The US is now four months away from losing its measles elimination status. 1544 confirmed cases reported by the CDC.

The number of time we see folks printing 200 copies try to match costs of folks printing 2000-10,000 is wild. When you charge the properly it gives other folks permission to also. Financial accessibility matters. Give away community copies & then charge what things cost. H/t @bradkerr.net 2/2

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability. Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't. You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius. Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill. 1/2

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

/5 Look at Vance, or Yarvin, or Miller, or any of these true believers and see how unhappy they are in their own skin, how they ooze resentment towards the world that finds them strange and creepy and doesn’t want to sit with them at lunch.

/4 Is it offensive? Sure. Is it bigoted? Of course. Keep pointing that out. But also, keep pointing out that which they can’t stand to hear — it’s deeply weird. Vance, like the rest of the Curtis Yarvin gang, are deeply weird subnormals, not crafted to interact well with normal humans.

This psycho really just went on camera and said that you have to be a US citizen to attend the Super Bowl or she'll arrest you

Would you like some golden yellow from nature to fill your eyes for a moment? Here you go! (And open full screen if you are feeling brave.) 🌿 #FlowerReport

Spot on.

The reason this theory works is because most of our elites and leaders have no real views or opinions, but merely adopt those that they believe will earn them approval. And now they’re all seeking approval on the Internet, where everyone really is 12, or has the mental capacity of a 12-year-old

feels like we are in the era of people at the top of the hierarchy with all the money and/or power, will not stop saying "wahhh you're so MEAN to me"

this is a GOOD speech

Beyer shares resources for federal workers affected by government shutdown

ALWAYS.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Here's the creator of The Punisher specifically mentioning challenge coins using the Punisher logo as a huge problem and a sign of a law enforcement agency that doesn't understand its mission. /this is a Reddit comment reproducing a statement supposedly included in a SyFy article now offline.

I’m glad Murphy is out there saying these things in a clear and succinct way, because Schumer sure as hell isn’t. We’d be better off with Murphy as minority leader, because he seems to really understand the fight.

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Another monster for October… Argus!

JFC. “The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address ‘giftgirl2025’ and initially told the museum that they were looking for ‘like a sword or something,’ according to a person familiar with the discussions.”

You should really read this, and spread it far and wide.

This is the analysis I’ve been waiting to read. I couldn’t agree more that we have to find the moral courage to rise to this difficult moment- a moment that demands a particular character, clarity, and bravery.

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

The Billionaires Have Been Sucking the Rest of Us Dry Since 1989—And It’s Worse Than You Think The 905 billionaires in the U.S. hold a combined $7.8 trillion in wealth, giving those at the very top political influence and power that undermines our democracy while working people scrape to get by.

On Monday, Popular Information revealed that the taxpayer-funded Argentina bailout had massive economic benefits for hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone, a personal friend of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Argentine media outlets are now reporting that Citrone asked Bessent for a rescue package.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

The MAGA movement understands full well the power of the mobile internet to organize, which is why they will work to control it, or destroy what they cannot control, and tech oligarchs are going to enable rather than fight them on it.

Kim Mohan is one of the greats in the RPG industry and a great person. He taught me so much. Kim deserves to be in the Museum of Pop Culture and Seattle's Science Fiction Hall of Fame. I'm grateful to know that others can learn more about him and his amazing career. www.mopop.org/sffhof/kim-m...

Delighted to read about Kim Mohan's induction into the Seattle Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Kim was a giant of TTRPG publishing and working with him on "The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide" for D&D was like a masterclass in sourcebook editing for me.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

I’m 100% sure that’s actually not the question to be asking

I need to know who put the money up for all this media placement of a non story this week

former spirtual advisor to jeffrey epstein's best friend donald trump

NEW: DOJ's recusal effort in the Portland case worked. Now a Trump appointee will hear it. Tonight, at Law Dork:

The unceasing obsession with sex and purity in combination with paranoid fear of actual sexual contact or human relationships is in many ways the defining anxiety of our time.

It took 20 years to go from Dan Rather to Bari Weiss.

What the Democrats need least right now? A new think tank funded by billionaires. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-the-democrats-need-least-a-new

We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in. If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

C'mon now, this is just moonshine by another, fancier, name.

Russell Vought's sadistic threat to kill projects in blue states will blow back on GOP. One getting defunded is reportedly a huge hydrogen project in the northwest that would also serve Montana. Its GOP governor has hailed it as a big job creator. Oops. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2012...

I have managed to get a Lyft driver today who is simultaneously slow and reckless. Quite an accomplishment.

Local minis heads take NOTE.

someone left a bunch of Warhammer 40k shit out by the trash around 3213 11th St NW if there are any nerds in DC on furlough looking for something to do

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement