Rían Connor Smoak
@riancsmoak.bsky.social
25, ♿️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 demiguy
He/They
Convex to the Internet Born w/ Cerebral Palsy 🖖🏻
| SPNFamily | Trekker/Trekkie | Whovian | Pitt Crew
He/They
Convex to the Internet Born w/ Cerebral Palsy 🖖🏻
| SPNFamily | Trekker/Trekkie | Whovian | Pitt Crew
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Heard we were making Star Trek piccrews? Technically I made this guy for a Star Trek: Adventures campaign that never got out of spacedock THAT said, he was really an self-insert anyway soo... 🖖 #StarTrek #StarTrekAdventures 😅
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
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10th boat blown up in the Caribbean.
6 people dead this time.
Not a single arrest made.
Not an ounce recovered.
Not a shred of evidence provided.
6 people dead this time.
Not a single arrest made.
Not an ounce recovered.
Not a shred of evidence provided.
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
10th boat blown up in the Caribbean.
6 people dead this time.
Not a single arrest made.
Not an ounce recovered.
Not a shred of evidence provided.
6 people dead this time.
Not a single arrest made.
Not an ounce recovered.
Not a shred of evidence provided.
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Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
![Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreibpqdfpwwfineikxjjncxeutbyrddhcpswh2etjfk23tbff27ajw4@jpeg)
October 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
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When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.
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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
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Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at a high school in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony's Hospital. Evergreen is 28 miles southwest from Denver.
Read more: https://cnn.it/3VvN47r
Read more: https://cnn.it/3VvN47r
September 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at a high school in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony's Hospital. Evergreen is 28 miles southwest from Denver.
Read more: https://cnn.it/3VvN47r
Read more: https://cnn.it/3VvN47r
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A very strong & powerful resignation letter from Dr. Daskalakis calling out RFK jr. “I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
RFJ, Jr Is A Serial Killer
And the death toll will be unimaginable
open.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A very strong & powerful resignation letter from Dr. Daskalakis calling out RFK jr. “I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.
August 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Obviously this is not good, but I would enjoy an anti-heist movie about a bunch of museum staff preventing the theft of a space shuttle.
August 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Obviously this is not good, but I would enjoy an anti-heist movie about a bunch of museum staff preventing the theft of a space shuttle.
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Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
July 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.
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DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
July 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
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Does it count as "insider trading" if you use time travel?
July 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Does it count as "insider trading" if you use time travel?
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Rick Berman, of all people, compared the Bajorans to Palestinians (among others, including Jews) when “Ensign Ro” first aired.
The entire Trek fandom should be pro-Palestine because it’s literally Bajor
July 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Rick Berman, of all people, compared the Bajorans to Palestinians (among others, including Jews) when “Ensign Ro” first aired.
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It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
July 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
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I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
www.comicsbeat.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
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For the third time, the Government Accountability Office has told Congress that the Trump administration unlawfully withheld funds. How many times does it need to happen before Congress actually does something?
July 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
For the third time, the Government Accountability Office has told Congress that the Trump administration unlawfully withheld funds. How many times does it need to happen before Congress actually does something?