Gary Bunker

"[T]he Trump administration designated antifa a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no centralized antifa organization, no organizational ties have been established to Kirk’s alleged killer, and the category of domestic terrorist organization has no meaning in federal law."

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

How is this remotely okay? The military is not known for being overly generous with pay, but at least you get housing and food allowances. Now these overpaid and underqualified jackholes are occupying officers' quarters?

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Legal Flaws in the Trump Administration’s Notice to Congress on “Armed Conflict” with Drug Cartels Top legal expert analyzes the Trump administration's notice to Congress of an "armed conflict" with drug cartels.

And without congressional authorization, the strikes would violate the War Powers Act, Article I, and the criminal statutes even if this *were* (as Trump has "determined") an armed conflict--and it's not. [3]

www.justsecurity.org/121844/trump...

MAGA-Curious TV Boss Axes Entire Shows in ‘Jobs Bloodbath’ CBS is being reshaped by its new owners.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-curious-cbs-tv-boss-bari-weiss-axes-entire-shows-in-jobs-bloodbath/

Lina Khan was amazing. We finally started to enforce antitrust laws after 40 years of "whatevs."

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

"[T]he company has spent decades being acquired by and divested from private equity firms, served as a revolving door for senior leadership."

Private equity firms exist to extract value from profitable companies, leaving behind a pile of debt and destruction.

#VultureCapital

Bitch yes u have

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

'yes I voted for the man who said he would cut the brake lines, but now that I am on this hill, I'm worried I can't stop, what with the brake lines being cut'

So much joy in one photo.

If you voted for Trump twice & are now changing your mind, like yea i appreciate you but still, holy fck, go stand over there.

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

EV challenges = the federal tax break was murdered by the GOP.

This is the kind of thing that Wall Street *loves*, and this layoff comes after a string of pronouncements from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy about how AI is going to let them fire *tons* of workers."

"Amazon made $35 billion in profit last year, so they're celebrating by laying off 14,000 workers (a number they say will rise to 30,000).

You'll put your eye out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKhTBVU3l5M

The light that says, "I'm filming you" can be disabled by a $60 hack or a small piece of electrical tape.
#Meta #Surveillance
https://www.404media.co/metas-ray-ban-glasses-users-film-and-harass-massage-parlor-workers/

Awesome! Such a great finish to a great story.

What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine

You'll never guess how Grokipedia describes "white replacement" theory.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Redittors are more neurotic than Usenet admins.

Punch Bowl: An Award-Winning Game of Giant Fruits 🍊🍇🍋🍓 A stunning and strategic game of competitive punch-making with mouthwatering fruit gems, from the makers of Fire Tower

If you dig games that are SUPER blinged out and tactile, with a lot of "toy" feel to them, check this out. Cups, fruit, ice cubes - looks like it would attract a lot of attention on the table.
#tabletop #gaming #boardgames

Nice revamp, without losing any of the theme.

Pop Art Layer transparent cards to blend colors. Create a gallery of silkscreen prints and become the next pop art sensation.

Stripped-down Canvas, but it's a tableau builder! I can see this being a fun light game for groups - it plays up to 8.
#Tabletop #Gaming #BoardGames #CardGames

The Military’s Missile Defense System Cannot Be as Good as It Says Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A House of Dynamite, is more accurate on this point than the Defense Department itself.

Once upon a time, when I worked at the Joint Interoperability Test Command, one of the other teams worked on ballistic missile defense. The amount of chicanery required to make an interceptor reliably hit a ballistic target was overwhelming.

That physics is just HARD, no matter what Hegseth wants.

“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”

The central organizing principal of the Republican Party, at both the federal & state levels, is now that votes for & governing by Democrats are fundamentally illegitimate. This is totally incompatible with democratic/republican government.

World Central Kitchen | WCK Serving Meals to Federal Workers During U.S. Government Shutdown World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team is serving hot meals to federal workers in Washington, D.C., as the U.S. government shutdown nears its fourth week.

World Central Kitchen mostly supports disaster relief. They set up in Ukraine after the Russian invasion. They go to earthquake recovery sites.

The US is now a Third World country that needs disaster relief for daily operations.

So much winning.

wck.org/relief/shutd...

My top 5 played games and most games owned per designer have two overlaps - Steve Finn and Scott Almes. Lots of light games played, it seems.

Trump Reveals What Test He Had During Unexpected Walter Reed Visit Trump went in for a “routine yearly checkup” earlier this month, just six months after his annual physical.

"The doctors told him it was 'some of the best reports they’ve ever seen.'"

Riiight. Dude went in for two "routine annual exams" in six months, and nothing to worry about. Sure.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Sometimes, people are good.