Andrew Hielscher

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam opened up a Cheesecake Factory" Obama just spoke to an ELECTRIC audience in Ohio, skewering Trump & Hegseth and making the case that while we may be stuck with the same POTUS until 2029, we are not stuck with a spineless do-nothing Congress Highlights:

I remain pretty well convinced that once you start arguing against the very **idea** of empathy, you have fallen into evil and everything else you have to say must be viewed through that lens.

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

Mrs. Miller complains that Dems want to [checks her highlighted passage] prosecute those who committed federal crimes

trying to think of a use of preemptive pardons that don't indicate deep failure of a political system. coming up short

Valve composer & sound designer Mike Morasky seemingly slips up & mentions "HLX" in a Q&A conference: "...Deadlock has its own version of HDR, HLX has its own" ▶️ vimeo.com/1234454770 HLX is the rumored codename for a new Half-Life game or Half-Life 3 according to dataminers

Brett Meiselas: This is why you don’t put a criminal into office in the first place. This is why we arrest criminals. This is why they go to prison, so that they can’t commit more crimes. Instead, we put a fraudster into office. What do you think he’s going to do? He’s going to commit fraud.

God. Damn. This was an amazing reply. He didn’t back down, explicitly called out the Islamophobia of the “just asking questions,” and then flipped the guy’s bigotry back on himself. This may not change hearts and minds, but feel like it’s an answer that’ll motivate his own base.

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

You'd have to be a real piece of shit to vote for this racist asshole. I usually try to keep my social media language clean, just the way I like to communicate, but he pushes me to the edge. Fuck Trump, what a horrid man.

HYPERCHARGE Unboxed is $9.99 on US eShop buff.ly/dv1Pi45

It's a good game. Well deserved!

Feel free to correct me but I'm pretty sure he is the only politician in history where the actual words coming out of his mouth do not matter in the least to his supporters. Coherence is simply not a requirement.

DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business: "We have the numbers. So ... it looks like inflation is accelerating. These numbers are higher than the previous month and higher than expectations"

New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave. A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay. Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus

Ossoff: "In my view, based upon the evidence I've seen thus far, the president's misconduct, abuse of power, and corruption, already exceed any prior standard for impeachment."

If you support this, you are an evil person. No tie of blood, friendship, history, or money will make me respect you. You have chosen to make yourself a moral outlaw.

The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.

As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F

The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.

Sometimes the articles of impeachment write themselves.

NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.

Worth watching: South Carolina Dems are starting to roll out ads featuring GOPers endorsing Dem Annie Andrews. On our pod, Jalisa Washington-Price, who runs a PAC, says a $2 million ad buy is set to feature a former GOP lawmaker from a deep red county: newrepublic.com/article/2163...

🚨 OCTOBER 5 DEADLINE #BlueWaveIn30Days If you live in one of these states, Monday is the voter registration deadline: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Check your registration. IWillVote.com

Was it "Diddy's Kong Quest" or "Diddy Kong's Quest"? In the final game it's the former, but as we can tell from this 1995 E3 video, it once was the latter! https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/a6df7cf0-ed94-456f-915d-de41e9d67479 #Nintendo #SuperNintendo #SNES #DonkeyKongCountry2

1. This is a crime. 2. Republicans keeping a House majority isn't within the realm of possibility 3. If anyone actually thinks the US government will hand out 1.714 trillion dollars they are dumb as a rock

Toto releases “Hold the Line” 48 years ago tonight. “.. When I was in high school, all of a sudden the phone started ringing off the hook,” said David Paich. “I had 3 girls all call at the same time, all the lights were flashing. I was kind of juggling girlfriends, and that's how that came about."

Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...

"Nobody's ever seen numbers like these before." - Senile Satan

QTP with a title screen that's iconic to you!

This 1994 U.S. print ad for first-person CD-ROM adventure Spaceship Warlock (originally released in 1991 on Mac!) is dense with screenshots and 'rave reviews'. "Available where fine CD-ROM titles are sold!"

COMIC: “Father’s Blessing”. Truly, a gift for a king based on current MSRP. Anyway, more nontense at newduck.com #comic #webcomic #humor

Everyone's sharing theirs so I'll share mine.

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

Holy moley! I thought as I grew older I was supposed to shake my cane at younger generations but that's not been my experience at all. Gen Z seems terrific!

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

Trump has been a spectacular failure. Voters are angry. The wave is getting big. Our job is to make it bigger (new video & written analysis)

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

Fox News is now defending CNN, which is obviously the smart thing to do. Even they realize the tides always turn. They said, “Don’t ban them. Or one day, they’ll ban us.” The MAGA movement is really falling apart.

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

The whole founding purpose of the White House Correspondents Association was that they'd all walk out if a president tried to do exactly this.

As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

My mother has post-polio syndrome because there was no vaccine when she contracted the disease. If she gets anywhere near these asshats or anyone spouting their lies, she'll probably beat them to a pulp with her walker. My wife's mother died from post-polio. She spent her life in a wheelchair.