Evaenima

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.

Trying out a new word. "Specsplain". As in: I used AI with Spec Driven development to produce this work. I approved the architecture, the design, and have read each spec file. I don't know the implementation details. So let me specsplain and I'll get back to you on those details.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... I have nothing. This is too on the nose even for me

Been saying this a lot the last few days

That first chapter of KSR's Ministry for the Future

Scanning headlines: Israel and Iran call truce Israel and Iran start shooting again Truce again? Wait, which article is the most up to date as of 10 minutes ago?

I contributed some analog glitch VFX to @aperfectcircleband.bsky.social’s new song visualizer, using a Mezkalin glitch video synthesizer with a light-reactive sensor I’m triggering here with a pen light.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

"Orange man bad" was true & sufficient from the very beginning. Here we are, over 10 years into this shit, and the supposed adults in charge of US elite politics & media just keep ... discovering it. Again & again. Exclaiming. "Gosh, y'know, he really does seem bad!" No shit you f'ing lumps.

There is zero chance of this actually happening, right?

Hey folks, I got an urgent request for you. ICE is using our DMV data to track protestors. This isn't getting enough attention given... well... everything else going on. And we need state governors to put a stop to it. They need to hear from you. Very easy action item -- takes 30 seconds. 1/2

SCOTUS is just one dick punch after another.

This is one of the circles of hell, right?

BREAKING: if you are in #Cleveland or #northeast #Ohio, the National Weather Service has announced the giant BOOM *may* have been a meteor strike, as it was seen streaking the sky from Pittsburgh. It shook houses for 40 miles or so. (In case you had extinction event on your 2026 bingo card…)

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

Earlier this year leaked video showed the inhumane conditions at the Baltimore ICE Holding Facility. Today we conducted an unannounced oversight visit. Here's some of what we learned:

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Good cause, good cookies, good lord what are you waiting for?

Disappointed in Mamdani for this. This is Gavin Newsome level crap.

Common sense tells us, and a reading of the last thirty freaking years of Senate history confirms, that Republicans will never "go along" with anything Democrats care about. Even this idiot doesn't believe the nonsense he's spewing. He's useless and should resign his leadership.

This is a goddamn tragedy.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

I really hope Trump doesn't see that story about Olympic ski jumpers allegedly cheating with penis injections. The last thing we need is him doing a 3am rant on Truth Social about stolen erections.

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold. It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

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

Spain's government announced Tuesday it will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working in the country without authorization. n.pr/3NLwNug

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

I approve of this disapproval

AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

I sent an email to my Trump-supporting mother that contained 3 separate videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis yesterday. "Look with your eyes" I said. Her response was basically "I worry that this could be AI generated" What are we doing here people?

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

That is fascism. It is tyranny. It is governmental criminality. And the ultimate legal check the Framers of our Constitution provided to stop this kind of tyranny and criminality in the executive branch is impeachment and removal of the executive.

Both of Nevada's senators--Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen--have officially come out against the DHS funding bill following the execution of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis this morning. This effectively ends the DHS funding bill in the Senate.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

So anyone else feeling a bit hopeless, powerless, and full of despair or just those of us with eyes?