So I saw a review of Starfleet Academy complaining that there hasn't been any optimistic Trek since Enterprise. And I contest that the post 9-11 Enterprise was optimistic, but...SA seems incredibly optimistic. They're rebuilding the Federation after the Burn (ugh)

Fellow D&D nerds, I made this app to help my kids learn D&D and so we can play together in table-top fashion when I am working in Texas. Please check it out and give me your opinions. I keep making iterative improvements so if you tried it before it may have changed. realmofeverdice.com

Defund and disband ICE

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

Texas A&M Bans Plato – Daily Nous https://www.newsbeep.com/us-tx/113711/ Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course.…

I've been working on that mix my interests in ontology/standards and Dungeons & Dragons: I made substantial improvements to my D&D companion app: everdice-realm-davidkoepsell.replit.app I also developed a standard for adventure building and sharing for any tabletop game github.com/dkoepsell/CA...

I’m old enough to remember when the Iraq War was criticized by those in power as unjustified and illegal. If indeed the USA has invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader, then we have become a rogue state, anathema to all international norms and laws. It’s shameful.

Still up. Glad I posted here and not YouTube. This is what Bari Weiss and CBS tried to hide from us.

As part of my book, A Structural Ontology of the Law, forthcoming from Palgrave, I created several repos, webpages, and apps, including one that implements my ontology as a legal reasoning and contradiction-finding engine. I call it IRACplus davidkoepsell.com/IRACplus/

Sending three ghosts tonight to fuck up Stephen Miller.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Release the Epstein files. Release the Jan. 6 documents. Lock up the war criminals. Abolish the ICE Gestapo. Lock up the felon.

They’re not hiding the brutality anymore. They want you to see it. They want you to get used to it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Grover Norquist used to say that government should be so small you could drown it in a bathtub. Trump's innovation is making it so stupid the rest of us would want to.

Lindsey Graham sponsored the Afghan Adjustment Act: “This is the right thing to do. The people who were there with us in the fight who are here in America need to stay. This will be their new home. We have a moral obligation to these people and they will make great citizens.”

In case you're looking for Christmas presents: ethicspress.com/collections/...

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

For the life of me, I will always get Alan Cummings, Michael Sheen, Martin Freeman, and Steve Coogan confused. They all somehow seem like the same actor, but I always enjoy his performances.

We just wanted to say thank you to everyone! ICE agents keep lying under oath, and you’re the reason the truth is coming out. Your videos and documentation have been crucial in revealing the truth behind those claims.

In Frank Miller's Elektra Assassin, illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, the Antichrist is elected president and he apparently smells so rotten that people get nauseous and pass out in his presence. I think of that book a lot these days.

I'm not broken up about Mamdani's unremarkable win in solid blue NYC. I am saddened that once again, several leftists couldn't help but out themselves as antisemites on my FB post when I noted that normie Dems had a far better night than the DSA. They can't help themselves.

The Trump Epstein Shutdown is the longest Government Shutdown in history having just surpassed the Trump Stormy Shutdown during Fatsolinni’s first term.

“We want to turn the page past the divisiveness, the angriness, and just focus on brass tacks, good policy, and governance" That was how @abigailspanberger.com began her campaign. From last year: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

That’s more like it. ⚖️⚖️⚖️ lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

#RobertDeNiro: “You can’t just sit on your ass and wait for the insanity and cruelty to pass. You gotta stand up and fight.” DEFIANCE.org launches today. A club for courageous Americans asking, “WHAT CAN I DO?” @milestaylor.bsky.social substack.com/@milestaylor...

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both" Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

A felon with a conviction on 34 counts and pending trials for several more, tore down our White House (not his, we own it) on a whim and without regard to law or Constitutional norms of oversight, and mocks the Rule of Law daily. How's that sit with you law and order types?

We saw 20000 MAGA insurrectionists wreck the Capitol. We saw it live as it happened. And we saw 7 million American patriots take to the streets peacefully to protest a demented tyrant. I know which side im betting on. #NoTyrants #NoKings I have friends everywhere.

7 million No Kings protesters and the only arrests today that I read about were Trumpers in Myrtle Beach, SC and Wilkes-Barre, PA who showed up flashing their guns at people. But please tell us again about how today was going to be nationwide riots caused by violent left wing Antifa terrorists. 😂😂😂

According to Trump: The #NoKings protests were America-hating Antifa Antifa is a violent organized domestic terrorist org 7 million Antifa protested peacefully, without riots, including 200K in D.C. But, 20K MAGA in DC on Jan 6 breached the Capitol Who are the real menace?

#A_NewHope ✊

The crowd at the #NoKings protest in Orlando is growing so large that the police just closed off the street!!!

I have friends everywhere

Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson

Boston. Wow.

A step by step guide on how to dismantle a dictatorship by philosopher Heather Marsh. #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles mustread.press/how-to-disma...

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you? Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18 #NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

You can find a #NoKingsDay event near you at nokings.org/#map. Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great. This Saturday. Everywhere.

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

It may be the last legal protest you attend.

Obviously not ideal www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

"I didn’t really know about Texas’ abortion bans. I had always figured that if something were to go wrong with my pregnancy, my doctor would be able to do what she needed to take care of me."