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Zack 🎲 Bammax

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TTRPG designer/editor. casual Edison enjoyer at @bammaxtcg.bsky.social. Missouri strong, STL proud. ND. why use AI when you could get good? thoughts are my own. #playmoregames 👤 he/him 🔗 bammax.carrd.co 🎲 bammax.itch.io

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · Apr 3

📢📢 Going forward, all TTRPG material I put out will be designed for home printing and distributed PWYW.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers.

Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

We report from inside the American gulag.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

The record-breaking numbers of this system are hard to overstate. But it’s also not JUST that there’s more money to detain and deport undocumented immigrants.

There’s also been a shift in the kinds of folks the feds are arresting—and where they’re being arrested. bit.ly/3WrAsyq

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 1h

I also think this video is particularly important to combat that "Portland is a war zone" bullshit. Who rolls up to a warzone in inflatasuits blasting Yakety Sax? Fucking no one lol. Nothing beats propaganda's ass like reality.

Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 2h

There's a reason ICE is filming their own propaganda footage and supercutting it to look Really Tuff and Strong: all the actual videos of them pull the rug from beneath their facade, revealing them to be a group of cosplaytriot bullies and cowards.

Get fucked ICE. ICE must be destroyed.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 2h

Imagine thinking you're the toughest motherfuckers around, rolling up geared out to flex, and you're met with inflatable frog suits and the Benny Hill theme. Met with ZERO regard or seriousness.

This is real psychological warfare that, if it doesn't break ICE, will break the pigs protecting them.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 9h

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 2h

Gotta love the alt-right pipeline for women getting control of CBS.

Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 2h

Y'all do realize that publishing shit about this without calling it a madman's delusion immediately and right up front gives credence to this insanity, right?

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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 3h

@chrischirp.bsky.social is doing a fantastic work here
www.trumpactiontracker.info

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 10h

NOLA?

Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 11h

too much use out of this lately

Missouri: zero days without being a national embarrassment.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 13h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 17h

The bumpouts and bollards aren't doing enough, unfortunately. There's probably something to be said about the correlation between removing red light cams and the reckless driving uptick, but beyond that, the real answer is significant investment in comprehensive public transit beyond busses.

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NextSTL @nextstl.com · 18h

How do we protect our city from cars?
#carsruincities

Car crashes into St. Louis building near Gravois and Ellenwood avenues

A person was reported trapped at the scene, but first responders reportedly found no one.

www.ksdk.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile at Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at The Onion on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 19h

More Of Us Than Them, by Stick To Your Guns

track by Stick To Your Guns

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 19h

This is an invasion.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19h

National Guard troops are positioned outside Chicago and could also be in Memphis by Friday, as President Donald Trump’s administration pushes ahead with an aggressive policy toward big-city crime — whether local leaders support it or not. https://to.pbs.org/48EhxIf

National Guard troops are now outside Chicago and could be in Memphis soon

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has accused President Donald Trump of using troops as “political props” and “pawns,” and said he didn’t get a heads-up from Washington about their deployment.

www.pbs.org

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 20h

This week The Atlantic & Johnathan Chait published a hit piece on me. It’s replete with disinformation, so I’m compelled to write this rebuttal.

Such pundits have caused incalculable harm to our public discourse, & its long past time to call out their hypocrisy.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

www.qasimrashid.com

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 22h

I'm trying to keep v2 as up to date as I can before it gets poisoned 🥴

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 22h

I wish an album from 2001 wasn't so goddamn relevant.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 22h

They got bought by Canva earlier this year. I think we all know what's coming.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 22h

And this one. For reasons unknown, of course.

System Of A Down - Deer Dance (Official Audio)

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 22h

Can't put a finger on why you should listen to this today, but I think you should.

System Of A Down - Prison Song (Official Audio)

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 23h

Republicans want to double your healthcare costs.

Republicans want to rip healthcare away from 15 million people.

Republicans want to give their billionaire donors handouts at your expense.

And they’re lying about it every chance they get.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22h

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

www.cnbc.com

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