Who Wants To Bury A Billionaire?

The Democratic party is like the cheese shop in that Monty Python sketch: "Good morning, sir, what would you like to vote for today?" "Medicare For All?" "No..." "Green New Deal?" "No..." "Living wage?" "Yes!" "Yes?" "Oh... the cat's eaten it." "Has he?" "She, sir."

We're in this situation because Nixon didn't go to jail for Watergate and Reagan wasn't punished for Iran Contra. The path of least resistance brought us here.

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🔥 @repdeliaramirez to @KristiNoem: “Bottom Line: You lie with impunity. You reject checks & balances. You ignore Congress & the courts… you can either resign, Trump will fire you, or you’ll be impeached. You’re going to be held accountable. I’m going to make sure of that.”

I wish the people who owned movie studios liked watching movies

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

1. Ellison runs Paramount into the ground 2. Paramount files for bankruptcy 3. We all pool our money to buy Star Trek 4. Run it as a co-op 5. I finally get to live the dream and make Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2

This ep is about a species without gender, so pronouns inevitably come up. Riker makes a mistake and gets corrected. He apologizes, asks what pronouns Soren prefers, and then says he will do his best to be better going forward. If Riker could figure this out in 1992, your MAGA uncle has no excuse.

We pay for the government. Every time they're evil or callous, that's your money going to fuck with people. I don't want them to be careful or slow or cowardly, I want them to sell tickets to the trials.

A Definitive Ranking of U.S. State Flags 🧵 1. Virginia: A+ • Strong anti-fascist message • Tits out for liberty • Her outfit looks comfy • Fuck bras; don't need 'em • That lady just teabagged Caesar's corpse • Girlboss

In my 30 years as a #StarTrek researcher, this will forever be one of my coolest finds: This screenshot from #StarTrekTNG's "Qpid" shows both 24th/25th century Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard ⬅️ and 20th/21st century thespian Sir Patrick Stewart ➡️ on screen at the same time. How, you ask? 🧵 1/6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Today's vibe:

I keep waiting for this guy to show up, go "yep, there's your problem," and flip the switch on Reality back to Good.

Star Trek TNG, S5E13: Troi locks Picard in a turbolift so she can tell him about her one-night stand. Geordi uses his VISOR to yeet a star. 5/10 a half-baked morality tale about eugenics that inexplicably doesn't mention the Eugenics Wars

a lot of words have been written over the past couple of days about why people don’t trust Newsom but if you need the argument in visual form, here you go

Foolproof billion dollar business idea: • dupes of your favorite business software from 2009 • you pay money for it once • you never hear from me again unless there's a software update • don't give me your personal information, I don't wanna know

Profoundly disappointed to learn that @ultimateguard.bsky.social would betray trans gamers with this soulless cash grab. I must have bought a dozen Boulders over the years but that ends now. Tabletop gaming should be a refuge for everyone.

Star Trek TNG, S5E11: Data spends time with his fan club and conducts a routine chemical analysis on a soda. Geordi tells a funny anecdote about being set on fire. Data, Troi, and Picard interrogate a child 7/10 second consecutive episode about a traumatized kid that gets crushed by a bulkhead

Incredible Community Note.

Star Trek TNG, S5E10: Worf berates a traumatized two-year-old for behaving dishonorably. For the second consecutive episode, our intrepid heroes almost destroy a friendly planet. Worf goes to therapy. 6/10 unrelated, but that lady in Ten Forward has a wild hairdo

Star Trek TNG, S5E9: The crew causes global warming on purpose. Picard debates with a time traveler over whether plot spoilers violate the Prime Directive 7/10 the crew falls for a con artist again

We need to do to Star Trek what Ben Collins did for The Onion. Star Trek should belong to us, not some soulless, boot-licking corporation

Star Trek TNG, S5E7: Picard is the last person to see Sarek alive. Then he commanders a Klingon warship and flees across the Neutral Zone to consort with a Romulan senator and a suspected spy 9/10 after years of grueling research, TNG discovered how to reference the events of prior episodes

Star Trek TNG, S5E6: Everybody gets hooked on Space Balatro. Wesley crusher makes out with Ashley Judd. After too much time in gamer culture, the crew gets problematic 7/10 has the distinct whiff of a moral panic, like someone in the writers' room was mad at how much their kid was playing Nintendo

Star Trek TNG, S5E5: Keiko has a baby. Troi seizes command of the ship. Riker decapitates Data. Picard confronts his most formidable adversary yet: the turbolift 9/10 "everything is on fire and we're all gonna die" remains a timely and relevant message

2025 in a nutshell

Star Trek TNG, S5E4: The crew chases an evil snowflake. Data befriends a bigot and drives her insane. A space monster devourers Riker's long term, long distance, low commitment, casual girlfriend 7/10 first contact success rate this season is 1:2, rookie numbers, gotta pump those numbers up

My latest for @thenation.com: Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialist—Zohran Mamdani? “To put it plainly, the myth that Black Americans can only support establishment Democrats has conditioned us to take our suffering—which is a result of capitalism—for granted.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Star Trek TNG, S5E3: Picard pulls a hilarious prank on the Cardassians. The Enterprise crew bully the new ensign. Picard has trouble getting a haircut 9/10 this show's been on a hot streak lately

Star Trek TNG, S5E1: Data disobeys a direct order so he can run a science experiment. Worf contemplates stabbing a child to death 9/10 a delightful mix of action and camp

A definitive ranking of the Enterprise crew by their ability to give Data good dating advice in Star Trek TNG, S4E25 🧵

Star Trek TNG, S4E25: Lt D'Sora falls in love with a chatbot. The ship is haunted by a poltergeist. Data writes a program to explore a new part of humanity: Emotional abuse 9/10 prescient

Crowd is not dispersing. The are screaming Fuck ICE

Star Trek TNG, S4E24: Geordi murders O'Brien, ruins the chief's uniform, and ineptly tries to frame Miles for weapons trafficking—in that order. Through cunning detective work, Data establishes that Geordi's girlfriend on Risa does not exist 6/10 above average Geordi episode

In antiquity, this kind of hubris would result Zeus striking them down with lightning

Star Trek TNG, S4E23: Crusher's new boyfriend asks "Would you still love me if I were a worm?" and Crusher gets really problematic about it 2/10 an episode so lazy and offensive that the rest of Star Trek tries to pretend it doesn't exist

Star Trek TNG, S4E22: The crew accidentally blows up a star. Lwaxana Troi (daughter of the Fifth House, holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed, and Federation Ambassador) almost starts a war 8/10 2nd consecutive episode with long ponderous arguments about ethics, A+

Star Trek TNG, S4E21: Worf gets really into Q-Anon and Picard has to deprogram him 9/10 once or twice a season, TNG becomes a legal drama where at trial Picard delivers an impassioned speech about morality and justice so moving that everyone present has a spiritual awakening, and it's always great

Bluesky and X really mirror how US politics work. You can have the Genocide Platform (racist) or the Genocide Platform (shaking its head the whole time so you know they don't like it)