer?
“We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos. Out of the common stuff of the universe, the stars have forged the elements of life. We are starstuff, which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
January 27, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I don’t think Carl would look at the world today and conclude that this bit of starstuff has taken its destiny in its own hands.
But can we? Can we humans get hold of ourselves to solve the global problems we’ve created?
And if not, how tragic to be able to ask the question but not shape the answer?
But can we? Can we humans get hold of ourselves to solve the global problems we’ve created?
And if not, how tragic to be able to ask the question but not shape the answer?
Today we lost Sly Dunbar, brilliant innovative and oh so soulful reggae drummer, half (with Robbie Shakespeare) of one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time. Thank you Sly for a lifetime of deep, moving grooves. Rhythm track of my life.
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Today we lost Sly Dunbar, brilliant innovative and oh so soulful reggae drummer, half (with Robbie Shakespeare) of one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time. Thank you Sly for a lifetime of deep, moving grooves. Rhythm track of my life.
They should boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 PM
They should boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.