1. Donald Trump starts a war with Iran, deeply unpopular with the American people, that causes oil prices to spike.
2. Trump allows Russia to sell its oil at those inflated prices, giving Russia far more money for its war with Ukraine.
3. Trump is Russia First.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
The federal government is explicitly arguing that "wearing black clothes" at a noise demonstration is "enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support" for terrorism. The outcome of this trial cold be catastrophic.
Pretty sure that's not how this is supposed to work.
Racism + 65 years of people being told that we do not live in a society.
Just not for the US 🙄
No lies here. One company or another owns just about every piece of my life. If they all shut down or decided to cut services, I'd be FUCKED.
Man, ICE is still driving around schools during school drop off times taking pictures of children. Fucking maddening.
An unholy alliance of AIPAC, Crypto, and DraftKings are buying Illinois' primary elections, stop progressive candidates, and install MAGA aligned conservative Democrats.
If they win, they'll deploy this playbook across the 45 states that have upcoming primaries.
Read more in today’s article:
Then I'm a dork… wait, that's true. I adore Eberron 😍
He'd my rep until midterms, and oh boy I can you he suuuucks 🤮
This helped me to develop some better questions to ask.
open.substack.com/pub/alikadiv...
Comedian Ben Palmer's fake ICE hotline is still catching people trying to deport their neighbors. One guy tried to use it to get his ex-wife deported after she filed a restraining order against him.
“If you want to honor the strength and resilience of women, remember those of us locked behind these walls.”
In a new essay released on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia reflects on nearly one year of inhumane treatment in ICE’s detention centers.
“In a statement on Saturday, Ms. De La Cruz said the family’s detention ‘breaks my heart.’”
But she voted for the bill that made ICE the highest-funded “law enforcement” agency in our nation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u... #FreeOurChildren
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
Hmm… 🤔
It's gotten harder in middle age, not gonna lie, so the daily average had gone down. But still enough that more people should be high-fiving my husband 😜
(He's not responsible for all of them, but he can claim at least partial credit for at least 90% of them.)
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
Un-nuanced RPG take: Eberron is the shit. I'm a happy DnD player, but I'm STOKED every time I see someone adapting it for other systems. The more, the merrier 😍
I wrote and published a game system myself. Still not perfect.
No system, no matter how mechanically perfect, no matter how thematically consistent, no matter how exhaustively detailed
Will ever overcome being ran by a bad DM
And a single session with a bad DM will color a player's opinion of that system until the day they die
OK, as the actual journalist who has been unwittingly caught up in the Claude rumor this morning (who also covers AI disinformation) let me clear this one up for the record.
To recap: Claude kind of implicated itself in the Iran school bombing citing (in part) my reporting...
Comparing games to each other is often a complete waste of time. Since TTRPGs rely *heavily* on cognitive fit, games can appeal to different minds in wildly varying ways.
Comparing what a game promises to what that game delivers is very underrated and extremely productive.
People died. And are dying.
The charter for the "Board of Peace" was signed on Jan 22, 2026.
Donald Trump was designated chairman for life.
Members who want to join have to cough up $1B.
Five weeks after the charter was signed, trump illegally declared war on Iran.
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the absolute fuck?
We have an evil, senile, raging idiot of a parrot running this nation. He mimics anything anyone tell him, no mater how fucking stupid or brazenly corrupt.
At the expense of everything else? Yeah, that checks out as a MAGA position.
When I was in high school, I was goofing off on a summer ski-team training hike and fell down a small cliff. A) I was shockingly okay, and B) I landed right next to a heart rate monitor that the same team had lost on the hike the year before.
Buddy is having a bad day 😭
