🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls. The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

I love Professor Freeman. Each time, almost nightly, she shares something she's been pondering that day & it always circles back to community. Highly recommend! In this one she talked about how everyday people & actions changed history during the American Revolution, not big guys & big moments.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Welcome to the rest of your life, asshole.

It's an older picture now, and I wish I could find the miniature to take some new photos... but I still really like how this old T-45 suit came out.

Detroit Historical Museum is having an exhibit on the ttrpg RIFTS?!?

1 Yan.

Show me how you draw/paint women

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Over on X, the Everything App, serious conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza shared a video of an AI-generated woman on a fake podcast he seemingly thought was real, telling the audience that young women should get with older men. Dude, wtf?

Is this good chat

move over, Jesus

That is A+ sign design.

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Feel like the media needs to foreground more kids and parents experiencing this. Otherwise it’s just statistics and unfortunately people do not care about numbers without narrative. People only care about Minneapolis because we all saw the human results of policy. Same needs to happen here.

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

Time to enforce laws.

Yes. The folks who study election rumors and conspiracy theories are worried that a forced (and false) confession by Maduro (of 2020 election fraud) is a real possibility, and we’ve already seen some (wink, wink) foreshadowing of such a move.

Every American needs to watch this:

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Lifehack: make roasting vegetables a tedious chore

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

The Overplayer & the Rogue Players are teammates. They toil together to tell a thrilling sword & sorcery short story, per the stated objective of the game. But they're also engaged in that time-honored tradition of high drama pretend rivalry. They cooperate on the goal while sparing in the fiction.

Link to the ongoing Swords Kickstarter up front, so I don't forget: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw... I want to talk about why I fucking love it when a #ttrpg has its own cutesy name for the GM role. And I'm going to start with the evocative poetry of the term Dungeon Master.

What my book presupposes is what if he was

Incredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts

Democracy is just too inconvenient for Republicans.

Devotion Acrylic on board

Do they all get deported now? Is that how this works?

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

LoL what? Rents are decreasing because we had a construction boom followed by a crap economy.

With pitchforks and torches, right?

This is 100% perjury. The idea that the Treasury Secretary doesn't know anything about one of the most important figures in crypto facilitating a giant bribe to Trump and then getting pardoned is laughable. He would literally be the only person in the finance world who didn't know about it.

They were never going to get to their stated deportations goal with due process. So they're phasing it out. (Part 2)

Bessent's face just screams "punch me" at all times.

Guy who owns 20 homes doesn't do his own grocery shopping

Finally a good use case for LinkedIn

Episode titles like this are how nature says “stay away.”

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

I never understood how people of faith could vote for this degenerate scumbag.