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🐾 TOM BRADY’S DOG WAS CLONED — AND THE FUTURE OF PETS JUST GOT WEIRDLY REAL. Tom Brady just revealed that his new dog, Junie, is a clone of his late pit bull mix, Lua — brought back to life using futuristic biotech from Colossal Biosciences, the same company trying to resurrect the dodo bird and the woolly mammoth.
—> 🧬 THE TECH: Colossal (which Brady invests in) used a simple blood sample taken before Lua’s death in 2023 to create Junie — an identical genetic copy. The Dallas-based startup also just acquired Viagen Pets, the company behind Barbra Streisand’s and Paris Hilton’s cloned dogs, using cloning tech originally developed by the team that created Dolly the Sheep.
—> ⚡ THE BIG IDEA: Colossal says the same technology that gives families a “second chance” with lost pets could one day help save endangered species — even bring extinct ones back. Their scientists are already working on reviving the dodo and dire wolf, and now, apparently, Tom Brady’s dog.
—> 🚀 WHY YOU CARE: Pet cloning isn’t sci-fi anymore — it’s happening in real life, with celebrity investors leading the way. It raises massive questions about love, loss, and what it means to live forever… even if it starts with a dog named Junie.
Source: People
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SPACE
🚀 VAST IS BUILDING THE NEXT SPACE STATION — AND IT JUST PASSED A MAJOR TEST. With NASA planning to retire the International Space Station in 2030, a startup called Vast is racing to launch the first commercial space station — and it just hit a huge milestone. The company’s test module, Haven Demo, successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, marking the first step toward replacing the ISS.
—> 🛰️ THE PLAN: Vast’s full station, Haven-1, is set to launch in 2026. It’ll be a private lab in orbit — complete with sleeping pods, a domed window, and Starlink Wi-Fi — designed to host astronauts, scientists, and maybe one day, tourists.
—> ⚙️ THE TECH: Haven-1 will serve as a microgravity research hub, where experiments on human health, agriculture, and new materials can happen in zero-G. Vast’s goal? To prove that science and industry can thrive off-planet without NASA running the show.
—> 🌎 WHY YOU CARE: Companies like Vast could soon run space labs that test cures for diseases, grow crops for drought-stricken regions, and pioneer farming techniques for future Mars colonies. The space station of the future isn’t government-built — it’s privately engineered, and it’s almost ready for launch.
Source: NASA Space Flight | Video source below from Vast
NASA
🌕 THE ASTRONAUT WHO COULD RUN NASA — President Trump has re-nominated Jared Isaacman, the 42-year-old billionaire pilot and founder of Shift4, to lead NASA — just months after abruptly pulling his name from consideration. Isaacman has never worked in government but has flown to space twice aboard SpaceX missions he bankrolled himself.
—> 🧭 THE BACKSTORY: Trump’s first nomination in 2024 was withdrawn after “a review of prior associations,” reportedly linked to Isaacman’s past political donations. His second shot comes as NASA faces 24% budget cuts, massive layoffs, and an accelerating space race with China — both nations racing to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030.
—> 🚀 THE POWER PLAY: The move follows public clashes between Elon Musk and interim NASA head Sean Duffy, who opened SpaceX’s $2.9B lunar contract to competitors. Two weeks later, Trump renominated Isaacman — Musk’s longtime ally — and Musk quietly celebrated with a heart ❤️, rocket 🚀, and flag 🇺🇸 emoji.
—> 🌌 WHY YOU CARE: This isn’t just politics — it’s the future of space. If confirmed, Isaacman would be the first private astronaut to lead NASA, signaling a new era where billionaires, not bureaucrats, steer America’s space frontier.
Source: NBC News
FUTURE OF ESPIONAGE
🛰️ HELLO FUTURE: THE AI SPY GAME — INSIDE THE NEXT ESPIONAGE REVOLUTION. Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of spying. From deepfakes to predictive analytics, the intelligence wars of tomorrow will be fought by algorithms, not agents.
—> 🧠 THE EXPERT: Dr. Anthony Vinci — the first Chief Technology Officer of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution: The Future of Espionage and the Battle to Save America — joins host Kevin Cirilli to unpack how AI is reshaping the CIA, national security, and global power itself.
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—> 🕵️♂️ THE SHIFT: Machines can now detect threats, fabricate evidence, and analyze data faster than any human. What happens when human intuition meets machine precision — and loses?
—> 🚨 WHY IT MATTERS: In the age of algorithmic warfare, truth itself becomes the ultimate weapon.
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ONE MORE THING
👽 HELLO FUTURE: WHAT HAPPENS TO RELIGION IF ALIENS EXIST? What would faith look like if we weren’t alone in the universe? Host Kevin Cirilli sits down with Dr. Lance Gharavi of Arizona State University — a scholar at the intersection of AI, space, and spirituality — to explore how religion might evolve in a post-contact world.
—> 🪐 THE BIG QUESTION: From ancient creation stories to future Martian colonies, could the discovery of extraterrestrial life rewrite humanity’s origin story — or reaffirm it?
—> 🔭 THE TWIST: Religious ritual has always helped us process the unknown. Could it be what grounds us if we meet intelligent life beyond Earth?
—> 🙏 WHY IT MATTERS: The search for aliens might be the most spiritual quest of all — not about life out there, but what it means to be human down here.
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Kev
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