Dr. John Hickman
@spacepolitics.bsky.social
Father, Grandfather, Professor, Citizen
Space Policy, Climate Policy, Transportation Policy, Human Rights, Elections and Electoral Systems
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Hickman
Space Policy, Climate Policy, Transportation Policy, Human Rights, Elections and Electoral Systems
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Hickman
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Which party incites violence again?
GOP Lawmaker Sparks Outrage After Calling For Dem Rep. To Be Executed For Urging People To Protest Trump
www.comicsands.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Which party incites violence again?
Who lost China? Trump and his Republicans lost China. The Middle Kingdom has also abandoned American for Australian beef. Starting trade wars you are going to lose is stupid.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
China weaponizes ag imports to target Trump and US farmers
China’s freeze on U.S. soybean purchases hits a key GOP constituency in the run-up to 2026 midterm elections
www.politico.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Who lost China? Trump and his Republicans lost China. The Middle Kingdom has also abandoned American for Australian beef. Starting trade wars you are going to lose is stupid.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Geoengineering can not "stall" what is already stalled. The UNFCCC has failed as a climate regime. Time to stop pretending that national decision-makers will suddenly come to their senses and save the day.
davidsuzuki.org/story/costly...
davidsuzuki.org/story/costly...
Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions
Some are clearly designed to allow the destructive fossil fuel industry to keep operating.
davidsuzuki.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Geoengineering can not "stall" what is already stalled. The UNFCCC has failed as a climate regime. Time to stop pretending that national decision-makers will suddenly come to their senses and save the day.
davidsuzuki.org/story/costly...
davidsuzuki.org/story/costly...
Trump is being lobbied by rival foreign policy networks for wars with Venezuela or Iran. Sending troops to Portland obviously plays to a domestic audience of anti-urban conservatives while avoiding the sort of large scale interstate war that he fears going very wrong. #Portland #Venezuela #Iran
September 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Trump is being lobbied by rival foreign policy networks for wars with Venezuela or Iran. Sending troops to Portland obviously plays to a domestic audience of anti-urban conservatives while avoiding the sort of large scale interstate war that he fears going very wrong. #Portland #Venezuela #Iran
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Healy's only year-round medical clinic will close in November.
Denali Borough Mayor Chris Noel said he was surprised by the announcement and hopes the community can work together to find a solution.
Denali Borough Mayor Chris Noel said he was surprised by the announcement and hopes the community can work together to find a solution.
Healy's only year-round medical clinic will close in November
The closure means many Denali Borough residents will have to drive longer distances for care at other facilities.
alaskapublic.org
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Healy's only year-round medical clinic will close in November.
Denali Borough Mayor Chris Noel said he was surprised by the announcement and hopes the community can work together to find a solution.
Denali Borough Mayor Chris Noel said he was surprised by the announcement and hopes the community can work together to find a solution.
JJ Cale is the perfect soundtrack for THE LOWDOWN
www.imdb.com/title/tt3128...
www.imdb.com/title/tt3128...
The Lowdown (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 6.9 | Biography, Drama, History
59m | TV-MA
www.imdb.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
JJ Cale is the perfect soundtrack for THE LOWDOWN
www.imdb.com/title/tt3128...
www.imdb.com/title/tt3128...
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Great news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 7.5% in August too! That's three months of solid data showing the pedestrianization pilot is good for business.
Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going into the fall: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...
Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going into the fall: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Great news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 7.5% in August too! That's three months of solid data showing the pedestrianization pilot is good for business.
Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going into the fall: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...
Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going into the fall: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...
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www.juancole.com/2025/09/assa...
Here’s another thing Israel (or its enablers are doing when I posted this article on FB, it immediately disappeared!!! Tried 2 more times:same result. Deleted history!!!
Here’s another thing Israel (or its enablers are doing when I posted this article on FB, it immediately disappeared!!! Tried 2 more times:same result. Deleted history!!!
Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. A day earlier...
www.juancole.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
www.juancole.com/2025/09/assa...
Here’s another thing Israel (or its enablers are doing when I posted this article on FB, it immediately disappeared!!! Tried 2 more times:same result. Deleted history!!!
Here’s another thing Israel (or its enablers are doing when I posted this article on FB, it immediately disappeared!!! Tried 2 more times:same result. Deleted history!!!
Nancy Mace pronounces the word 'dignity' as "digny." How undignified.
September 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Nancy Mace pronounces the word 'dignity' as "digny." How undignified.
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‼️PUBLIC COMMENTS NEEDED by SEPT 19TH to SAVE MIILLIONS of ACRES from LOGGING‼️GO‼️
The Trump Adm & U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken the next step in repealing rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest land from logging & development
#RoadlessRule
www.kpax.com/news/montana...
The Trump Adm & U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken the next step in repealing rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest land from logging & development
#RoadlessRule
www.kpax.com/news/montana...
Feds take next step in removing protections from 6.4 million acres of Montana’s national forests
The ‘Roadless Rule’ has prevented new road construction across 58 million acres of national forest land across the country.
www.kpax.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
‼️PUBLIC COMMENTS NEEDED by SEPT 19TH to SAVE MIILLIONS of ACRES from LOGGING‼️GO‼️
The Trump Adm & U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken the next step in repealing rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest land from logging & development
#RoadlessRule
www.kpax.com/news/montana...
The Trump Adm & U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken the next step in repealing rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest land from logging & development
#RoadlessRule
www.kpax.com/news/montana...
Windshield bias from a Fox affiliate: "female pedestrian was struck by a vehicle." Implicitly attributing agency to vehicles they would never attribute to firearms.
www.fox5dc.com/news/pedestr...
www.fox5dc.com/news/pedestr...
Pedestrian hit, killed in early-morning Route 50 crash in Anne Arundel
A pedestrian was killed in a tragic early morning crash on Route 50 in Anne Arundel County. Troopers from the Maryland State Police responded to the scene, where a preliminary investigation revealed t...
www.fox5dc.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Windshield bias from a Fox affiliate: "female pedestrian was struck by a vehicle." Implicitly attributing agency to vehicles they would never attribute to firearms.
www.fox5dc.com/news/pedestr...
www.fox5dc.com/news/pedestr...
Conservative extremists only getting a catch-as-catch-can purge and not the violent pogrom they wanted.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts
Reactions to the conservative activist’s killing have become a litmus test for employers’ tolerance for political speech by employees, in public and private.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Conservative extremists only getting a catch-as-catch-can purge and not the violent pogrom they wanted.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This is a good moment to read or reread Amy Knight's brilliant take on one of the most important assassinations of the 20th c.
September 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is a good moment to read or reread Amy Knight's brilliant take on one of the most important assassinations of the 20th c.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired Britain's ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, over links to Jeffrey Epstein
UK fires ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson over his links to Jeffrey Epstein
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired the U.K’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
apnews.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired Britain's ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, over links to Jeffrey Epstein
Nepal has the attention of activists in 2025 as Bangladesh and Uganda did in 2024. Regimes around the planet have been implementing three urbanisms to protect themselves from protest turned riot since the mid-20th c. #Nepal www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Dispersal, isolation and surveillance: Regime survival urbanisms in the 21st century | Request PDF
Request PDF | Dispersal, isolation and surveillance: Regime survival urbanisms in the 21st century | The 21st century is witnessing massive and rapid urbanization, especially across the Global South. ...
www.researchgate.net
September 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Nepal has the attention of activists in 2025 as Bangladesh and Uganda did in 2024. Regimes around the planet have been implementing three urbanisms to protect themselves from protest turned riot since the mid-20th c. #Nepal www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Democratic Party Establishment once again unable to think beyond the same faces and ideas
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Mamdani takes big lead in NYC mayoral race, new poll shows
Forty-six percent of likely voters said they would vote for the democratic socialist in the race for the city's top seat.
www.politico.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Democratic Party Establishment once again unable to think beyond the same faces and ideas
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Street design in the French Quarter breaks every rule of transportation engineering. This curb radius is about 6', and the gallery columns are about 6" from the street. It's important to study seemingly impossible things & ask "why does this work?" & "are the rules wrong?"
September 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Street design in the French Quarter breaks every rule of transportation engineering. This curb radius is about 6', and the gallery columns are about 6" from the street. It's important to study seemingly impossible things & ask "why does this work?" & "are the rules wrong?"
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US blue-collar job growth has completely stagnated, hitting the lowest level since the onset of the pandemic—manufacturing is currently losing jobs at a rapid pace, and growth in construction/transportation has slowed to a crawl
September 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
US blue-collar job growth has completely stagnated, hitting the lowest level since the onset of the pandemic—manufacturing is currently losing jobs at a rapid pace, and growth in construction/transportation has slowed to a crawl
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Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Ah America! The land of the free! 🙄
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
September 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Ah America! The land of the free! 🙄
Fun to know that a vulgar transhumanism informs the musings of the two biggest dogs of authoritarian Asia. Also unsurprising. #Putin #Xi #globalpolitics
www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-puti...
www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-puti...
Putin and China's Xi heard on hot mic discussing life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality
"Predictions are, in this century, it may be... possible to live to 150 years old," China's Xi Jinping mused to Vladimir Putin before a historic military parade in Beijing.
www.cbsnews.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Fun to know that a vulgar transhumanism informs the musings of the two biggest dogs of authoritarian Asia. Also unsurprising. #Putin #Xi #globalpolitics
www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-puti...
www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-puti...
Has been a long time, too long, since Romana Didulo was in the news. Always entertaining.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Sask. RCMP raid 'Queen of Canada' cult compound, arrest 16 adults | CBC News
For the past two years a former school in the Richmound, Sask., has been the home of Romana Didulo and her followers.
www.cbc.ca
September 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Has been a long time, too long, since Romana Didulo was in the news. Always entertaining.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Almost every POTUS wages war. Trump wants a war just big enough to rally public opinion. Problems: 1) keeping the war small; 2) 'Rally Round the Flag Effect' isn't quite what it used to be. #peace #Venezuela #Maduro #Trump
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US builds up forces in Caribbean as officials, experts, ask why
A large buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Southern Caribbean has officials in Caracas and experts in the United States asking: is the move aimed at combating drug cartels, as the Trump administration has suggested, or is it for something else entirely?
www.reuters.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Almost every POTUS wages war. Trump wants a war just big enough to rally public opinion. Problems: 1) keeping the war small; 2) 'Rally Round the Flag Effect' isn't quite what it used to be. #peace #Venezuela #Maduro #Trump
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
As the early 21st century's 'least of the great powers', India rationally values predictable relationships with other great powers. The USA under Trump is unpredictable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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China and India pledge to be 'partners not rivals' at security summit
Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi met on the sidelines of a summit that Russia's Vladimir Putin is also attending.
www.bbc.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As the early 21st century's 'least of the great powers', India rationally values predictable relationships with other great powers. The USA under Trump is unpredictable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...