GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Emphasis.... mine.
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I don't know how many Americans know that the Iran we're familiar today is a direct consequence of one of America's first regime change FAFOs.
I didn't know about it until undergrad, and my history class was far from the standard US history part deux.
Trump isn't thinking about what this looks like a year from now, a month from now - what he is thinking about is using his current crimes to keep the MAGA base from hearing about his past crimes.
He went to the Jason Mendoza school of crisis management.
Wear sunscreen.
Strongly reminiscent of this infamous diagram of a slaver ship. We are repeating our evils.
This Day in Labor History: March 30, 1930. The Hawk’s Nest tunnel project near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia began, tunneling through the New River. Upwards of 1,000 black workers would die of silicosis, possibly the worst workplace health disaster in American history! Let's talk about this horror!
The market is not the economy, but these days, neither is great, but unlike other crises I've lived through we can precisely pinpoint who is responsible here.