71yr old not yet retired Conservative Rocket Surgeon, with a career of Oil Field, Aircraft Mechanic, and Aerospace work. I block Elon impersonators and crypto.
Midland, TX
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I'm seeing lots of long-duration rocket engine tests in my feed today. Here's one of mine from 19 years ago. 3 minute burn, 20,000 lb-force LOX/Propane rocket motor in a flight-weight upper stage. April 2007, at the AirLaunch Vertical test stand on the Mojave, CA airport.
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🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE 🚨
Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution.
Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren't working alone.
The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates. Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T.
R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major "blocking" NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that.
R2T's role within UDA is concerned with "the day after tomorrow" - in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons "Big Tent" initiative.
Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the "illegal orders" messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A.
It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself - especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth.
You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to.
Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants.
As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of "redlines" in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed redlines. I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them.
Important to understand:
The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.
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I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.
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The administration is finally pulling the lever on the one operation that actually stops the illegal immigration crisis at its root. It’s time to amplify this. 🧵🔥
Tag everyone who needs to see this timeline. Share it far and wide. The corporate protection shield is officially coming down.
Border Czar Tom Homan just announced an aggressive, fully mapped corporate enforcement strategy that is completely separate from standard DHS delays. The plan is locked, loaded, and waiting to be deployed: mass worksite enforcement operations targeting companies that employ illegal aliens. [1, 2]
For decades, the system has ignored the primary driver of illegal border crossings: the corporate magnet of cheap, un-vetted labor. [1]
Homan’s blueprint flips the script:
• Mass Audits: Centralized teams are launching massive I-9 employment verification sweeps across the construction, hospitality, and agriculture sectors.
• Corporate Liability: Businesses that deliberately exploit illegal labor to undercut American competition and suppress domestic wages are being treated as criminal targets.
• Zero Exemptions: While hardened criminals are prioritized, Homan has made it clear that if you are in the country illegally, your workplace is no longer a safe haven. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The logic is absolute chess: you can guard the border all day, but until you penalize the corrupt businesses providing the financial incentive, the line keeps moving. [1]
We are moving into an unprecedented era of domestic labor enforcement. The corporate warnings have been issued. If you break the law to squeeze American workers out of a job, the bank is coming to collect. 🛠️🩸
Drop your raw takes below and tag the handles who need to put their local markets on notice. ⬇️
#TomHoman #BorderSecurity #ICE
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This is capitalism everyone.
Socialists don’t want you driving a car
REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU VOTE
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Watch here:
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I'm sick and tired of watching Americans tear each other apart over what generation they were born into. This ageist bs has gotten completely out of hand, and I'm not going to tolerate it. We've got serious problems in this country, and blaming people for the year they happened to be born isn't solving a damn one of them.
I've even heard Boomers blamed for the Vietnam War. Think about that for a minute. We were the generation sent to fight that war. Young men were drafted at 18, and until 1971, they couldn't even vote until they were 21. Many weren't old enough to vote for the president sending them halfway around the world to fight and die.
And now we're supposed to take the blame for it?
Have you ever considered that all this finger-pointing is playing right into the hands of people who want Americans divided?
You are literally advocating for Cultural Marxism. Divide people into groups, convince them that another group is responsible for their problems, and keep them fighting among themselves.
And this goes well beyond generations. We are never going to come together as a nation if people abandon their critical thinking skills in favor of tribalism based on skin color, gender identity, age, or any other label someone wants to put on us.
Every generation has contributed something to this country, and every generation has made mistakes. We are individuals, and we ought to be judged by our own actions, character, and contributions, not by some group identity.
And I'll tell you something else. This constant division is getting old. W e have a country to save, and we're not going to save it by treating our fellow Americans like the enemy. If you can't see past someone's age, skin color, or identity long enough to recognize that we're all Americans, then maybe you ought to ask yourself whether you're helping this country or contributing to the very division that's tearing it apart.
We've got enough problems without making enemies out of each other. It's time to grow up, start thinking for ourselves, and remember we're supposed to be on the same side. If I didn't know better I would think some Americans have fallen into the ideology of Cultural Revolution of Chairman Mao and the destruction of the "Four Olds". The commies win everytime you get yourself into this mindset.
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We've been seeing a lot of these types of posts over the past few days. So we put this together as an explainer.
Now keep in mind that we (US_OGA) are the small companies that produce oil and gas - not the big boys that are fully integrated and produce, transport and run refineries. We don't do that. We just pull it out of the ground and sell it to whoever will buy it.
But those other guys are bad at explaining things because they have comms teams that are scared of their own shadows so we have to do if for them sometimes.
That won't keep some of you from yelling at us. So be it.
But yelling at us is like yelling at a farmer for the price of a box of cereal.
But here you go. This might answer some of these questions.
Trying to understand this…
In 2008, oil climbed to about $143 a barrel and gas was roughly $4.10 per gallon.
Today, oil is closer to $94 a barrel, but gas is around $4.38 per gallon.
Crude oil has fallen significantly, but prices at the pump don’t seem to reflect that difference.
What factors are keeping gas prices high?
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Medical Tuesday.
The irony is thick.
American college graduates with strong grades, high MCAT scores, and hundreds of thousands in debt are increasingly shut out of medical school or residency.
At the same time, states are opening their doors to visa holders and foreign-trained physicians from systems where a 33% or even lower score can be a passing grade in medical school, and where FMGE (India’s foreign medical graduate exam) pass rates often hover around 25-27%.
Did you know that?
Qualified Americans get told “not enough residency slots.”
Foreign-trained doctors get provisional and fast-track licenses in 18+ states that bypass or shorten full U.S. residency requirements.
This is not filling a genuine shortage with the “best and brightest" when our best and brightest is forced to deliver DoorDash and denied entrance into medical school.
It is replacing American talent with lower-barrier, often less rigorously trained labor that is more compliant and cheaper for the system. The system- purposely made as expensive, lengthy and prohibitive as possible.
Future American doctors cannot get the training they paid for and sacrificed for, while the pipeline for questionable foreign credentials keeps widening.
Citations (APA)
Federation of State Medical Boards. (2026). States with enacted and proposed additional IMG licensure pathways.
National Resident Matching Program. (2026). Results and data: 2026 main residency match.
National Board of Examinations. (2026). FMGE January 2026 results and pass percentage.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2025). Health at a glance 2025. OECD Publishing.
Salsberg, E., et al. (2008). US residency training before and after the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. JAMA, 300(10), 1173–1180.
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France has 290 nuclear weapons.
UK has 260 nuclear weapons.
These two nations are currently being overtaken by Muslims.
I'm just over here connecting dots yall.
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I’m voting straight ticket Republican for the midterms.
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Post update**
How many fake Physicians are there and how do we know?
Long overdue update on a post where all it took was a claim for a foreigner to practice medicine.
After fraudulently practicing medicine for several years...he was given a 6 month sentence.
Samrat Mukherjee was a paramedic at Acadian Ambulance. He never finished medical school. He never finished the undergraduate degree. He built a fake Tulane medical diploma, a fake residency match letter, and wore M.D. and Flight Surgeon on his clothes.
Hospitals gave him a physician badge. He walked ICUs. From 2019 to 2022 he called in prescriptions under the names of two real doctors, including for a cancer patient.
He pleaded guilty in March 2025. In November 2025 a federal judge gave him six months. The charge carried five years. Six months for three years of walking into intensive care as a doctor he was not.
Here is what is so concerning...
Baton Rouge let this man practice and obviously never vetted his credentials. How easy is it? How many more are there?
This is the hole. A badge, a stitched title, and a hospital that did not check the school. He did not slip through an India pipeline. He slipped through an American one.
That is worse, not better. If a paramedic can invent Tulane and see ICU patients, the file on foreign diplomas, provisional licenses, and frozen residency seats for American graduates is not a side issue. It is the same unlocked door.
India’s own exam scandals, invalidated USMLE scores, and states fast-tracking foreign licenses sit on that same door. Re-check the high-risk credentials. Publish the schools with proven fraud. Charge the lie. Six months is not a review.
They Dont Work For You.
If your hospital still cannot tell you where the doctor trained, say so. Like share and bookmark.
Sources: U.S. Attorney, Middle District of Louisiana, plea announcement, March 10, 2025. The Advocate, sentencing, November 5, 2025.
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I find it funny that some people got hung up on Starship not having gone orbital before Flight 14 when in the grand scheme of things it was completely arbitrary in terms of performance. The 19ish second burn only added about 91 m/s of velocity (a 1.2% increase in velocity)
This capability has been physically capable since Flight 6 which demonstrated a single Raptor relight in space. Heck, Flight 13’s burn was about 14 seconds, but intentionally oriented to primarily do a plane change instead of a prograde insertion burn for continued safety.
Any of the relights COULD have done the orbital insertion burn, the duration was not of any special technical capability. The reason Starship didn’t go orbital until Flight 14 is probably what we should applaud them for the most… SAFETY.
Their methodical approach to getting good data and going one step at a time while hucking the single most massive object ever put into space proves they weren’t just doing things haphazardly, despite the occasional narrative from the outside.
While it’s easy to compare Starship to vehicles like SLS or Vulcan or New Glenn, the reality is the focus hasn’t been on orbit, it’s been all on the “downhill” side of that. Safe and targeted de-orbit, clean reentry, targeted and soft splashdown. That’s the part that has (almost) never been done before.
And here I do have to add a little Space Shuttle admiration for figuring out a lot of these things on its first flight in 1981 (although it came a bit close to not being successful). Pretty amazing there was a vehicle of similar scale capable of such precise deorbit and reentry that it landed on a runway with no go-around capabilities. Crazy.
But Starship is well on a path to absolutely leap-frog the Space Shuttle in terms of performance (already over double and someday 6 fold) and hopefully in terms of full and rapid reuse. I hope we see the latter part speed up even more now that orbit has been demonstrated.
Exciting times ahead!!! Keep going @spacex @elonmusk
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If this is true, it is just one more thing that we should thank @nickshirleyy for uncovering. Honestly this should shock no one!
🚨EXPOSED: Jack Smith Served Two Masters — Nick Shirley Drops the Virgin Islands Bank Records That Prove It
By Jonathan Gregory
Washington, D.C. - September 28, 2026
In a development that has the Washington establishment scrambling for cover, independent investigator Nick Shirley has obtained bank records he says show Special Counsel Jack Smith was never a neutral prosecutor at all. According to Shirley, Smith collected his official $215,000 federal salary while simultaneously taking $5 million a year from George Soros funneled through a web of Virgin Islands accounts. The records, Shirley claims, make the arrangement impossible to dismiss as coincidence. “The link is solid,” Shirley confirmed. “Smith was bought and paid for.”
The alleged dual paycheck would explain years of aggressive targeting that many Trump supporters have called political lawfare rather than even handed justice. While Smith drew a government check to pursue cases against the former president, the Soros-linked money, routed through offshore accounts designed to hide the source, kept flowing. Shirley says the paper trail does not show isolated donations or legal fees; it shows a sustained, high dollar relationship that continued even as Smith wielded the power of the federal government. If the documents hold, they turn the special counsel’s office from an independent watchdog into a privately subsidized operation.
Trump allies are already calling the arrangement the clearest evidence yet that the justice system was weaponized. Shirley’s cache of records, he insists, is only the beginning. “It’s time for them to find out,” he said, a warning aimed at every official who treated Smith’s work as above suspicion. Whether the Department of Justice, Congress, or the next administration acts on the files, the claim now sits in public view: one man, two paymasters, and a paper trail that Shirley says he is prepared to put in front of the country.
@TrumpNews
