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Another board game company withdrawing from development.

I finally saw someone put raisins (and blueberries?) in a potato salad. Counter to every Black standup comedian, though - it wasn't a white girl named Karen putting that ish out there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=42rL...

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans lied about the POTUS not sending disaster relief to "red states." Cuz it was last fucking year.

"The fact that [Mr. Trump] believes in it is something that I think is irrelevant — there are people that believe in ghosts, OK?" Woldenberg said.  #USPol #Tariffs www.cbsnews.com/news/tariffs...

After the Korean War, Presidents have typically issued around 50 executive orders per year. Carter was an outlier - 80 per year.

Wait, the President of the USA is lying? Wow, that's such a shock.

Some folks have never heard of Lysenkoism. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

There's always a grift.

The plan to add "$5.8 trillion to the deficit (plus interest) would exceed the cost of the 2017 tax cuts, 2020 CARES Act, 2021 American Rescue Plan, and 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law—combined." After 45 years of this bullshit, why does ANYONE think the GOP can be trusted with the economy?

The Trump Administration deliberately doxxed the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia by posting her home address publicly on X. Now she and their 3 children have been forced into hiding for their safety. This is not politics. This is targeted cruelty. 1/

Pete Hegseth installed a make-up station at the Pentagon. JD Vance loves a smoky dark eyeliner. Trump cakes on orange base till he resembles an Oompa Loompa. And these guys say LGBTQs are threatening gender norms?

Trump was going to take the Panama canal, but then that failed, and he was going to annex Canada but then that failed, and he was going to take Greenland but then that failed, and he was going to give 20 percent of Ukraine to Putin, and now that has failed. Because Trump is an absolute failure.

Gawd, what a maroon.

The US Navy's new Director of Communications, Kristina Wong, is a Jan 6 terrorist and an anti-Ukraine, pro-Kremlin mouthpiece. Likely an unregistered foreign agent (spy).

Biden handed them an economy that weathered COVID better than anyone else on the planet, one that was so primed for a boom this year that magazines like the Economist were writing glowing praise about it. This effort to pretend the opposite was true might work with the base, but not anyone normal.

A fake 100 bill, sized and decorated to appear to be currency, but shiny gold colored, because shiny gold is classy - the note contains about $10 in gold dust, but is selling for nearly $50. It's not a cult, though. And he's not a grifter. *sigh*

Anything short of "Russia leaves Ukraine entirely" is a capitulation to a warmonger. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/w...

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com We need to stop listening to commentators who spent a decade being arrogantly wrong about the fascist threat www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.

What the Gilead fuck? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because we have thousands of people that are ready to go out and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,” Mr. Trump said. “It wasn’t meant. The system wasn’t meant. And we don’t think there’s anything that says that.” Those were words.

So much winning.

Between the removal of "de minimis" exemptions (bye, Temu's entire business model!) and 145 percent (or higher?) VAT, the entire Chinese import industry is about to die. But, at least our stock market is in the fucking toilet, and our SecDef is a security risk. Winning!

Every soldier knew at least one officer like Hegseth. Had one at Lewis I had to explain "fragging" to. Dude fucked up leading a platoon. Imagining that asshole as SecDef...

When gamers stop being nice... #USPol #tabletop #boargames

Incompetence and a lack of interest in basic due process - your government at work. www.comicsands.com/american-doc...

Just a normal day in 2025. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Interesting that the method for users who are not "notable" to verify is the domain-based self-verification (which I've done), but no blue checkmark for the plebes, at least so far.

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

As the saying goes, history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

“Why do we even plan on doing great things if, on a whim, we can just decide ‘nah’?” the senior space scientist says. “These things take a generation to build and enable multiple generations of scientists. They should not be blithely thrown away.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

We do get that at this exact moment, Monday 4/21 0848, Hegseth is in a signal chat with more guys saying SERIOUSLY BUT DON’T LEAK THIS ONE, right, and then sharing more classified intel

"[T]he admin was suddenly claiming that the letter it sent to Harvard withholding federal grants until the university handed administration officials power over the school’s students and programs was 'unauthorized.' The White House was standing by the letter, which prompted Harvard to take a […]

Today's the day. DHS and DoD are supposed to recommend to Trump by today whether or not they think he should invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 over a situation at the Southern border that all involved have said is already solved—ergo, one not requiring soldiers acting as domestic law enforcement.

@alderaceg.bsky.social has put any crowdfunding fulfillment in the USA on hold, due to the capricious and unpredictable tariffs. Final Frontier shut down entirely, leaving over a million dollars in unfulfilled campaign pledges. #Tabletop #BoardGames #Tariffs #USPol So much winning.

The man is a menace to humanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/s...

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

It's almost like he just makes shit up every god-damned day. wapo.st/4ipRoOd

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.