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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #16”

Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #16“, by Tim Sheridan.

Just as the case of the missing Laapeerians was about to come together, the Cerritos was heavily damaged in a dogfight against an unidentified vessel and forced to return to Federation space…without the away team.

Repairs on the Cerritos are bound to take weeks, but Captain Freeman and Mariner aren’t about to sit around and wait when they have an abandoned away team to rescue—especially one under Boimler’s command.

Together, they formulate a heist to steal a decommissioned starship and mount a daring rescue before their unknown assailants blast Laapoonia, and their crew members, away.

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Out Today: “Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #5”

Out today: “Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #5“, by Susan Bridges and Tilly Bridges.

The conclusion we’ve all been waiting for! One last epic, soaring moment with the crew of the Voyager awaits…

Captain Janeway and her crew are prisoners of Species 8472 on their organic, ever-changing ship, and the Voyager is similarly snared in its clutches. But not all is lost. Imprisoned with them are the rebel Species 8472 who once posed as Starfleet members Boothby and Archer—and they hold the secret to their escape.

All that stands between them and their homecoming now is Species 8472’s revenge-bent captain…and the issue of how to open up a singularity into Earth’s space.

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FFRF successfully objects to Tenn. school’s mandatory religious assembly

The Haywood County, Tenn., school district has agreed to change its practices after the Freedom From Religion Foundation objected to a mandatory, religiously charged school assembly.

A concerned community member informed the state/church watchdog that on Dec. 5, 2025, Haywood High School held an assembly during the school day featuring Tennessee rapper Project Pat. Attendance appeared to be mandatory. Project Pat was introduced by a person who asked students to identify themselves as Christian or Muslim and then led the audience in prayer. During his remarks, Project Pat quoted the bible, spoke about God and led students in prayer, expressing hope that they would accept Jesus as their savior. He concluded the assembly by distributing “The Tongue: A Creative Force” by Charlie Capps, an overtly proselytizing book.

FFRF called out the district for the event, explaining that the assembly violated the First Amendment by subjecting students to school-sponsored religious exercise and coercive proselytization. “Students cannot simply leave the assembly without risking disciplinary action, nor is it reasonable to expect students to recognize their constitutional rights are being violated and dissent,” FFRF Patrick O’Reiley Legal Fellow Charlotte R. Gude wrote to the superintendent.

The school’s actions also marginalized students and staff who are nonreligious or adhere to minority faiths, FFRF pointed out. Allowing guest speakers, such as Project Pat, to proselytize during mandatory school events sends a clear message of exclusion to students who do not share those beliefs. Even if an opt-out had been offered, which does not appear to have been the case, voluntariness does not excuse a constitutional violation. Public schools may not sponsor or endorse religious messages, particularly when more than half of Generation Z is non-Christian, including the 43 percent that is nonreligious.

Thanks to FFRF’s work, the district has agreed to be more careful regarding guest speakers from now on.

“The [Haywood County Board of Education] understands the importance of its students’ and employees’ First Amendment rights. In no way did the HCBOE intend or attempt to circumvent those rights,” Superintendent Amie Marsh recently responded. “Moving forward, Central Office of HCBOE will prescreen such service providers.”

FFRF welcomes the district’s commitment to safeguarding constitutional rights.

“School districts must be vigilant about what outside speakers are allowed to present to students, since, just as we’ve seen here, it’s too easy to convert a mandatory assembly into a religious event,” FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor says. “FFRF will continue working to ensure that public schools remain secular spaces — free from religious indoctrination, proselytization or coercion.”

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with 42,000 members and several chapters across the country, including hundreds of members and a chapter in Tennessee. Our purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.

The post FFRF successfully objects to Tenn. school’s mandatory religious assembly appeared first on Freedom From Religion Foundation.

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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of February 12, 2026

Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.

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MARIJUANA

AIRPLANE

STAR TREK

STEREO

MILA

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JENNA

ENGINE

SUSANNA

MELTING

FORD

NORTHERN LIGHTS

JUMP

TREE

STORY

CLOWN

MUG SHOTS

THE WARNING

HOPE

MT ST HELENS

HODAKA

Hegemony Part 2 #15

SUSANNA

JENNA

SPIDERS

Rihanna

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God Machine

The Circus, a historic ring of large 18th-century townhouses, and many other snow-covered rooftops in the city of Bath, Somerset, England.

The Entire History of the World Every Year In Just 30 Seconds

Halle Berry

Margaret Qualley

Are Peter Parker and Frank castle really the sanest people in the entire marvel universe/multiverse?

Kim cattral, 1979

Anna Sophia Robb

Odessa A’zion

Maldivian MNDF and Indian Commando (918×1280)

That’s not the reason we need AI

No Strings Attached 2011

Alexandra Daddario

If I had a nickle…

A message from President Trump