"An Indiana University instructor who showed a graphic in class that listed the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has lost her job." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

AI is being used by the Trump administration to do what they do best, spread pain and suffering.

Our goal shouldn't be to eat the most "natural" diet. It should be to eat the diet that best supports human health, animals, and the planet. theresistancekitchen.substack.com/p/why-back-t...

Want to eat healthy and sustainable? Look beyond nature and towards evidence and ethics. #plantbased #vegan Why “Back to Nature” Isn’t the Answer for Healthy and Sustainable Diets by @theveganrd.bsky.social

Please remember, you really don't want to eat the rich. Compost would be a better use of them. It's on only thing they're useful for and the least they can do for us. @reforest-kelley.bsky.social #vegan #composttherich #eattherich @reforest-kelley.bsky.social

A white supremacist who helped instigate a pogrom just became a trillionaire and meanwhile still isn’t banned from the UK even though again he promotes white supremacist violence Apartheid Clyde indeed

The kid is scared of school now. And the detained people are off to concentration camps. Fuck this fuck this fuck this www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

🧪 open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...

WTF @gluesenkampperez.house.gov? Do you even care about anyone beside yourself? you are taking food away from women and children that need it. You are no Democrat, you are a MAGA stooge.

So, what's the difference between centrist and republicans again?

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Not surprising since at least Musk and Thiel grew up under apartheid in SA.

If current tech has intelligence of any sort, then it has rights. If it has rights, then how we currently use it is tantamount to slavery and we should probably halt all current/future use/development until we develop an ethical framework for INVITING it to work with us. I don't see that happening.

The thing is: Sagan put a woman scientist front and center in Contact. But the media will never let a woman be his successor, even though I am the only one who explicitly says I write in Sagan's humanist tradition of writing science from the perspective of our values commitments.

Reading this review which points out that NDT doesn't seem particularly interested in science fiction and thinking about how the NYT *Books* section completely ignored a book that came out last month which did exactly that You can buy that book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Call to Activism -Joe Gallina 🚨WOW! Mayor Zohran Mamdani just MOCKED Ronald Reagan’s famous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.” BOOM.

If @adamsmith.house.gov and Bellevue don’t want protests outside his home all he has to do is resign and let someone that actually cares about their constituents and humanity be elected into office.

Bellevue is home to many tech millionaires, and they are predictably conservative. So is Adam Smith.

Monstrous.

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

A tale of how moderation works around here, in two parts

Our existence as free people is the provocation that centrists think we should pull back on

Centrists are the intellectual descendants of the people who felt it was important to avoid angering and pressuring Confederates

"Two officers in the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office claim the actors' Netflix crime drama caused "substantial harm to their personal and professional reputations."" Like they needed any help harming their reputations.

"I'm always suspicious of people who are eager to help a police officer." - Constable Odo

Star Trek Prodigy is a good show yet it has no streaming home. This is why I buy the physical media of my favorite shows so no one can take it away from me.

New memoir coming from @levarburton.bsky.social in November!! 👀 I already put in a preorder! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769414...

I put this on while I was making up some Trekkies Against Fascism buttons. Really recommend giving it a listen. The fascistic backlash we're experiencing is a reaction by the losing side in a *massive* cultural shift over the last 60 years and even in the last 20. It's encouraging to remember.

omg it's true

Someone asked if I could tell them where to buy a pair of good chinos. In this thread, I will tell you, but my answer is not simple. On the upside, I think this is a better approach when shopping for clothes and you can apply it to any kind of item. 🧵

#Garak #startrek #deepspacenine #ds9 #epstein #trump

I think I would do the same but I would make sure the Star Trek Bar is stocked with good tea and ginger beer. Plus we would have mid-week specials showing other awesome sci-fi shows/movies.

Star Trek bar. Like a sports bar, except all the TVs are playing TNG, DS9, or Voyager all the time. Maybe a smattering of TOS during the day.

Omg, @chanda.blacksky.app is an amazing writer but I’m halfway through The Edge of Space-Time and will need another read through since I am only processing or understanding about a quarter of what I’m reading. At least it’s a book that is worth reading more than once.

This is my life also. I have an ei in my name that is people always pronouns as “ee” instead of “i”.

Here’s my position on whether you buy my book from Amazon. I would strongly prefer you don’t! First of all, the price on Bookshop is exactly the same right now (mod shipping). Libro will give you the same audio and ownership of the files! Kobo ebooks and readers are great!

I've been thinking about the backlash Marie Kondo got and I think part of it was not just that she was saying "buy less shit" she was explicitly say "only buy what actually makes you happy" and in a nation of conspicuous consumption it pissed people off.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

Seriously @adamsmith.house.gov, you accept money from Palantir and refuse to donate it. You are a disgrace to your constituents and all Americans. Retire now and let fresh someone with real concern for humanity take your place.

Good old Adam Smith. Other Dems are donating the $ they've received from Palantir (ICE uses Palantir tech to hunt people down) to immigrant rights groups, but Adam Smith says the $ he receives from Palantir is A-OK. Embarrassing.

I checked Google Maps and @organicmaps.bsky.social and both show towns in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Apple Maps is literally engaging in ethnic cleansing by focusing on Israel and removing towns in surround countries.

"I literally had to go see this for myself. Sure enough. Apple Maps has removed almost every town in Lebanon from the map while keeping every podunk town in Israel and Syria clearly marked." — Mel

Just a reminder that The Edge of Space-Time has a playlist! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This is unexpected. @annleckie.com new scifi book Radiant Star coming out next month is #9 in Bestselling Erotica Audiobooks on @libro.fm. I wonder if Ann Leckie is writing in a new genre that will surprise readers expecting a space opera. ;)

All my besties are leftists, but leftists who make hating on religion their entire personality are annoying and ineffective af. You cannot organize people you have contempt for, and most people have religion. You will not annoy, pester, or troll them out of their beliefs ffs. Be better.

Trekkie friends, Chanda is one of the best of our community and you should give her a follow and check out her work

I picked up my copy of The Edge of Space-Time by @chanda.blacksky.app at Third Place Books and was greeted with a pleasant surprise, a signed copy, which made getting the book even sweeter. Now just have to carefully remove a sticker that mars such a beautiful cover. :)

Trump does not care about the law, only deporting anyone that is not a white person. She was following the law yet she was detained.