Glen Radcliffe
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Fox is putting its MLB studio crew featuring David Ortiz, Derek Jeter, and Alex Rodriguez in the broadcast booth for a Yankees-Red Sox game.
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@SnakePlisskenEs @CrazyVibes_1 She and the others shouldn’t have been told “No” originally.
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@CrazyVibes_1 She did it because she was completely capable. She didn’t need any DEI BS to get where she was going. The way it should be, COMPLETE MERITOCRACY.
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Brooklyn, 1952. Judith Love Cohen, 19, asks her high school counselor about math classes.
The counselor smiles like she’s talking to a child. “Honey, nice girls go to finishing school. Learn to pour tea.”
Judith enrolls in Brooklyn College. Engineering.
Hundreds in the lecture hall. Women: one. Her.
“Boys laughed when I raised my hand,” she said. “So I raised it higher.”
She transfers to USC. Finishes bachelor’s + master’s. Never sees another female engineering student.
Graduates 1957. Class of 800. Women: 8.
America’s engineers: 0.05% women. She’s one of them.
Then NASA calls.
1960s. Apollo needs brains. Gender? Secondary. Competence? Everything.
Judith joins the team building the Abort-Guidance System for the Lunar Module. The AGS. The “oh crap” button. If the main computer dies, this box flies you home. Or you don’t come home.
“It had to work,” she said. “Because if you needed it, you were already dying.”
Orbital mechanics. Electrical chaos. Code that can’t glitch. She lives in equations for months.
August 1968. Nine months pregnant. Still at her desk.
Coworkers: “Go home, Judith.”
Judith: “The math isn’t due. I am.”
Morning contractions start. She grabs her printouts — pages of trajectories, circuits, logic — and drives to work.
Contractions get real. Team: “HOSPITAL. NOW.”
Judith: “Fine.” Takes the printouts.
Hospital bed. Nurses walk in. She’s between contractions, scribbling on computer sheets. “Ma’am, you’re in labor.”
“I’m in math,” she says.
Then it clicks. The final bug in the AGS. Solved.
Then she pushes. Baby boy: Thomas Jacob. You know him as Jack Black.
Next day she calls her boss. “I fixed the guidance problem.” Pause. “Oh. And the baby came too.”
April 13, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth. BOOM.
Apollo 13. Oxygen tank explodes. Command Module dying. Three men crawl into the Lunar Module — built for 2 people, 1 day. They need it for 3 people, 4 days.
Primary computer stutters.
Backup comes alive.
Judith’s AGS.
It holds. Calculates burns. Aligns spacecraft. Verifies they’re not flying into deep space forever. “Without AGS, we don’t come home,” said Jim Lovell later.
April 17, 1970. Splashdown. Alive.
The world cheers the astronauts.
Inside NASA, engineers hug. “The backup worked.”
Judith’s backup.
Apollo 13 crew visits TRW to say thanks. Judith shakes their hands. No speech. Back to work.
She keeps going.
Hubble Space Telescope systems. TDRS satellites — ran 40 years. Papers. Patents. Mentors girls. Writes kids’ books: You Can Be a Woman Engineer. “Girls need to see it to be it,” she said. “TV gave them lawyers. I’ll give them astronauts.”
Raised four kids. Danced ballet with the Met Opera while doing engineering school. “My first loves,” her son Neil wrote, “were dancing and equations.”
July 25, 2016. Age 82. She’s gone.
Son Jack Black posts 2019: Photo of Mom, 1959, next to a Pioneer spacecraft. “My mom literally helped save Apollo 13. Finished the problem IN LABOR WITH ME. How do you top that?”
The counselor said “finishing school.”
Judith chose “finishing equations.”
Three astronauts owe their lives to that choice.
“They said I didn’t belong,” Judith said once. “So I built something that belonged in space. And brought them home.”
She never flew. But she made sure others could.
From a hospital bed. Between contractions. With a pencil.
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@MitchMossRadio But don’t you want to see his “LIV Team Costume”?
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There is zero reason to show this many shots from Bryson DeChambeau.
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Trump suggests he supports selling U.S. farmland to Chinese nationals:
“If you want to see farmers lose a lot of money, take that out of the market.”
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Trump defends 500,000 Chinese students in U.S. universities, saying it would be very “insulting” to China if he barred them, adding: “If you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it.” Some MAGA heads are about to explode over this
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🟥 When President Xi of China said today that the international situation is turbulent, and wondered out loud whether China and the US could overcome the “Thucydides Trap” and create a new paradigm to meet global challenges together, Trump nodded like a dysfunctional bobble head, clearly CLUELESS about the term being referenced. 🤷🏻♂️
Donald probably thought it was a Greek dessert... 🙄
The Thucydides Trap describes the DANGEROUS structural tension that occurs when a rapidly rising power (in this case China) threatens to displace an established ruling power (the USA), typically leading to heightened rivalry and risk of conflict.
It was a jab, and a warning. 🥊
Nobody respects the USA anymore.
Trump's failure and damage to America's influence, is dangerously immense.
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@MikeLevin @MollyJongFast Should start the rumor that O’Hare will become Obama International..lol
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Lost in the news this week: the real story behind Palm Beach International becoming Trump International is not the renaming.
It is the coercion that produced it and the extraordinary terms hidden inside the deal.
County staff told commissioners that refusing would put state transportation funding and grant assurances at risk.
DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who crossed him. That is the climate one Democratic commissioner cast her deciding vote in.
And the agreement itself is not a normal honorary naming.
The Trump family company retains the right to pick vendors, license the name to third parties, and sell branded merchandise off-site.
This is not an honor bestowed as much as it is a shakedown.
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Two hours, especially when half of it is eaten up by translation, is a very short meeting for a summit. I know there are other interactions planned between Trump and Xi. But in the big formal bilateral meeting, it doesn’t look like anything was discussed in detail.
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@Matthias601Rick @Acyn Dixiecrats….try learning the history of the South and the changing of the positions of the 2 political parties.
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AOC: I do not appreciate the wholesale fictionalization of American history—the idea that the filibuster is a grand compromise intentionally put in our system. It was created by a clerical error and Jim Crow segregationists realized they could use this error as a loophole delaying the enfranchisement of Black Americans for decades.
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The Department of Justice is now investigating more than $2.6 billion in suspiciously timed oil trades placed right before major Iran war announcements by Donald Trump.
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NYT: Most hantavirus strains cannot spread person to person, but the Andes strain, which has been identified in this outbreak, can move between people, according to Bryce Warner, a research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan who has extensively researched hantavirus
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
U.S. officials are monitoring residents in three states for possible hantavirus infections after a deadly outbreak aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius left three passengers dead and five others sick. Great timing to have RFK Jr. overseeing public health.
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@Sabresfan9564 @spittinchiclets @BizNasty2point0 And it’s ridiculous to make the linesman have to assume who will get there first…
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@spittinchiclets @BizNasty2point0 Just bring back touch icings at this point fucking disgusting how ref inflicted these games are now it’s fucking sad
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Quenneville was RATTLED there was no icing call
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Joel Quenneville: "Clearly, I disagreed with the call. Their guy stopped skating."
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@TikiOwl Hi! Please send us a direct message with your information and we can make sure that you can get into your Deli Dollars account. We are so sorry for the inconvenience!
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@awfulannouncing NBC will need to be able to bite the bullet and hire Feherty for their coverage. They need him
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David Feherty admits he was ‘in the dark’ about LIV Golf awfulannouncing.com/golf/david-feh…
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@jasonsdeli Are you trying to drive loyal customers away with your changes to your online accounts? Got the message that I had to create a new account but was unsuccessful multiple times as it kept saying I had entered incorrect information. There is no way to send an email to corporate.
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@awfulannouncing But you can’t not include the bulk of B10, ACC, and SEC teams, right?
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Jay Williams slams NCAA for expanding tournament: ‘Everybody doesn’t get a damn trophy!’ awfulannouncing.com/college-basket…
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#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “…former Secretary…Kristi Noem, according to the WSJ, has been REFUSING to leave the waterfront home reserved for the Coast Guard Commandant which she TOOK OVER for herself. She’s refusing to leave it reportedly even though she hasn’t been DHS Secretary for weeks now, since she was fired last month.”🤦♀️
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