Pilotken

Pilotken

@pilotken.bsky.social

Retired software engineer, pilot, amateur astrophotographer

174 followers16 following727 posts

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El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"

Premium Gas Costco Danville CA (mostly), who was prez in 2024? 9/23/26 $6.899 9/11/26 $6.299 8/8/26 $5.799 7/15/26 $5.649 6/08/26 $5.999 5/08/26 $6.359 4/11/26 $5.799 3/9/26 $5.459 9/9/25 $4.999 5/12/25 $4.999 3/13/25 $4.499 2/21/25 $4.549 1/14/25 $4.599 12/09/24 $3.999

My hometown! Keep up the good fight!

Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

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Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"

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Renfield Admits Count Dracula Can Be "Kind Of A Lot"

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says Trump threw him under the bus. “If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Cornyn says. “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...

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Replying to @kenwhite.bsky.social

/4 Congrats to the Federalist Society folks -- although I believe they may find they do not know what to do with the car now that they have caught it. May they take their success with them down to Hell.

Good for Powell! If Trump would shut up even one time this might not have happened

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Powell: "After my term ends on May 15, I will continue to serve as a governor for a period of time to be determined"

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FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Paul Voosen@voosen.me

NASA Administrator Isaacman just said that they will launch a fission-powered spacecraft in 2028 called "SR1 Freedom" and that it will go to Mars (!) and drop a payload of Ingenuity-class helicopters to the surface. So that's the third suprise launch for the 2028 window.

They’re even terrible gaslighting us!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran-- RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday? REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

He’s coming for your guns!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

Amazing the black helicopter, “big gumit” f-your feelings crowd backs masked federal thugs now. Kudos Mr Mayor

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

Military mission? Not a law enforcement operation? He can’t even parrot BS talking points

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth takes the mic and starts denigrating a CNN reporter for asking a "disingenuous question," adding, "you're trying to find any angle possible to undermine the success of one of the most historic military missions the world has ever seen"

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It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.

Drunk uncle wouldn’t be this far off the rails. He needs help

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"

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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

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Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

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How many people gonna die because some women laughed at these guys‘ dicks

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."