Tonight, U.S. Air Force aircraft soared over the nation’s capital in celebration of #Freedom250, honoring America’s 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸
Some moments are worth watching more than once... especially with your sound on!
Astral Knight 2026 brought together fourth- & fifth-gen fighters, strategic bombers and allied partners to sharpen interoperability across the European theater.
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Really fun to interview my old friend Bret Johnsen in Mission Control.
Three parts of the @SpaceX story that I wish were more widely discussed:
SpaceX has created thousands of good blue-collar jobs: welders, machinists, electricians. Everyone talks about the need to bring high-paying, blue-collar jobs back to America. SpaceX and Tesla are making that happen. To the best of my knowledge, they have created more manufacturing jobs in the US than just about any other American company over the last ten years. It’s hard to imagine our nascent industrial renaissance succeeding without these companies.
SpaceX was started with the goal of putting humans on Mars. And along the way, they have massively improved life for many humans on Earth. Mars may be a starter planet, but Earth is our planet, and the technologies developed at SpaceX are already in use today connecting and safeguarding the people of Earth. Starlink is a really efficient way to bring internet to low-income countries. In Kenya’s remote Murang’a County, Starlink has made it possible for patients in rural villages to consult with medical specialists via telemedicine. In the rainforests of Brazil, Starlink has connected schools to reliable high-speed internet that will provide more educational opportunities to students. Here in America, Starlink has proven vital to emergency teams responding to natural disasters. During Hurricane Helene, the Starlink hubs dropped into North Carolina and East Tennessee were often the only contact point between cut-off towns and the outside world. Literally life-saving.
This IPO will be a big milestone for the company. It’s important to celebrate this, while also remembering that making humanity multi-planetary is the ultimate goal. Going to Mars is really hard. There have been many setbacks thus far, ranging from fiery explosions to failed landings. There will be many more. Ad Astra Per Aspera. But SpaceX is at its best *after* a setback imo. Their first 3 launches were “failures”. Had the 4th not succeeded, there might not be a SpaceX today. The company’s success in the face of such daunting odds is a testament to the resilience of the culture and absolute commitment to the mission shared by every employee I’ve ever spoken with. Some of the world’s most talented engineers have chosen to live in Airstreams at Starbase away from their families for weeks on end in service of this goal. I will never forget the welders who told me they signed every weld because they wanted to be accountable if they were responsible for a failure. True missionaries, all of them.
I am grateful to every single person at SpaceX for helping to make the future as inspirational as possible. And I will be even more grateful if I get to see a blue sunset on Mars!
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The arena is calling.
Guardian Arena Qualifiers run from Aug. 3-21, 2026. Test your limits, build camaraderie, and earn your spot at the Guardian Arena IV championship. Contact your local command team to register.
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#GuardianArena#SpaceForce #SemperSupra
"Dumb motherfucker didn’t deserve to live."
- Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner about a U.S. soldier who was shot four times in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
The Qatari gifted 747-8 which is being converted into the next Air Force One (VC-25B) landing at L3Harris Waco
She’s switching with the old Lufthansa bird, who’s heading back to Andrews shortly.
This security camera footage shows a man trapped in an elevator who pries open the jammed doors as if they were a window and makes sure the women and children get out first before exiting himself ❤️
Holy smokes!!
Pastor goes off on the Democrat Party 👀
James David Manning: “I’m tired of the Democrat Party making b*tches out of our women and pu*sies out of our men. I’m tired of it. I’ve had enough of it. The man needs to stand up and be a man. Stand up and take back our community. Stand up and tell the truth. And Al Sharpton need to go. He need to be off television tomorrow.”
When crossed, they are ruthless, but you'll never witness a more gentle soul as they honor a fallen brother.
This is gut wrenching to watch.
Rest in Peace S01 (SEAL) Patrick Feeks.