Just like the semantic gymnastics of the #BrokenTimes trying to avoid saying fascism.

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A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

I'll put Star Trek Academy's "The Life of the Stars" episode up there with ST:TNG's "Data's Daughter" and "The Inner Light" as the few Trek episodes that will make me tear up. Nice work! #treksky

OK, stop it with the frickin' lasers, feds? Please. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

This is brilliant use of dance. Thank you.

Please watch and spread video. Art in the age of fascism. bsky.app/profile/nash...

One of the things I enjoy most about Star Trek Academy is that the most emotionally available character is a gay, pacifist Klingon. #treksky

Because I'm an insufferable pedant, this is my annual social media post reminding that the national holiday we celebrate today is Washington's Birthday. "Presidents' Day", "President's Day", or "Presidents Day", or whatever, based on your state, is a local construct.

The Turd Reich insists that every American must show a government-issued ID to vote, but can’t tolerate the notion that a few thousand paramilitary masked thugs don’t need to identify themselves in any way while they commit crimes and deny civil and human rights.

The FAA gets a lot of criticism, some of it justified, but hats off to the administrator and chief counsel for forcing Border Patrol thugs to stop firing off a laser cannon in El Paso, which by this account CBP did with remarkable incompetence. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u... #avgeek

We just contributed another $150 to @captmarkkelly.bsky.social - that's $10 for every exclamation point in U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's emphatic ruling granting Senator Kelly's preliminary injunction against DoD's attack on the First Amendment.

I withhold most of my gripes against Academy because Hunter is so great in it.

ICE is expanding in Seattle. www.kuow.org/stories/ice-...

It’s a disgusting display of antisemitism. This is just as bad from the left as from the right.

Can we trust Border Patrol thugs to operate a laser cannon in civilian airspace? Hell no! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Not Breaking News: NYT does not fail to use the most passive voice possible to describe Trump’s wild attempts at authoritarianism.

Hitler Youth.

This is a die-on-the-hill issue. If Democrats don't stand up for Fourth Amendment rights, we are certainly lost.

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

Classic nonsense from TFG, tripping over his own dick. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Lady Gaga being in the show is also Latino culture because we all have that white cousin who can drink tequila and speaks perfect Spanish two years after marrying into the family.

Ashamed to say that these Web sites I used to helm are now incompetent when it comes to managing social media accounts. It’s about authenticity, not automation.

Be prepared today for propaganda from the clankers. Do not consent. wapo.st/4aHQ6N5

This is my biennial social media post reminding Americans that if you're lucky enough to get CBC, their Olympics coverage is far superior to NBC's.

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Don’t back down. Shut it down. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Solar isn’t booming in Texas or China because of climate ideology. It’s booming because it’s the cheapest, fastest power you can build. Texas just set a solar generation record — in FEBRUARY. That’s cost curves winning, not sacrifice. Zero-fuel power sets prices by design. #Bettrification #Solar

How is Pam Bondi still attorney general? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

This is a banger of a judicial ruling. It freed the bunny-hat boy and his dad. It’s a must-read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

Is Elon a pedo? We couldn't say. Did Elon repeatedly try to invite himself to Epstein's pedo island 5 years after Epstein served time and registered as a sex offender? Yep, he sure did. Do people who aren't pedos beg to party on pedo island? 🤔 #TeslaTakedown

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

“Overall, deportations under Trump are lower than deportations under former President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama, who immigrant rights advocates dubbed the "deporter-in-chief." ” 🧵 1/3 www.wlrn.org/immigration/...

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

More great visual journalism by the New York Times. Thank you. But you missed an opportunity to point out that this fed thug needs to fix the split in his pants. Oops. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Another banger from George Will. wapo.st/3ZyVOvh

If you squint and zoom in you can see my red “shame” sign at tonight’s vigil for Minnesota in Renton, Wash.

The strongest qualification Kristi Noem had to build the kind of terror squad Trump wanted, was that she shot her own dog rather than take the time to train it.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

I want more. But this would be an acceptable start. I refuse to reject the good for the perfect. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

This took considerable courage. www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

I go there reluctantly, but “thugs” is no longer adequate as a way to describe Trump’s paramilitary. They are now “pigs.”

Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.

photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.