Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

I'm reading an old Star Trek: TOS book ("How Much For Just The Planet?" by the late lamented John M. Ford) and though I am of course visualizing William Shatner as Kirk I'm rather amazed that in my mind's eye and ear Spock is portrayed by Ethan Peck rather than Leonard Nimoy.

Let me introduce you to the "Author-Title Game." nielsenhayden.com/jackdann.html

The Tennessee Holler is a link farm that rips off other people‘s content. Don’t follow them. Don’t repost them.

If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink.
In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.

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WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition is connected to a network of rapid response organizations across the state who have trained people on how to verify the veracity of reported ICE activity, support people who are being detained, connect with legal support, and provide legal observation.

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

For many years my editor of choice was Emacs with WordStar keybindings. My fingers still remember some of those keystrokes. (WordStar on CP/M was my first editor.)

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

CBP changes procedures for airline passengers with non-binary or non-gendered “X” passports: What's happening, and what can you do if you have an "X" passport:

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Something to remember:

Nemik's manifesto speech from Andor, Season 1, Episode 12

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Sounds like an exceptionally dangerous kink. Isn't just TOUCHING a Horta generally fatal?

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

That feeling of betrayal, or lack thereof, is a big part of how I react. I used to be a big fan of Gaiman and Rowling and now boycott their works fiercely. But I never gave a shit about e.g. Jared Leto so I don't bother avoiding stuff he's in.

If one nation declares war upon another, does that enable the second party to take actions that would be otherwise impermissible? Asking for a friend (city).

The same is true of the LLM financial bubble. In fact, I believe they are intertwined and will collapse simultaneously.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

"You're going to kick his ass? Are you going to sneak up behind him and do it, or are you going to... uh, kick his ass to his face?"

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

The story Trump is telling about Portland is clearly 'untethered to the facts.' He is lying about our beautiful, peaceful city to justify a dangerous abuse of power & distract from his complete failure to make your life better.

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.