🚀 2026 Global Counterspace Capabilities Report — Now Available
SWF is proud to release the 9th version of its Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment report, edited by @VSamson_DC and Kathleen Brett, with support from Emily Kunasek.
A thread on key updates 🧵
Just want to thank all the international World Cup fans for coming and lifting all of us Americans up with your absolutely charming encounters with our big weird country. We needed it. Best 250th birthday gift ever.
NEWS: DCA is currently on a ground stop and has been temporarily closed “for an event.”
Planes set to land at DC’s airport have alerted their passengers.
This comes after we at @MeidasTouch reported pilots are filing safety reports due to the lights from Trump’s UFC octagon.
It’s been a terrific week of Europeans experiencing and opining on all the great things in America. I’ve been talking up hot American breakfast and black coffee for a while. But this gentleman absolutely nails why we’re doing temperature right
⛈️ Heads up: Strong to severe storms are possible Sunday afternoon and evening. Damaging wind gusts over 57 mph are the primary threat — a tornado or large hail can't be ruled out.
See CapitalWeather.com for latest thoughts on timing and intensity which could change slightly as we continue to evaluate information into early tomorrow.
Hot and soupy backdrop Sunday: Highs near 90 to mid-90s, feeling as hot as 100° before storms arrive.
📅 Cooler and less humid to start the workweek.
#DCwx#DMVwx#MDwx#VAwx
Adult adoption fees for dogs and cats are being waived at Brandywine Animal Adoption Center until June 21.
Looks like G-Wiz is taking advantage of the opportunity—and you can, too!
Thunderstorms are currently forecasted for Trump’s birthday in Washington, DC this Sunday when the UFC fight is set to take place on the White House lawn.
"Iran is targeting 'all interests related to economic holdings managed by Elon Musk in West Asia,' including a regional Starlink ground station" - Starlink is being used by combatants in an active conflict so it is a lawful target but still the rules of IHL apply here 1/
The debris team has determined which piece is the r/b and should be cataloging sometime today. 426/341, 92period, 54.5 inc. I know they see multiple pieces, but don't know how many or when to be cataloged.
Space-Track reports that the upper stage of the Zhuque-2E disintegrated at 0847 UTC Jun 9, a time that likely corresponds to the disposal burn following payload deployment. The stage and debris have not yet been cataloged
On the all-male Artemis 3 crew: "Unless we have more diverse teams, diverse thinking, we have no chance of solving the wicked problems of space technologies, let alone space travel."
Another banger from @CassandraSteeropen.substack.com/pub/spacec…
I don't disagree with anything in this but it is crazy how this is NOT the message that is coming out of the WH, which is apparently determined to steamroll over all the US' existing cooperative agreements
ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsroom/…
“A tarp covers the newly removed name of US President Donald Trump from the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 13, 2026”
A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide reuters.com/world/trump-admi…
EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot filed safety reports after nearly being blinded by lights from Donald Trump's UFC structure when flying into Washington, D.C.'s Reagan airport.
My latest with @MeidasTouch: meidasnews.com/news/white-ho…