Starship Gladiator 🛰️🪐

Ted Cruz has been caught on camera flying to Laguna Beach, California as Texas is expected to experience another dangerous winter storm.

2026 is going to be amazing!

#Tech #Leadership #Bigldeas #Innovation #FutureTech #AI #Space #Startups

Very inefficient thinking.

Interesting times ahead.

#Tech #Leadership #BigIdeas #Innovation #FutureTech #AI #Space #Startups

To be clear, I believe the filibuster should only be set aside to pass an Election Integrity Act.

Election security isn’t optional it must include a visual ID proving citizenship and in-person voting, except in extreme cases like deployed troops. For everything else, the filibuster stays.”

Hmm 🤔

This is the way

Tesla Sales in Canada Fell More Than 60% in 2025 Tesla’s once-dominant position in Canada took a dramatic hit in 2025, as a perfect storm of policy changes, trade tensions, and market shifts sent sales tumbling to their lowest level in years. New re...

Tesla sales in Canada drop over 60% in 2025 driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-s...

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

Trump makes Davos matter again

Trump may be at odds with the rules-based, consensus-led global leadership that World Economic Forum stalwarts espouse, but a record number of world leaders are attending only because he is.

More on Trump and Davos in today's Forecast newsletter 👇

RFK Jr. is bringing the GOP and the trial bar together Plaintiffs’ lawyers, long Republican adversaries, see a lot to like in Kennedy’s assault on food and pharma.

RFK Jr. is bringing the GOP and the trial bar together

Trump coming in strong again with the delusions. And I mean that in the most clinical sense of the word, as in “a false belief not based in reality.”

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A watercolour painting of some steps surrounded by flowers. I copied this from a watercolour teaching book which featured a lot of buildings/places in France.

Another sunny watercolour painting. Somewhere in France! #art #watercolours #painting #sunny

If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.

Behind the Curtain: Elon Musk is betting on space as future of AI Musk believes that earthbound data centers will become politically toxic and less efficient than space.

hahaha, SpaceX is feeding Axios scoops that hey have "solved" data centers on space which is the best proof there is that Starlink growth is waning and there's not profitability on the horizon. The S-1 will be delicious

www.axios.com/2026/01/19/a...

Starship Update (new name!) with Ryan Caton

youtu.be/Y7SFLkMVUao

Premiering on YouTube at 7:37pm CST (01:37 UTC).

Launch update:🚀Due to strong winds and incoming bad weather, we're rescheduling our launch attempt for Open Cosmos. New launch date will be later this week, weather pending.

Upcoming launches include the Isar launch of the Spectrum rocket from Norway.

Overview from John Sharp

www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/01/laun...

Auroras and Rockets, a rare combination!
NASASpaceflight team is proud to be on site in Andøya supporting Isar Aerospace flight two!
🎥 D Wise

Another day, another test at Massey's, as S39.1 went through another cryo test, its 5th so far, providing further valuable data for Starship's 3rd era.
Thanks to our friends at the Rocket Ranch for hosting this camera view.
nsf.live/starbase

Rumble of 4 staged combustion kerosene/LOX engines:

Starbase is no stranger to big cranes, although this time the task is less about building launch sites and more about the infrastructure that supplies them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcB7...

LAUNCH! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1080-24 launches Starlink 6-100 from SLC-40.

Live on YT:
youtube.com/watch?v=wrP2...

Wenn Starlink brauchbare (europäische) Konkurrenz hätte, müsste man in schlecht mit Internet versorgten Gebieten diesem Ganoven hier nicht Geld geben, das er dann für ranzige politische Zwecke benutzt.

Trump Issues M.L.K. Day Proclamation After Criticism Civil rights groups had criticized President Trump for failing to issue a proclamation honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and not attending commemorative events.

President Trump proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday evening, after he was criticized by civil rights activists for breaking from tradition by failing to recognize King’s legacy or attending commemorations of the holiday.

A fire tore through a mall in Karachi this past weekend, leaving at least 23 people dead and dozens missing. The fire, which burned for nearly 24 hours, is the latest tragedy that urban planners and shopkeepers blamed on mismanagement in Pakistan’s largest city. nyti.ms/4pQZB1D

Wintry Weather Leads to 100-Vehicle Pileup on Interstate in Michigan Cars and trucks slid into one another and off a highway after a lake-effect snowstorm. Numerous injuries were reported, but no deaths.

More than 100 vehicles slid and crashed into one another in a chain-reaction pileup on a highway in Michigan on Monday, as a lake-effect snowstorm caused treacherous conditions. Numerous injuries were reported, but no deaths, according to the Michigan State Police. nyti.ms/4sPhSzf

Elon Musk Spends $10 Million to Help Nate Morris in Kentucky Senate Race Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, backed Nate Morris, a Republican businessman, in the primary race to succeed Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.

Elon Musk has donated $10 million to help a Republican businessman in the party’s primary race to succeed Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. nyti.ms/4qu7WcX