Had a blast yesterday at my first con in about 9 years. Went 0-3 (my unbalanced list was a factor). Great armies, games and opponents. Love the feeling of community and shared love of all things geeky. #wargaming

Attending my first con in 9 years tomorrow. Playing in a GW Legions Imperialist narrative event. My 2000 points of Solar Auxilia are ready to fight for the Imperial Truth! #wargames #LegionsImperialis

Wow.

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump. This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.

Got to love a good graphic novel for 100% engagement. Reading The Harlem Hellfighters in class today. #Teaching

Ran a demo game of Frostgrave for my group today. It was a hit. Love the Mausoleum scenario for its great mix of creatures while at the same time not being to difficult Figures are a mix of GW, Reaper, & Midlam terrain is Hirst Arts and Scenery Forge #Frostgrave #wargaming

Stop making school political I have seen this response today on social media. In response to stories about students walking out & participating in their local anti ICE protests & I’ve seen it in response to an email our kid’s district sent out this morning Stop making school political

This. Images like this make me proud to be an American because THIS is what it means to be an American. Give me a diverse group of musicians playing in the streets with regular people joining in to defeat oppression Our institutions have failed us but the people will prevail.

The NFL players union could do a great thing today and call for its members to NOT play the games today. They could stand in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. I know they won’t. But it’s that kind of demonstration that’s going to break through to a lot of people

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

If you think American citizens should be summarily executed by masked federal agents, you’re not a patriot. If you think the lawless goons loyal to our demented pedophile criminal president are greater than the people of Minnesota, you’re not a patriot. You’re a fucking Nazi.

As a teacher I have been told for years that school shooting & the deaths of children were necessary sacrifices to preserve our sacred 2A liberties against the tyrant of government & now the gov has killed a man with a legal gun & permit to carry I name all who worship the gun hypocrite & coward

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

This thread gives me hope @mikemanto.bsky.social

We need more of this. Let’s get angry, let’s get out there & make our voices heard. Anyone who says we should just comply, or let the system work, or try & tone down the rhetoric is complicit Now is the time for action. In 5 years when some one asks “what did you do” be able to answer with pride

“The goal is to scare ordinary people into giving up and hiding in their homes, afraid they will be the next to be shot or taken away in a van to be tortured. Instead, the opposite is happening.”

Every word of this.👇

MAGA is weak, unpopular, and wildly outnumbered. Democrats need to start acting like it.

More of this. Be relentless. Do not give them a chance to change the narrative or distract us with something else And release the Epstein files

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This was always going to happen. It was just a matter of when. No way was that ICE agent justified in shooting that woman. No fucking way. And this will happen again. And again. And again. Unless ICE gets off our streets. So get ICE off our streets now. NOW.

Hitler marches into the Rhineland, & the Allies did nothing. He absorbed Austria, nothing, he negotiated for the Sudetenland, & they gave it to him and when he took over the rest of Czechoslovakia, they did nothing Emboldened at every step by inaction the world would descend into war

Looking at numbers for 2025 I painted 194 miniatures, purchased 165 (pile of potential reduced by 29!) and played 15 games Final four of the year is this Titan hunting formation for Legions Imperialis #miniturepainting

I’m in the kitchen cooking up a storm. Wife’s at the table wrapping like a machine. Holiday team work makes the dream work!

Holiday stress has me down so I baked a pie. Just for the family and myself. Gluten free buttermilk pie

Thank the gods they’re this dumb, otherwise we might be in trouble

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Collapse isn’t a single moment. It’s what happens when the systems people rely on keep existing on paper but stop functioning in practice. trib.al/GwiVEsf

Trump’s worldview is one of winners and losers. Always has been. His new National Security Strategy picks Russia, China, authoritarians, his friends and his family as the winners. Do you know who Trump decided the losers are? You and your family and our safety.

Gotta keep giving trump prizes because we’re being governed by children

Made teen #1 and #2 ride the city bus today. I thinks it’s good to put them in situations where they feel uncomfortable but also safe. #2 is loving it. #1 less so. #2 may be a future fan of public transit, #1 may be locked in as a passenger princess, we’ll see. #parenting

The amount of step by step instructions I have to give my teenage children in order for them to complete the most basic of chores (that they have been doing for years) drives me insane. How many ways can we screw up taking out the trash? All of them, approaching genius levels of incompetence #kids

I’m not a religious person but man, I love a good Christmas tree.

I've been quiet on social media as there's been A LOT TO DO and it means I forget to advertise and such. So hey! We make really cool minis! Theyre 28mm scale, hand sculpted and hand cast! They're of mega cool women from the past! And more! Here's Hannie Schaft! 😍 www.badsquiddogames.com

I love it when I pick up old GW kits and they still have the original price tags. Even 11 year old me with my lawn mowing $ could have afforded a $6 blister But I will say, you get a lot more in the new kits

My latest in rhe @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/letter-fro...

Building community is important. About a year ago my friend and I (who both love war gaming) decided to be intent on building a community around our hobby. Today, we’ve got 8 people around the table playing a crazy fun King of the Hill style game. Achievement unlocked!

The Epstein scandal has always been a scandal about the ruling class as a whole, not one individual or political party. Epstein trafficked not just in the bodies of the children he abused but also in social connections that could bring elites together.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

Historically, revolutions start to get real spicy when people become food insecure. So November 1st should be interesting

I think it’s great the president can publicly imagine shitting all over Americans and the Sunday show pussies will totally ignore it.

No Kings protest in Lafayette Co. Great signs, great costumes and great people! #NoKings

This story has been all over my feed and I’m glad it’s getting traction. The GOP hates America, and this needs to be more widely reported The GOP are racist, sexist, bigoted Nazis. And all I have to do is point to their own words They also look like total dweebs and losers, sad people

One of the things I love about conference season is talking with those parents who are so obviously excited to yell at teachers The condescending tone, the subtle ways they let you know they think you’ve failed at life Makes it hard to head in the next day #teaching

The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

Dealing with right wing doublethink is exhausting Liberals are both soy boy cucks who’ve never used their muscles & cry at the memory of the cow at a BBQ and Capable of Jason Bourne levels of violence if they hear you use the wrong pronouns in a meeting. They believe both with their whole heart