FOOTNOTE: I was wrong to say "if it isn't reversed within a few more months": I didn't realize how bad the oil crisis has already got! (Worst since 1973.) If you combine inflation, job losses, economic growth shrinking, trade wars, and an oil price shock, we're definitely going into a depression.

More and more I want the consequences for the billionaires, politicians, appointees, and lackeys who are committing crimes for Trump to be devastatingly financial. Take all their money. ALL OF IT. And garnish their wages forever. Let them live off of whatever UBI gets passed in the next admin.

Philippe Chancel's photos of the Nazi hunting Rockabilly street gangs of 80s Paris.

What strikes me about this political era is how our public institutions — academic, legal, corporate, media — are normalizing the Trump regime — and how easy it is for them to do so, since the regime is just the inevitable, maximalist version of governance in the longtime fossil-fuel economy.

Climate change is producing a severe crisis of hegemony in the system: The elites cannot picture a coherent way forward, they cannot form stable, coherent, non-pathological alliances that could navigate the future. The demands produced by the results of science confront the demands of the markets..

As I sit at my booth at DiceTowerWest, this is what I’m manifesting!

I find it particularly galling that the reactionary tech oligarchs currently vying to control the world have been talked into fascism by a guru who is one of the dumbest people ever to place one letter after another. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Hey you wanna make a villain with me?? What if we all made a villain together and we can use an activity from mine and @oneshotrpg.bsky.social new book to make them good and interesting. And idk maybe what if I put them in a One Shot when we're done? 🧵 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ul...

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

We’re hanging out all weekend at #dicetowerwest in Las Vegas! Come on by and say hello!

Gave up all of the currency and promise of the “idea” of America (however flawed), in exchange for “we kill people. We kill lots of people.”

I was burned in my support for the Iraq war, Trump's first presidential campaign, and Trump's second presidential campaign. Here's why I think this time I'm going to kick the proverbial football. by Bret Stephens

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

They're currently 13% off! Run, don't walk! babybestiary.com/collection... #TTRPG #TabletopGaming #OwlbearPlush #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Season 1 of The Diplomat was all about what an astoundingly bad idea it would be to start a war with Iran Like eight episodes of nope, tremendous effort on all sides to avoid it And these dudes are like fuggit let’s go

NANCY WISHES YOU A HAPPY FRIDAY

I just saw the news that Print & Play is closing. What a blow to small games.

I think we should just go ahead and formally abolish the Senate, because this current thing where they don't do their jobs but draw a paycheck isn't really working for me

Is anti-clemency available for election interference?

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

Friday, 6:00pm Bobcat Theatre, "Passion & (Sometimes) Profit. An Honest Conversation about Indie Game Dev" Led by @ravynia.bsky.social with @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social @dodecadonuts.bsky.social Scalisco Games, and me!

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

The Declaration of Independence says that we not only have the right but we also have the duty to alter or abolish any government that does not secure our unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. www.learnliberty.org/blog/the-dec...

Just got the heads up that one of my invoices now won't be paid till next week and of course rent is due this week. Any help is appreciated. #mutualaid ko-fi.com/dndjordanlea...

I appreciate that Jamelle is simultaneously grounded, reasonable and also completely confident in his opinions

Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored

who made this

Bernie’s been hit or miss but he’s always had one throughline and that’s basically it

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

Hanging out demoing Fantasy Food Fight at GAMA during game night! #gama #gamaexpo

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Democrats stop making “conceding points” your opening gambit, part infinity

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular. So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.

America Needs to Prepare for Elon Musk Like He's a State-Sponsored Cyber Attack My look at what we must do to prepare, knowing that Musk is going to supercharge the social-engineering fuckery that helped Trump win 2024, and there's no one who is going to stop him. Except us.

GAMA GAMA GAMA! I'll be walking the halls of GAMA in Louisville demoing Fantasy Food Fight and showing off our upcoming game! Come find me in the open play area every evening from 6-9

Whoever made this, it’s BRILLIANT. Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

I know a lot of people are freaking out about an executive order about voting, so I will remind everyone: 1) It is very illegal and would not survive even this SCOTUS 2) If it happens anyway, it's strike/riot time because the democratic process is the only excuse for not having already done so.

I'm about to go live, it's 2 am on East Coast if any nat sec/FP experts are awake and want to discuss Israel-US war with Iran, let me know if you're up.

Iran had agreed to stop stockpiling enriched uranium. But America and Israel are going to war with Iran anyway. This was never about nuclear weapons or uranium. This was about Israel and American war hawks wanting a war with Iran.

The United States and Israel launched a joint strike against Iran, an act of war without Congressional approval. This is a crime against the American people. Trump is working with a genocidal regime to start another bloody war in the Middle East. Congress must vote to block further strikes now