Andy Harris

2020: (blank) - can't say I loved any movie from this year
2021: Dune Pt1
2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023: Godzilla Minus Zero
2024: Dune Pt2
2025: Sinners

On Feb. 20, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

More lawless slaughter at sea by the Trump administration under the specious guise of counterterrorism.

Fake counterterrorism. Make believe armed conflict. Real killing.

Better get voting rights in there quick, they're set to gut the VRA next week.

A panel from a 1982 comic strip "Bloom County".

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Yes, those guys with the franking privileges. What, are they in the news or something?

Yep. And then it was completely ignored in the the next episode.

I always felt like Ronald D. Moore took on Battlestar Galactica because he had a bunch of Voyager ideas that could never be realized because Berman wanted Voyager to be purely episodic.

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"The Comeback Kid".

youtu.be/SSq-M9chVAc?...

A screenshot from the opening scene of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988, dir. by David Zucker). Actors representing Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev are conferencing around an impressive marble table with movie secondary villain Pahpshmir.

Yeah, I'm in my 50s. I am quite aware of the online legacy of SW prequel discourse.

Sure, the megacorps running the platforms have created a perverse incentive structure to reward clicks rather that quality.

What I do is not engage in that.

Pretty sure he was talking about the live action remakes of things like Snow White, Mulan, Cinderella, etc. Not Star Wars.

That's why I don't listen to or engage with any of those people. They aren't mature enough for there to be anything to gain out of it.

And I don't necessarily know if that's a social media "training people" thing, or if people have always been like that but now they have an easy platform.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

"It just wasn't for me" is such a wonderful phrase.

If Congress maintains high levels of science funding, but ruling party apparatchiks control the granting process, then what happens is corruption.

Science is effectively defunded, and a bunch of rich Republicans are suddenly buying more houses and jets.

Lord, I see what you do for others…

The reason why billionaires are attracted to Russia isn't difficult. That is a society run by and for oligarchs, without any pretence of being anything else. Putin's regime is the model they want to impose on us.

I have season 5 slightly edging seasons 4 and 6, but it's close.

Highlights:

Cause and Effect
The Inner Light
I Borg
Conundrum
Darmok
Unification I and II
The First Duty
Ensign Ro
Disaster
Redemption (part II)
Time's Arrow (part I)

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

the problem with giving in on things that don't poll well is that as soon as the right wins on the the things that don't poll well, they move on and start lying about more popular things to manipulate public opinion, starting the cycle again.

One of these guardians always lies. The other will always tell the truth.

Which one is which will NOT surprise you.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

This took a turn since this morning.

Good to know, that was a sore spot for an otherwise banger episode.

If you see this, post a Star Trek

If your legislation to stop "voter fraud" prevents 21 million legitimate voters from voting, your legislation itself is voter fraud.

One way to identify right-wing dominance of the US media environment: This is much more direct, egregious government censorship than the biggest claims of the “Twitter Files”—including ones they made up that had no evidence behind them—and will get a small fraction of the attention and outrage.