Steven Ashley

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 NYT confirms what some "Special Forces Insiders" have been saying on X. The US blew up two of their C-130s which got stuck in the sand. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics | Socials | Donate | Advertising

U.S. forces rescued an American aviator trapped in Iran in a daring mission, officials said on.wsj.com/4sfROvO

The Federal Communications Commission bans the sale of new foreign-made routers in the US to protect national security. The ironic side effect: It could stop your current router from receiving vital security updates. cnet.com/home/internet/…

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD 😂

Exclusive: An Iranian drone attack last month on the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia did more extensive damage than previously disclosed on.wsj.com/4e2nzF0

MXenes—promising, ultra-thin, inorganic materials—can now be made in a cleaner, more controlled way using molten salts and iodine, replacing messy chemical processes. The resulting perfect atomic structures boost conductivity by as much as 160X... (HZDR) sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/…

DEVELOPING NOW: Iranian state television is claiming that a U.S. fighter pilot ejected from an aircraft over southwestern Iran, though U.S. officials have not confirmed the report. READ MORE: bit.ly/418Cl5A

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) report 692GW of renewable energy capacity added to global grids in 2025, a 15.5% increase on the year before, marking the industry’s largest annual expansion to date. #Renewables accounted 85.6% of last year’s global capacity additions. edie.net/report-record-…

@AsteroidEnergy Yes, saw that as well. No real excuse (esp. BBC--multiple times), tho. Also, most of today's reporters and editors were not born yet 50+ yrs ago...

@steveashleyplus I think this is due to mangling of info from NASA. The Intrepid astronauts will see more of the far side than the Apollo astronauts did, because the orbits are different. Somehow in this that "more of" got dropped.

Keep hearing BS claims that no humans have seen the far side of the moon w/ their own eyes by BBC News broadcasters and other "space" journos... Wrong. Twenty-four ppl -- Apollo astronauts -- have seen the far side of the moon w/ their own eyes. (BBC) bbc.com/future/article…

🔴 Half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of attack drones remain in its arsenal, according to a report by US intelligence Find out how the report contradicts Trump’s claim that Tehran’s capabilities have been ‘dramatically curtailed’ 🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Recently discovered fossils from the Ediacarian period found in SW China show that some animal groups are older than thought. The new fossils “strengthen the view that major animal lineages were already diversifying before the Cambrian...” (SN) sciencenews.org/article/fossil…

Blue Marble meets Gray Marble... The iconic photo to be made when Artemis II reaches its farthest distance from Earth. The image on the left, taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the most detailed view of the moon's far side to date. (Space) space.com/11186-photo-si…

Blue Earth, New Moon...

If NASA's Artemis II mission goes well, watch for the halfway pt when it reaches its farthest distance--250,000 miles--from Earth, when the full discs of the Earth and the Moon will be captured in a single, high-res camera frame: When the Blue Marble and the Gray Marble meet...

BREAKING: The golden Romanian helmet of Coțofenești, which was stolen last year from a museum in the Netherlands, has been recovered. Great work by the Dutch police!

Risky commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request. By @nakashimae, me, @AlexHortonTX @karendeyoung1 following WSJ scoop washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

After the warmest March on record, plant leaves have emerged 2-4 wks earlier than normal in many Central and Western states — breaking records — w/ abt 190m Americans experiencing an early start to spring... (WP) washingtonpost.com/weather/intera…

In 10+ states that are hot spots for the alpha-gal syndrome, wherein a lone-star tick bite triggers red-meat allergies, labs or doctors must notify the state health authorities of each positive test for a marker of the syndrome. Why not in NYS then? (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/04/02/nyr…

20 yrs ago, California farmers bet big on the pistachio, which were grown mostly in Iran. Today, orchards cover >600,000 acres in Calif, while Iran's are cut off by war. Meanwhile pistachio farming is sucking all the water out of the Central Valley. (NYT) nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The "independent" planning commission that's reviewing Turnip’s garish, white elephant of a White House ballroom, softened its own language abt the project at T’s request. They're to vote on the final procedural obstacle to T's vanity project today. (WP) washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

Nice interactive feature on the 30,000+ objects now in orbit around the Earth, and how they cld all crash into each other in a huge chain reaction if we're not very careful... (G) theguardian.com/science/ng-int…