(((Charles Fishman))) 💧
@cfishman
Journalist. Author. Historian of the race to the Moon in the 1960s: 'One Giant Leap.' • Also water & Walmart. • 'A radio sensation.'
(thread) The idea that going to the Moon was expensive, a big show that led nowhere, gave us nothing but Tang and Velcro — that's all silliness, even if it is the conventional wisdom. We misunderstand Apollo, almost completely.
I’d like to announce I’m back on this app but since I don’t pay for premium, it will be seen by 4 people. Anyway to those 4 people, I captured something amazing this month 🐻
This is how Jerome Powell should respond: “President Trump continues to call for rate cuts and resort to name-calling—but let’s be clear: he has absolutely no understanding of where interest rates should be. Inflation remains well above our 2% target, tariffs are set to drive…
How is it that in the Year of Our Lord 2025, reporters are still writing stories about newly filed federal lawsuits and NOT linking to the complaint in the first sentence (or anywhere else)?
Okay tweets — entomologists and otherwise — this is the critter my wife met in the shower just now. Torso probably 2” long or a bit longer. I think it flies. What is this? Some kind of beetle? Never seen one like this, and certainly never inside our bathroom!
One thing I wish we could take from Mexico City are their camellóns - interior trails within the median of streets
I’ve never seen a tweet so perfectly capture Gen Z work ethic
I am not a go-getter. I am not a self-starter. I do not want to work 80 hours a week or sleep in the office. I want to masterfully complete specific, well-defined tasks as quickly as possible, then go home to the part of my life I actually enjoy.
I absolutely respect a pope with a STEM background saying “you know what? I like the space program, I’ve always wanted to talk to an Apollo 11 astronaut, and I’m the pope, SO LETS GO”
NEW: Pope Leo had a Zoom meeting with Buzz Aldrin to honor the 56th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
This evening, 56 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, I spoke with the astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Together we shared the memory of a historic feat, a testimony to human ingenuity, and we reflected on the mystery and greatness of Creation.
🚨 BREAKING: ICE secretly deported Luis Leon, an 82-year-old torture survivor and U.S. legal resident of nearly 40 years, after he walked into an immigration office to replace a lost green card. Instead of processing the request, ICE handcuffed him, detained his wife for 10…
Is TV dead? The D.C. viewing area just saw a flash flood EMERGENCY in its core viewing area — Montgomery County. Three of the four network-affiliated stations don’t have a stitch of coverage on their social media feeds. Only ABC7 retweeted its weekend PM meteorologist. Yikes.
This has been the second most humid summer in DC on record (since 1945) based on the number of hours with dew points over 70 degrees or the level considered GROSS.
Why has this D.C. summer felt like living in a sauna—with storms almost daily? 🌡️⛈️ Blame a heat dome parked over the steamy Atlantic, sending tropical air our way nonstop. We break down the relentless pattern: 🔗washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/0…
Sorry sorry I was just trying to buy a book from Cambridge University Press.
A $52 billion withdrawal by a single client at BlackRock has dealt a blow to the world’s biggest asset manager thetimes.com/business-money…
Wow. "Killer train" is the real deal. More about why this *collateral damage* has been deemed acceptable. x.com/cfishman/statu…
'Killer Train.' In S. Florida, there's a shiny commuter train running from Miami to Ft. Lauderdale & West Palm, then up to Orlando. Brightline. Hailed as an antidote to S.Fla's crippling traffic. One problem: Brightline kills someone every 13 days. —> miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
And less than a week after my post on the Brightline deferring a payment on their muni bonds... wlrn.org/killer-train-b… #investing #stocks #bonds #munibonds #municipalbonds
7/ Here's the story one more time below. Open and free to read. Incredible reporting. Incredible graphics. (Read it on a laptop or iPad, if you can.) Incredible photography. This is journalism doing the work the 1st Amendment imagined & hoped for. miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
6/ Locals complain horns are noisy & irritating. Brightline kills someone every 13 days—84 months in a row. Brightline knows how to stop the killing. Local, state & federal gov't know how to stop the killing. —>
5/ Guess what? We know how to prevent trains from killing drivers & pedestrians. Just one gob-smacking fact: In dozens of rail crossings (at street level) in S. Florida, Brightline doesn't sound its horn. It goes roaring through the crossings with no horn. What? Why? —>