Kevin Velazquez

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler

My generation grew up frustrated that our grandparents unlocked the “nuclear energy and space travel” game level, and then quickly shuttered it again in order to play some thoroughly uninspiring side quests. It feels like we’re finally getting back on the tech tree all at once

Look, I get it, Dems. You think buying Greenland is dumb. You think trash-talking NATO is dumb. You think Hegseth firing generals is dumb. You think bombing Iran is dumb. Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. I’ll buy you a beer and we can argue about it. But that’s not the point. Every administration in American history has done dumb things. Jefferson had an embargo that tanked his own economy. LBJ had Vietnam. Carter sold the Panama Canal for $1. W. had “Mission Accomplished.” Obama had…. where do I even begin? Dumb is bipartisan. Dumb is American. Dumb is fine. DC runs on dumb decisions. What NONE of them ever did, what is truly, mind-melting, pants-on-head, clown-car-fire, galaxy-brained, lead-paint-chip-eating, 50-IQ-Neanderthal-ripping-a-bong dumb, was pay NGOs by the busload to smuggle tens of millions of people, including actual convicted criminals, across a border we spent trillions pretending to defend, then hand them free four-star hotels, free cell phones, free ATM cards, and a court date in 2031 they were never going to show up for. That is not a policy. That is a SNL cold open someone forgot to write a punchline for. A five-year-old with a juice box could tell you that was Bozo-the-Clown-on-crack, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-running-DHS, “hold-my-beer-I’m-gonna-try-something” levels of stupid. My golden retriever could have run a tighter border. A Magic 8-Ball would have outperformed the entire Biden interagency. That’s the new threshold, Democrats. That’s the low-water mark. That’s the floor. That is the Mariana Trench of public policy and you personally rented the Titan submersible. Argue all you want about the Strait of Hormuz. Write your op-eds. Go on cable TV with Tom Nichols. Clutch your pearls about Greenland. But until Trump proposes something even half as mind-bendingly, bone-crushingly, civilization-forfeitingly brain-dead as what Biden and Kamala did with our borders, I genuinely do not care. Zero F’s given by me.

@ayanxars @NASA *broad moonlight

@TheDevonWayne @elonmusk Go from sea level to Denver where you’ll be a just one mile up and tell me how you feel…

@elonmusk why build horizontal instead of vertical

That will be one hell of a building!

@SciGuySpace Not enough time *for legacy science institutions. This will create opportunity for new disrupters who are willing to take a shot at this opportunity.

A great question. Isaacman has talked about maximizing science and other exploration goals wherever possible. This will be an interesting test case. Unfortunately ~18 months between now and a potential launch date does not leave much time for scientific payloads.

So, some kid called me a boomer today for using ChatGPT and not Claude.

Bingo!

Oh look border control

@amuse @JasonFrazierUSA Same

@JasonFrazierUSA I want to see inside.

Mobile FBI Command Center just arrived.

I wrote a book on the BP oil disaster, & there’s a critical parallel with ICE protests in Minnesota that almost everyone is missing. When the Deepwater Horizon explosion dominated Twitter for months, the narrative was simple: BP cut corners on safety. That story was comforting. It was also wrong. Dead wrong. The disaster wasn’t caused by too little safety. It was caused by safetyism. Before the explosion, HR and HSE departments overwhelmingly filled with women who never worked a dangerous job in their life became obsessed with eliminating all injuries offshore. Not major hazards. Not catastrophic risk. ALL injuries, even minor cuts & bruises. Tens of millions of dollars. Thousands of hours of paperwork. Endless training modules. Everyone,from dishwasher to captain, was empowered to shut down a drilling operation costing millions per day to prevent a sprained ankle. Meanwhile, people with deep technical expertise, guys who actually understood blowout risk, were sidelined or fired for saying the obvious: That HR induced exhaustion causes accidents. That drowning crews in paperwork makes them miss real danger. That spending money on back-injury training means less money preventing explosions. Like the protesters in Minnesota, HR and Safety became powerful, organized, coordinated via expensive software, mobile & completely detached from reality. One crewman reported a serious onboard fire that nearly killed someone. Nothing happened for weeks. When he kept pushing a manager told him to STFU. He called HR to report the “verbal abuse.” Within hours, an executive helicopter full of HR Quick Reaction Team launched from Houston. They didn’t investigate the fire. They investigated him, the guy who called HR. Their conclusion? The man reporting the fire was “repeatedly harassing the crew to report the fire.” He was fired. A company-wide HR memo publicly shamed him. All in the name of “safety.” Here’s the truth they refused to accept: offshore drilling is dangerous. You cannot extract tens of millions of barrels of oil without injuries & yes, sometimes death. Now apply that lesson to Minnesota. Law enforcement is dangerous. You cannot deport tens of millions of people without injuries & yes, sometimes death. Yes, Renee Good was shot. Yes, Alex Pretti was shot. Yes, ICE operations result in injuries. And yes more people will be hurt by ICE this year. But HR didn’t eliminate injuries offshore. They just reclassified them for statistics, exhausted the workforce, and made people afraid to report real problems setting the stage for a major explosion. That’s exactly what’s happening now. ICE agents are being forced to waste time protecting identities, managing feelings, navigating activist “volunteers” & hesitating rather than acting decisively when seconds matter. Every minute an agent loses sleep worrying about this is a minute less rested. Every hour spent on crowd-management training is an hour not spent on training to manage violent criminals. And worse.. I’m a ship captain. I was trained to make the hardest choice: to do the most good for the most people. I was taught that one day I might have to send a fire team into a space they won’t come back from to buy passengers ten more minutes to reach lifeboats. That’s the job. Numbers matter. Yes, Renee Good was shot. That’s tragic. But it pales next to the hundreds killed by violent illegal immigrants under Biden. It’s nothing compared to the thousands who died between the Darién Gap and Mexico. It’s microscopic compared to the 400,000 fentanyl deaths many in ICUs like the one Alex Pretti worked in. Yes, some children were separated from families. But FAR fewer than the number raped, killed, or abandoned between the Darien Gap & Mexico under Biden The hard truth is this: Safetyism caused the BP explosion. Safetyism has killed millions. Safetyism is killing this nation right now. ICE protestors aren’t saving lives, they are pushing the body count higher.

@Hotshot_Movie Let’s go!!! 👏🏻

I can confirm this investigation actually began about 4 months ago. They have already been provided with a lot of evidence and multiple forensics audits have already been completed. Sadly, federal intervention is necessary to save CA from itself.

@DHSgov @sarahadams @HiltonHotels Has anyone else noticed that Hilton and others chains have been switching their lights from a comforting warm glow to a harsh immigrant blue color at their properties?

NO ROOM AT THE INN! @HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement. When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations. This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation’s immigration laws?

@rodrig41893 @Delta You will explain to your little girl that the world doesn’t revolve around us.

@Delta We were on the runway and head us back to the gate. Now the next flight is on the 11th of January. This is unacceptable! We are loosing all our reservations!!! Who is going to pay for our hotel. This is horrible. How do I explain to my 7 year old little girl this.

Delta began cancelling flights early Saturday morning in compliance with FAA airspace closures in the Caribbean. As cancellations are processed, customers will receive notifications via the app and contact information listed in their reservation. dl.aero/6010tLiww

@sarahadams UN should be reduced to nothing more than a deconfliction switchboard.

The United Nations has zero respect for the rule of law overseas. Some of us were there with them, so please don’t pretend we are stupid. We saw genocide cover-ups, corruption, trafficking of women, children, weapons….heck whatever they could get their dirty hand’s into, aid theft, protection rackets, sexual abuse, rapes, and murders covered up as mere “misconduct,” extra-judicial killings, and criminals shielded with good press releases. The only travesty here is that the American taxpayer funds this corrupt and entirely useless organization!

@RapidResponse47 @SBAgov

The Trump Administration has suspended 6,900 Minnesota borrowers amid ~$400 million in suspected fraudulent activity — banning these individuals from future loan programs as criminal investigation continues. @SBAgov has also halted annual grant funding to the state.

This is the way

This looks like they took a 60 off roading!

@RaiceBannon @sarahadams Me wearing long clothes for mosquitoes while hauling heavy camera gear

@sarahadams ‘Summer in Australia. The guy is wearing heavy clothes and lugs large backpack with some heft to it to a rec/beach area. He is not playing beach volleyball.

Terrorists often carry bags to conceal their gear—pay attention and learn from this. See below.

@MattForner Ugh that’s depressing

Several ways. Pence being one, the redistricting failure another. Conservatives leaving the Midwest skip Indiana completely. Indiana could be booming, but its Republicans live in a different world: unserious politicians siding with national Democrats who despise their own constituents.

Tennessee, Texas, and Florida Republicans are clearly different from Republicans in Indiana.