Congratulations to the graduates of East River Academy, who earned their diplomas while incarcerated on Rikers Island. No matter where your journey began, this milestone belongs to you. You earned it, and I'm cheering you on.

Stay indoors during a fire. If you must go outside, wear an N95 mask. 😷 N95 masks protect us from particles that can cause health issues, like a persistent cough, runny nose, phlegm, wheezing, and difficulty breathing. 📲 Learn more www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/EPO.... #BoyleHeightsFire

I AM CORNHOLIUS

How do people still not get that Star Trek is not about the spaceships or the phasers? It was always about using sci-fi settings to explore the human condition and be a social commentary on the times we live in. The fun sci-fi shit was just a bonus.

Missing Academy this week.

Another great feature of Wing Commander Prophecy DVD is that it includes this helpful list of incredibly handsome people.

It can be super hard sometimes to be as positive and upbeat as I want to be here, because of everything going on in the world. Some things are too big for one person alone to tackle, but the thing I really want to get across is that no one, NO ONE is alone. You are loved ❤️

Starfleet Academy teaches theater?! The cadets are in for a surprise in this exclusive clip for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. #IGNFanFest

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 12,1955

“They just killed that lady right there. They shot her in the head, bro.” A neighbor films the aftermath of Trump’s ICE goons murdering an innocent woman in Minneapolis.

There is no trend or epidemic of kids being trans or non-binary.

Traveling for the holidays? Stay well on your way by wearing a high-quality mask like an N95 in crowded indoor spaces like airports and planes. Also wash your hands frequently, cover your cough or sneeze, and avoid traveling if you’re sick. 📲 Learn more: go.cdph.ca.gov/respiratory-viruses

We know lots of you have been asking 3M for a Black Aura - like mask for consumer use. Today we're excited to launch a new product to fill that hole in the market! Introducing the headband version of BreatheTeq KN95. Available in black and white.

🇺🇸 Our health care system is expensive and broken. #MedicareForAll

When the government can silence one artist, it threatens freedom for all. Credit: The Roddenberry Foundation.

We'd like to shout out Seattle's Clean Air Collective and mask bloc for providing us with free masks and air filters during ConCurrent. We could not have run the event without that help, and it was given to us for free. For FREE! What an amazing public service. Thank you so much.

Remember, tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Well Starfleet Academy is looking very swish! :) #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #SDCC ew.com/star-trek-st...

Strange New Worlds is up!

To the US CONGRESS who signed their name to the letter complaining about wildfire smoke from Canada; •. Brad Finstad (MN) • Tom Tiffany (WI) • Glenn Grothman (WI) • Michelle Fischbach (MN) • Pete Stauber (MN) • Tom Emmer (MN) This is the response #PremierWabKinew #Manitoba #cdnpoli

He was admitted after he fell and injured his arm. But because there are absolutely zero transmission protocols in hospitals and they let disease fly around and don’t require masks he got Covid there and died. This is not a unique story. Last I read 30% of Covid cases are hospital-acquired.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

No Kings in America! Great turnout in Renton today.

An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee. RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism. This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.

Pedro Pascal proves that sometimes the most masculine thing to do is to be vocally and unflinchingly supportive of vulnerable people.

To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.

Every time I see a headline about "looking back at the pandemic" I want to cry. Do you remember how often people got sick in 2019? Flu, cold, mystery illness, whatever. Do you remember? I bet you don't because IT WAS NOT LIKE THIS. I used to work in DAYCARE. I saw EVERYTHING. This is not normal.

Protect your kids. "Natural immunity" (aka getting infected) does confer a certain protection against re-infection. But the risk of death is roughly a THOUSAND times greater than it is from vaccination. And even if the disease doesn't kill you, you'll likely spread it to others.

Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States. 🧵

What else is there but our health? 🤔

No one’s existence is an affront to you. Anyone saying otherwise is trying to manipulate you.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Japanese Americans in Washington were driven from their homes, separated from their families, and isolated in poor conditions in internment camps. That damage remains. Never again. On this Day of Remembrance, I commit to standing up for all residents of our state.

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

I’m supporting State Senator Marcus Riccelli and Representative April Berg’s legislation to pass free school meals for all Washingtonians. Right now, the child of a single parent working 40 hrs/week making $19 an hour does not qualify for free school meals. That must change.

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

I broke down sobbing over the state of the world this morning while I was feeding the cats. But you have to keep going, cats will need more food.

Chameloids (like Quasi ⬆️ and Martia ⬇️) have indeed green blood, as seen in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"⬇️ and mentioned by Georgiou in #StarTrekSection31 ⬆️.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

Since I'm coming home to my blog, how about one of those old school posts about random stuff I've been doing?

Literally my favorite toy as a kid