Troy Gilbert

Maritime/competitive sailing journalist. Someone who should keep his big ideas to himself.

[Troy Gilbert @GulfSails]

RT @MilHistNow: The Sknyliv air show disaster of 2002. A Su-27 fighter crashed directly into a densely packed spectator area after losing c…

[Where NOLA Eats @WhereNOLAEats]

OysterNight returns with pop-up raw bars, oyster pizzas and more at 90 NOLA restaurants https://t.co/ABd4hZDwk9

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Casually discussing WW3 and the destruction of a Country which is home to 90,000,000 people, whilst stood next to giant Easter Bunny is next level insanity.

[wdsu @wdsu]

Louisiana shrimpers fear for the future amid high diesel cost | Click on the image to read the full story https://t.co/o1SQnmuwX7

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Signal acquired! 📡

Engineers at @NASAJPL have confirmed that the Orion spacecraft is communicating with the Deep Space Network. For the first time in over 50 years, we’re receiving a signal from a spacecraft carrying humans toward the Moon.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

NEWS🚨: Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch is set to become the 1st woman to fly around the moon 🌕

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“Public anger is rising rapidly. The president’s approval ratings—which were already anemic—have sunk to new lows, and Republicans are facing the prospect of an electoral wipeout in this fall’s midterm elections” https://t.co/0JQVxbT4hX

[MoonPie @MoonPie]

Please tell the moon how much we love her

[Katie Van Dyck @CapitolKVD]

The president sat in the public gallery, on a bench, surrounded by ordinary citizens. There was no announcement of his arrival. No Hail to the Chief. Instead, Trump came in quietly, shuffled around looking for a seat, and waited in silence with the rest of us for the final 10 minutes before arguments began.

I was 50 feet away from him. It was stunning. Trump looked small on that wooden bench in the grandeur of the courtroom, sitting below the nine justices. It was a stark reminder of how our founders structured our government.

Trump is not a king. He cannot ignore the Constitution. And the Supreme Court has the last word on what he can and cannot do.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Today Native Americans do NOT obtain birthright citizenship through the 14th Amendment. They only get citizenship through a 1924 law.

Gorsuch got the SG to admit that if the Trump admin's argument is right, Native Americans probably would have birthright citizenship under 14A.

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

Launch day.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Tom Nichols spent months reading Washington’s letters and walking the halls at Mount Vernon. The article is long. The argument lands in one sentence he almost buries at the end.

“Washington personally took up arms to stop a rebellion against the United States. Trump encouraged one.”

The specifics behind that sentence: In 1794, armed farmers in western Pennsylvania refused to accept federal law. Washington issued a proclamation calling it treasonable opposition, raised a militia of more than 12,000 men, and personally led them toward the rebellion. He was the only sitting president ever to lead troops in the field. The rebellion dissolved. He pardoned two convicted insurgents after the legal process completed — not before.

In his Farewell Address, Washington warned the republic that “sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction” would manipulate public emotion for “his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.” He wrote that sentence in 1796. He could not name the man. Nichols named him.

John Kelly stood at Mount Vernon two years ago and summarized Washington’s greatest contribution to American democracy in three words. “He went home.” Every president since has understood that sentence. Every president but one.

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

If you liked Trump protecting child rape, you’re gonna love Trump causing and lying about child murder

Jesus, how MAGA hates Jesus.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The Trump administration “forgot” to fill up the Strategic petroleum reserve before Iran.

Typical

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

Puerto Rico has America’s largest number of Medal Of Honor recipients per capita.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: 

“We are heartbroken but also very angry. 

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. 

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you”

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

Alex Pretti was pepper sprayed in the face for helping female protesters who were being assulted by Border Patrol, he was gang tackled to the ground, beaten, & murdered in cold blood. This photo shows the moment Border Patrol pepper sprayed Alex. Alex did not “incite” anything.

[John Karalis 🇬🇷 @John_Karalis]

Just because you are conservative, it doesn't mean you have to be okay with what's happening in Minnesota. Even if you voted based on immigration issues, it doesn't mean you have to be okay with what's happening in Minnesota. It's okay to say it's bad and shouldn't be happening