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Proverbs 20:13 | MAE @Mizzou | @Gwynne_Shotwell superfan | Per Aspera Ad Astra | Optimism is your moral duty

[STL Smitty @hsmith047]

Give JJ Wetherholt a blank check

[🇺🇲 🇯🇵 🇵🇱 🇰🇷 🇦🇺 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 @joshflags]

@sentdefender Bullshit

[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

The alternative to the deal is not a prolonged ground war. That's the point.

We're not advocating for an invasion and occupation. We're not even advocating for forced regime change per se.

Our issue is with the terms of the deal. That is what we find unacceptable.

If Trump decided he no longer wants to pursue the war, that's fine, but why did we need to give up so much when we could have just stepped back?

Why do we need to let them sell their oil on the free market? Why are we giving them a $300 billion "reconstruction" package? Why are we unfreezing their funds? Why are we lifting sanctions? Why are we protecting Hezbollah?

We had them in a military and economic chokehold, and we just gave it up for nothing.

They didn't suddenly become friendly. They didn't change their behavior. They didn't stop funding terrorism.

Pursue the war or not, this surrender was completely unnecessary. The deal sounds like it was made when we were surrounded by the enemy and had no choice.

But we did have a choice. We could have won.

[Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor]

Good morning.

Last night at 8:51pm Mountain Time, the Valar Atomics Nuclear Operations team brought Ward 250 to 10kW thermal output. We held this power level throughout the night.

This is another historic milestone from the Valar team, marking first nuclear power by a startup.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Again: the US is now certifying Iran’s control of Hezbollah when one of its stated war aims was to end that control. The US now assumes the same role with respect to Israel that Iran has with respect to Hezbollah. The main parties in this “de-confliction cell” are patron states promising to rein in their clients. And this after Israel was just the junior partner in a joint war with the US against Iran.

[Ryan @The_Ryan_Shull]

Latest ranks in All Star Voting:

OF Jordan Walker — 8th (🤣)
1B Alec Burleson — 5th
DH Ivan Herrera — 5th
2B JJ Wetherholt — 8th (🤣)

DISCONTINUE FAN VOTING @MLB

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

🤔

Vote Jordan Walker to the All-Star Game at https://t.co/H9MeQwAQiy

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Maduro treatment if he tries this

[spor @sporadica]

fucking called it btw

[🇺🇲 🇯🇵 🇵🇱 🇰🇷 🇦🇺 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 @joshflags]

@FaytuksNetwork I'm crying bro. It's always the Jews when I lose

[🇺🇲 🇯🇵 🇵🇱 🇰🇷 🇦🇺 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 @joshflags]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says he does not recognize the results of the Colombian election, accusing Israel of compromising Colombia's election software

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

The Tucker Carlson/Darryl Cooper approach to scripture.

[Seth Cohen @OverReactor1776]

Now that I’m out of government, I can finally respond for myself: Get bent, soyboy. We didn’t do this for “Silicon Valley . . . companies.” We did this for you, for your family, your community, your state, your nation, and your species.

Nuclear energy provides the safest, highest density, reliable power available on our planet. My career colleagues at DOE and NRC inspired me to think about nuclear as a way to forge American steel and electrolyze aluminum without releasing particulate matter, to desalinate water in the Middle East and save humanity from resource wars. By rejecting the false narratives and Cold War hysteria, we can secure the next American century while raising whole countries out of poverty.

Do you really think I left an incredible career at Kirkland, paid out of pocket for an apartment in DC and dozens of cross-country trips, and left my family on the west coast because I wanted to enrich people I never met before taking this job? I came to D.C. to do something that mattered, to satisfy a driving curiosity (more on that later), and, most importantly, to serve.

As I learned more about nuclear energy and its history, I developed a conviction that one nuclear’s biggest issues was a culture of cynicism: nothing new or exciting could happen because it would end in disappointment, and that militated against rocking the boat even a tiny bit. The career staff in government and their industry counterparts lived through dark winters before and stopped believing that warm springs could bloom into summers.

I have two core philosophies. First, I believe in ruthless optimism. Rational decision making requires detached risk analysis. But we also cannot win if we believe we can lose. Merging the two requires orienting teams around driving missions. That way, when a real opportunity presents itself, you can take a huge swing.

If I take credit for anything—honestly, almost all of the success belongs to the incredible and dedicated people at @ENERGY and @NRCgov—it’s countering the cultural rot and morass that risked forfeiting American excellence. My colleagues and I gave cover to the scientists and engineers, which freed them up to focus on delivering safe power. And, as success materialized, they started to dream again. That’s why the pilot program succeeded, and why I feel confident about the future of NLICs and NRC reform. Nobody needs me anymore because they can innovate on their own.

My second core philosophy is to assume positive intent. Avi, I know that you heard about my real motivations from multiple people you interviewed when preparing your hit piece on me. Rather than telling that story, one which could help inspire another generation of people to use their talents for the greater good, you ignored them. Instead, you implied that Peter Thiel recruited me for nefarious purposes. (I’ve never met him, but, @peterthiel, if you’re reading this, I’m a huge fan!)

Nuclear regulation starts and ends with safety. I promised everyone I worked with that I would resign before doing or pushing for anything that could compromise public safety. But I also distinguished between real safety and performative bullshit. That’s what the careers came to embrace, too. We love nuclear, why would we do anything that could risk threatening its future?

America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation. Join me on the latter path. Correct the fear mongering and conspiracies and tell the story of America’s great reindustrialization. Tell the story of our public servants, our great entrepreneurs, our scientific dominance. Tell the real story about how DOGE went nuclear.

[Derrick Goold @dgoold]

JJ Wetherholt -- NL rookie of the year favorite, Gold Glove candidate and ... All-Star, right?
#stlcards #Cardinals

[Cardinals Stats And Facts @STL_Stats_Facts]

Paul Goldschmidt is having a ridiculous comeback season at age 38 and nobody is talking about it.

Now just 17 homeruns away from 400 and I really hope he gets there

[🇺🇲 🇯🇵 🇵🇱 🇰🇷 🇦🇺 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 @joshflags]

@peterrhague FT is a complete slopfest

[MLB @MLB]

Jordan Walker and Nick Kurtz lead their respective leagues in RBI 👏

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

It often feels like these podcasters are just roaming around, backtracking and going in circles, just to see how many idiots are willing to follow them anywhere. Hard to think of a purpose for that unless you’re trying to gauge how many people you can take over a cliff with you.

[ꑭAnti Vatnik Systemꑭ @Vatnikbonk123]

-Lost it's top official on day 1 war
-Nuclear program failed miserably
-Barely even control it's airspace
-80% of it's navy are gone
-Proxies weakened
-Started bombing unarmed civilians ship
-Making AI slop where they successfully sunk US navy ship
-Declare Victory