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#Pathfinder2e #videogame Dawnsbury Days gets its first expansion April 11th! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2693730/view/601898753190790952?l=english I'm excited! Dawnsbury Days has simple graphics, but an absolute plethora of character options and solid, tactical #PF2e #TTRPG gameplay.

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Department of Government Efficiency is now rehiring 25k people they laid off as they didn't follow the right process, and will pay them to do nothing with no end date. Again, Department of Government Efficiency - great use of tax dollars, well done Elon, you hired the best people. :party_porg: […]

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New: Using FOIA I obtained memos agencies sent the White House detailing how they complied with an anti-trans executive order. Shows that FOIA is still working at some agencies and is a possible mechanism for transparency; we have hundreds more pending across govt www.404media.co/public-recor...

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«The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time. And that’s just not bloody true.» From: The Fediverse […]

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“DOGE has broken into our building,” says USIP CEO George Moose. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/president-trump-politics/us-institute-of-peace-doge-trump-administration/3869923/

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It's insane to me that we've undergone an authoritarian coup, in the most information-rich time and place ever, and most Americans apparently still have no idea. Historians: is this the norm, or totally anomalous?

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NY Times - VOA’s broadcasts — long viewed as an important part of U.S. efforts to promote democracy and transparency overseas — are flickering out. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/business/voa-trump-dismantle.html?smid=url-share

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The White House propaganda team now has an official "Rapid Response 47" account on Xitter that is posting straight fascist propaganda using detainees as props. Folks we don't know anything about all these people he's deporting. All we know are the claims Trump makes. I wouldn't take him at his […]

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First the Republican Party entered a state of full-blown moral collapse. Now they are doing the same to the entire country. There will be a reckoning. #coup #MoralCollapse #MoralInjury #corruption https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse

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[Trump insanity, national strike] Madman does this every night through the wee hours. His brain is medically malfunctioning, melting down continuously. It's actually a wonder he can string a sentence together during the day at all. There is zero hope of […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Robert O. Paxton's 5 stages of fascism: 1. Intellectual exploration, where disillusionment with popular democracy manifests itself in discussions of lost national vigor 2. Rooting, where a fascist movement, aided by political deadlock and polarization, becomes a player on the national stage […]

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All 550 of VOA’s contract status reporters, editors, videographers, engineers and techs just notified they’re terminated effective end of this month. We don’t distinguish internally between them and regular staff — all are highly skilled and absolutely critical to the operation.

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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/195HffPRmJ/ Lift up the ones who have conviction in the Republic, for which they stand

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NYT catalogs the people from NNSA who took the "fork in road" buyout. Turns out (stop me if you've heard this) DOGE really did chase out critical people. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

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in slightly-early honour of St Patricks Day, I will once again remind the world of the time Amazon united Ireland (and apologized for the Troubles), still one of my favourite moments on twitter

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“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.”

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60 Minutes - Newsmakers What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration "...I just felt like, well, there's usually two responses to something. You can complain about it, or you could do something about it. I chose the latter within […]

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"Among many stories of the Chernobyl disaster, this one is perhaps the most mythologized – the story of three engineers who ventured into the depths beneath Reactor 4 to open the valves and drain the steam bubbler pool. With help from the media, they were nicknamed "divers." We, however […]

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#FuckTrump #ElbowsUp #Canada #US #Tariffs #TradeWar #Politics

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Apparently now any person of color is being profiled as looking “undocumented”

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don't fuck up and think that disappearing Mahmoud Khalil and leveling Columbia is anything but trying to crush leftist organizing full stop. They don't give a shit about antisemitism, and they're not even doing it because they love Israel. They're going after campus organizers because […]

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On January 21, the Trump gang took down the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) website. Later they put it back up, but with a lot removed. Information about vaccines, HIV, abortion, trans issues, gender issues... all gone. Some good news: thanks to a lot of hard work by good people, you can now […]

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New paper from #Yale and the #FederalReserve blames the 2023 banking crisis on (you guessed it) #crypto and Nerd Reich #VCs. > "A clearer commonality between the six banks that failed], the paper argues, is their exposure to risky depositor bases that […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

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If you haven't followed the Mahmoud Khalil story, you should. "The nearly 13 million green card holders in the United States — not to mention foreign students and professors — have been put on notice that they need to watch what they say. [...] Nor can […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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So a short infographic I've been working based on the talks I've had over the weekend and when the 5 cups of coffee finally left my body. #Mastodon #Fediverse #infographic #resist

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A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled that the Department of Government Efficiency, the group led by Elon Musk, ⭐️is subject to government transparency lawsthat allow the public to access government records, 👉a legal defeat for the White House which had designated DOGE as an office […]

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On X, the official White House account responded to @judiciarydems.senate.gov post about freeing Mahmoud Khalil by saying, “This is the first arrest of many to come.”

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#musk never served in the army. His kids will never serve either. Scared and cowards. They are (the) parasites. 🇺🇸 Elon Musk called a U.S. senator from #Arizona—a Navy veteran and retired #NASA astronaut—a "traitor" for supporting Ukraine. The senator fired back: "Traitor? Elon, if you don’t […]

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🚨🇨🇦BC launches full prohibition on all American alcohol.🇨🇦🚨 Reasons: "One is to respond to the escalating threats that we're seeing from the United States. The other is to recognize the feeling that many British Columbians have now when we look at American products, we don't even want to […]

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The destruction of Black Lives Matter Plaza has begun. Jackhammers are at work on the "Matter" block. It might take a day or two to get to "Black Lives".

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As Yale University historian Timothy Snyder recently posted on X: “The only war that Putin is winning is inside Donald Trump’s head. Putin only wins the war on the ground by setting American policy, through Trump.” […]

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"Washington[DC] has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

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“When you hamstring the IRS,” Koskinen added. “it’s just a tax cut for tax cheats.” Now it makes sense. I figured, but hadn't seen the explanation. The vast sums that will be stolen, along with the foreign+domestic death and misery, will - on a per capita basis - perhaps set a world record […]

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"During the teleconference, a vice president at SpaceX, Bill Gerstenmaier, was asked directly what offer Musk was referring to when he mentioned the Biden administration. He did not provide a substantive answer." This is a read-between-the-lines moment. Gerstenmaier is maybe the most respected […]

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Layoffs in the U.S. soar to 172,017 in February, the highest since 2020, as DOGE slashes federal staff. CNBC reports: "The report comes amid heightened concern about the state of the labor market and the economy in general as Trump’s plans for tariffs, slashing the size of government, and mass […]

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Exclusive: Judges face rise in #threats as #Musk blasts them over rulings #USMarshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech #billionaire #ElonMusk & other #Trump admin allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash […]

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JFC #DOGE targets #ChildSupport database full of private income data Associates of #ElonMusk’s group provoked yet another clash with career #CivilServants over sensitive government records #law #privacy #InfoSec #Trump #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #USpol #MafiaState #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship […]

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Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves. Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our […]

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We are 46 days into Trump ending the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and so far Trump has produced 0 concessions from Vladimir Putin. But according to Trump, Ukraine must give up Crimea, give up NATO membership, give their minerals to the US, remove their president, and stop fighting Vladimir Putin […]

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“Going nowhere…” “Jeffries went after Ogles (R-Tenn.), accusing him of being a “complete & total fraud” over his vow to remove Rep. Al Green & others from committee assignments. Ogles looking to strip some Dems from their posts after they sang a song in support of Green on House floor.” […]

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Someone has been snail mailing letters to various businesses pretending to be the BianLian ransomware group. The letters say that the recipient's network has been taken over by the ransomware group, and include a QR code where recipients can scan to make a […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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