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I got counted! I am cool laidat 😍🥰

Distance makes the heart grow fonder…it didn’t take 219,669 miles to remind me how much love I have for Ellie and Katey. They have been incredible supporters during this journey, and they now fully understand why it was important for me to go explore into the unknown.

The first face the Artemis II crew will see upon their return to Earth will be the face of a U.S. Navy Sailor. Meet the Dive Medical Recovery Team of Artemis II: usff.navy.mil/Press-Room/New…

Today the Artemis ll Orion will use a parachute recovery system to help land in the Pacific Ocean. A SHOUT OUT TO MY DAD who, I’m sure is looking down from heaven. This is a picture of the patent, he received in 1950.

A historic mission, returned HOME. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

In Singapore, the path to power is not left to chance or the messy churn of democratic ambition, but engineered with the cold precision of a modern aristocracy. From the rigours of A-levels, the brightest are winnowed through the Public Service Commission’s gruelling day-long ordeal of aptitude, psychometrics, and moral testing, then despatched on government scholarships to Oxford or Cambridge, bonded for six or seven years in return. Civil service salaries, deliberately pegged to the highest private-sector pay, draw the nation’s finest minds away from banking and commerce into a prestigious technocratic elite. Those who pass muster are groomed early, rotated through key posts, and elevated into politics - in the tightly managed Singaporean system -creating a highly institutionalised meritocracy that resembles nothing so much as a rigorous, self-renewing ruling class. As Lee Kuan Yew understood, prosperity is not accidental, it is the product of selecting and rewarding the capable without apology. Singapore’s system bears a striking resemblance to the French ENA model - both represent ambitious attempts to forge a highly capable technocratic elite through rigorous, early selection and state-sponsored formation. In France, the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA, now replaced by INSP) funneled the brightest through competitive exams into a dedicated postgraduate training ground for the grands corps, producing the famous énarques who dominate senior civil service, government-linked enterprises, and often politics itself. In both cases, the underlying logic remains the same: prosperity and effective administration demand the systematic identification and elevation of the ablest, rather than leaving leadership to the accidents of birth, charisma, or democratic lottery.

Voyager 1 is about to make history 🚀✨⁠ ⁠ In November 2026, NASA’s legendary probe is expected to become the first spacecraft ever to be one light-day away from Earth — so far that a signal from us would take a full 24 hours to reach it.⁠ ⁠ Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is still traveling through interstellar space nearly 50 years later. By around November 15, 2026, it should be about 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) from Earth. 🌌⁠ ⁠ Humanity really built something in the 1970s… and it’s still going. 🥲⁠ ⁠ #Voyager1 #NASA #SpaceExploration #Astronomy #StarWalk

On October 31, 1501, former Cardinal Cesare Borgia purportedly hosted an orgy in the Vatican with "50 honest prostitutes" in which his own father, Pope Alexander VI, not only attended but participated in. It was known as the Banquet of Chestnuts. Pope Alexander VI was considered one of the most corrupt popes in all of Catholic history. His name was associated with incest, adultery, bribery, and murder. The pope was also known for selling official positions within the Church and securing power and wealth only for his family, the House of Borgia. #HistoryVille

Jared Isaacman dropped out of high school at 16 and started a company in his parents' basement with $10,000 his grandfather gave him. Tonight he's on the deck of a Navy ship, waiting to welcome four astronauts home from the moon. That basement company is now Shift4 Payments. It processes over $200 billion a year in credit card transactions, about a third of all restaurants, hotels, and casinos in the U.S. Went public in 2020. He ran it as CEO from age 16 until he stepped down to take over NASA last year. He also co-founded Draken International, which ran a fleet of over 100 retired fighter jets whose entire job was playing the enemy in combat training for U.S. Air Force and NATO pilots. He sold it to Blackstone for over $100 million. He has over 8,000 hours in the cockpit and can fly more than a dozen types of military jets. He personally owns a MiG-29, a Russian fighter that tops 1,500 mph, which he bought from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It's the only one in private American hands. In 2009, he flew around the entire planet in a small Cessna jet in 61 hours and 51 minutes, a world record, to raise money for Make-A-Wish. In 2021, he paid for and commanded Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight. Four people with no astronaut training, three days orbiting Earth, $250 million raised for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Then in 2024, he went back up on Polaris Dawn and floated outside the spacecraft, held to it by a 12-foot cable, in the first spacewalk ever done by someone outside a government space agency. That same flight reached 870 miles above Earth, farther than any human had been since the last Apollo crew in 1972. He took over as NASA's 15th administrator in December 2025. In his first three months, he redirected $20 billion away from a planned space station around the moon and toward building a permanent base on the moon's surface. Right now he's aboard the USS John P. Murtha, about 50 miles off San Diego. The capsule carrying the Artemis II crew is going to hit the atmosphere tonight at around 25,000 mph. If the heat shield holds (it took damage on its last unmanned test), if the parachutes open, four astronauts splash down at 8:07 PM ET after a 694,000-mile trip around the moon. And the person waiting for them has been to space twice, walked outside a spacecraft, owns the only Russian fighter jet in private American hands, and started his first company as a teenager in his parents' basement. His call sign is "Rook."

The math on this feature is more insane than people realize. 55% of all websites are in English. Only 16% of the world speaks English. That means 5 billion people have been locked out of the majority of the internet's content for 30 years. Not partially locked out. Completely. X just flipped that switch for 600 million monthly users overnight. Every Korean post now reaches Americans. Every English post now reaches Japan. The algorithm doesn't care what language you wrote in anymore, it only cares whether the content is good. That changes the distribution math for every creator on the platform. Here's the second-order effect nobody's pricing in. If language no longer filters who sees your post, the talent pool for going viral just went from ~350 million English speakers on the platform to the entire user base. A developer in Lagos and an engineer in Osaka are now competing for the same eyeballs as someone in San Francisco. The best ideas win regardless of what keyboard you typed them on. Google had Translate for 18 years and never made it automatic and native to a social feed. The technology existed. The product decision didn't. X made the product decision.

Math so precise they’ve made going to space and coming back look simple. Humans are incredible.

Thank you to the Artemis II crew for giving the world a moment we’ll never forget. You flew around the moon and came home carrying the kind of history most of us only ever dream about. Watching four heroes step back into the story of human exploration after more than fifty years reminded everyone why we reach beyond Earth in the first place. You showed a new generation what courage looks like and what it means to push the horizon forward for all of us. This mission will be remembered for a long time and so will the people who made it real.

And splashdown! America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon and bringing them home safely. Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy did an outstanding job. These talented astronauts inspired the world and represented their space agencies and nations as humanity’s ambassadors to the stars. This was a test mission, the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, pushing farther into the unforgiving environment of space than ever before, and it carried real risk. They accepted that risk for all we stood to learn and for the exciting missions that follow, as we return to the lunar surface, build a Moon base, and prepare for what comes next. And they were not alone. The entire NASA workforce, our commercial and international partners, and the hopes and dreams of people all over the world were with them. The astronauts know it, and you should too. This mission would not have been possible without you. Congratulations. Artemis II, mission accomplished.

Orion's main parachute has deployed. The spacecraft has a system of 11 chutes that will slow it down from around 300 mph to 20 mph for splashdown. Get more updates on the Artemis II blog: nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/

LIVE: They are coming home. Watch as the Artemis II crew returns to Earth, splashing down at around 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Good evening all. As we prepare for Party primaries next month, I urge all our supporters in ikeja Federal Constituency and Lagos state to support Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat as the next Governor of Lagos state from 2027-2035 IJN. Amen! - James Faleke 10-4-2026

A moving man will eventually meet his luck.

When Artemis was launching, I held my breath, remembering Challenger. Today, Artemis will return, and I will hold my breath again, remembering Columbia. 🙏🏻🇺🇸

We’re entering a postliterate age. That’s why image-rich Catholicism is trending and text-based Protestantism isn’t. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…