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Chase Wassenar

@chasewassenar.bsky.social
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All we can do is our best. Contact me: chase.wassenar@gmail.com All tweets are my own. He/him

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
WotC declined to voluntarily recognize our union by Friday, May 1st. While we're disappointed in this delay, together we remain strong in our convictions. We look forward to sitting down at the bargaining table so we can make Arena better for workers, for Wizards, and for our players. #UWOTC-CWA
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Wizards of the Coast Declines to Recognize Union by May 1st
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.
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🔪Creepy-pants🔪 @crasspants.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.
Gawain the green knight opening a letter sealed with waxLittle Alex Horne in his studio chair with the caption "so a simple task: land a fair blow anywhere on the green knight. One year later meet him at the green chapel, receive the same blow yourself."A cut to a wider shot showing Greg Davies in his throne turning to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Well surely no one just ran up and whanged his head clean off."Cut back to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Let's see Gawain first."
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Zombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I got real mad and wrote about EVO.
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Saudi Arabia bought EVO. We can still fight for the FGC's soul
On what the new change of ownership means for EVO and the Fighting Game Community, and what we can do about it.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 09/02/2026
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/02/2026
Something incredible is happening in the Magic: The Gathering community. The prolific MTG Youtube channel Tolarian Community College has raised $450,000 and growing for Trans Lifeline. Read our writer S. Baum's story here and go pitch in! www.erininthemorning.com/p/magic-the-...
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“Magic: The Gathering” Gathers for Trans Lives, Raises $450,000 in Less Than Two Days
“Magic is political.”
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:
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Sign the Petition
Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My latest premium newsletter is about the increasing public appetite for getting rid of ICE, and what the centrists who tell you it's not feasible are getting wrong.
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The Politics of Abolishing ICE
Some Democrats say it's not feasible - they're wrong.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers
Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/01/2026
oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
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Rough Drafts Podcast @roughdraftspodcast.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
On today's episode of Final Cut, @kpignuolo.bsky.social joins @ceades.bsky.social and @chasewassenar.bsky.social for a deep dive into all things Hades 2! Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/20hL...
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Steam Cleaners: Hades 2 Ft. Kristen Pignuolo
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/12/2025
Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care. The bill passed only 216 to 214. 4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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RTGame 👑 @rtgame.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I am so furious at YouTube for doing this. You have literal gambling ads plastered across your website. The video you take action on contains no real gambling, and is promoting an LGBTQ+ children's charity fundraiser. Absolutely horrendous image and optics for the website. Completely moronic
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
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Gabriella Shlyakh @yeahyankee.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Had an awesome time being back on the Rough Drafts podcast with the lovely @chasewassenar.bsky.social where we review the totally bonkers game, Road to Empress This episode had everything: F1 updates, FMV Games, and my absolutely horrendous Peggy Hill Spanish open.spotify.com/episode/7HWo...
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Steam Cleaners: Road to the Battlefield Ft. Gabriella Shlyakh
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
are they going to make it illegal in the TOU to receive hallucinations too.
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OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-har...
The lawyer presenting Adam Raine's family calls the response "disturbing" and I have to agree.
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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
Text art saying "shine so bright that it burns their fucking eyes" in the trans flag colors.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight."
But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
super happy this happened but damned if it isn't fucking horrifying that this isn't the norm everywhere
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Devin Younge @piratechnics.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hey, any folks in the LA area (or looking to move to) in need of a place? A good buddy of mine is looking for a new roommate to share his 2-br apartment in Los Feliz/Silverlake, starting Nov 1! Rent per-person is $1215 (central air; water included). DM if interested; I'd be happy to connect you!
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Those that back the fuck away from Omelas.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/10/2025
these people know how extreme they are
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Chase Wassenar @chasewassenar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
NMIXX's Blue Valentine is my favorite album of 2025 my a mile. So many fascinating production choices combined with great harmonies that make the most of their vocal talents. I got goosebumps on nearly every song!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2025
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her
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Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🚪 NEW VIDEO 🕷️ Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man couldn't be on Magic Arena so they turned Spider-Man into Magic: The Gathering cards. Does that make sense? NO! Let's talk about this fascinating mess! youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo
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Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess
YouTube video by Spice8Rack
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
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The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...
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Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse than You Think It Is
Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, tells TNR that her boss’ move violates both the First Amendment and the Communications Act. Democrats must extract consequences.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/09/2025
People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI? Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.
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Deputy AG Todd Blanche says ‘organized’ Trump protesters could be investigated
Blanche spoke as DOJ sought to walk back Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about "hate speech," which landed her in hot water with conservatives.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Elected officials are the chosen officers of the people, they carry a democratic mandate, they are oath-sworn to uphold the Constitution, which makes civil disobedience by them potent in a way private citizens are not.
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