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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.

IN FACT www.twincitiescon.com/guests/john-...

We’ve seen it time and time again from this administration — lawless government overreach in the name of political retribution. This is beyond the pale, even for them. It’s time to stop the attacks on our state and our elected representatives. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

In addition, I am setting up a Ko-Fi so that people can pay for campaign reporting trips. We are going to build this thing out. I am cautiously optimistic. ko-fi.com/ericmgarcia

I'm still processing how I feel about all this. But for now, this will be my home base for writing as I figure out the next thing. Follow and subscribe. The plan for now is to keep posts un-paywalled until Election Night. Then time to pay. thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/eric-garci...

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

My extremely inebriated friend Patton Oswalt narrates the epic saga of The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota on a brand new episode of DRUNK HISTORY! youtu.be/afXtQ6ghzsA?...

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Ahem…

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

Watching the Jack Smith hearing, and it turns out Darlene Graham is actually an above replacement level Republican senator (extremely derogatory)

Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

Minnesota is a shit hole that I’m embarrassed to live in. Here’s why Minnesotans should make me their next senator. by Michele Tafoya

With @peggyflanagan.bsky.social and the wave of progressive candidates building across the country, we are going to secure a bigger, brighter future for all. Show up to the polls. Organize. Do everything you can to send our movement to the Senate this November.

"I ate some Skittles I found lying around while cooking, but there were zero food ingredients in them. I checked. So it was like eating air." buff.ly/D1rJmFG

Reacher (book) kills white supremacists (fictional), but Reacher (streaming) hasn't yet despite Alan Ritchson (Reacher (streaming)) wanting to because of studio fear of white supremacists (actual, government).

mmygod

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty statement on Christian Castro:

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

My character thirty minutes after setting foot in Hellfire Peninsula

Look, everyone is entitled to celebrate in their own way. Don’t judge.

Shana Tovah to our family, friends, and neighbors celebrating Rosh Hashanah. Wishing everyone a happy, healthy, and peaceful new year!

Tonight marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Wishing peace, hope, happiness, and health to all who celebrate in Michigan. Shana Tova!

Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).

Today I reunited with Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian at his school, Valley View Elementary in Minnesota. The last time I was with them, I was escorting them back home from the Dilley Trailer Prison. Liam's mom was 3 months pregnant at the time. Today, I met Liam's new brother.

You have to give Demuth credit. It is beyond bold to run, in 2026, on a tax cut for rich people.

Someday I’m going to figure out where Shankar Vedantam hid that brain.

How long would it take to tell you everything about how to punt one (1) football? For @chriswarcraft.bsky.social, at least an hour. Maybe more. Kick off, or punt off, the NFL season with a soothingly detailed walk through of giving the ball to the other team. maximumfun.org/episodes/sle...

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Join me in my work to promote the #PoliticsOfCare where we do the most good for the most people. Send me back to St Paul to keep up the fight against Big Tech, to help protect kids and women from sexual predators, and to help build a future we can be proud of. $10 or $1000 make a huge difference!

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

A statement from the DFL Jewish Community in Support of Peggy Flanagan:

Here's a video of that first new episode. It's just me talking and trying not to get emotionally overwhelmed. youtu.be/L8ZSOdD1scs?...

Roses are redde A goode gin ys Tanqueray Hath Nancy Mace Reade all of *Mrs. Dalloway*?

Oh nooo guys we missed an important anniversary 30 years ago yesterday, @alyankovic.bsky.social visited the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota

let me paint a picture for you. imagine angie craig is james longstreet's rebs streaming into the gap in the union line foolishly left by dan sickles the useless wastrel. now imagine peggy flanagan is the men of the first minnesota

Time to turn up the ORGANIZING volume! 84 days to defeat the purveyors tax cuts for the super rich, to defeat Trump’s paramilitary immigration bullies, fight the historic corruption, to invest in homes and hospitals and not bombs and forever wars, and throw dark money out of our politics. #LFG