justin howard

Nobody knows anything. Expect to be wrong.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

With respect to property taxes, it getes worse.

Seniors today are responsible for allowing the cost explosion of education and everything else rolled into property taxes. Now that its expensive, they want to opt out. But it became expensive because their failed stewardship.

[Ramp Capital @RampCapitalLLC]

I swear to God there better not be some Institute of Virology next to a city named Hanta

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

FISA 702 just passed the House.

This bill lets the government search Americans’ private communications without a warrant—in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment.

But don’t blame the GOP alone.

Forty-two Democrats betrayed the American people to help Mike Johnson pass it.

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

This is one of the greatest photos ever taken by a human…so far.

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.

The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood.

The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old.

The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose.

And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled.

The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around.

Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

'Something Dark Is Going On': Nine Top-Level Scientists Die Or Go Missing In Past Year https://t.co/5xHLUPs5Xe

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

https://t.co/hGtI0yzARq

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

The Epstein Files?
Release all.
Sort through them.
Round up the suspects.
Liberal use of polygraphs and “enhanced interrogation” techniques.
Public Executions.
The slow kind.

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Breaking: The House just voted to block the release of congressional sexual misconduct reports

They voted 357-65 to block it

182 Democrats & 175 Republicans voted to block it

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Warmer...warmer...getting closer. Think Elliptic curves. Teller-Ulam geometry. Gene Drives. Crypto. Etc.

University scientists doing OPEN science have fallen in your estimation.

Think about how HIGH their stock was. Once weakened or ridiculed, you can pick them up for pennies.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

But I will say one thing here I have held back previously.

I use the word CONSTRUCT relentlessly to avoid falling into a trap. If you say “He’s was a CIA agent” or “He was a Mossad Asset” you are being an idiot.

Those are reserved terms. And you don’t really know what they mean at an exact technical level. So the cost of using spy jargon thinking you sound like an IC insider because you have seen all the Jason Bourne movies, is letting the covert world say “He wasn’t an agent.” Or “He wasn’t Mossad.” Or “He was never an asset.”

He was a construct. And he may have been set up privately at the request of multiple state level interests to operate *between* governments. Much the way governments push out activity too sensitive to be done inside government. I believe he operated between the U.S., U.K., Israel, and Saudi governments…at a minimum.

That’s why letting the low IQ Jew haters “It was Mossad!” is so stupid. Yes he was connected to Israel. But their focused hatred of Israel is going to miss how this guy was was actually operating. I don’t think any nation would want him as a salaried employee as a line item. And he was operating between nations. The only one I’m essentially positive of is the U.S. because we were protecting him from almost everything on American Soil. Israel is very skilled, but there is no way the U.S. covert community missed this. That is a child’s story for low IQ idiots.

This was a large piece of infrastructure. Not an individual human.

It had to have been pretty uniquely structured as some complicated IC/private partnership. I would bet, set up privately at IC suggestion, and protected by multiple intelligence/covert community understandings.

And as such, when we say what he was with specificity, the IC says “Sorry. That’s just not true.” And technically they are right.

Epstein was a hub of covert activity. Not a man. A hub. The man was a construct. Not an asset, or agent or any such specific thing necessarily.

The DOJ/FBI/MOSSAD/CIA/ETC are playing “Simon says” with you.

Ask them instead if he was known to be set up as a construct. Make them lie.

He wasn’t the FX hedge fund MEGA-Billionaire he claimed to be. He wasn’t “Disgraced Financier Jeffrey Epstein” either. He was a covert hub constructed by one group likely at the request of another with extraordinary structuring.

Don’t let this escape by low IQ unforced errors.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

Unfortunately the modern civic religion is money transfers to old people and accumulating debt to overspend even more on old people. Then money transfers to various other groups

We spend fluffer tier money on infrastructure

[The_Real_Fly @The_Real_Fly]

Trump is protecting this man

[The_Real_Fly @The_Real_Fly]

What are the odds both Lutnicks missed work on 9/11?

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Zorro Ranch is about Los Alamos and Sandia.

Maybe murders happened there. Maybe baby farms too.

But it plays the same role to National Laboratories, as One Brattle Square played to the Mathematics & Physics worlds of Harvard/MIT and their affiliated labs (Draper, Lincoln, etc.)