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Paramount+ just pulled the plug on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and frankly, the only question I have is what took so long. I attempted to watch this monstrosity of a series and was bored after the first five minutes, and I’m pretty sure I fell asleep toward the end.

The cancellation came down on Monday, with the network confirming the show's second and final season (which has already been filmed) will still air.

Paramount+ made a big bet on Starfleet Academy, hoping younger, more woke Star Trek audiences would make it a success. The idea was to hook Gen Z with a coming-of-age academy setting, fresh faces, lesbians, gay Klingons, and not-so-subtle anti-Trump messaging.

Obviously, critics ate it up. Because they're critics, and they care more about "the narrative" than good storytelling.

Rotten Tomatoes has the show getting an 87% critic score. Viewers, however, weren’t so amused, and it received a 51% audience score. That 36-point gap tells you everything about who this show was actually made for — and it wasn't for the fans of the franchise. More damning than the Rotten Tomatoes split: Starfleet Academy never once cracked Nielsen's weekly top 10 streaming charts.

A group operating out of a Friar Street office building in Van Nuys that advertises “virtual offices” incorporated 22 hospices and home care agencies in one year, including 15 hospices registered in one day to a single suite, according to an investigation by the Southern California News Group.

The 15 hospices, all formed in “Suite 205” at 14545 Friar St., later collected $12.3 million from Medicare and Medi-Cal billings in 2023 and 2024, records showed.

Each had the equivalent of one full-time employee at the time.

While operating out of the same building is permitted, hospices cannot use the same office, according to Sheila Clark, the president and CEO of California Hospice and Palliative Care Association.

“You cannot co-locate with another provider,” she said.

However, these hospices seemingly bypassed that limitation by appending letters from “A” to “P” onto the suite number in official documentation. Suites in the building, however, have only one to three rooms and leases specifically prohibit subdivision of those spaces, according to the property owner, Kambiz Merabi.

Your morning dose of pure stupid 🙄

Carter Page wasn’t the only adviser from Trump’s first campaign wiretapped by the FBI. Walid Phares was electronically monitored for a 12-month period between 2017 and 2018, according to the Washington-based FBI agent who was assigned to investigate him as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion probe.

As in Page’s case, the bureau withheld evidence exonerating Phares from the court to secure surveillance authorization, according to newly declassified FBI documents.

“I had no idea any of this was happening,” Phares told RealClearInvestigations in an exclusive interview Wednesday night. “This is shocking because they told my lawyer that I was only a ‘witness’ and that they just needed some information.”