BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I'm so incredibly stoked for this! The new original Trek comics lately have all been banger (really loving THE LAST STARSHIP). Can't wait for @charliejane.bsky.social, one of my favorite authors, to get a crack at the Trek universe—especially in the largely unexplored post-PICARD era!

Forgot to share last week! If you need some positive local news: I did a brief write-up on newly observed Lynx kittens in Voyageurs National Park. Check it out!

Incredibly excited to drop our interview with Timour Gregory & Sasha Schneider about the newly released doc, BEAM ME UP, SULU. 🖖🏻 🖖🏻 💜 #SuluFilm #BeamMeUpSulu #StarTrek

Keith Ellison to Ron Johnson's nonsense

Just in the past few months in Minnesota, there have been as many ICE employees arrested for sex trafficking as there's been people executed by ICE agents

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

"Suspected political message" = in Spanish so the mouth noises scared me

Saw this in the theater other day—super fun & scrappy sci-fi horror with some great eldritch elements!

This is a really great breakdown of all this that connects all the dots and comes with receipts and sources. Really puts you in a “let’s just burn it all down” kinda mood though…

Counterpoint: this is the best way to say this.

There are a few things I don't entirely jive with here (Generations and Insurrection and Search for Spock are *not* terrible IMO 😂), but framing NEMESIS as a 'Star Trek: Dracula' is actually incredibly interesting and might make it a better movie...?

Somehow people are so insulated or willfully ignorant enough to think this is hyperbole. As someone who's now had to become a full-time online teacher, I can assure you it's not. "When the district introduced a temporary virtual learning option, over 3,500 students enrolled in the first 90 minutes"

“Children belong in schools, not in detention...No child should ever disappear on her way to school.”

losing my mind

The use of the objective, passive voice in this is so funny. It makes it feel like the 'hex' and the subsequent Christian prayer are either equally silly or equally credible.

“The first of several students detained by immigration officers...” shouldn’t even be a sentence

Catching up w/Starfleet Academy—we've been enjoying so far, but “Vox in Excelso” feels like the first really great episode. Amazing range and development for the character of Jay-Den Kraag, & an overall really clever use of the school setting to tell a rich, classic Trek-esque moral debate story.

Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam

2 things the Trump admin excels at: kid prisons and being pro-disease.

Glad they're back home! Also, thankful for the people who were out there and documented everything. I hate to imagine what ICE is getting away with when they're not on camera.

Hell yeah, Star Trek: Voyager guest star, Tom Morello!

Good list from @joepraska.bsky.social! twincitiesgeek.com/2026/01/15-e...

straight up Gestapo shit

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

My friend @joepraska.bsky.social, Minnesota native and co-host of @dslovepod.bsky.social, has put together an antifascist #StarTrek watch list for your enjoyment! twincitiesgeek.com/2026/01/15-e...

This is what's happening all over the country.

#Trekkie friends & #StarTrek fans! For @twincitiesgeek.com, I got the opportunity to dig through the canon of Star Trek episodes to find the ones that most rise to the moment and make for a solid antifascist Trek playlist. I chose 1 episode or 2-parter from each series across the franchise.

Trump's so stoked to have a new musician friend. Hanging around Kid Rock would take a toll on anyone.

A little late in catching up on some of these, but the real winners for Star Trek in 2025 seem to be some of the mixed media offerings. Not to diminish the work that went into SNW or Section 31, but The Last Starship & Khan are truly remarkable. Also, Trek logos across the board are 🔥 🔥 🔥

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

We’re back! We’re joined by the amazingly cool and talented Hazel Honeysuckle who created @boldlystripped.bsky.social! We dug into one of our favorite steamy & complicated relationships: Trip & T’Pol from #StarTrekEnterprise. This was incredibly fun & a great way to come back from our hiatus!

We’re on break, so it’s a great time to REISSUE some classic Frankenstein’s Podcast episodes! We’re revisiting our 28th episode from May of 2021, all about one of our favorite flicks, MEN IN BLACK! S/O @jimtandberg.bsky.social for creating all new, original artwork for this!

Been seeing this going around lately. Another banger line from JLP, specifically from STAR TREK: INSURRECTION. The context was about a forced relocation, but the sentiment is broadly applicable. Where do we draw the line? To quote JLP once more: "The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

“ICE > MN” is impeachable by itself.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

BREAKING: MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension & Hennepin DA file fed lawsuit dmeanding immediate access to federal evidence in DHS agent's deadly shooting of observer during immigration enforcement operation Sat. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

“Separating children from their parents is not exceptional. It’s reprehensible.” - Captain Nahla Ake

New Star Trek is essentially a holiday in our home, something we always look forward too. Unfortunately, where we live—the Twin Cities—is hurting right now as a direct result of the aggressive ICE presence in our community. Before taking Trek, we’ve gotta take a moment to say #AbolishICE.

The BCA, which typically investigates law enforcement shootings, says it was blocked from the scene of Sat's killing. The BCA was also shut out of investigating ICE killing Renee Good, which hinders local prosecutors in weighing potential criminal charges minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/09/m...

#LocalArt from a Minnesota-based artist - Got these at Catzen Coffee Cafe in St. Paul & the proceeds go to the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) and other anti-ICE, pro-community organizations. #AbolishICE

“Feared for his life.” “Dad fled.” “Had a weapon.” Can we stop letting these assholes even make these excuses? The Twin Cities had issues, sure, but things were good. Restaurants were opening, we had festivals. The big fraud story had already been found out in 2022 and was being prosecuted. (1/2)

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...