Pilotken
@pilotken.bsky.social
Retired software engineer, pilot, amateur astrophotographer
No thoughts and prayers from the NRA crowd urging open carry to protect us from the gummit. Gosh? Were they not sincere?
January 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
No thoughts and prayers from the NRA crowd urging open carry to protect us from the gummit. Gosh? Were they not sincere?
Amazing the black helicopter, “big gumit” f-your feelings crowd backs masked federal thugs now. Kudos Mr Mayor
Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions
FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone
FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone
January 8, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Amazing the black helicopter, “big gumit” f-your feelings crowd backs masked federal thugs now. Kudos Mr Mayor
Military mission? Not a law enforcement operation? He can’t even parrot BS talking points
Hegseth takes the mic and starts denigrating a CNN reporter for asking a "disingenuous question," adding, "you're trying to find any angle possible to undermine the success of one of the most historic military missions the world has ever seen"
January 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Military mission? Not a law enforcement operation? He can’t even parrot BS talking points
Thank you Senator Kelly!
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Thank you Senator Kelly!
James is spot on as usual!
The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen.
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
‘Blind Into Caracas’
Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now.
fallows.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:37 PM
James is spot on as usual!
If it smells like stock manipulation it is. Media company and sketchy fusion company with ai? finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-m...
Trump Media stock surges more than 30% on surprise merger with power firm TAE
DJT stock surged more than 35% after the Trump-backed media company announced a merger with TAE, a company focused on fusion nuclear energy.
finance.yahoo.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If it smells like stock manipulation it is. Media company and sketchy fusion company with ai? finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-m...
lol!
I, for one, am here for @radiofreetom.bsky.social’s television reviews
December 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
lol!
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It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.
Drunk uncle wouldn’t be this far off the rails. He needs help
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Drunk uncle wouldn’t be this far off the rails. He needs help
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This seems a significantly worse "tell" of derangement
-Sen Kelly has flown nearly 40 *combat missions* as a pilot.
-He's done 375+ carrier landings (Jeesh!)
-He's been in space as astronaut.
-He's flown 50+ different kinds of aircraft
And Hegseth and Trump are picking fight about valor with him?
-Sen Kelly has flown nearly 40 *combat missions* as a pilot.
-He's done 375+ carrier landings (Jeesh!)
-He's been in space as astronaut.
-He's flown 50+ different kinds of aircraft
And Hegseth and Trump are picking fight about valor with him?
The Department of Defense announces it's considering "court-martial proceedings or administrative measures" against Democratic Senator Mark Kelly.
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This seems a significantly worse "tell" of derangement
-Sen Kelly has flown nearly 40 *combat missions* as a pilot.
-He's done 375+ carrier landings (Jeesh!)
-He's been in space as astronaut.
-He's flown 50+ different kinds of aircraft
And Hegseth and Trump are picking fight about valor with him?
-Sen Kelly has flown nearly 40 *combat missions* as a pilot.
-He's done 375+ carrier landings (Jeesh!)
-He's been in space as astronaut.
-He's flown 50+ different kinds of aircraft
And Hegseth and Trump are picking fight about valor with him?
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Played him like a fiddle.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Played him like a fiddle.
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
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Damn. I missed Josh Shapiro tearing JD Vance a new one yesterday
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Damn. I missed Josh Shapiro tearing JD Vance a new one yesterday
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Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
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Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."
September 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."
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in which Mike Johnson claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant to take down Epstein
September 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
in which Mike Johnson claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant to take down Epstein
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How many people gonna die because some women laughed at these guys‘ dicks
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
How many people gonna die because some women laughed at these guys‘ dicks
Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, MTG, Nancy Mace all saying sensible things in one day! Is my brain bleeding?
September 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, MTG, Nancy Mace all saying sensible things in one day! Is my brain bleeding?
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Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away.
By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
August 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away.
By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
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Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
August 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
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Mamdani on Cuomo: "I don't need to do much to make the governor appear extremely dislikable."
August 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Mamdani on Cuomo: "I don't need to do much to make the governor appear extremely dislikable."
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A hero from my youth! During Apollo 13 my parents let me stay home from 4th grade until they were back safe! Met him during a talk at UW Madison while an undergrad. Positive impact way beyond what he knew
August 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A hero from my youth! During Apollo 13 my parents let me stay home from 4th grade until they were back safe! Met him during a talk at UW Madison while an undergrad. Positive impact way beyond what he knew
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Oh man
James Lovell has died at the age of 97, announces NASA. The US Navy captain was the Apollo 8 command module pilot and the Apollo 13 commander. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell - NASA
The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake
www.nasa.gov
August 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Oh man
Somehow, these two are the same species!
July 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Somehow, these two are the same species!
LA is such a hell-hole JD and his family are spending several days there on vacation! Thought he'd go to "real" America? www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Vance’s family visits Disneyland after hundreds protested their vacation
Vice President JD Vance and his family visited Disneyland on Saturday after protestors condemned his California vacation amid ICE raids in the state.
www.the-independent.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
LA is such a hell-hole JD and his family are spending several days there on vacation! Thought he'd go to "real" America? www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...