John Harris 🐊🤠🇺🇸 🇦🇷

The Harrises Jan. 16 2026

@SalonTrek *former Star Trek

A message for the trolls who will pop out of their trash cans to take credit & delight in today's Star Trek news:

@Revolutionteach @travis4nh Reading comprehension being among them.

@johnmarkharris @travis4nh Many many people had a problem lol

> The ACA was signed into law 16 years ago today, bringing health care coverage to millions of Americans. ... > But now, 22 million Americans are struggling to afford health insurance

@fandompulse "forward"

Showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau react to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy getting shut down: "It’s been my and Noga’s joy and privilege to help carry Gene Roddenberry’s extraordinary vision forward with Starfleet Academy, thanks to the hundreds of hardworking humans who pour every ounce of their talents into the work daily with imagination and reverence. We are in post-production now on what will be the second and final season. We’re so proud of what we’ve accomplished together on this show, and the world will get to see the work of these extraordinary artists when season two airs. We will finish strong. Whether you’re working on Star Trek or part of the marvel that is Star Trek fandom — its very heart, soul, and conscience —the joy comes from adventuring across boundaries of time, space, and the humanly possible in service to Roddenberry’s transformative vision of the future. That incomparable vision was fueled by an inexhaustible optimism. Star Trek places its bet on the best in human nature. It dares to imagine a society of “infinite diversity in infinite combinations,” free of war, hate, poverty, disease, and repression, and dedicated to the spirit of scientific inquiry and respect for all life, whether carbon or silicon-based, green-skinned or blue. But make no mistake: Gene Roddenberry wasn’t some starry-eyed dreamer. He was a decorated Army bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater. He had seen first-hand the grim consequences of the worst of human nature. And his vision of the future wasn’t just a promise of hope. It was also a warning. In a fraught, frightening time of intolerance and violence, Star Trek said: Look! We made it! But just barely. First, we had to put all those ancient scourges behind us. It said that what makes us glorious as a species, and gives us hope for the future and the galaxy is inextricably linked to what makes us dangerous to each other, to this one world we presently inhabit, and to ourselves. That dual message—of hope and of warning—isn’t just a pretty dream but a call to action, to think about who we are in a different way. Please don’t take our word for it. Take Gene’s: “Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.” With enduring hope that his vision of the future is possible, for our children, their children, and every future cadet in Starfleet Academy: Live Long and Prosper." Did Skydance Paramount make the right decision in scrapping this show?

The dogmatic definition at the ecumenical Council of Trent (Session IV, April 8, 1546) solemnly declared the 73 books "sacred and canonical" with an anathema against rejection. This is the FIRST infallible universally binding pronouncement for the Catholic Church regarding the books of the canon of Scripture and was in response to Luther's publication of a Bible containing only the 66 books protestants agree upon in their canon.

1. Who wrote the New Testament? 2. When was it canonized? 3. How was it canonized, and by whose authority? An honest search for the answers to those 3 questions made it impossible for me to remain a Protestant

@screenrant If you think 2001 is more entertaining than Star Wars then bro, I don't even know how to talk to you. That is one long boring movie with a few good parts.

The #StarWars franchise might be one of the pinnacles of science fiction, but these 10 sci-fi gems are actually better than any Star Wars movie. screenrant.com/sci-fi-movies-…

@IMAO_ Like the "live action" Lion King they did.

At this point, it actually feels more moral to just feed the animated movie into AI and tell it, "Make it live action."

@McBrideLawNYC But... the bread and wine aren't flesh and blood.

Forgiveness requires blood. Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 9:22 Christ pours out His blood. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Matthew 26:28 He commands you to consume it. Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. John 6:53 Catholics obey. The world does not.

@nickgillespie Politicians are always looking for a problem we need to pay them to pay their shell company to fix.

And yet, without photo ID, our elections have been remarkably fraud-free. This fixation on a non-problem is weird and wasteful.

@mblair @MrLeadslinger If there's an American Citizen with land in that city who does not want this, we back them up. But if someone wants to by 100,000 acres of land and set up a "reservation" independent of anyone else, why should that bother us? There borders are our borders, though.

That makes it easy for migrations to settle in an area and simply "take it". For example, what if the majority of Dearborn, MI becomes Islamic via migration and decides to become an Islamic city-state. Do you believe we should honor that "right", ignoring the more native minority population of Dearborn and the development of it as a part of Michigan and the U.S.?

This whole concept of a nation having a right to exist is just dumb. Even if you can define what you mean by a right to exist, does it place obligations on other countries to respect that or protect that? History gives us a lot of examples of countries that used to exist but don’t anymore. Did those countries not have a right to exist, did they lose that right or forfeit it somehow? If you said the US has a right to exist, that’s not going to protect it from being conquered or destroyed by an enemy if it didn’t have its military. I don’t really think there’s any such thing as a country having a right to exist; they simply continue to exist as long as they have the military strength, or can rely on the strength of allies, to protect their borders and the ability to maintain internal cohesion. All nations are maintained by an internal cohesion and ultimately through force. The US wasn’t a country until it was created through force. At one point it lost its internal cohesion to the point that part of it broke away and formed a new nation. It was only reunited via force. The right of the nation to exist didn’t prevent its breakup or reverse it; only force did that.

@Variety Why are they even showing the second season?

EXCLUSIVE: “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will end with its upcoming second season. The show failed to find a significant audience, not ranking on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming viewership charts at any point during its 10-episode first season. wp.me/pc8uak-1lH3kQ

@LibertyJen Juan Carlo is not divorced. He's been married to the same woman he has loved since they were 15 years old and their 7 kids and 39 grandkids with 4 great grands on the way spend their weekends out at the park with a case of Modelo Especial.

Truth:

@WWUTTcom Pink Floyd and The Doors are my grandmother's music. "Contemporary" yeesh, does this lady also give titles to Southern Baptist worship music genres?

This sounds unbelievably stupid. Bring back my "grandmother's Narnia," please.

@ShieldsClips Where's the fire truck? Was this plane going 500 mph at a time? Did you take high school physics?

This is what happens when a plane hits a firetruck but if it hits the twin towers it will knock them down

@JesusisChristX Of course not.

Do you believe Mary was conceived without sin, remained ever-virgin, and was assumed into heaven, body and soul? Yes or No

@TheTrekCentral Why even show season 2?

🚨BREAKING - Academy CANCELLED Sadly #StarfleetAcademy's next season will be its last, with the series now officially announced as cancelled at Paramount+ with Season 2's release date TBA. ⭐️Read Alex Kurtzman's letter to fans here: variety.com/2026/tv/news/s… #StarTrek

From the video, it seems a guy knocked him off his motorcycle. I'm assuming this neighbor was upset for several dirt bikes cruising the neighborhood, that's loud. He probably wasn't noticing how jacked this dude is. So, having been assaulted Ritchson hits the guy a few times. Seems like a nothingburger to me, especially since zero charges were filed and there's a video of the entire thing. "Famous guy lives life" oooo, let's get some clicks.

Don’t do steroids dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti…

@Unapologx I'm 100% pro Bible reading. But the whole "you must read your Bible every day" type vibe feels like the folks who say "we couldn't survive without an income tax" ignoring the country existed before 1913.

The importance of reading your Bible!

This is all just too wild to me. I don't see anything like this (link below) in any passage of scripture. I see a cobbled together mishmash of wonky hermeneutics trying to fit eschatology together as a puzzle separating out each passage as a separate event rather than viewing each as describing different aspects of the same event "rapture" "second coming" end of the "millennium." It's like some complex conspiracy theory to me. Why not just keep it simple... x.com/johnmarkharris…

Christian Zionism is at least 18 centuries older than Dispensationalism.

@ferrismattic When I bought my collection of Sherlock Holmes, that includes all the books and short stories, I didn't get upset when it didn't include "Young Sherlock Holmes" because that was written 50+ years after the author (Arthur Conan Doyle) had died.

Did you know there are no surviving manuscripts from the first few centuries where a canonical Gospel is bound in the same physical volume with an apocryphal gospel. In other words, there was no confusion or question about which books were authoritative.