The best description I ever heard of News Corp was from a Murdoch biographer who called it a kind of free-floating state television which various regimes could contract with to provide propaganda. The new CBS is actually lower than that, even.
He dies. She's a widow and it's the seventh book so two or three seasons.
My cat linocut art
sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living
Happy anniversary to us! Today, MTG Wiki is 20 years old!
From our start at @mtgsalvation.bsky.social to today, hosted by @scryfall.com, we've been here to serve the community for a long time.
Here's a summary of our work this last year, and some thoughts looking ahead!
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Man I am going to be so annoyed if I have to protest on behalf of the governor I do not like because he gets arrested by the Trump administration for not freeing Tina Peters, who Trump cannot pardon.
I honestly can't think of an issue where my mind has been more thoroughly changed by listening to people on social media. While MAiD is something that in principle I'd support, it's not possible to have it as a truly consensual option under current systems- something I learned from disabled folks.
First panel: the Simpson's don't make me tap the sign meme Second panel: The sign: "Generational BS is a trick to get us to ignore shared class interests."
I see I gotta post this again.
Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos Coming February 17, 2026. The cover features a young woman casting a shield spell against a fantasy world backdrop.
Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark academia. Eula Blue was supposed to be a mage. That was before the war came—before the fight for the Multiverse devastated Eula’s home, and with it her hopes for a magical education. But the destruction of the war also brought something new: the ability to travel to other planes. And when Eula receives an invitation to study magic at a distant school called Strixhaven, she leaps to take it. Eula’s journey brings her closer than she ever thought possible to her fellow students, including the mysterious Segante, a boy whose secrets Eula longs to share. But not everyone is thrilled by the arrival of the new class, and Eula and her new friends quickly become targets. To make it through their first semester, they’ll have to fight for their place in this new world—or else they’ll be dead before their final exams.
Alright, let's talk about (what's public) about the new Strixhaven novel. Here's the full promo text for the novel!
The novel is both a good entry point to Magic lore and has plenty for established fans.
This was a blast to work on and is 100% a @seananmcguire.bsky.social novel.
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
And make sure anything you are doing/advising to protect your young adults you are also doing for yourself.
MOST of the time this will be overkill, what you'll really have is a traumatized young adult and zero contact from family - but sometimes it will get shiny- and we are about to live through some interesting times.
Go old school like when they were little with family code words for "pick ups/drop offs" use a special emergency word for if someone is being coerced to call/needs to be picked up. Basically all the anti-kidnapping stuff for dependents of government workers.
(AI voice imitation being a thing.)
Password & 2 factor everything - use zero biometrics as police can compel that without a warrant.
If you find out the kids are using a lot of public apps I'll try to find some sort of helpful basic "avoid targeted marketing" training - market based stuff is far more insidious than most bigots are so one will help you start best practices vs the other.
Squirrel away about 1k for said lawyer for any family emergency. Take extra care to make sure house is in local regs to avoid possible neighborhood bigot targeting.
Start by asking both of them what they are doing right now on apps and communications to avoid her parents or school bullies- maybe start setting up a secure VPN - def have a different network for visitors separate from what the house uses. Start finding a family law lawyer you trust B4 you need one
So as someone who's walked that walk - given the two years in question - I'm also going the suggest its a good time to really start thinking about infosec for your house to develop good privacy/minimal footprint practices for their saftey and yours before move in.
I gotta give CNN credit here, Berman kept his boot on Cotton’s throat for a full three minutes. You can see the light just go out of Cotton’s eyes at 2:35.
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Mark your calendars!
Is it possible, and hear me out here, that declining outcomes are perhaps correlated with the last fifteen years of trying a new, big dramatic way to “fix schools” every 18 months that entails paying a bunch of money to the tech industry or stealing tax revenue to fund charter schools?
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
Or a roast beef if you are very wealthy or can't eat pork.
Brisket is F'in ridiculous right now and is still a 2 day recipe
If your Turkey is frozen you need to start defrosting it today.
Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are.
It does the same for everyone that excused them.
Funny - I have actually been thinking about "games for stability" less from game design but culture and actual use.
