Given the kind of people ICE has been recruiting, it was only a matter of time before someone was killed. Now the feds are running a classic DARVO play Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender to deflect responsibility and portray themselves as the victims. Straight from the authoritarian playbook🇺🇸

So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA

They say it's not "regime change," but they changed the regime. They say it's not "war," but they bombed the country, killed scores of people and have imposed a blockade, which is an act of war. They say they acted because of drugs, but the main drug they're focused on is oil. It's 100% gaslighting.

Half-baked idea for a #TTRPG setting/campaign: The World of the Dragon Mother. The number one god worshiped by all religions in this world is Tiamat. Not necessarily the five-headed D&D version of Tiamat, as none of the various religions agree on Tiamat's exact form and number of heads. (More...)

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Pay attention to the Jack Smith testimony and Epstein files releases, not the military distractions:

May we all live in less interesting times in 2026!

The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die

Hey @jackguignol.bsky.social, I think this recent episode of the Hot Ones with Insane Clown Posse and GWAR has some serious Planet Motherfucker energy. Wouldn't you say? youtu.be/fei-mMwVY3Y?...

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

I feel a bit foolish for not realizing this sooner, but the book, Monstrous by @mapcrow.bsky.social is really great for generating new myths (and their omens) for the #ttrpg Mythic Bastionland by @bastionland.bsky.social. For example, these Inspiration spreads.

Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?

Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.

Think about what kind of unhinged maniac would post this. Think about that person actually being President of the United States.

I am aware of the major events of the last 48 hours, but my brain simply does not want to absorb it all.

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district. Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.

Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that

My newly arrived Han Cluster books look pretty sweet! It seems like it's been a while since a high-production value sci-fi campaign was last released for Savage Worlds. @hancluster.com, you did an amazing job! #ttrpg #savageworlds

This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.

Odd thought inspired by watching the latest season of Stranger Things: Not enough people in horror media try to use fire extinguishers to defend themselves.

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Over the last month, I've been working on this essay about the use of AI art in board games, "Is This Really What We Want?" Though it is contextually specific, it is also a reflection of my wider thoughts on the use of AI art and writing in creative contexts. www.meeplemountain.com/articles/is-...

Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.

America cannot endure four more years of governance by pretext. A nation that rewrites its laws every time its leader needs a scapegoat is not a confident country; it is a frightened one. And frightened nations do not stay free for long. open.substack.com/pub/theratio...

If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.

Happy Thanksgiving folks!

Music opinion no one asked for: Halestorm is a band I would love to like more, but their music often just misses that sweet spot in my brain. In contrast, listening to The Pretty Reckless often feels like getting a brain massage. #music #rock

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..

Not all that surprising.

Facebook is probably bad for my health, but every so often one of the groups I'm in there finds a little gem like this: www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc... #nature #ecology #trashpandas

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"

Maybe those 7m protestors that the NYT largely ignored were important after all

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

The teargassing of children and babies and John and Jane Q. Public and trick or treaters is not a thing that fascists do when they are winning. It's what they do when they are terrified of losing and afraid they'll lose even more if they stop staging terror spectacles.

Just like good old-fashioned slave patrols.

Happy Halloween! Have some more new music for a treat. #lootthebody #music youtu.be/fbapxCrD3PI?...

Happy Halloween! Have new music for a treat. #abneypark #music youtu.be/zKeFluIbfX4?...

Happy Halloween! It's the perfect day to catch up HALLOWEEN TEAM comics! The first volume, and the first issue of our new sequel series HALLOWEEN TEAM: SHADOWS, are out now digitally! Written by me, with amazing art from Buğra Batuhan Berah and Matt Shults. Join the team here: a.co/d/icKXtDn

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting "Red Dawn" vibes from the latest Stranger Things trailer?

May I offer you a Halloween-themed comics suggestion? Halloween Team is the story of the monster-hunting band of small-town kids who've grown up. I just read the first issue of the second volume, and it does not disappoint. #comics #graphicnovel globalcomix.com/c/halloween-...

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

My Kickstarter rewards for @jpcoovert.bsky.social's Dragon Town arrived today! (Plus print copies of the excellent Goons & Ghosts.) Looking forward to running it! (Probably with Shadowdark, maybe with Tiny Dungeon.) #ttrpg #osr

If this isn't the perfect song for 2025's Halloween, I'm not sure there is one. Thanks @rabbitjunk.bsky.social for this banger. rabbitjunk.bandcamp.com/track/existe... #music #halloweenmusic #industrial

Black Homeowners Receive Higher Appraisal After Displaying Pictures Of Klan Members

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.