Chip Warden

Meanwhile Americans are making $1000 monthly car payments

Because Ryan Grim has been writing long screeds repeatedly defending Platner's Nazi tattoos and associations with white supremacists without disclosing their personal relationship on this site, which is both a flagrant violation of journalism ethics 101, and a very bad look

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Well thought out review and worth your time if you want an opinion other than mine before spending your hard earned cash.

Chaosium now has hardback copies available

Surely this is not shocking, but Rogan had most of the big anti-trans scientists that my reporting found to be in the Epstein files on his podcast.

Krauss even tried to connect Epstein to Rogan at one point.

Trump is adding anti-trans provisions to SAVE America Act Trump appears to be using culture-war issues, which are popular among Republican voters, to increase the pressure on Republican lawmakers to back the bill.

NEW: The White House confirmed that Trump is pushing congressional lawmakers to make additions to the SAVE America Act specifically targeting transgender people — a move that appears to be weaponizing culture-war issues to pressure Republicans to back the suppressive bill.

There is absomuteky nothing Jack Dorsey has to say that's remotely unique or interesting and it's embarrassing when editors and people of prominence pretend otherwise

Every single time a new outlet feels compelled to interview an unremarkable billionaire they should pause and ask themselves if there isn't an under-represented artist, scientist, activist, engineer, or academic actually doing useful/interesting things that's more deserving of your readership's time

"You were the original force behind Bluesky. Are you happy with it now? No, because it's gone to the other ideology. I left the board. It started taking investment from VCs and building like a normal company. I understand why, but it's not what I signed up for, and it's not why we created the project. We created it to be an open protocol for everyone, not to be something that's against Twitter or against other social media. The largest issue right now is the algorithmic filter bubble."

well you see there is a red team and a blue team and the red team went really far out into doing red team stuff but now the blue team is also doing too much blue team stuff and so

How are you viewing politics these days? Super confusing. Everything feels like a mess. The only thing we can do is bring more transparency to how things work, and give access and agency to more and more people. I don't believe one system is going to fix everything, and I don't believe one party is going to fix everything. I've never been on one side or the other.

You just KNOW Jack Dorsey is very very smart because a decade into trumpism and he's still somehow oblivious to the uniquely cancerous threat posed by fascism

you'll notice there's absolutely no depth of bad judgement that's disqualifying for treating these guys like hybrid philosopher geniuses provided they still retain the immense wealth they backed into ass first

I definitely want to hear more deep thoughts from the guy who claimed Elon Musk's purchase of twitter would "extend the light of consciousness"

"what radicalized you?" nothing radicalized me, i was born with basic empathy. the world decided that was radical.

In a time of fascism empathy and compassion are seen radical.

"It's pissing people off": Older Dems are sick of hearing about "generational change" "I have no idea why this is the year to write this story, except that Joe Biden was old."

lol

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Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Joe Rogan calls trans people "f**king perverts" & blames them for school shootings - LGBTQ Nation He's the world's most popular podcaster.

Remember how Joe Rogan was "just asking questions" about trans women and sports and didn't have a problem with trans people otherwise?

He's now a full on anti-trans genocidal fascist.

There is a reason you hold the line at sports.

New York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Lawsuits when.

Obama: Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day we’re told by those in high office to fear each other. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength.

QuestWorlds: Spec-ops Magica Crisis - Damn Fine | DriveThruRPG.com Anime-inspired genre pack for the QuestWorlds tabletop RPG. Spec-ops Magica Crisis is a Japan-set anime-inspired world s

Some of us have already made settings for it: legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5122...

Few things on this: Maine (and some other New England states like Vermont) treat private school differently. In many towns you can go to private school free, paid for by the town, because the towns are too small to have public high schools. But yeah, it appears Platner was at least middle class, maybe upper middle class with a lawyer dad and architect grandad. Yet since high school his work experience is the military, bartending (he was actually my bartender at the Tune Inn), and oystering. To dismiss the latter because he "owns an oyster farming business" misses the fact that he is out on the water every day working it. When he launched his campaign, friends in Maine reached out and said holy shit the guy we buy oysters from is running for Senate. He kept oystering through this summer, they told me. They've been buying from him for years. This is not a hobby, it's his work. At minimum, if you don't want to grant him the "working class" title, he has been working with working class people since graduating high school, which basically nobody in the Senate can say. (He never graduated college.)

For posterity:

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Did you know that Graham Platner was Ryan Grim's bartender back at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, a fact that Ryan Grim acknowledged on X?

if you own the capital and you pay people wages to do labor and then you get to take all of the profits on top of the ceiling-capped wages you paid people then at what point along that highway did you miss the exit to stop calling him working class or whatever?

> To dismiss the latter because he "owns an oyster farming business" misses the fact that he is out on the water every day working it

i'm not letting go of the nazi tattoo, but it is not missing the fact that he owns the business. i can't believe i'm being forced to bring up basic marxist theory rn

And by “algorithmic filter bubble,” Dorsey means *we* get to decide whose posts we see instead of him. That’s a feature, my bro. Not a bug.

“Jocelyn also echoed Nolen's overall message of reminding people that the best way to protect against measles is the MMR vaccine, which the Utah Department of Health and Human Services said is 97% effective after two doses.”

“The children I am seeing in (the) clinic with measles are very, very ill; and in several cases, their parents and their caregivers get ill as well," she said.

Jocelyn said some of the symptoms she has seen patients develop include high fevers, severe coughing, and pneumonia”

“Amanda Jocelyn, a nurse practitioner in southern Utah, also shared her experience of seeing over a dozen patients with measles. Jocelyn said she was shocked at just how ill some people became and the amount of time it took for them to recover.”

“Nolen said she recently visited one of the communities in Utah seeing high numbers of measles to talk with people who have been infected about their experience with the virus… Nolen said the people she spoke with told her that contracting measles was much worse than they expected.”

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

We take our current fortune of vaccines for granted so much it's really insane. Children's gravestones were far more numerous before we had modern vaccine schedules. Child mortality rates have CRATERED since we started regularly vaccinating. Don't take modern medicine lightly; so many more could die