Douglas Loverro

@konstructivizm For everyone's benefit, this was in 1982!

Surface of the planet Venus.Image captured on the surface of Venus by the Soviet Venera-13 lander probe.Venus's dense atmosphere filters sunlight, causing the sky on the surface to appear in a striking orange-yellow or golden hue.The terrain is covered with dark, basaltic rocks, likely of volcanic origin.Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System, with a surface temperature of approximately 460 °C—high enough to melt lead.The atmospheric pressure there is about 92 times greater than that on Earth at sea level, equivalent to being submerged about 900 meters (or 3,000 feet) underwater.Remarkably, the probe had been designed by the Soviets to last only about thirty minutes, but it survived more than two hours on the Venusian surface! Academy of Sciences of the USSR Roscosmos: Don P. Mitchell / NASA

@erichhartmann @KobeissiLetter The GOP did not ignore DOGE -- but DOGE ignored true sources of savings. Actual fraud and waste in Social Security, Medicare, and other mandatory programs is a known and documented issue -- the last time.the GAO studies that, they found over $750B of fraud.

@KobeissiLetter Why did the GOP ignore DOGE? We had the highest public support of cutting Government since Perot, but GOP leadership actively attacked anyone who dared suggest spending less. That was a massive mistake, and it's hurting Trump's economic agenda.

The US debt crisis is intensifying: Total US debt reached a record $98.8 trillion in Q2 2025, equal to 324% of GDP. Federal government debt rose to $35.6 trillion in Q2, but the most recent data shows it has reached $37.5 trillion, or 123% of GDP. Nonfinancial corporate debt hit $21.9 trillion, representing 72% of GDP. Financial corporate debt totaled $20.9 trillion, or 69% of GDP. Household debt reached $20.5 trillion, corresponding to 67% of GDP. America has never been this indebted.

@AllanLichtman Allan -- The issue you're dealing with is that your analysis assumes that the American people have a shared view of the underlying facts that drive your predictions. That is, unfortunately, no longer true. Without those shared understandings, your "keys" become strained.

The Keys Missed

@RNCResearch Perhaps you should actually listen to the speech. As for the "make it clear" comment - it's not a flub. He's saying, "we do not seek -- [Let me] make it clear -- we do not seek". The "Let me" is implied.

BIDEN v TELEPROMPTER: "We'll have something that we do not seek, make it clear we do not seek, we do not seek to have American troops fighting in Russia. Or fighting against Russia."

@mtgreenee Hmm @mtgreenee Sounds suspiciously like the Articles of Confederation 1777- 1781. Assure the federal government had little power & states retained their "rights" and identity, but still as one nation. As you should have learned in high school history, it was a dismal failure.

🧵Thread: Why the left and right should consider a national divorce, not a civil war but a legal agreement to separate our ideological and political disagreements by states while maintaining our legal union. Definition of irreconcilable differences: inability to agree on most things or on important things. Tragically, I think we, the left and right, have reached irreconcilable differences. I’ll speak for the right and say, we are absolutely disgusted and fed up with the left cramming and forcing their ways on us and our children with no respect for our religion/faith, traditional values, and economic & government policy beliefs.

@mandy_vaughn You deserve it Mandy. Congrats

I still can’t believe this one. Just an incredible honor!

@SpcPlcyOnline @WSN_WorldSpace May 25, Kennedy announces the terms of the race, send a man to the moon and return him safely. Timeline analysis -- 6 weeks and 1 day from Yuri Gagarin until Kennedy's speech. Brilliant strategic move by Kennedy and brilliant out-maneuvering of the bureaucracy by Von Braun!

@SpcPlcyOnline @WSN_WorldSpace Apr 28, official NSC answer is basically, "We can't" Apr 30, Von Braun "unofficial" answer is, "We can, by aiming for a manned moon mission and return -- PS, I hope this does not disagree with NASA's official response"

Hard to believe I just heard Pam Melroy say at H2M that JFK set the bold goal of going to the Moon at Rice University. JFK said it on May 25 1961 before a joint session of Congress. NOT in Texas a year later. That was the "we do things bc they are hard" speech. Did I mishear?

@spacedaporras @spacedaporras You are so right. Exactly as we hoped would happen once the moratorium was announced. I personally don't see the UN agreeing -- but, if all space faring nations agree on similar moratoria, we will effectively be there and those that are not, will be ostracized.

@joekent16jan19 @CawthornforNC Gents -- here's an idea for both of you. Turn off Fox news, open a book, and read it. You might actually learn something about history, spelling, and why you no longer embody every idea that made the Republican Party great.

Zelenskyy was installed via a US backed color revaluation, his goal is to move his county west so he virtue signals in woke ideology while using nazi battalions to crush his enemies. He was also smart enough to cut our elite in on the graft. @CawthornforNC nailed it.

@Acyn @TuckerCarlson It's not hard to understand Tucker. It's because if you side with an aggressor today, he will become a larger aggressor tomorrow. Britain famously followed your advice in the 1930s when Hitler annexed Sudetenland -- and WWII was the result.

Tucker: Why is it disloyal to side with Russia but loyal to side with Ukraine?

@briantylercohen @LeaderMcConnell @briantylercohen I normally agree with most of your points, but let's do recall, Harry Reid started us down that fateful road in 2013 for all other judicial nominees. Best not to make that same mistake again. The filibuster is painful, but less painful than any alternative.

@LeaderMcConnell Says the guy who did exactly this to confirm 3 SCOTUS nominees with a simple majority.

If Democrats blow up Senate rules, millions of Americans will cease to have a voice in the Senate. Entire states would be shut out. Top Dems have floated breaking the rules for years now. This isn't about new voting laws. It's about silencing voters who inconvenience Democrats.

@atrupar Hard to comprehend epic stupidity of this @TuckerCarlson rant. Life expectancy of a living 78 yr old in the US is 87.3/88.9 yrs (male/female). For an 88 yr old, it is 92.7 & 93.5 (bit.ly/3hH3Wnf). On average Coronavirus robbed seniors who died of over 10 yrs of life.

Tucker Carlson has made the bombshell discovery that diseases tend to be most deadly for elderly people

Final preparations are underway in the transfer aisle for the lift and mate of the @NASA_SLS core stage to the boosters on the mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy. #Artemis

Mission control teams monitor as two new power sources head on their way to @Space_Station! A pair of new solar arrays will augment the electrical supply for the orbiting lab as its important work for deep-space tech development and other innovations continues for years to come.

@senatemajldr Sen McConnell: Please use your power to stop this insanity. Make it clear to your colleagues that any further Republicans who support contesting the electoral college when the Senate reconvenes will lose any leadership position in your causcus. They must be held accountable

I will vote to respect the American people’s decision and defend our system of government. My full remarks:

@3YearLetterman @realDonaldTrump Actually, it was designed built by the French as a gift to the US -- Gustave Eiffel who also designed his eponymous tower in Paris.

@realDonaldTrump Amazing to see a shot of the Statue of Liberty 🗽, the tallest statue on earth. No surprise America built it

@WilliamShatner The journey to a Space Force began long before the current occupant of the White House was elected. We should all hope it continues long after he leaves.

🤔🤷🏼‍♂️ We are coming up on the 1 year anniversary of it.

@apollozac @NASA @Commercial_Crew I'd be honored

Time to sign off. A last @NASA tweet. I'm proud of all team HEO has done, & all they will do. I hope I served them well and perhaps pointed the way. I'd rather be "marred by dust & sweat & blood" than to stand among the "cold and timid souls". Go @Commercial_Crew LL&P, Out.