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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.

Tail end of an insightful thread on the upcoming Israeli elections Scroll up to the top from here, then read down:

It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

The absolute worst timing on the pivot to video in social media with Donald’s rise to power. Now we’re force fed clips of a deranged addled pumpkin man spewing nonsense constantly. This could’ve been an email.

I don’t know if anyone will remember the names of Witkoff and Kushner. But history will certainly record how American negotiators, who had the opportunity to save a huge number of people, refused to raise uncomfortable questions before "humanist Putin."

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Trump is considering mass pardons for his enablers. I have some ideas about how they could be undone. Liz Oyer

Ex-DOGE staffers break into Anthropic. (fixed it)

On the parental estrangement discourse: My Dad was as good a Dad as he could’ve been, but as a young adult I had to cut him off for a couple of years so we both could re-learn how to interact with each other as equal men. It was fine. Highly recommend.

First they erased a ‘Protect the Dolls’ t-shirt from Strictly Come Dancing. Now they’ve erased Pride badges from University Challenge. The BBC are saying that our visibility as LGBTQ people is a political issue. Meanwhile they’ve commissioned a 2-part series on JK Rowling. Impartial? My arse!

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

Something I wish more people would realize.

Who said that, this guy? youtu.be/dV3AziKTBUo?...

Incredible if predictable betrayal of public trust: you have industry lobbyists become appointees, exploit unitary executive theory to undermine environmental laws and ride roughshod over staff.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Have the simpsons or family guy made a joke about including Daryl from the walking dead in bad action franchises as support for bad writing, because he’s everywhere.

Dude, Eric an Jr. Gotta be pissed. No scheme of Donald’s ever gave them a $billion slush fund.

You know, there’s no episodes of Mad Men where Betty has a complete mental collapse about the Cuban middle crisis or whatever Cold War horror there was of the day. I think about that as I have my fifth crisis whiskey reading about all of the internet being destroyed.

Would’ve been really cool if they hadn’t waited to put out a book. They’ve been sitting on this for years. YEARS!

I'm showing the body cam video of Kohen Wiley's death because they refused to release it and people deserve to see what happened. Police were never in danger. They fired into a car that was already past them over alleged shoplifting of diapers.

as individual services i don't think these are unfair and the larger problem is the difficulty of paying for all of them at once. i think the solution is to just finish reinventing cable: bring back pilot season with free weeks so people can know what they want to watch for the next 4-6 months

*Don Pardo voice: “Gilda Radneerrrrr!”

There are times when I want to collect all the press and rant about it on a blog, then Karl Bode goes and does it for me.

"Humanitarian"

Go New York, Go New York, GO! Good luck this season, Knicks! 🏀

It's time to defund Elon. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

Immigrants are slow roasting our cats ON DELUXE LUXURY GRILLS in their SUBURBAN MANSIONS while Stephen Miller has to eat them RAW in the back of a VAN.

I always think about what Mac from Always Sunny said about his transformation

My wife speaks for the trees, she’s the Lorax. I speak with guillotines, for I am the Gore-ax.

the guy they got here is suitably creepy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt_I...

if Zohran Mamdani used the word "Shylock" the ADL would have called in a nuclear strike on New York City by now