“SpaceX launched 20 satellites on Friday. Some of them switched on flashlights, turned around, and photographed the rocket that had just carried them. Then all 20 deliberately burned up about 20 minutes later on.
They were not cargo. They were witnesses.
Starship Flight 13 flew the first real Starlink V3 satellites ever put in space, each designed to carry 1 terabit per second, roughly a ton apiece, 20 tons released in a single pass.
All 20 separated cleanly. They unfolded solar arrays, extended antennas and linked back to the network by laser and radio. 6 carried engineering cameras and lights pointed backward at Starship, to photograph its heat shield from outside.
None of them stayed. The flight was suborbital by design, so every satellite followed the ship down and burned. The mission added nothing to the network.
The network was never the point at all. A rocket normally watches itself from the inside, through cameras bolted to a vehicle that is shaking, glowing and wrapped in plasma, and a sensor destroyed in a failure takes the evidence of that failure with it. Reusability depends on the heat shield surviving, and the heat shield is the one part that cannot be seen from inside. So the eyes went outside the machine.
Everyone else has to persuade a paying customer to risk real hardware on an experimental rocket. SpaceX built the rocket, built the satellites, turned 6 of them into inspection drones, tested both in the same flight, and threw the instruments away once the images came down. The customer and the test department are the same company.
Most of the flight worked. The ship relit a Raptor engine in space 39 minutes in, cleared peak heating and peak pressure on reentry, and made what SpaceX called its softest splashdown yet. The booster came down under control but lit only 5 of its 13 landing engines and hit the water harder than planned.
Starship builds Starlink. Starlink now watches Starship. What those cameras saw will change the rocket that launches the next batch.
The piece works out what happens when a machine can manufacture its own witnesses.
“President Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, wrote Friday in a Substack essay that prosecutors from the Manhattan DA’s Office and the NY Attorney General’s Office “pressured and coerced” him—beginning in 2019 and continuing through the trials—to provide testimony specifically tailored to secure convictions against Trump.
“I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump,” Cohen wrote in a post on Substack.”
“Email obtained via FOIA shows Julie Wise, the Democrat-endorsed Director of Elections for King County, WA, ADMITTING that non-citizens were being registered to vote when getting a driver’s license.
She then voices concern that the problem may be bigger than what the reports showed.
The thing that Democrats say doesn’t happen, has been happening for YEARS!”
“BOMBSHELL 🚨 Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says she found evidence that Joe Biden’s family was being blackmailed by China (and shows the documents) and our mainstream media ignored the evidence
“What we saw in the release of the records, which I’m afraid I think in the media or legacy media there was kind of a willful blindness. They didn’t want to look at the records. All you had to do was spend a couple of hours. I found these records which are talking about blackmail by China. It was for President Biden’s daily brief. I can conclude, I think, that it was probably about targeting his family”
She explains earlier that all this was ignored and buried by the FBI, CIA and the media in order to keep Democrats in power”
“HILARIOUS: President Trump: “When I’m gone, you’re all going to be broke. Your business model is going to be finished… That’s why tonight, to show how much I care about the press and I want to save your ratings, I am pleased to announce my intention to—and this is somewhat of a scoop—my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States… I won 3 times, now I’m going to do it again.” *Puts on ‘Trump 2028 Hat*”
This is what Elon Musk and his companies are giving the US, and the world.
What good have Dems given us?
I know which I prefer.
https://x.com/i/status/2080844118922822040
“SpaceX launched 20 satellites on Friday. Some of them switched on flashlights, turned around, and photographed the rocket that had just carried them. Then all 20 deliberately burned up about 20 minutes later on.
They were not cargo. They were witnesses.
Starship Flight 13 flew the first real Starlink V3 satellites ever put in space, each designed to carry 1 terabit per second, roughly a ton apiece, 20 tons released in a single pass.
All 20 separated cleanly. They unfolded solar arrays, extended antennas and linked back to the network by laser and radio. 6 carried engineering cameras and lights pointed backward at Starship, to photograph its heat shield from outside.
None of them stayed. The flight was suborbital by design, so every satellite followed the ship down and burned. The mission added nothing to the network.
The network was never the point at all. A rocket normally watches itself from the inside, through cameras bolted to a vehicle that is shaking, glowing and wrapped in plasma, and a sensor destroyed in a failure takes the evidence of that failure with it. Reusability depends on the heat shield surviving, and the heat shield is the one part that cannot be seen from inside. So the eyes went outside the machine.
Everyone else has to persuade a paying customer to risk real hardware on an experimental rocket. SpaceX built the rocket, built the satellites, turned 6 of them into inspection drones, tested both in the same flight, and threw the instruments away once the images came down. The customer and the test department are the same company.
Most of the flight worked. The ship relit a Raptor engine in space 39 minutes in, cleared peak heating and peak pressure on reentry, and made what SpaceX called its softest splashdown yet. The booster came down under control but lit only 5 of its 13 landing engines and hit the water harder than planned.
Starship builds Starlink. Starlink now watches Starship. What those cameras saw will change the rocket that launches the next batch.
The piece works out what happens when a machine can manufacture its own witnesses.
Massive success!! Congrats legend”
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But muh norms….
So much for the rule of law….
https://x.com/i/status/2080839741289746553
“President Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, wrote Friday in a Substack essay that prosecutors from the Manhattan DA’s Office and the NY Attorney General’s Office “pressured and coerced” him—beginning in 2019 and continuing through the trials—to provide testimony specifically tailored to secure convictions against Trump.
“I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump,” Cohen wrote in a post on Substack.”
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Hundreds of Americans have been shot since the war with Iran began.
But that was just in Chicago.
https://x.com/i/status/2079724734762140146
“4 Americans have been killed in Iran. Schumer wants Pete Hegseth to come to Congress to get the hell beat out of him for this.
He has no interest is having the Chicago mayor come in:
Chicago has recorded 233 homicides as of July 18, 2026, marking a slight increase of roughly 5% compared to the same period in 2025.”
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The word you’re looking for is treason….
https://x.com/i/status/2080982074157154604
“Biden’s final days memo just dropped.
They planned to expand TPS to OVER 3 MILLION noncitizens, specifically to block Trump’s deportations and bury his admin in years of lawsuits.
Their own words. Their own plan.
Lost the election. Still tried to handcuff America on the way out.
This is pure sabotage.”
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This is happening in every Dem run state. Enough to swing elections.
https://x.com/i/status/2080693269550260488
“Email obtained via FOIA shows Julie Wise, the Democrat-endorsed Director of Elections for King County, WA, ADMITTING that non-citizens were being registered to vote when getting a driver’s license.
She then voices concern that the problem may be bigger than what the reports showed.
The thing that Democrats say doesn’t happen, has been happening for YEARS!”
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Again, this is the type of reporting Herridge does, and why she’s a deep state target.
https://x.com/i/status/2081026686599008541
“BOMBSHELL 🚨 Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says she found evidence that Joe Biden’s family was being blackmailed by China (and shows the documents) and our mainstream media ignored the evidence
“What we saw in the release of the records, which I’m afraid I think in the media or legacy media there was kind of a willful blindness. They didn’t want to look at the records. All you had to do was spend a couple of hours. I found these records which are talking about blackmail by China. It was for President Biden’s daily brief. I can conclude, I think, that it was probably about targeting his family”
She explains earlier that all this was ignored and buried by the FBI, CIA and the media in order to keep Democrats in power”
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“HILARIOUS: President Trump: “When I’m gone, you’re all going to be broke. Your business model is going to be finished… That’s why tonight, to show how much I care about the press and I want to save your ratings, I am pleased to announce my intention to—and this is somewhat of a scoop—my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States… I won 3 times, now I’m going to do it again.” *Puts on ‘Trump 2028 Hat*”
https://x.com/i/status/2080848967332421667
😁
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