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Two points I want to make about this: 1. Democrats should immediately threaten to deport Elon Musk and Melania Trump for *actual* immigration fraud once they retake power. Don't @ me about how we're not like them. Do politics. Make the threat. Force Republicans to react and defend their decision.
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
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💀 The RPG Trader Spooky Season Bundle is now LIVE! 🎃 Get 168 modules from 168 different creators, worth a combined $1,112.22, for just $25! Available from 10-31 October 👻 And while you’re there, we’ve got a site-wide sale on most of our spooky games and products! rpgtrader.com/products/972...
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"A reckoning approaches. The child without a name is crowned, and bastards gather under their banner." The Scorn of Bastards, one of the Eldritch Gods featured in Fomoria's corebook. fomoria.com
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This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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My @propublica.org colleagues have no business running a private school for kids. And yet they were easily able to start schools in two states -- with a third ProPublica Academy pending that would be located inside a North Carolina bar.
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He sure as hell did all he could to keep innocent people in prison, even when the DA offices that won the convictions said they should be released. www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2020...
With how Schmitt conducted himself, as a former prosecutor, I question how many innocent people he convicted. What a dirtbag.
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The sheer number of ways this administration has managed to shoot its own base in the dick economically for literally no domestic political gain is astounding
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Thank the private college of Drexel University who bought the museum back in 2011 and has made zero efforts to try to save the museum, content to just close it down and transfer its massive scientific and historical artifact collection to the schools private collection
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...
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This is like saying "if your cancer doesn't go into remission, we won't approve treatment." Which tbh, he would do if he could.
Beginning in 2027: “If your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, music, & cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest.” newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
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I hope whatever civil engineering firm lands this RFP is haunted at night by visions of the cyclists they'll be killing. I hope their iron ring they were given at graduation when they took an oath to the public starts to itch and weigh on their finger like an anchor.
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social
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The interest of Shopify + Build Canada in the Toronto election is something to watch v closely.
Tobi Lutke, our most outspoken billionaire, does not understand cities or public space or transportation. Someone needs to put him in a room with Mike Bloomberg and Janette Sadik-Khan. I'm serious. @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social @jskstreet.bsky.social
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If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
Just received my copy of the wonderful #PorkMort! A great production all around, and it was a pleasure to edit. Support the Cap de Pork team by purchasing this #MorkBorg based #ttrpg, inspired by the folklore of the Balearic Islands, where and when you can! #OSR #rpg #folkhorror
Pork Mort will be available in shops. 2nd of October! Ask at your closest bookshop. Wait for the extra info at the end of this reel 😘😉 #ttrpg #osr #roleplay #porkmort #rolencatala
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"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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Straight Arrows Play as nonsanctioned bounty hunters rescuing privileged addicts from themselves while stepping over the bodies of the truly unfortunate in this pitch black, space age dystopian Mothership Module. peregrinecoast.press/products/str...
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You can send them: money protecttheporkies.com/donate
"Camp Animikiiwadiswan, or Thunderbird Nest resistance camp, co-led by Loonsfoot and Anahkwet, is their inter-tribal, three-dimensional answer to a proposed copper sulfide mine that would generate copious amounts of toxic waste...in a high-risk location." truthout.org/articles/ind...
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Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees
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12/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said. One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇
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9/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds.
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World of Game Design once again finding new and innovative way to fucking suck.
Wanna see something wild? A third-party Mothership KS estimated to ship in Sept '24 just dropped an update that it's still not done, won't be Mothership anymore, will be riddled with AI now, and no they won't be refunding anyone. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...
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And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.
BASH: He's a US citizen MARKWAYNE MULLIN: He wasn't arrested BASH: He was arrested. He was later released, but he was arrested. Do Americans need to carry around proof of citizenship now? MULLIN: If you're a citizen, you have no reason to fear
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The Beckstead/Musk line that poor people can just die because they aren't going to contribute to the far future, if not stopped, will most likely mean that in the far future we still have a huge majority of people suffering for the luxury of a privileged elite. Maybe with the same rationalizations.
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Imagine using your position as UCLA Chancellor to kneecap faculty for having the gall to hold a necessary conversation about how 9/11 changed this country's legal landscape. Attacking law faculty for doing their jobs because you dislike one of the speakers is a serious professional failure.
UCLA Chancellor Criticizes Law School’s Sept. 11 Symposium https://bit.ly/4dEcHft