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Carol Monahan: 30yr tabletop game-industry veteran. "I worked in the WotC basement!" Singer of old music: find Conspiratio’s “Wassail!” on Bandcamp. VP of Crab Fragment & Cheapass Games: https://crabfragmentlabs.com she/her
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
In Seattle, we’ve got West Coast refinery gas, plus “we don’t do income tax” fuel taxes.
The last time I bought gas the list price was $4.69/gallon for the lowest grade, and that was “good”. 😅
Spotted in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood
Let’s not skip over the whole grotesque business of modeling normalizing grown men preying on teenage girls. 😒
Fashion photography hits differently when you start spotting the girls who aren’t even 17. 😑
I once knew a *13yo* who did swimsuit modeling. 😒
This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.
Says a lot that the very premise of the original Dune novel is that humanity reaches the stars only after they’ve defeated AI and banned thinking machines from every corner of society.
5 / "[J]ob market is weakening, inflation still too high, and we’re at serious risk of [an] oil shock. This is almost the exact set of conditions that triggered the stagflation of the 70s, which [then] was America’s worst economic crisis since the Depression."
www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
4 / "... the longer the war goes on, the more the Gulf’s extraordinary vulnerabilities will be exposed.. an arid region.. dependent on a daily influx of food and desalinated water along supply routes and pipelines that could be struck from the air."
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel lavishly spends your taxpayer dollars on his girlfriend’s over-the-top security. We’re good with that?
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/m...
He’s referencing Truman, before the atomic bombs. He’s thinking about using them himself.
Trump Demands ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran, Shifting U.S. Objectives Again www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
Here's this again from NYT:
What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
"At this point, with a majority of voters opposed to Trump’s interventions, congressional action is the only way to disentangle the country from these conflicts. Until then, the list is likely to only grow longer."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
“[T]hese outrageous statements — justifying a war based on interpretations of biblical prophecies and informing troops they are risking their lives to advance a specific religious vision — raise not only glaring constitutional concerns, but potential violations of Department of Defense regulations.”
Being a “public figure” puts the bar higher, but defamation is still a thing. And this sure sounds like “reckless disregard for the truth”. 😒
bdblaw.com/defamation-o...
“Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.” -- Joe Biden
Gift article about the spate of FDA rejections at the hands of Vinay Prasad— this is taking away reasonable hope from people with serious rare diseases. Remarkable that Janet Woodcock described the Huntington’s therapy dispute as “evil.” Prasad needs to go.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/h...
Now here's an interesting polling result. Interesting but, once I think about it, not surprising. wapo.st/4d4DgLi
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0.... “Just as the Roman empire survived for two more centuries after it started to decline, the United States isn’t in danger of imminent collapse. But Trump’s rejection of planning, expertise, and diplomacy is beginning to have real-world consequences.”
Talk about going way beyond artistic license ... Darryl Hannah seems to have a legitimate beef. Wow! (Gift Link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
Nashville Noticias staffer Estefany Rodríguez was detained by ICE in South Nashville on Wednesday morning. There was no warrant for her arrest. Her attorneys have filed an emergency petition in federal court seeking a writ of habeas corpus, or an immediate review of whether or not her detention is legal. Rodríguez, who was in the car with her husband — a U.S. citizen — has been following all the legal steps to citizenship. In her job, Rodríguez has reported several stories that hold ICE accountable, and it’s unclear whether her detention was retaliation. As of Thursday afternoon, she was in Alabama en route to an ICE processing center in Louisiana.
Something I don’t think can be emphasized enough is how fast ICE is shipping the people they detain off to another state. “Move fast and break things” but for people in potentially life or death situations. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...
This is the regime Trump has been coddling in its efforts to take over another country.
We're in the "putting-IPOs-on-hold" part now.
@reuters.com
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