Jean-Luc Petard

Sometimes my favorite thing about the Star Trek feed is all the non-Trek things that end up there because of keywords

A new SF Public Library card showing the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy design

God I love living in such a geeky city that I can get this as my library card. 🥰🖖🏻🌉

Federal Judges Can Barely Conceal Their Disgust For the Trump Administration’s Lawlessness When federal judges are appending Bible verses to their signature blocks, that is generally a sign that democracy is not in a good place.

Federal judges are literally calling the Trump administration an affront to the laws of man and God

The admin thinks this is evidence of the judiciary's bias, but what it perceives as open hostility from judges is an objective response to open authoritarianism

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After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

One thing this thread makes me think about is the modern fascination with women who are even the least bit handy. Women have been building and repairing homes and tools for EVER and yet when some good ol’ boy finds out you know how to glaze a window or hang drywall they completely short-circuit.

Something that's been on my mind as I research this topic of seamstresses is how many women work. Really work. Work from their young teens forward. And some turned to sex work to provide when their craft could not.

There were no men waiting to make them "honest women." There rarely are.

Men did not care. Even fathers, brothers, uncles... so many of these women were abandoned. There was no option to "just" stay home and watch the children. That is a creation of suburbia.

There were no men waiting to marry them, only to exploit them. And they died, nameless, for the most part.

stop making me look at those horrible men

Geordi no/yes meme; no: stop watching Star Trek; yes: stop paying for Star Trek

How do I permanently ban this image from my feed?

There needs to be a content warning on that RFK jr pic people keep reposting

He looks like if inflammation had a social security number

I mean at least there’s a study to wave about for the thing we all already knew

Unless they make driver's licenses, state id's, passports, birth certificates, *any* form of identification **FREE**, it's a poll tax & therefore immediately rendered unconstitutional.

In case anyone needed a reminder.

That last one makes me seethe as a feminist and weep as a grammarian

Words & phrases that inspire immediate trepidation

“House-made ketchup”
“I’m an empath”
“Oh, I’m not political”
“Public-private partnership”
“Females” (referring to human women)

Please read this thread!!!

And if you are concerned about ICE being deployed for voter intimidation, find a local voting rights org who is already doing the work.

Start with Vote Riders. States having weird/changing Voter ID laws is less flashy for scaring folks but it works real well.

It is .

They don't have the manpower to get this done. And with the margins we're seeing in special elections, they'd need to swing places by 20 points and that isn't happening.

Imo what people should expect is random ICEholes "accidentally" dropping tear gas near long ballot lines and that kind of shit

Money for their friends involved in operating/contracting with for-profit prisons

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.) The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.) O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.) The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id. ¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud, and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

February 16, 2026 NR26026kt Los Angeles Police Department Encourages School Attendance Amid Recent Downtown Activity Los Angeles: In light of recent activity in the downtown area, the Los Angeles Police Department would like to take this opportunity to remind parents and students of the importance of staying in school. School attendance is mandatory in the City of Los Angeles and there may be legal consequences for parents and students for: • Day time Curfew violations - It is unlawful for any minors under 18 to be in public places, streets, or amusement spots during school hours (typically 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. The only exception includes being with a parent, authorized school activities, or emergencies. • California Education Code violations: • Mandates that all children between the ages of six and eighteen, unless exempted, must attend a full-time public day school for the full designated school day. • Middle and high school students are legally permitted one excused absence per calendar year to participate in a "civic or political event," provided advance school notification (emphasis added). • Additionally, Los Angeles Unified School District policy states that three or more unexcused absences or tardies of 30 minutes or more, can trigger a School Attendance Review Board (SARB) intervention for disciplinary action. Parents and students are also reminded that presence at school promotes intellectual growth. It becomes more difficult to fill knowledge gaps with student absences. Attendance builds good habits and healthy routines; and provides structure and stability. Lastly, school attendance also increases student safety, which includes safety resources provided by the Los Angeles Unified School District. (Page 1 of 2) X Follow @LAPDHQ

Any adult that collects or picks up a child and transports them to participate in any illegal activities may be responsible for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor and is subject to arrest and prosecution. This law applies to actions like providing drugs/alcohol to minors, promoting truancy, and for parents failing to exercise reasonable supervision. Community members, parents, and students may contact their local Community Police Station of the Los Angeles Police Department for additional guidance specific to their community.

The LAPD is citing truancy laws in an attempt to squash the ongoing school walkouts against ICE. The LAPD is also threatening to arrest any parents or adults who support the kids in their acts of civil disobedience.

meme. the test says "Dear Democratic Senators: If you are forced into a filibuster over the SAVE Act, I suggest you use that time to read the Epstein files out loud into the record."

@democrats.senate.gov

contact your senators.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

A. Petitioner's Physical Deterioration at NWIPC 8 Petitioner alleges, and Respondents do not dispute, that he was in good health when he 9 entered ICE detention. See Dkt. No. I-9 (DHS Form I-213) at 2 ("The subject claims good 10 health"). Eighth months later, hospital records show that Petitioner's health has declined to 11 include two partial foot amputations, a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (a type of inflammatory 12 bowel disease ("IBD")),? acute blood loss anemia, a kidney injury, a severe vitamin D deficiency 13 and dramatic unintended weight loss. Dkt. No. 16 at 3.

While Respondents largely do not address the conditions of Petitioner's confinement in responding to this claim, they argue elsewhere that "the medical care [Petitioner] has received is constitutionally adequate." Dkt. No. 22 at 15. But the record here compels a finding that, on the preponderance of the evidence, Petitioner's medical care, and denial of medical care, included objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot. The Court bases this finding on the following facts:

Respondents have made no showing that the extreme restrictions on Petitioner's liberty and health created by his custodians' decisions, ineptitude, and denial of care are not excessive in relation to its asserted purpose of "protecting the public and enforcing U.S. immigration laws." There is no indication that these interests could not have been just as easily served without ignoring his cries of pain for hours, or without declining to see him as his bone was eaten away by infection. There is no indication that these interests could not have been served while bringing Petitioner to the hospital for imaging when a GI appointment could not be scheduled quickly (or contracting with additional external providers), while filling his prescriptions, or while treating him with appropriate medication based on his actual diagnosis. And finally, there is no indication that these interests cannot be served by subjecting Petitioner to alternatives to detention under appropriate conditions of release while he pursues outside treatment— an argument raised in the habeas petition but completely ignored by Respondents. Dkt. No. 1 9 61. In sum, the length of Petitioner's detention does not support a finding that it is excessive in relation to its purpose, but the conditions of his detention do. Under the unique facts of this case, the extreme consequences of Respondents' unreasonable treatment of Petitioner constitute deprivations so excessive that the conditions of detention alone take Respondents' detention of Petitioner out of the realm of constitutional civil detention and render it punitive.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a man who had been in immigration detention due to "objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot."

Why I Left the Network Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...

Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance.

Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.

(Published Aug. 2024)

I'm not the account for abuse apologists. I stand with victims of domestic violence & sexual abuse, incl ones people find unlikable. Do not bring misogynistic hate campaigns to my page

Imagine still doing that after all the damage anti-MeToo smears have done while we can't get pedophiles prosecuted

Star Trek, the next generation meme from the episode the most toys in which data tells Fajo that he needs to surrender to authorities, Fajo responds that the Dow is over 50,000, and data raises his weapon as he does at the end of the episode

Strangers, colleagues, family, men I’d thought of as friends—for years, one of them decades—pull this kind of shit, and men as a body get offended when women say men are untrustworthy. Fucking pay attention. And fix yourself before you even think to blame women for daring to protect themselves.