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This photo is not from recent anti-deportation protests in Portland, Oregon. The image is more than a decade old and can be geolocated to Toronto, Canada. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Woah did you see this?

You won’t know the next pandemic is happening until your neighbors or family start getting sick. the governments goal now is to make the world more Darwinian and dangerous so those seen as weak(read poor and minorities) will die and those they see as strong (read wealthy and white) survive

Maybe it's because I'm a parent, but avoidable harm to kids really gets to me. My kids can be difficult when they don't get an afternoon snack at the usual time. I'm sure various parents and teachers can say the same. Watching a kid starve to death? And the US govt did it on purpose? Unconscionable.

mmwr, good lord

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

⚡️Zelensky 'not satisfied' with defense of Kyiv's energy facilities. "We cannot use Patriot missiles against drones," Zelensky said. "What questions might I have for the mayor? I could tell you now what I think about all this, but I won't."

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council…. (Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Hamilton had so much faith in Americans come on guys don't let him down "whither would the militia, irritated by being called up on to undertake a distance and hopeless expedition...direct their course but to the seat of the tyrants"

Teacher-strike Papa school is at the point where we're doing French vocabulary with a device that reads flash cards, making stories with Once Upon A Time cards to identify story elements, math problems with Meeples moving on a page, penmanship drills on custom sheets, and now logic puzzles with...

A diseased population is easier to control

benioff is a pathetic man. every time i see his face i think of when he was at wef on a panel with sam altman, and instead of engaging like a normal person, he was sitting there with his phone out recording altman from the other end of the panel.

the worst part of cutting the head off the snake is having the whole rest of the snake to deal with

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4qadGZG

Windows 10 on Tuesday

giant pike side view, fishing hall of fame, hayward, wisconsin, hayward, wisconsin, 1988

New KEN AND ROBIN TALK ABOUT STUFF podcast episode drops, feat. the peace paradox in play, @lyla.bsky.social of the COSMERE RPG, late 80s Fantasy Film Essentials, and eliptonic Cambridge!! www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ep...

Since this is blowing the fuck up, please check my pinned post for this afternoon's fun cartoon livewatching stream; we do it every week and we'd love to see you there church.fsofcabal.com

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Random Otyugh Table 1 neo 2 pseudo 3 quasi 4 demi 5 proto 6 regular

Ken and Robin talk peace deals in rpgs, Cosmere rpg project lead Lyla Fujiwara, late 80s fantasy films, and Cambridge ghosts and weirdness.

This is like writing about someone hoping to get a Best Actor Oscar despite not appearing in any films

Your jokes about Trump are extremely insensitive to those of us who are also bereft that we didn’t get the Nobel peace prize

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

I just realized that the Portland Antifascist Frog has singlehandedly reclaimed amphibians from the “alt right”. Yet another way he is a Great American.

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

When clean energy supply goes down because of the Administration's policies and electricity demand goes up because of AI, it's an electricity crisis in the making. Listen to Chris and I talk about it: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

i’ll just say that TRON: LEGACY is a thoroughly mediocre film and an incredible audio/visual experience for when you’re in the right…state of mind. (see also: JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SNYDER CUT)

Former Republican election official buys Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

friend's character in my flying circus game (tip o' the cap to @opensketchbook.bsky.social ) just made ace so i found this old (like, 1994) fokker d.viii (or kreuzer skorpion, if you like, which is what they fly) 1:48 model and I'm making the player a little trophy ^_^ (so much superglue & putty)

everyone involved with jeffery epstein needs to be investigated immediately

With the Drake suit squashed it is finally safe to release my diss track against the neo-otyugh

3 Iconic Adventures for your 13th Age 2nd Edition campaign #rpg #ttrpg #13thage

This would literally be like giving Hitler the Nobel peace prize after Munich. Trump is killing Venezuelan fishermen and violating the human rights of immigrants while trying to wage a war against blue cities. So no, he doesn’t deserve the fucking Nobel peace prize.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Free speech is when I encourage people to send you death threats; hate speech is when you tell me to stop.

the epstein files aren’t dropping & this isn’t a distraction from them. this is a fascist setting up the field to eliminate every point of friction that might impede an attempt to seize absolute power. quippy posts about epstein are delaying your realization of, & motivation to fight, that fact.

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

⚠️ Netanyahu’s propaganda outlet in Israel is laying foundation for a pivot to the West Bank:

“This is exactly the moment for people to stand up. And do I see enough people doing it? No, I don’t. It shouldn’t be that there are Democrats that are afraid, because you know what? We’re the targets. We need to be strong, we need to fight back.” Thank you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov!