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SpaceX cut government space-launch costs by 90%. Starlink delivers better connectivity for less. Taxpayers benefit.
Socialist response: “Defund Musk - nationalize Starlink and SpaceX.”
American response: Private companies stay private. Nationalizing ends innovation.
Musk’s response: "Stealing companies is a serious crime. Prison for Reich."
A close friend of mine regularly leads MSF missions and is one of the most dedicated people I know. She is furious about this.
Switzerland froze CHF 1.25 million in funding after MSF staff in Chad exchanged money, jobs, and aid for sex with refugee women and girls. An internal investigation found 59 allegations. 18 staff were fired (including 6 from the Swiss section). Swiss authorities say MSF failed to report the full scale in time.
Good people on the ground are being undermined by an organization that still isn’t treating this as a serious failure. Don’t condemn every MSF worker, just demand that they fix the systems that allowed this.
I always thought of Vincent van Gogh as Bob Ross on LSD, making it all up with happy little nebulae.
Nope.
A new study matches Starry Night to the predawn sky from his asylum window around 3 a.m. on July 22, 1889, a month after the accepted date.
Astronomer Elijah Jeong-hyun Kim and his team based their estimate on the positions of the crescent moon, Venus, and the stars.
ALT van Gogh's Starry Night
Addictive behaviors - excess drinking, gambling, drugs - are a real risk. Online gambling targets teenage boys with apps that look like games.
I tried to raise my kids to recognize manipulation.
Parenting isn’t guaranteed, but I’d give good odds none of them fall for online gaming.
Any bets?
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Michael Myers returned for a disturbing number of Halloween movies.
Two days after Halloween this year, Socialism is back on the ballot.
I'd rather face Michael Myers after my car stalls and I take a shortcut to walk home through the cemetery at night. In the real world, Socialism is far scarier.
What jobs will survive after AI?
Bill Gates says only coding, biologists, energy workers, and professional athletes.
I think the first three will stick around only in uncommon situations.
I expect the oldest profession and others where the primary payoff is human contact to continue (plus John Connor's role).
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Israel elections - details that CNN left out of their brief report:
- All major candidates are allied with Netanyahu or Eisenkot. If estimates are close to accurate, neither side can form a majority without either Arabs or supporters from the other man's coalition.
- Exit polls have been wrong in the last two Israeli elections, but it would be surprising to see them wrong by this much (by accident at least).
There is no clear winner in Israel's elections as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival appear short of outright victory, exit polls suggest cnn.it/4srMKWT
Disappointing news with another FBI-Swalwell raid.
Where can his foreign girlfriends hide if the FBI keeps doxing them?
Aren't communist spies entitled to a little peace and loving too?
BREAKING: Federal authorities raid a Beverly Hills mansion in connection with an investigation involving former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, Fox News has learned.
The search comes after the FBI searched Swalwell's Washington, D.C., home in August and seized his electronic devices at San Francisco International Airport.
Swalwell resigned from Congress and dropped his California gubernatorial bid following multiple sexual misconduct allegations, including accusations from a former staffer.
The latest raid follows another development involving newly declassified FBI records about Swalwell's relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.
Download the FOX News app to follow this developing story: foxnews.onelink.me/xLDS/z2jy…
If you're wondering why Democrats are competitive in Maine, it's because fraud is a major industry there.
Dem voters support the corruption that pays them so generously.
Susan Collins is likely the best Maine has and deserves our support.
DACA is gradually fading.
It's disgusting that Obama created this unlawful program by decree and it's taking years to dismantle DACA to restore the rule of law.
TN is making progress:
ALT TN blocking driver's licenses for DACA
Illegals are voting in California, the state knows that, and the court ruled 2:1 that California election officials can continue counting ballots cast by illegals.
Does this sound like treason to anyone else?
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One week from Election Day. It's time for another scripted and carefully rehearsed lie.
These claims fall apart in a few weeks, but they hope that's long enough to nudge a few votes.
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