David Michael

venture capital (Shield Capital), Air Force Veteran, Cincinnati native/ DC transplant, dogs over cats

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@scott_sanderssb Well said Scott. So much bluster w/ very little substance coming from the tourists.

[Ian Cinnamon @IanCinnamon]

Apex is The Spacecraft Platform Company.

For most of space history, progress was measured in firsts. First satellite. First human in space. First Moon landing. The next era will be measured in rate: how fast you can deploy, replenish, and refresh the infrastructure everything else depends on.

That’s the New Space Race.

Winning it takes constellations: many satellites working together as systems. And constellations require two industrial capabilities: launch and spacecraft platforms.

Launch is ready enough. Platforms are not. Apex exists to remove that bottleneck.

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@anduriltech A good looking @Apex_Satellites Aries Bus

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@nstr_att @CavasShips Heck yeah Mission Matters!!

[Starfish Space @StarfishSpace]

Big news: we just closed a $100M+ Series B.

This funding will go toward building and operating our Otter missions, scaling to meet growing customer demand, and expanding our team.

We've had a lot to celebrate lately, from missions like Remora and Otter Pup 2 to new contracts with great customers like SDA and the Space Force. And we're just getting started. Our first full Otter mission is on track to fly later this year.

Read our full press release: https://t.co/QtLCHDEyVW

We’d like to thank our investors for helping us build the future of infrastructure in space.

@p72vc, @ShieldCapVC, @IndustriousVC, @nightdragon

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@nasdaily Thank you for creating this beautiful tribute video to Zaki. I met him in May on a trip to Israel where he shared his network and love for innovation. Zaki was
dedicated to making his country better, unwavering in his faith, highly intelligent and articulate in his conviction

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

my longest friend died
rest in peace, Zaki

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@wolfejosh Good take

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@EvansRyan202 It’s a great article and I felt it in a visceral way. Even if leadership reads it I would contend the only salve to the system is removing 80% of the people. The system hides w/in itself because there are too many people.

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@EvansRyan202 @SenMarkey Well said @EvansRyan202.

[Ryan Evans @EvansRyan202]

Let's be clear: By blocking the #SBIR reauth deal, @SenMarkey is siding with professional grant harvesters who confuse compliance with contribution and call it innovation. When incumbents strangle a program to protect their public trough, the cost won’t be theoretical: It will be another lost decade we didn't have to lose.

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@thebengalorian @ochocinco Far from mid, but 10 yr old David was convinced Darnay Scott was top 10. Obviously Carl Pickens was goat but the real ones knew of Scott’s capabilities.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

An Iranian tells you why the anti-brain Free Palestine mob is not calling to Free Iran:

hey keep asking the same question: Why are lefties—why are the loudest pro-Gaza voices—completely silent when it comes to Iran?

Well, the answer is simple: because the truth exposes the lie. Because acknowledging Iran would shatter the ideological fantasy that they've built.

Let's be clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is not a victim of Western imperialism. It is a theocratic authoritarian regime that survives by exporting violence, funding Islamists, and crushing its own people.

And yes, it funds Hamas, it funds Hezbollah, it funds all the little proxies around the region and around the world with Iranian people's money—not the government’s money, not the regime’s money—stolen money, stolen money taken from the worker who cannot afford bread in Iran right now.

Families crushed by inflation, taken from women who are beaten, jailed, tortured, raped for refusing religious obedience. And this is why lefties are silent: because Hamas fits their narrative, but Iranian people don’t. Because Islamist violence against Israelis can be reframed as resistance, but Islamist violence against Iranians exposes the truth.

Right now Iran, a country of more than 92 million people, is being erased in real time. Near total blackout, no internet, no call services, no connectivity whatsoever. And yet, silence. No emergency protests on Western campuses, no hashtags, no solidarity statements, no megaphones, no tears.

Because Iranian suffering does not fit their agenda. Because leftist movements today are not driven by human rights, they are driven by selective outrage and ideological loyalty. They will scream about censorship unless it’s done by an Islamist regime. They will condemn state violence unless it’s wrapped in religious language.

They will chant “Free Palestine” but they will never say “Free Iran” because that would require admitting something unforgivable: that political Islam is not liberation, it is domination.

And that is exactly what’s been happening in the West by the way—that the Islamic Republic is not anti-imperialist, it is imperial toward its own people. That Hamas is not some isolated resistance group, it is part of a broader Islamist ecosystem that is funded, trained, and sustained by regimes like the Islamic Republic in Iran.

And here’s the part that they do not want to hear: you cannot claim moral superiority while excusing a regime that kills and murders women for refusing hijab, executes protesters, cuts off a whole nation of 92 million people from the internet, and uses foreign proxies as a distraction from its internal collapse. You cannot pretend to care about Palestinians while ignoring Iranians being shot, tortured, and murdered by the Islamic Republic in Iran.

That is not solidarity—that is ideological blindness. Iranian people are not silent, they are being silenced.

And the silence from the Western left? Well, that’s a choice. A choice to protect an ideology, a choice to excuse Islamism, a choice to look away when millions of people are suffering because their suffering, Iranian people’s suffering, complicates a slogan. History will remember this moment. It will remember who spoke for universal freedom and who decided that some lives matter less than preserving a narrative. Long live Iran."

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@emmy_does_it Hopefully the ladder isn’t free standing as I bet they’ll expect you to catch them when the inevitable happens 😏

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@paheringer Looks good. It’ll be better when Shittsburgh takes the L

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@NBCSports @SNFonNBC it’s Miami University. Get it right 😒

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@DCMetroandBus why have four south bound green line trains in a row (w/in 10 minutes of each other) stopped at Mt Vernon Sq, but no Yellow Line. We have not seen a yellow line in 15 minutes and it’s 5:50pm!! Basic logistics 🙂‍↔️

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@MikeSlagh If you’re looking for people in private industry today I’d recommend: Andrew Bossert, Russ Long, Brian Hurley, Megan Van Horn, Lori-Ann Risler. Just a few who come to mind. All have DoD contracting backgrounds

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@DG_3234 @NewYorker @chaykak They are manipulating the algorithm to show you content that would sow division in our country over contentious issues. If they control what you see they control how you think which is bad for western values.

[David Michael @dmrothzeid]

@NewYorker @chaykak And yet this article does neither. You do not unpack much nor disentangle just leave a hanging chad. The reason for the ban are many fold and it being an addictive social media app is just the appetizer