J. Craig Wallace

@histories_arch Great story. Thanks.

A 16-year-old Latina girl from Chicago mailed her application to MIT. Her name was Sabrina González Pasterski.... On merit alone, she should have been impossible to ignore. At 14, she had built a working single-engine airplane in her family’s garage—documenting every step, from assembly to flight. She passed inspection and flew it herself. She came from public schools, a first-generation Cuban-American with no elite pipeline or connections. She understood the unspoken rule: girls like her had to be exceptional just to be considered. She was. MIT still waitlisted her. It hit hard. MIT had been the goal she built everything around. Being told “not yet” felt like being told “not you.” But then two MIT professors came across her airplane video. They watched a teenager design, build, and fly her own aircraft—and immediately recognized something rare. They pushed her case forward. MIT reconsidered. She got in. She didn’t forget that moment. Instead, she used it as fuel. At MIT, she didn’t just succeed—she redefined what success looked like. She became the first woman to win the prestigious Orloff Scholarship, graduated in just three years with a perfect 5.00 GPA, and became the first woman in two decades to graduate at the top of MIT Physics. Her research moved just as fast. Her first paper was accepted within 24 hours—something almost unheard of in theoretical physics. Opportunities followed. NASA showed interest. Jeff Bezos personally offered her a role at Blue Origin. She declined. She chose to pursue deeper questions instead, heading to Harvard for a PhD in physics. There, she focused on black holes, quantum gravity, and the structure of spacetime. At just 25, her work was cited by Stephen Hawking—a rare acknowledgment from one of the most respected minds in science. But her story isn’t just about intelligence. It’s about navigating a space where people like her are often underrepresented. She had seen the imbalance early—few girls in advanced physics, even fewer from her background. Instead of stepping back, she stepped forward. She kept her focus narrow and intentional. No social media presence, no distractions—just her work. She maintained a simple website, sharing research rather than chasing attention. When people compared her to Einstein, she rejected it, insisting she was still learning. After completing her PhD, again with top performance, she continued her work at leading research institutions. Today, she contributes to some of the most complex problems in physics, exploring how the universe fundamentally works. And as she does, she quietly expands what feels possible for others. Sabrina González Pasterski’s story isn’t just about brilliance. It’s about persistence, identity, and refusing to shrink to fit expectations. MIT hesitated. She gave them a second chance to see clearly. And then she went on to prove exactly who she was. © Women Stories #archaeohistories

Today, the Artemis II crew is making their flyby around the far side of the moon — 250,000 miles from home!

@JessicaUSAF Good one! 😂😂😂

@chiky_handlr @shell_loyd The whole administration is going down as the clown car show…if we make through the year.

Pete Hegseth will down in history as the worst secretary of defense. Raise your hand if you agree 🖐️🖐️

The failing NYT

That's bullcrap! She has been subpoenaed! The Clinton's who did nothing got summoned to testify for hours then threatened! These people are corrupt to the core!

So many people feel the same way

@morgfair @mikecleere 😂😂😂

And yet…

I can literally smell her soul burning in hell through my laptop screen.

A Trump insider opened a $51,000,000 oil short position — hours before Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran. This guy is now 16 for 16. $170 million in profit. A perfect streak. This is not a talented trader. "We placed the bet." "The ceasefire dropped." "We cashed out." Sixteen times in a row. That is not skill. That is not instinct. That is not research. That is someone who knows what is coming before it comes. Think about what that actually means. A private individual is placing a $51 million bet that oil prices are about to collapse — hours before a sitting president announces a ceasefire that collapses oil prices. Not once. Sixteen times. Zero losses. There are only two explanations and both should terrify you. Either someone inside the White House — or with direct access to it — is leaking ceasefire negotiations to traders before diplomats, before the press, before the American people hear a single word. That is insider trading. That is corruption. That is a federal crime. Or the timing of the announcement itself is being shaped around the trade. Which is worse. This is not a genius investor who reads the news faster than you do. The news hadn't happened yet. He wasn't reading the news. He was getting a phone call. While Americans were watching the ceasefire announcement and feeling relieved — somebody already knew. Somebody had already bet $51 million on it. And somebody was already counting their winnings. You are not watching a free market. You are watching a White House with a side hustle. Via~ Really American

Isn’t Congress supposed to be a check on The President? This guy is blatantly robbing the country.

I have a PhD in political science from Oxford, focused on US foreign policy; worked as a State Dept. official in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East; and wrote a celebrated foreign policy book taught at universities like Princeton. That's why I get geopolitical questions.

@highbrow_nobrow You got the money you don’t have to do time. Trump’s ‘pay me now and go free’ plan.

President Donald J. Trump commuted the prison term of David Gentile, who led GPB Capital, less than two weeks after he began serving a seven-year sentence in a $1.6 billion fraud that prosecutors said harmed more than 10,000 investors. …eintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-frees-…

Iran never obtained a nuclear weapon under previous presidents. The Trump team framing that they achieved what others failed to do is just factually incorrect.

@Out5p0ken Where is Congress? He spending our tax dollars as fast as he can put the money in his pockets. We need oversight now. Intelligent oversight… if this is possible with these con artists.

Trump is gifting Melania the $70M luxury jet that Kristi Noem and DHS “needed” — on our dime.