What's New at Labyrinth - Week of June 16th Summer Fun, Free Swag, and Hot Restocks!

☀️This week’s blog features sizzling restocks like Ransom Notes, Flip 7, and Kelp, plus brand-new releases like Skara Brae and new Marvel Champions hero packs! 🎲 Bonus: Free RPG Day is this Saturday, and our Summer Gaming Challenge kicks off June 27!
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Amichai Stein & Subscribe @AmichaiStein1 Week into the war: Israel sees no instability in Iran's Islamic regime's control despite ID operations, 3 official tell the @Jerusalem_Post "There are no indications that the central government in Tehran is losing control — quite the opposite. The Iranian regime appears to be tightening its grip," the three officials said.

YUP

yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

Marine Le Pen Barred From French Presidential Run After Embezzlement Ruling The sentence made the far-right leader ineligible for five years, excluding her from the 2027 election unless she can secure a more favorable outcome on appeal.

Marine Le Pen.

It's her current surname, but also a her future residence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w...

Freedom is not a state it’s an act—Congressman John Lewis

The SAVE Act would require individuals to bring documentary proof of citizenship to vote if they live in a state with same-day voter registration.

Seriously, who carries their passports or birth certificates with them!
#HandsOffHerVote

Forecast for weaker weather service: Americans will die, businesses will lose billions The critical infrastructure provided by NOAA and NWS cannot and will never be duplicated by the private sector.

"The critical infrastructure provided by NOAA and NWS cannot and will never be duplicated by the private sector."
-Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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YouTube video by MSNBC BREAKING: Sen. Booker gives marathon speech to ‘disrupt’ Senate because ‘our nation is in crisis’

BREAKING NEWS:
At 7 PM EST this evening, Senator Cory Booker rose before Congress with nothing but conviction in his heart, daring to stop the Senate in defense of democracy.

“I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate…

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

Further showing how sloppy and rushed all of this is, @josepagliery.bsky.social appears to have caught a major error in the government's notice that it claims it will provide people who are to be deported under the Alien Enemies Act; it cites a totally irrelevant law (and has typos in it).

This is a MAJOR, MAJOR story.
Thank you @silindberg.bsky.social & the CBC for sharing!! 👏

Yes! "Democracy Dies with the Lies" is what I told the Jan 6th Commission.

When I tell you these people want to go back to the 19th century???

We are living in very dangerous, unusual times.

Today, the White House ignored a ruling by a Federal District Court because we have President who is an ignorant buffoon with no respect for the law or the Constitution.

THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

Where do we all sign up?

Chief Judge Boasberg says, this is not war, you can't deport these people.

[Shew]

These movies are turning 30 in 2025.

Tweet by Molly White @molly0xFFF it's always fascinating to watch grown adults discover the concept of public libraries for the first time Quoted tweet by Ken Herman @kherman Ponderable? And do free people expect to read every book they want to read for free (at public expense)? After all, many people who write and produce the books do expect a return on their effort and investment. Just a thought.

Tweet thread: Molly White @molly0xFFF 37m and when you decide to defund libraries because "people who can afford it can just buy the books", you restrict access to those who can't afford it Ken Herman @kherman 21m How about if we use those tax dollars to buy the books for those who can't afford them? Molly White @molly0xFFF congratulations! you have just invented libraries

every damn time

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

We @propublica.org added a bunch of new names and bios to the DOGE tracker: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

1. Jane Fonda slams Gavin Newsom, comparing him to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister known for his policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany, rather than Winston Churchill, who led Britain through World War II with resilience and defiance.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

USDA ending local purchasing programs for Maine food banks and schools Good Shepherd Food Bank said it also recently learned that USDA will stop delivering about 1 million pounds of food through the Emergency Food Assistance Program to Maine. Those deliveries are on hold...

This is nationwide. The USDA is also ending the Emergency Food Assistance Program, which comprises about 20% of what food banks in Maine distribute.

As someone who depended on WIC as a kid in rural Maine, and who moved back here to help other people, Trump and Musk's cruelty is infuriating.

People REALLY need to stop thinking in terms of elections. The window to start reversing Trump is much shorter.

Agnostic in how that affects shutdown. But this should not be abt 2026.

“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

Pretty sure he has a security detail and some sense of where people might be protesting. Time Magazine says hundreds are dead; the Trump-Vance plan is for far more Ukrainians to die, and Ukraine to lose its sovereignty and become a colony of Russia, aka permanent loss of rights and nationhood.

Musk is now claiming that DOGE has no legal authority to fire federal workers or cancel contracts.

OK, so govt workers are firing THEMSELVES? And govt contracts are rescinding THEMSELVES?

These people use words so carelessly.

I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.

2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.

GSA eliminates 18F The latest workforce action at the General Services Administration includes the elimination of an entire tech team of around 90 employees.

I'd really love to have someone do a long (half hour?) interview with the 18F people about how they made govt better.

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