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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Donald then points out his “friend” in the audience. Says his “friend” looks like shit who could have a heart attack and reports how his doctors wouldn’t help the dying person. So demeaning to have the leader tell his audience that their lives aren’t worth saving.

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

Sen. Schmitt: “You fled to The Hague and prosecuted the president of Kosovo in 2020?” Smith: “Yes, and he was just convicted of over 300 acts of torture and 96 murders.” Sen. Schmitt: “And then you got a chance to come back to get Trump. Is that right?” Smith: “That’s not right at all.”

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

Bears starting QB with a win, 2+ pass TD and 1+ rush TD, by age 31 - Billy Wade, Kordell Stewart, Ed Brown 32 - Billy Wade, Billy Wade, Billy Wade, Billy Wade, Billy Wade 33 - Erik Kramer, Billy Wade 34 - Josh McCown 35 - 36 - 37 - 38 - CASE HIZZONER KEENUM

#chicagobears Won the battle of the trenches, on both sides of the ball. Timely turnovers Keenum was sharp Receivers got open Berkeley run amuck but didnt convert to points Bears D played stronger as the game progressed All around great game against the Eagles

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Chicagohendge returns today

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

I'm at the triumphal arch. I'm at the military complex. I'm at the combination military complex/triumphal arch.

(Kan)Ye West next two concerts are in St Petersburg, Russia, in a stadium named after the Russian state oil company Gazprom, who indirectly funded Don Jr’s wedding. I bet motorcycle gang leader +Trump Jr financer Kremlev will be there to sing along to Ye’s “heil hitler”

Hormuz oil flow continue to climb, now with reports of daytime transits. The 7-day average of oil transit flow through Hormuz rose to nearly 12 MMbpd as of Sunday, easily the fastest pace since the post-MOU June-July breakout—and this time there's virtually no Iranian crude.

Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.

Highstep, by Emma Amos, 1983, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Cartoonist: Slyngstad

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

The end of the year, Trump will claim he personally shot Bin Laden

Jimmy Breslin on Gloria Steinem Esquire, 8/92 (the same issue had John Updike on Dolly)

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Fortunately, for 40 years we've maintained a special fleet of dedicated, wood-hulled minesweepers just for-- uh,

Don’t occupy Wall Street, invade Wall Street

Bears preseason vs Browns quick analysis 2nd team d line got pressure rushing 4 on browns who had some o line starters. New DTs Gallimore, Lynch and Van Den Berg all had big plays Backup running back Ahmed looked explosive + MacCloud made nice catches out of backfield. Rojo is in danger of the cut

www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont... Terrifying fires in Ontario.

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

NFL Draft Trade idea Bears get 10 (Bain) Giants get 25, 60, 129

My #chicagobears realistic big board for draft 1 Mesidor - old man is day 1 ready 2 Woods - burst off snap 3 C Miller - most solid DT 4 Thieneman -playmaking safety 5 Faulk - Dennis Allen type DE1 6 Parker DA DE2 7 EMW - great safety 8 Zion Young - DA DE3 9 McDonald - Big Mac cant be moved

#chicagobears mock draft 4/3/26 25 Woods - most complete DT 57 Hunter - strong against run DT 60 Haucy - exciting safety 89 Hecht - athletic C 129 Singleton - RB to replace Homer 239 Marshall - undersized but playmaking CB 241 Hibner - balanced TE to backup Loveland again

#chicagobears 3 round mock draft Bears get Woods - run + pass DT Ramsey - Versatile Safety Hecht - Future startng Center McClell- Large Run Stuffing DT

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

I want Philly to win because I think Rams are best team in NFC and also the Bears already beat the Eagles pretty handedly while Niners was a close defeat

#chicagobears can’t cut torn Achilles and underwhelming Dayo Odeyingbo this next year. 2026 season Dayo has a $20.5M to play Or $22M to cut of Dead cap Hope he recovers but if not in 2027 it’s only $4.5M of dead cap to cut

More from the same scene. Chorus of anti-ICE whistles in one of the most affluent (and safest) neighborhoods of Chicago

North Side of Chicago today: “He was working, you bastards. Let him go!”

Due to his relationship with the world's most notorious rapist, pedophile, and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew will relinquish his royal title as the Duke of York. We now request that Epstein's best friend, Trump, do the same and surrender the office of the president.

ICE deployed tear gas near a church in a residential neighborhood in Chicago.