The older voice actor Jonathan Joss was shot because he was gay. #johnredcorn

A Latino bigot and neighbor of Joss's was trying to kill Joss's younger husband out on their front porch. Joss was somehow able to act quickly, pushing his husband away from the line of fire. Joss was killed instead. Jonathan Joss was able to say a few words to his younger husband before he died. #MuellerSheWrote reported this the other day and it brought me to tears.

Only in Trump's America could this have happened. I will always hate Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and most every other red state and former slave state for life after all of this personal trauma (see below) and society's BS taking its toll.

No justice, no peace. Fuck cops.

Foreign press: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jonathan-joss-shooting-suspect-sigfredo-ceja-alvarez-bail-b2763843.html

Our domestic press does its best to ignore the human side of Joss and his partner as much as they can get away with:

https://www.kwtx.com/2025/06/03/what-know-about-fatal-shooting-king-hill-actor-jonathan-joss-co-stars-pay-tribute/

FUCK THE SAN ANTONIO P.D. for not locking up that murderer right away, for officially denying that the murder was over homophobia, and for them not investigating the fire at Joss's house in January as an act of arson. The bias by #LEO 's against our #gay and #trans brothers, sisters, and individuals by institutions is really plain to see nowadays.

I will not ever trust the police after what they did to ME at my own house during the early summer of 2023 here in Corvallis, Oregon. American police often operate without #impunity. I'm not homosexual nor am I trans. I live alone with my kitty. I used to live with my Mom who had a serious case of Parkinson's. She died later that year. After she faked a panic attack over the phone to drive me away the police overreacted and then did not take responsibility in any way for their unprofessional, callow behavior.

There were four CPD officers. They tackled me in unison and threw me to the ground with absolutely no #provocation from me. I did not raise my voice towards them or make any unnecessary gestures. I made no other sudden movements of any kind. I was unarmed and was standing alone outside with these men in blue. My #Mom was inside. CPD did this to illegally remove me from my property. I was not charged with a crime after this incident.

"a public break between #Trump & the #FederalistSociety could create seismic #political waves. All of the current sitting right-wing justices are allies of the “sleazebag” Leo & owe their positions to him...

#Leo was also largely responsible for the Federalist Society gravy train that Justices #ClarenceThomas & #SamuelAlito rode for decades...

If Trump can turn so quickly on Leo, he could turn on the justices… and they could turn on him."
- @jaykuo

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/cracks-in-the-gop-coalition

From a @LiveScience op-ed by @sundogplanets: "#LEO is a valuable resource that must be protected and shared in a way that benefits the most people while simultaneously protecting LEO for use by future generations. We cannot have tens of thousands of #satellites in LEO without severe consequences for the atmosphere and an increasingly high likelihood of #KesslerSyndrome, which will limit our use of satellites for decades to centuries."

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/what-goes-up-must-come-down-how-megaconstellations-like-spacexs-starlink-network-pose-a-grave-safety-threat-to-us-on-earth-opinion

From an op-ed in @LiveScience by CSE's own @sundogplanets: "#LEO is a valuable resource that must be protected and shared in a way that benefits the most people while simultaneously protecting LEO for use by future generations. We cannot have tens of thousands of #satellites in LEO without severe consequences for the atmosphere and an increasingly high likelihood of #KesslerSyndrome, which will limit our use of satellites for decades to centuries."

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/what-goes-up-must-come-down-how-megaconstellations-like-spacexs-starlink-network-pose-a-grave-safety-threat-to-us-on-earth-opinion

We'll know if the Starlink satellites are being knocked out of LEO by that CME in a few days when the Russian advance in Ukraine stops....

"Researchers project that active #satellites could skyrocket to 1,00,000 before stabilising, a threshold considered the 'carrying capacity' of the #LEO. This limit, where collision risks become significant, could be reached by 2050 at current launch rates. ... Scientists are urging a slowdown in launches until global regulations can address these issues.”

https://in.mashable.com/science/94354/earths-orbit-is-reaching-saturation-point-as-satellite-launches-boom

A new Pope, an American Pope.

An American Immigrant Pope.
Dad was a Navy Vet.

Pope Leo XIV

Cubs fan.

Born of immigrants (Martinez) French Italian Spanish heritages.

"As a child, Prevost served as an altar boy at St. Mary of the Assumption Church on the South Side of Chicago."

The first American Pope!
The second Latin American Pope!
First Pope born of Immigrants!
First Pope from The South Side of Chicago!

First Pope Who Grew Up On Deep Dish Pizza.

#PopeImmigrant
#pope #leo

The tradition begins with legal theorist
#Carl #Schmitt
and can be followed in the work of the political philosopher #Leo #Strauss,
thinkers affiliated with the #Claremont #Institute,
a California-based think tank with close ties to the Trump movement,
and the contemporary writings of the legal scholar #Adrian #Vermeule.

Many on the right have bristled at presidential power’s being constrained over the past century by two waves of administrative reform.

The first dates back to the early 20th century and the rise of the bureaucratic-regulatory state during the Progressive and New Deal eras.

The second wave emerged in the 1970s, as Congress responded to the abuses of power by Richard Nixon.

The presidency has evolved to become an office exercising general (and often passive) oversight of vast departments and agencies,
which are staffed by career civil servants who stay on across administrations.

Presidents are constrained by layers of lawyers and others determining what is allowable based on law and precedent.

This evolution came about in part because the presidency can be the office most susceptible to despotic or tyrannical rule.

That’s where the more radical critique emanating from the hard right focuses its attention.

Schmitt (who died in 1985) developed his most influential ideas during the turbulence and ineffectual governance of Germany’s Weimar Republic.

In his view, liberalism has a fatal weakness.

Its aversion to violent conflict drives it to smother intense debate with ostensibly neutral procedures that conceal the truth about the nature of politics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/opinion/trump-schmitt-strauss-intellectuals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Rightwing group backed by #Koch and #Leo sues to stop #Trump #tariffs - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-tariffs-lawsuit oh, look at that: not working out quite how you wanted it, eh?

#Hickson44 in #Leo
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250404.html

Evolution of the price per kg of payload (LEO) for several space missions:

Space Shuttle - $19.8k/kg
Ariane 5 - $10.3k/kg
Soyuz FG - $7.2k/kg
H-IIB - $7.1k/kg
LongMarch 3B - $5.8k/kg
Polar Satellite - $3.9k/kg
SpaceX Falcon - $2.7k/kg
SpaceX Falcon 9 (reuse) - $1.9k/kg

Astrospace interview with Tim Flohrer, head of the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office: "What is actually making our job more difficult today compared to a few years ago, is the rapid increase of active satellites. ... The effort we have to put today in this coordination activities is enormous, and rapidly increasing. And the complexity of the process results also in increased collision risks."

https://www.astrospace.it/2025/03/26/present-and-future-of-space-debris-management-interview-with-tim-flohrer-head-of-the-esa-space-debris-office/

ODNI 2025 Threat Assessment notes threats from Russia, China, Iran, North Korea targeting critical infrastructure, telecom https://www.byteseu.com/865203/ #2025AnnualThreatAssessmentReport #ASATMissiles #Conflicts #CriticalInfrastructure #CyberEspionage #CyberThreats #CyberAttacks #Finance #Iran #JammingSystems #LEO #malware #Security #ThreatAssessment #trade

A couple of abstracts relevant to the space environment from the upcoming European Geosciences Union (Vienna, 27 April–2 May 2025):

“Defining the environmental impacts of satellite megaconstellation missions in a rapidly growing space sector” https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-17301.html

“Survey of the estimated mass of ablated material and intact debris from ‘end-of-life’ LEO spacecraft entering the atmosphere” https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-12796.html