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Kara Amens 🏳️‍🌈
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Engineering student, StarTrek fan, Ghostbuster, theme park and Churro enthusiast and Cosplayer ..and I do Twitch streams sometimes. She/her #notacylon

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Hi all my new followers, it’s been a crazy week
I imagine most of you know me from the ‘other place’
But if not I’m Kara, and I typically post about Star Trek and other fun nerdy stuff
I also make costumes and props and I’m part of a Ghostbusters group that raises money for children’s hospitals
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Me leaving NYC: I can’t wait to live somewhere that’s not as humid.
My skin during winter in CO:
January 27, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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Keep it up. Delete ur tiktok accounts. Uninstall the tiktok app. For your own safety
TikTok uninstalls are reportedly up ~150% this week 📱

This follows the U.S. joint venture takeover

(via CNBC)
January 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Breaking Axios:

Kristi Noem's language that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" federal agents was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller.

That's according to four sources who spoke to Axios. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents
The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser
www.axios.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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When it happens can the scolds just log off plz
January 27, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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BREAKING: First Order officials are reportedly worried that, if the New Republic requires stormtroopers to remove their helmets, 75% of troopers will quit rather than be ostracised by the rest of the galaxy.
January 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Aside: Some hardcore Trek fans don’t seem to like the new Starfleet Academy show, but honestly I think a Star Trek that is bros helping bros make their beds properly, and learning to use empathy to disarm their enemies, in a YA format, is exactly what we need right now from that franchise.
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…”

This mindset is genuinely pathetic.

It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.

/1
January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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I spoke to Waco's Kaleb Blain, a transgender pitmaster working to create space for trans people in Texas BBQ. After being doxxed, attacked online and let go from Terry Black's, he's now forging his own path:

"I have to do this for the rest of my life."

www.chron.com/culture/arti...
After a doxxing, a transgender Texan pitmaster forges his own way
"There's not a queer space in barbecue yet, so let's create one."
www.chron.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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When I say this agency [ICE and CBP] CAN’T be reformed this is why.
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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And yeah, he infamously built his online following by mass following and mass unfollowing people to try to drive up his follower count. He's a loser. I wouldn't trust anything he has to say about TikTok or anything else.
January 26, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Setting aside the fact that Murphy helped pass the bill that handed TikTok to Trump allies, I really don't think anyone should be citing that David Leavitt account for anything. Dude's bad news.
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
January 26, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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USS Excelsior delivers Dr. Rosalind Lear and Ensign Tuvok to Ceti Alpha V in search of historical records of the exile of Khan Noonian Singh.

Blender render inspired by the excellent Star Trek: Khan audio drama, which I have just started listening to.

Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn.
January 15, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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Jan. 25, 1926: A future in which people around the world will watch events in real time, using devices that fit in their pockets, is foreseen by inventor Nikola Tesla. What sounds like "the magic crystal of fairy tales" will be made a reality by advances in radio technology. 1/2
January 25, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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The stained glass community says fuck ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.
January 26, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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That general strike scared them, eh?
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Abolish ICE
January 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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"How many people does it take before it becomes wrong?
A thousand?
Fifty thousand?
A million?
How many people does it take, admiral?"

- Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Insurrection
January 25, 2026 at 7:18 PM