
Nick Walker
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Graphic from the NYT: Lawmakers who use the F-word the most 🟦AZ: Ruben Gallego (77) 🟥WI: Derrick Van Orden (35) 🟦WI: Mark Pocan (30) 🟦CA: Eric Swalwell (29) 🟦CA: Robert Garcia (23) 🟦HI: Brian Schatz (14) 🟦OH: Greg Landsman (11) 🟦PA: John Fetterman (11)

Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books: "I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that." "I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that." "To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff." Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?




.@megynkelly: "Trump could drop a nuke and I'd still vote Republican over Democrat. What [Democrats] want to do is nuke our own country."

What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?


Sky full of stars. Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.




The Artemis II crew has broken the record for furthest distance from Earth ever travelled by humans.









