Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent
@maxshields.bsky.social
Did some cool things. Now concentrating on dad stuff. I rage against the dying of the light.
Top it off with some Jalapeño cheese spread. Some guys got into punchups over that stuff when we were secluded in our dusty little FOBs for months on end.
The WWI Army had one answer, and it was "slum."
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Top it off with some Jalapeño cheese spread. Some guys got into punchups over that stuff when we were secluded in our dusty little FOBs for months on end.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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"In losing, Dems have said: we will relinquish future opportunities to use deadlines to bend Trump to our will. That is a posture of weakness that voters will pick up on."
On the pod, @brianbeutler.bsky.social has good ideas for Ds to salvage something from shutdown:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
On the pod, @brianbeutler.bsky.social has good ideas for Ds to salvage something from shutdown:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
Trump’s Rage over Shutdown Boils Over in Rant that Should Wake Up Dems
Trump’s angry new rant about air traffic controllers and the government shutdown showed his weakness. A sharp observer of Senate Democrats explains why they seem to be caving—and what they can do inst...
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"In losing, Dems have said: we will relinquish future opportunities to use deadlines to bend Trump to our will. That is a posture of weakness that voters will pick up on."
On the pod, @brianbeutler.bsky.social has good ideas for Ds to salvage something from shutdown:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
On the pod, @brianbeutler.bsky.social has good ideas for Ds to salvage something from shutdown:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
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If at any point you are tempted to feel sorry for that miserable waste of skin please remind yourself that he has murdered a quarter of a million children and counting
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If at any point you are tempted to feel sorry for that miserable waste of skin please remind yourself that he has murdered a quarter of a million children and counting
All of this is part of a predictable trajectory. The Dems that caved on the shutdown are so focused on issue-by-issue considerations that they’re missing the fact that they’re also caving on the broader picture as well.
Or they’re happy being part of the controlled opposition.
Or they’re happy being part of the controlled opposition.
Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...
Trump’s mass pardon of election deniers
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
All of this is part of a predictable trajectory. The Dems that caved on the shutdown are so focused on issue-by-issue considerations that they’re missing the fact that they’re also caving on the broader picture as well.
Or they’re happy being part of the controlled opposition.
Or they’re happy being part of the controlled opposition.
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the country that produced the world's first trillionaire is also the country whose citizens can't afford food or health care 👍
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
the country that produced the world's first trillionaire is also the country whose citizens can't afford food or health care 👍
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When we do this again in about 90 days
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
When we do this again in about 90 days
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An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
Switching over countrywide ATC systems to fiber and modernizing and integrating a variety of the “best systems” to happen relatively quickly?
Sounds like minimizing a gargantuan project in which relatively quickly is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
bsky.app/profile/dkps...
Sounds like minimizing a gargantuan project in which relatively quickly is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
bsky.app/profile/dkps...
from C-Span transcript: "They're all bidding and we're going to pick the best one and it will get built relatively quickly and we're going to have the greatest air traffic control system anywhere in the world."
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Switching over countrywide ATC systems to fiber and modernizing and integrating a variety of the “best systems” to happen relatively quickly?
Sounds like minimizing a gargantuan project in which relatively quickly is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
bsky.app/profile/dkps...
Sounds like minimizing a gargantuan project in which relatively quickly is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
bsky.app/profile/dkps...
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
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There is no “squandered momentum.” The momentum is with the people. The momentum was not with, and was never going to be with Republican lawmakers. Understand this —they don’t care. They didn’t care about 80 million voters, come on much less 10 million protesters.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
There is no “squandered momentum.” The momentum is with the people. The momentum was not with, and was never going to be with Republican lawmakers. Understand this —they don’t care. They didn’t care about 80 million voters, come on much less 10 million protesters.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
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OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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How is moral fiber so fucking lacking in this country? Do we have values, or do we not? Do we have the rule of law, or do we not?
Fight, god damn it. Fight!
Fight, god damn it. Fight!
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
How is moral fiber so fucking lacking in this country? Do we have values, or do we not? Do we have the rule of law, or do we not?
Fight, god damn it. Fight!
Fight, god damn it. Fight!
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In the 1940s my grandmother gave birth to a baby who died within two days from hemolytic disease of the newborn. When my twins had the same complication after being born in 2015 the doctors just popped them under some bilirubin lights for 24 hours and then they were fine.
This is especially true for medical care. Virtually any - any - type of cancer was a death sentence. The 5y survival rate for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1960 was roughly 14%. Today it is roughly 95%.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In the 1940s my grandmother gave birth to a baby who died within two days from hemolytic disease of the newborn. When my twins had the same complication after being born in 2015 the doctors just popped them under some bilirubin lights for 24 hours and then they were fine.
Calling it now.
Don’t know when it’s going to happen.
But it happens every time.
Don’t know when it’s going to happen.
But it happens every time.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Calling it now.
Don’t know when it’s going to happen.
But it happens every time.
Don’t know when it’s going to happen.
But it happens every time.
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Then why’d you cave?
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Then why’d you cave?
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NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
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This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW
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I've personally seen a range safety NCO Goldberg-style spear a soldier who was *accidentally* flagging people at a shoot house
This shit would get you skull fucked by any competent NCO. Right to the wood line, no hesitation
This shit would get you skull fucked by any competent NCO. Right to the wood line, no hesitation
Oh my buddy is flipping the fuck out and has drawn his service weapon. Lemme just come around the corner real quick and stick my head in his window 😂
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I've personally seen a range safety NCO Goldberg-style spear a soldier who was *accidentally* flagging people at a shoot house
This shit would get you skull fucked by any competent NCO. Right to the wood line, no hesitation
This shit would get you skull fucked by any competent NCO. Right to the wood line, no hesitation
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I will donate to every candidate who moves to primary anyone who votes yes to a putative senate deal.
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I will donate to every candidate who moves to primary anyone who votes yes to a putative senate deal.
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THIS IS JUST PAYING MONEY TO HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES WITH EXTRA STEPS YOU STUPID ASSHOLES
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
THIS IS JUST PAYING MONEY TO HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES WITH EXTRA STEPS YOU STUPID ASSHOLES
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM