Narrator: He owned the libs, only to then get owned by tariffs.
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Narrator: He owned the libs, only to then get owned by tariffs.
The licensor-approved Star Trek Day is September 8, but Canadian fans observe this blessed day on September 6! So, to all of my friends and fans in the Great White North — Happy #StarTrek Day, eh! (For all the Yanks who get in a twist over this: figure it out.)
Be there if you can — I’ll be reading my Star Trek short story “Family History,” a Scribe Award-winning tale about Wesley Crusher using his time- and space-shifting talents as a Traveler to try to understand his father, who died when he was just a young boy. See you there, Treklit fans!
it's just a fee, in other words. and 3k means jack shit.
Apparently we also have abandoned our naval base in Hawaii. 🙄
Tolerance is a component of a workable social contract. A person who espouses intolerance has broken that contract. Having broken the contract, they can no longer expect to be protected by it. Tolerance of diversity is not a suicide pact.
“One attorney reported that a US citizen child w/severe medical issues was hospitalized three times while in CBP custody w/her non-citizen mother, and that when the girl began vomiting blood, the mother begged for medical attention.” But in response, a guard said to “just give the girl a cracker.”
Turning a perceived weakness into a strength. Sending your opponents into tizzies where they can only bounce off each other's kneecaps. Smiling. These are a few of the things that inexplicably good candidates do.
Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.
For the evening astronomy crowd
1. Here's the motion for preliminary approval of the settlement in Bartz v Anthropic class action suit. Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion, an "estimated gross recovery of $3,000 per Class Work" & destroy the two datasets of pirated works once litigation ends storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This should make you MAD. And it should INSPIRE you. Because we finally are on the verge of being able to elect someone who will DO something about this kind of bullshit.
They want massive concentration camps. When you find out which businesses are profiting from these anti-human enterprises, cut them off.
Viewing the Trump administration through a lens of cosmic horror: a vast number of people shucking off everything they said they believed in to join a cult that demands sacrifices, inhuman cruelty, and ritual abasement for a promise of power. Just observing what they're doing costs you your sanity.
Converts to the theory bsky.app/profile/mike...
“Praising.”
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Yep, all the "Who needs feminism? Who needs anti-racism?" talk from a few years ago is a prime example. Everyone was so quick to insist that it wasn't the bad old days, when objectively the problems were ongoing but things had improved enough that people forgot how easy it is to lose everything
I’ve subscribed to it through Apple Podcasts, here’s the link for folks…
I subscribed to it through Amazon Music. Here's the link: www.amazon.com/music/player...
re: the dipshit senator —
Can we please understand what is happening? He is disarming us as a prelude to our extermination. And making us mentally unfit to own firearms as a matter of law will exclude us from all manner of legal rights. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
This should become the default format for all FPS game videos from now until the end of time.
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.
People return from other countries that are *much poorer* than the US and exclaim, "god, it sucks here!" You can't walk anywhere, cars dominate every square inch, there's very little public space or community, health care is a nightmare, child care is a nightmare, public education is mediocre.
When I rewatched TOS a month ago I was shocked at how direct Kirk and the writers were about defending liberalism; there's a lot of episodes that, while using their wits, are nonetheless a muscular vision for building order and institutions
Here's a good look at the Vulcan tricorder (?)⬆️, the Vulcan writing on a carrying case ↙️ and a cool detail on the Vulcan uniform sleeve ↘️ as seen in #StarTrekSNW's "Four-and-A-Half Vulcans".
I'm sorry but the masculinity crisis is fake. They think it's not masculine to get higher education (universities are woke); to be compassionate; to be emotionally intelligent or open-minded or even friendly; and then they refuse to get therapy. and then blame everyone else for their problems.
"whoever is President gets the blame" God, if only that were true. No, the reality is that always and forever, *Democrats* get the blame, *Republicans* get off scot free. This is why most people think Biden was president during COVID's worst times and don't blame Trump.
If we're going to ban particular demographics from firearm ownership based on statistics of who carries out gun violence, then men should not have guns. It's really clear that men + guns are far more dangerous than any other combination.
The Nazi early prohibition on Jews from owning guns has been an NRA talking point for decades.
It’s possible. It was done for a previous Star Trek audio drama, NO MAN’S LAND, written by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson. About a year after the audio was released, Simon & Schuster published the script in book format.
Healey: Massachusetts insurers have to cover the cost of all vaccines approved by the state, no matter what the brainworm in chief says. This includes MassHealth and GIC.
Healey: Pharmacists in Massachusetts will be administering vaccines approved by the state public-health commissioner, not the CDC, starting tomorrow.
Mamdani cites Hochul as a positive example of someone who FIGHTS Trump. Very interesting. I'm NOT a Hochul fan - she's done lots of crummy things, including trying to sandbag congestion pricing and pushing mask bans. But is this a signal she and Mamdani are building a partnership to fight Trump? 👀
#StarTrekTNG's "Time's Arrow I" is the next episode that features a shot filmed from the bridge set, that shows the stars behind the ready room window through the open ready room door. I think this happens only one more time in seasons 6+7...
Here’s hoping. subspacechatter.substack.com/p/hopefully-...
Geier is one of the most cracked of crackpots. He was stripped of his medical license in MD and promotes wildly anti-science crankery. Having him work with the government using medical data is not just an embarrassment, it's a huge threat to public health. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Important 🧵on the right-wing monetarization of pretty much everything, and what it takes to actively avoid it.
Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill Moreover, ICE must be destroyed edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
fuck them poor rural kids
Meanwhile, back in reality…
ICYMI 👀 @soulofthestory.bsky.social Roundtable2 ✨ with the authors behind the Star Trek Autobiographies: 📖 Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social 📖 David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social 🎙️ Hosted by Derek Tyler Attico Clip below — full episode linked! 🚀 youtu.be/iP6XPEtNh44?...
59 years ago today at the World Science Fiction convention in Cleveland, Gene Roddenberry screened #StarTrekTOS's "Where No Man Has Gone Before." At the request of the receptive audience, he later showed them a black-and-white print of "The Cage." #history
With alt text:
Here’s a clip from my enlightening and fun discussion with @unamccormack.bsky.social and @davidagoodman.bsky.social on @soulofthestory.bsky.social
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
Sen Wyden (D, OR) says that RFK Jr. is on an “unceasing crusade against vaccines”, and that RFK Jr.’s primary goal is to “take vaccines away from Americans”. This is correct. He also highlights RFK Jr.’s corruption in that he makes money from undermining vaccines.
"By shutting out the League & other civic partners, USCIS is making it harder for new citizens to register to vote, which is yet another intimidation tactic and attack on the immigrant community," said League of Women Voters’ Celina Stewart. "Our democracy is stronger w/the voices of new citizens."
"I am raising two little Black girls who know what is for them and what is not for them. They do not see these military units here to protect them. They are here to catch them, condemn them, to take away their rights their forefathers and foremothers fought for." @robertwhitedc.bsky.social
The U.S. prison labor system has deep historical roots. After the Civil War, states criminalized Black people through "vagrancy laws" and sent them into forced labor through convict leasing. Historian Robert Chase explains:
Trump officials have restored Ronny Jackson's military rank, after his Biden-era demotion from rear admiral to captain. Democrats say they’re aghast “The sacrosanct uniform code of military justice is now the uniform code of Trump,” former Rep. Jackie Speier told me. The code is “now meaningless.”
You shit on a project I worked on, making assumptions before it’s even released, and you think =I’m= being smug? Fuck you. My previous reaction was restrained in comparison to what you deserve. Take the L on this one. Mouth off to me again and you’re blocked.
BBB fans, brace yourself: Our next monthly reading at Barrow's Intense in #IndustryCity is on 9/17 -- a WEDNESDAY! Prepare for tales from authors @cosbrarian.bsky.social @davidmack.bsky.social @kaileepedersen.bsky.social and @randeedawn.com starting at 7pm! 📚🎙️🧉 More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com
This is all so gross. A vote for Cuomo is a vote for Trump. Every New Yorker should know this. And for @SenSchumer & @RepJeffries to continue withholding their support from Zohran is outrageous.
Yes, it’s baffling.
It's weird they don't include the full series in this sale, but STAR TREK: DESTINY is an enjoyable trilogy from the old Trek Lit continunity. Shorthand would be "It's the Borg epic to end all Borg epics" but even that is inadequate. If you're a TREK fan, particularly TNG, check this out
The reason only book two of Star Trek Destiny is on sale this month is that books one and three were on sale either last month or maybe back in July. Why they didn't do all three together, or promote the omnibus version, I have no idea.
HEADS UP, TREK FANS! Coming Monday, Sept. 8 (“Star Trek Day” in the U.S.), a new full-cast audio production from CBS Studios & Secret Hideout — STAR TREK: KHAN, starring Naveen Andrews and Wrenn Schmidt. Subscribe to the series through your favorite podcast platform and get ready for a wild ride!
The Destiny trilogy is SO good!
Yes, there’s MORE! Grab DESPERATE HOURS, the first tie-in novel based on Star Trek: Discovery, plus several other DISCO novels, a bunch of awesome classic Trek title, and newer ones like SNW: The High Country and the Scribe Award-winning SNW: Asylum! www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
You can also now snag a copy of Scribe Award-winning Star Trek Picard novel FIREWALL, which is Seven of Nine’s coming-of-age tale as an adult queer woman finding her place (and her first Sapphic love) in a morally gray galaxy by joining the Fenris Rangers. www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
If you’ve been at all curious about the TOS-era book series Star Trek Vanguard (which I still think would make a great TV series to succeed SNW), this month almost the WHOLE DARN SERIES is on sale for just $1.99 per eBook! But wait — yes, there’s MORE. www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
September Star Trek eBook deals are live! If you picked up books 1 & 3 of my Star Trek Destiny trilogy on sale last month, this month you can finish the set with Star Trek Destiny, Book II: Mere Mortals, for just $1.99. But wait — there’s more! LOTS more. www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
Clear eyed post by @andreapitzer.bsky.social on how the public is largely being kept from connecting the dots on what is happening— and how we can help. Fully agree with supporting independent news like @marisakabas.bsky.social , @chrisgeidner.bsky.social , and @boltsmag.org !
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.
So glad to hear this! I’m going to snorfle my fur-babies now in celebration. 💕🐈
Thank you SO SO MUCH everyone who searched, flyered, called, help me trap/watch the traps, EVERYBODY who helped get Big Genius Man home (CRYING AGAIN BECAUSE WTF YOU LITTLE GARBAGEMONSTER)
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
If you need a script, example in thread or go to 5calls.org/issue/rfk-hh...
If you can track the boat on camera to slaughter everyone aboard then you can track the boat on camera to intercept the boat and arrest them
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
BBB'ers, hold on to your hats: Our next monthly reading at Barrow's Intense in #IndustryCity is on 9/17 -- a WEDNESDAY! Grab your smelling salts and prepare for tales from authors @cosbrarian.bsky.social @davidmack.bsky.social @kaileepedersen.bsky.social and @randeedawn.com starting at 7pm! 📚🎙️🧉
These problems are even bigger. As a constitutional matter, the deployment of unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state can never happen. Never.
@daytonward.bsky.social @davidmack.bsky.social Looks like September is "Ward & Mack Month" - pretty much the entire Vanguard series eBooks are $1.99, among others! Plus several by @farawaypress.com and a pair by @unamccormack.bsky.social! www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
This dude has gone from “hardly touching the stuff” to drinking scotch straight up since meeting Jim Kirk 😅 #strangenewworlds #startrek
That is freaking awesome.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
I love it when a politician sounds like a human being who likes living in reality
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
In the Highlands area of Edmonton, Alberta Canada, Fiasco ( @premeemohamed.com 's cat) is still missing. His 'sister', Franca, is home safe. Here are more images of Fiasco. Fiasco is chipped but not collared. He is deeply loved and sorely missed. edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...
Edmonton: Fiasco (the gray cat) is still missing. please please keep an eye out and spread the word!!!!
If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x
Well, he just fucking said it outright. Let’s see if our media betters can pass the “Dude, he literally, explicitly said it outright today in front of your cameras,” challenge.
Here's a good look at the (unused) replicator in Chapel's quarters in #StarTrekSNW's "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans". It has a small slot that you can insert memory tapes into, just like the food slots on #StarTrekTOS.
I cannot share this enough
this is very well put @lastpositivist.bsky.social
This op/ed is dangerously wrong. There are elections in Iran & Russia & they are meaningless. Republicans want the same for the US- gerrymandering to keep their party in power. One party no longer believes in democracy. That is the real problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
It's not the primary anymore. Our job isn’t just to make sure Zohran gets elected, it’s to crush the billionaires' latest ploy to buy our city, and crush whatever they try next too. Donate to DREAM so we can keep crushing them, until we have truly won. actblue.com/donate/dreamfornyc?refcode=b
Begging people to question why they’re aligned with groups like the Heritage Foundation and Bari Weiss’s whole cadre when it comes to tech policy. We need to fight back against this moral panic and fight these nonsense “child safety” (they are not actually about child safety) bills
Seriously, if you're in NYC and still believe even a little in electoral politics, please follow the @nywfp.bsky.social NOW. They do great work supporting progressive politicians and causes. Great group to get info from and volunteer for!
