Matt Swetnam 🎲

When it’s Pi day, you go where the pie is.

Is there a way to research embezzlement and money laundering for the purposes of writing a story without getting added to an FBI database?… No?… Damn.

File this under “Things I Didn’t Learn In School But Should Have.”

I love my country. I hate seeing what’s being done in its name.

The United States of America is no longer the world’s super power. To be the world’s super power…the rest of the world must know they can trust you. Those days…are over.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

Better yet, after today, if you were able to get by without large corporate retainers, challenge yourself to continue the trend.

Zelenskyy leaves the White House early after Trump meeting gets heated A meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy grew contentious, with Trump telling Zelenskyy that "you're not acting at all thankful" for U.S. support.

Trump is such a turd. He’s not trying to broker peace, he’s trying to use strong arm tactics to bilk Ukraine out of its natural resources. Good on Zelenskyy for walking away from a bad deal.

Iowa gives final approval to a bill removing gender identity protections despite massive protests A bill that would strip gender identity protections from Iowa’s civil rights code has received final legislative approval and now goes to the governor.

Well, for a change it isn’t Indiana leading the charge. That’s a nice change. But it’s still hateful and despicable. I still find it unreal that there are enough hateful people in positions of power to make this possible.

This is sad news for my wife. She loved Party City.

I’m not saying frozen, pre-made wontons have changed my life, but I’m not NOT saying it.

So basically you buy your way into the country.

Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

Okay, the AP story is more clear: “their duties were being integrated into DOGE.” I stand corrected.

I may have misread the situation. I’m not clear if these were DOGE staffers from the start or not.

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services Twenty-one members of the United States DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

Sort of too little too late, wouldn’t you say? I mean good for coming around, but look at the damage already done.

The top of the game had some glare in the photo. It’s 7 Wonders Duel.

Beth and I have been trying to find some good two-player games. Some friends of ours recently got this one for us and we had a chance to try it out tonight. Lots of fun! Beth MUUURDERED me at it, but we had a good time. Lots of deep strategy to it. I highly recommend it.

"It's almost impossible to believe he exists.
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth"

#PRESIDEMENTIA

I cannot disagree with this.

Borrowed from Game Rant. This pretty much sums me up. I love playing games. A pity I’m so often terrible at them.

Trump officials will not restart most foreign aid despite court order A judge last week ruled that the freeze on foreign aid must be reversed. But Trump's USAID team responded that many contracts give them the right to halt funding.

This is an insane game of chicken. Fine, I say find them in contempt of court and throw their asses in prison.

Right??? My meds help me silence the constant feeling of dread that I otherwise can’t shake and allows me to function like a “normal” person. The idea that that could be taken away is horrifying.

Isn’t he the guy who came up with the “Flood the zone” playbook that Trump’s been following? I guess he doesn’t like what he himself has wrought.

You’re brave to take on a puppy. That’s a lot more work than I’m capable of giving at this point in my life. Good on you!

It is a strange day indeed when I find myself agreeing with Mike Pence, but here we are…

Oh for fucks sake… we’ve lost Canada. You’ve got to be a special kinda fuck-up to lose your closest ally and the nation that’s literally watching our back in less than a month.

Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

This is absolutely BRILLIANT.

The Finnish gov knows that educating its kids to critically think so they can understand the concept of actual fake news will protect its democracy.

The Aust gov needs to consider adding this type of leaning to the Aus curriculum.

edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Ah. Looks like it’s my turn in the “First They Came” poem. My meds allow me to function like a “normal” person. They’ve quite literally given my life back to me. So fuck Trump and double-fuck that ignorant SOB RFK Jr.

Hegseth’s rough start: Pentagon chief faces protest at U.S. base abroad The question isn’t why the defense secretary faced pushback at U.S. European Command headquarters; the question is whether he’ll see more protests soon.

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.

📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

I admit, I didn’t get it. I simply had no context. My son got me started with the basics and I’ve done some more reading today on my own. I’ve probably only scratched the surface, but I now better understand how impressive the performance was.