Larry and David Ellison Are Building a Pro-Trump Media Behemoth With the president’s blessing, the Ellisons’ Skydance merged with Paramount, gaining control of CBS News. Now the new giant might gobble up Warner Bros. Discovery, which includes CNN.

Fellow Trekkies/Trekkers, if your values align with Star Trek's (e.g., equity, equality, diversity, compassion, curiosity), I encourage you to consider canceling your Paramount+ subscription.

David Ellison and his father Larry Ellison are fascists to the core.

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#IDIC
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There's this episode of STAR TREK where Captain Picard is captured and tortured, and the main way that they try to break him is by showing him four lights and telling him there are five. There are four lights. This is not a post about STAR TREK.

There are FOUR lights.
#StarTrek #therearefourlights

The Republicans right now are saying there are 5 lights.

It's not that they see things differently than you do. It's not even that they are in denial.

They are telling you that they will kill you if you don't see five lights

#thereareFOURlights #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #minneapolis #ICE

There are four lights. This is not a post about Star Trek

#ThereAreFourLights

Don't let them tell you otherwise.

THERE… ARE… FOUR… LIGHTS!

Patrick Stewart as Picard from the two part episode Chain of Command.

#THEREAREFOURLIGHTS #PatrickStewart #Picard #ChainofCommand #startrek #startrekthenextgeneration @startrek.bsky.social

(Once again, the Star Trek fans will get it.) #fourlights #startrek #trump #therearefourlights!

a close up of a man 's face with a bald head and a beard . Alt: Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Chain of Command", a 2-part episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It aired as the 10th & 11th episodes of the 6th season. The 2nd part of the episode is noted for the intense performance of Patrick Stewart & its depiction of brutal torture & interrogation scenes. The episode has been frequently ranked among the 10 best in The Next Generation. In this episode, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is captured by the Cardassians & subjected to brutal interrogation by Gul Madred. The Cardassians are a militaristic & authoritarian species, often depicted as ruthless in their tactics. Madred’s goal is to break Picard’s spirit &extract strategic information from him. During the interrogation, Madred uses a particularly insidious form of psychological torture. He repeatedly shows Picard 4 lights & demands that he say there are 5. The lights are a clear & objective reality, but Madred’s insistence that Picard acknowledge a falsehood is designed to make him question his own perception & sanity. The interrogation scenes are intense & harrowing. Madred uses physical pain, deprivation & psychological manipulation to wear Picard down. The central focus becomes the lights. Every time Picard states that there are 4 lights, Madred increases the pressure, demanding that Picard admit there are 5. Throughout the ordeal, Picard remains defiant. Despite the immense physical & psychological pain, he refuses to concede to Madred’s false reality. His famous line, “There are four lights!” represents his unwavering commitment to the truth. This defiance highlights the strength of human spirit & integrity in the face of overwhelming oppression. While Picard’s final cry of “There are four lights!” suggests he never fully breaks, the episode’s ending reveals the toll the torture has taken. He admits that he could see 5 lights at one point, demonstrating the profound impact of the psychological torture.

Beware of the dangers of gaslighting. It’s imperative one maintain one’s grip on reality. This is a reminder of the value of truth & humanity’s capacity to endure & prevail where misinformation & manipulation are prevalent. Stand firm: #therearefourlights

Words are hard tonight so I will give the star trek metaphor that helps me get through hard times.

We are Picard. No matter how hard life gets, There are always 4 lights. Do not let the world break you into saying there are 5.

In a world screaming 5 lights, hold onto your 4. #ThereAreFourLights

Remember to always boldly go, where no one has gone before. Live long and prosper.

And my favourite…

Things are only impossible… until they are not

#startrekday #therearefourlights

#chainofcommand #chatgpt #strawberry #memes #meme #picard #therearefourlights

Gif of Sir Patrick Stewart as Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard, looking frustratred and screaming "There are four lights!"

For the last four days, we have an evening ritual about whether there are four or five lights in the back yard. I am team "five lights" and I think I am losing my sanity.

#StarTrek #ThereAreFourLights #ThereAreFiveLights #JeanLucPicard

Everyone log off for the day - we have today's winner of the internet. #startrek #picard #therearefourlights

To develop an audience to whom you can lie with impunity has been a long sought — and now fully realized — goal of the American right wing.
#FalseWitness
#TwoPlusTwoEqualsFour
#ThereAreFourLights

An idea; how about, whenever we call out blatant misinformation from a government or a right wing press, from now on we use the same hashtag, help organise a real pushback against it? I suggest we use #ThereAreFourLights.

Photograph of a man making a weird face at the camera. Seriously! What is that face? Any way, the camera is held low, pointing upward, so his face is framed against the ceiling. Visible in the ceiling, arrayed around his head, are four lights. Because the man is Gen X, and a huge nerd, he thought immediately of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode ‘Chain of Command’. In the episode, Captain Jean Luc Picard is captured by the Cardassians and is tortured by Gul Madred. In the torture sessions Madred shows Picard four lights, but tried to force him to agree that there are five lights. Near the end of the episode Picard is close to breaking, but upon learned that he is to be released he defiantly shouts, “there are four lights!”

“There are four lights!”

#startrek #startrektng #thenextgeneration #captainpicard #jeanlucpicard #chainofcommand #therearefourlights

1984

#ThereAreFourLights

#ThereAreFourLights #Picard #StarTrek #Cardassian

Some mornings I’m just not sure… #ThereAreFourLights #TNG #Picard #KeepingUpWithTheCardassians

I recently discovered on #Libby that David Warner does a reading of #TheHauntingOfHillHouse, and I need to share it with the world. libbyapp.com #horror #Haunting #HillHouse #ShirleyJackson #TNG #StarTrek #GulMadred #ThereAreFourLights

Just a reminder, "everyone who disagrees with me is insane" is not how healthy people think. That's not how reasonable discourse happens. That was once considered a highly inappropriate thing to say, especially in a political arena.

Just something to bear in mind.
#ThereAreFourLights

Donny is a zero.

Zelenskyy is a hero.

#ThereAreFourLights

Trump/Musk and the gang must not win -- despite efforts to derail US citizens with fear and gaslighting, we're standing.

Fight the darkness: THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
#ThereAreFourLights #JeanLuc

If only Picard were in charge. #startrek #therearefourlights
"The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"

I like this thinking. #ThereAreFourLights

Captain Picard from Star Trek in his scene from "Chain of Command", in which he famously exclaims "There are four lights" to resist his captors, but in this meme photo he proclaims "It's called the GULF OF MEXICO!"

#ThereAreFourLights #GulfofMexico

They are really going after every part of the First Amendment!

No freedom of religion, press, or speech is facism.

Protest. Stop them. Resist. #therearefourlights

#THEREAREFOURLIGHTS