Kevin Keating

@DrBrianKeating @SpaceX What is this?

Wild @SpaceX jellyfish 🪼 over San Diego tonight 📸 Matt Smith

With particular affection, in the light of the risen Lord, we remember today Pope Francis, who, on Easter Monday of last year, returned to the Lord.

Easter 2025 Pope Francis greeted the world for the last time. He died early the next morning.

Even today there are tombs to be opened, and often the stones sealing them are so heavy and so closely guarded that they seem to be immovable. Some weigh heavily on the human heart, such as mistrust, fear, selfishness and resentment; others, stemming from these inner struggles, sever the bonds between us through war, injustice and the isolation of peoples and nations. Let us not allow ourselves to be paralyzed by them! #Easter

🚨 MOMENTO HISTÓRICO QUE ESTÁ CONMOCIONANDO A LA IGLESIA CATÓLICA MUNDIAL Por primera vez en décadas, el papa León XIV ha cargado personalmente la cruz en las 14 estaciones del Vía Crucis en el Coliseo de Roma, durante su primer Viernes Santo como pontífice. En el mismo lugar donde los primeros cristianos dieron su vida por la fe, el Santo Padre ha caminado con la cruz al hombro, reviviendo con profunda humildad y fuerza el camino de Jesús hacia el Calvario. Un gesto inédito. Un signo de retorno a las raíces. Una imagen que ya recorre el mundo. 🇻🇦✝️

Pope Leo XIV became the second Pope to carry the Cross for the entire Via Crucis on Good Friday at Rome’s Colosseum, joined by around 30,000 faithful and countless people across the world on social media, television, and radio. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

@joerogan @grok - name this church!

This church in Ravello is 1,000 years old and it sits on top of the ruins of a far older church. There’s a glass floor where you can look down into the old one. The people that worked… instagram.com/p/BmuIBOmnUI6/…

TOMORROW. 🚀🌑

🇬🇧🇺🇸 On advice of His Majesty’s Government, and at the invitation of The President of the United States, The King and Queen will undertake a State Visit to the United States of America. Their Majesties’ programme will celebrate the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship between the UK and the US, marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence. 🇧🇲 The King will continue to Bermuda to undertake His Majesty’s first Royal Visit as Monarch to a British Overseas Territory.

@JackPosobiec My wife just saw Cast Away for the first time tonight!

Watching Prince of Egypt (1998) for the first time

BREAKING: Power capacity costs just jumped from $29 per megawatt-day in 2023-2024 to $333.44 for the 2027-2028 delivery year in the Mid-Atlantic grid. That's an 11x increase in just 3 years. The cause? AI data centers are demanding electricity faster than the grid can supply it. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and the AI Leaders are building hundreds of new facilities—each one consuming as much power as a small city. Here's the kicker: While families see their bills skyrocket, Big Tech negotiates special rates for their data centers. You're subsidizing their AI ambitions. The Rate Payer Protection Pledge of 2026 needs to be more than a pledge. There needs to be an executive order or hard regulation ASAP! Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, with a stroke of the pen you could force data centers to absorb the electric cost spike so it doesn't impact consumers living in those areas who are getting hit with unexpected electricity price hikes AND push hard on permit approvals for next generation nuclear plants and micro plants that could be built right next to these data centers. The AI revolution shouldn't come with an AI tax on American families. Americans (voters) need your action NOW.

Do I like when people like my stuff here because it provides approval that’s slacking in my real world? 🤔 As no one likes this post… 🤣

Damn - I’m usually team Knowles - the only reason I saw this post… but I’m on the other guy’s side on this one. Not that I agree with him per se, but I agree that his saying it may be viewed by some as unacceptable while others accepts with understanding. It’s not akin to having called her any pejorative slur. @michaeljknowles - You’re very intelligent. I think you know that your referencing of “present” vs “past” to his remark - does not constitute the same same period of time. The other guy posted something more than one second ago, so that’s the past. Called - more than a second ago. Compared to one’s transition from a type of sin - I’m guessing that was many many more seconds go. But I do like my new word, so thank you too. 🕺 🕺🕺

I suspect you didn’t intend to disrespect your wife, and so you might have been surprised that some people, myself included, criticized you for speaking in a way that is unbecoming of a husband. I think you made a mistake. But your points here are not sound. 1. I never said you used that word. I said that’s what you called her (while contrasting her sin with your own virtue). “Promiscuous” is an adjective, the nearest nouns for which are “whore” and “slut.” 2. They are all pejorative terms that refer to people who engage in sexual immorality. They all carry negative connotations because they refer to shameful acts. If the nouns are more evocative than the adjective, that owes more to their Saxon (rather than Latinate) origins than to their meaning. It’s the same reason “pulchritudinous” is less evocative than “hot.” The words all mean the same thing, and we should not refer to our wives in such a way—certainly not to millions of strangers. 3. My phrasing was not in the present tense but rather the past. (See: “called” versus “calls” or “is calling.”) But even my description of your wording does not imply the present tense. By way of analogy, “she was promiscuous” : “he called her a whore” :: “Jeter was a Bronx Bomber” : “he called him a Yankee.” (Derek Jeter does not currently play for the Yankees, and the final comment does not suggest that anyone thinks he does.) As I said, I don’t think you meant to disrespect your wife. You might have the best of intentions. None of that is my point. You made a controversial post, which included both admirable comments about grace and inappropriate language that in my estimation is unbecoming of a husband and not to be recommended to others—hence my public commentary on your own public statement.

Multiple times, @michaeljknowles said I called my wife a whore in my post (as did @benshapiro), even though I wrote "My wife was formerly promiscuous." To my surprise, upon checking the original video, the top comments are now overwhelmingly condemning their response to our story of God's redemption (screenshot below). Michael is now doubling-down on it on X by saying that me writing that she was formerly promiscuous is the same as calling her a whore (pic attached). Here's the three primary issues with them saying I called my wife a whore, and why Michael's argument is wrong. 1. It isn't true. I never used the word "whore," so he shouldn't be telling people I called my wife this. 2. We instinctively know that "she was formerly promiscuous" carries with it much more grace than "she's a whore," because "promiscuous" is an adjective describing her past, whereas "whore" is a degrading noun, a slur used to speak harshly of women. They're similar words, but different in meaning and intent. They are not the same. 3. Crucially, they spoke in the present tense: "He called her a whore" (implying this is a present-tense sin issue, something she still is). I spoke in the past tense: "My wife was formerly promiscuous." This tense difference matters immensely, especially when people greatly struggle to separate one's life before Christ from their life after Christ. The world can't fathom that such change can happen. But the Bible is clear: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (1 Cor. 5:17). Or consider Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me." That old Ashley is dead. It's because of these truths that my wife and I choose to boldly, confidently, and without giving loads of explicit details, share the sins that stained us before Christ with others (for I am indeed a great sinner and struggle in many ways, too). Our story isn't shared frequently, but at times and when fitting, so that other believers can be encouraged, other sinners can be given hope of redemption and forgiveness, and the lost can hear the good news of the gospel: that though all are headed for Hell for their sins (1 Cor. 6:9-10), anyone who repents and places their trust in the resurrected Christ will be saved (John 3:16, 18). Regardless of how much you've sinned, you can't out-sin the mercy of God. You can be washed clean, your shame and guilt removed, and you can have a brand-new identity in Jesus Christ (Titus 3:5-6). And we’re living proof of this! I have no ill will against Michael, Ben, @andrewklavan, or anyone else for their remarks and mocking, nor do I demand an apology. I forgive them. My greatest desire for them and anyone who's following this story, as well as God's, is for them to "be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim. 2:4).

@StateDept @realannapaulina Is Europe anti-Semitic?

SECRETARY RUBIO: The U.S. is constantly asked to help in wars and we have. But when we had a need, it didn’t get positive responses from NATO. A couple leaders said that Iran was not Europe’s war. Well, Ukraine isn’t our war, yet we’ve contributed more to that fight than anyone.

@_The_Prophet__ well written good sir

Deeper

Republican outside of Philly here. Umm… you’re turning out to be way better than expected. So… thanks. I hated to see what you had to go through post stroke. Now is love for you to stick around! I think you may be for liberals what I try to be for conservatives - willing to entertain all ideas and choose the best one. @billmaher deserves credit too! Thank you guys. @SenFettermanPA

Has anyone ever been more vindicated than this guy?

Let’s go

@_The_Prophet__ Beautifully said

⚡️Starship is the most important machine on Earth because it is the only serious bridge between a trapped species and a spacefaring one. That is the real truth. Everything else is downstream of lift cost. Moon bases, Mars cities, orbital industry, space solar, off world mining, deep space telescopes, mass drivers, lunar factories, all of it stays trapped in PowerPoint until you can move huge amounts of mass off Earth cheaply, repeatedly, and at industrial cadence. Starship is the attempt to break that lock. If it works, the future stops being metaphor and starts becoming logistics. That is why people respond to it like a symbol. They can feel that it carries more than hardware. Modern civilization has become psychologically small. It worships management, caution, compliance, and local optimization. Starship says scale again. Build again. Risk again. Leave again. In a world trained to think inside ceilings, that feels almost religious. The deeper reason it matters is power. A civilization that stays bound to one planet stays bound to one set of bottlenecks. One gravity well. One biosphere. One grid. One political surface. One set of supply chains. One cluster of elites deciding what is possible. A civilization that can industrialize beyond Earth changes the structure of power itself. More energy. More room. More redundancy. More survival. More strategic depth. More future. That is why Starship is so much bigger than SpaceX. It is the opening bid for off world industry. Once heavy lift becomes cheap and routine, the moon becomes operational. Once the moon becomes operational, infrastructure begins. Once infrastructure begins, throughput replaces spectacle. Then the human story stops being purely terrestrial. The real view is brutal and simple. If Starship succeeds, the ceiling over the species cracks. If Starship fails, humanity remains psychologically and physically trapped longer than people understand. Bottom line: People love Starship because they can feel that it is carrying more than cargo. It is carrying the claim that humanity does not have to accept a smaller destiny.