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I actually saw the National Guard in DC late at night a couple weeks back.

Blocks of no soldiers, then eight standing around Farragut West station in teams of two, doing nothing and looking bored.

Also, @amayor.bsky.social points out that this may be a mythologizing of inventions from Ptolemy II's court being sent as diplomatic gifts to India: theconversation.com/robots-guard... If true, that would make this a wonderful Reverse Mechanical Clock/Abul-Abbas the Elephant to Charlemagne story.

YouTube video by Extra History Disney's Soldier Songwriter | Hollywood Goes to War

HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WAR!

Robert Sherman and his brother composed some of the most optimistic songs of the Disney canon, including “It’s a Small World.”

But his war experience was not a rosy one, experiencing heavy combat and being one of the first Americans inside Dachau.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

tandaworkshop on Instagram: "Still working on the bloggage about the Trazyn build. In the meantime, here's a little video clip...#trazyntheinfinite #necron #war…" Still working on the bloggage about the Trazyn build. In the meantime, here's a little video clip...#trazyntheinfinite #necron #warhammer40k #grandnarrative

This is absolutely incredible.

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I don’t know exactly why I find this answer particularly offensive.

I guess because it’s *so obviously* not true that it highlights how normalized it’s become to lie to the public with zero consequences or pushback.

JOURNALISTS: NEVER LET A POLITICIAN OF ANY PARTY GET AWAY WITH “I HAVE NOT SEEN IT.”

It’s a transparent lie. You know it, they know it, we know it.

IF THEY CLAIM THAT, ASK IF THEY ARE TELLING THE TRUTH. IF THEY SAY YES, ASK WHY THEY ARE CHECKED OUT OF CURRENT EVENTS AND NOT DOING THEIR JOB.

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

We’ve said from Day One that someone high up in the Admin made the call to arrest Mayor Baraka & now the receipts are here: it was Trump’s personal attorney Todd Blanche.

Very nice scoop by @pabloreports.bsky.social—sure seems like Lutnick just lied about having a thousand "Trump Gold Card" signups out of the gate.

FWIW Hong Kong loves Halloween and has really embraced the holiday. Usually my local grocery stores at this time would be full of Halloween stuff imported from the US.

There’s nothing. No decorations, no costumes, no candy. Rumor is we won’t get pumpkins this year.

USA lost all that business.

This is kind of why it makes me crazy to see people on the left essentially say democrats should do the same as Trump except in reverse. Trump’s actions more or less do not recognize that we inhabit a nation. They are attempting a soft secession and servitude of Dem states, and we are the unionists.

The Hatred Box, a haunted attraction themed after blind box stores.

Decorations outside The Hatred Box.

All six haunted houses in the blind box theme.

This year Ocean Park Hong Kong jumped on the Labubu craze and made blind-boxes its theme for the 2025 Halloween season, with each of its six haunted houses matching to a blind box figure (which yes, you can buy).

One haunted attraction, The Hatred Box, is explicitly about a possessed Labubu store.

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go. “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326.

A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

The Tiger, by Nael, age 6 From, 'They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket' The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out

For #NationalPoetryDay, a timeless classic:

a man with a beard is holding a clipboard with the words this is very accurate Alt: a man with a beard is holding a clipboard with the words this is very accurate

FWIW I regularly tell people that readers/feedback groups are amazing at identifying when something doesn’t work but absolutely terrible at suggesting ways to fix it.

You know I used to think this but I’m not sure anymore. I think it can help you learn story elements but in some ways having live players take part is more like theater/improv than writing and might actually instill bad habits as far as scene construction and brevity.

(I’ve done my time as GM.)

I would challenge any reporter covering the shutdown to look up what their monthly health insurance premiums would be with the Obamacare subsidies ending thanks to Republicans.
Literally put yourselves in the place of the people facing that financial cliff to understand the stakes.

I feel confident that almost every “How to Write a Villain/Hero/Etc.” video on YouTube was created by someone who primarily consumes media rather than makes it.

Like c’mon. If you were actually doing this you’d know it’s not as simple or clean as clicking tropes together like Lego blocks.

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:

SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346%

Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

Also I think we need to address how randomly the hammer falls.

I know people who got fired who’d been through multiple GOP admins (including Trump 1) and felt safe because their program had bipartisan support.

I know folks in other areas that expected firings which never came.

It’s not logical.

This is one reason I finally just had enough and decided to do this series, which I had thought about for a decade but kind of wanted someone else with more specialist credentials to do.

It was clear that wasn't going to happen, that folks were just going to keep skipping over it, so we took it on.

One of the problems with addressing this topic, and why it's not more widely known, is that the name of the program is a slur.

This is why on TV they often say "the administration is modeling their actions on a 1954 operation with a racist name" then just move on without describing it. Which sucks.

YouTube video by Extra History American Mass Deportation 2: Caught in the Middle| US History | Extra History

Hey, so because we used the official government name of the 1954 program "Operation W*tback" in our episode, YouTube demonetized our video temporarily and crushed it in the algorithm.

If you didn't see it come up for you as a result, please check it out here.

Anyone who thinks that wiring their 2 year old to only need 4 hours to sleep a day is a good thing has not thought the proposition through.

I think I’ll just take my current kids who have normal and consistent sleep times due to good parenting, thanks.

Also they won’t have some horrible condition due to techbros using them as a lab mouse for their own selfish wish to create a child to their own tastes.