Trey Lawson
@tlawson.bsky.social
I come to this place for magic. Educator. Writer. Critic. Cinéaste. Plus actor. Co-host Tomb of Ideas, a Marvel Horror Podcast | he/him
A few months ago this school canceled the graduation speaker because Republicans objected to her.
The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 18h agoUtah Valley University President Jon Anderson said the school must remain apolitical and can’t refuse to host an event because of an organization’s affiliations.
If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek
Jill Pantozzi@jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 6h agoIf you see this, post a not quite Star Trek
An immeasurable amount of harassment stemmed from this horrible website, including the assault of a professor at Arizona State University. Good fucking riddance.
NBC4 Washington@nbcwashington.com · 10h agoCharlie Kirk’s nonprofit Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist, which claims it uncovers the most radical left wing professors from universities that are known to suppress the conservative voices and advance the progressive agenda," has been taken down.
BLONDIE debuted in newspapers #OTD in 1930. Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms and Daisy starred in Columbia's 1938 film adaption. Twenty-seven sequels followed over the next 12 years — one of the longest film series in history. And all are on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #FilmSky
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
As I explained the last time this dumb argument made the rounds, if Congress was never allowed to change the Court’s size (something it’s done seven times), that would mean four of the *current* justices (all of whom are Republicans) hold unconstitutionally created seats: www.ms.now/opinion/repu...
Republicans say court packing is 'unconstitutional.' They're wrong.
The argument that court expansion is unconstitutional is weak, transparently political — and most importantly, wrong.
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Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 10h agoReally rare to spot something like this in the wild, but The Wall Street Journal ran a "Supreme Court Expansion Is Secretly Unconstitutional Actually" column that directly refutes its thesis in the paragraph that immediately follows. Beautiful stuff. www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...
Thread about the piece mentioned in this article here: bsky.app/profile/benj...
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h agoI really want to hear from the dozens of journalists who wrote glowing profiles of Alpha School in the last few years. Actually scratch that. I never want to hear from them again.
Can we keep this going long enough for me to pitch a Smokey & the Bandit legacy sequel/reboot?
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h agoSo it would appear that the White House has banned the importation of Crown Royal, Canadian Club, and all other Canadian whiskeys/scotches. Stock up if they're one of your favorite brands, because the U.S. might not get any new supply for the next couple years...
"No one has been arrested at a church." To be clear: DHS agents have, in fact, arrested people on church property. One of the incidents involved a pastor confronting DHS agents directly and filming them. In fact, DHS has *publicly acknowledged that this happens.* religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...
'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries
(RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoHOMAN: You can't give me one example of someone arrested at a school REPORTER: I gave you an example of someone arrested at a school bus stop HOMAN: Is that a school?
So…is the new Godzilla movie “Minus Zero” because “Monster Zero”?
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
4 years since The Rock did one if the all time tweets
I'm still thinking about Star Trek (because #StarTrekDay) & how I grew up in a golden era of Trek media. Not just the 90s shows, but all the expanded media too. I loved Trek books when I was a kid - here are some of my favorites. Most no longer canonical, but that's never mattered much to me.
Trey Lawson@tlawson.bsky.social · 14h agoI celebrated Star Trek Day a little early at Dragon Con, meeting cast members from Lower Decks & Enterprise, and closing out the show (literally the last panel on the Trek Track schedule before their closing ceremonies) giving a paper on social/political commentary in Discovery & Starfleet Academy.
Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger www.techdirt.com/2026/09/08/p...
Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger
We've well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have been engaged in to sell the deal also give a pretty clear indication what kind of company we're dealing with, and why they shouldn't be allowed to...
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"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."
Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social · 22h agoIt's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
Largest Republican donor (by far): we should have a race war against non-whites. Corporate Media: Democrats really need to answer some hard questions about this Twitch streamer almost no one has ever heard of.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 15h agoFor a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
Sharing from Internet Archive: “Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the web Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/
BET.com Article Explorer
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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoBET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."
I celebrated Star Trek Day a little early at Dragon Con, meeting cast members from Lower Decks & Enterprise, and closing out the show (literally the last panel on the Trek Track schedule before their closing ceremonies) giving a paper on social/political commentary in Discovery & Starfleet Academy.
HAPPY STAR TREK DAY! Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of one of the best Sci-Fi series/franchise ever with this collage of the many covers I've been lucky to do for STAR TREK! #StarTrekDay #StarTrek60th #StarTrek60thAnniversary @heatherantos.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com @jacksonlanzing.bsky.social
On this 60th anniversary of Star Trek, I'm passing the torch to the next great Starfleet captains. In the meantime, DARKer things lie ahead. 🖖🏻
One of the most respected historians in the United States and a giant in the museums world—but above all, an incredible kind man. He will be president of the AHA in 2027 (taking the gavel during the January conference), and I could not be happier to have him lead the association in these times.
Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 17h agoMore to say but, mostly he's just the best. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
