The Starship Orion does not exist #AIArt #midjourney
01.02.2026 04:00
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The Starship Orion does not exist #AIArt #midjourney
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
The script they are using to justify the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti was workshopped and tested on the unlawful killings of Black men and women by the police. Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Alton Sterling, etc…
the two choices in American politics are "yeah they're not exactly where I am on a lot of issues but there's also lots of overlap of my views"
and
"they are stabbing me in the balls with knitting needles right now"
and too many people say "this is the same"
Public service announcement:
Don't just ask Black voters to save democracy.
Respect Black candidates when they step forward to lead it.
Yes, we can cast ballots and we can be on the ballot.
Support who you want. Disrespect will be called out.
https://youtu.be/444A1a1Qxy8
They taught the party a lesson, just not the one they wanted.
They taught Dems that doing progressive things doesn't matter.
They taught Dems never to try anything they don't have the votes to do.
They taught Dems to never do anything that Republicans can block in court.
Good job, guys.
When Black women carry the party, it’s called loyalty.
When they seek to lead it, it’s suddenly called “risk.”
We talked about it plain and unfiltered in my conversation with @jasmineforus.bsky.social
This is the shot.
Tomorrow’s Substack is the chaser.
🎥 youtu.be/444A1a1Qxy8?...
James Cameron, on moving to New Zealand:
@variety.com
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Pick one and start learning. Never again.
Journalism as it exists today is completely and utterly corrupted, and these institutions need to be completely purged from top to bottom. A modern society cannot exist without trustworthy sources of information.
Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
Republicans do bad governance without fear because voters never hold it against them for more than two cycles in a row, if even that. Democrats fear bold policies because instead of paying off electorally, that immediately blow their rare majorities
I want to agree and believe you, but Dan Osborn lost by seven points. The reason red states are the way they are—undyingly loyal to Republicans who immiserate them—is because that’s what the voters want.
Ultimately the people are the problem.
Went to mute them but I already had
My own ancestors stopped watching neanderthals and gladiators kill each other for sport in 264 BC. I still believe it is one of the stupidest sports on the planet.
Three Democratic Congress members have launched a new PAC. Kudos to Greg Landsman, Ted Lieu, and Laura Friedman.
www.stopantisemitismpac.com
Yep, Racism is the central feature of Republicanism and their love of Trump.
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
You can definitely conclude that they had no leverage (I'm concluding that shutdowns are not something that Democrats can effectively leverage!).
I think the lesson from that is that they should have just averted the shut down to begin with and should in the future.
Folks, no party or faction that has triggered a shutdown has ever gotten its demands met in a shutdown. That was always the risk going in. People (like me) were saying you were going to have to deal with eventual disappointment going in.
I'm still of the unpopular opinion that the shutdown should never have happened.
If they weren't prepared to for the consequences of a long term shutdown, don't use it as a bargaining tool against a Republican party we all knew was never going to budge.
Historically that has never worked.
One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
"...a dirty little secret is that being “American” has never referred to ALL Americans." 1/
Black people "been knew". We have tried to warn and educate other non-white people about this, and white America has soothed itself by believing claims to the contrary.
www.alternet.org/voting-right...
And Trump, as I never tire of repeating, had a dismal debate against Harris, refused to do anymore, & won anyway! The obvious takeaway is that voters don't care about age or debates very much
got to love a "trans rights activist" reacting to a governor who made national headlines fighting for trans rights with "ew old lady!"
your country has the richest CEO doing nazi salutes TWICE at a presidential inauguration and it just flies like nothing happened
your country has pardoned J6ers wearing "camp auswchitz" hoodies roaming free
ukraine puts the most valiant fight for freedom in recent history, so you should just stfu
and Jewish people, don't forget Jewish people. They are part of our base and constantly ignored and demonized.