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i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

I appreciate Stancil's willingness to put himself on the line, but you can't look at the long list of Ferguson protestors who "mysteriously" turned up dead and not get why the paranoia is justified and opsec matters

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming.

no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

Tim Waltz Suggesting that ICE do night raids... naw WTH.

when they try to shame you for not voting Dem, remember that their response to the murder of a child was to meekly call for mild reforms

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

@wotcmatt.bsky.social why is this worded weirdly and unlike every other similar effect thats ever been printed? "Whenever this creature attacks, other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1 and gain flying until end of turn" reads better and is the template that's always used.

RIP Michael Parenti.

after thinking further and trying to remember, i think what i had noticed wasn't the same effect - on modo it was MORE likely that packs had power together, which would result in them being spread out amongst the players more. just anecdotally felt that way.

If confirmed, this really is a new low, where a state agency is altering image of real events with an intent to deceive the public.

why tf does doran boost both high toughness/low power and high power/low toughness creatures??? his whole thing is that he cares about toughness!!!!

sure its a different collation, but theres certainly an effect on modo limiting power to some degree

the modo cube definitely always had this effect as well. i don't believe they ever admitted to it, but there is definitely something in place in collation to ensure the most powerful cards are spread out in the packs.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

They wouldn’t admit to it if it was on purpose lol

After seeing even more of these, I'm torn between this being done on purpose because they couldn't possibly fuck up this bad and this being a massive fuck up because they couldn't possibly think ruining this many prerelease packs would be good marketing

A little of column a, a little of column b. There’s more coming out. It’d have been quite the massive screw up if it wasn’t intentional, far worse than past instances

what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS

real question: what’s the purpose of a one day strike? Should turned “we’re shutting this shit down until you comply” instead of using all that organizing energy for something brief that can be ridden out relatively easily?

They don’t drop spoilers/teasers/etc of the next actual Magic set on the release of a UB product, but it’s happened multiple times in reverse. It’s sad and frustrating and I hate that Hasbro has turned Magic into this.

Seeding TMNT into Lorwyn prerelease packs really sucks @magic.wizards.com. It’s obviously intentional - no way a mistake like this could be made. Just another in a recent litany of decisions that draw attention away from the new Magic multiverse set and focus it on Universes Beyond

liberals recognize that you have lost your institutions and norms challenge

got bad news for you about "the law"

about 30 years of analytical progress

This is some straight out of the Holocaust shit

he's really mastered the art of talking out of both sides of his mouth to efficiently herd morons to the right while tricking slightly less moronic people into thinking he's being a reasonable centrist.

DHS: It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots. PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN. ABC News • @ABC• 7h Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety.... 7:32 AM • 1/16/26 • 145

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

over/under 3 months before the US military commits a massacre on US soil?