Kevin 🚀
@astro-kevin.com
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Democracy and bureaucracy enjoyer
Previously at NASA, Stanford, UT Austin
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Democracy and bureaucracy enjoyer
Previously at NASA, Stanford, UT Austin
Signal: @kevinhicks.77
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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.
Propaganda tells us all government is inefficient and wasteful. In reality, much of it works beautifully and efficiently behind the scenes to keep us safe.
Those are the parts Vought and Trump want to cut.
Those are the parts Vought and Trump want to cut.
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Propaganda tells us all government is inefficient and wasteful. In reality, much of it works beautifully and efficiently behind the scenes to keep us safe.
Those are the parts Vought and Trump want to cut.
Those are the parts Vought and Trump want to cut.
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A more specific point re Musk: he never even talks about beauty or wonder *about space*.
When has he ever talked about Mars as a place, as opposed to a thing, blank hexes on which to drop *his* creations. Or even talk about joy and thrill of scientific discoveries there?
When has he ever talked about Mars as a place, as opposed to a thing, blank hexes on which to drop *his* creations. Or even talk about joy and thrill of scientific discoveries there?
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A more specific point re Musk: he never even talks about beauty or wonder *about space*.
When has he ever talked about Mars as a place, as opposed to a thing, blank hexes on which to drop *his* creations. Or even talk about joy and thrill of scientific discoveries there?
When has he ever talked about Mars as a place, as opposed to a thing, blank hexes on which to drop *his* creations. Or even talk about joy and thrill of scientific discoveries there?
The technical term here is Cold Fronteabagging
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The technical term here is Cold Fronteabagging
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seeing some takes like, "it was clear the gop wasn't going to budge on subsidies, so they had no choice”
and i simply don’t understand why someone would go out of their way to announce publicly that they are a mewling coward. a gutless milksop. to admit that they’re loser who loves to lose.
and i simply don’t understand why someone would go out of their way to announce publicly that they are a mewling coward. a gutless milksop. to admit that they’re loser who loves to lose.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
seeing some takes like, "it was clear the gop wasn't going to budge on subsidies, so they had no choice”
and i simply don’t understand why someone would go out of their way to announce publicly that they are a mewling coward. a gutless milksop. to admit that they’re loser who loves to lose.
and i simply don’t understand why someone would go out of their way to announce publicly that they are a mewling coward. a gutless milksop. to admit that they’re loser who loves to lose.
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I dunno, I feel like an achievable way for Elon to improve at keeping a partner would be to stop constantly offering other women his sperm in little cups
I know people think Musk only bought Twitter to help the rise of fascism.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I dunno, I feel like an achievable way for Elon to improve at keeping a partner would be to stop constantly offering other women his sperm in little cups
Everyone brace for a Duffy disasterclass
TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Everyone brace for a Duffy disasterclass
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It’s really important that people who hold high office are educated and read books and know basic things about basic things.
This is what happens when that doesn’t happen
This is what happens when that doesn’t happen
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It’s really important that people who hold high office are educated and read books and know basic things about basic things.
This is what happens when that doesn’t happen
This is what happens when that doesn’t happen
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📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling.
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling.
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
This is honestly pretty embarrassing from @wired.com. Very little pushback on Karp's dismissal of serious questions, on topics from Gaza to Trump to ICE.
Alex Karp Goes to War
Palantir’s CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is honestly pretty embarrassing from @wired.com. Very little pushback on Karp's dismissal of serious questions, on topics from Gaza to Trump to ICE.
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Key move in arguably the biggest story in American history
Trump Completes Jan. 6 Autocoup With Mass Preemptive Pardons talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Trump Completes Jan. 6 Autocoup With Mass Preemptive Pardons
For My Friends, Everything … Let the record show that President Donald...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Key move in arguably the biggest story in American history
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This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Republicans are cackling. They got what they wanted for literally nothing.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Republicans are cackling. They got what they wanted for literally nothing.
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can’t imagine getting roasted by ezra klein and ro khanna and matt yglesias—and they’re right. unrecoverable cowardice. “we can’t ever make republicans do something because they are big and strong and they don’t want to.” go live on an ice floe. you are the problem.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
can’t imagine getting roasted by ezra klein and ro khanna and matt yglesias—and they’re right. unrecoverable cowardice. “we can’t ever make republicans do something because they are big and strong and they don’t want to.” go live on an ice floe. you are the problem.
Wow look at that, their promises meant nothing. Who could have guessed.
US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Wow look at that, their promises meant nothing. Who could have guessed.
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Moderates are caving because the shutdown is uncomfortable, and the definition of being a moderate is not being willing to take a principled, uncomfortable stance on anything.
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Moderates are caving because the shutdown is uncomfortable, and the definition of being a moderate is not being willing to take a principled, uncomfortable stance on anything.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
So Mike Johnson can swear in the tie breaking vote to fully release the Epstein files right? Right?
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
So Mike Johnson can swear in the tie breaking vote to fully release the Epstein files right? Right?
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Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Just a catastrophic self own.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Just a catastrophic self own.
No spine. No leadership. No vision.
Resign while some of our country still remains.
Resign while some of our country still remains.
America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it.
I am voting NO.
I am voting NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
No spine. No leadership. No vision.
Resign while some of our country still remains.
Resign while some of our country still remains.
There are probably a handful of congressional dems who deserve to keep their jobs. The problem is we can’t tell because all the decision making is done behind closed doors. So we primary everyone.
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
There are probably a handful of congressional dems who deserve to keep their jobs. The problem is we can’t tell because all the decision making is done behind closed doors. So we primary everyone.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.