The excellent and good faith question I was waiting for. Letters are not words, to be sure, so you may proceed with dotting your i's, crossing your t's, minding your p's and q's, and securing straight A's.

I think about this a LOT.

Enjoyed the stress-free pace of the Downton Abbey movie but we really needed a scene with Edith and Mary getting drunk together and recounting the details of their rocky relationship. And laughing.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Beard guy. #LittleRiker

People what's stopping you from dressing like this.

"Many fans theorized that “The View” hosts were purposely instructed to not discuss Kimmel’s suspension by their parent company." Ya think? variety.com/2025/tv/news...

This is hilarious.

Join me TONIGHT at 8 PM PT, bring questions for Robert Duncan McNeill, and donate to a worthy cause! I have been wanting to interview him again for years, so I'm very excited about this one. Come celebrate #StarTrekVoyager with the Star Trek Family (find them on Facebook and look under "events").

Tony & I were joined by Dénes House to review Star Trek: Khan, play and discuss our interviews with Kirsten Beyer, Naveen Andrews, and Wrenn Schmidt, and talk about the latest #StarTrek news. Listen at TrekMovie or wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/aapod231

It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk. The first offers were from Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.

Either You Care About the First Amendment or You Don't open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

I'm in disguise! Can't wait to join the @salontrek.com podcast tonight (after recording tomorrow's All Access episode all about Khaaaaaaaaaaan). A much-needed distraction today and we are going to have fun, dammit.

John Oliver has been talking about Sinclair for a long time. This is worth a watch. youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?...

Sinclair, run by right-wing media mogul David Smith, says suspending the Jimmy Kimmel show isn’t enough. It is going to run a tribute to Kirk during Kimmel’s time slot. Sinclair stations will run not consider putting Kimmel back on air until he apologizes and donates to Turning Point USA

I am in shock that a show was suspended for something as mild as this. (And somehow the guy who sincerely advocated for involuntary euthanasia of the homeless is still on the air.)

Jimmy Kimmel should have stuck to acceptable comments, like suggesting that homeless people be executed

I am looking forward to this. I have THOUGHTS! (Also, I want to hear theirs... I love The Salon!)

57 years ago today, William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols filmed that famous kiss for #StarTrek's "Plato's Stepchildren." Watch Nichelle describe what it was like on set that day (with plenty of "suits" watching from the sidelines). https://bit.ly/3ExnbeM

I'm VERY excited about moderating this Q&A with the great Robbie McNeill! Celebrate #StarTrekVoyager with the Star Trek Family (find them on Facebook and look under "events"). Taking audience questions, giving away prizes, and raising money for a great cause. fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?px=7...

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

I had fun recapping some of the highlights from Gates McFadden's panel at Trek to New Jersey. She was both thoughtful and hilarious and the crowd ate it up (as did I). bit.ly/stnjgatesmcf...

i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny

This one is not to be missed!

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Somebody is watching me watch Family Affair.

The Hatfields keep blaming the McCoys every time a Hatfield shoots another Hatfield.

I almost think everyone on the @trektalks.net team needs one of these.

I was just thinking about the term "big swings" and how this is not really a new thing in #StarTrek. I can only do four pictures here, but many more episodes come to mind. POST YOUR BIG SWINGS!

Can't wait for this one!

Was rewatching 24 last night and when this phone call happened I started reimaging their conversation. Sherry Palmer: Who is this? Detective Norris: I'm Worf's brother. Who is this? Sherry: I'm Worf's sister-in-law. Norris: [silence] Sherry: I'm also his boss' wife.

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

When do we get a retraction from The Wall Street Journal for erroneously claiming the assassination was related to trans people? When do we get apologies from every journalist who spread that disinformation?

#OnThisDay in 1992, Mae Jemison became the first black woman to travel into space, when she served as mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour for the STS-47 mission. #WomenInSTEM

Please join the Star Trek Family in supporting the St. Jude Children's Hospital. donations will go directly to helping children and their families that have been so horribly affected by childhood cancer. DONATE: fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?px=7... We are grateful for your generosity!!!

We reviewed the #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds season 3 finale, we play Tony's interview with the showrunners, I rant about both Kirk and the Gorn, and I weep with Anson and Melanie. We laughed, we cried, we mocked, we appreciated... a confusing time was had by all. bit.ly/aapod230

Live your life in such a way that when you die, people aren’t able to cite thousands of comments you’ve made advocating the deaths of others.

Word nerds, assemble! It's the new CMOS Q&A!

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

Worth picking up if you haven't already! I really liked this one.

And if you haven’t listened yet, go check it out. Worth it!

Me: Star Trek anniversary? Who cares? More inane crap made up by desperate nerds for other dumb nerds. Idiots. My office: