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I'm just... 100% starting my Luddite era.

Dessa is phenomenal live! Not sure I can make this show, but if you can, you should.

Rhode Island friends: RIPTA’s section of @govdanmckee.bsky.social’s FY2027 budget will be up for a hearing tomorrow at 4:30 pm (State House Room 35)

While Gov. McKee’s budget allocation of $13.8m prevents cuts from happening this year, it’s not enough to reverse the devastating cuts from last fall.

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

Beyond the avoidable tragedy, I wonder whether repeated deaths at the same intersection despite demand for change will lead to increased liability for cities and traffic engineers. Will we ever have a lawsuit and landmark court case that will change street design toward safety?

The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope is out! A hundred and more micro-essays about narrative game writing, by a huge list of writers and designers. I’m one of them.

Compiled and printed by Jon “Inkle" Ingold.

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www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/

It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued.

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My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Our series on Naoki Urasawa’s “Monster is over but not forgotten! Here’s a snapshot of what we covered, starting with:
An Introduction to “Monster”

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oh ffs. *that'* why it's suddenly so late. 😓

Kind of gross for the league to use their centralized power of control of all the cameras etc. this way. This is how you force labor to picket because that's what they have to do to get heard.

So I scoped out the start of the Sporting Jax va Hartford #USL-C match and the players are 100% pausing for one minute at the start of every game. The league's broadcast carefully showed none of it and just said "there's a delay of kickoff".

Beat Takeshi's the Muppet Show.

For folks who want to be in solidarity with the #USL-C players: remember to wait for what actions *they* call for. Don't boycott in anticipation. Support the team and the players and the league as you always would, right up until the actual call to action.

Four panels showing players from both teams standing still at the start of a game. We are united. Tonight, we kicked off the 2026 USL Championship season with a moment of stillness.

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Solidarity with the USL Championship players here. I hope the league is listening and sees their resolve.

USL CBA Negotiations 2026: A Former Player's Perspective on the Labor Battle & USL Player Rights A 10-year USL veteran reflects on the league's CBA battle — the real progress made, the floor that's still too low, and why every stakeholder deserves better.

Comments from former USL player Brandon Miller on why USL standards are still too low (despite how much better they are than the very bad how things used to be. Refusing to pay per diem because a team lost? Sheeeesh.)

www.brandonmiller.site/post/address...

NURSE DANA: When a genie comes in like this, I always make sure to use my very first wish to free him.
OGILVIE: But you could make two whole wishes for stuff you actually want and then—
NURSE DANA: What? Just apologize? For letting my patient down when he needed me most?

so, the Carnegie Hall presale went kinda bonkers and they said "you guys wanna add a night 2?" which I am still getting my head around this being my life, but it's what happened, so we did. The Mountain Goats have added a second show at Carnegie Hall. Tickets here.

www.mountain-goats.com/tour

Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill

While I have your attention, this is ONLY available today. bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

Thanks! I'm seeing that now—I don't know why I've drawn a blank looking for info there the last few times. Whee.

Three by three grid containing across each row: Elite Beat Agents Star Wars Galaxies Ultima IV Final Fantasy Tactics Left 4 Dead World of Warcraft Icewind Dale APB: All Points Bulletin Unreal Tournament 2004

I almost gave up on my9games due to too many search failures. 😂 (Xagon (198?), Star Wars (1983), Rocket Arena 3 (2000))

But, I guess this set works.

I really wish the USL Players Association would post news things somewhere other than Twitter. Like... I'm not going to tell them not to post there, but please also post *anywhere else* at the same time.

They have an insta and a website and stuff. They just don't seem to use them.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Whaaaaaaaat. 😶

Addendum to that: if there are any international players who cannot safely strike due to visa work requirements, they are the exception (and I hope that the PA makes a safe position for those players clear).

USL emails players about union resignation procedures as strike looms The email, sent to all USL Championship players, includes an ‘FAQ’ section on crossing a potential picket line

Wow. USL apparently sent USL-C players an FAQ on how to be a scab.

My position: if the PA strikes, I don't want to see *any* of RIFC's players being a scab. I will not forgive them. On the other side, I will *gladly* contribute to the players' strike fund.

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everyone is saying “hey it’s on tubi now! it’s free!” and i would like to remind you that physical media at the library is always free (& can’t be clawed back like streaming licensing)

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Well trans folks, you have no excuse now. Sobbing uncontrollably for two hours or more is now FREE OF CHARGE

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.